Em Adespoton

The original excavation took place between 2015 and 2017, with the findings requiring many years of analyses and tests.

I thought this sounded familiar; it’s great that 11 years later, they’ve got it to the point where they have verifiable findings!

These days you could also fire up the book in the kindle app and tell an AI to OCR each page, saving the result in ePub format.

Either is fine. I’d just send it a wall of text and it would hit its token limit and stall.

Unless it was running towards me to protect me; in that case, I’d want Claude.

I’m not sad to see the NHL go. WHL and junior league is much more interesting (and affordable).

And maybe now we’ll see more of our national sport in that timeslot? Lacrosse Night in Canada has a nice ring to it.

I’ve got a nice jingle they could use too!

Was that an AI summary of an Atlantic article I just read?

Bug bounties because it appears communication went off the rails when he started asking them for money.

That’s why I said both players in this story are in the wrong. It’s a case study in how NOT to handle responsible disclosure.

Yes. But he also disclosed HOW to abuse it. Which means everyone on the Internet now has access to all that information on everyone currently in Frontier’s system.

He could have just published the general type of exploit they were sitting on and notified their payment processor and the government with the details.

Instead he outlined to everyone how to access the information and what information was available, and how it could all be chained together.

1. Bad on Frontier. They are breaking both government and banking obligations, which could land them with significant fines or even end their contract with their payment processor.
2. Bad on the researcher. This is not how you do responsible disclosure. It’s also not how you get paid for bug bounties.

The world is a weird place when the “conservative” view on abortion and immigration is to dispose of them. She definitely wants to conserve gun rights though.

That’s security through obscurity, as well as shared keys.

What happens when the burglar in waiting watches someone grab the key and use it?

Or in the case of phone security, what happens when your address is printed on the key?

A better analogy is fire lock boxes, where apartment complexes have a master key stored in a box out front that can be unlocked with a master key firemen carry.

Unfortunately, that bic pen trick turned out to work on those lock boxes a decade or so ago, meaning all a burglar needed to get into ANY residence in ANY building with a fire lock box was a bic pen. In fact, a burglar could open the box, get the key, duplicate it, put it back in the box, and nobody would even know security had been compromised.

It’s a pretty good analogy for what’s being asked for here.

I don’t trust Apple, but I also don’t blanket distrust them. Of those three articles you posted, the only one that gives me pause is the one from 2022 where Apple was sending App Store navigation data back home. I have NEVER trusted the App Store. It has been intentionally hard to use, using dark patterns, and tracking usage ever since iPhone OS 2. Unfortunately for the researchers, it has also been very clear about this; it’s essentially a website that can only be accessed with their custom client.

Up until recently, I’ve mostly trusted Apple because their business goals align with my personal goals; breaking that trust would only harm them without providing any benefit. Recently however, the services arm of the company has gone more aggressively into advertising; I don’t trust ANYTHING from Apple that’s linked to advertising, which now includes not only the App Store, iCloud, Books, News, Stocks, Fitness, Podcasts, Apple Music and Apple TV, but also Apple Maps.

Because individual books are smaller than a torrent slice.

Providing torrents of authors, publications or similar? That could work, except they’d have to keep rebuilding the torrents for current works (see the issue with archive.org and torrents).

Also, aa to end user is relatively private; aa to torrent to end users is very NOT private.

They’d do better just storing the archive in I2P.

More than that, they should require an environmental bond and community improvements, and a 50 year water management plan. They should be treated in the same way as a strip mine.

Oops.

What’s wrong with Canada’s weights and measures?

Everything is in SI units.

Unless you’re cooking, where heat is in Fahrenheit, solid measures are in cups teaspoons and tablespoons (but liquids are in litres and weights are in grams).

Or in construction, where you work in feet and yards. Or measuring a person’s height.

But while someone might be 6’ tall, their stride length will be in metres, as will their arm span.

So yeah; simple. It’s not like Canada has tons of people weighing in tonnes.

. . . Unless you’re in the majority of the English speaking world, which includes India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Of course, grey is the appropriate spelling for all of those but Canada, which uses both.

It’s called LightBlue.

Yeah, it’s red inside too.

First rule of interacting with Trump: record everything.

My sister has the dark red hair I think you’re talking about — at a glance people would call it auburn, but when the light catches it you see it’s really a dark red (not orange). My extended family going back generations has hints of this, but in everyone else it’s mostly been a red tint to another colour. I don’t know anyone else who has actual naturally red hair.

She gets the flush cheeks and freckles of the traditional orange redhead too; that seems to go with the hair, as nobody else in the family has that complexion (and yes, she’s my genetic sister).

Just a single anecdote, but I hope it helps.