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by bwblabs | 2025-11-14 18:44:21+00:00
I know the claims, but look at Gitea version v1.24.7 (with some security fixes), released on October 25th, which includes 'fix LFS auth bypass, fix symlink bypass' that was merged on October 20th (#35708). This was fixed in Forgejo on the 25th https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/fa1a2ba669301238... and released on the 26th, although "Originally scheduled for 7 November, the release date of these patches was advanced because a vulnerability had been leaked publicly." (https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/src/branch/forgejo/rele...)

Security wise, Gitea was safer in this case.

Also note the SECURITY.md was deleted: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/277dd02e706b6e51..., there is a security https://forgejo.org/docs/next/contributor/discussions/#secur... but it's a bit harder to find.

The problem is, Forgejo changed the license (https://codeberg.org/forgejo/governance/pulls/24#issuecommen...) and ended up doing a hard fork (https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/#consequences-of...) which creates quite some maintenance burden. There used to be a (weekly) gitea chery-pick (e.g. https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls?state=closed&labe...) but the TODO section was getting ever larger, and it seems it stopped in July (week 26).

So they start missing stuff, e.g. features like https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/9552
by Froztnova | 2025-11-14 18:44:23+00:00
I've been an awesomewm user for quite some time as well and have no plans to change.

It's the lua scripting that really pushes it to the next level for me. I think I fell in love when I set up randomized times wallpaper rotations, and then realized that I could also create multiple profiles/sets of wallpapers as well, and the only limit was my own ability to add it.
by graemep | 2025-11-14 18:44:25+00:00
I have been meaning to read Feyerband for a while but never did. I think Against Method sounds like a good starting point.

Did Feyerband also not argue that Galileo's claim that Copernicus's theory was proved was false given it was not the best supported hypothesis by the evidence available at the time.

I very much agree with your last paragraph. Telescopes are comprehensible.
by subscribed | 2025-11-14 18:44:25+00:00
I think you're misrepresenting the issue here.

You're talking about taxing income but the wealth tax is not a tax on the income. Wealthy individuals pay MUCH lower taxes (in terms of the effective tax rate) than poor oflr middle-class people.

A good example of that is the UK, where the income is taxed up to 65% (marginal tax rate between £125k and £150k) while at the same millionaire getting their money from capital gains is taxed between 24% and 32%. Of course unless the money if funneled through the shell companies (common) and the effective rate dips well under 10%

As a person who pays their tax id like wealthy individuals to pay the same rate. Simple as that.
by jansommer | 2025-11-14 18:44:44+00:00
People who have experience with Aurora and RDS Postgres: What's your experience in terms of performance? If you dont need multi A-Z and quick failover, can you achieve better performance with RDS and e.g. gp3 64.000 iops and 3125 throughput (assuming everything else can deliver that and cpu/mem isn't the bottleneck)? Aurora seems to be especially slow for inserts and also quite expensive compared to what I get with RDS when I estimate things in the calculator. And what's the story on read performance for Aurora vs RDS? There's an abundance of benchmarks showing Aurora is better in terms of performance but they leave out so much about their RDS config that I'm having a hard time believing them.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-14 18:44:50+00:00
That, and an environmnet that allows folks "from the wrong side of the tracks," to get ahead.

For all its faults, the US is just such a place. I suspect that many other nations are starting to improve.

At one time, the UK was a nation that you couldn't get ahead, unless you were of a certain class. I think that it is much more like the US, nowadays. You can hear lots of cockney accents in Harrods.
by jmclnx | 2025-11-14 18:45:07+00:00
I still do not understand why people like Tiling WM, maybe I should give it another try.

In the old 4:3 days I used ratpoison for a while, but after months I went back to fvwm. On 4:3 it seemed to work great, but I tend to think on these 16:9/16:10 monitors it could be a PITA. I believe I would need to move my head to the right a lot. On 4:3 no such issue.

FWIW, via fvwm I force all my main applications to place themselves on the left 2/3 portion of the monitor. The right 2/3 are for things like xmag, clocks, monitors and FvwmButtons/FvwmIconMan.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-14 18:45:25+00:00
Is it possible to install ChatGPT on only one computer ("device")

Is it a requirement that ChatGPT users own multiple computers

Is it a requirement that ChatGPT users use ChatGPT on multiple computers

Is it true that a goal of online advertising services providers is to learn about all of an ad targets' computers and link them to a single identity

Is every software "feature" necessary

Are there "features" in some software that benefit software developers more than software users, e.g., through data colllection, surveilllance and advertising services

Should all software "features" chosen by developers be "opt-out", with default settings chosen by developers not users, or should some be "opt-in"

What if a "feature" chosen by a developer that no user ever requested cannot be implemented as "opt-in". Should users that do not wish to subject themselves to the "feature" use the software

Is ChatGPT chat history a "feature"
by nijave | 2025-11-14 18:45:41+00:00
It's really a tradeoff of saving time by paying more money. A lot of people chose it when they'd rather not pay more money and end up unhappy

A lot of other people also pick it for very narrow use cases where it wouldn't have been that much more time to learn and do it themselves and end up paying a lot of money and also aren't happy

It's pretty nice for mid-size startups to completely ignore performance and capacity planning and be able to quickly churn out features while accumulating tech debt and hoping they make it long enough to pay the tech debt back
by Terr_ | 2025-11-14 18:45:41+00:00
Culture is important, but it's widespread enough that there's probably a biological basis. Humans are wired to hate the idea of "good/bad things just happen", we're always creating stories about causation even when they might not be very accurate stories.

Consider how a game of flipping a coin seems to draw everyone—even people who took probability and statistics classes—into imagining "hot streaks" or "now I'm overdue for the other one."
by bonesss | 2025-11-14 18:45:43+00:00
That’s not at all the issue. You’re talking about individuals paying high personal taxes, high VAT, and high local taxes for a lifetime without complaint. Also Scandinavia has some meaningful issues of immigration & welfare.

The issue is taxing unrealized gains (stocks and property). You need post-tax money to pay taxes on the gross pre-capital-gains-tax value of assets before you make money on them. It’s highly punitive for certain kinds of entrepreneurs and portfolios, and fundamentally unfair.

Grading/graduating capital gains taxes to bake the pain into the process of realizing gains would make a lot more sense IMO. It’s not about dodging paying even an excess share, it’s about avoiding economic self-sabotage.
by anonporridge | 2025-11-14 18:45:51+00:00
The rise of China has done a lot to destroy the neoliberal, globalist dream.

Letting them cheat the globalist system (e.g. violating IP laws, human rights violations, Uyghur/Tibetan genocide) may have been fine when they were desperately poor, but there was always an implicit assumption that they would eventually start playing by the rules and culturally liberalize. But they're not. How can we hold onto ideals like "diversity is our strength" and open borders are good when China is kicking ass and threatening the balance of power as an insular ethnostate with one of the lowest rates of immigrants on the planet?

And now they're growing to a power level that threatens to rival the US and its authority to police this global system we've created. That isn't stable, and the west would be insane to not shut China out and take a step back from our open, globalist ideals until we sort out this geopolitical game of thrones.
by digdugdirk | 2025-11-14 18:45:51+00:00
That's the thing though - the ultra wealthy already do buy that kind of proximity. They have multiple properties all over the world, accessed via private jet, helicopter, or mega yacht. They live in an entirely different reality compared to someone with a job - even someone who works in the c-suite.

They also aren't the ones doing the optimization. They have people for that. This article seems to be written by someone who is trying to bring that kind of service down the ladder to the slightly more common folk - the mega rich, not just the ultra rich.
by BeetleB | 2025-11-14 18:45:55+00:00
> This is opposed to a traditional tiling WM where you'd either need to open the app in another workspace, use some stacking feature or worst of all shove the new window into the current view by resizing some other window(s) which is often not ideal.

I use Awesome Window Manager and one feature I like about it is this:

Say I've got my terminal in workspace 1, Firefox in workspace 2, and Emacs in workspace 3. There are often times I need to use either the terminal or Emacs (or both) while viewing a website. So with a keystroke, I can tell it to combine any two or three workspaces and all the windows are shown tiled together. In a sense, it creates a new temporary workspace with all 3 windows. As soon as I leave this workspace, it restores it to the original configuration. No need to move windows from one workspace to another and remember to move them back.

This is the one feature that I'm really missing from Mac OS.
by bad_haircut72 | 2025-11-14 18:45:56+00:00
Im not actually in support of killing these people but I have to say, people seem to gloss over that each boatload of these drugs literally destroys multiple American families. People who have lost someone (either through death or just throwing their life away) to drugs will tell you these "poor fishermen" are murderers, who in no way extend the kind of empathy to us that we're expected to show them.

It does get very complicated when you consider they're probably under a lot of "carrot AND stick" from the cartels... but the damage they do is real.
by chipotle_coyote | 2025-11-14 18:46:17+00:00
I liked the original Opera—it’s been a while, but I think I actually paid for it on Windows a long, long time ago—but I’m not sure they were ever a “potential Mozilla,” at least in the way I would interpret that. They were a closed source, commercial browser founded by a for-profit company.

(Also, point of order: Opera was always based in Norway, which is not a member of the European Union.)
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-14 18:46:45+00:00
The Laffer curve has yet to become knowledge, period. It's theoretical (if that; hypothetical might be fairer), overly simplistic, and everyone can basically assert at-will where we are on it at any time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

Practical tests have… not gone well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_experiment
by dugidugout | 2025-11-14 18:46:48+00:00
While I understand the sentiment, you stated it yourself, "It has always amazed me, because poverty is hell. Who wouldn't want to get out of that, and who wouldn't want his fellow brother to get out of that?". This is a puzzling question to ask and it shouldn't stop there. The post is very much trying to add some depth here, however it isn't targeting solutions for "poor" people, it is hoping to provoke those who are not to take the problem more seriously.

> I could talk about it here, but I would just get down voted [dead], [flagged] and so on.

Go ahead and just talk about it, I want to hear it. This isn't so easy a problem, even on an individual level as you put it.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-11-14 18:46:59+00:00
Yes, the article says that, but I have direct experience which says the article is not telling the whole story. Some people are making all the right decisions and are still poor due to bad luck trapping them in a cycle of financial ruin. But also, some people really are poor due to their own crappy decisions. I've known them! They exist and must be accounted for in any productive discussion about poverty.

Many, many people try to act like only one of these two groups of poor people exists. For some people, that means they claim that if you're poor it's only because of your own bad decisions. For some people (including, to be frank, most of the commenters in this thread), it means they claim that if you're poor it's only because of systemic issues. Both claims are wrong, however, and both hamper us from finding effective solutions.

Whether one is poor due to external causes or their own bad decisions, they deserve to be treated with compassion and for us to try to help them. But the solutions for those two failure modes look very different and helping one group isn't going to do anything to help the other. Thus, trying to effectively solve problems of poverty in our society must include a balanced view, recognizing that both causes of poverty (systemic issues and bad personal decision making) are quite real.
by quickthrowman | 2025-11-14 18:47:41+00:00
I did some napkin math on data center water usage for a 500MW data center in the Columbia River valley.

It uses as much water per year as 200 acres of alfalfa in California’s Central Valley. There are around 1M acres of alfalfa growing in California.

2.5MW of data center capacity is roughly equal to 1 acre of irrigated alfalfa in water usage. If you’re pulling fossil aquifer water, open loop evaporative cooling may not be the best idea, but there are plenty of places east of 100 degrees west in the US that have virtually ‘unlimited’ water where cooling towers are a great idea since they almost double the COP of a chilled water system.
by quesera | 2025-11-14 18:47:46+00:00
Tap (NFC, radio), dip (EMV, chip), or swipe (magnetic stripe).

The fake terminal concern that vlovich mentions above is real. Look up "credit card skimmers" (the same threat applies to debit cards and ATMs -- anything with a magstripe and keypad).

This is a big deal. It's happened to me three times in the last few years, twice within a week of each other (and likely from the same location).

There are some EMV skimmers in the wild too. They're called "shimmers" because the mechanism is very thin and inserted into the EMV dip slot. These need a separate mechanism to capture PIN input via keypad, so they remain a better choice (but keep reading).

NFC is the safest, and fastest. The cryptography between the card and reader is intact and not replayable etc. Apple Pay is equally good from a safety perspective, and better from many others. I don't know about Google Pay.

Other problems with using your debit card: credit card contracts offer better protections against fraud; and of course there is no immediate debit to your account, so you are never stuck fighting to recover already-stolen funds.

The entire point of EMV and NFC is increased card security. It's nice that they're also quicker, but that's quite secondary.

So, do as thou wilt, obviously. But your mudstickery may be putting you at additional risk. I don't estimate the time difference as meaningful for you or other customers.
by jmadeano | 2025-11-14 18:48:44+00:00
I tried "Make this page look like the 2004 version of CNN" and it did update the theming to be older but it didn't have the true reference, so it just made up the old style.

We don't currently have a way to provide a reference during generation, but if I were you, I'd personally try downloading the old page archive and a new page archive, throw them both in codex/claude code as context and see what it can come up with. Wouldn't be surprised if it could do a decent job writing a converter.

Somewhat tangential: I have had luck with more generic retheming, e.g. "Turn Google into a 1970s era CLI " (https://www.tweeks.io/share/script/8c8c0953f6984163922c4da7) or "Turn LinkedIn into a 90s era Neocities site" These aren't the most useful, but they are fun!
by nicbou | 2025-11-14 18:49:13+00:00
I moved to Germany at the start of my career. Did Germany make me rich, or was it the country where I was born, raised and educated?

Immigration makes you feel weird about those things. My presence here was very transactional for the first 8 years. My right of residence was tied to my income and my good behaviour. I paid a lot of taxes and got very little in return. In fact a large portion of the government thinks I ought to fuck right off.

Nonetheless it's the system I chose and the system I believe in, so I'll gladly support it with my taxes. I am not the one who benefits, but I do it for The Greater Good.

Still, now I can become a citizen. I have all the documents; I just need to send them. But there are talks of rearmament and conscription. I need to ask myself how much I really owe this country that just takes and takes.
by tech_ken | 2025-11-14 18:49:31+00:00
> Did Feyerband also not argue that Galileo's claim that Copernicus's theory was proved was false

My reading of AM was that it's less about what's "true" or "false" and more about how the actual structure of the scientific argument compares to what's claimed about it. The (rough) point (as I understand it) is that Galileo's scientific "findings" were motivated by human desires for wealth and success (what we might call historically contingent or "poltical" factors) as much as they were by "following the hard evidence".

> Telescopes are comprehensible.

"Comprehensible" is a relative measure, I think. Incomprehensible things become comprehensible with time and familiarity.
by NoiseBert69 | 2025-11-14 18:49:33+00:00
A lot of Meshcore/Meshtastic stations popping up lately too all over the world too.

Repeaters/Router can, if you put a bit of love in to highly efficient 3.3V generation, forever an a 6V solar cell and a 18650 LiPo.

I've tested 60km with a 868MHz LoRa station using a shabby 5dBi omni antenna. Just run out of hills to test more.

But not as easy to use as BLE(+BLE Meshing) which is basically integrated into every smartphone.
by knorker | 2025-11-14 18:49:49+00:00
Well, I'd say you left out all the important bits, to the point where your comment could easily be read as "it's the symmetric key that matters, even with public key".

But whatever. Now I know. Both the choice of symmetric key length AND the choice of public key algorithms independent of each other make this format not PQ.

Why anyone in their right mind would migrate to such algorithms in 2025 I have no idea, and especially coming from someone like Filippo it's baffling.

Those already on PQ are better off staying. Those who are not should move to a PQ, not this.
by webdood90 | 2025-11-14 18:50:07+00:00
Is the discussion about only one particular kind of poor person?

The system is a trap to keep people poor. A lot of people make the wrong decisions that keep them there. Can we not talk about that? It doesn't belittle the subset of folks that it doesn't apply to.

I grew up this way and saw it first-hand. A dead-beat step dad who didn't work for literally _years_. A mother with the only income of less than $40k/year for 3.

Cigarettes and beer every night. Fancy, financed cars with ridiculous interest rates because their credit scores were shit. Rent-a-center furniture payments. The newest phones and other bullshit that they couldn't truly afford.

So many people in our circles lived this way or worse. And I'm not trying to come forward and say "I got out of it so everyone can!" - just that people have a small amount of control and they regularly make the wrong decisions.
by robocat | 2025-11-14 18:50:23+00:00
> People don't want to contribute to the country that made them rich.

That's such a mean take. A fairer take is that they have already contributed - via income/gains taxes - and often because the company makes the country better off.

Wealth taxes are double taxation: you've worked to get rewards and then those rewards are rug-pulled from you.

Wealth taxes are also a lie: the Finland wealth tax rate of 1.1% appears so reasonable, however if your returns were 5% then the effective tax rate is fucking 22%.

If a country doesn't encourage businesses and business-owners, then the country goes to shit because there's nothing to tax (which pays for the goodness for everybody).

Disclaimer: I don't think all businesses are good or worthwhile. I do think that we need systems that deliver good compromises.

Edit: As voters we are asked to vote for party policy - however we are usually ignorant of the likely outcomes of policy. In my experience, very few people understand systems.
by imglorp | 2025-11-14 18:50:30+00:00
The States are learning the hard way that the disproportionate accumulation of wealth is an irresistible force which will eventually erode all checks and balances, corrupt all systems, and ultimately capture the entire government. We we were doing mostly okay with "constrained capitalism" but as soon as we let our guard down, money flooded into politics and that was the end of restraint.
by pokot0 | 2025-11-14 18:51:12+00:00
Honestly I think privacy is lost. Regardless of what side you were (big fan of privacy here) I feel we have nothing to do but move on and think how to live in a world without privacy.

I never wanted privacy anyway: I wanted no discrimination, inclusion, healthy democracy, etc, etc.

Privacy has always been a tool for me.

At this point, selective privacy like we are experiencing today (we cannot know what’s in the epstein files, but google can send a drone and look into my backyard) serves none of the things I am interested in!
by re-thc | 2025-11-14 18:51:30+00:00
> Nvidia would pay out nothing to OpenAI if OpenAI turns out to be too poor to pay for capacity. So they are not that exposed to the death of OpenAI specifically.

Nvidia has invested billions in previous rounds of OpenAI raises also. Pretty sure it is not nothing.

Also OpenAI rents from CoreWeave that Nvidia has invested in.
by gmuslera | 2025-11-14 18:51:32+00:00
By some perspective, what made us unique was our ability to have a hint on the future, pattern recognition, superstition, religion and then science gave us a grasp of the outcome of what happens in a future, usually after an action by ourselves. Things are of bad luck, or a sin, or should not be done because some negative outcome. So, following that line of thinking, what will come next are better predictive capabilities, taking more out of guessing or "this is random" and more deterministic. Think in psichohistory telling what will happen with cultures and civilizations for centuries giving the current state of things.

Anyway, the "we have AI, so will be soon no more things to discover" is similar to what was thought at the end of the XIX century that everything was discovered and only increasing precision was left. At the very least, we have a lot of learning about ourselves and how we understand reality, in the light of what AI could uncover with different methods than the traditional ones.
by wahern | 2025-11-14 18:51:35+00:00
> I think that it is much more like the US, nowadays.

IIRC, mobility indexes crossed quite a few years ago. IOW, UK is better than the US in this respect. See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index, though it's a claim I've read based on other data and before that particular index was compiled.