We're not right back where we started, we're in far far worse place where all online activity of every single person is de-anonymized (associated with their full legal ID). Tech companies are salivating at the thought.

True, why settle for less data when they can justify getting it all.

We need a law that prevents representatives without a demonstrable understanding of a subject matter from casting votes for stuff they clearly don't understand. Can't check your email or program a microwave clock? No voting on Internet bills. Can't change your own oil? No voting on automotive bills, etc.

Now a lot of people would immediately say "Oh, but then nothing will get done!" and my response is, okay, good. After a few years of nothing getting done people will realize they need to start voting in people who know about the stuff the people care about instead of people who will listen to whatever a lobbyist tells them.

If someone actually got "pixel-faithful" Office documents rendering correctly, MS would be screwed. That's actually really important for a lot of companies that carry around decades-old templates that never look exactly right in LibreOffice or any other software that attempted to replicate it.

The slightest misalignment of a paragraph means a line on page 27 of 120 now moved down by 2 pixels, screwing everything else out of alignment. Yes, plenty of companies pay Microsoft 365 subscriptions because of exactly this reason; it sounds ludicrous when you think they could just pay someone to replicate the formatting in a different suite a lot less than the subscription costs, but that's not how it works...

Sadly, Microsoft 365 is not “pixel perfect” compared to word. I often run into headaches where line numbers are different between the two and content ends up on different pages.

If Microsoft can’t get consistent rendering of word docs between Word for Windows, Word for macOS and Office 365, I don’t like anyone else’s chances.

Can the same version of Word now produce the same rendering on two PCs? In the past (I didn't really check recently, I'm thinking more about 10 years ago) the same file might have had page breaks in different positions and things like that. I never understood if it came from slightly different versions of the fonts, from some info derived from the default printing or anything else...

I've heard that the same file can render differently in MS Word across different machines and OSs. So, that won’t help either.

I would be very surprised if that's the case. I heard from a buddy that used to work in Office back when SDETs were a thing. They had labs of random machines rendering the same files (out of a library of thousands) and comparing the actual pixels for regressions.

Of course, that was a decade ago, so who knows.

Fudge... we can de-flock all we want but if naive people walk around with the portable surveillance cameras on their face, there's nothing we can do about that.

We need privacy regulation...

The US courts have almost always held that anything in public can be recorded. The only expectations of privacy relevant to 'smart glasses' that the courts recognize, I think, are gonna be restrooms and your own home. I guess what I'm getting at is I don't expect regulation or the courts to do anything about the privacy and recording issues. IMHO, the only potential regulation might be around how the recorded data is handled, but honestly, I don't expect anything there, either. I mean, apparently, the US DHS wants to build their own 'smart glasses' to record and do facial recognition for ICE.

I think we need legislation. The "no expectations of privacy" probably was ok when little old ladies were spending time outside their home watching passerbys, but not when everyone's movements are tracked and saved by fully autonomous systems.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to think that privacy regulation is coming with the current admin and weak “opposition”, and lack of capacity to care or understand the stakes by the populace. We need some very effective political organizing, yesterday. And normalized, cheap, scramble suits wouldn’t hurt either.

Yes, our rights are being narrowed, and billionaires including Meta executives are collaborating with the increasingly authoritarian US government's executive, in my understanding.

I recently read in a couple of articles and saw a video, of US ICE agents obnoxiously taunted protesters during their manhunt activities, saying, "we now know who you are," referring to the agent's cell phones who they are using to record the immediate-area protest activity, and apparently collecting faces on preloaded apps.

Rhetorically, what's to stop the US ICE from requesting, and the authoritarian-administration-friendly billionaire executive leaders granting, special editions of the Meta glasses? Or, requesting for national security reasons, which is literally what ICE's mandate is, requesting all of the databases of PII laden facial recognition social networking in the real world, of regular citizen owned Meta smart glasses?

There is no such thing as E2EE email. You can encrypt your storage or some of the hops, but the plain-text email contents goes through between every layer, unless you're talking about PGP, or some similar scheme you built on top of the email protocol (where obviously both the sender and the recipient must participate).

Are you high on your own supply, or did you genuinely hallucinate a reality where a $3 trillion company is dying because a handful of Redditors learned how to use Proton?

I'm guessing that "Enterprise Alexa" thing is dead on arrival, but the badge is quite interesting.

You have to carry a badge around the office anyway and if you get company stuff on the badge it means you don't need to pollute your personal phone with corporate BS (MDM, apps, VPN profiles, etc.)

Native Coreutils for Windows is genuinely some good news coming from Microsoft.

The command line team has been doing some solid work for a while. I recognize lhecker from the also great wt & edit projects.

If you told me during the Windows 7 era the Windows CLI would not only be getting nice but getting pretty comfortable I would never have believed it.

Yeah, the problem with Windows isn't the command line team, the problem is the marketing & sales div using windows to push every other MS service.

If they just kicked them out and left the Windows div alone it'd be a decent OS. All the bones are there.

Hopefully these do not require a PhD to be implemented.

With these AI agents using lot of linux commands, I think they have to do it.

It's not coreutils. It's a rust slop.

Christ. I'm guessing it's to be BSD so they can pull it back and keep it proprietary at any time also. Never trust Microsoft to act in good faith. We USE THE GPL for a reason.

Ubuntu also replaced GNU coreutils with uutils recently, its not just Microsoft.

The project will deny it, but this is clearly an attack against the GPL

I just want a new NVIDIA Shield Pro; can't believe that 7 year old device is still the best media player on the market.

I don't understand what this does. How can it "build" anything without a VM capable of running actual code?

Is "build" being used here in the sense of assembling pre-existing layers into an image? What would be the purpose of that?

The idea is that, in many cases, you can create a layer "by hand" without running actual Linux programs. Layers don't need to be pre-existing, the only requirement is that they can be built programmatically (inside the browser, in this case). The demo actually does that: it "manually" creates a layer from the user-specified entrypoint script, then creates an image from the pre-existing base image's layers and the new entrypoint layer.

In a more real scenario, you can e.g., turn pip wheels into layers without actually using docker's RUN command. All it takes is to massage the data from one archive format into another, programmatically. This unlocks lots of potential (e.g., it becomes embarrassingly parallel to build a container image comprised of pip wheels). Combine that with a good layer caching strategy and a registry that takes advantage of it, and you can have near-instant container builds for arbitrary sets of pip dependencies.