Readit NewsIf software "engineers" want to be taken seriously, then they should also have the obligation to report unsafe/broken software and refuse to ship unsafe/broken software. The developers are just as much to blame as the post office:
> Fujitsu was aware that Horizon contained software bugs as early as 1999 [2]
[1] https://engineerscanada.ca/news-and-events/news/the-duty-to-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
I wonder if OsmAnd, Termux, F-Droid would survive this or will be casualties. Who will authenticate for a decentralized open source app that has 100 active contributors?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community
We (USA) could have 80% of our Northern homes off fossil fuel and electric heat for less cost if we were a little more forward thinking and willing to work together.
But after nearly two decades they're decommissioning because the one-off components needed too much NRE to refurbish. If we all adopted this it'd be cheaper than what we pay today and zero greenhouse gas emissions. It'd finally make living in the temperate climates more climate-friendly than the warmer latitudes.
it's really depressing to read this and deep down immediately know: well so that's never going to happen then.
TLS was expensive. And insanely profitable. The sale of Thwate to Verisign was north of 600 million. (Back when 600 million was "a lot"). Since the marginal cost of making a cert is zero it was a literal cash machine.
LE broke that cash flow. CAs tried to claim their certificates were "safer" or the EV certs had any value at all. All nonsense, but for a while some layer of IT folk bought into that. Even today some of my clients believe that paid-for-certs are somehow different to free-certs. But that gravy train is rapidly ending.
So yeah, once the fixed costs overwhelm the income expect to see more shutdowns. And naturally the small CAs will die first.
I can't say I'll mourn any of them.
People interpret "statistically significant" to mean "notable"/"meaningful". I detected a difference, and statistics say that it matters. That's the wrong way to think about things.
Significance testing only tells you the probability that the measured difference is a "good measurement". With a certain degree of confidence, you can say "the difference exists as measured".
Whether the measured difference is significant in the sense of "meaningful" is a value judgement that we / stakeholders should impose on top of that, usually based on the magnitude of the measured difference, not the statistical significance.
It sounds obvious, but this is one of the most common fallacies I observe in industry and a lot of science.
For example: "This intervention causes an uplift in [metric] with p<0.001. High statistical significance! The uplift: 0.000001%." Meaningful? Probably not.
(That's partly why Germany is getting infested with Nazis again. You can go to jail for calling them out.)
>In germany we just saw very public rigging of an election for the federal high court of justice.
Not familiar with that but I imagine that is going to be a controversial statement.
Using Russia as a subject is interesting. A western audience is probably a lot less defensive against the idea that Russia rigs their elections. The video looks interesting.
In the US it is otherwise around. The founding fathers thought, that the government can't be trusted. The result is that the US Constitution is 250 years old and Germany has one failed state after another. Also, the current German state will fail. Likely within the next 10 years.
Regarding free speech: How many arrests happen in the U.S. at town halls, school assemblies etc. because someone says something the board or mayor doesn't like? How often do police officers arrest people for filming them and so on? The courts typically side with you, however let's not pretend there aren't any consequences. Be it jail or police brutality.
Regarding the U.S. constitution: It is worthless. If the president can ignore it without consequence and the supreme court and congress doesn't care, what is the point?
It may very well be that the state might fail, but let's be honest not before the U.S. will.