I don't want root on my Phone, I want a stable and consistent UX. Maybe even efficient and simple. You can give me root if you gift the device to me, I'll accept that. But I am totally done with "our users are our beta testers". Even switched to upgrading iOS only at .3 minor releases. It is so fucking tiiring.
This sounds like borderline stalking. I am not a woman, but I have my experience with getting treated unfairly/getting patronized. And I never felt like I wanted to give a bad actor a second chance to talk down to me, even if they pretend to have good intentions. If you fucked someone over, you dont have the right to run after them. Leave them alone, stop confronting them over and over again with your own stupidity.
I think the new circle is somewhat different from the last one?
Also I don't think it is stalking, when they did not even found her. If they did and she said go away, and they pressured on - that would be stalking. As of now, it is likely she does not even know about it.
Well, given that it's in _The Guardian_, there's a pretty good chance that she is indeed now aware of it.
Minor quibble: the current Magic Circle is not "different from the last one" because it is the same organisation—though it has obviously had a significant change of policy and a considerable turnover of membership in the three and a half decades since Sophie Lloyd was accepted as a member.
As other have said, doxing is even worse! If they had searched for her privately, and didn't find her, bummer. But to step up the hunt and dox someone publicly is a totally different story. Disgusting what organisations are capable of, and what is being casually supported by the public!
Well, but personal websites and rss have lost, sadly. I agree with you that being mainstream is not the defining characteristic of a working system. OTOH, every "community" has a lower bound when it comes to involvement. At some point, things just die out, like FidoNet or CB radio.
Wha? Well, there are blind people who barely know how to use their cane, but... Let me explain.
Manfred Spitzer once wrote that he thinks there are two groups of people on this planet who really have good audio location capabilities. Blind people and conductors. Conductors because they need to be able to listen to a particular performer, to isolate them from the rest of the orchester. And blind people, because we use the ear to navigate the world.
Now, I actually use everything around me as a source of sound. Tapping with the cane is one of them. However, if I want to "scan" my environment, I usually make a clicking noise with my tongue.
But those are the a small part of the game. The rest of the noises I use come from outside. Just a small example, before I loose myself in thsi comment: I can hear poles and trees on the sidewalk. Not because they emit so much sound, but because they eat it up. If a car drives behind the pole along the street, I can actually hear the point where the external sound doesn't reach me, infering that there must be a pole or a tree.
Echo location is not always about what you send. Its m6ore about you learning how the sound waves around you behave. Sometimes, but this is getting borderline esoteric, I can hear the materials involved. Walking towards a wooden wall sounds destinctly different from walking towards a concrete wall...
In a world of total surveillance, the difference between a police state and free society is who has access to the data and what laws are enforced preventing them abusing it.
The benefits of all this spy tech are great - if we manage it right. I mean telephone tapping is an example
A valid ethical question is: will this technology do more good than bad? Or put differently: given the bad implications this technology will likely have, is it worth it?
Example: "I have made this technology that makes me (and only me) earn 1 cent per day when managed right. Bad actors can use it to hack into hospitals and ransom them".
Wouldn't you agree that this hypothetical technology is probably not worth it?
In my opinion, it's not acceptable to say "I created a technology that helps bad guys be even worse, but I don't have any responsibility at all because I don't personally ask them to be bad guys".
Of course sometimes it's harder than one may think a posteriori: sometimes it was not clear while developping the technology that it would have bad applications.
So the cost-benefit analysis approach is quite correct - and my personal take is that “surveillance technology” is another way of saying “external accurate memory” - everything I say or do, everyone I talk to and interact with.
We like having dash-cams because they make other peoples bad driving clear to the judge / insurance agent. Something like that for all aspects of your life seems good and that’s just the personal point. Once we start looking at how to aggregate medical data and provide it to researchers - I mean some doctor has come up with stick on Bluetooth ECG monitors - stick on and record for 48 hours.
The problems arise when the data is used unfairly. Look this guys is (social underdog) - we can use the recorded data to prosecute him. That only gets solved when the judges recorded data shows a clear bias … and we live in a fair open democratic society
If we don’t live in such a society then yea, this technology will Almost always have more cost than benefit - but that’s not the technology.
The problem are incentives. There are monetary incentives to create whatever technology you can, because you can, and thats the way you earn money. There is zero incentive to consider how your technology might be abused.
> There is zero incentive to consider how your technology might be abused.
Ethics is that incentive.
Would you be fine getting a good salary for legally building bombs that are sold legally, knowing that they are purposely killing many innocent children? If the answer is "no", then it means that there is an incentive. You "just" need to find your line.
And I strongly believe that sometimes, the only way is to agree together on a line (through regulations), because individually we may not be strong enough. For instance I think that sending people to the ISS/Moon/Mars is an artistic performance that the world does not need. On the contrary, we invest a ton of public money into doing that, which then unlocks private companies (like SpaceX) to commoditize space, which in turn is bad for the environment. So I would vote against spending public money on this. But now if you offered me to become an astronaut in a space program, I would most definitely go. I find it interesting: I would vote against it, but given the opportunity I would do it :-).
I am not an active Zig guy, so... YYMV, but... To me, the examples are actually not self explanatory. What does the _ do? How are these constants used? Why is it something special? C had enums since forever, what is the novelty here?
C has a rather weak type system: using one enum type in a function that takes a different enum isn't guaranteed to be an error, instead they promote to an integer type and silently convert (though you can set up most compilers to make this an error, e.g. `-Wenum-conversion` and `-Werror` for GCC & Clang).
The basic idea is the "newtype" pattern: different types may have exactly the same valid set of values, but not be interchangeable.
E.g. kilograms and US customary pounds, or meters and miles. If you've got a function `f(distance: double)` where `distance` needs to be in kilometers but your program also handles miles, it's nice to be able to define a type for kilometers that's different from the type for miles so the function won't compile if passed in miles incorrectly. So you get `f(distance: kilometers)`. That also stops someone passing in pounds to `f`, or any other such nonsense.
I still remember foldly my first sound card, roughly around '93. It was a LPT connected chip that did 22kHz (I believe mono) audio to 3.5mm. Was directly supported by ModEdit. I remember downloading the schematics as an ASCII file. Went to a local electronics shop and bought all the listed items. and handed it over to my cousin who was good with electronics at the time. He soldered the thing together, without a case... And I used it for about 2 years, without it ever breaking. Those were the days!
