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by pengaru | 2025-08-31 16:07:47+00:00
What I want is a law requiring support for facilitating owners of programmable computers be able to install their own programs independently. If it's not gate-keeped, there's nothing to do. But if you choose to gatekeep because "security", you've signed up for some work to comply with the law.

If there's something like a Play Store with OS-level integration preventing unsigned applications from installing and running, FINE, that's an arguably useful security feature for regular users who have no interest in writing their own apps or consuming software outside the Play Store.

This doesn't preclude allowing the user (with admin rights) adding signing keys of their choosing.

If I want to trust Lennart Poettering's or Jonathan Blow's binaries to install/run on my computer/phone, let me install their public keys, a one-time addition gated by admin rights.

If you're not enabling me to potentially put bits of my choosing on my computer, its software better be in ROMs getting physically swapped out for "updates".
by beAbU | 2025-08-31 16:08:04+00:00
Modern tv shows are more often than not released in a single go on a streaming service, intended to be binged in a single go. Often the episodes form a single narrative and a single episode cannot stand alone. The MOTD format is all but dead.

Do you have an example of a modern show that has the dramatic-music-and-cliffhanger ad-break?
by anfilt | 2025-08-31 16:08:05+00:00
What I am saying is the way the cryptography is implemented on locked devices such as iPhone your property rights are being trampled upon via cryptography. By using cryptography, the manufacturer reserves for itself; rather than the owner; the fundamental right to exclude or include what software can run on the CPU, even after the hardware is sold. The cryptography is not a legal agreement either like a lease/loan ect... So this being done via extra-legal means.

For example, let’s say you buy an iDevice and do not even intend to run iOS, but instead want to install/port Linux, or run some bare-metal code. You would have to ask apple to sign that code with their private key, which they won't do. The problem is a sale should have transferred all rights of property rights to you as part of the sale. The clue is you have to ask a third party to even hope to do this points to the fact your being limited on the full enjoyment of your property rights. This cryptography is not a contract or legal instrument either and you don't even have to agree to anything for it to be in effect. You could buy the device and have no intention to use the preinstalled software, and it's in effect before you even open the box.

The problem is the right of exclusion is very important, and can even derive most other property rights for example this paper "Property and the Right to Exclude" [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/33139498.pdf]. The fact such an important property right is being blatantly impeded is the problem.
by koverstreet | 2025-08-31 16:08:23+00:00
No, really. People aren't losing data on bcachefs. We still have minor hiccups that do affect usability, and I put a lot of effort into educating users about where we're at and what to expect.

In the past I've often told people who wanted to migrate off of btrfs "check back in six months", but I'm not now because 6.16 is looking amazingly solid; all the data I have says that your data really is safer on bcachefs than btrfs.

I'm not advocating for people to jump from ext4/xfs/zfs, that needs more time.
by superkuh | 2025-08-31 16:08:49+00:00
Especially since the mobile phone part legally can never be owned or controlled by the human person. Only corporations can own and use the baseband computer/modem because only they have bought the spectrum license rights and built out the infrastructure to justify it to the FCC. Similar situations exist in other countries.

This legal reality is showing itself more and more in the practicalities of actual using "smartphones". The only real solution is what op said, make the modem completely separate from the computing device.
by qumefox | 2025-08-31 16:09:14+00:00
Yeah lying or excessively padding one's resume is likely just going to bite one in the ass if they do actually get an interview.

My current hurdle though is soft skills related, rather than technical. I'm not the most social or outgoing person in the world, I'm there to do my job, not be everyone's best friend. However sadly the vast majority of my recent experience has been in support, so those are the types of positions i've been applying for and the interviews i'm getting are 90% behavioral questions, which I feel I do horribly on regardless of how much I prep.
by api | 2025-08-31 16:09:41+00:00
There’s a difference between good AI predictions and theoretically perfect QC computations. The AI estimates while the QC will give you the answer, full stop. The latter could be relied upon more strongly. It could also generate infinite training data to make much better models.

QC might be directly applicable to AI training too. It may be possible to compute the optimal model over a data set in linear time. It could allow training that is faster and consumes a tiny fraction of the energy current brute force methods need.
by ksec | 2025-08-31 16:10:38+00:00
Depending on which part of the world you are in. It is increasingly impossible to do it. Post COVID, Cash is no longer accepted in many stores or restaurants. Smaller shops that used to avoid VISA and Master now accept them as well, at the expense of slight increase in menu price.

Landlord would rather leave shops empty than rent it at lower price. In order to combat rental restaurants cut cost by having QR Code ordering system.

The uses of QR Code, whether it is for payment or information makes Smartphone mandatory in those places.

Spending Money online with VISA or master now requires Mobile App log in for Authentication. Government Digital Log in System now also default to Apps.

I may be missing a few things, and there will be many more things to come that moves to Mobile Apps only direction.
by forducks | 2025-08-31 16:10:51+00:00
Other side of the coin: I have less YoE but I've been senior engineer in the past. Over past few years I sent 10x the number of applications pretty much the same way as OP and combed my entire network and ultimately never got past a second round interview. The daily job search was a huge opportunity cost I should have taken into account and now my job-hunt savings are exhausted. To avoid homelessness it felt I had little choice but to take up menial jobs. If I'd spent that time getting certified instead I might have been able to land a marginally better position in a different industry, but nowadays if I want a roof over my head I pretty much have to work multiple jobs doing stuff I dislike. I had to move my certification studying to the weekends since there's no other time for it anymore. Hoping I can get out of my current situation ASAP.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-08-31 16:11:24+00:00
Traces and spans can be extended from or added to existing logging, but they aren't the same.

Logs are point in time, spans are a duration. Logs are flat, spans have a hierarchy.

It's the difference between logging a message in a function, and logging the beginning and end of a function while noting the specific instance of the fn caller.

If you have many threads or callers to the same function that difference is critical in tracing causality of failures or any other type of action of note.
by siva7 | 2025-08-31 16:11:29+00:00
This is one of the best linked articles about ADHD i've seen on HN. Especially because it gets quickly to the most important point which often times is still neglected:

> The first-line treatment for ADHD is stimulants. Everything else in this post works best as a complement to, rather than as an alternative to, stimulant medication. In fact most of the strategies described here, I was only able to execute after starting stimulants. For me, chemistry is the critical node in the tech tree: the todo list, the pomodoro timers, etc., all of that was unlocked by the medication.

This means: You do have to see a physician and psychologist to get diagnosed and to get a therapy plan. Just reading articles or books about managing ADHD won't do the trick.
by pm90 | 2025-08-31 16:11:39+00:00
There’s certainly some overhead, nothing is free. But the tradeoff is better insight into your system and better tools to validate issues when they arise. It can be very powerful in those scenarios.

Ive spent countless hours on issues where customers complain about performance or a bug and it just can’t be reproduced. Telemetry allows us to get more information to locate and fix these issues.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-31 16:12:06+00:00
Its not “due to decades of abti-labor practices" but “due to a century of economic progress driving higher expectations”.

Now, its true that there have, within that, been a few decades of regression in tax and other policy effecting a worsening of the distributional situation, such that labor gets a smaller share of the returns that are returned. But even with that, basically every segment of society is better off in absolute terms than when manufacturing was more dominant: working against comparative advantage and regressing on the US’s industrial mix would only reduce aggrgeate output and do nothing to improve distribution. And that's the point, because its a policy proposed by those who don't want to deal with distribution, and in fact want to take further steps to worsen it, because they expect the benefit their narrow group will receive from that will outweigh, for them, the impact of shrinking the total output.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-08-31 16:12:07+00:00
> In practice 99% of large enterprise employees must “do as they’re told” and their only available alternative option is to quit.

I don't see this as a bug, it's a forced feature of a program that needs some other parts fixed.

The problem isn't local to any organization, it's lack of functional competition and that's due to systemic reasons which are beyond the reach of CBC, bottom-up or internal anything.
by AJ007 | 2025-08-31 16:12:44+00:00
This is what bothers me about the whole "App Store" stuff with the EU. This entire fight about Apple being required to allow third party "App Stores" -- how about simply the user can load whatever software they want to on the device which they are the owner of?

The amount of legalism that's been brought in by both sides, Apple/Google and the regulators, layered in lies (we need to approve the software, register the developers, to protect the user from software), is divorced from the reality of the hardware-software relationship. This has led us down a path where everyone is debating the topics that Google, Apple, and revolving door regulators choose rather than the underlying reality.

There is a simple solution to all of this: Google and Apple should no longer be allowed to operate any sort of "App Store" or software distribution channel.
by p1mrx | 2025-08-31 16:14:24+00:00
The community could work around this problem by creating an open source general purpose app runtime for Android.

A user would install the runtime, signed by a developer who shared their government ID with Google, and then use the runtime to launch whatever app they want. It's probably infeasible to launch an APK from another APK, so the runtime could be based on WASIX+WebView or something.

We could call it "General Computation". Google could start a cat and mouse game of banning developers who sign the app, but at least this "war on general computation" would be obvious and ironic.
by marcuskaz | 2025-08-31 16:14:41+00:00
> Jujutsu is more powerful than Git. Despite the fact that it's easier to learn and more intuitive, it actually has loads of awesome capabilities for power users that completely leave Git in the dust.

Like? This isn't explained, I'm curious on why I would want to use it, but this is just an empty platitude, doesn't really give me a reason to try.
by gruez | 2025-08-31 16:14:46+00:00
>By nodes I meant, say robotic applications, simple room surveillance camera, baby monitor,audio streaming, multimedia/tv remote control, where a rpi/custom hw could be perfectly be replaced by an old phone, since it comes with imu, cameras, audio, touchscreen, wifi, storage, etc.

For the family that has a techie willing to jump through a dozen hoops to set those up, sure it might mitigate some e-waste. However I doubt that's applicable to most or even 10% of people. Moreover I don't see how an unlocked OS is necessary for most of the applications you mentioned. Why do you need an unlocked bootloader to turn a phone into a camera/baby monitor? Aren't there a dozen apps that basically serves that purpose? Finally, as the saying goes, "[insert OSS project] is only free if you don't value your time". Sure, you can spend an entire weekend turning your old phones into cameras, installing frigate on a docker container somewhere, and adding a coral TPU to do object recognition. Or you can pay $50 for a 2-pack of wyze cameras which have cloud connectivity and object recognition out of the box, and is in a far better form factor than a smartphone.

The point isn't that exactly zero phones will be diverted from landfill, just that approximately zero phones will be.
by jennyholzer | 2025-08-31 16:14:56+00:00
I've seen some posts about Jujutsu recently, but I haven't gone deep into specific workflows.

Are there specific advantages to using Jujutsu over Emacs Magit?

All other Git UIs I've used have been severely lacking, but Magit has made me significantly more productive with Git, and has convinced me of the "magic of git".

Is Jujutsu interested in competing with this experience? Or is it intended as an alternative to the (to be clear, extremely poor) git user experiences outside of Emacs?
by ipcress_file | 2025-08-31 16:15:48+00:00
Hi there, I had several BlackBerry phones, including a Passport SE.

For productivity apps, nothing compared with the Bold 9900. So snappy and minimalistic. The memos, calendar, messaging and the like were great.

As far as BB10 devices go, the Passport had the screen real estate, but the Q10 was way more pocketable. So I found the Passport awkward to deal with when on the move. I still have all of them. Who knows what to do with functional old tech?
by hungmung | 2025-08-31 16:16:11+00:00
So I paid $1000 for a Pixel 9 Pro 1TB, then Syncthing wasn't able to keep maintaining their android app because of Google, and now Google wants to block me from using F-Droid. Google, you've fucked me in the ass for the last goddamn time, I'm completely de-Googling over this. I refuse to subsidize the surveillance state any longer. Fucking fascists.
by tomku | 2025-08-31 16:16:23+00:00
Lists like these are almost always more accurately titled "How I wish I'd been taught X" and are aimed squarely at a student who has never really existed, one who simply learns whatever is put in front of them and can therefore be steered by a heavy stack of "the best" books away from all the mistakes and dead ends and frustrations that real students face. Real pedagogy's tougher than that!
by like_any_other | 2025-08-31 16:16:24+00:00
"Suggest" avoiding like your boss "suggests" you be on time for work, sure.

And hey, maybe alleging that one is part of an evil oppressive race, and all they have is stolen [1], is hurtful too. It certainly has consequences [2,3,4,5,6].

[1] “you can’t steal nothin from a/ white man, he’s already stole it he owes you anything you want,/ even his life.” - Lauded poet Amiri Baraka https://poetry.princeton.edu/2008/04/13/malcolm-x/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiri_Baraka

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Richard_Everitt

[3] https://www.fox13news.com/news/police-fatal-beating-of-st-pe...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kriss_Donald

[5] https://apnews.com/general-news-90627b2363dd416e9f014c989ed8...

[6] https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/accused-killer-andrew-...

[7] https://www.mic.com/articles/60599/the-christopher-lane-murd...

[8] https://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/shot-for-being-wh...
by jMyles | 2025-08-31 16:16:25+00:00
I'm a little confused about exactly what is being claimed here - how do we know that Vinay is the one who made this "demand"? All the article says about this is:

> When YouTube notified Howard of the demand request, it included an email address for Prasad, which is identical to the email address that is linked to Prasad’s now inactive podcast, called Plenary Session.

What does "included an email address" mean exactly?

The reason I ask is that, if he did actually issue such a demand, this strikes me as wildly out of character for him. I don't know Vinay super duper well, but I've been on several multi-hour calls with him, and I have always found him to be a very thoughtful and high-integrity scientist.

It never occurred to me that he might have the hallmarks of a political operative, and certainly not a right-wing one. And he had thoughts about the nature of knowledge and the future of the internet that are consistent with what most of us here on HN observe.

Moreover, the content that was removed in this case was not anything that he'd be ashamed of; it was all fairly reasonable observations, mostly about the collateral effects of lockdown policies and the lack of a scientific framework for measuring their impact.

All of his more 'firebrand' content - especially his (IMO, warranted) criticism of Scott Gottleib and the underhanded influence of Pfizer at FDA, remain on the internet (much on his channels where, presumably if he was bothered by it, he'd remove himself).

I'd really like to know for sure that he himself issued this demand. That will be a really disappointing thing to learn.

Obviously whether it was him or just someone who put his email address on a takedown form, it's wrong for YouTube to capitulate to such a ridiculous demand.
by richardfeynman | 2025-08-31 16:16:29+00:00
Thanks for this comment. I'd like to acknowledge that as you point out the 6.6% figure refers to exits from Gaza via Egypt using documented means, and may include people who exited multiple times, so the actual people exiting would be slightly lower. Similarly, it'd be nice for you to acknowledge that this figure doesn't include undocumented exits via tunnels in Rafah, or the 424,000 documented exits from Gaza via Israel.

In those conditions, it's hard to pinpoint an exact figure, but whatever the precise figure is--5%, 6.6%, 10%--it's clearly higher than zero, which is what one would expect in an "open air prison," the central point I was arguing against.

Aside from the exit rate, the "open air prison" claim is a lie for many other reasons, not least of which is that the guards patrolling the so-called prison (Hamas) are also the people who were claimed to be inmates, something one doesn't see in prisons.

The claim for Israeli persecution is not false (or "trivially false" as you put it). The odds of a gazan dying from an israeli weapon in 2022 was essentially zero: hamas claims 49 were killed that year, of which 22 are verifiable. The odds of a gazan dying from Hamas on the other hand was appreciable, in the thousands. After hamas's genocidal massacre on october 7, obviously this changed.
by m-p-3 | 2025-08-31 16:16:30+00:00
Context: I mostly dealt with RAID1 in a home NAS setup

A ZFS pool will remain available even in degraded mode, and correct me if I'm wrong but with BTRFS you mount the array through one of the volume that is part of the array and not the array itself.. so if that specific mounted volume happens to go down, the array becomes unavailable unmounted until you remount another available volume that is part of the array which isn't great for availability.

I thought about mitigating that by making an mdadm RAID1 formatted with BTRFS and mount the virtual volume instwad, but then you lose the ability to prevent bit rot, since BTRFS lose that visibility if it doesn't manage the array natively.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-08-31 16:17:13+00:00
What this does is punish good users. Not stop scams. They will move on to something else or find solutions to this.

Same as the privacy invading tech/E2EE for "national security/protecting children online". You think banning VPN or E2EE apps is going to stop bad actors?

NO! As always it effects normal users for control/power or money.

How many times does this same thing get played over and over again? It's the same script you know?
by kleiba | 2025-08-31 16:17:55+00:00
The argument seems flawed to me: by "killing the web", they refer to the example of a company adding SEO'd information to their website to lure in traffic from web searches.

However, me personally, I don't want to be lured into some web store when I'm looking for some vaguely related information. Luckily, there's tons of information on the web provided not by commercial entities but by volunteers: wikipedia, forum users (e.g. StackOverflow), blogs. (Sure, some people run blogs as a source of income, but I think that's a small percentage of all bloggers.)

Have you ever looked for a specific recipe just to end up on someone's cooking website where they first tell your their life story before - after scrolling for a half a day - you'll finally find what you've actually come there for (the recipe!) at the bottom of their page? Well, if that was gone, I'd say good riddance!

"But you don't get it", you might interject, "it's not that the boilerplate will disappear in the future, the whole goddamn blog page will disappear, including the recipe you're looking for." Yeah, I get it, sure. But I also have an answer for that: "oh, well" (ymmv).

My point is, I don't mind if less commercial stuff is going to be sustainable in a future version of the web. I'm old enough to have experience the geocities version of the early web that consisted of enthusiasts being online not for commercial interests but for fun. It was less polished and less professional, for sure, but less interesting? I don't think so.
by 2Gkashmiri | 2025-08-31 16:19:01+00:00
I don't think annas-archive.org is in the right here.

They all are working on pirated ahem libeerated content. Thats fine for me but then gatekeeping someone else when they charge people for "fast" downloads, this is bound to happen. Someone will provide the same service for cheaper or free.

That said, we need more such ecosystems and competition.
by AJ007 | 2025-08-31 16:19:52+00:00
I suspect the solution may be a compact tablet running a touch-friendly Linux distro, and the "phone" is just a mobile hotspot. If you want some fantastic camera built in, that's a separate problem.

I've been more neutral about this in the past, but the current and future integration of LLMs (and other ML models) into the base operating system will mean these mobile phones do less of what the user wants and more of what the user does not want.

Secondly, Apple is in the process of becoming an adtech company and will not provide an alternative to Google.

Thirdly, Google may be forced to divest Android and the mobile business. If so, the buyer is likely to be as bad, or worse, because they'll have to figure out how to pay for the whole thing.