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I think this vulnerability potentially has the biggest real-world impact. This has been shown in a couple of proof-of-concepts… Merging this into public repos would have zero positive impact, I think.

Let's hope nobody finds out about Presidential Alerts. Basically, it lets you send Tweets to any mobile user.

Mobile networks allow seamless switching of cells. If you're on a call while in the car, your connections won't drop and ideally you wouldn't loose a single packet.

Network and smartphone monitor nearby cells. If you're just about to switch the cell because the quality becomes too bad, everything is already being prepared in the next cell.

I've been using [email protected] ever since. It works mostly except for the real bad websites that disallow plus signs.

I got two mails telling me I cannot use the company name in my e-mail, they'd file for fraud if I would.

(got resolved by explaining how e-mail works, but still)

There's still both motivation and workforce missing to overhaul the desktop. It's not usable and in fact harmful for any average user.

Imagine you knew a large corporation uses LibreOffice. I doubt you'd need a million-dollar black market 0day.

Imagine an average user tries to perform a backup reliably ('this looks like time machine only it breaks restoring between versions').

Imagine you buy new blueooth headphones and you can't use high-quality audio codecs out of the box but need to compile something called an audio server.

Hell, in 2020, you don't even know for sure which application draws your browser window on the screen. Is it your browser, or some other process imposing your browser?

These are so many distribution-wide or ecosystem-wide issue that I honestly don't see the progress at any acceptable speed.

The most gain I've had in the recent years was having vscode remote. Instead of fiddling with terminal editors forever, just have a decent ssh config with all your host, and connect instantly.

Still looking for a way to make sftp/scp work fast.

Twitter is a platform for out-of-context, extremely condensed texts. Both together is very difficult to handle. And many people just use Twitter when they feel they have a stupid idea, kind of a platform competing for stupid jokes.

Also, if you hear some comment like this in real life, do you set on a quest to destroy that person's life? No, you got your own things to deal with.

In my perception, the US are very hype-driven. Someone from somewhere said something. Everywhere: nothing. US: Media coverage. We have a president that constantly tweets things way worse. Why worse? Because these words matter! The author's "most damaging tweet ever" should not have mattered, to nobody. The most severe consequence should have been the lack of likes.

You're missing a point: A city "made for bikes" or pedestrians has shorter distances.

You need a car to get to the far-away mall. And it's cumbersome to go there by any other transportation. But what if the shops were close-by? You walk to work, and get breakfast on your way. That's reality in places that existed before the car.

For cities build after cars being popular, it will be a transition.

You do presentations for your audience. Adjust the contents, adjust the style.

If your audience doesn't need pixel perfect, don't do it. In my experience, the speed of adapting a PP presentation is more important than it's "beauty" by some abstract definition.

Aesthetics help to be taken seriously. But are you delivering the content or the design?

LaTeX. Compiler errors, add-ons from the 80s, and unhelpful defaults. No problem to write Chinese chara… oh, in this environment? Sorry.

C++ compiler (or even better: linker) errors. They are just not meant to be read by humans, lacking any pointers on what's really the issue.

This is an issue with the installers. The fact that installers on macOS still work like in the 90s baffles me -- I thought they had done something smart with sandboxes, APIs for system privileges, and a "secure path" where user consent uses system-controlled GUI.

This issue mainly tells me that macOS installers are largely like a Windows .exe and Linux curl | sh (well, that's not true since it still needs to be signed…).

Seems about communication gone wrong.

i) Medical masks don't help much for the general population, and don't protect the one wearing them very well. (Masks need to be exchanged, worn properly, …). ii) They create a false sense of safety.

Especially in countries where a mask isn't common, I can absolutely understand. The masks work when everybody wears one. But then, the current scarcity comes into play. Recommending everybody to wear a mask just doesn't work out, then.

Anyway, I agree that it should be possible to supply (shitty) masks to everybody and save the good ones for our health workers. In Germany, many hospitals now sew their own masks…