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Interesting how different both the tone and the structure of the articles are compared to the modern texts.

Take the article about Copenhagen as an example: https://britannica11.org/article/07-0111-copenhagen/copenhag... The geography and key points of interest are described very accurately, but the authors aren’t shy about inserting emotionally charged adjectives and personal options on what they consider interesting or curious. Also, the huge portion about the Battle of Copenhagen in the bottom is a complete departure and shifts the genre from a geographical description to the shot-per-shot narration of a naval battle.


Yes, that’s one of the things I like most about it. The articles have a personal tone and are less homogenized.

You get that mix of geography, history, and sometimes quite opinionated description all in one place, which makes them much more readable, in my view. My introduction to this version discusses this and other related matters: https://britannica11.org/about.html


Looking at Victor Hugo's entry I immediately spotted this

> After yet another three years’ space the author of La Légende des siècles reappeared as the author of Les Misérables, the greatest epic and dramatic work of fiction ever created or conceived: the epic of a soul transfigured and redeemed, purified by heroism and glorified through suffering; the tragedy and the comedy of life at its darkest and its brightest, of humanity at its best and at its worst.

Sure sounds like someone was a (fellow) fan.


One of the worst cases happens immediately after logging into a fresh Mac, or after upgrading one. You’re instantly hit with a barrage of requests from all the installed apps and their various permissions. It makes for such a terrible initial user experience, it’s utterly baffling someone at Apple has signed it off. They used to poke fun at Windows in their ads, but UAC has never been that terrible in my experience.

iOS stores the previously displayed notifications in an internal database, which was used to access the data. It’s outside of Signal’s control, they recommend disabling showing notification content in their settings to prevent this attack vector

They do control the content on the notification. It's a bit odd to put the sensitive text in the notification only to recommend disabling it at the system level.

No. They recommended disabling it at the app level. Only the Signal app can control whether the message contents are included in the notifications.

They do not. They send encrypted notifications. It’s the OS that stores them unencrypted. It’s the OS at fault here IMHO.

Signal does NOT send encrypted notification, they send a blank notification that act like a ping, the actual encrypted data is then fetched by the app itself.

i think they're replying to the "recommendation" part -- if it was recommended, why isn't it the safe default?

i haven't actually seen signal or anyone adjacent recommend that previously though, idk where that claim came from


Sorry, the “recommended” was a bad wording on my part. The recommendation comes from the 404 Media article who did the expose on this incident, not Signal itself.

I’ve checked the Signal documentation page, and there’s no mention of the privacy implications of the setting: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360043273491-In...


Partition Magic was among the first utilities recommended to me by my more experienced water I got my first PC. It served me well for many years since!


Connecting new AirPods to an iPhone for the first time now shows Apple Music subscription ad right on the pairing screen


With the widespread move to OLED across the TV and monitor manufacturers, this might not be the case for much longer. They look and perform great, but are ultimately a consumable product.


I have experienced the same privacy culture shock in Denmark. Generally, I think the people’s trust in their government is the greatest social asset of the danish society, as well as their biggest blind spot.


Last year, I think, I saw someone talk about trust in Danish society and how it works. As a Dane it's not something I really think about, but I their conclusions where at least interesting. In Denmark you're given implicit trust, that's the default. Trust is given, not earned. That poses a problem for people coming from the outside, because trust can be lost, but because it's something that was given to you, there's not really any way to earn it back. If you don't understand that social contract, you can mess up your life pretty quickly, with no means of recovery.


This is a topic that frequently comes up in our multicultural Danish company. In many countries people have adversarial relationship with their government, which is completely unlike Denmark. This mindset requires time and effort to change for the newcomers, and is also difficult to understand for people who haven’t lived outside of Denmark.


Can you explain the social contract? Is it explicit and people find loopholes, or is it based on intent and the spirit in which an action was taken?


Is the trust naive? Have there been instances of a government violating that trust? Were they held accountable?

The US was a much higher trust society before repeated governments from opposing parties violated that trust with little or no consequences. This left people with no realistic competitive party that was trustworthy, and first past the poles elections ensures they only have to be slightly less despicable than their opponent. This also drives polarization.

Having a multiple party system with something approximating proportional representation, an independent press and judiciary, and a smaller population and land area all make a large difference. The US was the last nation to use first past the poles for something besides a house of commons that was ranked a democracy by vdem I think? Definitely the last one to be ranked a full democracy. The largest remaining population ranked as a full democracy is Japan, it doesn't look too likely to change from the outside. Germany is next in size and we'll see how that goes. SK was next and they passed a rough test so lets hope. Large populations are easier to polarize apparently? I wonder if that will hold true with social media eroding the rural urban ideological divide.



Was it Apple, or community driven projects?


I used Miranda. Beautiful app with lots of plugins, and lot of settings and themes to customize it for yourself.


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