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nelgaard··on Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust
>I don't think you'd argue that TLS is used to "deny software freedom to the user" - right?

No, but if I could not make a website that was not signed by e.g. DigiCert, then I would argue that something was not right.

nelgaard··on Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich
== So yes that is need to be fixed so that we can speak openly even with open ID without the damage you mentioned. Thats the solution that we need to find. ==

That is like saying that we have to find a solution to crime and fraud so that we will not have to rely on physical locks, spamfilters, etc.

It would be nice, but it will never happen.

Meanwhile anonymity can work well.

How about we first change the world so that everyone can speak freely without fear of anything. And when that is accomplished to everyones satisfaction then we can consider total transparancy.

nelgaard··on Photographer Jacob Riis showed “How the Other Half Lives” in 1890s NYC (2017)
I wonder how his audiences back then perceived this issue. The indoor pictures he made by just entering and firing a pistol with magnesium (later a frying pan). The outdoor ones he had to stage to some extent because of the long exposure times. Of course he took advantage of this, and the immigrants also wanted to pose for the camera. For anyone back then knowing anything about photography (which in his audience might have been quite a few) it should have been obvious that e.g. the photo of three boys stealing from a drunk man was staged, you could not make snapshots of quick actions.
nelgaard··on Photographer Jacob Riis showed “How the Other Half Lives” in 1890s NYC (2017)
I just visited the Jacob Riis Museum in Ribe, Denmark this Monday. http://www.jacobariismuseum.dk/

The museum did have pictures of water pollution.

nelgaard··on Why Germans won’t heat their homes even with free electricity?
Yes, and that was Canadian houses, I assume, with dozens of vents in the floor on every level of the house.

In Europe we mostly see air-to-air heat pumps in cottages, and there is then only one vent for the entire house. Which if fine and efficient for a small cottage in the fall and spring and maybe a few weekends in the winter.

But it would be hopeless in a Canadian winter.

nelgaard··on Ask HN: A major USA bank is storing passwords in cleartext – what to do?
>But why not get the notifications yourself on your own devices?

That is what N26, https://n26.com/ do. You order a beer and when you have you first sip you get a message that there was a €3 payment to the bar.

You can also set spending limits from the app or website. And lock/unlock your credit card from the app.

nelgaard··on Google Maps Hacks
In OsmAnd you can set vehicle parameters: height, weight, and width limits.
nelgaard··on Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
on 1.: Are there actually US laws that could prevent Apple from offering end-to-end encryption for backups to their user?

That is something very different from cooperating with a specific investigation.

Why did Apple not fight this in court?

Could Apple keep the backups outside the EU, like Microsoft did for email in the Dublin case?

nelgaard··on The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
Universities pay you for teaching and researching. Reviewing is part of the researching.
nelgaard··on No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation)
Why would you expect otherwise from sched_yield?

man sched_yield(2) says: == sched_yield() is intended for use with real-time scheduling policies (i.e., SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR). Use of sched_yield() with nondetermin‐ istic scheduling policies such as SCHED_OTHER is unspecified and very likely means your application design is broken. ==

nelgaard··on Chrome OS has stalled out
That is exactly what I do not like about systems such a Chrome OS and Windows. I want the choice about upgrading the kernel. The Linux kernel is quite good about not breaking user-space applications.

I have an Acer C720 that have been running Linux for 5 years. Now it has Debian with a 5.4.0 kernel and it works just fine.

In the beginning it was running Ubuntu which also worked fine. I got it because the SSD died a year ago, but I run Linux from an SD-card.

nelgaard··on Switch to OpenStreetMap
People using it should know that it cannot be 100% complete.

When using OpenSea map or any other nautical chart I understand that just because some rocks, wrecks, etc are marked there is no guarantee, that there cannot be more.

He is not marked area as "cleared of mines"

I worry more about e.g. defibrillators. They might break or be removed af being put on OSM, and we do not want people running the wrong way when time is short.

nelgaard··on Switch to OpenStreetMap
Yes, maybe moksly gave a link to a non-free system. Given that it is their workplace they could just have commented "local knowledge" or referred to images they had put on e.g., Mapillary.
nelgaard··on Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players
Maybe something like Nomic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic
nelgaard··on Self-Hosted Dropbox Alternatives
Unison works well. https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

rsync is incredible efficient and reliable. I use Nextcloud for some things. But it is just too slow for large data (Gigabytes and tens of thousands of files). Especially it they change frequently. HTTP and webdav is slow and the clients are not reliable. Last week I tried to transfer 20000 photos (for Mapillary) from a phone using Nextcloud. It took forever and the Nextcloud app crashed after a few hundred photos. Rsync (syncopoli on the phone) worked like a charm and did the job in no time.

Plus it is just so convenient using SSH because you can easily make tunnels and still have end-to-end encryption.

nelgaard··on Old Paris Is No More
Maybe. But had those buildings survived they would now be attractive, clean, and very expensive.

From the perspective of today the problem was that the families living in the small apartments was way too big and did not pay enough rent to maintain the buildings. They just did not have enough rich single professionals willing to pay chic apartments and studios back then. Or student with rich parents seeking a studio downtown.

nelgaard··on Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut
Then add Judge Roy Bean Public House to OpenStreetMap

In Denmark you will find almost all restaurant and food places in Openstreetmap.

I have created tools that help to keep POI'd up-to-date by mapping to public health inspection reports.

https://github.com/elgaard/OpenStreetmapTools/tree/master/re...

https://digitalfrihed.dk/restaurants/all.html

We could use some kind of open reviews. That is more tricky, which is also why the commercial platforms are not that good.

Wikivoyage.org is great for tourist, but too limited for locals (you cannot have every single pizza and burger place in travel guide).

The Osmand app with Wikivoyage is a great example of what can be done with free software and data. It is all offline. You can search for restaurants near you without revealing you location to anyone. When you click on the the webpage of a restaurant, it opens in your browser without redirecting from Yelp or sending the URL to Tripadvisor. And when you click on the phone number for the restaurant, your phone just calls directly.

nelgaard··on Unison File Synchronizer
2.48.4 mostly. I use it on different versions of Debian and Ubuntu. For a while I had to compile Unison from source to make it work everywhere.
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