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vhold··on Mozilla publishes position paper on the EU Digital Identity Framework
It would be compelled speech if the law required the browsers to say that a connection is secure when its creators don't want it to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compelled_speech

Whether or not it would violate the 1st amendment would be up to the courts to decide.

vhold··on Hackerrank DMCA Notice
The DMCA is flawed, but even the EFF will defend the importance of the safe harbor it provides.

https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca

vhold··on Email from FBI Looks Odd
If it wasn't whois then another common tactic is to use LinkedIn and guess addresses from the names.
vhold··on Making the dislike count private across YouTube
My hunch is that it's because children tend to consume YouTube voraciously without much thought put into what video they select. I could scroll for a minute before I decide a video that feels worth spending my time on, I've seen kids select videos in less than half a second.
vhold··on Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold at Walmart
The CDC recall notice has one: https://www.cdc.gov/melioidosis/outbreak/2021/index.html
vhold··on An Opinionated Guide to Xargs
Oh I didn't know about resumption.. parallel has so many features packed into its CLI it's kind of ridiculous.

For others that didn't know about it, see the examples here: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html...

Here's another surprising feature: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html...

vhold··on ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions
> By taking advantage of the birthday paradox, and a collision search algorithm that let me search in n(log n) time instead of the naive n^2, I was able to compare the NeuralHashes of over 2 trillion image pairs in just a few hours.

I think you could just do "sort | uniq -c | sort -nr" on the neuralhash values to find the most frequently occurring ones pretty fast?

vhold··on Big tech companies are at war with employees over remote work
I wonder how much of it is driven by the company leadership owning very expensive real estate that would lose a lot of value once tech workers are not forced to spend money into those rental or real estate markets.
vhold··on Blizzard's reputation collapsed in just three years
There should be some mention of their fight against the EFF.

https://www.eff.org/cases/blizzard-v-bnetd

vhold··on FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot
In case anybody is wondering about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#Tivoization

vhold··on Tech groups sue Florida over content moderation law
Here is what they would have to accomplish:

From the new law:

https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.as...

  > The term does not include any information service, system, Internet search engine, or access software provider operated by a company that owns and operates a theme park or entertainment complex as defined in s. 509.013. 
https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2015/509.013

  > “Theme park or entertainment complex” means a complex comprised of at least 25 contiguous acres owned and controlled by the same business entity and which contains permanent exhibitions and a variety of recreational activities and has a minimum of 1 million visitors annually.
vhold··on EU says Apple’s App Store breaks competition rules after Spotify complaint
I think a lot of people are missing the important development here. This is not about having a monopoly in phones, or in the music industry. This is about a monopoly within the market Apple has created.

> Our preliminary finding is that Apple exercises considerable market power in the distribution of music streaming apps to owners of Apple devices. On that market, Apple has a monopoly

vhold··on 30 Years of Linux: An Interview with Linus Torvalds
First thing I searched for is GCC and I'm really glad he emphasizes how important it was to the origins of Linux. It's historically under appreciated how critical GCC was at that time, how it had far far reaching impacts that changed the path of computing globally.

GCC not only makes Linux possible, but it brought the other unixes closer together, which is instrumental to escaping the vendor lock of the various *nix vendors. That means by the time Linux is reliable enough for production, there is already a lot of cross-platform software to run on it.

vhold··on Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships
Agreed, although it would be interesting if it turned out that bumblebee queens are attracted to the smell of cat urine when choosing where to establish a hive. Seems like that, or something similar, would be a possible evolutionary adaptation. Then you could say they have a "feeling" for cats.
vhold··on How many Devices can you Connect to the I2C Bus?
Certainly not exhaustive, but fairly handy for hobby projects: https://learn.adafruit.com/i2c-addresses/the-list
vhold··on Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power
Or just bribe one person sufficiently..
vhold··on Dominion Voting Systems Sues Rudy Giuliani
One way to demonstrate nobody had heard of them: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=d...
vhold··on Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
There are video files here : https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.0c12100?goto=supportin...
vhold··on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler
Exactly, many of the people crying loudly right now are doing it from Twitter, because they have not been banned, because they did not incite any violence.
vhold··on GitHub is fully available in Iran
Some examples can be found in their public record: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns
vhold··on Do You Love Me? [video]
Also watch their feet very closely at max resolution.

There's a lot of shock rattling and wobbling I've never seen in any CGI robot animation, not to mention they are leaving visible indentations in the foam floor. If it was CG they really went all out.

vhold··on AWS just went multi-cloud
The EKS Distro blog post answers some of the questions.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-amazon-e...

vhold··on Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency
The study is linked to this article.. people should try reading or at least scanning it before dismissing or speculating on it. In particular read the discussion and look at Table 1.

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/advance-article/doi/10.1210/cl...

I'll point out one important thing, the non-vitamin-D-supplement taking patient group, and the control group (which also is not taking supplements), both have a median age of 61.

vhold··on YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA
This is a good point, but I think ultimately Github has to comply with it to maintain their legal immunity, it's not their responsibility to determine if a copyright claim is valid.

Similarly, youtube-dl can issue a counter-notice, and Github will have no responsibility to determine the validity of that either. They simply restore access unless they have been notified that a lawsuit is in progress.

vhold··on Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)
I can't exactly answer that question because I'm not even sure if the premise is true, but I do know that "memory to memory" copying is often offloaded entirely off the CPU.

Here's a technical overview of some of the technologies from 2017

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2017/EECS-2017-...

vhold··on Groundbreaking discovery finally proves rain can move mountains
I'm confused as well. Another possibility is the "up" is relative? If there is a mountain already buried in looser soils, rain could wash away and expose the mountain, which will appear to be going up, because everything else is going down.
vhold··on Missing Covid-19 test data was caused by the ill-thought-out use of Excel
I'd say it depends on the data.

If the schema is consistent between rows, and it turns out a test result is made up of several rows because the test is composed of several stages, I would leave it as is until reporting time.

If you pivot prematurely, you could end up dropping data because there are new stages didn't exist when you implemented the pivot.

vhold··on Trump: “Tonight, FLOTUS and I tested positive for Covid-19.”
The election is already under way, so does that rule out the first option?
vhold··on Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data
To save money they could come with LoRA radios and sync when the opportunity arrises to a LoRA gateway, including meshing with each other to aggregate data to increase the likeliness of encountering a gateway. LoRA modules are pretty cheap.

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/

vhold··on Fighter pilot breaks down every button in an F-15 cockpit [video]
I'm guessing that the kinds of things the displays show are the fastest evolving aspect of the aircraft. New kinds of networked sensing in particular, both for detection and evasion.
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