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It would be awesome if they have social media plugin which µigrates all posts from other platforms into mastadon.
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Are you by any chance using cellular services? I've been noticing the same thing when trying to visit certain Google search results. (This domain works fine on o2 4g though)
Feels like i traveled almost 20 years back in time
php is nice, i like it because it runs 70% of the web and therefore it is good
Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law!

More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you — where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast — man's laws, not God's — and if you cut them down — and you're just the man to do it — d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake
I'd like to have some way to prevent certain code from being committed in the first place.

E.g. when I have a line saying

printf("debug: now at: %d\n", i); /* DONTCOMMIT */

then when I type "git commit ...", a script will be invoked that will recognize the "DONTCOMMIT" string, and it will abort the commit.
Select text, right click, search with google, job done....
YT comments simply suck in any area. Creators can’t make polls, sorting seems random, upvoting has no filters like funny/insightful at least. Moderation seems to not exist at all. No groups, no sections (those 4-5 in sidebar do not count). It is worst implementation of all possible, and YT does nothing to fix it for decades. They have time to make “material designs” though. If you imagine that videos are just OPs in a forum, you’ll see how crappy it is.
Blockchain the disconnect between the hype and the reality is significant
Thanks, but I'm pretty sure I've tried it at home, so they might have blacklisted a good chunk of Germany's biggest dialup DSL provider? :) I'll try to investigate a bit more and contact the author
Massive state control over private industry != hard left. It's merely a tool to achieve an aim. Otherwise you can start argueing that Hitler was extreme left, which is laughable.
Secure Multi-party Computation.

The basic idea is developing methods for two (or more) parties with sensitive data to be able to compute some function of their data without having to reveal the data to one another.

The classic example is developing an algorithm that allows two people to figure out who is paid more without either revealing what their salary is.

Such algorithms get significantly more complicated if the threat model starts changing from "we're all acting in good faith, but we just don't want to share this private info" to "I'm not sure some of the people involved in this are acting in good faith."

Based on my (admittedly limited) look into this field, it seems like there has been some theoretical progress made here, but there's nothing like a generalized framework or library for general development with it. Instead, practical applications seem to be one-offs. For example, a contractor a while back developed a system that lets parties (nation-states or private space firms) figure out if their satellites are going to run into each other without revealing anything about the location or orbit of their satellites. That way they don't share sensitive data, but they can move their satellites if they're on a collision course with somebody else.

Personally, I got interested in this when working for the government. I was working on an extremely cool data integration project (State Longitudinal Data System grant form US Department of Education) that basically went nowhere because we couldn't get over the legal hurdles to data sharing... If we didn't have to share data, but could still compute interesting statistics about the data, that would have been really cool.
Either you KNOW you didn't introduce any new bugs or you don't know and are relying on hope. Testing makes the difference. I really do not care how you arrive to 100% certainty, just get there. If it means testing some structural part of your code (and other unit-testing), or it means settings up integration tests that do end to end tests on live systems, just get there. We can talk about increasing efficiency in this process as a team. For some systems it might be easier to do integration tests, for others its more efficient to do unit-tests.
And in reality it is just one company's contribution (IBM) that is "blessed" by the LF...in exchange for Platinum membership dues of course.

The LF is a huge disappointment to me...just selling the linux brand to whoever wants it.
Jeff Bezos meetings are extremely high processing contests of wit. Everyone reads a long document at the same time at the start of the meeting and then immediately starts debating and asking pointed questions. Only the presenter has time to prepare in advance.

Bezos meetings solve the problem of people not reading the material at all, not the problem of not thinking about the problem.
I'm not so sure. Yes, ideally that wouldn't be the case. But there are still weak ciphersuits available by default. (SP 800-63B isn't really relevant to whether NIST curves are safe or not.)

Another benefit is the SSH logs now fill up with cipher negotiation errors instead of failed authentication attempts, which stops automated "attacks" quicker and makes for cleaner logs if trying to parse for meaningful authentication attempts.
Don't know why you're being downvoted. People seem to be so arrogant as to believe every platform must be a bastion for some unachievable ideal of "free speech".
Your bet your ass that less than 5ms go unnoticed by serious pros in the business.
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Creativity is absolutely a team sport. It's just not a timed sport.
I understand what you mean. I should have explained that my temper flares when 3D is the only option offered, or when the 2D option is given at impossible hours.
The original post I was replying to said "significantly restrict immigration". As we are finding out, to reduce immigration absolute numbers requires increasingly inhumane, bureaucratic, arbitrary and impractical processes.

> decades ago

Which decade did you have in mind?
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The distinct on the date format is the problem, probably should use a separate query on each table to fill in the date output as a new column first, and then join afterwards.

Also wrong tool for the job comes to mind. MariaDB/MySQL are just not great at joins and query planning, and at this scale, especially with all the work involved to export and use unix tools, why not use any of the columnar data warehouses that can handle this much faster?

Export it to bigquery with CSVs and the query will probably finish in 30 seconds.
I agree that forums aren't "dead" - there's tones of very active forums in all kinds of niches. I meant more in the way that they're no longer where the largest growth is.
Well, this makes sense. Bitcoin was born as a crypto-anarchist project. Now that large amounts of money is on the line the project should deny its roots?
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100% agree as far as ethics are concerned. But then you get maintenance costs( both physical and software) and support. Simply put companies can do this better than government agencies( and more on time wrt patching for example). Can you imagine a gov agency responding to a meltdown like exploit?
I also disagree with the premise that research happens on hypertexts.

When you do research you need to concentrate on the lecture at hand in-depth, not get lost in a web of references breadth-first style.
text recognition is a better tool,

in this age, physical location isn't that important

text recognition, lets the oppressor know who is thinking what, and who they're trying to communicate it with

or makes nearly all communication impossible
When the business cycle turns, WeWork's model just won't work
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Jones may intend his conspiracies to be for entertainment value, but that is not how many of his listeners and watchers take them. They take them as accurate news that they can and do rely on to guide behavior.

Based on a little bit of skipping around in SPM's oeuvre on Spotify, I didn't hear anything that seemed out of the ordinary for hip hop. I did not hear anything that suggested that his music would be taken as anything other than entertainment by listeners.

Services are choosing to stop carrying Jones because they believe that the product itself that they were helping distribute is harmful. With SPM there doesn't seem to be anything harmful about the product itself. It is just that a terrible person makes money from it.

That's a pretty big difference.
Wide-scale adoption and promotion of open source software in the industry (e.g. Microsoft, Facebook, Google)
Would Mastodon be a useful platform to, collaboratively, define the requirements of software?

Perhaps it could be used to define the next iteration of Mastodon, then.
And to even further expand on it, the reason why they usually have a date is because it would be possible to argue that a company could be forced to keep an existing document on their website (since they aren't being forced to say something against their will, so much as being forced to not stop saying something they've already said). So the expiry is quite important in the function of a warrant canary.

Although it should be noted that as far as I'm aware, warrant canaries haven't actually gone through the court system to determine if they are actually a legal way of circumventing gag orders. Not to mention that the legality of warrant canaries has mostly only been discussed by internet lawyers in relation to US laws -- in other jurisdictions they may not work at all (I've spoken to some Australian lawyers and they think that even the basis of the theoretical arguments don't apply in Australia).

On the other hand, I don't know of any company that has actually used warrant canaries (and has "activated them" like Reddit did) which ended up being tried for violation of the NSL's gag order.
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The "user owned co-operative" model for these things is extremely under-explored. However I wonder if it only works for smaller communities; certainly it wouldn't give the same rapid global scaling that Facebook had.
"I don't think I've ever seen someone say "That guy surely didn't make that, his wife must have""

While I completely agree with the context of your remark, there have been people who suggested that the original author of theory of relativity was in fact Einstein's wife Mileva Maric.
Therapists are people to you pay to talk to you when you've got no one else. Why spurn free therapy?

It's a great question because if it draws out a rude response like yours, the questioner knows to not waste more time on small talk.
I joined a server. It was alright. Then I looked at the federated timeline and decided I did not wish to be a part of Mastadon.

Too much hate and virtue signalling. It was like what Twitter already was.
No I’m not. Wells’ time machine is never “free of time and space”. It was built and then remains in place (more or less) for hundreds of millenia. In the book the traveller describes watching the world around him change rapidly as the machine accelerates through time. It doesn’t disappear and reappear like the TARDIS.
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Speed of sound in e.g. wood is 10 times faster than in air. So an electric guitar player with 3.4m cord to the amp can feel a latency of 1ms for low frequencies through the stage and his feet. Humans have more rhythmical precision with said low frequencies. Symphonic orchestras are not known for their tight rhythm.
> There have been numerous campaigns about eating healthy and as many people who have done the transformation from an unhealthy full of junk food diet to a healthy one with exercising can attest the benefits are there.

And yet america is fatter than ever and getting fatter quicker than ever.

I think it's time we accept that most people are sheep that give in to even the most primitive forms of manipulation, even after being made aware of it.

Or to put it a bit more delicately, our brain is hardwired to optimise for short term reward functions and the vast majority of us are unable to seek longer term rewards even when consciously desiring them.
Why was this flagged? People support this guy? Or hate the takedown so much?
Yes you should treat them as separate users, because there is less chance of you doing something wrong.

What you need to consider at sign ups are more than just an email to distinguish.

Ex. if name, address and phone are the same, but the emails are different, chances are you have the same person and thus you can assume it is the same person.
Brilliant, although it would be excellent if the transitions between the times was animation.

Perhaps the time could be represented as a video.
Draw a video frame to a canvas and use as a texture for the sphere. As the time is updated just play forward or backward to a video point and the texture would update.
I can hold it in one hand or set it on a surface and read while eating, brushing my teeth, holding onto a train etc.

I still love paper books but these situations always make me miss my kindle.
Should be possible if you create a pre-commit hook, like this one https://gist.github.com/guilherme/9604324
I'd also like to see a breakdown of the time taken to complete the project.

RAM is cheap and jumping from 16GB to 64GB (or even 128GB) might have cost as much as the analysis time.

The only clue to that a memory upgrade might have been a quicker fix was that the merged file was 133G. Seems to me that an upgrade to 128GB of RAM might have led to a dramatically shorter query execution time.
And people would have precisely the same primary reaction (as they should) but then would also get angry at SpiderOak for "poisoning the well" with doubts about the legality of warrant canaries. To be clear, as far as I know there is no legal precedent that says warrant canaries are a legal way of subverting gag orders (then again, the fact there is no such legal case even though Reddit activated their warrant canary could point in the favour that the US government doesn't want to try their luck in court).
The scientific way of looking at the world has never been, and potentially will never be, absolutely true, as in a correct model that explains reality in all its facets. I do however disagree with your position in one decisive way: The scientific method demands that any stated fact is falsifiable, and that already falsified facts are not used again as a basis for further theories. Once it has been shown that flat earth is false, it cannot simply be said to be "a different opinion" and that we have no right to stop its further propagation. Nothing is provenly true, but we know what's false, anything else is still up for discussion. So, once it has been shown with reasonable documentation that things like Ausschwitz or Nanking or Japanese internment in the US happened, it is not up to "politics" to make it part of history or not. Sure, it can be rationalized and interpreted in different ways, but that doesn't change any of the facts, as long as there is not a solid disprove of these events that can deal with all the evidence that supports them.

Edit: The statement that contents are "political" is a classic unfalsifiable claim, thus is an invalid argument. Evidence demands counter-evidence.
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4 companies are becoming the middlemen of free speech. Should they be allowed censor whatever they want?
Is read that as: "keeping on?" "Keeping on, and you?"
I've been working on decentralised systems of one form or another for a long time. I think there are several ways forward.

One way is to build high quality platforms. Part of why centralised apps tend to be more common than decentralised is that we have pretty good or at least well understood platforms for making centralised apps, but the platforms for making decentralised apps are obscure at best and largely non-existent.

Another way is to narrow and repoint the focus a bit. People thinking about decentralisation tend to immediately gravitate to consumer applications. I've found it easier to get traction in the business-to-business space. Despite all the noise generated by the press consumers often don't really care about things like lockin or data privacy - the tech firms protect people's data well enough, and there isn't usually enough lockin to really worry outside of maybe smartphone operating systems. However businesses are often much more sensitive to these issues. Yes they will outsource and use centralised services too, but they're much more likely to care about things like confidentiality, privacy of their data/trade secrets, they sometimes have regulatory constraints that push them in the direction of decentralisation etc.

So that's one reason why I'm working on Corda, which is a platform for p2p business. It tends to get described as a blockchain system and it's got a lot of tech inspired by Bitcoin but I see it more as a platform for building decentralised apps (or more accurately, apps where you can precisely distribute and control trust points in accordance with your needs).

Better platforms are absolutely the way to go for consumer apps as well. Unfortunately building such platforms will probably involve sacrificing some sacred cows. For instance the web is a terribly centralising platform. It's great at decentralising information and documents but when (ab)used as a way to build ordinary applications it creates far more centralisation than we've ever seen before. To get decentralised apps becoming commonplace we probably need to tackle the dominance of HTML5 and HTTP as a (desktop/laptop) app platform.
> This dump might not compile, might not be possible to flash onto the device, and might not provide all functions.

no, since there are some LGPLv3 parts they would break the license if there was no easy way to go from their dump to a device with modified code.
Because as anyone who has read the article can see, Apple specifically used the term "hate speech".
Only for every returned row. The projection does not affect the underlying result set, it merely "shapes" the results you have received. WHERE clauses are always run before SELECT
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The thing I remember from that era was most of what I read about in Byte being out of reach financially. The open source movement has made software much more accessible. If I want to learn to program in Go or Haskell I don't need to start by reaching for my wallet.
This is a big deal.

If we can find ways to perform secure, multi-party computation, we could develop fully distributed computational, networking, and power delivery systems.

Your solar roof tiles could be, basically, CPUs or GPUs with embedded wireless networking.
I'm not convinced: are you an engineer? To your first example, the Bose suspension doesn't use AI and is already as good as it can get. HVAC already works well and 90% of the time the air is kept at the same temperature +/- a few degrees.
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Well, I know for sure that PCM is not the right format for these kind of applications. However, I couldn't remember the abbreviation for the protocols anymore.
Honest non-loaded question: What is the point of this? Assuming this open-source software and accompanying premium software (https://ph7cms.com/pro/) exist to meet some demand, why is there demand for more than a handful of dating sites? I would imagine that everyone wanting to get a date online would only try the most popular sites. Why would they try dating services created quickly with this software?
Alexander Grothendieck, one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century, on cognitive "facility" and giftedness:

Since then I’ve had the chance in the world of mathematics that bid me welcome,
to meet quite a number of people, both among my “elders” and among young people
in my general age group who were more brilliant, much more ‘gifted’ than I was.
I admired the facility with which they picked up, as if at play, new ideas,
juggling them as if familiar with them from the cradle–while for myself I felt
clumsy, even oafish, wandering painfully up an arduous track, like a dumb ox
faced with an amorphous mountain of things I had to learn (so I was assured)
things I felt incapable of understanding the essentials or following through to
the end. Indeed, there was little about me that identified the kind of bright
student who wins at prestigious competitions or assimilates almost by sleight
of hand, the most forbidding subjects.

In fact, most of these comrades who I gauged to be more brilliant than I have
gone on to become distinguished mathematicians. Still from the perspective or
thirty or thirty five years, I can state that their imprint upon the
mathematics of our time has not been very profound. They’ve done all things,
often beautiful things in a context that was already set out before them, which
they had no inclination to disturb. Without being aware of it, they’ve remained
prisoners of those invisible and despotic circles which delimit the universe of
a certain milieu in a given era. To have broken these bounds they would have to
rediscover in themselves that capability which was their birthright, as it was
mine: The capacity to be alone.

(from Récoltes et Semailles)
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This isn't really my scene, but the Link to the Past // Super Metroid randomiser[1], where you keep switching between the two games, potentially discovering items from one in the other, is something that is impressive that it's even technically possible.

[1] https://kotaku.com/inside-the-wild-new-mash-up-of-link-to-th...
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Maybe not?

Last week I gave a talk on the history of decentralisation, or at least my history with it. One of my examples of a successful case of decentralisation is Minecraft vs Lego Universe. Both quite similar games, but Minecraft totally crushed Lego and out-scaled it to an insane degree. As far as I can tell this is largely because Minecraft was much more decentralised (mods, user run servers). In particular Lego Universe was crippled by the cost of centralised content moderation that Mojang simply didn't have at all.

There are examples of decentralised user-owned cooperative type systems outscaling and outperforming centralised alternatives. I'm uncertain to what extent you can make sweeping generalisations ... there certainly seem to be more cases of successful centralised platforms than decentralised, but this is partly because we tend to view decentralisation as an absolute rather than as a spectrum, and partly because a few companies with very strong hiring pipelines have subsidised the creation of vast quantities of centralised software.