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You’re already sending your prompts and context to their servers. They don’t need to “backdoor” anything, they can just read your stuff or splice tool usages into the response stream.

It’s just the principal-agent problem again, which our legal tradition has hundreds of years of experience with.

Sony sold its TV business to TCL early this year: https://www.tomsguide.com/tvs/sony-just-handed-its-tv-busine...

Yes, I’ve spent a couple hours lately asking Gemini about various home improvement topics in fundamental detail. I’ve learned a lot about:

- How to correctly hang a pre-framed door (shim it, tack it in place with 16 gauge nails, and use one wood screw in the top 2 hinges to prevent the door from sagging)

- How to properly adhere MDF trim to the ceiling to hide a closet door track (screw a furring strip or a header board to the studs above the drywall, shim it so it’s level in case the ceiling is uneven, and then nail through the face of the trim into the strip)

- What the difference is between the 27 DAP putties and spackles in the paint aisle (turns out Painters Putty 53 is typically used to hide finish nail holes, because you tend to make a lot of them and can just smoosh it in and level it off with a palette knife!)

He leads the video with claims of being the first, and it’s reasonable to expect him to have done sufficient research on that claim. It’s a different claim than what GP thought.

Yes, but the person I replied to made a different claim: that the title was wrong because private parties categorically cannot violate the Bill of Rights, which is untrue.

The Bill of Rights does constrain private parties when acting on behalf of, in place of, or in tandem with the government.

Marsh v. Alabama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsh_v._Alabama

Burton v. Wilmington Parking Authority: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton_v._Wilmington_Parking_A...

Flock is often contracted to install and operate its camera network on behalf of local governments and police. The specific act that violated the 4th Amendment in this case was the government searching the collected data, but it is within the realm of possibility that Flock’s existing business model will be considered an unconstitutional dragnet.

Seems like every subdivision in central Maryland has an HOA managed pool.

I suppose you’re talking about cloud seeding?

Why would you assume that? There’s no prohibition on selling a home with code deficiencies as long as you disclose them.

As a non-citizen I don’t think you are eligible for TTP.

Edit: derp. See below.

DHS requires 7 or so years of residence and travel history for Trusted Traveler Programs like Global Entry.

It helps catch attempted identity theft. Lots of people who are not eligible for employment steal the identities of those who are. But they will have to make up any data they don’t know, or that is inapplicable because the true holder of that identity died a while ago.

I remember hearing that the concern with our best techniques for rescuing coral reefs is that they would create a monoculture, and monocultures tend to be very susceptible to specific diseases.

Swift: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/binaryintege...

> The << operator performs a smart shift, which defines a result for a shift of any value.

> - Using a negative value for rhs performs a right shift using abs(rhs).

> - Using a value for rhs that is greater than or equal to the bit width of lhs is an overshift, resulting in zero.

> - Using any other value for rhs performs a left shift on lhs by that amount.

And while the docs don’t say it, `Int.max << 1 == -2`. And in fact, `T.max << 1 == -2` for all `T: BinaryInteger`.

Account recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/118574

Recovery key: https://support.apple.com/en-us/109345

You do the acccount recovery flow. Options include providing your recovery key or proving your identity to Apple customer support. Do you really think Apple did not account for this?

> The ABC understands the device was found in a female-only cabin.

> Senator Lambie told the Senate she had received a letter from a person who said the device had been found in the "shower facilities".

So not espionage, just a creep.

Given their proximity to chunks steel being flung around by newbies, I suspect the VM-per-bay solution is part of a thin client deployment that makes the customer-facing hardware as cheap and efficient to replace as possible.

Why would they be lost? They are synced to iCloud Keychain, which is E2E encrypted.

Unfortunately it’s a drop in the bucket compared to how much they’re losing on the actual business.

I was confused why you mentioned haptics, as the Rumble Pak did not exist when the N64 launched. But Wikipedia cites EGM as saying later versions of the game had Rumble Pak support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_Pak

Yes, Doom renders walls in a way that is broadly similar to to how contemporary GPUs work. Doom sorts the walls in view space via the BSP tree, transforms them to screen space, breaks them into non-overlapping spans of screen columns, and then fills each column’s pixels with the wall’s textures. The floor and the sky are not geometry.

Maybe those people who’ve spent so much time A/B testing where to put the signup buttons can use those skills to figure out where to put the cancel buttons so that they are as easy to find.

Dante’s default latency compensation is 1ms: https://dev.audinate.com/GA/dante-controller/userguide/webhe...

Yes, sometimes when your cat is looking at you like it’s half asleep, it’s really expressing its comfort with you.

You don’t need to kill the quarantine bit if you notarize and staple. If you do still get prompted, the dialog will have an Open button on it.

You are minimizing the difference in scope between the audience and applications of OpenBSD and those of macOS.

macOS has had a capabilities model for over a decade called App Sandboxing. It would be entirely impractical to expect app authors to correctly declare their permissions up front and for users to audit them. Hence the permissions granted to sandboxed apps are pre-determined by the OS, and can be extended through explicit user interaction.

That’s not quite how macOS sandboxing works. Users expect to be able to save and open (non-iCloud Drive) files in ~/Documents, not in a containerized silo. If the app uses NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel, those work with the system to grant the app a sandbox extension to the location the user chooses in the open or save panel.

That “just” is doing a LOT of work.

The TCC system attributes the access to Ghostty because that’s the thing the user understands as the app they are interacting with. Otherwise every `posix_spawn()` and `system()` call would result in a new TCC prompt attributed to an inscrutable name.