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> Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done.

The difficulty is that one persons "sensible default" is anothers "crazy terrible default". Particularly in the Linux world, fuelled by it being committed hobbyists who create much of the desktop software and the tradition of UNIX configurability.
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Since you brought them up, I got an e-mail from them recently, too. It was
a huge ROTFL for me.

They boast on their FAQ page that they are "different from a recruiter", and
the contact person wrote "We have analyzed your open source
contributions on Github and think that you could be a good fit for
[web backend programmer]". The thing is, they sent me an e-mail to the address
that is present in just one repository and has nothing to do with web at all.

Then, when I asked what repositories have they looked at, what caught their
eye, and why do they think I would like the position, the contact person sent
me a lengthy e-mail about how their recruitment process looks like, not
addressing my questions at all.

All in all, they just sent me some e-mail templates filled after trivial
keyword matching, which I find funny, because they claim they are so much
better than "regular recruiters".

Though, to be honest, they did give the offer details upfront, without me
asking about that.
Unsure if satire or not as most of the points made are perfectly valid.
It is missing 1.8" drives that were used in iPods and original Macbook Air.

And a bit obscure 1" microdrive, commonly used in CF shape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdrive

And even more obscure 0.85" microdrive, apparently only used in Imation Micro Hard Drive USB drive.
Tryton's fork was motivated by disagreements on the technical and business directions.

1/ On technical side, both leaders had very different directions on lots of different details. The main one being: Odoo moved to the web, Tryton was attached to the GTK/rich client.

2/ On the business side (probably the biggest difference): Tryton had a purely community driven development approach (with an anti-commercial mindset of his initial community) and Odoo's goal is to build a great open source product but sustain that with a strong business model (for partners and Odoo Inc).

The Tryton founders were 2 ex-employees of Odoo back in 2008 before the fork. Odoo had 5 employees at that time. (66% of the devs left to work on a fork :)

To discover Odoo:

- Start with these intro videos: https://odoo.com/page/tour

- Test online on: https://odoo.com/start

To try Tryton: http://www.tryton.org/download.html

To try Odoo: https://odoo.com/start

Note that there are also medical apps on Odoo. GNU Health started as an Odoo Projects, some of their leaders moved to Tryton and others continued on Odoo. We deployed Odoo is several hospitals, and 3 of the top 5 medical NGOs worldwide run Odoo.

Disclaimer: I am the founder/CEO of Odoo.
They don't have this kind of history with security agencies though.
Contrary to some other advice here, I switched to a new window manager first (xmonad, FWIW), but kept running a bunch of GNOME stuff too. Gradually, I have phased out most of GNOME and my computing life is simpler and more stable as a result.
At least in Germany the whole AfD-Pegida-komplex had significant backing and media support from foreign sources, namely Russia and Switzerland.

It's the "when they go low, we go high" fallacy that will cost more elections to moderates. If it's free for all psyops out there, the non-authoritarians need a emotional-demagogue front-outlet too.

If bot's and brigades are one-sidedly spamming controversial twitter hashtag or or comment sections it's an inflation of their presence. Hashtags are useless for anybody who wants to hear a plurality of opinions these days. As long as social media is so easy to exploit by organized actors at marginal costs, it's worse than no social media at all.

If a channel is brigaded and spammed by one party it should be spammed by all, some sort of MAD-strategy might be needed, to get past the current status.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
I've heard of this happening before. If the non-battery bit of that part of the computer breaks you pay $900 (or whatever), but if you just need the battery replacing you pay a heck of a lot less, or even nothing. The repair involves exactly the same actual work being done and part. The Apple Store employee must have accidentally selected the wrong maintenance option in the system.
Humans use tools to find patterns. Typically you don't read a dataset and look for patterns. We build optimisations, regression models, search algos, etc. We also build functions that build functions from data. Yes, we know how AlphaGo wins. It's architecture is known and understood, as is it's training and how to replicate it. It doesn't mean you can predict what it's next move will be nor "why" it made it but it does what it was programmed to do.

This is all just an expression of innately human capability. Bigger and faster does not mean different in kind.
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Extremely fast laptop? Did Apple GHz and Apple GFlops gain in value when I wasn't paying attention?
yeah, this is the bit I liked. Personal taste: I'd prefer to see this implemented without extending a base class i.e. by composition rather than inheritance, seems more d3-ish to me.
These two statements contradict each other:

> The underlying problem, IMO, is people. They just don't care about security, they want to deliver working device.

> This unassuming black box is [...] designed for networks with extreme requirements for data security.

You can claim that nobody will buy Kaspersky's device, or that they did poor market research. But you can't claim that they don't care about security.
Here is seL4 proof: https://github.com/seL4/l4v

To quote, "Most proofs in this repository are conducted in the interactive proof assistant Isabelle/HOL".
Let me expand on that... Just two simple data points:

1. Malmö, with large immigrant population, have a population of around 300,000 -- and half the number of murders this year as the whole of Norway, with 15 times the population. (Norway is culturally very similar to Sweden. Well, unless you ask Norwegians. :-) )

2. in the last 20 years there have been a negligible building of housing, for political reasons. At the same time, the Swedish population have increased with 10+% -- also for political reasons! This created a really high risk for a housing bubble in the next economic downturn.

In short -- there are scary problems.

Those problems are much larger than Germany's problems with immigration -- and are pushed under the carpet extensively by the Swedish media. Hence, you see two Swedes with totally different views of the Swedish situation.

The internal Swedish discussion is insanely polarized. The largest newspaper have for years stamped people nazi and fascist for arguing to implement a migration policy used in most of the rest of the EU. Norway and Denmark have been attacked for being "brown" (as in SA), despite being a couple of the world's most liberal and tolerant countries. And so on.

Finally, the point:

The Swedish general media have been systematically misrepresenting facts to the public. (For instance, up until a year ago, it was a "fact" that immigration of largely uneducated people was a good business and gave a good economical result for the country, despite an expensive welfare state.) What is really the fake news in Sweden..?

(You might argue that media lie and spin everywhere. Probably true. But in democracies, the news don't generally all use exactly the same spin...)
I agree. What I find interesting is that real world security is also a function of popularity. You won't get many outside hackers to attack a platform, if it's hardly used.

So any new platform would first need broad adoption, then a few years of maturity in able for the outside world to assess if it's more secure than current systems.

Obviously, security centric design helps a lot, but on the other hand Kaspersky is a relatively small player in comparison with the other OS-movements (whether capitalist or FOSS).
> > Instead, the internet seems to be helping people create cocoons of ignorance and "evidence" to support even the most specious claims - such as the world being flat.

> I've yet to see any evidence that it overall makes the world a worse place.

Donald Trump, potentially. We'll see.

> People give examples like immigration

They don't know what they're talking about. Migration isn't even a particularly modern phenomenon.
Half of those satellites will be over the Pacific Ocean at any given time.

On the bright side, this completely solves the bandwidth for adventurers. The farther you are from civilization, the less contention for the links.
I agree. By the way, you typo'd "things" as "thinks".
Thank goodness for devtools...

for (var lazyisgood = 0; lazyisgood < 1000; lazyisgood++) { $('a.button').click(); }
I had the same experience with my older Nexus 5. However, I dropped my Nexus 6P and cracked the screen (And did not take the insurance). They now tell me there is nothing they can do and that I can try my luck with Huawei.
How can I download it then? The button just throws a javascript error, and with javascript disabled it's a dead thing. Going to the chrome web thingy store it only tries to get me to download google chrome.
Yep, eventhough it's been a week. And let's not forget russia

denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance
^-- you are here
GHz is only the clock speed, and only one of the factors related to processing speed. So it is entirely possible that they gained value. GFlops is processing power, though.
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Speaking of OS's for IoT - I think http://www.contiki-os.org/ deserves a mention.
The marketing makes it sound a bit like SeL4.
https://sel4.systems/
Forrester was himself very involved in the Meadows report. Forrester wrote "World dynamics" which is the system dynamics basis for the Meadows report.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World3
When the first iPads came out, I actually received mine by post a day or two before the official launch day. It worked for a few hours, then the screen wouldn't switch on. At that point, iPads were super rare. Rarer than any iPhones have been since then.

I went to my local Apple store on release day, showed them it wasn't working, and they swapped it out straight away, no questions asked.
If they wanted to keep the reference to seven and make it relevant to containers they could have named it "whatsinthebox"
Not surprising. Did they really think they could make loads of money with cleaning services and asian food delivery startups?
I never know which one I need anyway. A context sensitive touch bar may actually be a good idea once software starts to support it.
I agree with your last statement, and think this is a great proof-of-concept for distributed networking.

I worry, though, that this space is fracturing in a way that's hampering adoption. Between Freenet, Zeronet, IFPS, I2P, not to mention things like Retroshare, Matrix, and so forth, there's a lot of redundancy but with important differences between any given two solutions. I'm not sure what can be done about it, but it seems like something in this area needs a network effect to accelerate adoption, but to do that, it needs to be comprehensive in what it offers while also being sufficiently differentiable from other projects. It's great to see so much going on in this area, but it's getting difficult to know what does what, and where one might put some resources.
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This would not be here if it wasn't for the election, no?
Are you aware that the whole of the development resource (people) across the entire free software desktop would fit into a reasonable size conference room? Versus, say the size of the development teams on proprietary systems such as Windows?

So, what is the point of trying to divide the community of people all trying to work towards similar(ish) goals - the improvement of the alternative desktops - rather than focusing on how they are part of the same thing? It doesn't improve the likelihood of achieving the goal of a "better" desktop.

You are literally stood in a room with 10 people trying to demonstrate how 2 of them are better than the other 8. It's an exercise in pointlessness, makes the free software community unfriendly and sets up fake academic wars [0].

Note: I previously worked for Canonical so have bias, I know people at RedHat and other open source companies. I have had the opinion that this sort of stupid divisionism stuff is bad for FOSS for at least 10 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law
Doesn't change the fact that people who want more RAM can't get it.

There are many people (including me) who don't care much about battery runtime. I mean seriously, a longer battery runtime than a typical work day? How many people work all day without access to a power socket?

If Apple wouldn't have waited so long and made an interim update, there would maybe not be so much gnashing of teeth. If you buy a MBP now, it will probably be good for another 4 years and you can't justify buying a new one with better CPU and RAM specs which might come out in 1 or 2 years.
As a sidenote that I discovered reading about the new Galileo system, the precision you can get from it is 1 cm (encrypted, presumably paid service) which is something I barely can believe. That's extremely accurate considering that the satellites themselves are 23,222 km above the earth. It seems the public will only get 1 meter precision, but comparing it to GPS which has a precision of 5 meters, I see this as extraordinary.

More values:

BeiDou Navigation Satellite System - 10 m (public) - 0.1 m (encrypted)

Quasi-Zenith Satellite System - 0.01-1 meters

Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System - 10 m (public) - 0.1 m (encrypted)
Except in OS. The new Windows 10 is ....
Oh the irony. Corrected.
> You can think of Western oppression as being snake-like, while Chinese or Russian oppression is dragon-like. If someone speaks out against the establishment in China or Russia, the response will be brute-force - the dissident will be assassinated.

Well, I think this is bollocks. I think what you described is what the western media would like you to believe: Russia and China assassinate, whereas the USA "only" makes up bogus charges against you and encarcerate you.

I don't know much about China, but there are endless examples of Russia making up bogus charges, and endless examples of US assassinations. These two are closer than most westerners are comfortable thinking.
Professionals don't usually look down at their keyboards.

I also use my laptop for videogames, and I'd hate to have to pause and look down to find F4/F5 instead of using touch typing (ironically named, nowadays).
So what? That's what FB can do when they find an issue. You are free to sue them if you feel that you have lost money because of this. Go ahead, that's what courts are for.

But I guess what many really want is for government to step in and use government force to punish FB until people feel that some kind of justice has been done. (burn the witch!)

That's why democracy is fundamentally incompatible with liberty.

On a side note: The media is attacking FB because they feel that FB doesn't censor and steer public opinion in the way they would like it to be. They are all up in arms claiming that Trump is FB's fault after they themselves have reported 24/7 on Trump. (but so biased, even Stalin would have cringed) That's the only reason why this article even exists.
no way they'd allow someone profit off their users like that without getting a huge cut for themselves
Hmm. Tells me to open on a desktop computer but am on a desktop.
Is there anywhere I find a huge list of all these new weird domains?
Try https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/chrome-store-fox... (not guaranteed to work, I didn't test it)
UK.

Our manager was very pressured by this Lead dev a year ago and hand in his resignation which was declined by the CEO and convinced him to stay.

The reason for this was due to that lead dev being an impossible person to work with and he was 1 year late on building a website, 3 months at start took another extension for 3 months then another and then a final one.

Thing is they couldn't easily fire him as he had been with the company for more than 5 years and they didn't keep track, they had to implement a proper timetable as to what he does and when etc and it would take 2-3 warnings to fire him... very hard in the UK. And making him redundant was also not possible due to him being in that field for more than 20 years he would be getting a huge sum from the company.

At the end another guy in the team that was also co-lead had to quit he couldn't stand working with that dev as I can't either.

Now a year later the company + the manager has forgot what they went through with this guy and give him the ok to run everything.
Strange. I mean, we only have our own experiences to go by, but every time I've used Airbnb (throughout Europe) it's always been with a host who doesn't live there and shows no desire nor feels any obligation to show their city (much less talk) to the traveler outside of handing-off the keys. Even when their profile might say differently. They were all way more Hotel than Hospitality Club, so to speak.
I don't see anything wrong with it. To me it just signals "stand together" which makes sense with the 'by the people for the people' theme. What does it have to do with a form of government?
Yeah, that's as easy, quick, and memorable as pressing ESC.

I realise there are alternatives - I personally have caps lock mapped to escape, but I'm yet to get into the habit of using it - but that's not really the point. The point is that ESC is in common use, probably enough use to justify a real physical key on the keyboard, unless there is a reason to remove it.
I've been going through a similar experience over the last few years, mostly driven by my hardware getting older and not handling the requirements of modern DE's (when I'd prefer the resource to be used for applications).

It's nice stripping back to the original structures, though it does feel like computer archaeology sometimes. There's a lot of services in the upper layers that have to be switched off to get back to plain .xinitrc and Xresources!

On the upside, I know my configuration and it's all in a repository now!
The version without the touchbar still requires a bagfull of adapters (which clearly nullify any size benefits), and has no magsafe.
> Most likely he's planning in using scapegoating to have to cover for throwing his followers under a bus in order to please Wall Street.

With Steve Bannon he has the best man on board to do exactly that /without even alienating his followers/, at least the loyal ones. We might see a propaganda alliance between the White House and far-right media, so it's not at all clear to me that Trump will be destroyed by fake news.
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No, what would happen in a free market is that the "big evil companies" would hire muscle to shut what.cd by other means. Like, let's say, seizing their servers. And justifying it by saying that they are the only ones allowed to redistribute this music.

That sounds awfully close to "using police to seize servers and justifying it with copyright", doesn't it? But yes, clearly, the government is to blame. It hasn't been lobbied by those companies to extend copyright duration, or increase punishment for copyright violation. Nope. A free market would totally make that better because they would never do such evil.
One features that Threema has is that you can see that you have verified the other persons key. I think Signal should have that too. If the other person reinstalls you just drop down back to a lower trust level.

Threema does it with 3 dots red, orange ad green, but other versions of this might be experented with.
Good thing about a 2013 MBA, is that I can run software from the nineties (I've actually been playing Diablo II lately).
Removing function keys breaks compatibility with that.

Sure, you can configure the touchbar, but have you tried working/playing while having to look down at a keyboard?
The question is, should Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit work harder to identify those networks and publicise those attempts to game the social networks?

These companies have all the tools to figure out orchestrated efforts.
If it's execution is similar to this project where hosting a page on your system is effortless (or at most a one-click affair), then it's definitely something I can get behind.

You'll get the benefit of insuring off-line availability as well as only hosting pages you care about. Win-win.
Just who do you suppose was held back by "excessive rationality"? I'd suggest that many many more people in the world are held back by "not enough rationality".

There is no stereotypical "scientists' disdain" for those topics. It is vital to understand history, social sciences, economics, politics, and the arts. What is disdained is the way these topics are, in the present world, not pursued along more rigorous lines.

Too many people like to look good by producing grand-sounding theories about these topics, without putting their ideas through a more rigorous process to check whether they are actually true or not. Then we get a cohort of followers who believe these theories as if they were "as true" as mathematical theorems, but they are not. This wastes everyone's time, and worse.

One can certainly picture an overly-specialised scientist who doesn't know anything other than the specific field they chose - I guess this is what you mean by "excessive rationality" - but I don't see many cases of this actually existing. What I see in far greater numbers is the problem I mentioned in the previous few paragraphs, as well as people using the "excessively rational" image as a straw-man argument to attack scientists, to distract the world from their own flaws, of "not enough rationality".
Go to the source: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strin...

They may not all be available for registration, though.
This reminded me that notch web game[1]. Both kept me interested and I find them a very pleasant form of art.

[1] http://game.notch.net/drowning/
Subject has run script to click on the button ten times within one second
What makes me a bit skeptical is that he's inside the Ecuador embassy, supposedly. Surely if he had been assassinated we would have heard from the embassy?
If you're referring to the 'Fn' functionality, I totally agree - I'm not even sure what any of those are used for on OSX. If you're referring to the keys themselves, which control things like volume, media playback, and brightness, as well as offering a very convenient shortcut to the Launchpad (which I personally use frequently), I find them incredibly useful.

I can see some uses for contextual keys, but I can also imagine some pretty annoying inconveniences with this implementation. For example, if I'm in an application that 'takes over' the function keys, is it possible to still access media playback controls? Do I have to switch to whichever app is currently playing audio to access them? Is it possible to disable the contextual keys altogether and have a static, traditional set? Or is there a hotkey to toggle between app-specific and 'global' function keys?
That's fair. It's not fair if advertisers are impacted differently. But, my main point is Facebook has a lot more to lose than gain by inflating clicks/views, so it's very likely to be an honest mistake.
I think the first one is meant to be "reaching"?
"If you give access to internet to 100 people, 99 of them will use it for Facebook or Porn."

This isn't a zero sum game, last night I used my internet access for porn, today I'm using my internet access to learn about a new 4,000 satellite constellation being built by SpaceX, later on today I'll use it to create a pull request on Bitbucket.
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