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SomeGadgetGuy, 5 days ago to windows

It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

TheWarOnCars, 5 days ago to Podcast

"Paris has closed more than 100 streets to motor vehicles, tripled parking fees for SUVs, removed roughly 50,000 parking spots, and constructed more than 1,300 kilometers of bike lanes since Mayor Anne Hidalgo took office in 2014. Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution..."

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

#thewaroncars #podcast #paris

tao, 5 days ago to random

There has been a remarkable breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis (though still very far from fully resolving this conjecture) by Guth and Maynard making the first substantial improvement to a classical 1940 bound of Ingham regarding the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function (and more generally, controlling the large values of various Dirichlet series): https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20552

Let 𝑁(σ,𝑇) denote the number of zeroes of the Riemann zeta function with real part at least σ and imaginary part at most 𝑇 in magnitude. The Riemann hypothesis tells us that 𝑁(σ,𝑇) vanishes for any σ>1/2. We of course can't prove this unconditionally. But as the next best thing, we can prove zero density estimates, which are non-trivial upper bounds on 𝑁(σ,𝑇). It turns out that the value σ=3/4 is a key value. In 1940, Ingham obtained the bound (N(3/4,T) \ll T^{3/5+o(1)}). Over the next eighty years, the only improvement to this bound has been small refinements to the 𝑜(1) error. This has limited us from doing many things in analytic number theory: for instance, to get a good prime number theorem in almost all short intervals of the form ((x,x+x^\theta)), we have long been limited to the range (\theta>1/6), with the main obstacle being the lack of improvement to the Ingham bound. (1/3)

Crell, 5 days ago to random

When you say what a word "means", what do you mean by "mean?" It's actually not a trivial question.

https://peakd.com/language/@crell/bounded-vs-centered-sets

ben, 7 days ago to conservative

This list of the New Scientist's favorite science fiction books is brilliant. The books I've read that are included here are some of my favorites of all time; the others are on my to-read list. What's your favorite? #Culture https://werd.io/2024/the-21-best-science-fiction-books-of-all-time-according

jwildeboer, 7 days ago to random

FTR. "AI" isn't just LLMs. Besides generative "AI" we also have iterative "AI" and classic Machine Learning. The latter two are well established and useful tools, IMHO. Throwing them all under the generic "AI" umbrella term doesn't do them justice.

timbray, 10 days ago to random

Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

asynchronaut, 11 days ago to random

The first post-backdoor #xz release 5.6.2 is out! 🎉

https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/releases/tag/v5.6.2

ben, 11 days ago to random

We’re being asked to align ourselves with some weird ideological lines. But the killing has to stop. Thoughts on Gaza: https://werd.io/2024/can-we-at-least-agree-that-killing-is-wrong

fridayfrontend, 12 days ago to random

The deskilling of web dev is harming the product but, more importantly, it's damaging our health – this is why #burnout happens: "You’re expected to follow half-a-dozen different specialities, each relatively fast-paced and complex in its own right, and you’re supposed to do it without cutting into the hours where you do actual paid web development." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-deskilling-of-web-dev-is-harming-us-all/

Gammitin, 12 days ago to random

If anyone has an interest in the early days of the internet, I cannot recommend this book enough - it's a gold mine!
I have a 1992 version and it's honestly amazing reading, I'll post some extracts!
"The Whole Internet, Users Guide & Catalog" - Ed Krol (1992)

ChrisMayLA6, 13 days ago to random

[sound of grinding teeth]...

Someone needs to sit the Guardian editorial team down & explain to them:

Rising house prices are not 'growth' - this is asset price inflation driven by financial instruments & constrained supply... read my lips: IT IS INFLATION!

(just because its excluded from RPI/CPI measure doesn't make it growth!)

And most inflationary areas are not 'best performing' - they are areas of housing crisis!!!!

#housing #headinmyhands

https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/27/house-price-growth-in-rural-areas-outstrips-towns-in-great-britain

sotolf, 13 days ago to random

So here is what @Mojeek has to say about me... Seriously? So they are actively making death threats? This is really kind of scary, how is this a "good" feature?

massonpj, 14 days ago to opensource

MUST READ if you work on, use, support #OpenSource in #HigherEd":

Office of the National Cyber Director told RSA Conference attendees the White House is developing legal clauses that shift software liability away from customers and more onto manufacturers.

"Another proposal on the table would be SHARED LIABILITY BETWEEN OPEN-SOURCE MAINTAINERS AND FOR-PROFIT FIRMS who integrate those open tools into their products, he added."

#EdTech #HigherEducation #OpenScience

https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2024/05/white-house-talks-industry-build-legal-framework-software-liability/396330/

a2, 14 days ago to random

As someone with a single-user Mastodon instance, I'm wondering how to go about addressing some of the issues that @erinc brought up here
https://mull.net/mastodon

wxcafe, 15 days ago to random

lmao this makes me want to die

FenTiger, 14 days ago to random

Vatican City has over five Popes per square mile.

It's the most densely popeulated region of the world.

sandboxgeneral, 15 days ago to archlinux

paccache command from the pacman-contrib package is a wonderful command. I just cleared over 6GB of cache from / with the command.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Cleaning_the_package_cache

#archlinux #linux #cache #cli

Gammitin, 15 days ago to random

The Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog, published in September 1992.
I first ventured onto the world wide web in 92' amazing times and memories, what an adventure!

CountBinface, 18 days ago to random

It’s meant to be.

samwho, 18 days ago to random

✨ I spent 3 months writing the best interactive introduction to queueing I could, and it's live now!

You can read it here: https://encore.dev/blog/queueing.

It starts off by showing what happens when you have no queue...

A screenshot from the post. It shows the first visualisation, an orange circular button on the left and a black rounded square on the right. The button is clicked, and a request travels to the black square, the server, and gets processed by slowly disappearing in a clock-like fashion.

Waxingtonknee, 18 days ago to random

I cannot stress this enough.

If you are not registered to vote. Do it now.

It's easy and simple.

If you don't have valid ID you can get it free from your local authority.

Register to vote.

Now.

Click here:

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

#GE2024 #GeneralElection #UKGE24

underlap, 18 days ago to archlinux

Since replacing my graphics card in March, my arch system crashes on resume 20% of the time. I don't see any obvious cause in the logs, so I finally cracked and posted a discussion thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=296050

#archlinux

jer_gib, 18 days ago to random

The proceedings of FLOPS 2024 are free to read and download until end of June 2024. You have to get there via the conference website: https://conf.researchr.org/home/flops-2024