lumisota | 2 years ago | on: A Decade of Rust, and Announcing Ferrocene
Some nice background reading on these standards here: https://solidsands.com/safety/iso-26262
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lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Some notes about HTTP/3
A few other CDNs have implementations, but presumably we'll see much wider adoption once it has been standardised.
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience
UAE is an absolute monarchy; using this as an argument against hate speech legislation seems.. overreaching.
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Passive observations of a large DNS service
Some interesting anycast stability measurements: http://tma.ifip.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/tma...
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Airbnb could plan to IPO by late 2020
Which countries are those?
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
How things might have been different if the UK government had used the result as a warning shot to the EU, and a case for reform.
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
I'd be for a second referendum on an actual agreement for what Britain's relationship with the EU would be, post-Brexit. Some of the options, particularly those favoured by those that voted to remain, are poor.
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
Sure, it isn't just apathy (as in your example). But if you compare the turn-out for the Scottish independence vote in 2014 (~85%) with the EU referendum (~72%), I think it might be a considerable factor.
Another factor is complacency on the part of those that would have voted to remain: polling leading up to the referendum showed a clear remain win.
(I should point out that I'm not suggesting that the result of the referendum isn't pro-Brexit, but that the numbers don't support the case for a so-called "hard Brexit")
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
My argument is that the number of people who didn't vote doesn't need to be extrapolated: apathy isn't a yes or a no vote, but something else.
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
Regardless of the epithets used to describe them, it's worth remembering that, accounting for turn-out, it was around 37% of the British electorate that voted to leave the EU.
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Tesla won’t give drivers their own crash data without a court order
Is this true? Doesn't the GDPR only applied to those within the EU (i.e., resident or not), or anyone, anywhere, if the company handling the data is in the EU?
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Apple Signs Deal with Volkswagen for Driverless Car
Apple provides similar tooling for businesses [0].
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: How much does Apple know about me? The answer surprised me
The title of this article is click-bait, surely? Apple have made much PR out of their privacy stance. Indeed, the article says: "Apple makes a big deal about its different approach to privacy on the company website".
How is this eye opening?
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Facebook employee fired over bragging about access to user information
Both WhatsApp and Messenger (when secret conversation is enabled) are end-to-end encrypted.
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: Snapchat launches Spectacles V2
From the support docs [0], it appears that you can configure the case to connect to your home WiFi network, and import over that.
[0]: https://support.spectacles.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000040694...
lumisota | 7 years ago | on: How to avoid getting stuck with the middle seat on a Ryanair flight
BA has a similar seating policy with its cheapest fares (pay to reserve, or have one allocated at random), and has lower seat pitch than Ryanair.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
While it's generally an offence to disclose spent convictions, the press is still free to publish details about them. Right to be forgotten means that those looking for such articles are unlikely to find them.
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case
Discriminating on the basis of spent convictions is illegal in the UK (where this ruling took place).
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Cloudflare's new DNS attracting 'gigabits per second' of rubbish
Your last mile ISP is almost certainly a hostile entity, but HTTPS alone isn't going to save you [0].
[0]: www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2017/cmsc818O/papers/tangled-mass.pdf
lumisota | 8 years ago | on: Just one QUIC bit
My takeaway from the meeting was that it isn't clear that the spin bit is actually useful. Leaving aside the arguments that RTT shouldn't be exposed (it is anyway, with the handshake): does the spin bit actually provide useful information?
It seems to be a fairweather metric: OK resolution when the network is operating normally, but providing no useful information when something has gone wrong (which is when you'd want it most).
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