Readit Newshatwd commented on Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks blog.the-ebook-reader.com... · Posted by u/DavideNL
This would only be acceptable if the ebooks cost 5 to 10% of what the physical book costs.
hatwd commented on Carbon is not a programming language (sort of) herecomesthemoon.net/2025... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Interesting language - its syntax looks like a mix of Rust and Go, with a few of its own idiosyncrasies to distinguish it from those languages.
> Carbon is a concentrated experimental effort to develop tooling that will facilitate automated large-scale long-term migrations of existing C++ code to a modern, well-annotated programming language with a modern, transparent process of evolution and governance model.
This is probably where Go and Rust fail to be C/C++ "successor" languages, as interop between those languages doesn't seem to be as seamless as Carbon aims to be.
Will keep an eye on its development!
hatwd commented on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Despegar
It baffles me how you seem to think intelligence agencies have some sort of morals or sense of duty to their citizens. These organisations are set up with the sole purpose of spying on all people. They have done it for decades and have done it in some fantasticly dispicable ways. So no, asking a corporation for data on their customers is probably is probably a relatively weak action for them to pull on the grand scheme of things.
I totally get the spy agencies' "moral flexibility" requirements, as I've heard it put.
From what I understand, the spy agencies have ways of obtaining your private information that don't necessarily involve blanket requirements to access all users' data (e.g. creative ways of injecting malware into specific people's devices). But those approaches don't scale, of course. And they shouldn't need to.
hatwd commented on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Despegar
> Where does this problem start?
It starts with UK citizens buying iPhones and expecting their data to be private at all.
Is it any different with Android phones? From what I've read it doesn't seem so.
My comment applies just as much to the people working at Apple and Google as to the folks in the UK government.
hatwd commented on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/Despegar
It's baffling to me that any sane, healthy person would advocate for invasion of not just one person's privacy (in the case of known or highly suspected criminal activity), but a whole country's people's privacy. (In this case, at least, the privacy of all Apple users in the UK.)
Where does this problem start? Is it a basic education thing that valuing one's own and others' privacy needs to be taught to kids from a young age?
For instance, in the meetings in which these ideas are proposed, why are they not considered a serious, fireable offence, like bringing up racist or sexist comments?
On sites that serve user-generated content, how would one technically detect if one's ads are being served alongside CSAM? Wouldn't the ad source need to be able to fully read the contents of the page itself?
Are there good technical solutions to that problem? And whose responsibility is it to solve - the ad source, or the platform through which CSAM is being served?
Definitely something that needs solving, but sounds really hard to solve - unless you just don't serve ads on that site at all.
Had an AcuRite Wireless Home Weather Station for twenty years. I recommend it.
AcuRite sells a number of different models, from a bare-bones ~$20 model to the flashier $45 "Weather Station". You can find them all at Walmart.
You hang a remote sensor outside. It radios data to the receiver, a portrait-like wall-mounted display. Both indoor and outdoor values are displayed on the receiver, along with time & date.
Our sensor was misplaced and years later we found it again but the alkaline batteries had corroded the internal circuitry. You can buy a replacement sensor for ~$25 and they are compatible with old displays, but the wife had lost interest. So now we rely on TV & WWW.
Thanks for the recommendation! What was the coldest temperature it was able to withstand?