> I think the strategy isn't just being creepy, they want to advertise their device management in Azure and part of the advertising is filling the list of devices with unsuspecting victims.
I don't understand like, who would want their private computers to be controlled by their school or work? It's not like Microsoft gains anything by that? If that would happen, even if I loved Microsoft before I would start to hate them if they take all my personal files and give them to my school/employer.
That is incredibly bad for privacy and I don't understand how that popup can exist or yet even continue to popup every couple of weeks. Especially with the defaults being that malicious.
Locked article, doesn't explain why in the ingress.
I think that there is a lot of issues with modern agriculture, but that people is eating rice is most likely not one of them. Just travel to Japan, they are more fit and it's rare to see overweight people.
In my country of birth Sweden, about 50% of the adult population is overweight and an alarming amount of them is obese. I don't think eating rice is the problem tbh. It's really alarming how bad journalism has become.
Extra ordinary claims require extra ordinary evidence.
The Japanese just eat less calories. There isn't anything particularly fancy about it, it's just less overall, be it rice, donuts, or fluffy Hokkaido milk bread.
> The answer is not a simple yes or no. While there are many factors that influence individual diets, the overall Japanese diet is generally lower in calories than that seen in some Western countries. On average, Japanese adults consume 2,150-2,900 calories per day, while the average American adult consumes 2,742-3,657 calories every day.[1]
Assuming the middles of those ranges that's like 500-1000 calories less than your average American. This does not mean they're more "fit" either, though things like pull-ups and 5K runs are easier when you're skinny vs. 50lbs overweight due to excess adipose tissue.
The Japanese are also shorter and smaller than Westerners, on average. Of course they'd eat less calories. Many women I've talked to can't even find clothes in their size in America; they have to get clothes in children's sizes.
The big difference I see is that Japanese walk a LOT more than Americans, at least in the cities (which is where the large majority of Japanese live).
Yes I think that is obvious. But I also think the main reason is why the eat less calories is because they have a healtier culture where eating less calories is simply easier.
If I drive my car to the city where my parents live, the only real options I have on the way are fast foods that are very unhealthy.
If I go to the store, we have sections of candy and sodas but buying an ice tea is hard.
If I go out for dinner most options are unhealthy etc etc.
Our culture is eating bread and other wheat products that are filled with calories and also have an agriculture that uses pesticides like 5-10 times a year.
another rice-specific issue is the huge amount of arsenic. curiously, there's more arsenic in highly processed rice products (rice crackers), I have no idea why.
Both naturally from rocks and soil, and latent arsenic from decades of arsenic pesticide use. Arsenic pesticides have been banned for a while, but they’re still in the soil.
Depends on your definition of "process", but parboiled rice can use the same arsenic contaminated groundwater and can raise the arsenic content depending on the process used, whereas mechanical hulling reduces it.
Seems like a lot of the issues reside in the heavy use of pesticides and I totally agree here, it's bad and scary. I don't like it and is one of the reasons why I'm beginning to grow as much food as possible myself.
This is a problem with agriculture and not rice specifically. I would say it's bad and fake news to say that a crop is bad due to bad practices used when growing it. We could ban it for example and produce less food but don't die of scary diseases that pesticides most likely creates. We could do a lot of things that would make food production a bit harder but healthier for us and the environment.
Altough it's easier to say that "rice sucks" or "red meat sucks" we shouldn't because it's untrue and I think it is misinformation and that is a big part of the reason I dislike modern journalism. It is lazy and focuses on the symptoms instead of the root cause. Modern media has convinced most people that eating soy beans badly produced and processed in china is better than eating cow meat from a local small farm that does everything right.
People always argue like there is no changing how we produce the foods and it annoys the hell out of me.
I'm completely unaware of the health of Japanese people, but fitness is not only a visual appearance. Plenty of people who are diabetic with terrible cholesterol that are skinny-fat.
Even so, being overweight is unhealthy and if you go into a store in Japan it's hard(er) to find unhealthy foods. In Sweden, the amount of candy that is available is almost scary and because I'm used to it, it wasn't until I visited other countries like Japan that this became clear to me how bad it is for me and society in large. It is really, really hard to avoid buying unhealthy foods when so many of the options are unhealthy. You have to read all packages very intimiately in order to know.
Swedes usually eat sandwiches in the morning while many Japanese people eat rice and fish. There were no almost no bread available in the stores when I visited and I think that is also telling. When I went to the cinema in Japan, it was only us foreigners that bought candy (which there were very little of and very expensive). I saw no one else buy anything, they just went in and enjoyed the movie. When eating out, there were a lot of choices of good quality restaurants and even the fast food seems quite healthy or at least have options that isn't dripping with fat and sugars like the alternatives in the west.
Another example is ice tea. It's very popular in Japan it seemed like. It existed everywhere in shops and vending machines. Here it's almost impossible to buy. You can buy hundreds of different kinds of expensive sugar water but ice tea is hard to find in the general store.
If rice is so bad that the article claims, japanese people should be extremely unhealthy but in reality it seems it's the complete reverse at least from my personal experience. I don't know the health status of Japanese people in general and a lot of them smoke but they still at least seem more healthy than Swedes on a society level.
Okinawa, which I visited, has a lot of old people and is one of the "blue zones" of the world were a lot of people live to be 100 years old or older.
I'm just saying that I don't believe what the article claims since my experience that I have seen with my own eyes tells me a different story. The article seems extremely likely to be click-bait and possible just false information. I'm expecting to at least get some notion of what the claims are by reading the ingress and I'm not going to pay for reading what I assume is going to be clickbait.
I just think this is common practice by "journalists" today and I think it's depressing.
>Swedes usually eat sandwiches in the morning while many Japanese people eat rice and fish. There were no almost no bread available in the stores when I visited and I think that is also telling.
What century did you last visit Japan? Bread is very, very common here. A typical "Japanese" breakfast these days at a cafe is toast and coffee, and every grocery store has bread easily available for 100-300 yen (depending on quality). Bread is typically sliced thicker here though, and you can buy the bread with different slice thickness. Bakeries are also common, with many European-style breads and pastries.
A more traditional Japanese breakfast might be natto (fermented beans), rice, and raw egg with a little fish, but toast and coffee are extremely common and popular these days.
>I don't know the health status of Japanese people in general and a lot of them smoke but they still at least seem more healthy than Swedes on a society level.
Smoking is going down lately; with the 2020 Olympics, they passed new laws restricting indoor smoking, so people are quitting. It's gotten really hard to find restaurants that allow smoking inside.
But yes, overall, Japanese still eat a lot of rice, and are much thinner on average than Americans (I don't know about Swedes). The idea that rice eaters are all diabetic is utterly ridiculous and defies reality; any "journalist" who writes this obviously has never been to Asia.
You sound a bit like an old man not adapting to technology progress. As an example, if I would make a logo today I would perhaps before used Fiverr or similar services but not I will use an AI and then edit it in some photo editor.
It has become much easier to do stuff like that even if you suck at photo editing.
I’m an old man with 40 years in software development. I’m still working, and not on COBOL. Tell me how I have not adapted. My career predates Unix, relational databases, the internet.
In my career I’ve heard about one thing after another that was going to make programmers obsolete. It may happen but I doubt it, because coding isn’t the hard part of software development.
True true, most likely I agree, that programmers will still be needed for the time being at least. We will most likely just make use of the tool to make us more productive and easier programming may disappear.
Perhaps people who nowadays make a living on making small websites for small mom- and pop-shops will replace themselves with an AI and they will mostly care about design instead. They will have more time on other stuff, increasing the quality all over.
That said, it's hard to tell either way. The future is hard to predict, I wouldn't have guessed I could generate the amount we now can just one year ago. It's hard to imagine many years of progress and what that could potentially lead to.
People who make web sites for mom and pop businesses got obsoleted a long time ago by WordPress and Shopify and numerous other out-of-the-box solutions.
Why does anyone doing that kind of work still get jobs? Ignorance plays some part, of course. In my experience a lot of business owners believe they are unique and special and need something “custom.” It’s a status thing as best I can tell.
Back in the ‘90s I started refusing to write custom accounting systems for customers because QuickBooks could do everything they needed until they graduated to the big leagues, where enterprise software solutions dominate. They never listened, always sure they were too different to use something as pedestrian as accounting software in a box.
Programmers aren’t immune. Look at all of the functionally equivalent languages and tools we argue about. Notice programmers writing that they can’t use an IDE or web site that doesn’t have dark mode. How many more “to do list” apps will we endure? Freud called it “the narcissism of small differences.”
The same human tendency explains why we have many more cars available than Toyota Camrys and Ford F-150s.
Certainly an applicable analogy - all the people whose standards are low enough to use a doctored-up JPEG as a logo now have a free solution. The rest of us who'd prefer a vector graphic, or maybe a .ai or .psd, will continue paying for quality output and the ability to have a rapport about aesthetics.
When you pay a person, you're paying for more than the output. Maybe they'll use a GPT/LLM model behind the scenes, but I also use bucket-loads of coffee behind the scenes. That doesn't mean a bag of Stumptown can build your analytics architecture.
Well if you already have an image you're satisfied with, it's really easy to make it into vector graphics. Either you can map it yourself or just use a tool for it.
As an example of this I generated an image of a dog with an AI and then I put it in the vectormagic.com's tool. The result is very good since the image is not a logo style but an advanced image with a lot of detail.
Yes, many image editors support converting a raster image to a vector, even high-fidelity images like the one you've shown. But creating a usable vector is more than just dropping an image into vectorizer and cleaning up the results. Every angle and point in a vector is handled like a unique object, and thus, the image you've shown would be a nightmare to work with. Often times, there will be numerous duplicate points and hidden angles that can be impossible to sniff out. That's why Illustrator is distinct from Photoshop - creating vectors from scratch is not the same process as converting a raster, and the result is typically far more clean.
So yeah, still stands. If you can stomach messy, unpredictable outputs, use an automated solution. If you want something lean and usable, use a human-being.
Yeah I'll pay for something that is just slightly better/faster than writing it myself but will practically speaking steal my code and give it to others that pay for the same product. /s
I'd say no thanks. I think programmers using Copilot is paying for something that'll hurt them in the long run for a tiny benefit in the short run.
Honestly, I don't think the code I write is so special that no one should ever see it. The whole product might be worth protecting, that's why the codebase isn't public. But the individual files/functions are not special in any way. And that'll be the case for 99%+ of all code.
Well yes, but I use repos just as any other dev does. Most of my own projects I have converted to Gitlab, but still some projects still exist on Github.
That's not stupid, that's wise. Go is designed by Google to solve Google technology and employment problems. There's an underlying philosophy that you buy into when you pick a language. Open languages will be upfront about their worldview. Go's raison d'être is more or less "make programmers expendable like soldiers on the front" but of course they never spell it out like that. They only market it out because they need a pool of fresh warm bodies to throw at their Google problems.
I never worked at Google and presumably I don't have Google's problems and yet Go is the best language I found to wrote those programs. Simple, fast and productive.
Could you connect the dots for me: what exactly is that Google needs that I don't and how does that map to design of Go?
Is it compiled because only Google needs statically compiled, easily cross-compilable, easy to distribute executables?
Is it portable to almost every OS / arch available because that's something only Google needs?
Is it statically typed because only Google cares about catching type errors at compilation time?
Is it garbage collected because only Google cares about the productivity and memory safety of programs?
Which Go design features solve problems that only Google has?
Currently googles problems might map well with your problems. The issue (and fear) is what if google's problems change in the future and don't line up with yours?
...and that info comes from a website that makes money when people are looking for jobs.
Not saying it's not true but I wonder what the questions were and if it is statistically secure because otherwise it's not really saying anything really.
You're absolutely right, I think I've just had bad luck or have been inadvertently screwing up one thing or another. I'll likely give it a shot once again before the forced Windows 11 upgrade comes my way, the telemetry and bloat repulses me, too.
A long time Windows user who switched to Linux (PopOS) last year[1]. I have had an occasional issue with the boot env, where i had to reinstall it. Other than that and printer drive env not always maintaining settings its been a pretty good experience for me. After Windows 11 came out, I decided enough is enough, its funny now watching Microsoft dig it's own grave.
I pay for my email that gives me a lot of aliases and most of them have not been pwned yet. So with his tool I would be flagged as a bot. Honestly, doesn't sound like a great idea to be frank.
There must be large swaths of people that have either been careful or have specific emails that they use for certain purposes that haven't been pwned.
The question, what should happen if I haven't been pwned? Should I not be able to purchase the thing or would I face some annoying captcha?
I like Troy Hunt, but this idea penalize people with good habits and that is just something I can't support.
Sort of. He does encourage this use-case in the final paragraph.
> Applying "Pwned or Bot" to your own risk assessment is dead simple with the HIBP API and hopefully, this approach will help more people do precisely what HIBP is there for in the first place: to help "do good things after bad things happen".
This is a common investigative technique that predates HIBP, however more people are starting to automate it now (using non-HIBP datasets). I think this combined with the new request-based pricing on the HIBP API implies he just wants to make some money off being the quick to implement 75% solution.
No, it doesn't penalize them (at least not his idea, implementations might), it simply fast tracks pwned emails and doesn't apply the normal bot checks that would otherwise apply to everyone.
That's not how he's suggesting it would work. All checks would normally be applied to build a "how human are you" or "humanness" score. He's suggesting a pwned email test and arguing it would be a good signal for "humanness". The implementation might not make it an explicit penalty (-1 to your "humanness" score), but not being pwned might not help your case (+1 if you are pwned, but +0 if you're not).
Yeah it would definitely be good to integrate it into a Bayesian approach where it is mixed with other factors to generate a % chance of being human vs. bot.
It depends on the risk. I have an account that was pwnd (with the same password) but there is no risk to me as there isn't anything useful in that account (not even a DoB, Address or even a Name.) Worse case, someone changes the password and locks me out. Then I'll create another account as it's not a big deal.
The point would not be that it's a threat to you (though it may be), it's that compromised accounts (like one you don't care about) are a threat to an ecosystem that can't identify whether a "user" is a human or a bot.
That is, your compromised account could be used in an attack and it would look like a human.
I don't understand like, who would want their private computers to be controlled by their school or work? It's not like Microsoft gains anything by that? If that would happen, even if I loved Microsoft before I would start to hate them if they take all my personal files and give them to my school/employer.
That is incredibly bad for privacy and I don't understand how that popup can exist or yet even continue to popup every couple of weeks. Especially with the defaults being that malicious.