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by twiss 29d ago
Yeah. Also, IANAL but even if the European Commission does think Apple's interpretation of the DMA is reasonable, Apple could still be sued by an affected company or person, and a judge might disagree, IIUC: https://bureaubr
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by twiss 2mo ago
Support period != warranty period. The OnePlus 15 will get 4 years of Android updates and 6 years of security patches.
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by twiss 3mo ago
I think this is more common when reporting heights in feet+inches than in cm. Rounding up 1.76m to 1.80m seems much weirder than rounding up 5'11" to 6', since all measurements in cm are very precise-sounding.
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by twiss 5mo ago
Why do you think being regulated utilities would preclude having multiple classes of service? Airlines had first class before deregulation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_class_(aviation)#History
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by twiss 5mo ago
In Celcius, it's less common to round to the nearest 10 degrees (or say things like "in the twenties" as you might with Fahrenheit), because that makes a much larger difference than it does in Fahrenheit. So I wouldn't n
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by twiss 9mo ago
Do we know that those heavy duty trucks were formerly used to do things you need heavy duty trucks for? It seems more likely that 18% (or more!) of the usage was by people who think heavy duty trucks look cool and wanted to show off theirs.
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by twiss 1y ago
There are, in fact, some efforts going on to improve beyond the status quo on permission prompts in browsers, e.g. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/... Though, that docume
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by twiss 1y ago
Spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-5/#randomness WPT test results: https://wpt.fyi/results/css/css-values?label=master&label=ex... Only Safari supports it for now, it seems.
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by twiss 1y ago
The actual number is 23: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem The square root approximation works well for large numbers, but leaves out some factors that are relevant for small numbers.
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by twiss 1y ago
You're right that AES-128 is fine. Normally the birthday paradox only applies to cryptographic hashes. The only way it would apply to symmetric keys is if you have a server that stores 2^64 encrypted messages, and can somehow find ou
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by twiss 1y ago
> The chances of generating two GUIDs that are the same is astronomically small. > The odds are 1 in 2^122 — that’s approximately 1 in 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00. This is true if you only generate two GUIDs, but
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by twiss 1y ago
I may be missing something about how the PHP compiler/interpreter works, but I don't quite understand why this is apparently feasible to implement: class BlogPostRepository extends BaseRepository<BlogPost> { ... }
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by twiss 1y ago
Fair enough, I'm willing to believe it's doing evil things to hosts on the platform, indeed. But FWIW, the EU is at least making an effort to regulate the company: https://nltimes.nl/2024/09/19/eu-co
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by twiss 1y ago
I think there is some cultural difference between the US and Europe where in the US it's seen as somewhat OK to hold the customer service agents as personally responsible for the failings of the company, and treat them accordingly. Cus
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by twiss 1y ago
Apparently Priceline.com Inc. took over Booking.com (founded in the Netherlands) for € 110 million, and then changed its name to Booking Holdings to reflect the fact that Booking.com was much bigger than Priceline.com. Indeed a great exampl
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by twiss 1y ago
How so? At least Booking.com shows me the total price for an accommodation up front, without any additional fees or surprises coming up later in the booking process. The same cannot be said for AirBnB: if I go to the home page right now it
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by twiss 1y ago
It's interesting to claim that tourism in Europe won't be "durable" at a moment when tourism in the US is sharply declining.. Anyway, Booking.com is a European company and has many more customers than AirBnB.
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by twiss 1y ago
> I arrived in Lyon recently and figured, hey, this is Europe, why not try the European app again, and used Bolt. A bit off topic but IMHO your first thought should instead be: "hey, this is Europe, why not try the train?" In L
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by twiss 1y ago
I, as well, had degraded performance due to the temperature in Amsterdam today :) Can't complain compared to folks in Spain or Italy, though.. But hopefully they're better prepared than we are.
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by twiss 1y ago
Is it easy/cheap to get a stable IP address? I would worry that if I just get any cheap VPS host, they might switch the IP address at any point, but I'm not sure how true that actually is.
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by twiss 1y ago
> But you would also not be reachable if the killswitch is active ;) I would be, because I asked for a killswitch for the microphone and cameras, not a killswitch for connectivity like the original comment. If I get a call while the kill
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by twiss 1y ago
I don't think it's easy to not carry a phone, nowadays. Let's say I'm meeting up with someone: I'll need to use navigation, potentially message them if I'm running late, and so on. Then once I'm there, wha
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by twiss 1y ago
I'd be happiest if they'd provide a physical switch for the microphone and cameras. That way, you could have a private conversation and be sure you're not being recorded. Turning off connectivity doesn't help as much to
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by twiss 1y ago
Yes, I understand and never said I disagree with that :) I'm just trying to provide some nuance and background about the specific issue discussed in this submission, as IMHO I think it's more interesting than making the same high-
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by twiss 1y ago
I would usually tend to agree with that, I was mainly just responding to the specific claim that OpenPGP doesn't have a definition of a well-formed packet sequence, which is false. Also, as a maintainer of OpenPGP.js, I'd say that
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by twiss 1y ago
FWIW, OpenPGP does have a definition of a well-formed packet sequence, e.g. for messages here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9580.html#name-openpgp-mes... The packet sequence used by this vulnerability was not a va
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by twiss 1y ago
Edge no longer has its own engine, it's based on Chromium now. When it did, it also wouldn't qualify for STF funding because it wasn't open source. But yes, a browser engine is potentially an embeddable library, so an open so
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by twiss 1y ago
Depending on how you define "global", https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund might qualify: > With the Sovereign Tech Fund, we invest globally in the open software components that underpin Germany's
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by twiss 1y ago
Possibly https://github.com/freedomofpress/webcat ? (I also made one, a long time ago: https://github.com/twiss/hcs-checker-firefox .) There is also an effort to build this into browsers directly, w
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by twiss 2y ago
Yeah. Similarly, for the range transformations, instead of `[a:A-z:Z]`, I would suggest `[a-z:A-Z]`; and instead of `[a:b-y:zz:a]`, something like `[a-y:b-z;z:a]`, perhaps.

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