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They don’t change names when they move. The names are registered in the location of birth.

But your name might get mangled in some states if it doesn’t fit, same as it might in the US if some system doesn’t properly handle, e.g., multiple middle names or special punctuation.

How would chips that, say, Amazon paid for end up in local devices?

I don’t understand the scenario that destroying the chips would guard against. Amazon could just leave these chips in a warehouse indefinitely.

I would fully expect that a lawyer who sold advertising to put in their court filings would also be sanctioned.

> Useful objects are not copyrightable

It cannot be this clean cut or Google v Oracle would have been trivial to decide.

A telephone directory can be copyright protected, too. The facts within it cannot. Exactly like recipes. A particular presentation of a recipe is absolutely copyright protected. But this doesn’t mean no one can publish the same recipe in their own presentation

Security software fetching links will not trigger this behavior. It needs to be done in the context of the actual ChatGPT user so that a JavaScript payload can run.

If merely GET on the link was sufficient to trigger the behaviors, the adversary generating the link would just GET it themselves.

I’m pretty sure there is no set of qualifications and it’s whatever dang decides.

I looked for this on Audible and found that there is another author named Patrick Stewart publishing fantasy smut. It would have been too funny if Sir Patrick Stewart were narrating fantasy smut, but sadly, narrated by “virtual voice”.

“Has our strategy of being openly hostile to anyone asking questions finally resulted in the increase in questions we always dreamed of? Did our long term bet on alienating the community finally pay off?”

> In my experience, people who buy touchscreen-enabled laptops quickly loose the habit of using the touchscreen for exactly that reason.

I have not experienced that at all. I see people touch their touch-capable laptop screens all the time.

I don’t understand how people legitimately hold this belief that no one could or would use a laptop touchscreen. This is exactly how millions of people use their tablets every day. You hold it in your lap and you poke the screen. Or you use the stand to prop it up on a table and you poke at the screen. And shockingly, your arm doesn’t fall off.

They have had people asking them for touchscreen laptops for years. They legitimately lose sales to people who want a Mac but refuse to buy a laptop without a touch screen.

I think this is the wrong device to start with, though. The demand for touchscreens is probably highest in the cheapest lines. But presumably this will trickle down over the next few years.

That was a pretty asinine example. That’s a perfect example of where touchscreen laptops do not work.

Yeah. It’s appealing in theory. On windows devices I made that choice a few times. I wouldn’t anymore.

If nothing else, the more complex hinges create significantly higher failure risk.

> No idea why anyone would want a laptop form factor with a touch screen; seems like an RSI nightmare.

I have no idea how this keeps getting repeated. No one with a touchscreen laptop is just hovering their arms in front of the screen like a zombie for hours.

It’s another input. You use it when it makes sense. For some, that’s pretty frequent. For others like you, maybe never.

Writing on a laptop screen with a pen is kind of a crappy experience. The screen position is not rigid enough for that to be comfortable. It “bounces” as you write.

I use it constantly. No one actually holds their hands up to the screen for extended periods of time. But touching the screen to click a button can be more efficient than tabbing or mousing to it. Especially if the laptop is on your lap.

Scrolling through long docs is also comfortable with touch if it’s on your lap or a flat surface directly in front of you. You scroll with the thumb while your hand/arm rests comfortably.

The set of people who use convertible laptops in tablet mode seems tiny. It’s one of those things that looks like a great idea but doesn’t pan out in real life. Everyone uses it once, says “cool” and never uses it again. 13” tablet that weighs as much as a laptop is not a great form factor.

> This is the security engineering. It’s not just checking boxes. It’s evaluating risks.

This is absolutely not security engineering. This is nit picking a specific attack factor and trying to argue that it’s impractical. I suspect you are wrong, but it doesn’t matter, because you are ignoring the broader class of attacks and focusing on one specific example. The class issue is that on a Mac, you cannot trust any terminal-based application to honor the CRL. This means that any site accessed from a terminal based application cannot be trusted. There are a billion ways to exploit that.

This is not good security engineering from Apple. There is no way to justify this. Humans make mistakes, and that’s just life, but we shouldn’t pretend that this is an acceptable state or an acceptable response.

You said the same thing twice. “The site” == archive.today

The claim is that archive.today is injecting malware into archived pages. Given some of the past behavior, this is not hard to believe.

But then why not just write “Latine”?

> convicting people without proof

They literally videotaped it and shared the video in a group chat.

There was no question of whether the assault happened, only whether it met the bar for the more severe crime.

I have never seen Latin@ at all (but I also do not speak Spanish). Is that a common a/o replacement?

I find it interesting that the Hispanic LGBTQ+ community would use LatinX. How is this even pronounced in Spanish? Latin-equis? Or is it the English Latin-ex?

Should have said ‘The German word for “Maiden” is neutral.’

My phrasing was ambiguous and my German is rusty, hence the archaic translation.

Correct. I was referring to Mädchen and my German is extremely rusty.

Old English for “wife” was masculine. “Maiden” in German is neutral. In Italian, the formal “you” is the same as “she” (written capitalized).

Grammatical gender is not intrinsically sexist and doesn’t really make a lot of sense if you try to analyze it to tease out what patriarchs were thinking when they added these forms, because largely they never thought about it at all. The forms evolved over hundreds of years.

> The patriarchy - along with religion - wanted this gender line and specification in every context

Did they? English used to be gendered but lost it ~1000 years ago.

Languages evolve in odd ways and don’t think the patriarchy or religion have much to do with it.

This depends entirely on what you’re shooting and the available light.

I have a very nice tripod that has been in the closet for a decade because I do not have a use for it with what I shoot.

Interesting. Google trends shows that Latine is more common in Spain (and everywhere that isn’t the US).

Nonetheless I appreciate a perspective from someone who has an affiliation with the culture term refers to.

I’m not saying no one who identifies as Latino/Latina/Latinx has ever used the word, or even advocated for it. But the only people I’ve ever heard use this term are, bluntly, very white.

To the extent that the term has become widespread, it seems to have piggybacked on other diversity and inclusion efforts. People who identify as Latino/Latina seem overwhelmingly to dislike the term.

> Among Hispanic and Latino Americans, knowledge of the term is not widespread, and reception to the term as a potential classifier for the entire Hispanic/Latino population has been overwhelmingly negative. A 2023 Pew Research Center survey found that roughly half of U.S. Hispanics were not aware of the term Latinx; of those aware of it, 75% said it should not be used to describe the Hispanic or Latino population, preferring instead the terms "Latino" and "Hispanic" by large margins.

Ironically, the also relatively uncommon “Latine” is in decline but still more popular than Latinx for all of recorded Google trends history. Except in the US. Of course.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=latinx,L...

My favorite is 3:2 for laptops. 4:3 is a bit tall (screen is fine, but it makes the base much deeper as well). 16:9 is kind of crappy, especially if it’s a smaller screen.

It’s a tradeoff. I spend most of my time on a laptop screen (even when using an external monitor, the external is my secondary screen) and appreciate the reduction in screen waste. I don’t need or want a huge click area just for moving the window.