does anyone (govt etc) have back-door access to it?

It seems that lately governments are "insisting" on back-doors into user-encryption, going so far as to bar sales of products to their citizens that they can't just look at anytime they feel like it.

We need to read your texts to stop Terrorism! and Think of the Children!

Yes a bit OT but I remember the one-liner contests the magazines would have. You had to not use any unnecessary spaces, single-letter variables, use any command shortening method (like "?" instead of "print") and other tricks to get as much function as possible out of the ~253 bytes of line space available. Amazing what some people could squeeze onto one line of BASIC! (games were the most popular, though graphics displays were frequently featured)

It was pretty normal for those "one-liners" to take up a third of the screen or more when LIST'ed

Back in the day most of the computer magazines had one of those. I think it was Nibble magazine that published several programs for the Apple ][.

IIRC you'd start the program in the background and it would watch what line your cursor was on and display a two digit checksum in the upper right corner of the screen that would update as you typed. Just make sure that number matched the check on the end of the line in the magazine and you were clear to hit Return to save the line.

A different magazine had a similar method, but I believe it provided line-by-line checksums after you were done entering the program, and would also generate a "program checksum" at the end that would match if all lines were correct.

I also remember several occasions where there was a printing problem in the magazine and everyone's checksum was wrong, they'd publish a correction in next month's edition and everyone would cry "THAT'S why I couldn't get it right!" (probably after receiving hundreds of letters in the mail complaining about hours of frustration trying to key it in!) This was frequently due to the magazine omitting a line of code. (all the line checksums matched, but not the total at the bottom)

ahh the good ol days of Human OCR....

modern OCR software struggled with the quality of the decades-old printout.

I'm amazed we can OCR in Egyptian scrolls on papyrus, but struggle with 30 year old green-bar printouts?

"In modern cars, it can only help visibility"

Until the screen fucks with your night time vision.

Fuck that just get ones of those retina-searing flashlights out of China and just aim it at your side view mirror.

Back then most emulators were just an executable and a couple smaller files. Throw a full library of games on a ZIP disk, head to your friend's house to play games.

it's a classic downward spiral. Like when the local mall is losing stores, instead of enticing new stores with lower rent, they raise rent to make up for their income loss, which drives out more stores.

But here they're getting lower attendance so instead of doing something to entice people to come to the theaters, they're raising ticket prices and piling long ads at the start of the movie, which drives away more patrons.

Are they stupid? With the malls, it's usually a case of the anchor stores having left, which triggers contract clauses that are going to kill the mall in a few years, so it's just a (somewhat) understandable last-minute cash grab before the doors close. But I don't know of any silimar issue with the theaters that would encourage them to press the self-destruct button? Anyone have any good ideas?

The only explanation for this reaching a grand jury is after a lawyer has told their handler "this is totally illegal and will never stand up in court", and being told to "just DO IT ANYWAY", making it only very thinly veiled harassment.

One nice thing here though is they can't lean on the individual exercising ther rights. (they don't even know they're the ones being targeted) Reddit is taking all the heat and standing up to the bully on the playground for them, which is awesome to see. And unlike the victim, they also have the resources (legal team, money, patience, media attention) to cleanly defend against this blatant over-reach.

If this plays out like it should, the grand jury will return a "no bill", which basically means the accusation doesn't even have enough merit to pass the lowest legal bar in existence. Or more specifically, "Your case has no chance of winning, and we've concluded they are probably innocent and you are just trying to waste the court's time and/or harass an innocent citizen"

In a more perfect world, filing garbage to grand juries should result in lawyers getting sanctioned (or even disbarred), but seeing as this administration is going through lawyers like kids go through shoes, I'm pretty sure any lawyer that joins this legal team already knows they're disposable. Hire a new one, let them submit some garbage filings, and just about the time the court's ready to start sanctions, kick 'em to the curb and bring in a fresh one. Unfortunately there's not a lot of check-and-balance for this sort of behavior, all you need is enough money to keep feeding into the fire.

I thought there were a lot of groups praising the repairability of the new Neo? Did they not consider it? or is it more a matter of it being a single model in a larger brand of less repairables?

There'd be no need to rescue a downed pilot if we hadn't started an unnecessary fight. The administration is taking credit for solving problems that they themselves are creating.

It kind of reminds me of the legal principle of "unclean hands", where someone creates a problem and then tries to get damages from someone else because they were harmed by the fallout of their own actions. Sort of a "I walked into the campfire and he failed to pull me out".

Though in this case, they TOSSED airmen into the fire, and then they rescued them, and now they want praise and thanks for saving them. Sir, your hands are unclean, you will get no praise from me for rescuing people from a peril you yourself created.

Installing more than one modern AAA title.

One approach is for government to control its people, where "the people should be afraid of their government".

Dictators, absolute monarchies, military juntas, despotisms, all tend to go with this plan.

The other approach is for people to control their government, where "the government should be afraid of its people".

Democracies, parliaments, and parliamentary monarchies tend to go with this other plan.

I guess it's time for Russians to be afraid of their government again?

Of all the early computer start-ups, Apple is the only "started in the garage on a shoestring budget and passion to create something everyone would love" that I can recall hearing about. Were they they only ones to get started like that?

And I see so many people already trash-talking Jobs... business sense without a great product has nothing, but tech genius without business never takes off. Both are necessary! It takes a good product and a good salesman to make a successful brand. Apple was fortunate to have both, it was their recipe for success.

I've started to see warnings in terminal when using keyed SSH, something along the lines of "vulnerable to store-now-decode-later attacks". I assume this is due to not using eliptic-curve codes in my PK generation?