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Firefox also disables GPU acceleration with it by default.
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If you download the current Windows ISO image and install that offline, you won't get a proper driver for your nVidia card either. Yet, this is accepted as normal.

Some Linux distributions that do not hamper themselves artificially on philosophical grounds offer nvidia binary drivers in their package repositories like they do with every other driver they contain. Your focus on the kernel sources is too narrow.

There absolutely was a time when you had to download all these drivers you mention separately - for Windows. And people put up with it. I think even today the Windows installer is forced to offer an option to install 3rd party RAID controller drivers into the installation environment...
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> Is this related to the Google account?

It seems so. That's not the only factor but it seems to be strong one.
What I mean by violence is, if you don't pay your taxes the last resort is to arrest you. To arrest you the government will send armed police to take you to jail. If you don't comply they will use force (violence) to make you comply.

The point is if we're going to use violence against someone we have to make sure we're justified in doing so. Forcing someone to pay their share of the roads, defense and police sure that's easy. Then forcing them to pay 70 cents in the last dollar they earned, now it's getting a little harder to rationalize. The cut off point is not clear but it should be part of the argument. Fine if it works somewhere that doesn't mean it's right does it?

It's easy to make the argument that a person with a lot of wealth should help those less fortunate than them selves but it's not so easy when you are forcing them to help the less fortunate. I don't think two wrongs make a right in this case.
C, for example.
That's true. Although Retin-A is the most effective topical acne medication as well. Aside from some medical moisturizers with urea, the most effective moisturizer is just Vaseline (I say this as a person with extremely dry skin and many problems resulting from that). It prevents the evaporation of water effectively. For the most part, moisturizers are only as effective as they are greasy.
It actually is pretty easy morally, depending on what your moral is ;-) It is easy because to get into this tax bracket, you have to earn a LOT of money, way way more than the average citizen. If you hit this, you still have at least 3x net as much as everyone else. There is no reason to be sorry of someone having to contribute loads to the public and still being super well off afterwards.
(Having lived in both, this is actually a huge cultural difference between Europe and the US)

The old question is whether this results in less motivation to do work which brings you above the (whatever) top tax bracket. In my experience it actually is.
No, they don't want to waste time trying to make a broken driver work.

It's an Ubuntu/Nvidia problem, not a Google problem. AMD and Intel open source drivers work just fine.
I think it will be an alternative to Github's Actions, except it is not tied to git events.
Been using syncthing for a few years - I had used BitTorrent Sync until my default search provider became Yahoo! and I could no longer trust anything BitTorrent Inc was doing...

Syncthing is great - a folder that syncs, I have a VPC in the cloud, so for the data I really care about, it's mirrored offsite more or less in real time in case my house burns down.
The OS does initialize it, so if you’re writing code for linux in any languages, or even in assembly, you won’t be able to spy on that retrieved memory.

Now C might want to do it too, but bare metal stuff is not necessarily compliant C so that doesn’t matter much.
If I made a $20K more than I make now, I doubt I would spend most of it. It would go to savings. If I was making $30K a year, I would probably use it to have a more comfortable lifestyle.
Nope, they're usually flat taxes.
Besides the incredulous reasons of "it serves the bourgeoisie" I would say a legitimate issue with this is that it makes retirement planning difficult and hurts retirees.
This sounds like a variant of “it works in a homogeneous society,” which has long been a right-wing dogwhistle.
I agree that we have a long way to go to get to a true meritocracy. That said, even if we ever achieved that, "these movements" would still exist, because someone's going to have more grapes than someone else and that's going to be considered unfair by the group who didn't get as much money/power as some other people did, regardless of whether or not that outcome is "deserved". (That's probably not you, but I think it's a mistake to think that they'd vanish once equality of opportunity was achieved.)
Yes that's true.

According to the documentation of Equal†,

> Approximate numbers with machine precision or higher are considered equal if they differ in at most their last seven binary digits (roughly their last two decimal digits).

Which is why in Mathematica, 0.1+0.2==0.3 is also True.

If you need a kind of equality comparison that returns False for 0.3 and 3/10, use SameQ. Funnily, SameQ[0.1+0.2,0.3] is also True, because SameQ allows two machine precision numbers to differ in their last binary digit.

†: https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Equal.html
There's still a huge difference between being in the rural area and being in a large city as far as job opportunities or meetups go.
I'm well out of my depth here and welcome corrections:

Managing and multiplexing access to hardware is a core responsibility of the kernel. When video drivers are implemented in user space as X11 has traditionally done there are a bunch of issues: the program that includes them has to be setuid root to have the right access to the hardware, opening up the possibility of security bugs; only one such program can run at a time; and if something goes wrong in user space, it can bring down the system.

The newer kernel subsystem responsible for handling video cards is the Direct Rendering Manager, with the unfortunately confusing acronym DRM. [1] nVidia declined to support DRM in its proprietary driver for quite some time but eventually chose to do so.

They have some quibbles with GBM, one of the parts of the kernel API, but they didn't raise them until after the API was implemented in the kernel, was implemented in the AMD and Intel drivers, and had become a dependency for the Wayland reference compositor Weston. They refused to implement GBM and instead implemented their own alternative, EGLStreams, which is far more complicated. The open source world believes this is the wrong architecture and has had a lot of discussion about how to (reluctantly) support it. The current KDE and Gnome approach seems to be to accept patches from nVidia for EGLStreams support [2][3], but not everyone feels the same way. [4]

nVidia has implemented DRM already. They could implement GBM if they wanted to. I'm sure that having their proprietary driver in kernel space instead of user space makes licensing more complicated, but it hasn't stopped them yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Manager

[2] https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2017/10/plasmawayland...

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-K...

[4] https://drewdevault.com/2017/10/26/Fuck-you-nvidia.html
> - Demand for IPv6 is highly asymmetrical. The party that is out of IPv4 addresses needs IPv6. But everyone who has enough IPv4 space has no reason to care.

We might need some way to force them... Google has done a lot of good by changing functionality for SEO + chrome by giving warning or giving PR boost if your site has a certain feature.

They should consider prioritizing sites that have both IPv4 and IPv6 and also warn users in the browser if the site does not have IPv6.

It's a legit warning too:

"Warning! This site may not work on some networks!"
>This subthread[0] implies that there have been nouveau-caused crashes for webgl since 2015. The linked bug[1] seems pretty cut and dry. Nouveau completely locks the system, Nvidia doesn't.

Crashing on a page designed to exhaustively test GL features is one thing. How about crashes which actually affect end-users? I expect that the volume of users who will be negatively impacted by blacklisting is far higher than the volume of users impacted by serious nouveau bugs like this. The difference is that the former user hasn't been annoying Chromium devs in their bug tracker yet.

>Did they fix it in less than 2 years?

No. The bug turns 2 next month and shows no signs of being fixed.

>Did it crash the end-user's computer?

No, but like I said I don't think many nouveau users are actually affected by bugs of this scale. The bug which prompted the blacklisting and being discussed today is not such a bug.

>Did people navigating to your website report the bug to you?

Yes.

>Did you perhaps work around the bug?

Yes

>For example by using a polyfill that would provide degraded performance but still allow the end user to access your content

No. If the workaround caused severe performance degredation and encouraged users to switch to proprietary software, I would have patched Chromium.
ISPs use port logs for the same reasons as address logs so I imagine a court would treat them the same.
It's thought to be less susceptible to tracability analysis than Monero.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.04299/

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/338.pdf
I watch some of the video generated by the Maddon football video game, and find it almost as realistic as the real games. Someday, some entrepreneur is going to figure out that you can have realistic pro games generated by software. It will save a lot on player salaries etc. Then when the people at home start watching those instead of the real games (maybe they will all be online, and not blocked by the networks), they might not even want any more to go see real games at the stadium.
I'm of mixed opinion on this one.

On one hand, I think 'That person earned their money, they can spend it as they see fit. If the kids splurge it, it still gets distributed.'

On the other hand, I see how this makes it hard for life to seem fair. (But then again, some people are born attractive, tall, athletic, smart, etc. The upshot: life just isn't fair.)

Even if we agreed that high taxes on inherited wealth were proper, I doubt if it'd become law. The Kennedys, Bushes, Clintons, etc. wouldn't like it for obvious reasons.
Same, but I like gaff tape because it peels off easy and re-sticks well without leaving a gummy residue
I got an amd fury x a while back because the nvidia binary drivers regressed severely with my old card, and I wanted 4K anyway.

It’s by far the best Linux GPU I’ve ever encountered, and that’s with open source drivers don’t set the kernel taint bit.

Its performance in benchmarks was much better than the comparably priced NVIDIA. It is also the quietest gamer GPU I’ve encountered (I bought one with slightly nicer fans).

Maybe things have changed (but the 1080 was certainly out back then), but this card wins on every metric other than CUDA support (nonexistent) and absolute performance (close enough to fastest, and certainly overkill for my Linux Steam collection at 4K).
On a multiuser system it could be an issue. Other users with access to make HTTP requests could add a malicious endpoint. e.g. on a shared server of some sort. I could see this in academia or some business settings. Threat model would be an attacker with a foothold on one machine gaining access to the documents of another user.
I'm seeing a number of (well intentioned) people here raising the classic Randian argument of the morality of taxes, and several other points from her work Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, such as taxing consumption.

As a former Objectivist, all I can say (without writing an entire essay) is that there are logically sound and morally superior counter arguments against both of the above arguments, and in favor of limited forms of socialism.

I use the word 'limited socialism' because people (like me) who grew up during the Cold War tend to associate any socialist program with Soviet communism and totalitarianism.
First I'm hearing of this. That's royally fucked up. I guess the only solution is to wait for all those people to die so that the homes will change hands and trigger re-assessment.
I could argue that I am talking about US taxes. The overall discussion (beyond this news article) is entirely about US taxes, I live in the US, and most bait posts like the one I responded to are also American in origin.

I'd rather be frank: I was not commenting in good faith. There was obviously no good discussion to come of the subtree, and I was bored and felt like getting my quill wet. I hope you found my comment as I intended it: polite but smug, responding but unanswering, and steering the discussion but noncommittal. Yes, it's not a good comment, it's a polarizing comment. Comment voting systems like these are quite interesting I think. Immediately after posting I was upvoted and you were downvoted by some other reader. They surely cast their votes on how they feel: I was disagreeing with the grandparent (bait post) and they too disagreed. Upvote. As I hinted above, my post isn't strong enough to stand on it's own merits, it was upvoted merely by context. Since you seemed to disagree (or at least not agree), you're an enemy, part of the opposing faction. Downvote. Again, your post wasn't irrelevant or otherwise misinformed, it was downvoted by context. I'm sorry that happened to you, I didn't do it but I'll say you need tough skin in flamebait trees.
That’s because it’s a dogwhistle, not an actual argument.
Like most people in this thread, you assume all consumption taxes need to be flat. That's not the case.
Flat taxes are regressive.
> Nobody is going to pay a waiter $40/hour.

That's not obviously true.
I'd argue that many people have done the work, followed the rules, played their cards the best they could and they just were dealt an okay or even bad hand.

Given they've done everything we could reasonably expect they should, let's make sure they are made whole with the amazing good fortune the winners have received by having everyone play an honest game.
The proprietary version is "if you don't like it, learn to like it."
The opinions of a few people in a very large population—or even the opinions of five, ten, or twenty people—do not allow you to ascribe those views to everyone in the group. I know I could find examples of right-wing nuts saying women are inherently poor engineers, or something like that.

Now, if you're aware of a gallop poll that randomly sampled self-identified "leftist-activists" and asked "Agree or disagree, is most capitalist business morally bankrupt?", that would get us somewhere. Since I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist, this discussion is a bit difficult.

Maybe I shouldn't be posting this comment, since I clearly don't have much useful to add. I don't know. I guess I primarily want to say, I'd really encourage actively listening to (a diverse set of people in) the groups you describe, if you're not doing so already. I suspect, based on my own imperfect and unprovable anecdotal evidence, that you will find a much broader set of viewpoints than what you're describing.
Yes, the collective (the government as elected by the people) decides how to spend other peoples money. That is not a moral justification.

This is how democracy works. But if collectively a people democratically decide to do something that doesn't make it morally correct.

You do have to follow the law, but what I'm saying is that we need to consider the moral implications of the law being suggested.
It's like increasing the culture output in Civ
The thought of having to confront inequality or having to recognize that minorities are treated differently solely on the basis of their skin color, sexual orientation or gender is one that is unfortunately still deeply uncomfortable it seems. MLK's understanding of the white moderate still remains as pertinent today as it did when he wrote that letter.
Indeed economic stratification like that is profoundly unnatural. What’s natural is either universal poverty, if you look at the world before ~5,000 years ago, or nigh on universal poverty, if you look at the world before modern economic growth began in the -1800’s. There were places and periods that were better off before that but it never lasted. The population increased until the average person was on the brink of starvation and every 5-20 years over 10% of the population would die in a famine. And there was always a small class of patricians or tradespeople and an even smaller oligarchy or aristocracy who thought themselves rich but had no medicine worth the name, lived by candlelight when it was dark and travelled by horse, cart or ship.

You’re quite right that economic stratification is not a natural phenomenon. Economic growth is profoundly unnatural. In nature we’re a slightly more successful kind of ape.
Microsoft tried to make touch a priority with Windows 8 and it was a complete failure. The Surface is great, as a laptop, but not very useful without a keyboard.
That takes away any real "chance," and wouldn't be enjoyable at all. People might watch others play a video game...and there is a market for that, but that will never replace the actual thing.
Panem et circenses.

Massive "sports" events have been a staple of social control since Greek and Roman times, and still are to some extent. Instead of going out and killing people on the streets, you just watch gladiators kill one another.

People still riot from time to time when their favorite team loses a big match, but those riots can be much more easily controlled and condemned than one that actually exposes deep fissures within the society.

Having said that, however, it's worth asking whether a democratic society should allow the government to encourage such a well-known method of silencing dissent.
There's still a huge difference between living in a rural area and being in a large city as far as job opportunities, funding or meetups go.
The working poor are the fastest growing segment of homelessness in my jurisdiction. That doesn't mean they're all living on the street. RVs, cars, shelters, etc.

The causality of homelessness and addiction is more like a negative feedback loop. eg No insurance, get sick or injured, self medicate with alcohol or oxy, loose job, loose housing.

The link between mental illness and homelessness is pretty straight forward.
I've seen Syncthing before but I don't think it is exactly what I need. If I'm not wrong, it is a secure p2p protocol and a suite of apps implementing them to synchronize folders between devices, in the way you would do with Rsync.

That means if I have several terabytes that I want to sync between devices, I'd need to have enough space in every device, is that right? (and each device would get a 1:1 copy of the folders). I read that when there are conflicts, the apps create a new "filename".sync-conflict file so you can manually resolve conflicts.

What I'd like is a secure way to backup all my files to some cloud provider (S3?) across all my devices, and have an MRU cache in a folder where I can configure the size (for instance, keep at most, say, 512mb of the files I most recently used). For things like photos, it would be better if the sync thing would get thumbnails from the cloud, so I would not need to download the whole thing just to find photos.

GDrive / GPhotos is the thing I use now. The combo has a lot of bells and whistles and I'd be fine having a simpler product where I could have more (perceived?) control on how things display, when syncing happens, etc (in lieu of other things like the nice A.I. photo search, integration with GSuite of apps, etc.). Kinda like using a file explorer on my local desktop.
"...usually reserved for someone they want out no matter what."

And I'd suggest they make the decision when you arrive in person. Before that, I read your anecdote as having taken place all online without in-person contact. I'd further surmise that the entire process was automated.

The wrong person walks in that following day with the same cashier's check and it's 'thanks for the payment, we're proceeding with the eviction.'
the nvidia driver is proprietary. If nvidia opens the source, maybe they would ship with that instead.
In fact, when buying graphics cards I am looking much more on the driver support than on the pure FPS performance. I have a Dell XPS with NVIDIA graphics and an AMD RX460 in my desktop PC.

And in my experience, the NVIDIA driver landscape is just a mess. The state of Nouveau can be obtained from the article above and the proprietary driver causes all kinds of weird issues (e.g. UI spinners rotating at different speeds, fans turning faster than they are supposed to be, etc.). On the other hand, the (open source) AMD driver seems to have evolved quite well over the last years.

As a result, I hate my NVIDIA card and like my AMD card quite much. Every time I see those steam survey results I wonder why there are still so many people buying NVIDIA cards for their Linux boxes. They probably just trust the benchmarks and don't compare the experience first hand.
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Agreed re: target discovery. Most of the 23andMe data is not much better than what is already publicly available to researchers via initiatives like the UK Biobank. 23andMe uses the Illumina Global Screening array which has significantly worse output (in terms of number of SNPs) than the 500k patients genotyped in the UK Biobank. Furthermore these genotyping based assays make it impossible to detect rare variants that have never been seen before and may be protective. The data being generated by Helix is probably much better for target discovery, but still not competitive with private datasets constructed by companies like Regeneron.
Interestingly, though I’m loath to insinuate they are an authority on anything, the UN has declared Internet access and access to information and dissemination a basic human right. “[The UN] condemns unequivocally measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online”.

It appears they believe it’s close to being a utility, and I’d argue in a way it has become close enough to need oversight as such.
Games are not just about a ball moving. People attach feelings to players and teams, especially if they’re from their city.

A computer match wouldn’t have either
Shoving people who need other supports into housing won't help homelessness for the people that need those other supports, but creating more affordability for people who need less serious interventions or are simply priced out of the market with help homelessness for them - whether those people make up the "majority" of the homeless or not.

Solving the entire problem is more complex than more housing supply, that doesn't mean that more housing supply isn't an important part of the solution.
> The recently released v3 is the worst of them all; it does away with the image challenges of v2 completely. The user never interacts with it directly, never has an opportunity to persuade v3 that they're a real human by answering any sort of questions. It's nothing more than a measure of how compliant you are with google's surveillance.

I did a very quick experiment with reCAPTCHA v3:

* using Firefox in private browsing mode (not logged-in to anything)
* with a VPN
* using uBlock Origin
* Do-Not-Track on, disabling 3rd party trackers
* Only went to one page and filled one form with garbage data

My score was 0.7, which is pretty decent I would say.

I did a similar experiment using Ghost Inspector (a platform for automating browser testing, something similar to Selenium, but not sure what they use exactly), and my scores were consistently 0.1.

I'm also a bit suspicious of Google, and have trouble with the fact that this is the only solution on the market, and it's free for websites to use. But I'm not sure your statement is entirely accurate judging from my very limited experience.