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I think some domain-specific considerations include: 1. You need a really big in-memory data set that you touch ~all of several times for each request, so you really want to e.g. m…

It is, of course, tensor.

When PayPal goes to make the withdrawal, the bank doesn't have to let them and give the account a negative balance. Usually you can turn off overdraft and withdrawals will bounce i…

Yep! Twitter licenses your data from you, so they can run Twitter with it.

> Hey what should we train our AI to play? Cities: Skylines so it can fix traffic? > Nah bro, let's teach it to shoot people in CS:Go!

How to make lots of money selling stuff that runs off a 30-60 watt power brick.

Not all proprietary software currently insists that you get into a TPM-mediated Dom/sub relationship with its developers. Its currently possible, and might be ethically necessary, …

The solution is political action. You're describing a workaround that only a few of the most concerned people will be willing to use.

> I don't believe any entirely locked down firmware ever made it into any x86 board. There are some Android x86 devices that won't boot unsigned firmware and won't let you change t…

iMessage can run over data, right? It sounds like the bugs exploited here were iMessage and WhatsApp holes, not weird mystery-baseband flaws (which are harder to patch but only eve…

Manyverse is Android/iOS only, but it talks to desktop Secure Scuttlebutt clients like Patchbay: https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay

Sorry, what I meant to say here I think is that Gaggle isn't being used to enforce a restriction against personal use. It seems like the school district in the article doesn't part…

Sorry, there may be a restriction against personal use; this system is not being used to enforce a restriction against personal use, as described in the article. It's being used to…

What governments issue photo IDs to 14 year olds?

> The point is that Organization A is providing their owned device to Person A, and they have a right to monitor its use. Why should that right win out in this case over the user's…