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Have we had the one about Facebook verifying your email by asking for your email password so it can fish through your inbox to find it (and whatever else they feel like)?
No? Well here it is.
I wonder if they're stored in plaintext too?
How one developer just broke Node, Babel and thousands of projects in 11 lines of JavaScript
Code pulled from NPM – which everyone was using
"I think was a great disturbance in NPM, as if millions of Stack Overflow copypasters cried out in terror as their remotely hosted scripts were suddenly deleted."
And then security and reliability go up at least ten fold when they fix and self-host.
Apple's hardware record has not been stellar recently. Its laptop "butterfly" keyboards elicited enough complaints and lawsuits that the company sleeved the internals to prevent dust from blocking the optical sensors.
Apple are on the third generation butterfly keyboard and areas still having problems...
Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm
I think they need some real engineers in instead of some pretty thin box designers.
... a Word document can run an embedded BASIC program which has permissions to connect to the Internet and download an executable binary and then run it, which then has permissions to trash the MBR.
Has Microsoft set a new world record? So many layers of WTF before we get to the actual WTF document itself.
... and I see nothing that hasn't been done in any western multinational, where individual programmers who might have a clue are unable to do anything against the massive internal bureaucracy which doesn't particularly care and the antiquated development environments where no installation, compiler, or library is updated because otherwise stuff might break and it would need retesting to check and we can't do that.
Thoughts and prayers, but no donating the ad revenue from these videos to charity, or even acknowledging that ad revenue was made from these videos.
Meanwhile, anything goes, moderate as little as possible, pretend Facebook has nothing to do with society being polarised, and carry on raking it in.
You could do it from the audio stream alone alone and quite easily find and ban any terrorist or gangland video involving shooting, if it weren't for the yee-haa fuck-yeah redneck gun demonstration videos which are wholesome family viewing and attract advertising dollars.
Answer from the horse's mouth:
https://twitter.com/pixeltrix/status/1108673644660699136
Well done everyone - the site crashed because calculating the trending count became too much of a load on the database but we're back now at around 180k per hour by my estimation.
Presumably that's the maximum throughput it has while serving so many clients rubbernecking.
Seems odd that they don't have an option to pull the plug on the automatic update under times of high load, but I guess nobody thought of the use case where the PM is about to drive the country off the edge off a cliff and broadcasts live from the nation from her Downfall bunker citing the will of the people, while denying a referendum to find out what the will of the people is three years later, leading to the petitions site being used as a kind of proxy referendum.
Andrea Leadsom said "should the petition reach more than 17.4m signatures [ie, the number of people who voted leave], there would be a very clear case for taking action" once again leaving the nation in no doubt of her grasp of statistics, mathematics, referendums, and whatever else you care to mention.
You'll note that 9/11 and JFK's assassination has no shortage of conspiracy theorists despite being caught on camera.
This is not a video that shows what happened anyway, this is just a video which glorifies terrorism whose intent is bringing other nutbags out of the woodwork. You don't need to see people getting murdered, I don't need to see people getting murdered, nobody does.
I haven't seen it and I don't intend to. I don't know why anyone would want to see it.
The fact that some dev makes ten different wrappers for ffmpeg with analytics packages included then spams the internet for those paid-for apps using SEO, does not mean that I should miss out on open source software out there that probably doesn't get enough donations to pay for a yearly Apple dev certificate (that's if they even accept donations).
Apple can add granular permissions similar to iOS (in fact, things like opening the contacts file already pops up a permission request on the Mac) but if non-mainstream users are pushed off the platform they will go elsewhere and take the software they develop with them.
The most Apple can expect of the Mac ecosystem if they do this is that it is pared it down to the minimum - hipsters with too much money to burn and Mac Minis for developers to develop iDevice apps. I get the feeling Tim wouldn't be too bothered if this happened anyway.
If you copy an app from physical media (DVD/USB) it won't check it. If you delete the quarantine flags from the downloaded app bundle it won't check it. It won't check shared libraries used by the app. It won't check binaries downloaded and run by the app. And you can still run UNIX binaries from the command line (I don't think they're going to change the ELF format anytime soon). And any checks it does do happen only once when you run an app the first time. It's not OS-wide protection, but just a bunch of things Finder does when you double-click an app.
But, if they make Gatekeeper any more annoying in their next release then I will not be upgrading, because obviously this won't be the final step, but one more step in appliancing the Mac and there will be more of the same in the release that comes after that.
Fruit and veg farmers in the EU had their produce caught up in the Calais strike and it arrived unfit to sell. The result is that some fruit and veg farmers are now not sending produce to the UK. The Calais strike was work to rule to show what things would be like after Brexit.
Obviously toilet paper has a longer shelf-life, but this is one reason why some businesses would refuse to sell to the UK.
Another would be legal uncertainty in a no deal situation.
"Interestingly, the choices made and the path followed can potentially reveal viewer information that ranges from benign (e.g., their food and music preferences) to sensitive (e.g., their affinity to violence and political inclination)," they explain.
Or, in my case, it'd show how I OCD my way through all the possible paths.