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> false reports.

Are you sure they're false?

The paper has plenty of pictures. You do have to click through to the PDF.

I'm confused.

> The simplest case: no transaction, just a SELECT and an UPDATE with a barrier between them:

There is no context where you do not have a transaction. Postgres requires them.

It's likely that the library the author is using is doing automatic implicit transactions, but it seems like the author needs to understand their tools a bit better.

You don't even need an AI.

This is such a core misunderstanding that Asimov seems to have, and it kind of kills his entire analysis for me.

The assumption is that only some small fraction of a fraction of the people who could be surveilled at any time are being surveilled.

The crux of the thing is that everyone COULD be under surveillance at any time, so in effect everyone must behave as if they are being observed because they do not know they are not.

If you read the article, the OP points out that static analysis for this platform is not supported in Ghidra.

Also, reading between the lines, I think it's safe to assume the author did dump the flash.

> Using the strings command on the firmware dump reveals a lot of interesting details about the webserver itself, but nothing obvious hints us to the password.

Maybe include the next part?

It goes:

> We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply. We are to follow the admonitions of the good apostle, who said, ''Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low degree." And generally, with respect to these high things, all that we shall try to do is just to create presently about these country homes an atmosphere and conditions such, that, if by chance a child of genius should spring up from the soil, that genius will surely bud and not be blighted.

It's almost like you're using a deliberately malicious selective quote that completely changes what the author is trying to say.

Author is a quack. There is deliberate mis-quoting in the article that completely warps the source material.

From their quoted section:

> We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or of science. We are not to raise up from among them authors, orators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embr}-o great artists, painters, musicians. Nor will we cherish even the humbler ambition to raise up from among them lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we now have ample supply.

And then the removed section, which effectively negates the (facial) point of the previous statement:

> We are to follow the admonitions of the good apostle, who said, ''Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low degree." And generally, with respect to these high things, all that we shall try to do is just to create presently about these country homes an atmosphere and conditions such, that, if by chance a child of genius should spring up from the soil, that genius will surely bud and not be blighted.

This is a really, REALLY common quote (with the latter part deliberately omitted) in lots of places complaining about the way the US education system works, as well as antigovernment movement people.

I certainly will not claim the US education system isn't broken, but using such a deliberate, malicious out-of-context quote casts a pall over anything else the author has to say, particularly given it's long, storied history in antigovernment propaganda.

A.K.A. "The UK's stupid legislation is going to prevent anyone from using non-locally-hosted services, let's try to get in on the ground floor and have a position like amazon in the US."

> “Younger kids do not have the same work ethic,” says RM’s Morreau. The immediate satisfaction normalized by cell phones and social media is antithetical to the know-how required for fabricating, say, the burled walnut dashboard of a pre-war Rolls-Royce.

Oooooor, the pay is crap and the work environment is abusive.

Any time someone trots out the "kids don't have the same work ethic" argument, they can immediately be ignored. People have been literally saying that continuously since people have been around to write the complaint down, and it's been exactly as true then as it is now.

- ptr isn't declared in the class body

- ptr is not being deallocated in the destructor

(personal preference - use of class member without explicit `this->`)

It looks like they're trying to be "linux for apple ex-pats".

Flatpak, Snap, appimage, etc...

I have pretty fastidiously avoided ever using any of the "package everything into the image" projects, and my life has been considerably better off.

All these things serve to do is make the developer experience easier, at the cost of delivering a much worse user experience.

I can't think of any reason a user would ever prefer packaged variant of something.

Uh, you are describing gouging, you've just handed it off to an algorithm so you can pretend it's not exactly what it is.