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In order to use MicroG, it is required to patch the ROM to allow app signature spoofing. People from LineageOS claim that this can be a huge security risk (and they are right) but there is no other way to achieve an implementation like this.

So MicroG people created this fork with the patch builtin.

More info here: https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/wiki...
I don't believe your "commute" constitutes a commute in the sense of what this article is about. Your commute is just a walk.

People traveling for 30-90 (or more!) minutes to and from work, particularly the ones driving in traffic, are the commuters. And the ones I know that fall into that category hate it.

Good for you that you have such a nice situation, though!
It's not "forced labour", it's just a contractual term. You certainly _can_ quit on zero notice but you've breached contract and it will cost you.

If you look closely at US startups you'll usually find the founders and senior staff are on "notice required" contracts of several months.
Aren't there Electron applications that effectively bundle node.js as well? Isn't that kind of the same?
> It is not true that whatever a human can do, a machine can be taught to do. The human must have insight into HOW they do it in order to teach it, or otherwise come up with some new algorithm.

Why does this mean a machine cannot be taught to do it?

> There are a large class of things humans do that they don't understand the mechanics behind,

Sure.

> and for which there also aren't algorithms.

Well, we manage to encode it in our brains.
More information:
http://blogs.fsfe.org/larma/2016/microg-signature-spoofing-s...
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That wiki page was last updated roughly a year ago, I'm suspecting it's not accurate enough to rely on.
No because I unfollowed / muted influencers and now pretty much only see what my friends and family post.

Just with better user experience than awful Snapchat.
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"Information System Authority (RIA) Director General Taimar Peterkop likewise confirmed that the threat assessment had changed after the research published by the Czech researchers on Monday revealed that the security flaw affecting Estonian ID cards is easier to exploit than previously believed."

is what you are reffering to "the research published by the Czech researchers"?
> I'm personally a little annoyed at PG's efforts to turn SQL into half an OO programming language (see http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2012/08/postgresql-or-model.... for examples)

I read that link and didn't get it - has anyone a fuller explanation or other links to recommend?
Sophistication? I'm of decidedly average intelligence and I laugh at these ads.

Probably not the target demo though.
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English has no grammar. Those examples are just instances of nonstandard declinations and spelling. (like "woke" not "waked")
Now we're talking about manipulative UX. I would even go as far as to call that "malware".

The original discussion was on the level of "assuming we can trust the OS that it's not trying to trick us, this dialog helps us decide whether to trust the app." As we have seen in the past, Windows no longer upholds this assumption.
You insinuated that I had some kind of ulterior motive, in the same way that you are now insinuating that the accident report was a cover up.

As for expert opinion, could you give references? All I can find are articles in the popular press where a journalist emailed someone in the know to confirm that yes, indeed, Airbus control columns are not linked -- which is not a point in dispute.

There's a really simple explanation for why the accident report doesn't consider the issue of the control sticks not being linked. It just wasn't a significant factor in the accident, as far as anyone can tell.

If you have evidence of a cover up, you should provide it. The fact that the report did not draw the same conclusions that you would have drawn is not evidence of a cover up.
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"It feels like devs now want to write apps without spending any real effort on them."

I think what people are fed up with, is to spend effort learning the "method du jour" of putting a button on a screen and updating the view on a click.

This is pretty much a solved problem, and has been since MVC was invented in the 70s (not saying it's perfect, but it does the job). So there should be an easy an portable way of doing it for decades now.

QT seems to be the kind of framework, but it's C++ so i won't qualify it as "easy".
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https://lineage.microg.org/#faq6
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To a lot of people 2hr/day commuting is less terrible than the trade-offs associated with living closer to the city.
Is Intercom down?
The tire-fire of a relationship between MySQL vendors, is still very entertaining.

I personally blame the use of GPL licensing. I hate to be yet another commentor that drops the “P”-word, so I will drop the “F”-word instead; the Freebsd licensing allows for a kind of community growth, collaboration and mind share the likes of which the MySQL forks could only dream of.
Counterpoint: I can’t imagine a guitar player, dancer, skater, basketball player, mechanic, or whatever, actually achieving greatness without having spent a significant amount of time ‘just playing around’.

I’ve heard plenty of guitarists and classical músicians who were extremely technically proficient with their instrument, but only other musicians would appreciate them.

If Joseph Campbell had not pursued this relatively ‘unstructured’ way of honing his craft, and stayed within the regimen of traditional academia, I highly doubt this thread would exist because Joseph would have only been known within the small academic circles. He transcended.

When you have put in the monotonous work of practice, playtime only gets more exciting.
I find their ads are way to expensive to trial. Minimum $500 spend for selve serve and minimum $5000 if you want to talk to their representatives. Most other sites allow you to dabble.
Nope. Nope. We have open offices because some genius did the simple math and realized that you can cram more people into a smaller space if you remove the walls.

Then somewhere along the way, some marketing guy came up with the spin, "It fosters communication!". Open office does indeed make people close in proximity, but it's not a necessity.
In a nutshell, South Africa is a captured state that is funnelling as much of the budget as possible into graft. The company targeted is at the forefront of it all.
Clinton was going to be worse.

But keep in mind that a weak and divided America is the first goal. Keeping Washington dysfunctional.
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Yes it can both be true. Farmers when left alone don't unify build an army and attack you. The simply can not do that for essentially logistical reasons.

However, when you try to completely change a whole society, destroying a very large quantity of its economic assets, while also doing massive internal reforms, both in the state and the party, you put yourself in a dangerous situation. Not primary because of the farmers but rather that the very political system you build your power on starts to collapse.

> Stalin was able to blame the farmers for trying to hoard grain and eliminate their leaders

Not sure what you mean by 'he was able to blame', of course he was, he controlled virtually ever channel of information.

Most of the population, and certainty the farmers did not 'buy' this propaganda.

> And as we can't see the future, it wasn't obvious beforehand how bad of an idea collectivization would turn out to be, so I presume he felt it was a gamble worth taking.

Literally every single expert, including communist from his own party knew it was a horrible idea. Its not like this was the first time they tried to get the farmers to do things they did not want to do. During the initial (1917-1921) attempted to claim the farmers property they learned that it was not at all an easy thing to do. The hole regime almost collapsed in 1921 and they had to bring back markets even when they hated the concept.

He had to replace lots of people and use every political tool in the book to actually manage it. Its a true testimony of Stalin political control that he was able to pull this off.
Indeed. I have also come to like it for the same reasons you describe. I like getting home, taking off my work clothes and doing what I like. I also get to see people other than my wife every day. But, like you, I walk to the office. If I was travelling a long way on congested roads or public transport I don't think I would prefer it.
We are doing the experiment, it's marketing departments encouraging us but we are mostly doing exactly what they recommend.
While working from home can be nice and more productive if you have some well defined task that needs to be done, I still feel I need the daily social interaction with my coworkers. Slack and Skype is just not enough. I would get depressed if I worked alone from home every day.
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Who's to say that we aren't living in such a world? :)

And as with anything else in life, we must weigh the options. Face to face can indeed be better than remote. It can also be worse, because some people just irritate others by their presence and little behaviors. But more significantly, some of us do work which requires a good amount of thought - uninterrupted, quiet thought. Shared offices make this more difficult (compared to a quiet home office).
> how slow government operates

Government pioneered, or pushed contractors to pioneer, lots of technologies - just think about NASA.

I'm pretty sure that, with their budget, the NSA is at the forefront of technologies that can be used in their field, but they obviously don't want to disclose what they do. Adopting a publicly available technology shouldn't be difficult at all.
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Hey, Cheers for your Interest in Open Source. OSS needs people like you.

I actually got involved in open source in hacktoberfest 2016 a little over a year actually. Contributing to Open Source is pretty simple nowadays. Here's what I did

1. Find an OSS that you use, that is simple enough that you can contribute to and uses the tech stack that you are most familiar with.
2. Each project would have a Newcomers section or atleast a Readme, read that and set up the development environment and compile the latest build.
3. Go to the respective bug tracker and find bugs tagged newcomers, beginners e.t.c and find one that is recent and unassigned.
4. Show your interest in contributing and fixing the bug, and state explicitly that you are a beginner and this is your first OSS contribution.
5. While waiting for someone to reply try to solve the bug on your own. The code base would be intimidating but give it time.
6. If you get stuck, ask for help in the respective IRC Channels or Slack group of the project.
7. If you manage to fix it, send a pull request and make everyone Happy.

This is just an highlevel overview of the steps required. Cheers
Other governments take note his is what putting all your eggs in one basket looks like.
This probably depends a lot on the industry but my mom works at a grocery store and the reason they give short notices (as short as allowed by law) is because of the work moral. In Germany, there is no such thing as sick days, you can take off as long as you need if you are sick and have a doctors notice (which is mostly free or very inexpensive because of public healthcare). Most of the time someone is laid off, this person will suddenly become sick for most of their remaining time. When they come to work, they often procrastinate a lot more and get little to no work done. This means, once they have been given notice, they barely work and the employer can do very little. They cannot get fired (because they already are) and have to keep paying them for that duration. The same also often happens when the employee gives notice.

While the employer can take legal action and sue them, proving that someone is sick is rather difficult (and frowned upon by most judges). There are many cases where my mother's employer could have easily proven that (because witnesses same him partying or there are even pictures online where he partied on that day) but it is generally not worth it because a trail is more expensive then paying one month's pay and also not worth the time and overhead.

Not everyone takes work very seriously, unfortunately, which makes the process suck for everybody. When my mother's boss has an opportunity to fire them eithout notice (because they are late or caught steeling), he generally does that, which is super unfair for the employees who would have worked until their very last.
Because of bitcoin history.

One of the early transactions in Bitcoin's history, first in US, a user called NewLibertyStandard got coins from Martti Malmi. The price was $5 for ~5k bitcoins. The price was calculated from an estimated cost of electricity spent by Malmi to mine those coins.

Since then bitcoin and electricity have been in inter linked to each other. There are efficient machines for mining bitcoin but the profitability comes down a lot on electricity costs.

I don't think there is so much history of electricity attached with email, Clash of Clans etc.
They definitely won't be accepted happily, or at all. People have already had enough of immigration and the politics reflect that (the rise of right-wing populists in Western countries.)

My parents migrated from the Middle East in the 80s due to war so I have an insight in what goes on in their country, people leave for Europe in quest of a better life quite often. They spend lots of $$ on it and they still get rejected and sent back, I've had personal experiences with people doing that. I've been thinking about the situation that could arise, and it's worrying.
I've been running LineageOS on my OnePlus 3 for a few weeks now, since the whole data collection furore. It's been absolutely fantastic and I'd wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone. Battery life has been much better and I love all the extra features in their camera app, for instance.

I'm not so sure about this though. It seems like they've disabled some very important security features. Their justification of "Lineage obviously hate freedom and are in bed with Google" doesn't sit right with me. Also there seem to be a lot of hoops to jump through just to re-enable the Play Store, which I'd consider basic functionality for any Android device.

Still, the pursuit of more freedom is a noble goal and I wish them all the best.
So in other words, site owners are entitled to an income?

Pish posh. Not everything on the web is worth paying for. The content that is worth money will draw subscribers, and content producers are going to just have to live up to the fact that not all of what they produce is worth paying for.
I switched to LOS+OpenGapps from MIUI on my Xiaomi. It's like day and night. Everything just works. Can't name a single problem really.
Actually is pretty stable right now, the most important features like Google Cloud Messaging and the Maps API v2 work flawlessly. Only certain specific apps give some issues, which usually are fixed in short time.
.. but there isn't suddenly, unexpectly, no need for the employees to pay their rent, mortgages and bills.

When I was made redundant a decade ago in the UK I got:

- week's "consultation period" during which the ranking process for who would be made redundant was explained

- pay in lieu of month's notice

- (optional on behalf of the employer) three month's pay for signing away my right to sue for wrongful dismissal

The only situation in which employees can really lose out is if the company goes bankrupt in which case they are at risk of losing their last paycheque.
https://lineage.microg.org/#faq3

LineageOS works without the GApps, but you lose lots of (fundamental) things, like network location and GCM (push notifications). Moreover lots of apps require the GApps API to work (often the Maps API) and crash if the GApps are not installed.
My point is that almost all of Apple's profit is in reality generated in California, even if its sales and accounting profits are booked overseas. So I'm comparing US-based profit with the US Federal tax rate.

Let's say an iPhone is sold in the UK, generating a $200 profit. How much of that profit was really generated in the UK and how much in the US? The answer is to consider what would happen if Apple's US and UK operations were two distinct, independent companies: Apple in California would determine almost everything about the way iPhones are sold in the UK - where the Apple stores are located, what the stores look like, what their TV and billboard advertising should look like, what happens when a customer returns a product, etc. Apple US would then take this list of requirements and negotiate with a UK business partner. In that negotiation the UK partner has very little leverage - if the UK partner doesn't like terms Apple US is offering, Apple US can just find another partner. The UK partner then sells phones according to Apple's specification. The result is that the UK partner will have thin margins and almost all profit will flow back to the US.

Unfortunately, tax law allows Apple to move its intellectual property to an Irish subsidiary company. The profit on UK sales is then booked in Ireland and Apple pays the low Irish tax rate even though the real profit has been generated in the US.

I accept your point that 23% may be a good corporate tax rate - but in that case it should be 23% for all Californian companies, not just the ones which are able to transfer their IP offshore.
unfortunately there are many more examples where it is proven that collocated teams work far better
It may be on a US Navy warship, that absolutely isn't the case for other blue water navies. If anything I would suggest that having too many people involved adds confusion. The OOW has repeaters of the course and speed so that they can verify their orders are being followed, they are the check.

The Wolf Rock collision board of inquiry makes for interesting (and embarrassing) reading around what happens when assumptions are being made about who is doing what.
I live in Japan. This is stupid.

I don't mean the blog post; I mean Japanese addresses are stupid.

From any perspective other than maybe obfuscation, and confusing invaders 400 years ago, they are idiotic. Every country in the EU and North America has a better address system.

There are more reasons than this why this is dumb, but let me list a few I've encountered personally:

1.) Blocks can be fucking BIG. You can take a taxi to Mouyameroyo 1-3 (the block number) and still have no idea where you are, have to just choose to walk around it to the left or to the right, and if you choose wrong, and its a big block, you will walk a kilometer or more. (In my case, the place I was looking for was a children's hospital for a child with a high fever. I mean of course right? When else would it happen.)

2.) There is no way to refer to a block that doesn't exist yet. You can't infer any hypothetical address range based on what comes before or after it. Blocks don't get numbered in any sane order. You can try, as the builders of my apartment did, to guess. But you might be wrong, as they were, and then all the documents have to change.

I love Japan. My kids are dual-citizens and I chose to mostly raise them here. But some things about it are just super-dumb, and this is one.

(Don't even get me started on the date system, used to this day on many important documents including virtually all financial documents, which is based on when the current emperor dies. It's the year Heisei 29 right now. There is no way to accurately refer to dates in the future, because we don't know when the current emperor will die. (Or, as he hopes and deserves to, abdicate. I assume that will affect this kind of date system also.)
should have known this, since it seems like common sense in retrospect.

I'm projecting from impressions I'd made since the Mac book pro became harder and harder to modify and upgrade. I'd constructed a faulty assumption about the repairability of iPhones.

It's never been difficult for me to find someone to repair one of my old iPhones in the past, I just quit on iPhones last year and feel somewhat disappointed with them since the v7s. (I am a fairly recent switcher to Android.)
Canticle for Liebowitz is a novel on that topic.

I'm not sure "humans will not go totally extinct" is any more comforting than the cliche of "We'll not destroy the earth, it'll be fine, it's human's that'll be wiped out" there's definately the opportunity for a lot of people to have a very bad time. Even worse than the bad times that large segments of the planet are experiencing right now.
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The whole point of this ROM is not including the Play Services at all.
Don't know if it is against their ToS to use the Google services with microG instead of the GApps.
If you are wondering what he achieved by all that reading, read his books or watch the man speak. I’d say at minimum he achieved a much greater contentment than most people I’ve ever encountered have, and at most has positively impacted literally millions of people’s lives.

Seems like a good investment to me.
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Spain does the same. With you ID card chip, you can:

- sign your emails digitally
- login to secure websites with your id card (bank, DMV, taxes, …). Sometimes you can only do it with the ID card
- they opened many of their tools, so you can design your website to allow login with Spain's ID cards (that was a fun project)
First suspects in a murder are usually the family.
> makes ads or extracting value from your public by all means ok

Certainly not by all means. But it isn't unreasonable to expect that if people gain value from something you create, some of that value accrues to you as the creator.

I make most of my living as a freelance writer, but I just charge other people to write the content they can't or won't.

There is also another problem here: the market doesn't typically incentivize the sort of content we'd like to see created. Long form investigative journalism is hugely expensive, and in a world awash with free content, few people think they should have to pay for it. But do we really want to see that sort of content go away?
OpenGApps != microG

OpenGApps are just the usual bloated proprietary Google Apps, just packaged in a nice and handy way.

See https://lineage.microg.org/#faq1
> This would allow any components built in any language to interface and work together using a common protocol

No it wouldn't? How would a C++ app run my managed control built in C#? Or my JS page run components written in Rust, Java and Clojure? Unless you are expecting all of the runtimes to be bundled with the app/page too, in which case good luck with your file size and startup time...
Sounds cool. Do you have any links to these experiments on github?
Isn't it more interesting that they placed 9 blocks (2.5 tons each) every hour for 30 years to build the pyramid?
> instead of terminating an employee, the company might reduce executive pay,

Well that won't happen.

Apart from a few cases where executives agree to take all their compensation in equity to rescue a failing business, they tend to pay themselves first, sometimes at the cost of the long term health of the business. Philip Green / BHS is the example that comes to mind.