Technology is the application of scientific knowledge, so you've got a tautology there. That said: Capacitance Electronic Disc.
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Now that is not an argument. The majority of people don't <insert nearly anything>. The net did pretty well under American stewardship. Sure there was Tipper Gore, but everything worked out. Every time some faceless UN bureaucrat mused about taxing email, or charging extra for "long distance" routing - it was nice knowing that there was a historically sane hand on the wheel. You want something like the EU in charge? Their copyright legislation is the most nakedly corrupt barrier to entry I've ever seen. This kills the net.
I haven't finished digging through the OP, but it looks like a bunch of Microsoft employees (already aware of Rust's safety benefits) have started recognizing the commitment to FFI as well. My last project had a feature that depended on a bind to win32, which turned out to be the most time consuming aspect - as it demanded a bunch of tooling that was otherwise unnecessary (valgrind, etc). If they were to take stewardship of that interface, lots of unsafe{} would disappear overnight.
https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T89a037970789a...
"️Wagons: Run Warren Wagons, our answer to Trump Trains, to increase network strength."
wow, the stupidity of that is hard to explain... it seems like the product of a cargo cult: "Quick, think of a vehicle that starts with the letter 'W'! Yeah, wagon - the first letter of the word is all that matters, no other property is relevant. Also, lets use the Wheel of Dharma and call it a wagon wheel... our side will love the fedora tip (kek) to 4chan racial humor!"
Signal is open source, WhatsApp is not. So how did you determine Signal has only one advantage over WhatsApp, without access to the WhatsApp source code?
Since almost none of it can be corroborated, and CNN's investigative journalism does little to inspire confidence, we can only check for internal consistency. There is none. It appears that every stereotype is leveraged, activating that comforting confirmation bias in CNN's readership, while also promoting one that is new to me: 70% of the time the women financially support their shiftless man. She claims the number of women went from 50 to 1000, so how many members are there? Lets be generous and use the SPLC estimate from 2018: 1000 members. Hmmm, well lets pretend they said 2000 - even m/f split... this is the boogeyman - 2k racists?
The laughable mistake in perspective leads to my favorite part of her narrative though: the alt-right's ironic vineyard rental! What expectation is being violated here, who has that expectation? "'Oh these big scary Nazis retreated to a vineyard.' I thought it would be profoundly ironic." Antifa's expectation would only be violated if they thought the alt-right was poor and underprivileged. They do not think that, and I'd be surprised if the alt-right felt that way about themselves either. I can think of one group of people who feel that way though: a writer for CNN.
The only way this story makes any sense is if you assume the perspective of a CNN writer who is so out of touch with reality that their caricature of the alt-right is unrecognizable to anybody who is not a CNN writer. This same warped perspective is what leads to hilarious works of fiction involving roving masked racists who, before slipping back into the shadows, declare Chicago to be "Maga country".
You can implement your own global allocator, use an existing crate, or (in the case of user applications) use the system's. That is for the stdlib level, not even core...
The German government became very interested in open source firmware, I've heard talk of RFPs requiring it from vendors - which compels vendors to put pressure on manufacturers, leading to fewer binary blobs.
Google became very interested in the power processor. Years ago their decommissioning process involved a hole being put through the Intel processor. For a long time I just assumed that there was a deal in place with Intel requiring a certified field destroy, but I'm now thinking that it was their distrust of Intel's backdooring. That may sound extreme, but nobody can say with certainty that whatever bs is occurring in ring -6 isn't caching private keys. Intel is now trying very hard to fool people into believing that they're going to be open sourcing their firmware - this will not happen.
As far as the social consequences, that is hard to say - I'm less plugged into popular culture than most. I'd be surprised if it didn't influence people's views of the government though, especially if they had voted for Hope and Change™. Greenwald timed and ordered the releases perfectly so that the government would predictably lie, only to be proven a liar the following news cycle. This pattern repeated a few times before they got the hint and STFU. And then there was the director of the NSA showing up at Defcon in a black t-shirt and jeans...
Funny you should mention that in your call for caution against black pilling. When SS was proposed there was massive popular outcry against serializing citizens with a federally assigned number. The USG assured everybody that SSNs would only ever be used for the distribution of benefits...
Setting aside the fact that this culling has nothing to do with Neo nazi content... maybe islamic extremism is a greater threat because we've had decades to implement countermeasures to a resurgence of white supremacy, whereas islamic terrorists exploit existing gaps in our society's trust model? I'm confident that had the KKK employed trucks of peace in the 50s, civil engineers wouldn't have assumed that nobody would be insane enough to drive down a pedestrian thoroughfare at full speed.
Now back to the issue at hand. This is a purge of alternative media at the behest of Vox Media, of which Comcast is the majority shareholder. This has been going on for well over a year now, the old media making demands for Youtube deplatformings and policy changes. I started listing them, but the list of crybullies is effectively a list of all media companies founded before Youtube. It is really amazing how stupid Google has been in all this, because it seems that they don't understand who their competitors are in the attention market, and how those competitors have effectively transformed them from a relatively low maintenance and legally protected platform - into a legally exposed publisher full of upset content providers. Youtube has been a loss leader for a long time, which might explain the leadership selection and the lack of corrective action for laughably stupid executive decisions... but it is well beyond the point of just being a money hole - it is in the precedent setting legal liability zone at this point. They aren't even subtle about being a publisher anymore, selectively editorializing user generated content with editor's notes under the guise of fighting disinformation.
That should be happening, but isn't - not to the degree it naturally would. Debanking. Payment processors have been very busy weeding out potential competitors to the big names in SV. I almost want to laugh at the fact that the early cryptocurrency proponents experienced the exact same treatment while building the very thing that would protect those presently being targeted by Visa/Mastercard. I'm still banned from two major banks...
This youtube censorship stuff is going to pale in comparison to the coming wave of debanking. There is a very freaked out class of people who have their hands on the wheel at the moment (especially true at Mastercard), so you can't rely on traditional profit motives to predict behavior - anything is possible. My financial adviser suggested, with a straight face, that I consider a portfolio built around some new social equity index... my account has been self directed ever since.