I just don't get it - criminals will just continue to use "real" encryption. Why are some of these people so obsessed with reading everyone's chats?

Just wondering why anyone would go through the hassle of installing home assistant on Linux when the fantastic hassOS exists which will run perfectly virtualized.

Your perspective of “popular” is incredibly far off. Popular among people in your circle of socioeconomics and interests is not that same as popular among the general population.

Boosting contrast won't help you if you can't tell the difference, so you actually want to shift colors away from the ambiguous axis. This necessarily has the effect of removing certain colors.

I think we can see the same thing happening today.

BYD+CATL are the new iphone and other manufacturers are Symbian, Motorola and Sony Ericsson

VW, Toyota and friends cannot change fast enough. They should have started with big battery investments 10-15y ago and RnDing then, not now when Market is flooded.

It's funny that the wildly overestimated IFRs like 3.4%, which were taken as gospel in the early days of the pandemic and drove the actual policy of sweeping shutdowns of schools, preventive medical care, and the economy at large -- a totally experimental and unprecedented measure with no empirical evidence whatsoever to demonstrate the benefits would outweigh the costs -- are not subjected to this same label of "hubris".

Iaonnidis's estimates of IFR in the 0.1% to 0.2% range were much closer to the mark.

I used to work at a startup with a character who would set his identity to be random fairytale-sounding nonsense, changing every day. So his commits on Monday would be attributed to Mr. Bunnymann, and Tuesday would be Doctor Funtime, etc.

It was super unhelpful when trying to do version control forensics. But if I'm being generous, I think maybe he was trying to remind everyone that anyone can put anything in their identity config, and we shouldn't trust whatever is in there for all that much.

The observability world still regards itself as a system for monitoring, but reading (and sometimes seeing) how these systems just go so bad continues to drive a conviction that perhaps their strategies and tools should become bigger. That they should converge with business pipines.

We shouldn't just have wide events/big spans emitted... We should have those spans drive the pipeline. Rather than observability being a passive monitoring system, if we write code that reacts to events we are capturing, then we shuffle towards event sourcing.

Given how badly coupled together with shoestring glue & good wishes so many systems are, how opaque these pain zones are, it feels like the centralization upon existing industry standard protocols to capture events (which imo include traces) is a clear win.

(Obvious downside, these systems become mission critical, business process & monitoring both.)