The scary thing? Define "new". This judgment is from a lawsuit in 2014. So any car made in at least the last 9 years is doing this. Maybe newer cars are doing even worse things.
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Whoa whoa slow down with this new-fangled fad ideas. Next you'll try and tell me every user process doesn't run in ring 0.
For anyone not wanting to read through that article, here's the tl;dr:
Apache requires you to note what changes (if they're "substantial") you made to the code. Otherwise it's identical to MIT.
BSD is effectively identical to MIT.
It's a cool idea and the example they gave actually seemed pretty neat.
I'd (somewhat perversely) love to see this feature tried in a terminal emulator. ANSI does actually define escape codes for switching to alternative fonts (ESC [ 10 m through ESC [ 19 m) though I don't know of any software or even term drawing library that uses it.
Awful headline.
Somewhat surprising results, though. They took a fraction of pig blood plasma and injected it into rats over the course of 8 days. Some organs in the older rats showed a lower epigenetic age, and the older rats also performed quicker in cognitive tests. The results are more extreme than they predicted they be (especially the liver and heart), so we'll see what happens when someone tries to replicate the results.
Any speculation about applicability to humans is just science fiction, of course.
Omegle is a bit of a unique case due to their persistent non-action. Most places, if people start grooming children or broadcasting child porn, they'll start banning offenders at the very lest. Omegle, nah.
At one point, they put a warning splash screen "Careful: there are pedophiles that use this" or something like that, but they took the warning down after a while. And eventually they did officially say that you can't use the site if you're a minor, but of course it was just enforced through the honour system.
Those are literally the only two actions they ever took to address criminal content and behaviour.
Yup, mine, too. I don't remember which version it was, but I'm pretty sure it was still "Turbo" (not "Borland") Pascal, in the late 1990s. Grade 10 computer science was taught on Macintosh QuickBasic and then grades 11 and 12 were "real" programming in Turbo Pascal.
Yup, total bullshit. When I got to:
Kaufman hopes it will “transform how the medical community screens for diabetes”.
I started to lose faith that there was anything of interest there. For those who don't know, "how the medical community screens for diabetes" currently is to...draw blood. Like, that's literally it. You fast overnight, go to the doctor's office, get blood taken, and the next day you learn if you're diabetic. If your doctor is really fancy, they may do the thing where they take blood once, then ask you to drink some ungodly sickeningly sweet glucose potion and take blood a second time so they can see how your body responds. But that's about the extent of it.
The authors are making it sound like you currently have to hike through the Himalayas to get a diagnosis now. No, you just take blood. It's fast. It's cheap. It's easy. And it's just about 100% accurate.
I can see that something like this could come up in some niche situations where someone's very remote and it's better than nothing, but "transform how the medical community screens for diabetes" overall is pretty laughable.
I, too, am curious if there's an advertising bubble. I hope so.
I've noticed something about my wife, though. She's not a "mindless capitalist zombie with the sole goal of owning more stuff", but she does pay attention to advertising a lot. We need more diapers? Well, it just so happens there's some new startup app that's advertising a free first month, so if she signs up for that up, we could get free diapers, and we'd only have to keep the membership for another two months, and they have deals on peanut butter, and we'd get access to their free streaming service and they have Disney, so it's probably worth it overall.
And so it goes, with a million of these deals. The thing is, each "deal" is so complicated that it's extremely difficult to know which ones we're actually saving money on. The cynical would say "you're never saving money: everything's rigged", but that's clearly not true. Some of these deals clearly do work out for us (and some of them cause the startup to immediately go bankrupt). But most of them aren't clearly better or worse for us: we'd have to spend several hours going through hypothetical scenarios to do the full CBA, which we don't do.
I do wonder, on balance, how much it's costing us. I also wonder how many of these deals are specifically (personally) targeted at my wife because they know what she needs and what her habits are.
They didn't "try": they did change the licence. From BSD+Patents to MIT. Hardly scandalous.
Facebook is a top 10 contributor to Linux. They are major developers for BtrFS and BPF and have contributed to a number of other kernel subsystems, too. Just Jens Axboe alone is a huge force in Linux.
Outside of Linux, they've created some pretty big open source projects, like React and Go Ent.
Honestly, they've open sourced almost everything they've ever done except for Facebook itself, and are one of the largest open source companies in the world.
Some of it is incredibly difficult to imagine how to do in a private way, too.
For example, my browser can display AVIF images. If my browser announces in the Accept "hey, I'm able to display AVIF images. Please send me AVIF images if you have them rather than JPEG", that helps to identify me, since most browser don't display AVIF, which sucks. But I really want to get AVIF images: they're efficient. So how do I announce that I want AVIF images without announcing that I want AVIF images?
Some of the other web features were well-intentioned but have just ended up being useless. Like your browser also announces what language you prefer. Like "hey if you a German version of this text, please send it to me in German, thanks". But for some reason EVERY WEBSITE IGNORES THIS and just says "oh you speak Spanish and English but you're travelling in Russian right now? HOPE YOU LIKE READING RUSSIAN FUCKER". So it's 100% only used for invading privacy now.
Some of the tracking mechanisms never should have been allowed in the first place (like timezone and which fonts I have installed), but some of them (like Accept) I can't think of how to do in a secure way.