Just realized the French lottery is only 19 068 840 combinations. You could send spam to 19 millions people, each with a number saying you can predict the lottery, and if they send you 10 000 euros in BTC, you could give them the next one.

Framasoft is really an amazing team. They are basically the reason I discovered FOSS when I was younger.

The fact they are still here and supporting so many free services is a miracle.

Maybe the strategic reserve constitution will be a way to actually give money to them in exchange for crypto.

These days it feels anything is possible.

I want it, and yet I know that not only I don't need it, but I likely won't use it that much.

This is really like a cool gadget purchase impulse.

Paywalled, so how did it go to the frontpage if most people can't read it?

> if most people can't read it?

By reading the headline

This.

Many HN users don't read the articles. Some are even unapologetic about it, explicitly admitting that they're here only for the comments.

Some of us rarely read the articles. They're often, frankly, a waste of time. And it's hard to tell just by the headline whether it's worth reading or not. The comments often tell me whether the article is worth reading faster than the article would. (And some of the time the article is paywalled, and some of the time it's a video, which makes it harder to skim.)

And often I learn more from the comments than I would from the article.

See the archive.is link that someone also provides.

Most paywalls are easy to bypass. Most HN readers know this.

Some of us also have FT subscriptions though.

That'd be an interesting poll. What % of HN readers (poll participants) subscribe to the big paywalled story sources? NYT, FT, The Economist, ...

Clicking the link hits a paywall, but copy-pasting it gets me the article.

uv has been introduced as cargo for python: https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging

The whole explaination is here: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/a-year-of-uv-pros-cons-and-should

The td;rd is that is has a lot less modes of failure.

With all due respect, the link you’ve linked to is reddit, and the underlying story is a 500. Can you provide an available source or alternative, since this one seems broken?

Updated link but it's getting hard to find them.

Eg: I can't find any link about the home button scandal anymore.

People will forget about all the wrong doing and the PR will enventually win.

Your link does not contradict his.

The link is still relevant, because apple's statement is posted in a manner antithetical to the article when, in fact, apple does the same thing.

The main difference is that apple didn't allow its users to have such a setting in the first place, so amazon used to be better. Until now, when they're equally bad in this respect.

Plus webusb is a 0 day waiting to happen. Browsers should not become os, they are exposed to the entire web.

Say what else you will about browsers, but they do offer a sandboxed execution environment across all major OSes, only limited by browser capabilities.

There's an argument to be made for limiting some of these permissions to "installed" PWAs, but these beat random Electron apps running with full user permissions in terms of security.

If random electron apps is not connecting to the entire internet, loading completely random code from any website in the world, not they don't.

Before USB4, USB came with DMA. If your sandbox has ever an exploit, that's close to instant rooting capabilities exposed to the entire web.

USBC an hold a ton of power. One sandbox exploit, and the entire web can fry your machine.

This is too dangerous of a capability to be exposed to a public network with tons of malicious actors and bots.

> If random electron apps is not connecting to the entire internet, loading completely random code from any website in the world, not they don't.

Why not? Nothing in terms of sandboxing prevents them from doing so, unlike webapps.

> Before USB4, USB came with DMA.

DMA is mainly a threat to the host, not the device, isn't it?

> USBC an hold a ton of power. One sandbox exploit, and the entire web can fry your machine.

How so? There isn't a "fry this device" USB protocol command. Obviously you could drain a printer's ink etc., but that's just another facet of "don't give random websites/PWAs access to sensitive hardware" that the browser UX indeed has to get right.

Browsers have been OSes for the past decade.

An OS designed by no one and implemented piecemeal through a thousand disconnected RFCs.

And targeted by tens of millions of developers for billions of users.

Isn't webusb almost a decade old at this point? Downloading sketchy flashing software is also a good way to get malware. I trust Chrome more than I do 5 separate toolchains and eclipse clones lol.

I'm expecting nobody will do that anymore in the US.

First, those heroes were treated as enemies, then their revelations lead to nothing for the country, and great pain for them.

Finally, I doubt they would be proud of what their country is today and think it's worth the sacrifice.