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by adrian_b | 2025-08-31 10:11:35+00:00
I get what you mean, but one thing about which we are certain is that you cannot apply Einstein"s model of gravity at these scales, because his theory is only an approximation that determines the metric of space from an averaged density of the energy and momentum of matter, not from the energy-momentum 4-vectors of the particles that compose matter.

So Einstein's theory depends in an essential way on matter being continuous. This is fine at human and astronomic scales, but it is not applicable at molecular or elementary particle scales, where you cannot approximate well the particles by an averaged density of their energy and momentum.

Any attempt to compute a gravitational escape velocity at scales many orders of magnitude smaller than the radius of a nucleus are for now invalid and purposeless.

The contradiction between the continuity of matter supposed by Einstein's gravity model and the discreteness of matter used in quantum physics is great enough that during more than a century of attempts they have not been reconciled in an acceptable way.

The offset of the spin is likely to be caused by the fact that for particles of non-null spin their movement is not a simple spinning, but one affected by some kind of precession, and the "spin" is actually the ratio between the frequencies of the 2 rotation movements, which is why it is quantized.

The "action" is likely to be the phase of the intrinsic rotation that affects even the particles with null spin (and whose frequency is proportional with their energy), while those with non-null spin have also some kind of precession superposed on the other rotation.
by vladms | 2025-08-31 10:12:02+00:00
Solving any of the existing diseases, will not result in significant upheaval of society.

I am not against trying to "solve aging", but I don't think we should think of it as just a disease, and there should be more plans on how to deal with the sudden "infinite" number of humans. While I may want to live forever, I would definitely not enjoy that in all circumstances.
by imiric | 2025-08-31 10:12:29+00:00
> Most of us write classes that just have a few for loops, if conditions, metrics and a few transformations.

You're describing code. At what point does code become "worthy" of a unit test? How do you communicate this to your team members? This type of ambiguity introduces friction and endless discussions in code reviews, to the point that abiding to the convention that all code should be unit tested whenever possible is a saner long-term strategy. This doesn't have to be a strict rule, but it makes sense as a general convention. Besides, these days with LLMs, writing and maintaining unit tests doesn't have to be a chore anymore. It's one thing the tech is actually reasonably good at.

What I think we fundamentally disagree about is the value of unit tests. That small function with a few for loops and if conditions still has users, which at the end of the day might be only yourself. You can't be sure that it's working as intended without calling it. You can do this either manually; automatically by the adjacent code that calls it, whether that's within an integration/E2E test or in production; or with automated unit tests. Out of those options, automated unit tests are the ones that provide the highest degree of confidence, since you have direct control over its inputs and visibility of its outputs. Everything else has varying degrees of uncertainty, which carries a chance of exposing an issue to end users.

Now, you might be fine with that uncertainty, especially if you're working on a solo project. But this doesn't mean that there's no value in having extensive coverage from unit tests. It just means that you're willing to accept a certain level of uncertainty, willing to tradeoff confidence for convenience of not having to write and maintain code that you personally don't find valuable, and willing to accept the risk of exposing issues to end users.
by mike_hearn | 2025-08-31 10:12:48+00:00
> Are banks really liable for scams caused by customer negligence on their devices?

In the UK, not legally liable. However culture is not 100% aligned with the law and in practice banks that stick to the rules will be pilloried by the left-wing press and politicians, they risk regulator harassment etc, so they sometimes decide to socialize the losses anyway even when the law doesn't force them. The blog post cites an example of that.

To stop this you'd have to go further and pass a law that actively forbids banks from giving money to people who lost it to scammers through their own fault.
by DrBazza | 2025-08-31 10:13:19+00:00
Following the 'American Dream' in the UK isn't the problem. No one I know in the UK wants that. It's hugely more nuanced than that. Culture requires groups of people with similar views, opinions, and values. And that goes to a very, very, local level. We now have expensive houses, a mobile population, a London-centric economy, and fractured and geographically spread families.

The decline in Christianity in the UK probably has something to do with it, and that in turn is loosely correlated with WWI and WWII. That's also another historic factor - families destroyed, and fewer families and so on.

And then the elephant in the room - London.

Want a job? Move to London or the south east and leave your family behind. Born in the south east? Want to live in the same street as you parents? No chance. Same town? Unlikely. Do you know your neighbours? Maybe. Do you see them in the church any more, or even when you walk down the street?

Culture is alive and well outside of London, despite its drain on the rest of the UK.

Social, and economic mobility is good, but some of the side effects are only now becoming apparent. Successive short-termist poor governance for decades has been the problem.
by lijok | 2025-08-31 10:14:19+00:00
We self-host Harbor as well, it’s fairly painless. Has SSO out of the box, a Terraform provider that covers everything, and for the most part just works.

The issues we’ve had so far:

- No programmatic way to retrieve your token that’s required for ‘docker login’. So we had to create a robot account per user and pop their creds into our secrets store.

- Migrating between sites by cloning the underlying S3 bucket and spinning up the new Harbor instance on top of it, does not work. Weird issues with dropping pulls.

- RBAC goes down to project, not repository level, complicating some of our SDLC controls.

- CSRF errors every time you try to do anything in the UI

- Lenient API and lack of docs means things like setting up tag immutability rules via Terraform was a bit of a PITA to figure out the right syntax

So some small issues, but definitely a great piece of software.
by ttiurani | 2025-08-31 10:14:35+00:00
> if what you want is to keep the entire data of the network (similar to having all tweets on Twitter) ready to be queried then you have to store them.

They need to be stored, but do they technically have to be stored by just one AppView? I get that it's a 100x easier to implement it like that, but I don't think a distributed search would've been technically impossible (although, granted, necessarily it would have had worse UX).

Choosing this feature and then implementing it like they did was a technical choice. Technical choices have consequences and this, I think, was the one which will prevent BlueSky from reaching any meaningful decentralization.

And saying "you can create an inferior UX with affordable costs" is not a real answer. Any meaningful decentralization IMO can only happen if it's affordable to create feature identical nodes. That can only happen if you refuse to implement features in ways that need centralization to scale.
by nextaccountic | 2025-08-31 10:14:40+00:00
iTerm2 has a feature where it can display tmux tabs as native tabs [0] which is called tmux control mode [1] (most other terminal emulators haven't picked up this feature [2], but I wish they did).

Would it make sense for Zellij to also support the tmux control mode protocol, and interoperate with terminal emulators that support it?

Another thing (less ambitious): is it possible to have an option to integrate with native scrolling? Like shpool [3] does. I suppose it's not possible to enable it by default since it has a frame around the session, but maybe this frame could be disabled if I want native scrolling back? Native scrolling helps mainly with navigating by clicking on the native scrollbar that most terminal emulators have (mouse scrolling works on Zellij though, which is very cool).

[0] https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html

[1] https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki/Control-Mode

[2] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/189805/what-termina...

[3] https://github.com/shell-pool/shpool
by neuroelectron | 2025-08-31 10:15:58+00:00
Yes but they're virtual now where the early apps were physically or logically isolated with memory isolation and secret vault. They still have the secret vault but the virtualization layer is all software and the OS has special access.

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iOS and Android still provide per-app sandboxes, but those sandboxes are managed entirely by the OS kernel and higher-level frameworks.

Secure Enclave (iOS) and Titan M/TEE (Android) still exist for cryptographic operations, biometric data, and DRM, but access is brokered by the OS. The enclave doesn’t run apps; it just provides cryptographic functions.

OS privilege expansion: system services have visibility into app data at runtime for telemetry, background tasks, push notifications, etc. Apps are isolated from each other, but not from the platform owner.

Result: app-to-app compromise is still difficult, but OS-level compromise (intentional or not) gives broad access. This design simplifies features like push services, app updates, and sync, but makes "true isolation" (hardware separation, zero OS visibility) infeasible in today’s consumer mobile ecosystems.
by Lockal | 2025-08-31 10:16:07+00:00
This is like an extension for https://xkcd.com/1289/ - it works for everything: internet, phones, electricity, tv, etc:

1) Because the thing you are talking about is just rebranded thing that existed 20 years before

2) Because boosters are egocentric drug addicts, pederasts, druglords with crypto stashes, raped their sister, or everything altogether

3) Because it failed to solve MY task

4) Because it can't be more important than a sunshine

5) Because it attacks my intellectual property
by breppp | 2025-08-31 10:16:12+00:00
> Haha, no. The international community, international organisations and law experts have already established the consensus that Gaza was still under occupation.

I'm sorry, you can quote the UN human rights commission claiming that the sky is red as everyone perceive color differently but that doesn't change anything.

Quoted from the 1907 Hague Convention

Art. 42. Territory is considered occupied when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army.

> No. I said "retreat within the 1967 borders"- did Israel retreat within the 1967 borders?

And when this happens again who will prevent a massacre? Would you come help?

I know debating this conflict is worldwide entertainment by now, but seriously do you think that is acceptable to anyone living there?

> "2023 marks deadliest year on record for children in the occupied West Bank"

Surely hundreds of dead is more peaceful for both sides than the 10ks in Gaza, and you are focusing on a specific very bloody outlier year, you can compare other years (how many died in 2020?)

Like it or not, but the west bank has been far less dangerous for both Israelis and Palestinians even though both live in sometimes extreme proximity and with some very extreme elements on both sides

The reason is that because Israel has troops on the ground (occupation) it is able to prevent attacks and the extreme Palestinian organizations could never muster an army-sized force like in Gaza.

When Israel started retreating in Oslo is exactly when mass-killings started in Israeli towns. A sacrifice Israelis were willing to make, until it was proven that the Palestinian leadership was hardly interested in peace (repeated rejections of peace offers and initiation of hostilities)
by WalterBright | 2025-08-31 10:16:19+00:00
> That’s a low, low inflation rate of 0.1% per year,

See where I quoted: "-0.2% Average Annual Inflation 1774-1912"

BTW, inflation measurements before 1900 are a bit difficult, as how does one compare prices from 1774 with 1912? Not only are records poor, but the goods being compared are wildly different.

I.e. I don't know what the error bars are on the aggregate statistics, and neither do you. 0.1% and -0.2% are realistically well within the error bars. In fact, even today, 0.1% is likely within the error bars, as measuring inflation is fairly difficult, and there's always going to be noise as market prices are a chaotic system.
by saagarjha | 2025-08-31 10:18:56+00:00
VMs are missing the point here. Yes, you don't want a rogue MCP that lets the model exfiltrate random data from the disk. But in general we are tending towards a world where AI agents are allowed to do everything that people can do.

Really, what you should be looking at is that you've hired a potentially malicious person to do something on your behalf. Obviously if you don't give them access to your tax documents, they can't read your tax documents. But the kinds of tasks you will want this agent to do at some point are to manage your calendar, read your email, perhaps even summarize your finances. There's no VM that somehow patches the Wells Fargo site to only give you your bank statements and not let you send money to people. The idea of trying to "sandbox" this barely even makes sense because we haven't historically tried to isolate this kind of operation. But, as people keep putting models in new places, it's evident that something like that will have to evolve here. And it's definitely not going to be Qubes, or the JVM, or WebAssembly, or the dozen other things that people have been suggesting as solutions to the problem.
by linmob | 2025-08-31 10:19:00+00:00
I follow the ecosystem for two projects [0], and the app ecosystem keeps getting better. Also, there's always Waydroid (LineageOS equivalent of Android 13 in a Container) and Android Translation Layer [1].

The best way to experience #LinuxMobile is IMHO on former Android Devices like the OnePlus 6 or Pixel 3a, as these are well designed devices with SoCs intended for phones. While having native hardware would be great, it's really hard to produce relatively bug-free hardware from scratch. With mainline, the SoC is always going to be older, and small-scale production leads to high prices. The economics just don't work out for non-enthusiasts who then ideally are also up for paying a software support subscription. Also, as a manufacturer you'll want to somewhat control the experience, leading to 'yet another small scale device-specific distribution, which has it's downsides.

Across devices audio issues are unfortunately still somewhat common, in part caused by the Pipewire transition (things that had been figured out for PulseAudio need to be figured out again). But it's on people's radar, and funds are invested to solve this [2].

VoLTE is another challenge, as it allows to carriers to become more gatekeepy with their stupid device support lists - of course there are workarounds like using a SIP account, but that's too inconvenient for many. Also, RCS support is not yet there, but as long as SMS/MMS fallbacks are still around, this not a dealbreaker.

[0]: https://linmob.net, https://linuxphoneapps.org

[1]: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Android_Translation_Layer

[2]: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/08/17/callaudiod-wireplum...
by bonoboTP | 2025-08-31 10:19:32+00:00
YouTube already was built on the "distributed" premise. That You can "broadcast yourself" as the slogan says, you use the platform to make your own presence, users can subscribe to you specifically and the platform merely connects the audience and the video makers. No longer are you beholden to the old ways of cable TV producer filters and gatekeepers. You just find and manage your own audience and the platform gets out of the way.

So when grayjay says "Follow Creators, Not Platforms" I'm pretty sure that the minute that regular people on the street know about the existence of "grayjay", they will become essentially also a platform that enshittifies in the same way (cf. https://xkcd.com/927/).

It's a common pattern. Be an aggregator first, then slowly introduce exclusives, and become a competitor that climbed up on the backs of the others. Somewhat similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-31 10:19:56+00:00
From the page HTML: <meta name="generator" content="Hugo 0.122.0-DEV">

The current Hugo version is 0.149.

So it looks like the author has indeed gone according to his short terms plan:

> And in the meantime, I’ll just compile Hugo myself from source, never update it, and live in the ever receding past.
by heisenbit | 2025-08-31 10:20:51+00:00
Looking at the 30 year chart YTD there is no indication that rates come down. The short side may be under control of Trump - who's bullying of the Fed raises the prospect of them coming down but the long end of the curve is under the control of market forces and it does not look like going down at all. Real estate market effectively frozen with sales down and for sale up in the realm of decade highs.

Nobody mentioned yet the drop of the dollar making every single import 10% more expensive since the start of the year. That is on top of every tariff and is inflationary.

Government spending went up by a surprising amount while tariff revenue rolls in. I suspect one reason there is no detailed budget is to create the space to move things around without much notice. If a large swath of the tariffs would be ruled illegal (already happened twice, one step to final) the situation could become interesting.
by motoxpro | 2025-08-31 10:21:37+00:00
You're assuming a ~5% conversion rate and usage/payment in perpetuity. Those are just unrealistic assumptions, based on my experience in this space.

Everything breaks. - Channel makes no money because sponsors don't pay (as much, it's a power law) for 200k subs (being charitable with your 5%. in reality it would be < 50k)

- Guest don't come because the channel is small and they don't get distribution for their projects

- Platform X doesn't pay out as well as YouTube, so you lose more revenue

- The channel can't function because there isn't enough revenue to run the business. Can't hire lawyers when Z Record Label sues you on Platform X.

- Other channels on larger platforms take the space that you filled. The market is not static. Slash starts his own YouTube channel, which has more credibility, and David Gilmour goes on that one instead. See the celebrity podcast/YouTube space for arguments that prominent celebrities don't become creators when the market signals there is money/opportunity available.

- When subscribers churn, there is no one new on the platform to replace them. Churn in this case means they no longer use the app I made them go to, or they no longer subscribe to or pay me. Creator payment churn is MUCH higher than any typical B2B or B2C churn.

Being a creator is like standing up a business on a set of toothpicks. Even if you are Rick Beato (which is why he is so upset)
by mihaaly | 2025-08-31 10:23:00+00:00
Since engineering is a "cost center", that must be decreased, it is a potential scenario, yes.

The other is to fuck engineering. Sell what we currently have, until we can, as expensive as we can, and do not spend on engineering. That is only taking away the money! Can put on some AI glitter to dazzle, but that's it. No one knows what AI is in this narrow field anyway, we can position ourself as revolutionary inventors for anything weird or new. Some will eat up this s*t for sure. Short term is paramount!
by polonbike | 2025-08-31 10:24:31+00:00
My point of view , from Europe, is that political violence is already there in the US. As well as state violence (not just on political opponents, but also on all minorities and "people who have a different opinion"). The next step is indeed a second civil war, with 21st century characteristics (hybrid war, etc...) I am not enthusiastic about the near future for the US nor for the world.
by Twixes | 2025-08-31 10:25:15+00:00
Digital Audio Workstation, which is a fancy name for a kind of app where you can make a song on your computer. Whether that's a recording of an instrument or voice, or a digital instrument playing from MIDI signal (piano, synth, anything), or recorded samples from various sources, you can put all that together however you want, including all sorts of effects (lotta plugins).
by NeutralForest | 2025-08-31 10:25:40+00:00
> Likewise I never understood why we blame ourselves for a lack of effective integration

Because the country of arrival is usually the stronger economic party. You have the capability of emigrating and integrating because you speak multiple languages, have most likely attained high education and you probably have the means to start a new life some place else. Honestly, good for you but not everyone has those benefits.

In the case of someone poorer, it might take a significant amount of resources and time they don't have, hence more of the burden being on countries integrating the immigrants. Let's also not kid ourselves, it's a trade for their labor in often bad conditions; not something from the grace of our hearts.

> But you have to _want_ to integrate, we can't force you. And if you don't want to, please leave.

This is imo a question the EU has struggled with for a long time. You'll want people to have their personal freedoms: culture, religion, language, etc. But you also want a cohesive whole where citizens can live and work together peacefully. This is a much more difficult question than "integrate or get out".
by wodenokoto | 2025-08-31 10:26:03+00:00
I am also looking for an alternative. I write a lot of my posts in Jupyter Notebooks, so I've been tinkering with using Quarto, but I simply don't see what it does for me in this regard. The label on the box says it is great for notebooks to blogs, but it's unclear what it does that makes it great for this.
by HellDunkel | 2025-08-31 10:26:50+00:00
I dont see the author expressing any views opposing these except for the „freedom of speech“ which is actually about ownership. And he is right to do so because it brings us back to the stealing and lying. If you offered me a book i would like to know if it had been made off the backs of others without compensetion or consent OR if it is a work of your own. And i feel i have a right to know.
by spwa4 | 2025-08-31 10:26:52+00:00
> Although, you see to be casually ok with some goomba landlord maintaining a dossier on anyone entering your apartment, so I guess it would be.

That might be because the goomba landlord is trying to rent you something while DOGE is part of our government who deported US citizens, completely against their own laws, to be imprisoned in a private prison, without trial, without access to family.

Therefore the goomba landlord is a small annoyance that can evolve into a small problem, and the other ...

The problem is always the same: governments see themselves as above the rules. This is why facial recognition was a big deal in the UK, until the police started to violate on a very large scale what people THOUGHT were the rules they voted in. They had failed to notice the "and violations will be checked by an independent board, so independent it's controlled by the same people controlling the police" part of the law. The government had granted itself, retroactively, without involving parliament, "an exception" (exception that covers like 98% of all facial recognition cameras in the UK) and implemented it on a large scale. PLUS from the locations and view of the cameras it is very obvious the goal is to clamp down on protests, not to stop crime.