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I don't know how you draw the line but to me there's a clear distinction between "you've fraudulently taken my money" and "this is shitty for everyone could you fix it please".

Right. But if BYD costs more to repair they'll charge higher premiums to cover that cost.

Surely it will be better for the insurance companies. Higher costs lead to higher premiums and higher profits.

Why hire juniors? There seem to be plenty of unemployed mid- and senior-level people and the market is so poor that some of them (e.g. me) will work for cheap.

The bad keys weren't added to the Chrome trusted certs. They were intermediate keys, signed by a key that was trusted.

The UK government has had a huge income from the North Sea but unlike Norway we didn't invest it. We spent it as fast (or faster) than we received it. When modern Conservatives wax lyrical about Thatcher's economic miracle they seem unaware that it was mostly just oil revenue.

When this rewrite breaks the internet AGI won't be able to take over. It's very forward-thinking.

I thought that couldn't really be true. I was wrong.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/15/23874798/microsoft-window...

You could treat them like bearer bonds. Split your holdings over multiple (like tens) of addresses. Sell individual addresses for cash. You'd need to do this via a trusted intermediary who could accept the cash and verify the address before making the exchange.

And yes, this is somewhat absurd. But so are online transactions that can be hacked with no backsies.

You don't have to give worms to everybody. If healthy adults would be better off with worms (and that's a big if) you could infect just adults. And then give them worming pills in late middle age when their immune systems are weakening.

If you're concerned you can literally print your crypto keys onto a piece of paper. Maybe encrypted with a passphrase. It might get stolen or lost but it's not getting hacked.

P.S. If you're really paranoid don't use a network-connected printer.

Firefox has "File | Work Offline" but it would be nice if a site could invoke this after its assets were loaded, with a clear indication in the browser chrome.

It would make it much easier to trust these offline sites.

In the UK at night it's walking pace. Literally. The guard gets out and walks and the train follows. (At least that was the case 25 years ago when I had a very slow train journey.)

Or wait four days, which is the typical network timeout for SMS delivery.

Not that it matters, but the reason MS recommended a 16-bit installer was that non-Intel Windows NT variants could run 16-bit x86 software via emulation. Windows software that ran on multiple architectures (what little there was) typically had a tiny 16-bit x86 setup program that checked the architecture and launched a native 32-bit installer.

All Catholics do things they consider to be sinful. That's why confession exists.

You didn't submit the BC story.

That book is so good it inspired a blog post three years before it was published!

> Unfortunately, every few months the display tries to coax them into connecting to WiFi, and it confuses the heck out of them.

I'm assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that if the TV had a crap connection it would stop nagging.

Wifi access points should offer a sort of "/dev/null" network for smart devices to connect to.

Just to emphasise:

> within the limits of the metropolitan police district

It's a local London law. In England such laws are passed by parliament because there is no other mechanism, but in countries with devolved lawmaking states and cities have much crazier laws.

I've been watching quite a few old BBC series on iPlayer and something they did a lot back then was paraphrase the dialogue to reduce the length of the subtitles. They tended not to have spelling mistakes or comprehension errors, but they weren't accurate.

That's how it works. Until there's so much rioting the police can't deal with it. What should happen then? Cutting communications seems like a pretty good idea.

The Windows user-mode innards have been significantly refactored. Many of the core system DLLs that apps link to are just redirects to the actual implementation now. Much of the jank seems to be in the UI.

It's (presumably) pronounced like "awfium" when seems like a word for next-level awful. But maybe that's just me. I'm a consistently poor judge of other people's preferences.

And I'm just some arse on the internet. Ask some people you trust. If they don't like the name change it and keep going. Don't be disheartened.

I mean cases where the state might decline to prosecute the politically powerful.

You may not be able to find out what happens to taken-over cases in general, but are you aware of any case where the CPS took over a prosecution and the original prosecutor simply doesn't know what happened in the end?

Sure, the vast majority of blog posts these days are AI-generated SEO slop. But this site isn't supposed to be a random sample of the web. The idea is that people upvote quality, but that doesn't seem to be happening. I don't know. Maybe HN is over and I should just give up on it.

I know that the CPS could seize and shutdown a politically sensitive case but as far as I know that has never happened. And I hope that if it did people would make a fuss.

Relatedly, after Peter Tatchell failed to arrest Robert Mugabe the government changed the law so that prosecutions for breaches of international law could only be brought by the government.

Anyway, I agree that I'd rather face a criminal charge here than in America.

We expect McDonalds to be consistently mediocre because they do a lot of work to achieve this. Why should we expect every blog post on the internet to be consistently mediocre?