Can someone edit the title of this to say “tornado cash“? As a one-time contributor to the python tornado web framework, I had a bit of a scare waking up to see this!
Agreed. Using a dongle is a terrible experience. I had to buy a few cause they kept breaking for me. The primary way I listen to music on my phone is while walking around with my phone in my pocket. In addition, the lightning port can get dust in it so sometimes it is difficult to maintain a good connection. The connection kept coming loose and causing the music to stop for me. I even had my phone’s lightning port cleaned at an Apple authorized repair center, but the problem came back after around a month. Never had that problem with a 3.5mm audio jack in my life.
I ended up having to buy Bluetooth headphones just to listen to music on my iPhone which has its own problems because they have to be charged all the time.
Damn, ain't that a shame. I had suspected the dongle would be susceptible to that, which is why I was curious initially. What bluetooth headphones are you on?
I am currently looking around for a standalone digital player, no market, no apps, no fancy anything, with a wired headphone (currently looking at KZ EDX Pros, despite the crinacle drama). Might end up getting another sandisk and doing a mod on it to hold 1TB. Those things are damn near bullet proof but their secret weakness is my washing machine
I’m glad people are finally catching on to this. The CIA has their tentacles in pretty much all aspects of society, and it has been that way for years. They have even admitted this openly:
> CIA officers work as scientists, support staff, engineers, economists, linguists, mathematicians, secretaries, accountants, inventors, cartographers, architects, psychologists, police officers, editors, graphic designers, auto mechanics, historians, museum curators, & more!
That tweet isn't an admission of the type you are claiming. (it's a list of things people on the overt CIA payroll do as their overt jobs at CIA, not a list of industries into which CIA employees work surreptitiously or in which the CIA recruits assets.)
Or maybe it is a mixture of both? Are you sure they don’t have covert people in all the very same positions? Does the CIA have its own internal museums, mapmaking companies, architecture firms? What buildings do their architects design?
Employing an internal economist might be able to give you an idea of financial things going on in the world, but employing an economist who writes for a prominent media company or is on TV allows you to shape how the public THINKS about economics and financial markets which is much more powerful.
Perhaps the tweet is not an open admission of this, but it doesn’t take a lot of effort to connect the dots.
> Are you sure they don’t have covert people in all the very same positions?
I’m sure they have covert assets in a much wider array of positions, but I know what “officer” means in the intelligence context, and even of I didn't have that preexisting knowledge there is only one thing that tweet can mean on the context of the thread, and it's not an admission of anything outside of the overt employment opportunities at CIA.
> Does the CIA have its own internal museums, mapmaking companies, architecture firms?
It has its own museum; the cartographers and architects it employs don't work in internal “companies” or “firms”, the same way software developers working for (say) the Department of Health and Human Services don't work for an internal software company.
> What buildings do their architects design?
They don't, they analyze information about the design of buildings on which the CIA has information (public plans, photographs, etc.) to help determine what is or may be true about them that isn't directly revealed by that information to non-experts. There’s a very wide range of experts the CIA employs for the purpose of analyzing intelligence, open-source and otherwise.
> Employing an internal economist
Which the CIA does, and not just one.
> might be able to give you an idea of financial things going on in the world
Which is more than a little important.
> but employing an economist who writes for a prominent media company or is on TV allows you to shape how the public THINKS about economics and financial markets which is much more powerful.
Sure, but that's a pretty unlikely role for a CIA officer; if the CIA was doing something outside like that (which would be absolutely unsurprising; in fact that it has in the past done so is well known [0]) it would be through outside assets.
> Perhaps the tweet is not an open admission of this
Its not, and it takes a total failure of reading comprehension to think it might be.
> but it doesn’t take a lot of effort to connect the dots.
There are literally no dots to connect.
[0] Look up the “Propaganda Assets Inventory”, aka Wisner’s Wurlitzer.
The Clandestine Service has had prohibitions against working under journalistic cover in the past. This is because it's thought that free access by journalists to trouble spots beats the possibility of tainting the profession in the eyes of the world (in other words: press access is a bigger net win).
It has been violated from time to time, but at least it's talked about. To my knowledge, the only absolute bar is anything at all to do with the Peace Corps. It would be a Very Bad Thing if people start to think those nice kids digging wells and handing out rice might be intelligence officers.
This logic didn't stop them from running a fake vaccination program in Pakistan to try to find Osama. It directly led to a significant rise in vaccine refusal in the region.
Not sure why this is a surprise? They're in the business of understanding information from all over the world, in all languages... and are undoubtedly interested in things like "this accent means this person came from this part of the country" too.
It could be a surprise because they always blame translation difficulties whenever they fail to predict important events e.g. fall of USSR, 9/11, no WMDs, 12-hour Taliban flash-takeover of Afghanistan, etc. One almost suspects that they don't particularly care to get "intelligence" right since they have other priorities.
I too have the problem with WindowServer although for me it seems to happen with just regular usage. I have not rebooted in 48 days, and currently it is using 10GB RAM (I have a MacBook Air with 16GB). I have seen some people claim it has to do with using a display scaling setting other than the default (I use 1280x800).
Yes, I agree, but it is a memory leak. It doesn’t START at 10GB. Also closing windows does not help much at all.
To answer your question, I have a total of 73 windows open at the moment. 11 of them are from applications with a single window open, 8 are from iTerm, and 54 are from Sublime Text. I am aware that is quite a lot for Sublime, but that is just how I use it.
Regardless, I just quit Sublime Text, and the memory usage only dropped to 8.9GB still absurdly high for having 19 windows open.
I have been seeing all of the above problems on my 16GB M1 MacBook Air for probably at least 6 months now.
WindowServer has consistently been the main culprit but occasionally other apps like to chip in where they can too. Often that means there isn’t one single process which I can kill to reclaim enough memory to continue working without being promoted again or having MacOS forcibly close all my applications on me. As a result, reboots appear to be the only real solution for me.
Interestingly though, in the past few weeks I have been working with similar numbers of open Sublime Text windows as yourself and I can confirm that since then, ST4 has been a regular and serious offender when it comes to memory usage in Activity Monitor.
Hmm, that is interesting. You have lots of unaccounted for memory, which is not normal at all. Would you happen to have the full footprint output? Trying to see how the 200K individual VM_ALLOCATE regions are distributed in side.
Gotta love when the Hacker News crowd sides with Wall Street kingpin Jamie Dimon just to own Bitcoin. This guy became a billionaire thanks to taxpayer subsidized bailouts after the 2008 crisis while regular people lost their homes, and while I don’t know that it is proven, it is very likely he was personally involved with or at the very least aware about the subprime mortgage derivative schemes that set off the entire thing.
Actual misinformation. Dimon's bank was one of the strongest ones and wasn't making or wholesaling subprime mortgages. It was able to acquire Bear Stearns for less than the value of Bear's real estate owned.
Misinformation? What do you mean? One of the strongest ones? You mean they didn’t lose a lot of money as a result of the collapse? That is exactly my point. They were financing the lenders and offloading their own bad securities in secret while not touching the ones held by their OWN CUSTOMERS. Aka they KNEW the whole thing was a scam and knew the whole thing was going to implode and didn’t want to be caught holding the bag when it did. They still got bailed out along with everyone else.
> Sure, it's annoying that I'll need to use a VPN or change my DNS resolvers to use a pretty slick (and otherwise convenient) website archiver.
You can alternatively look up the IP address using something other than Cloudflare DNS and add entries to your /etc/hosts file for archive.is and archive.today.
Actually a sensitive product is exactly where this does NOT make sense. No matter how good their security is with their cloud version it will still be less secure than having a vault locally on your disk. That is a fact.
Subscription services to me are only justified if they are providing a SERVICE which they are with the web version and ability to sync through their own servers, however, using a local version with your own vault can be done without any service at all.
So to me this looks like them intentionally crippling their own software in order to force people into paying a subscription fee that is not necessary. They already hide the ability to purchase a standalone license for 1Password 7 trying to get people to pay the subscriptions so this is the next logical step.
> Actually a sensitive product is exactly where this does NOT make sense.
The idea that anyone except a tiny infinitesimal minority of all people should self host is ridiculous.
Even a lot of people with IT jobs have not enough time or knowledge to keep services like this working securely in a way that’s competitive with SaaS (i.e. these people are better served by paying others to do the job).
If you need any proof, just wander around any company that works in IT and do a simple check, see who has the latest OS version and who doesn’t.
But it was never about self-hosting: a local vault can be synced between devices on the same network - all you have to do is to open 1PW on both of them. Everyone can manage it.
Hi, I work for 1Password. I can understand your frustration that we're phasing out local vaults. Luckily, I have some good news: we're currently running a survey to gauge user interest in self-hosting options. If you're interested, go to https://survey.1password.com/self-host/ and let us know your thoughts. Thanks!
Sure, go ahead, make the federal reserve more politically accountable -- and watch as inflation spirals out of control because the tool to combat inflation (raising interest rates) is political poison.
Just how poisonous? Well, what have you heard about presidents Carter and Reagan?
I'd ask "whose oversight is avoided ?", and "whose isn't ?". You are supposing the Fed's deciding committees are acting fully independently (wittingly or not) within their mandate. AFAIK the process isn't exactly transparent, even ex post facto.
Similarly, we've seen last 12 years there's more than one way to skin a cat - issue "money" at the fed level - than just printing. They invented at least 3 mechanisms since.
That being said, it's not entire clear to me how current tokens/coins solve that conundrum without losing some major desirable/necessary "macro" features and flexibility.
"Without oversight" is stronger than reality as Trump's threatening of Powell illustrates. It is true that there is a strong culture of a politically independent, technocratic Fed. However this is a relatively recent invention by Volcker in the 80s. Volcker was pretty convincing about it's merits, hence it's survival, but even he was threatened by Reagan to not raise rates during the re-election campaign.
The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
