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Except it's passive voice here; the conditions modify the grantor, not the reader. You may be licensed if we feel like it to use source code to create compiled versions etc.

No "you may enter now" but "you may be allowed to enter."


The airlines are not in charge of airport security. TSA, a government agency, handles that.


RealID licenses cost extra where I live. Your job can buy you a plane ticket but they can't get you through TSA.

> RealID licenses cost extra where I live.

Where is that? I’m curious.

Around here, RealID is just what you’re issued when you renew various forms of ID. I don’t even recall an option to get a non-RealID version.


I'm in Oregon, and that's the case - about $30 extra. More people than you think don't have access to supplemental documentation required to meet extra requirements – people who don't have current travel documents, people who've just moved into town, people who don't have current documentation of address (e.g. the homeless, people in the foster care system, etc.)

It's pragmatic to have: plenty of people don't or can't fly, and the cost of supporting this option is marginal.


> More people than you think don't have access to supplemental documentation required to meet extra requirements

I have access but deliberately choose not to provide it. Growing up I was told something about voting with my feet. Not so sure it works very well in practice though.


In CA it was cheaper and (far) easier to get a normal license and a passport.

for what its worth, my state made it unpleasant enough that it was easier to just got a non-real id and a renew the ol passport

Washington State. $7/yr more for a Real ID license - $42 more the 6 year license and $60 more for the 10.

https://dol.wa.gov/driver-licenses-and-permits/driver-licens...


Are you saying our state offers both RealID and none RealID driver’s licenses?

All states do (for now). Not everyone qualified to drive is capable of proving their identity to the level RealID requires.

As far as I know, Florida does not issue documents that are not REAL ID compliant.

And this is the same state that said they will have drivers license tests in English only

That would be sensible if the traffic signs were in English.

Traffic signs have symbols and shapes. You are allowed to drive in the US with an international drivers license if you don’t speak English. Are they going to arrest someone who doesn’t speak English and got a license in another state?

Can you read Chinese? Can you identify what this traffic sign means? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/CN...

How about Japan?

What does a sign that says private road, residents and guests only.

Traffic signs are readable by almost anybody regardless of English language skills. A vision test is much more safety-valid than an English language test.

I disagree that traffic signs are readable regardless of language skills. Yes, it's just a matter of developing recognition for simple pictorial signs. You just have to learn it. If I put a French "No Vehicles" sign in Florida, nobody is going to have a clue what it means, even though there are no words on it, and that's dangerous.

Not recognizing or incorrectly interpreting "Crash I-9 N/B Exp Right 2 Lanes Closed Merge Left 2000 ft" is also dangerous, right?


Well countries have been willing to do reciprocal agreements with the US and other countries since 1926.

https://internationaldrivingpermit.org/what-is-an-idp/


Only if being illiterate also forbade you from driving, which it does not. You don't need to read the law to follow the law.

Well, there's a written exam.

Which can be completed by someone reading it verbally and writing down their answers, pretty much the same thing as financial and legal documents can.

California offers both. I renewed my license last year. I opted for a non Real ID version because I could renew online rather than spend hours at the DMV.

I know for a fact Kentucky offers both.

I renewed mine in May and still have a non-Real ID license.

Some states, including mine, don't offer RealID at all, but instead an "enhanced driver license" that is accepted alongside RealID. I don't even have that, because I already have a passport card, so there's no reason to spend the extra money.

If your job wants you to fly, it should buy you an id that lets you fly. Have you never applied for a visa to travel on a business trip?

yes, if there's one thing the working poor are known for, it's successfully extracting money from their employers. if uber wants you to rideshare, they should buy you a car, right?

How many “working poor” have jobs that require business travel?

If the answer is more than "zero" then the fee is harmful. Since I've been in similar positions (specifically as a contractor, where I had to front-load expenses and submit for reimbursement), it seems pretty likely to me.

Yes so we are going to optimize an entire system for this mythical “working poor” business traveler?

Every contractor has to do that. That’s the price you pay for going into that business (reason #999 thet while I work in cloud consulting I work full time for consulting companies).

Even as a business traveler, I have to pay my own expenses and wait for reimbursement.


I wasn't aware anyone had made the argument that this was an attempt to optimize anything. It's pretty obvious nobody's optimized anything in the TSA, ever.

I will never understand why "the computer can tell what input it is receiving" has turned into an accepted threat model.

I understand that we have built a computer where our primary interface depends on running untrusted code from random remote locations, but it is absolutely incredible to me that the response to that is to fundamentally cripple basic functionality instead of fixing the actual problem.

We have chosen to live in a world where the software we run cannot be trusted to run on our computers, and we'd rather break our computers than make another choice. Absolutely baffling state of affairs.


Defense in depth. One compromised application may do a lot of harm if it has access to your keyboard inputs. Supply chain attacks are not that uncommon. While you can trust software developers, you cannot completely trust their builds.

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I agree. I think fixing the keylogging issue should be possible without dumping the entire architecture. Perhaps the new X11 fork https://x11libre.net will achieve that? At least, it's encouraging to hear it's getting maintained.

Regarding (recent) supply chain attacks, Linux needs to take supply integrity and sandboxing more seriously. The tools to do so are there (e.g. Nix and firejail/bwrap) and, unlike Wayland, they play well with existing software.


I have doors between rooms in my house, despite its being inhabited by members of the same family who trust each other.

And when someone violates that trust, do you then tear the house down and build one with only external doors, requiring inhabitants to circle in the yard to move between rooms? The point of the Wayland security model is that the inhabitants of the house do not trust each other, and the architecture of the house must change to accommodate that.

I'm not impressed with the analogy. I am not confused about the goals of Wayland's security model. I am dismayed at the poor judgment elsewhere in computing that has led to its necessity.


It's working in the farm bills for a hundred years.

Paying people to not work accomplishes what?

No idea, you'd have to ask the farmers

Settings -> Window Manager Tweaks -> Focus -> Activate focus stealing prevention

https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/-/blob/master/settings-di...


The option is there, it just never works: opensnitch-ui will popup and steal focus. Any gog installer (ran via wine) will steal focus when install finishes, and so on and on and on.

In several US states, this would be outright illegal. While they're aimed at electronic communications, most two-party consent states require explicit consent from those present, and in some, the "but there was an obvious recording device" exception is restricted to journalists.

Yeah that too. Mostly I want perfect recall of the things I want to remember, but constraints like this introduce so much overhead into managing when it's turned on that it obviates the usefulness the rest of the time.

    I’m not sure what to do except encourage others to consider, in the wake of the Snowden revelations and everything else, whether you really want Google to have all your email. And half of mine.
Looks like this article and the one you're replying to are in agreement.

Many businesses use office365 or Google.

They then have all your email. Fingerprint.

Big tech,.NSA, 5 eyes won the game. No chance unless something truly citizen oriented happens in most countries.


Severe heat, heavy snow, or torrential rain can make driving a car unsafe as well. Individuals with certain disabilities, chronic health conditions, or a plethora of age may also find driving impossible. For those with "trip-chaining" needs, extra time required for parking cars can be prohibitive. Old people don't like traffic and can escape and run away so fast you have to drive them back? And you're seriously including the idea that car theft is not a concern? These are some tortured arguments.

The correct argument here is "if bicycles become the dominant transportation mode, then the government will absolutely mandate kill switches for them too." "Bicycles don't have software" hasn't been true for years. E-bikes and wireless deraillers have been around a long time.


Bikes without software will be around for the foreseeable future. They're the cheapest and most plentiful version of bike. In the unlikely scenario that all bikes somehow become electric, old bikes are much easier to maintain than old cars.

My argument to my own post is that cameras that track cars and license plates could easily be reconfigured to track bikes and pedestrians. In that case there's no transportation mode that will save you from surveillance. The cameras have to go.


You do get the idea though, that just because bikes work for what you need to do, they won't necessarily work for what any other given person needs to do, right?

Also, why the hell have you got wireless derailleurs? What is the point? What possible advantage can they have over perfectly normal mechanical ones?


brotli is ubiquitous because Google recommends it. While Deflate definitely sucks and is old, Google ships brotli in Chrome, and since Chrome is the de facto default platform nowadays, I'd imagine it was chosen because it was the lowest-effort lift.

Nevertheless, I expect this to be JBIG2 all over again: almost nobody will use this because we've got decades of devices and software in the wild that can't, and 20% filesize savings is pointless if your destination can't read the damn thing.


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