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You can already do this with built in android features, on any phone. It only works against cursory examination and not against your phone being plugged in to forensic devices.

My theory is that they're trying to counter simulated phones. In the old days fraudsters would use their stolen credentials on a windows RDP rented from someone who sells fraud infra with clean IPs. I wouldn't be surprised if fraudsters have tried to develop an android based VM meant to look like a legitimate customer endpoint.

Though the most effective way to cut out that kind of fraud is to stop using SMS for authentication, which banks don't seem to be interested in doing.

It depends on what's being studied. There are mice studies on diet which obviously don't carry over to human beings since we don't have similar digestive systems. It may be true (arguable) that all research data is of some benefit, but don't expect people to be as excited about mouse research as human research.

How do they get the alzheimers mice? Article doesn't say. Usually in studies they take healthy mice and induce the condition artificially. That can be a confounding factor since the condition isn't induced in the specimens we care about (human beings). Is it even the same condition?

Oh yeah totally, you'll 100% beat surveillance with a chinese phone and a Russian email service. No way anyone at all will spy on you that way.

The best privacy tech comes from people who live in these 5 and 14 eyes countries. Try a little bit of threat modeling instead of thinking about the problem emotionally.

Bell is highly integrated with the government to the point of being defacto state funded. CTV does defend the interests of Bell, which includes continuing to get nice government contracts and free money to build out their infrastructure. What would be the value of being a dissenting voice? Bringing CRTC scrutiny?

If what the government did was illegal, why were the people responsible not convicted and punished? The truckers who did illegal things got time for it. Even the guy who hacked/leaked the donor list got his conviction.

The charter is meaningless weasel words and is used just as often to curtail the rights of Canadians as it is to protect them.

The situation is exactly "tails I win, heads you lose" but in favour of whoever has the majority of MPs. They can take illegal action to thwart political opponents and face no consequences. Just as how police officers should be punished when they break the law (but often aren't), those who hold political office should be punished when they step outside their bounds.

I'm not saying you shouldn't sign petitions, but no law has ever been changed or stopped because of a petition. Look at the most popular petitions to amend laws. They ignored all of them, from firearms to electoral reform. Petitions give the government a good excuse to do something they want to do anyway, but won't change their mind about something they're set on.

The only thing that will change their minds is taking their seat, but without electoral reform you can be quite certain that only those loyal to Liberal, NDP and CPC will get elected. And PQ, but they're just Quebec NDP.

The general public of Canada is more concerned with Trump than what any Canadian politician is up to, so good luck.

There are already sushi restaurants like this and have been for years. You tap the items you want on an ipad that stays with the table. A robot with an LCD cat-face comes out with trays of your food and stops in front of your table. It's a novelty, big whoop. Before this, they still had the ipads for orders and the staff just delivered the food/drink.

It's not like you need a touch screen anymore though, chatbots are good enough you should be able to read off your order from a paper menu just like at a normal restaurant. Proper tooling is required to avoid the chatbot taking orders for something silly. Now, having a microphone enabled bot does bring up the question of voice recordings. Sometimes people go to restaurants to talk about sensitive subjects and don't want the whole conversation recorded and sent to a data broker.

People may perceive not having human wait staff as "cheaping out", and there are lots of status-related reasons people go out to eat. Backend is possibly more ripe for automation because people don't see it. Lots of companies building dedicated in-franchise assemblylines for submarine sandwiches or poki bowls.

Vegas has a "robot bar" where the robo arm can prepare something like 50 different cocktails. The robot is cool but the menu software was horribly put together and it crashed before I could finish putting together an order. The human attendant came over to tell me I'm not allowed to hack the robot. Bad software saved me $15, thanks.

Step 1: Run proxy service to protect websites from denial of service attacks

Step 2: Give DoS attackers a "report" button they can use to deny service to websites, and provide a hosting service for the DoS attackers

Step 3: ????

Step 4: Profit!

Better sandboxing. If one of the programs you apt-get is hacked through supply chain compromise or something, it has full access to all the goodies in your user profile. There are distros that attempt to implement sandboxing but in those distros your browser can't really be jailed properly. Qubes has tighter isolation than android does, but is slower and too much of a hassle for your typical employee or relative.

Android is pretty slick overall and the user experience is simpler and more familiar to people than Windows or Linux (even if they're an iPhone user). You'd be surprised how many people don't really use PCs.

Information is free. It costs approximately nothing to duplicate it and its value is approximately nothing. You may think the publication "should" be paid every time someone reads their slop, but in reality that's not how it works. The bulk of the value these publications provide is in pumping out ads or propaganda. Advertisers will pay more to advertise to people who pay money to whoever asks, so the newspapers ask you to pay.

Healthcare is not free to provide, but it is cheaper and more effective with the free flow of information. Same for agriculture and the production of housing.

It depends. They figured out that more than about 15% soy in pig feed gives the pigs cancer and other diseases. Soy isn't just nutrients, there are pesticides the plant produces which can cause issues. I think fermenting soy into tofu deals with a lot of that, but I don't know.

Bugs have the chitin, which some animals (like us) don't digest super well. You also need more than just the protein, so why not let your chickens eat the bugs? They're real happy to do it and it makes the chicken taste better.

Bugs as a protein source in agriculture is probably underutilized in the west. It may be less economical today, because growing corn and soy is subsidized while breeding insects isn't. In some areas of Adrica, entrepreneurs collect waste food and even run public dry toilets to feed insects like black soldier fly. BSF is easier to keep clean than many other insects because the adults don't eat.

Have you ever looked at those studies? The leading one involves them intentionally giving mice cancer. Completely irrelevant for human biology.

There's a christian cult with a strong bias for vegetarianism that does a lot of medical science publishing. Some of their studies provide useful information, but some of them exist just to create a headline and push a message. Don't be duped.

Please post this on Show HN with a clickbait title about farts, I look forward to it.

Whey powder was about turning a waste stream into profit, but it is a highly digestible protein with clear benefits. Human breastmilk is mostly whey with a bit of casein. Cow's milk is mostly casein with a bit of whey. While it's true that most americans are too sedentary to need the protein, they also don't eat whey powder, nor do they really understand why people do. Probably because of all those marketers and shysters confusing the issue trying to hock a product.

If you're concerned with health, ignore any advice from competition bodybuilders. They all take steroids and will often make things up to avoid admitting they take illegal drugs. Some also mislead others to give themselves a leg up. Arnold Schwarzenegger was known for pulling that one a few times.

A steak is better than whey powder because it contains a multitude of other aminos and nutrients. But who's gonna stick a steak in a blender?

I see the logic there, and it's my understanding that the ancient Egyptian physicians believed something similar. Eating high bulk foods helped to prevent other food from rotting inside your gut.

Indigestible carbohydrate is a much broader category than fiber: -Soluble fiber -Insoluble fiber -Sugar alcohols like sorbitol -Resistant starch (though I'm unsure what the practical difference is between this and soluble fiber)

Insoluble fiber adds bulk to your stool, which I don't think there's a lot of evidence this is healthy. It's probably the main culprit in fiber-induced constipation.

Soluble fiber and resistant starches are probably fine if you're not overdoing it, and if you're on a low-meat diet it's probably how you get short chain fatty acids. It's worth noting that if you're not used to eating these molecules you won't have the bacteria so it'll take some weeks of gas before your system adapts.

Sugar alcohols of the right sort will certainly help your body clear out your gut. Xylitol is interesting for its dental health properties.

To your point: in much of the plant food we grow, there's a matrix of these carbs and digestible carbs. Eating a plum is probably fine. Eating purified sugar, even from plums, is generally bad for you. Eating purified sorbitol from plums won't make you feel good. Why should it be any different eating a bunch of fiber in the form of supplements? The human body is adapted/tuned to digest these molecules in the context of others.

Please expand on this. Cholesterol is a useful biomarker, but lower cholesterol could be worse. Cholesterol is used to repair the body. If your cholesterol is lower because you've inhibited your ability to produce it (malnutrition or by taking statins), that's bad. If your cholesterol is lower because your inflammation is lower and fewer repairs are needed, that's good. There are also two forms of LDL, one is harmless and the other is oxidized.

If you're feeling good, looking healthy and your body does what you need it to then I'd have to agree that whatever you're doing is working for you, numbers or theory be damned.

I know people are big on the whole fiber fad, but the bulk of benefits which come from eating more fiber are from eating fewer calories. If you're eating high fiber you physically cannot shovel as many calories into your belly. It is a viable strategy since most americans eat way too much every day, but fiber simply isn't essential to health or weight loss. If you like, explain to me a theory on why fiber is somehow essential.

Fiber is indigestible and not required for human health. It's also a cause of bloating, constipation and gas... because it's indigestible. Fiber does have the benefit of slowing sugar digestion, but you can and should just eat less sugar. Some forms of fiber can be converted to fatty acids by bacteria in your colon, while also producing other byproducts. You can get those fatty acids by eating more meat without the added stress on your digestive system.

Compare the human digestive system of a human being to a wolf (carnivore), a pig (omnivore) and a gorilla (herbivorous hindgut fermenter). The human gut by proportions sits somewhere between wolf and pig.

Look up the actual studies on fiber rather than pop science articles, and examine them critically. They'll do things like assume that pooping more often and having a greater volume of poop is healthier, with no basis. Things like how easy it is to poop or feelings of being bloated are harder to quantify, so they're typically ignored.

Or you get the extrapolating cancer risk based on some vaguely understood biomarker, which is one step below "in mice" as far as science goes.

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It'll be interesting to see if Disney tries to stop it. If they do (maybe via trademark [which "should" fail]), it'll mean more publicity. If they don't, then the film will probably quietly make a bit of money and we'll see people playing around with more old characters in new lights.

I'm not super into mickey mouse, but the huge variety of rather enjoyable Sherlock Holmes parodies tells me that characters and stories becoming part of the public domain will be a net good for culture.

I couldn't get this working in librewolf, maybe the hardening it uses prevents this. It works like a hot damn in tor browser though, which is supposed to be fairly locked down. Don't forget to turn off javascript before you leave home, kids. In chrome based browsers it rewrites the X11 paste buffer if you select anything on the page that's running the script, which is effectively the old fashioned clipboard rewrite attack. This is a nice find, I like it.

To those wondering who would paste and execute without a second look, there are ways to hide text. You can also paste control characters, so if you pasted into vim the command would get executed without any visible feedback. Same could be true for emacs, someone who knows it better could pipe in.

Any time you run potentially malicious code (like clicking on a random link when you have javascript enabled) on the same computer as data you care about, you're taking a risk. Sandboxing is a compromise, but one that's usually worthwhile.

eadmund's comment doesn't deserve all the hate. Carrying some sort of sharp object has been common since the stone age, and anyone who can't see the value in this has no imagination or life experience. What do you use to prepare food? If you're going carry-on only, your best bet is a small pair of scissors. 4 inch blade in USA, 2.36 (6 cm) in most of the rest of the world. In EU, pocketknives smaller than 6cm are allowed, and CATSA (Canada) was going to follow but USA said no. Americans hate knives and I have no idea why. Obviously, check the regulations yourself, don't just take my word for it.

If you're trying to reduce airline hassle, you kind of have to skip the handgun, mail it to yourself or get (borrow?) one at your destination. Whether or not you "need" one really depends on the purpose and location of your trip, but those details are too specific for this conversation. Also consider taking the train, since if you're carrying a handgun it's probably a domestic USA trip.

A tip for bringing back un-carryon-able items: Pack a simple and low bulk backpack inside your carry-on suitcase. If you decide to bring forbidden items back, check your carry-on suitcase and bring whatever you need for the plane in your backpack. This way you pay checked bag fees only in one direction and only if you really need to.

"Suits make a corporate comeback," says the New York Times

This is the real answer, but we're too used to the game of wealth redistribution, where we're all secretly hoping someone else will pay for what we want. It's very antisocial, it externalizes the costs of your actions onto everyone else.

Trucking causes 99% of damage to roads, but pays only 30% of the bill.

Part of the confusion comes from partisan thinking. WEF supports 15 minute cities (aka walkable neighborhoods) because it's a better use of resources, there are benefits for 99%ers and 1%ers alike, urbanists and ruralites. The trouble is that our polarized system means if you think the WEF is evil, then it's impossible for any of their goals to be beneficial to you. Compare: Many people today believe that Hitler was evil, but will accept that projects like the autobahn or innovations in rocketry were mostly beneficial.

Dismissing all opposing views as "hateful misinformation" like the WEF and governments do isn't useful either. It convinces those who were suspicious of your motivations that they were right about you. The WEF videos never really explain any of the potential for good, they just exclaim with glee that this is a great opportunity to change the world the way they want. Completely tone deaf, I'd say some of these causes would receive less resistance without WEF "helping".

When it comes to the walkable neighborhood issue, the real conspiracy is that automakers "convinced" governments to create infrastructure that's miserable to nagivate without a car. If you've never been to cities outside of north america then you probably don't even know what you're missing. Those who think freedom and privacy are important (I certainly do) might want to consider that a car results in licensing, insurance, license plate tracking and gives cops an excuse to detain you arbitrarily.

The last but probably most important issue that gets left unsaid is that the current system won't continue to work. North American cities are broke from (re)building roads to subsidize trucking companies and mcmansion developers, they can't afford to continue doing so without raising taxes 300%. Even bigger: we'll run out of oil in 50 years. We won't run out of energy, just the cheap and easily transportable form that we've become accustomed to. The options are build railways, or quit bothering with silly things like "trade", "travel" and "manufacturing".