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'Ignite tech'? That's a weirdly appropriate name for what they appear to be doing.

They're suggesting to intercept the SMS to the inaccesisble number. https://www.ss7.dev/

I wouldn't call this poorly labeled, 'milk' and 'breasts' actually are semantically very close.

Maybe a bit macabre, but live updates are here: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-62834633

Maybe a better analogy is an energy provider: You don't expect them to turn off somebody's power because they are listening to the wrong kind of music.

Energy companies are publicly traded companies as well, I don't see what difference this fact makes in the analogy and the argument.

Policing is the police's job, not that of infrastructure and utility companies, precicely because that would bring a lot of hairy questions that the author raises as well.

> You somehow forgot to mention that most (probably all) EU countries have laws that require you to know the birthdays of your customers

That is simply not true, not in this very general formulation. What businesses does this statement of yours apply to?

It's certainly not common for an ecommerce site to ask for your birthday on signup.

> Improper correlation or extrapolation of data can result in dangerously flawed conclusions. The following paper seeks to illustrate this point

Seems to be eclipsed by Sean Connery, also from Edinburgh.

I hope this fad of naming your startup by an intentional misspelling is over soon.

The Register's article contains some interesting information about the system being upgraded (it's where the Windows PuTTY client is hosted...) as well as about the original blog post's author, that I was not aware of:

> Jackson is highly qualified to perform such a complex upgrade: as well as being a former Debian project lead, he also wrote Debian's underlying package-management tool dpkg. Jackson stewarded the release of Debian 2.0, the first multi-architecture version of the distribution, and the first to use libc6

Two weeks seems like a really short time to have any effect... aren't the open positions and people applying for them going to be almost identical two weeks later?

Here's the abstract:

> Three ongoing mega-trends are reshaping corporate governance: indexing, private equity, and globalization. These trends threaten to permanently entangle business with the state and create organizations controlled by a small number of individuals with unsurpassed power. The essay focuses on indexation. After providing background, the essay describes the rise of and reasons for indexation, noting that “passive” indexed investing takes a variety of forms. Data on indexation are presented -- with the bottom line that indexation has progressed farther than most realize, because foreign ownership, institutional indexation, and “closet” indexation are often neglected by observers. Index providers’ incentives, resources, and methods are reviewed, with an emphasis on the how such providers have greater practical importance than simpler analytical approaches might suggest. The essay ends with an outline of policy options, and preliminary analyses of which seem likely to address the “ Problem of Twelve” – the likelihood that in the near future roughly twelve individuals will have practical power over the majority of U.S. public companies.

I try to find a comparison of a relatively large number of devices to get an overview first. Some sites do summary tables in which they list attributes similar to those you listed. Heise.de for example often does that in their product tests. If I'm lucky, there will even be a site that lets you filter down a list of products by checking boxes (like [1] for monitors) [2].

Even if not all my search criteria are listed in the tables/filters, it allows me to reduce the number of individual products that I need to take a closer look at afterwards. If I cannot find information on whether a specific product has a certain feature from the manufacturer's pages or an independent review, I check Reddit or similar forums.

An initial problem with discovering good comparison and overview sites is of course the amount of SEO spam out there. I've made good experiences with using Kagi [3] instead of Google in these cases.

[1] https://www.prad.de/test-kaufberatung/produktsuche/monitor-s...

[2] Idea: Someone should make an 'awesome' list of such product comparison sites, if it doesn't exist already.

[3] https://kagi.com/

I like how the two halves look like a graphics glitch when he's riding it.

I don't know, maybe one day we will see that we are part of a balanced ecosystem, and that this balance is ultimately more important than having good roads.

Or maybe it was just a typo, the real page appears to be https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/TextClipboardHistory.html

The domain hammer.org seems to have been taken over by some other organization...

yt-dlp [1] has command-line options to download only the captions of a video, in available languages, if you want to skip the scraping for the link.

I built something similar [2] for a slightly different use case. I wanted to be able to search through all Ram Dass talks in the 'Here and Now' podcast series on YT. I'm obviously not as skilled at CSS. :) And the display of timestamps is still a bit shaky, but for me it fulfills its purpose.

Since I'm able to preload all caption files ahead of time, I'm just using pcregrep for the search which does a pretty good job.

[1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp [2] https://ramdass-search.net

The link to the 'Apple Cash setup support page' is a 307 temporary redirect to the Apple Pay page for me. Not sure if this is due to locale, I don't have Apple Cash in my Apple Wallet settings as well...

From the FAQ: "send and receive money in Messages or Wallet. The money you receive appears on your Apple Cash card in Wallet."

Can I get the money out of Apple Cash, except for spending it via Apple Pay? Can I withdraw the money to a bank account? If not, I find it a bit limiting. If someone sends me money via Paypal, I can transfer it to my bank account and withdraw it from an ATM, or use it to buy stocks, or donate it to some organization that doesn't take Apple Pay payments...

The site, https://wasterussiantime.today, appears to be hugged to death at the moment.

Elevate is no longer developed as a browser extension and lives on as a desktop app: https://github.com/thomaschampagne/elevate/

For the analysis part, I have to mention Elevate [1] here. It used to be a browser plugin for Strava and is now a free and open source desktop app, developed by one guy [2] in his spare time (as far as I know).

It does more than the Strava built-ins, but less than e.g. Golden Cheetah, while being much more approachable and easy to use than the latter. I'm not affiliated with the app or the developer (although I've donated for it because I really appreciate the product and the effort he is putting in).

[1] https://github.com/thomaschampagne/elevate/ [2] https://twitter.com/champagnethomas

"If" he can do all that, you might be right. But why will he be able to do what current Twitter is not capable of? It's not like these are deep secrets to success nobody but Musk knows.

My top ten recommendations are all Subarus...

Homoglyph Attacks come to mind. Replace legitimate domains like nytimes.com with ones that look identical but lead to phishing sites. (The hacker would have to build those convincing phishing sites as well, of course...)

Cool, thanks! If you share your github username, I will add you as a collaborator. You can mail it to me at flo at t21n dot net, if you don't want to post it here.

I'm looking for some help improving the CSS for https://ramdass-search.net/

First and foremost it should be mobile-friendly, and I'm not skilled enough in CSS to make it happen in a short amount of time.

The site should remain JS-free, so I don't want to use bootstrap or some other off-the-shelf framework.

No compensation, I'm providing the site free of charge, your contribution should be considered a donation to the people using the site.

Red cross heals people, military kills people.

> The day after Thanksgiving my parents' car was stolen out of the driveway while we were all inside eating dinner.

For a brief moment I thought they were all in the car while it was being stolen.