As long as magic leap has been vaporware, the graphics vendors have known real time ray tracing was going to be required in a big way and have been working on it behind the scenes.
"The biggest feature is that TLS 1.3 ditches older encryption and hashing algorithms (such as MD5 and SHA-224) for newer and harder to crack alternatives"
Adding support for bigger and better algorithms and defaulting to them if available is a feature, dropping support is a nightmare. It's challenging enough communicating with things like embedded web servers on old ilo interfaces and the like because they did this with TLS 1.3. It should be strongly advised to update to the latest and greatest but it shouldn't be forced because it isn't always possible.
And you are suggesting social media is the place for this? There are no shortage of solutions to fill this space and ways to make them disappear... anyone who actually has need of this level of security and confidentiality can spend a couple hours learning how to do so.
None of the rest of that requires both erasing history (something I didn't object to) and erasing the evidence of having erased history. Being able to search and refer back to history is by far the more commonly needed feature, having everything disappear by default makes no sense. Experimenting with sexuality? Seriously, are we back in the 80's or something? Experimenting with your sexuality was trendy last decade along with pretending to be an oppressed outcast while doing that trendy thing, now it's being flexible sexually and not putting labels on it. Try to keep up. Even if that were an issue it isn't something which grants some sort of moral pass for violating the trust of a partner. You break-up/get divorced/etc if you want to go exploring, like a mature grown up.
FB never had the same problem. Once upon a time there was myspace but myspace never penetrated beyond kids and certainly never achieved general usage. FB is more ubiquitous than IE or the windows desktop ever was.
"XMPP is federated so you don't have to convince everyone to use the same server as you. I say this not as an argument in favor of XMPP, but to point out that it's even harder to get people to use open standards than you suggest."
That is true but first, most don't even know what XMPP is, so they aren't using a client that will let them add other servers. Second, corporations are able to take advantage of the open nature to deploy monitored and logged in house solutions for XMPP so they have corporate policies and often technical policies blocking you from using other servers sometimes from using other clients. Finally, MS bought skype and there are ways to tie it into windows AD authentication in such a way that you can't easily or intuitively configure third party applications for access in all cases.
The general rule of thumb is that once your corporate employer becomes aware of something and has the ability to hook into it, it becomes effectively useless for any purpose but your job. Generally speaking, it also loses most of its productive value for actually doing your job as well.
I'm with you on the principal I just don't think it works out like you'd want on the practical. I could be wrong though. It did happen once already, with FB taking over for myspace. On the other hand myspace never had the penetration level FB does... nobody's grandma used myspace.
The only reason Instagram has taken off in the way it has is the integration with FB where everything essentially double posts.
Because it would be heavily fragmented and there would be no central place everyone uses and standardizes on. Similar to open IM protocols like XMPP. They are abundant and essentially worthless outside of little corporate bubbles in your workplace because you are left trying to convince everyone to use the set of servers that you are using.
"So you're saying that for Facebook to have competition, they already need to be Facebook?
Good luck with that."
You can say good luck with that all day it doesn't change the reality. Why would anyone want to use a platform that is entirely about connecting and keeping up with all their infrequently contacted friends and family when none of those people use it? This is a chicken and egg type scenario that is pretty characteristic of monopolies like Facebook and is hardly new. We see the same thing with Microsoft Windows... nobody wanted to use a platform that all their applications don't run on and that they couldn't count on being present wherever they went to work and all their friends/family using to enable a community support base. Nobody wants to spend the money to port all those applications and/or their business infrastructure on anything but the most popular platform... therefore the most popular platform remains the most popular platform as long as it manages to be "good enough."
I don't know of any real competing networks. It isn't real competition if everyone isn't already on it, it uses a bunch of handles instead of names (ala instagram) you can't create groups/events to organize friends around, and/or they all contain the same bugs with regard to the messaging (no proper searchable archive of messages) component. Hell most of the so called alternatives are nothing more than the latest IM, usually with a bunch of anonymity cloaked features that are really just aids for people cheating on their partners or children hiding things from their parents. These are not things we should be supporting. Making history wipes/disable automatic isn't a feature. Erasing the digital fingerprints of children/partners hiding things from their SO is not something we should encourage. Building these capabilities into common apps that aren't a fingerprint by their presence is just as bad.
"study found a link between cell tower radiation and specific type(s) of cancer, and followup studies successfully replicated those results"
This is a large scale lifetime Italian study, finding statistically significant increase of a specific and uncommon cancer which replicates the results of a U.S. National Toxicology Program study which found a connection between this radiation and an increase of this same uncommon cancer.
"Second, scientific-misconduct investigations by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in America are no more frequent than 20 years ago, nor are they more likely to find wrongdoing."
If the number of retractions has increased due to an increase in the amount of researched being performed and published scientific misconduct investigations would be expected to have increased proportionally all else being equal. Not having done so doesn't indicate there is less misconduct, it indicates less of the misconduct is being caught and investigated. In my anecdotal experience this sort of thing is likely because the workload for investigators has increased without increasing investigators, budget, and resources accordingly, hence they can only investigate misconduct at the same rate or reduce standards.
How pre-quantum that philosophy is. All I'm saying is that radar ghosting and blips are little like religion in that you've picked something that can be used to explain away anything without a requirement for evidence. That is called faith. Which isn't to say faith is always misplaced but when we do something of that sort we should do it with eyes wide open so we are open to it when some evidence to the contrary comes up.
Blimps and weather balloons are a pretty rare sight for most of us and often things like this are dismissed simply because it is possible for someone to figure out how to model them or some equipment malfunction to create some similar result. But that is additional evidence of those possibilities being possibilities not that they are the right possibility. Aliens are a possibility so likely that there is contentious debate about whether it is even statistically possible for them to not exist and manifest naturally. If you replaced Aliens with just about anything else in the previous sentence we would pursue chasing it down with extreme scientific vigor but because of bias against Aliens we will accept any potential alternative explanation in place of them. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence but how extraordinary is something that is statistically extremely probable to manifest naturally?
"You have evidence that it is uncommon or rare, and you take that to mean that if it was the most likely explanation, it would have to be common instead"
If you are talking about an uncommon or rare explanation than it is hardly the most likely... it is unlikely, to the point of being rare. Determining that a blimp is more likely than Aliens is mostly just bias.
A set of assumptions that while self-reinforcing also has a higher probability of being the correct answer as one mass government conspiracy and/or cover-up after another is leaked/caught/revealed.
The NRA claiming to be about protecting the 2nd amendment and the voice for those who believe in it is one the most serious blows we take.
A bunch of rich jerks who "hunt" going to petting zoos where farm antelope are chased out of a pen hidden behind a tree for them to shoot. Pathetic. The United States would be such hostile territory to an occupying force that it would make our failures to occupy Vietnam and Iraq look like warm welcoming hospitality and those in power should always, personally, have to fear the rage of the mob. That is the reason for the second amendment. Even if you don't agree the cost is worth it you should oppose anyone thinking the government is allowed to stomp on the Constitution without going through the process of amending it, those things in there you DO agree with can be stepped on just as easily.
Not to mention psychos turn to the easy to get guns when they want to do damage... take those away and they will get clever, clever would mean figuring out you can make mustard gas from crap you can buy at Walmart in an afternoon or a simple virus that only has to work well enough to fail to work in a few months with crap off the internet or a dust bomb from a freaking bag of flour at the grocery store. Seriously... one doesn't have to get that freaking clever to find something way more dangerous than a gun. Especially if one doesn't care about walking away from using it.
"That's the point of automation. It will function even if most people don't want to work."
Yes but every spec of it is being licensed and controlled and will be metered out bit by bit, only enough to keep progressing it until those at the top don't actually need those below anymore. At that point it is a utopia... but only for the wealthy and the rest will starve. The wealthy generally don't mind, because wealth is intended as a merit scoring system and they have high scores they've ignored that the scores show little resemblance to reality these days.
Sorry I just don't think is very realistic. People are talking about factory work and manual labor... most of that was automated in the 80's and 90's. The automation wave coming are the skilled and educated jobs, specifically very expensive and increasingly impossible to find (due to needing a resource with a nearly unique and non-existent combination of already existing skills from day one).
The jobs being most heavily targeted are technical jobs. Artificial neural networks are becoming extremely effective as the new class of computing architecture which is self-programming and improving. What is being worked on is training the neural nets that efficiently train other neural networks including themselves, and producing a new generation of hardware to host them.
Why bother spending billions to eliminate low paid menial jobs when you can automate the expensive jobs related to advancing automation and have the machines do most of the work for eliminating the low paid menial jobs? Actually those jobs are more difficult to automate anyway... you have to interface these new self-programming logical systems physical systems whereas the technical work IS entirely in the logic space.
The thing sucks so bad. I've had a few things that required npm... everyone pretends it's like apt or yum that grab everything you need if you install from a proper repo... npm has never gotten all the dependencies on a fresh clean host for any project I've installed.
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As long as magic leap has been vaporware, the graphics vendors have known real time ray tracing was going to be required in a big way and have been working on it behind the scenes.
Sounds like a terrible idea.
"The biggest feature is that TLS 1.3 ditches older encryption and hashing algorithms (such as MD5 and SHA-224) for newer and harder to crack alternatives"
Adding support for bigger and better algorithms and defaulting to them if available is a feature, dropping support is a nightmare. It's challenging enough communicating with things like embedded web servers on old ilo interfaces and the like because they did this with TLS 1.3. It should be strongly advised to update to the latest and greatest but it shouldn't be forced because it isn't always possible.
"Corporate whistle blowers,
Confidential Informants,
Witness protection,"
And you are suggesting social media is the place for this? There are no shortage of solutions to fill this space and ways to make them disappear... anyone who actually has need of this level of security and confidentiality can spend a couple hours learning how to do so.
None of the rest of that requires both erasing history (something I didn't object to) and erasing the evidence of having erased history. Being able to search and refer back to history is by far the more commonly needed feature, having everything disappear by default makes no sense. Experimenting with sexuality? Seriously, are we back in the 80's or something? Experimenting with your sexuality was trendy last decade along with pretending to be an oppressed outcast while doing that trendy thing, now it's being flexible sexually and not putting labels on it. Try to keep up. Even if that were an issue it isn't something which grants some sort of moral pass for violating the trust of a partner. You break-up/get divorced/etc if you want to go exploring, like a mature grown up.
FB never had the same problem. Once upon a time there was myspace but myspace never penetrated beyond kids and certainly never achieved general usage. FB is more ubiquitous than IE or the windows desktop ever was.
"XMPP is federated so you don't have to convince everyone to use the same server as you. I say this not as an argument in favor of XMPP, but to point out that it's even harder to get people to use open standards than you suggest."
That is true but first, most don't even know what XMPP is, so they aren't using a client that will let them add other servers. Second, corporations are able to take advantage of the open nature to deploy monitored and logged in house solutions for XMPP so they have corporate policies and often technical policies blocking you from using other servers sometimes from using other clients. Finally, MS bought skype and there are ways to tie it into windows AD authentication in such a way that you can't easily or intuitively configure third party applications for access in all cases.
The general rule of thumb is that once your corporate employer becomes aware of something and has the ability to hook into it, it becomes effectively useless for any purpose but your job. Generally speaking, it also loses most of its productive value for actually doing your job as well.
I'm with you on the principal I just don't think it works out like you'd want on the practical. I could be wrong though. It did happen once already, with FB taking over for myspace. On the other hand myspace never had the penetration level FB does... nobody's grandma used myspace.
The only reason Instagram has taken off in the way it has is the integration with FB where everything essentially double posts.
Because it would be heavily fragmented and there would be no central place everyone uses and standardizes on. Similar to open IM protocols like XMPP. They are abundant and essentially worthless outside of little corporate bubbles in your workplace because you are left trying to convince everyone to use the set of servers that you are using.
"So you're saying that for Facebook to have competition, they already need to be Facebook?
Good luck with that."
You can say good luck with that all day it doesn't change the reality. Why would anyone want to use a platform that is entirely about connecting and keeping up with all their infrequently contacted friends and family when none of those people use it? This is a chicken and egg type scenario that is pretty characteristic of monopolies like Facebook and is hardly new. We see the same thing with Microsoft Windows... nobody wanted to use a platform that all their applications don't run on and that they couldn't count on being present wherever they went to work and all their friends/family using to enable a community support base. Nobody wants to spend the money to port all those applications and/or their business infrastructure on anything but the most popular platform... therefore the most popular platform remains the most popular platform as long as it manages to be "good enough."
I don't know of any real competing networks. It isn't real competition if everyone isn't already on it, it uses a bunch of handles instead of names (ala instagram) you can't create groups/events to organize friends around, and/or they all contain the same bugs with regard to the messaging (no proper searchable archive of messages) component. Hell most of the so called alternatives are nothing more than the latest IM, usually with a bunch of anonymity cloaked features that are really just aids for people cheating on their partners or children hiding things from their parents. These are not things we should be supporting. Making history wipes/disable automatic isn't a feature. Erasing the digital fingerprints of children/partners hiding things from their SO is not something we should encourage. Building these capabilities into common apps that aren't a fingerprint by their presence is just as bad.
"study found a link between cell tower radiation and specific type(s) of cancer, and followup studies successfully replicated those results"
This is a large scale lifetime Italian study, finding statistically significant increase of a specific and uncommon cancer which replicates the results of a U.S. National Toxicology Program study which found a connection between this radiation and an increase of this same uncommon cancer.
Alphazero can read the rules for a game and then beat pretty much anyone at it. That isn't Pseudo intelligence, that is intelligence.
"Second, scientific-misconduct investigations by the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) in America are no more frequent than 20 years ago, nor are they more likely to find wrongdoing."
If the number of retractions has increased due to an increase in the amount of researched being performed and published scientific misconduct investigations would be expected to have increased proportionally all else being equal. Not having done so doesn't indicate there is less misconduct, it indicates less of the misconduct is being caught and investigated. In my anecdotal experience this sort of thing is likely because the workload for investigators has increased without increasing investigators, budget, and resources accordingly, hence they can only investigate misconduct at the same rate or reduce standards.
"It is either 0%, or 100%. All the time."
How pre-quantum that philosophy is. All I'm saying is that radar ghosting and blips are little like religion in that you've picked something that can be used to explain away anything without a requirement for evidence. That is called faith. Which isn't to say faith is always misplaced but when we do something of that sort we should do it with eyes wide open so we are open to it when some evidence to the contrary comes up.
Blimps and weather balloons are a pretty rare sight for most of us and often things like this are dismissed simply because it is possible for someone to figure out how to model them or some equipment malfunction to create some similar result. But that is additional evidence of those possibilities being possibilities not that they are the right possibility. Aliens are a possibility so likely that there is contentious debate about whether it is even statistically possible for them to not exist and manifest naturally. If you replaced Aliens with just about anything else in the previous sentence we would pursue chasing it down with extreme scientific vigor but because of bias against Aliens we will accept any potential alternative explanation in place of them. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence but how extraordinary is something that is statistically extremely probable to manifest naturally?
"You have evidence that it is uncommon or rare, and you take that to mean that if it was the most likely explanation, it would have to be common instead"
If you are talking about an uncommon or rare explanation than it is hardly the most likely... it is unlikely, to the point of being rare. Determining that a blimp is more likely than Aliens is mostly just bias.
A set of assumptions that while self-reinforcing also has a higher probability of being the correct answer as one mass government conspiracy and/or cover-up after another is leaked/caught/revealed.
The NRA claiming to be about protecting the 2nd amendment and the voice for those who believe in it is one the most serious blows we take.
A bunch of rich jerks who "hunt" going to petting zoos where farm antelope are chased out of a pen hidden behind a tree for them to shoot. Pathetic. The United States would be such hostile territory to an occupying force that it would make our failures to occupy Vietnam and Iraq look like warm welcoming hospitality and those in power should always, personally, have to fear the rage of the mob. That is the reason for the second amendment. Even if you don't agree the cost is worth it you should oppose anyone thinking the government is allowed to stomp on the Constitution without going through the process of amending it, those things in there you DO agree with can be stepped on just as easily.
Not to mention psychos turn to the easy to get guns when they want to do damage... take those away and they will get clever, clever would mean figuring out you can make mustard gas from crap you can buy at Walmart in an afternoon or a simple virus that only has to work well enough to fail to work in a few months with crap off the internet or a dust bomb from a freaking bag of flour at the grocery store. Seriously... one doesn't have to get that freaking clever to find something way more dangerous than a gun. Especially if one doesn't care about walking away from using it.
"That's the point of automation. It will function even if most people don't want to work."
Yes but every spec of it is being licensed and controlled and will be metered out bit by bit, only enough to keep progressing it until those at the top don't actually need those below anymore. At that point it is a utopia... but only for the wealthy and the rest will starve. The wealthy generally don't mind, because wealth is intended as a merit scoring system and they have high scores they've ignored that the scores show little resemblance to reality these days.
Sorry I just don't think is very realistic. People are talking about factory work and manual labor... most of that was automated in the 80's and 90's. The automation wave coming are the skilled and educated jobs, specifically very expensive and increasingly impossible to find (due to needing a resource with a nearly unique and non-existent combination of already existing skills from day one).
The jobs being most heavily targeted are technical jobs. Artificial neural networks are becoming extremely effective as the new class of computing architecture which is self-programming and improving. What is being worked on is training the neural nets that efficiently train other neural networks including themselves, and producing a new generation of hardware to host them.
Why bother spending billions to eliminate low paid menial jobs when you can automate the expensive jobs related to advancing automation and have the machines do most of the work for eliminating the low paid menial jobs? Actually those jobs are more difficult to automate anyway... you have to interface these new self-programming logical systems physical systems whereas the technical work IS entirely in the logic space.
In fairness... if it isn't for home use and you are using javascript you kind of had it coming.
Backups, daily snapshots, etc. Hell, apps developed in house should be set up in containers and replaced with a couple commands.
Not an issue though since you've got auditing enabled and could always check against your backup... you DO have a backup right?
"Not really. It's just that a lot of Unix people don't use/know about ACLs in Linux. try man setfacl.
In general, you can achieve similar results using conventional unix permissions, but it takes a bit more work.
"
In practice it really only comes up in a small subset of use cases.
In general most developers don't really know any system. How do you think devops came to be.
The thing sucks so bad. I've had a few things that required npm... everyone pretends it's like apt or yum that grab everything you need if you install from a proper repo... npm has never gotten all the dependencies on a fresh clean host for any project I've installed.