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I remember explaining to my mother in the mid 2000s that Qualcomm owned the vast majority of the technology powering CDMA, which would power billions of smart phones in the future. So she bought QCOM. I was right about smartphones, yet the stock did nothing... What you know about tech and what Wall Street thinks about a company is entirely two different things.
It's a PITA to buy/sell crypto concurrency, and the difference between exchange price is huge based on seller - having a fund that would do these things efficiently at scale would be useful.
> ignoring EU diktats

yeah no, that would be equivalent to being kicked out the EU. Greece tried to use some leverage with refugees and got some money in return but that's all. Also, COSCO has already acquired the port of piraeus so there is an asian connection already.
React: Or, #NoBackbone2018
Wrong. The goal is to make money. Billions of dollars.

That money is to help fund Mars colonization, which has been SpaceX's ultimate goal from the beginning. There's also some nice synergy in that similar tech can be used to deploy a global communications network for Mars as well.
> The grid owner charge a fix connection fee together with a per KWh fee. My guess is that both fees are regulated.

Your guess is correct, and it's the basic equivalent of net neutrality. In essence, European energy markets moved to net neutrality when they were liberated. Before, the local utility "owned" the customer, and in turn got to decide where to buy (and/or produce themselves) the energy they sold to the customer. Their monopoly power was restrained by being publicly owned, or by being required to keep prices close to those charged by publicly-owned utilities.

Energy is slightly different in that it is almost a true commodity, so people rarely cared ("almost", because some consumers have since chosen to pay more for renewables)
If bracing conditionals was indispensable for providing your services, I'd argue that they would.
ok - everything you just said (save the last line) is wrong. I have lived in china (wuhan, specifically) for about 4 years and have been to beijing, shanghai, and a few random smaller towns/cities. while it is possible to use various mobile payment networks almost everywhere, literally everywhere also accepts cash. literally nowhere requires that you show any sort of ID to buy physical goods under any circumstances. buying internet/phone service does require an ID, and thus the govt can fuck with you there if they want, but rent is often done informally so no chance of interference there. the market here is so filled with tiny businesses that even if a person were somehow banned from buying at larger stores (which doesn't happen), they would still be able to get everything from smaller markets at a similar or sometimes lower price.

the social credit system you are talking about isn't actually in effect yet. once it is? yeah, it'll be pretty fucked up. I suspect it will get thrown out or heavily modified before then. but again - it will hold no power over people who use cash at small markets.

I'm not trying to defend the government here, but please have your facts straight so as to prevent you from spouting nonsense like the post above. criticism is most effective when it is accurate.
There's a difference between 'open by default' and 'open by purpose'. You might reflexively reach for MIT or Apache, but the GPL might align better with your actual business needs. Simon Wardley gave a decent presentation about strategy mapping a few years ago and mentions it at the end of his talk: https://youtu.be/NnFeIt-uaEc
The source code shows all details of one of their most popular products. If it got out you can guarantee there will be new exploits, new ways of breaking the game, which in order to keep the game 'fun', will have to patch.

Also, don't forget they re-released Starcraft with better textures recently, so having your sources out there isn't going to improve that game.

Plus, it's their stuff, they decide what to do with it. You can ask all you want about the source code of a piece of software of 1995, but I bet you won't get it from any company just because it is part of history. I don't see the source of Windows 95 lying around on the internet either.
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Distributing to one entity is still distributing.
I find it interesting that this comments section has become as proudly South African as Stellenbosch Sauvignon Blanc.

I don't even need to read whatever the API (or legislation) says to understand how we got to this.opportunity. My little experience on any topics of any importance tell me that maybe there should be a little context to this whole thing.

So, let me make some pseudorandom comments that may be of use to all the shadow followers here.

South Africa is the Best Country in the World ®. They are ahead in nature conservation (nr 1). They have wide open spaces (you can hide from belligerents through obscurity). They have extreme safety. As in, you're either very safe, or very unsafe. And the difference could be a couple of seconds. They even have Very Good Universities ®. Finally, they have fertile opportunities, since the rest of Africa is pretty broken (except maybe some of the neighbours who are pretty not broken).

But the core issue here, just like at every previous timestamp, is politics. There is a big philosophical battle raging that is based on concepts such as "I was here first", "I claimed this first", "We are all African, except you", "I am the sharpest pencil", "Everybody deserves a certificate", "I am actually building something", "Take away all the buildings" and then, the most popular one, which is: "I also want some spears".

Anyway, the point is the following. Banks are kinda evil, while banks in SA seems to try to be not evil, except when they don't. This is a complicated thing. Just as complicated as Zuma & Ramaphosa, inc. There are also people who already have spears that like to poke things.

Now, the everybody deserves a certificate thing is not such a good idea. (Ask Mark Shuttleworth). But if one notices, when it comes to tech, South Africa has always been rather bright. Solar panels, batteries, pretty aircraft, etc etc.

Anyway, sorry for all the bad jokes. The point I wanted to make is this: South Africa is still the best entry point into Africa. Things like these.innovations are reassuring and sometimes exciting. But the problem is not neo-colonisation as much as Africa colonising other parts of Africa (with the help of others ®).

Don't worry too much about the details, rather imagine what you would want them to be. The South Africans would probably implement it then.
> The only reason I use GIMP is that Adobe software isn't available on Ubuntu. Sure, some artists have used it to create great works but that speaks more to their capabilities as artists than GIMP's as software.

Do you think the tool ever makes the artist? I have seen great works of art made with a pencil. A piece of coal. A twig and blood. A simple needle and ink. I have seen great works of art made using Microsoft Paint.

> Ubuntu is pretty solid but I would be a liar if I wouldn't admit it has serious flaws (e.g. making the user execute superuser shell commands to test and enable hibernation is pretty shitty UX). I'm tech-savvy enough to be willing to accept these trade-offs but I can easily see the appeal of macOS (even if the naysayers are right and Apple have lost their way).

I don't like Ubuntu and I don't use it. But, there are plenty of things that can only be done using a terminal in macOS, as well. In fact, macOS/Apple is pretty much known for hiding things from their GUIs.

Anyway, I do not agree that typing in commands are bad UX. Many things are far easier and faster to do in a terminal than through a GUI. One example: installing software.

> I started off the year by giving a couple of alternative browsers a chance to wean me off my reliance on Google Chrome and even Brave was a more workable solution than Firefox: in order to make Firefox work properly I had to learn about its multiprocessing mode and individually test extensions from the official addon hub for compatibility. And while the dev tools certainly feel like a lot of effort went into them they come nowhere near the UX of Chrome's.

Why are you talking about browsers and comparing Firefox to Chrome, are you trying to compare open source vs closed-source? Do you know what Chromium is?

It sounds like you are actually trying to say something as stupid as: open source projects are generally worse than closed source projects?
Open source and free software is thriving. Always have. Look around you. Look at what runs the internet you use. Look at the number of projects and the number of contributors.
Haha, I've been around for a while but that one I missed. Awesome.
Almost, but really it's specifying conditions by which the government can revoke negative rights to life, liberty, property, etc.
"Attention please" sounds like "A Tännchen please" spoken with a Saxon accent (e.g. the "ch" is pronounced as "sh").

"Tännchen" is the diminutive of "Tanne", meaning "fir".

So a Saxon who doesn't know what a fir is called in English might ask for "A Tännchen please" -- which would sound almost exactly like "Attention please".
> I can't think of any C syntax that's not valid C++,

enum toto { a = 1 };
enum toto b = 1;

Fixing versions of both standards could bring in more examples (like trailing comma in enums and use of the names reserved in C++, by the C code).

Overall, ironically, as typing is stronger in C++ (which I agree is a non-syntactic change), poor C code (using lots of unjustified casts), will require less modifications to be compiled as C++.
Complete tangent: assertion: if equation group had like, 10k 0day per year they would have already run out of "good" code names. We wouldn't see EPICBANANA or EXTRABACON at all because all the fun names for sploits would already have been taken. Like, the only way you get those names is by combining words on an approved list, maybe rolling the dice until you get something that doesn't suck.

I wonder if one can do a kind of "german tank problem" analysis on the likely size of the "cyber arsenal" (LOL) based on the frequency of code words and awesome codenames...
> EDIT: Pragmatically IMO the freedom of the end user matters less because they need more than just access to the source code to derive any value of having that access, whereas for a downstream developer the value of being able to do as they please is extremely direct.

Again, like I said, that's clearly debatable.

First I think we need to shoehorn some terminology into this conversation in order for it to be useful.

You have two clearly distinct roles. You call them "developer" and "user", but that's really imprecise and doesn't correctly capture the use-cases which we're discussing, so here's my attempt:

* A publisher (what you call a "developer", someone who releases software, different software, one which will have to "deal" with reciprocal licenses).

* A user (one which runs software, usually on devices he own).

It may not be the norm, but a user may very well build and modify the software he uses (that is: do development work), and submit patches back upstream (instead of forking/bundling the code and modifications in another product). So while clearly a developer, he is first and foremost a user, and he doesn't need to care about licensing, since he doesn't actually release anything on his own.

Example: As a user of a device I buy, I want to be able to modify and replace its firmware when I find it lacking. In this case I'm a user, not a developer, at least not until the need arises.

And a "normal user" may not be able to do all these things, but as others have noted, there may be a pre-existing development community which has pre-modified builds available (like Cyanogendmod, OpenWrt, Coreboot, whatever).

In that sense, things being open to me, the user, the owner of the device running the code, has an high value anyhow. Not having control over what runs on my devices is unacceptable in a post-Snowden, emerging IoT-ridden world.

And I think those concerns are much more important for the IoT-everywhere world we're moving into, than some mere licensing inconveniences for publishers when they free of charge incorporate other people's work into their own product.
And, importantly, never tell anyone about #2 (at least until you can be completely certain Blizzard won't take action against you).
> the sort of messaging that's of use to terrorists

It seems increasingly apparent that recruitment and radicalisation are done in the open. After all, political speech is free speech.

Then people either self-radicalise (go on a murder spree without coordinating action with a larger group; e.g. many mass shooters), or they meet up in person. Lots of radicalised people go to the Middle East where they can't be surveilled by western security forces.

There's remarkably little evidence that terrorists are making routine use of strong encryption.
Somewhat OT. Winston Churchill may very well have said that, but variations of that quote where circulating in France in the late 19th century.
Your observations don't correlate with the actual political opinions of prominent advocates of what boils down to the ages-old free software vs open source split. You don't need to look further than ESR for a striking counterexample.
The premise here is thatservices such as gmail or outlook don't respect the privacy of their customers. Can someone point me to an actual case where gmail for business (using gsuite) or outlook haven't respected their privacy engagement ? Or a serious report on that matter ? thanks.
Even better, the actual platform is called "social democracy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

Quite a different beast.
There's software like gnucash which will take care of that, without the need for the fancy bank account.
This looks very pretty and I am once again amazed by what can be done in the browser. I don't understand how this is going to make money though. What is the montization strategy?
You may want to consider German-based Tutanota (https://tutanota.com) who uses open-source cryptography, rather than some alternatives such as Swiss-based ProtonMail who use a combination of open-source and proprietary closed-source cryptography.

Failing that, head on over to https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/ and check out alternatives and other related information.
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"Every year, the internet gets a little less fair" might not apply to every locale. USA is not all of the internet, it's important but not even very big.

If ISP BigCo's break it seriously, USA will start to falling behind the world (internet connectivity is already not great), notice that, and probably fix something.
>The point of zero-knowledge is that an external observer should not be able to be verify the proof, only the parties involved.

Had no idea from the story that was the point of a zkp
Dongles similar to this exist, but you've just moved the problem: the user now needs to type their password into that device. If there were a real zero-knowledge protocol, the user could prove to the device that they know the password, without having to type it: the device still wouldn't have it. Even if someone stole the device, copied it, or modified it to record the user's input, this would not compromise the user's security in the future. (At worst it could MITM a current session, while leaving the user's password secure and uncompromised.) That is not the case with the dongle you have described.
This guy was pretty infamous for his "Swabian English": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Oettinger

However his English has improved quite a bit over the years, although some would argue this has made him more unpleasant.
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I agree with noja, fastmail is pretty popular on HN.

Nonetheless, I use it as well and I'm very happy with them. The Android client is sometimes a little weird, but mostly it works and you can always use one of the many IMAP clients if you want. And I prefer their webinterface over google's
I'm using gmail for my daily use and tried maintaining my own server and it was too much effort.

I'm a little bit worried what happens when gmail is blocking my account for whatever reasons, but if, i would create a second own managed mail address only for accounts.
Work life balance is an interesting point I had not considered.

Mainly I was trying to make the point that self-driving cars won't make much difference to this specific problem, but I don't seem to have communicated that very well given the replies.
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I found that mailcow is a bit too heavy on the requirements. Instead I've started using mailcow (https://mailcow.email/) which runs a mail server in docker.

It's a bit less of a hassle to actually start up and keep maintained.
The more times you repeat, the less likely it is that you've just guessed correctly.
Blinded by "how"
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The evidence was in server-side logs.
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The original meaning of "barbarian" was akin to "not Roman" or "foreigner" (more precisely, someone not belonging to any of the classic civilizations).

Akin to "villanus" (someone living in a village), it took a derogatory tone later, as someone "uncivilized", but that was not part of its literal meaning.
Wtf? Who make a "gold disc" for source code?? Wouldn't the gold master be compiled code? And who the fuck makes a "gold source" disc that's also "professionally printed"? That implies they gave the source to somebody to have the CD made. Yeah right. Also, the game takes up most of a CD, the assets would use far more space than that.

There's so many holes in this story, it's obvious bullshit and everyone is soaking it up. 100% chance this is a lame viral marketing stunt to drum up interest in StarCraft remastered. It's clearly paid placement, and frankly a bit sensational to even be possible.

Blizzard is known for quietly paying people for product placement and bullshit stories like this. Don't be sheeple.

Edit: I did some reading and other sources actually name the person and mention he's a game collector (with pictures of some of his collection). Surprisingly, this looks to be legit.

http://www.dualshockers.com/2017/05/03/long-lost-starcraft-g...
Why isnt a culturally significant game's source not considered public interest? Especially when the game is no longer being sold?
Left 4 Dead too. I see a pattern.

But other stuff like modes in games: Capture the flag, Gun Game, etc would probably not be a thing without mods for Quake and original Counter-Strike.
Cool, thanks for the info. It's such a shame we have to resort to (slightly) compromising on security & reliability to make banking work for consumers. Do you think there's a future where there's a standard API that banks expose for authorised apps to get at customer data?
People who couldn't afford video cards would use motherboard graphics. They were usually not fit for gaming, except for low-resource games, and 3D/2D accelerator cards were sought after.
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1209125
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Integrated_Systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_810
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740
Congratulation for your new app. Adobe has a similar free app called Adobe Color. However, your app is better as it clearly define the color name and code. You may like to check their app and add a color scheme feature.
Very good work!
But the few ones that still exist are producing highest quality software.

Your car and the airplane you boarded last week probably both run German code.
Methinks you're a Blizzard fanboy.Diablo 3 was a critical and personal dissapointment. Starcraft 2 and Heroes of the Storm aren't exactly in my list of top PC games either. And they make more money?
I haven't seen exact figures, but you are severly underestimating how much cheddar people drop on stuff like Team Fortress 2 items.

As for the diversity in types of games, you're suffering from recency bias. Until basically a couple of years ago, Blizzard only made point and click type games/RTS-like controls (Star/Warcraft, Diablo). WoW had the same feel as W3, just with a different camera position and WASD movement. Portal (a unique puzzler), Left 4 Dead(unqiue co-op, multiplayer experience, progenitor to Destiny), DotA2(an entirely new genre/RTS evo), and Half-Life(FPS) are at least as diverse as Overwatch(FPS), HotS (yawn, bad design philosophy to leveling up as a team. just like some of us are 10x devs, some are 10x MOBA players), Hearthstone(card game), and WoW.

Their quality control is excellent, I will concur. They rank up there with Nintendo for having extremely polished games with few if any bugs...none gamebreaking that I remember. But the reality is a tightly controlled xperience is just less satisfying and has far less replayability.
The crowd is just going to make a better game, period, because they can suit a variety of gamer's preferences. I barely scratched the surface of any campaign in Starcraft 2, didn't like vanilla multiplayer, but played the shit out of the modded custom games.

Look at a game like CounterStrike. I remember getting into that game 18 years ago!!! and it's still one of the most popular esports, twitch channels, is even on cable TV, and still makes boatloads of money.

I really don't care much for PvP FPS experiences, which is why Overwatch, while a fantastic game that actually gets me to play PvP, is unsatisfying. I much prefer co-op games and I really liked the horde mode, but they make it seasonal...so I haven't touched it in months.

What's really infuriating is that I enjoy modding and creating new game modes and OVerwatch's game/gunplay is so sublime that I have tons of ideas. One of the low hanging fruits is adding a MOBA mode with creeps, stat-based leveling and items. Another one is creating maps with more open spaces. or a co-op puzzle mode where you must use certain team configs to solve challenges. There's so many possibilities and with the core engine being so buttery smooth, I see no reason why modders couldn't make the game relevant for 10+ years

Again, I am mystified as to their strategy. Did they resent the creation of DotA, say to themselves never again, and decide to completely abstain in creating modder tools? I'm being hyperbolic a bit...they're entering uncharted territory by making a competitive FPS and want to tread carefully. As I researched, I read they are soon releasing modding tools. Looks like I might be playing overwatch again soon!
This was related to the article. It paints her as if she's proved how systemic sexism caused her to lose her job, but she failed to lose that in court. In fact, it's the opposite - as far as I'm concerned the court showed that she was either making things up or blowing them way out of proportion.

You can't just conveniently leave that out.
Is there mitigation against deploying exactly this attack another way?