Even so, we shouldn’t accept it as a norm

Then someone will write an utility that automatically sets timezone using geoclue location data.

There’s the environmental impact: these ultra-fast planes burn through massive amounts of fuel, releasing far more emissions than regular aircraft

Hypersonic flights are a way to get us to a NON-inhabitable earth faster than ever before.

It would be fair to compare browsers without adding extensions, with default settings.

This would show which browser have the best security and privacy out of the box. Also, the comparison would be practically impossible otherwise.

Most people use defaults, and I suspect a large portion of users install no extension, unless maybe if a tech-savy relative adds an adblocker.

Is Russia starting to lack cannon fodder?

This is why these people ask, among other things, to strictly limit access to adults.

LLM are good with language and can be very convincing characters, especially to children and teenagers, who don’t fully understand how these things work, and who are more vulnerable emotionally.

That’s a good point, but there’s more to this story than a gunshot.

The lawsuit alleges amongst other things this the chatbots are posing are licensed therapist, as real persons, and caused a minor to suffer mental anguish.

A court may consider these accusations and whether the company has any responsibility on everything that happened up to the child’s death, regarless of whether they find the company responsible for the death itself or not.

He gave a reason, and said he’s not going to answers why questions, so your guess is as good as anyone else’s.

We should be thankful that this person maintained the app and put up with Google’s bullshit for so long.

If you find this app helpful, consider supporting whoever is willing to take over maintaining the app or a fork.

Does this attack scale linearly with key size?

Using the D-Wave Advantage, we successfully factored a 22-bit RSA integer, demonstrating the potential for quantum machines to tackle cryptographic problems

That attack is a threat only if it scale better than existing attacks.

Update from Brewster Kahle:

Archive.org sub services coming back up when they can, safely. e.g. Email working.

Now contract crawls for National Libraries (important to keep collections whole)

Thank you for the patience. More as it happens. @internetarchive

Testing infrastructure would help for sure, but it’s not necessarily the lack of infra that’s causing trouble.

Linus complains the author didn’t submit the patch to some places for public comments and testing BEFORE requesting a merge.

It sounds like he expects something like

Here’s a mailing list thread asking for feedback and testing. No one complained in a week, could you merge ?

I hope Gimp 3.0 stable will happen before the heat-death of the universe.

1,480 containers are lost on average per year

That’s a good point, but this go toward both arguments:

• Salvaging so many containers looks unrealistic,
• A mandate to salvage lost containers would be an incentive to better secure and handle containers, thus decreasing the number of lost containers.

The incredibly high pressure on the ocean’s floor would probable make the air bag solution impractical, just as you said. I’m embarrassed for not thinking about this.

The point is to salvage the container’s content, not necessarily the container themselves. I suggested bringing the whole things to the surface using air bag hoping it would simplify the operation.

Here’s a backup plan: Require buoyancy of containers that contains anythings dangerous for the environment (plastic, oil, batteries, …).

Nobody will go on a costly underwater expedition […] to recover some soggy Chinese fast fashion

If there’s such a mandate, there would be insurance to cover against such cost. The insurance premium might decrease the amount cheap fast fashion that gets shipped around the world.

The cost might be prohibitive for shipping companies, but that’s not a reason NOT to have them cleanup the mess they’re creating.

Even if you do, you’d need a lot of trips picking up future landfill fodder with a little robot arm

1. Attach salvage air bags to the container
2. Inflate bags using air canisters
3. Recover the container on the surface water

Most sunken containers — some still sealed, some damaged and open — are never found or recovered.

The Coast Guard has limited powers to compel shipowners to retrieve containers unless they threaten a marine sanctuary […]

That’s BS. Where I live, if someone steal my car and drive it into a lake/river, I’ll be help responsible for recovering the car, and in practice my car insurance would do it on my behalf.

The shipping company or the container’s owner should have similar responsibilities. The average container is a larger risk to the environment than the average car.

Hovering over a checkmark will display a message that explains “Google’s signals suggest that this business is the business that it says it is,” which is determined by things like

I guess this due diligence cost time and money. And doing this due diligence for every ad customer might affect their bottom line.

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Every time a train rumbles to a stop, the energy generated by all that friction is converted to electricity

Friction is how classic braking work, and all the energy that goes into friction is lost. Regenerative braking typically rely on magnets and rotors to slow a train. When a train brake, it uses part of its kinetic energy to spin a rotor, which generate electricity using spinning magnets.

The article is otherwise interesting, it’s just unfortunate they got the basic physics wrong.

Reference: Review and trends in regenerative braking energy recovery for traction power system with inverter substation in subway’s of São Paulo city

• You have a malicious actor on your trusted network.
• If so, you have bigger problems.

This is more likely than you think. There’s more computers than you realise on the average network. Many aren’t updated and have vulnerabilities. If there’s one malware on one machine on your network, that means a malicious actor is on your network.

Common exemples :

• Home WiFi network with old unpached router, Android smartphone, network printer, security camera, thermostat, robot vacuum cleaner, smart lightbulb, smart TV, …
• Unsecure WiFi network at the cafe, train station, hotel, … where you connect a laptops that is sometimes used for printing and which has CUPS

I guess integration with Google Drive is a big convenience for users.

But yes, if the cost of getting access is to high for indie developers, then it make sense to avoid Google Drive. Creating and maintaining your own cloud sync service for a specific app may not be worth it, they should investigate integration with existing Google Drive competitors/alternatives.