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lambada··on Apple is putting iTunes on Samsung TVs
Is this a sign that Apple might be preparing to kill the Apple TV box? Perhaps they see the future as being native smart apps inbuilt into the TV.
lambada··on Preparations companies are making for Brexit
There are no laws in the UK around children sharing bedrooms, regardless of any characteristic of theirs. Source: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/child-protection-s...
lambada··on Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data
Amazing that such a simple bug made it all the way through testing. Just goes to show that testing isn’t foolproof!
lambada··on Apple's New Privacy Policy Updates: What You Need to Know
I think it's quite a leap to turn "Google is the customisable, but admittedly default, search provider when performing searches in safari when not in private browsing mode" into "Apple is selling data that Apples customers gave Apple". The latter to me would imply that Apple were giving Google access to my photos, icloud documents etc.
lambada··on Hetzner removes traffic limitation for dedicated servers
Could you elaborate more about how pfsense doesn't like just /64? As someone who ordered a Hetzner server from them a couple of days ago after a hefty price increase from my current provider this concerns me - getting IPv6 working through pfsense and into machines behind it is the next tech project I have on my list!
lambada··on YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
Oh, interesting! That's not called out on their comparison chart for the NEO. That would certainly be a tempting upgrade for any NEO users then
lambada··on YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
Flicking between the comparison tables at https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/compare-yub... and https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/compare-yub...

it appears like the only differences between YubiKey 4 and Yubikey 5 NFC is i) the addition of NFC and ii) the addition of FIDO 2 support

The differences between Yubikey NEO and YubiKey 5 NFC appear to be i) The addition of docker login support (?!); ii) FIDO 2; iii) RSA 4096 (PGP) support and iv) ECC p384 (not in PGP) support.

With that in mind.... how widely is FIDO2 deployed? I haven't yet found a two factor app supporting app/site that doesn't support my Yubikey 4.

lambada··on Questions on the Bethesda reselling drama
Archive link if needed: https://web.archive.org/web/20180812140408/https://www.megan...

(My website may not survive the HN hug of death).

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I made this because I feel there’s some interesting questions and implications this raises specifically because it’s going after unauthorised sellers who market their goods as new.

I specifically did not try to answer all the questions I’ve raised because for most of them I don’t have a definitive answer, or possibly even what it should be. I’m interested to see discussion on these points though!

lambada··on How Does Mastodon Work?
Something unclear from the article

>You can also Favourite a Toot. Which basically means that you support or agree with a Toot.

Are favourites toots private? Can someone else view them? Are they automatically shown up in timelines (as liked tweets do).

Also, does favourite really imply agreement? To me atleast, I favourited tweets that I didn’t agree with just because they pointed to a well constructed argument, or for future reference.

Since twitter changed terminology to like I’ve stopped doing that.

lambada··on The Senseless Ambiguity of North American Turn Signals [video]
As a European this astounded me. The idea of combining the brake and turn signals is something I've never come across before.
lambada··on Guild Wars studio fires two employees after clash with streamer
True; but we have no evidence either way for whether any other offences have occured.
lambada··on Guild Wars studio fires two employees after clash with streamer
According to the Price in the article, this was her first such offence.

>Price says that prior to being fired, the company had never discussed her social media presence with her or issued a warning for anything she had posted. “If it was covered in orientation, I wouldn’t know. I got pulled out of orientation to jump into rebreaking the story arc for this season of Living World.”

lambada··on Firefox is randomly opening an about:pioneer tab with no way to ask it not to
I do have Firefox set to allow installing and running of studies, and I am happy for that to happen. However as the page you linked says > Firefox Pioneer is an example of an opt-in SHIELD study.

I do not want to opt-in, instead I want it to stop asking me to opt in.

lambada··on Firefox is randomly opening an about:pioneer tab with no way to ask it not to
I am the bug submitter, if anyone has any insight into why firefox has started doing this let me know. I'm starting to suspect this might be a Mr robot style problem again....
lambada··on Hacking the Brain with Adversarial Images
This reminds me strongly of the BLIT series of short stories, in which a category of images is discovered that cause processing problems ‘glitches’ in the human brain with fatal results.

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

That’s the first one, others are available online too.

lambada··on iOS and MacOS unicode text handling bug causes crash
Going to say that this is pretty bad.

FakeUnicode [0] claims that setting it in an Wifi SSID is enough.

I can personally attest that my iPhone is currently stuck at the lock screen, crashing back to that when I enter my pin; after receiving the character in a Twitter DM (causing an iOS notification).

[0] https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/963335318601531392

lambada··on Google Won’t Take Down ‘Pirate’ VLC with Five Million Downloads
Hmm interesting, that's a subtle change between gplv2 and v3 I was unaware of, thanks!

For completeness, GPLv3 has the following option available:

>c) Convey individual copies of the object code with a copy of the written offer to provide the Corresponding Source. This alternative is allowed only occasionally and noncommercially, and only if you received the object code with such an offer, in accord with subsection 6b.

Whilst the equivilent in v2 ( https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html ) is

> b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, [next clause]

Which is a lot less restrictive over when you can use the written offer approach.

lambada··on Google Won’t Take Down ‘Pirate’ VLC with Five Million Downloads
I may be wrong but doesn’t GPL (any version) simply require that source code be made available to customers on request, rather than pro-actively?

As it stands the developers don’t appear to have actively refused to provide source code - it might be premature to call them out for breaking the terms of the license.

Edit: My interpretation above appears to be correct in so far as you don’t have to make the source code proactively available (unlike what Video LANs President claimed in the article)

>Moreover, they don’t seem to share the source at all, which is also a violation.”

But there is still the requirement to include the license to inform the user of their rights. Unfortunately the article doesn’t seem to explicitly say whether there’s a licensee tucked into eg the About screen from the screenshot.

IANAL but assuming there is, then the developers here could still be in the clear?

lambada··on Apple’s HomePod sales copy is so bad I bought a Google Home Max
It appears the author hasn't heard of 'authority' as meaning

>a person with extensive or specialised knowledge about a subject; an expert.

As in, 'Joe is the authority on the history of computers'

Given that's the first example I'm not sure it's worth continuing to read.

lambada··on [dead]
I can get 1 + 2 + 3 = 24. That appears to be because the second '+' action doesn't register if it's still doing its click animation.

I cannot reproduce 234 though.

lambada··on IRC necromancy
So I want to create a new set of channels on freenode. From the home page (on mobile) I’m presented with the following page

https://freenode.net/groupreg

Which is a) very wordy. B) appears to essentially say “only certain kinds of groups are welcome”. C) doesn’t have a simple way of doing so instead being “reach out and discuss with us and then maybe we’ll let you set up shop here”

lambada··on EleVR leaving YC Research
I'd suggest that maybe expanding YCR to YCombinator Research might have been a better title, no way to edit a title though alas.

Sad to see their VR work go unfunded now though. There have been several opinions voiced recently that VR is effectively dead; I think it's just that we don't really know how to use it best yet - and this group was one of the only groups I was aware of taking a full head-first jump into figuring out what can work in VR

lambada··on ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Hijacks Contact Data
iOS has had runtime permissions for far longer than android :) Some apps will even explain what they (claim to) need the permission for before triggering the permission authorisation pop up.
lambada··on Wikipedia: The Text Adventure
Hint: type help for valid commands (there's more than you might expect if you aren't familiar with text adventures of old)
lambada··on 'Civilization' Creator Sid Meier: “I Didn't Really Expect to Be a Game Designer”
>I am an OK Civ2 player (can expect to win on Deity without cheating unless I get quite unlucky).

I think that makes you much better than an 'ok' player!

lambada··on Flexbox Cheatsheet
FYI: I get an invalid certificate warning. Looks like it's presenting the github wildcard certificate, rather than a certificate with your domain in.
lambada··on [dead]
It's worth noting that the 'American College of Pediatricians' has a membership of roughly 500 (i.e. a very small number of all pediatricians) and is generally classed as a conservative advocacy group.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_College_of_Pediatrici...

lambada··on Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
Well that depends on the terms the uploader agreed to. The license displayed for works is, as I understand it, the license that applies to visitors/viewers not necessarily for deviantArt itself.
lambada··on Stupid hacks from stupidhackathon.se
Brings up Chromes regular print dialog for me. Maybe your browser or a plugin are responsible.
lambada··on The Problem with AMP
I believe the poster means appreciate as in 'I recognise that' or 'I understand that' rather than 'I approve of'.
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