Google says that it will use its remote attestation system ("Web Environment Integrity") only in the most oppressive scenario: as DRM.

Making Google drop the rest of the plan is a tactical advance, but it is not victory. Google still plans to prevent playing "embedded video" through an application that users can trust. Why could users trust that application? Precisely because Google could not trust it to impose Google's control over the users.

As long as companies have a way to control whether we use applications that we have modified, we are not safe! Our goal should be to prohibit the sale or distribution of computer systems that allow remote servers to do remote attestation of the software you choose to run on your computer to talk to them with.

Japan continues catching whales, even though one of the targeted species seems to have decreasing population.

A Japanese friend speculates that Japanese whaling is subsidized somehow, since not many people seem to buy whale meat.

(satire) *Biden Campaign Downplays Importance Of Winning Election.*

HAMAS succeeded (for some hours) with its attack on Oct 7 as a result of discipline, attention, and planning at many levels.

What strikes me is that this resembles what I read about how Israel won the Six-Day War. But it seems that Israel has ceased to pay careful attention, and thus made itself vulnerable.

I suspect that this reflects a kind of contempt for Palestinians.

*California to require big firms to reveal carbon emissions in first law of its kind.* This will apply to all large companies doing business in California, so the whole US will get the benefit, and in many cases the rest of the world as well.