veec_cas_tant's comments

> ...and this is a very important point: there is generally no DRM-hacking required. But...if DRM hacking is required to get a PC game to work on a PS5, it's illegal to do so under the DMCA. (Note: DRM is defined very broadly for DMCA purposes.)

Wouldn't Steam, MSTF store, Epic, etc. all count as DRM? Regardless, it's more of a philosophical argument than a legal argument. If I buy the Switch and the game, I don't see how there could be any argument that I should be considered a criminal for using the data on a PC.

True, but the example was just an example. Buying a game on PC and making it run on a PS5 - why would something like that ever be illegal?

I don’t think preservation is an important argument. If I own an AppleTV, and I purchase a movie through their service, why should it be illegal for me to export that movie to watch on a different device? I own the hardware and the data, why would any law even care at that point?

Obviously piracy should be illegal, but I just don’t see any argument against emulation even if it is current.

A single screen that is much larger than a MacBook screen, that is the advantage. And the connection dance is really just...tapping the connect button?

The difference between owning a billion dollar company and the deduction from donating a billion dollar company is pretty huge. Donating the company was certainly not a financial benefit for the family in any way.

If you use YouTube a lot, paying for no ads is a no brainer. I pay for YT premium, Apple News+, NYT, Kagi, etc. If you watch just a few videos a month, the price is just not worth it and there is no per-block pricing. Same goes for paid articles - I would have liked to read a few articles from TheInformation about OpenAI but there is no way I’d buy a subscription.

Not trying to be a dick but:

1. He tried to not buy Twitter very hard and OpenAI’s new board member forced his hand

2. It hasn’t been a good financial decision if the banks and X’s own valuation cuts are anything to go by.

3. If his purpose wasn’t to make money…all of these tweets would have absolutely been allowed before Elon bought the company. He didn’t affect any relevance changes here.

Why would one person owning something so important be better than being publicly owned? I don’t understand the logic.

Or they read about the large cuts to Twitter’s valuation from banks and X itself?

100 million monthly active users at the end of October, and still growing, according to Zuck. Is that not considered successful anymore?

To be clear, it looks like there are 40+ DC fast chargers within 50 miles of this location, which seems to be Hollister Hills in CA. Hard to count because it is close to San Jose.

No offense, but it isn't hard to look up how people live in cities and countries with good transit infrastructure. A good starting place might be Netherlands (biking infrastructure coupled with buses and trains) or Switzerland (massive rail network). Here is a wiki page with more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share

Public transit in almost every US city is terrible. It isn't hard to see why someone with means would rather call an Uber than wait 15 minutes for the next bus to show up. Public transit can certainly be improved while Uber exists, just look towards many major international cities for examples.

> Nothing against Teslas, but the issue is that reality is far from the vision proposed by proponents of EVs including governments and entrepreneurs. EVs are not reliable for long journeys.

This really is not the case in my experience. I drive a different EV for personal use, but always Turo a Tesla when flying into a location and doing any significant travel. In every location I’ve been, absolutely zero issues even when traveling 500+ miles between cities. I can see why non-technical people wouldn’t want to do this, but it takes a negligible amount of time to plan a proper route.

> Besides, I don't like vendor lock-in in my software, I don't like vendor lock-in for my cars.

I don’t even know what this means - Tesla vehicles can charge at any CCS station or level 2 charger (home plug, not DC). Other brands will be rolling out Tesla charger support in early 2024. There is no vendor lock-in.

These programs have existed for many years and at least some portion of borrowers took out loans with the expectation that the government would honor those programs. There is no real reason, outside of ripping off those that can't navigate bureaucracy, to argue against automating and streamlining these programs that already existed:

> Many of the programs that the Biden administration is using have existed for years, sometimes decades, but were notoriously troubled, forcing borrowers to navigate complicated bureaucratic hurdles. By adjusting rules and temporarily waiving some requirements, Education Department officials have accelerated long-delayed relief.

> Public Service Loan Forgiveness... In 2007, Congress passed a law intended to entice more college graduates into public service careers: Those who worked for government agencies or nonprofit organizations would, after 10 years of monthly loan payments, have their remaining federal student loan balance eliminated... But the program’s complex rules turned it into a quagmire that rejected 99 percent of applicants — and an effort in 2018 to apply patchwork fixes became another debacle.

> Income-Driven Repayment Adjustment... Income-driven payment plans are designed to eliminate any remaining balance after a set period of repayment, typically 20 years. Even for borrowers who never enrolled in those plans, the Education Department decided to count virtually any payment, for any amount, as a qualifying one — and it added to its tally many months in which borrowers made no payments at all because they had a long-term deferment or forbearance. The department chose to apply those adjustments automatically for all borrowers, no application needed. The result was that hundreds of thousands of borrowers abruptly discovered that their loans had reached the 20-year mark and been eliminated. The first notification letters were sent on July 14.

> Borrower Defense to Repayment and Closed-School Discharge... The Obama administration began to build a system for handling those requests, but it ground to a halt during the Trump administration. When Mr. Biden assumed office, tens of thousands of claims — some that had been languishing for as long as six years — were pending, and over 130,000 others had been summarily rejected. In 2022, the Biden administration agreed to settle a class-action claim that covered 200,000 borrowers who had attended more than 150 schools.

> Total and Permanent Disability... Borrowers who are permanently disabled are eligible to have their federal student loans eliminated. The process had long been a bureaucratic obstacle course, requiring doctors’ notes — which were often rejected, with little or no explanation, because of documentation errors — and years of income-monitoring and other compliance requirements. Many who would have qualified for relief never bothered to apply. But two government agencies already had data on people who were fully disabled: the Social Security Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs. By creating automatic data-matching programs with both agencies and eliminating some income documentation requirements, the Education Department significantly expanded the number of borrowers who gained relief.

Another option, the Dygma Defy, is releasing soon as well https://dygma.com/pages/defy

Oh, I misunderstood. I believe you are missing the forest for the trees but can't fault you for feeling angry if you believe trust was broken.

Respectfully, I think we agree? The current proc macro situation allows security vulnerabilities and a potentially dangerous change went unnoticed for weeks. This RFC aims to address that, at least in part. If the comments I read reflected your view, I wouldn't have made my snarky remark. Unfortunately, I read many comments full of fury aimed at dtolnay while ignoring the system that enabled it.

See also: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-sandboxed-determin...

Authors comment:

>"Someone else is always auditing the code and will save me from anything bad in a macro before it would ever run on my machines." (At one point serde_derive ran an untrusted binary for over 4 weeks across 12 releases before almost anyone became aware. This was plain-as-day code in the crate root; I am confident that professionally obfuscated malicious code would be undetected for years.)

He got some hate for that in the replies but I think it is a great point. Pardon my snark, but every "security expert" that voiced their opinion over the last couple of days, yet failed to recognize the situation for almost a month, should reassess their reaction once the anger subsides.

The current macro situation is dangerous (and wasteful), hopefully some real progress can be made.

These issues from the original comment are not related to Microsoft supporting a wide variety of hardware:

> ...the UI with Bing/Ads/telemetrics/etc integration is so crap...

Sure. Apple is also giant and (probably?) fits those descriptors as well. Why is Mac so solid under similar circumstances?