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True, but a secondary issue, unrelated to the matter at hand, and frankly much less egregious. While Federal law allows certain agencies to conduct search and seizure operations within 100 miles of the border, the Supreme Court has been clear on multiple occasions that warrantless actions only apply at the border itself (including points of entry like airports).
I have been using Arch both for my work and private desktop for about ten years now. It is an absolute joy to work with. The biggest drawback is the very occasional breakage after doing a system upgrade. I would estimate such an upgrade breaks the system once or twice every year on average, although everything is much more stable for the last few years. I upgrade my system at least once per week.

Overall, highly recommended distribution, even for beginners, assuming you are willing to read and understand the excellent installation guide.
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>"In order to project power"

You mean in order to safeguard the global peace. Peaceful nations around the world depend on US support to ensure their defense from hostile nations like Russia
This definitely applies to Apple's implementation. It's infuriatingly sensitive to even damp fingers, in my experience.
Over here we call those "clandestine Data Centers".
The same power that has kept the world peace for the last 50 years? How is that a bad thing?
Or maybe just some great computers filling the hallowed halls.
Let me stress the "install once, and never again" part - this is why I'm using arch. It's the first (binary) distribution I tried that eight years down the line still works as well as the day I first installed it.
> Android can be used without Google very easily.

I'll tell that to my mother. I am sure she will agree. Right after she finishes laughing.

No, it's not "very easily". It's not even "easily".
Surprisingly true with most end users I deal with.
Nice idea. I don't need them often enough to bother. Do you have a source for the chart?
FaceID requires a swipe up too, so it’s no better for gloves.
Office is everywhere. Therefore Access is everywhere. Even if there is (or was) a better piece of software, it wouldn't get any exposure or use (unless it was web-based, perhaps?).

Every day, some random employee starts tracking items or documents in Access as a personal tool, and then more people in the organization hear about it, features get added, and then the company starts running on it, then it begins to fail and they migrate over to a 'real' ERP system.
You also end up with a mess of VBScript code that isn't versioned. When something breaks and someone calls IT, it really helps if IT knows the system exists.

In a large organization, supporting disjointed business processes (or worse, fragile amateurish integrations) costs more than the software. At scale, consistency matters more than performance variance in some areas.

Access is also a nightmare from a security standpoint. AFAIK that's why it was abandoned; there was no way to keep the functionality and easy defaults that users liked while making it secure. It scares companies shitless to have critical financial data sitting in Access databases...
Only a couple countries are truly effective at it, although all would like to be.
And Skype. We need a Skype alternative that works on Linux and it's not an electron app. Hangouts/appear.in and web.skype.com simply don't work the same way and don't have the same quality.
I still have that t-shirt in my drawer. If you've not seen it, here's a link: http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/uk-shirt.html
> ... a simple platform for creating CRUD apps. It doesn’t seem like an unachievable goal to me: you need the ability to create forms, design database tables, manage user permissions, manage data workflow (ie: send an sms if <condition>, seek approval from <user role> for <action>), and view/search data.

That's actually a tall order that you're asking for.

For the most basic needs, Excel with macros and connections to data-sources like csv files is perfectly adequate. But you want multiple users, multiple forms, data workflows...

In the microsoft ecosystem, the next step up would be using .NET entity-framework with a database like sql-server express (or even localdb). Your application would then consist of a C# or VB .NET desktop application using wpf or forms.

I think you want something in-between Excel and a full blown .NET application. That's a pretty narrow market.
For beginners https://antergos.com/ is a clean version of Arch just with a simple installer. So you get all the benefits of Arch with no bloat (like Manjaro) and don't have to learn installing the OS manually.
I used Arch for ~9 years. I like it, but it absolutely isn't a good beginner distro, nor a good distro for people who just want to get on with life.

Mint (or Ubuntu) is a perfectly good alternative to Windows or Mac OS for an easy and "risk free" experience. Most people are perfectly satisfied with a black box OS.

Not that Mint has to be a black box at all. There's plenty of room for hacking around, if you're into that.
While your comment does apply to the large majority of Android users, there are some things worth keeping in mind:

* It applies to non-Nexus/Pixel lines (before you say that this is an invalid argument, most of the Windows devices sold are Lumia devices, so presumably, yours is too).
* It applies to people who don't change phones every six months (the amount of people I've witnessed updating Galaxy phones every year is equal to the amount of people I've seen upgrading iPhones every year).
* It applies to people not using a relatively recent Samsung (https://security.samsungmobile.com/workScope.smsb) or LG (https://lgsecurity.lge.com/security_updates.html) phones.

The only valid security argument is that Windows phones and iPhones have longer support than Google (two years for upgrades to newer versions + one additional year of security updates). That's it. The rest is to blame solely on companies that make Android phones.

Google is the only one out of all three that actually gives everyone a chance of using their OS. Microsoft (from what I could find) is only giving Windows Mobile free to some mobile companies. Apple is not providing that option to anyone.

If the rest of the companies didn't actually try really hard to stand out from the rest of the Android crowd by modifying vanilla Android, we would have a completely different situation.

...which is another reason why I blame OEMs, not Google.
Along with the news that Oracle donated JavaEE to Eclipse foundation, Container will now mean Linux containers even for Oracle instead of Java EE app containers.
I'm not sure that's the real problem. Good firms just try to have the best people in their roster (best creativity and skills). These designers have the same approach a single person would have: figure out the company's identity and come up with a solution that represents it best.
On average, you would probably get better results by hiring a firm than a single person.

I suspect the real problem is related to the ongoing simplification trend that logos have been through for the past decades. Take apple's or pepsi's logo for instance.
This minimalist trend results in simple shapes, and there is a finite number of simple shapes out there. So when designing a logo according to this trend(as everyone is doing and have done in the past), you will probably end up with something similar or equal to something else. Not many dimensions to play with.

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Only for developers that only care about writing CLI and web servers.

For those of us that care about UI/UX, IDEs with nice graphical tooling, only macOS matches Windows, specially given the developer culture for such tooling.
I have to admit that even though I posted what I did, I don't really understand the dynamics of the situation. I know the result I would prefer, but I have no idea how to get there. I'm originally from Canada and my family benefited greatly from the boom cycles of farm land prices. Now I'm living in Japan where it is illegal to sell farm land. I find the different dynamics extremely interesting, but as I am not a farmer, I really don't understand. I honestly believe we're going to be in some difficulty unless we can reboot the small farm, but it seems to be extremely complicated. Even here with high prices, high subsidies, and small farms, there are very few young farmers. Of my neighbours, I think there is one guy who is about 40 and everybody else is well over 60. I have no idea what's going to happen in 10-20 years and it worries me a lot.

Anyway, as you seem to be a farmer, please let me convey my utmost respect. Seriously, thank you for being a farmer. We need more people like you.
This brings back incredibly relevant memories: my first paid job back in 2002-2003 was maintaining an old Filemaker database and related forms.

I ended up doing an Access database and created a few forms on top of it, including automation for automatically exporting order forms as Word documents. There were a few gotchas in writing VBA but overall the process was easy to pick up and be productive quickly.
Is it faster than HTTP?
When was the last time the US invaded a "neighboring" country?
> world peace for the last 50 years

I think you might have a different definition of "peace" than many people because we haven't had "world peace" for 50 years at all. Just look at how many conflicts are currently ongoing in the world (and how many of those are caused by US meddling...)
I wonder if the small business market is just not that profitable. In that space you are typically dealing with companies and people that are extremely price sensitive. (This is just a educated guess here, but I would be willing to bet that small business customers "cost" more in support costs, too.)

Something like Access is, pretty strictly, a small business play. When you move into the "medium" part of SMB, they are probably going to have complex enough needs that Access isn't going to cut it.

I'm guessing that you can make the small business market work, when it's an add-on to the medium-sized business market, but that it doesn't really work well by itself, at least as far as technology companies go.

Can anyone think of any technology companies that have done well, while focusing on just small businesses as customers?
No, it's not. The opiate epidemic, like crack cocaine, is mostly a phenomenon of the lower class. But opiates involve white people and generate therapy, while crack involves black people and generates prison time.
I recall that they spent about $1 billion in landing-related R&D before they got it to work. Definitely a lot. (Although, for comparison, a single Shuttle cost about $2 billion to build, not counting any R&D costs.)

But if that $1 billion came from their margins rather than from investment, it means they wouldn't run out of funding unless they ran out of business, which is pretty cool.
Arch and Debian are both working on reproducible packages, but Debian is much further along in that process.

Arch build scripts are great, insofar as the entire packaging steps are open source and standardized, which in theory should make reproducibility easier.

I agree that Nix and Guix are superior in concept, but they don't seem production-ready.
It's well known - a driver can only account for themselves, not you (or the environment).

As such, a driver that waves you on can only be trusted as saying "I will wait" but not "you are clear to go", you have to always verify this for yourself.
> Corporate IT doesn't like the Front Office getting Access, as they still ask for support when their home-brew app goes wrong.

The Access contraption then gets an ODBC backend to a proper database. Then parts of the Access Visual Basic spaghetti get ported to PHP. Other parts get ported to JSP. It ends up getting entirely ported - but for lack of budget for a full rewrite, the previously developed JSP parts are preserved. The whole thing doesn't take advantage of contemporary UI patterns because it closely matches the design of the original Access database. I'll spare you all the episodes of crippling slowness and the data corruption catastrophes that triggered each improvement increment.

On the other hand, the users managed to build themselves a serviceable tool when the IT wouldn't even speak to them without a ten-months project - and then they foisted it upon IT... From their point of view the ugly ten-years journey has been a success !
Look, if Russia would be the top dog of the Game, then there would be much more focus on them. When Putin says they are good guys in some conflict, only brainwashed russians who only watch state TV take him seriously, rest of the world just smiles and moves on.

If US claims constantly they are good guys while supplying arms basically straight to pure evil like ISIS just to play the Game, well that deserves a bit of attention. Plus add other stuff like total internet surveillance and you end up with a feeling that US holds too much power. Without a record of action showing that we should trust them any more than others.
why would you do such a thing?
No, that was stopped some time ago https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/mar/15/vat-loophol...
> * You can do case insensitive named matches with `-iname` (this is also GNU specific):
>
> find -type f -iname "invoice*"

This was added to OpenBSD 17 years ago. Other BSDs soon followed. Solaris & IllumOS support it too.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/find/op...
And GNU social and Mastodon are two different projects that speak OStatus. I'm pleased to see Mastodon's success, and while I'm basically done with GNU these days, I hope to see the two projects continue to cooperate on the OStatus network.
What evidence do you have that they're trying to mislead us other than "governments and law enforcement are bad so they're probably lying"?
It's cheap. I use it ten hours every day. It costs less than I would charge for an hour of consulting. Ok so I do live in one of the most expensive countries in the world but even in a developing country a developer don't have to work long to pay for this license for a tool they would use a lot every day.
I had never heard of Resilio Sync before today, looks pretty neat. Anyone have experience with it?
As long as we are on the topic of Linux shell commands I would like to share a tip which has helped me, whenever you are using wildcards with rm you can first test them with ls and see the files that will be deleted and then replace the ls with rm. This along with -i and -I flags makes rm just a tad bit less scary for me. Kinda basic but hopefully somebody finds it helpful :)
Banana Republic. Cuba. Let's not pretend the world superpowers don't all do this stuff to advance their position. Russia does it to advance it's national position. China does it to advance it's national position. US does it to advance their corporate position (largely tied to national position, just a vaguely alternative setup of the same stuff).

Tribalism, to feudalism, and any point in between we see the same situations play out. Look at all the empires over the ages. We're all just incrementally advancing the same playbook each time.

I don't have any suggestion as to how this cycle would ever be changed. The only thing that differs is the move makers. The moves all look pretty similar. One nation crumbles, proffers change, wants to avoid repeating/continuing discovered atrocities, another nation/empire is ready to take it's place.

We can call out the atrocities globally as we see them. Try to fight each individual fire. There's no pretending that every nation isn't guilty of trying to advance it's position by any means necessary. Offering the humanitarian excuse as a "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" deal is universal. Doing what you can to avoid the aforementioned "calling out".
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When's the last time you had to read documentation to update your Mac? To most people "it just works" means crash free and hassle free, i.e. your grandma can use it. I never said it was inappropriate for Apple, though it was often implied competetitors don't "just work".
You did not mention any advantage with using FTP over any other file transfer protocol. "Multiple hundreds of MBs" is not much by todays standards, and FTP is not especially suited to transferring large amounts of data. Literally any other file transfer protocol is better. Like sftp or https.
I guess I can't recommended everyone my setup since it's pretty time consuming, but I started hosting most google services I use myself.

I don't really see a huge difference in using Apple or Google in the end.

I used to just have a Nextcloud setup, which already lets you sync files/contacts/calendar and with additional apps even rss feeds extremely easily.
https://nextcloud.com/

But always sending my stuff across the entire Internet seemed rather unnecessary when my server is in the same Network.

So now I've switched to Syncthing, which worjs pretty much lije Resilio Sync But to be fair the experience of using syncthing is still far from comparable to nextcloud or gdrive. As soon as you want to share single files you end up having to write regex based ignore files and you can't just give someone a link to something.
https://syncthing.net

Then for contacts/calendar I use radicale a tiny python script.
http://radicale.org/

For rss feeds I've decided to use selfoss
https://selfoss.aditu.de/

A small raspberry pi seems so far good enough for that.
For messenging I use Matrix/Riot but hosting that on my rpi is probably too much.
Riot allows to use jitsi video conference widgets now aswell.
https://riot.im
https://matrix.org

I'd also check out yunohost that should allow you to host these things as one click apps and has a complete ldap setup built in.
https://yunohost.org/

Also interesting is searx, which describes itself as a privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.
You could easily host this yourself or use one of the many instances.
https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/

I personally settled for android with lineageos without gapps. I think that android open source apps have come along way and with fdroid they are just as convenient to use (arguably even better than) gstore. And you could still always install yalp, which allows you to download the apk from the gstore without the need of an account, or even with your account to get previously bought apps and update them.
I still use YouTube, but I sync my channel subscriptions over rss feeds and use newpipe on android to watch videos (it even has a picture in picture or play audio in background mode) or on my pc with mpv/youtube-dl (shift - t makes a video stay on top)

Getting to this pointed definitely took time and you need to be somewhat tech savvy.
In the end I still have to rely on nonfree apps like whatsapp since matrix still has no real bridge and probably never will due to the walled in nature of WhatsApp for better or worse.

Oh one last thing, if you really need to track your websites's users behavior I would check out Piwik.
I persobally don't have trouble with analytics and definitely understand that there is often no way around it.
But I think as long as you are the only one I have to trust with that data I can accept that. Everything else gets blocked with umatrix/ublock
https://piwik.org/
You should have continued:

>> Peter Swire, one of five members of U.S. President Barack Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, said the Kaspersky report showed that it is essential for the country to consider the possible impact on trade and diplomatic relations before deciding to use its knowledge of software flaws for intelligence gathering.

“There can be serious negative effects on other U.S. interests,” Swire said.
Much like those notices that bear the heading "polite notice". I'll be the judge of that.
I agree, so let ask

Hey should I use SFTP or FTP

Nah, FTP is fine

Okay, thanks
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Panama (1989) was an invasion with troops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Pana...
Nope (both are capable of saturating a line). Also, does it protect the data in transit? Nope (HTTPS does, rarely do I see plain HTTP any more). Does it have resume capabilities? Nope. Does it play well with NAT or proxies? Nope. Does it mangle data in transfer? Yes.

The only thing that keeps FTP around is its ubiquity.
Not a great analogy. In East Germany the wall was to keep people in.
Transfering the coins from and to the exchange... Would that cost a fee?
one mans peace is another mans tyranny. why are you ignoring the dozens of brutal dictatorships the US has instituted and kept in power over the past century +?
Cygwin still seems to be the go-to for any POSIX apps that need to interact with the actual Windows environment. For example, wslbridge[1] that connects wsltty[2] to WSL compiles the frontend component under cygwin.

[1]: https://github.com/mintty/wsltty
[2]: https://github.com/rprichard/wslbridge
> I think it's a myth that Roundup is used as a desiccant.

I can say from personal experience (I am a farmer) that it is not. My white beans get the roundup treatment. They would never dry down in time for a successful harvest otherwise.

In the olden days before roundup they used to pull them and leave them to dry before harvest, but that brought its own issues, including requiring many more trips over the field. That is a costly endeavour, including needing multiples more greenhouse gas emitting fuel, which has its own fair share of environmental impacts.

> But they can definitely reduce overall man-hours, and so provide constant value as long as they operate.

Even a simple autosteer system, which does not even replace the operator, can cost more than many farmers would spend on labour in their lifetime. Low-volume specialized farming technology is insanely expensive.

What I believe is primarily pushing the technology is difficulty in finding labour, especially skilled labour. Farmers are seeking more automation to simplify the tasks enough that you can throw any random person on the machine and get a quality result out of their work.

Operator-less equipment is inevitable, but there is no way the manufactures are going to let the farmer capture any potential gains. It is going to be priced to meet the costs of labour. The farmers will still choose it because they are having trouble finding labour in the first place.
This sounds suspiciously to me like "I rewrote my program in <x> new language and it was 20% faster and 200% easier!" in that yes, your new experience may be better, but that's not necessarily attributable to the new language/operating system, but instead that you just got rid of all the old cruft. It's entirely possible (and sounds to me likely, based on your story) that you could have just reinstalled Arch with the same positive effects.

Also, you may have lost features in the process. For example, if you rewrote your C program in Python, the code may be much cleaner, but also much slower. If you didn't need it to be fast in the first place, that might be a good compromise for you. If you did need speed, then making the Python program faster might require complicated work, like C FFI, and you might have been better off staying with the original C. Comparably, Arch's PKGBUILD makes packaging new programs very easy, whereas despite having spent a number of hours trying, I still do not understand Debian's packaging format(s). If you rarely use uncommon programs, that may not be an issue for you.
What makes you think Apple stores that information? It probably never leaves your phone.
Looking at their income statement (although not as detailed as one would like) reveals that this amount is minuscule compared to their ad revenue.