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> It's not in my threat model per se, but it's something I give a lot of thought to because systems like this are expected to be used by political dissidents, whistleblowers and other persecuted individuals who are subject to such threat models.

This is wrong, you should not expect political dissidents, whistleblowers, and other people in the same category to use similar techniques to protect themselves.

If you are protecting yourself from different threats, then it is not unreasonable to use different methods to protect yourself. There is an inherent tradeoff between security and usability. If law enforcement or state-level actors are in your threat model, you're going to have to make some extreme usability sacrifices just to keep yourself safe. That means using different systems than other people use.

> Even though you are at a coffee shop in an undisclosed location miles away from home, if LE has a reason to profile the IP you're broadcasting from at home they could do look at request times and try to link a request from the coffee shop to your home DNS server.

You're describing a different system. The system described by kingo555 is just for home.

> As far as timing attacks, an example would be such: Even though you are at a coffee shop in an undisclosed location miles away from home, if LE has a reason to profile the IP you're broadcasting from at home they could do look at request times and try to link a request from the coffee shop to your home DNS server.

That's just traffic analysis. The term "timing attack" refers to something else.

If you're a political dissident, whistleblower, or someone else with law enforcement / state-level actors in your threat model, everything changes. Presumably if you are worried about law enforcement, you put the VPN endpoint outside their jurisdiction. This can make it extremely difficult to do traffic analysis, depending on who your adversary is.

I think it makes sense that not everyone has law enforcement and state-level actors in their threat model.
Back in the noughties, the British record industry talked a lot about "fifty quid blokes" - professional middle-aged men who would leave work on Friday, go into HMV or Borders and buy a couple of CDs, a DVD and a book, totalling about £50. They were very well known in retail and were catered to with music magazines like Q, Mojo and The Word. They were hugely important to the record industry (hence all the classic rock reissues at that time), but their spending has mostly dried up thanks to streaming. £20 a month for Spotify and Netflix is a bargain compared to what they were spending on physical media.

I think it's fairly clear from the revenue numbers that the move to streaming has been a net loss for the recording industry. If they are to sustain the growth in paid streaming and return to 1990s levels of revenue, they need to either substantially grow the overall market for paid streaming or substantially increase subscription fees. The big problem they face is segmentation - there's no practical way of charging a hardcore music fan $40/mo and a casual listener $10/mo for the same unlimited service.
I'm wondering about the technical issues they have with on-board bluetooth, specifically saying they only provide support for a USB dongle, and not on-board BT.

I have routinely, with multiple computers seen that on-board BT has been flakey (MBP 2015, Zotac EN960, Zotac EN1060K, and a custom built PC w/ Intel on-board BT) with multiple devices (Bose QC35 headphones, multiple different BT keyboards). The experience has always required me to get a dongle, which works significantly better.

Is there something to this, or is it just the standard issue of interference with the built-in bluetooth, or perhaps just bad luck on my part? On top of this, I have never had any issue with any non-bluetooth RF wireless device, from mice to headphones and others. They seem to be significantly better.
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AirPods completely changed my view of BT devices. Before, I avoided BT completely because I could never get them working well with an Android phone I was using at that time. Headphones I was using would always disconnect after some time and the quality would drop intermittently and there was no way to fix it. The "fix" was to wait for the battery to drain and then the headphones would restart. I tried few different headphones over the years and always went back to wired ones because of that.

After trying AirPods, I haven't had a single issue. Everything works fine. I'm even content with a BT keyboard and trackpad now.
This is pretty cool and at minimum food for thought on who's making money on my data. Where did you get the dollar amounts? Is that based on facts and conversations with these companies/data brokers?
I'm not sure that there is a 'typical' for severance. I've seen people get everything from a flat 1 month, to 2 months + 2 weeks/year.
How do the Uruk Hai - or orcs for that matter - know what a menu is?
Hello Internet is fantastic. I don't know if it has impacted me in a deep dense. I'm flirting with a minimalist lifestyle now, similar to Grey's approach. I've been more open to new interests and hobbies because of the podcast. Mostly, it's just a really good time spent listening.
“The legislation in no way compromises the security of any Australians’ digital communications.”

Reminds me of the time someone tried to legislate pi=3. There's absolutely no way to give police a back door into encryption without giving criminals the same back door.
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Tolkien also doesn't give detailed descriptions of what many of the characters actually look like, except in non-specific terms such as 'kingly'. Frodo does get a mini description, because it is written down in a letter that someone reads out.

His descriptions of the places are more definitive.
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I think by "actually not a great investor in the way people think", what you're saying is that he isn't a particularly outstanding stock picker. To the extent that that's the way in which people think he's a great investor, it's because lots of (most?) people think investing is just stock picking. But what makes him a great investor is exactly what you outlined. He found a great strategy - insurance float for leverage - and has executed it well for decades.

It seems weird to me to say, "he's not a great investor, he just found a great investment strategy and executed it really well!" What makes someone a great investor if not that?
Maybe it's not all headsets and all laptops?

I have the Jabra Elite Active 65t that I've successfully paired and continue to successfully use with a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 running Windows 10 -- no complaints.
Pew's numbers [0] predict greater than normal increase in Muslims over the next 30 years, by percentage of the world population.

I'm not suggesting that all muslims are "religious zealots", but yes, growth of population sections by religion is a real thing. On the other hand atheists are expected to stay the same, or even decline. No one can say what percent of people are going to be "zealots", but you could say it's hard to be a "religious zealot" without a religion. So, it seems likely, all other things being equal, that yes, religious zealotry (and all religious activity) will increase.

[0] http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/religious-projections-201...
Sound like Buffets approach to investing is ripe for machine learning. Has anyone tried building a ML model based off 10ks?
I exercise shortly after getting up 5 days a week. I don't eat food until hours later.

Depending on your exercise goals, you may want to eat before or after exercise but it certainly isn't essential.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/eating-before-or-after-...
The language is insidious. "Patreon's generous 90 percent pay-out model". That Patreon takes only 10% is seen as generous when the entire model is people sending money to a creator. This is declaration that they intend to grift the patrons and creators for more money soon, because making 5% isn't "sustainable" for a service that has a few pictures and links to youtube along with money transfer.
The GiantBombcast.

It's a video game show, and I doubt anyone else will list it here. With respect to #SelfImprovement or #Productivity, it hasn't helped me at all.

But every week, GiantBomb offers me more than enough audio and video content on the latest video games. I don't get to play as much anymore because of life, but GiantBomb's general vibe reminds me of reading EGM and GamePro back in the 90s. And keeping up with their content makes me feel like I did when I wanted to read every magazine and GameFAQs page I could to keep up with the latest news.

And the cast is a group of generally great people. Who over time, feel like friends in a conversation you're just not able to speak up and participate in.
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If we look at the Abrahamic religions we see a lot of support of violence, hate and general unpleasantness. If we wanted to support the idea that everything that is wrong with the world is caused by Muslims we only need to pick some quotes from the Quran that shows a belief that violence is acceptable against non-believers. It all describes toxic Muslim faith but in different terms.

In the end through, talking about terrorism by framing it as part of Muslim faith is not an effective method to bring civil discussion and progress in eliminating terrorism. All it does it nourishing hate and polarization in society which in turn result in increased risk of terrorism. It forces people, Muslims in the case of toxic Muslim faith, to defend themselves regardless if they are terrorists or not and distance themselves with those who work against terrorism. If one want to actually eliminate terrorism it is better to avoid associating Muslim faith with terrorism and instead focus fully on the individuals that do the act of terrorism.

We could be standing all day long talking about how a secularization of the middle east has normalized the idea that a healthy expression of Muslim faith is to slit the throat of unbelievers and blowing up bombs, or blame the west for their own victimhood. With the full knowledge that this will not help in reducing terrorism and only hurt those that identify as a Muslim and are not terrorist, why continue with such narrative? Why cause harm?
"Wait, are you saying the headset can’t connect to a computer via native Bluetooth? And you knew it the whole time? While you asked me to try a different device, to update drivers, to install Jabra software, to meet with your technician…
You were just trying to wear me down?!?"

This encapsulates what is most wrong and abhorrent about US customer service. This methodology is employed by thousands of companies, it is ingrained in the culture of their customer service reps. It is a "Never Back Down" attitude. They will consistently string a desperate customer along, through a maze of reps and procedures, knowing that the customer is more likely to burn out and give up before realizing that the road they are being led down does not result in resolution of the issue.

There are companies that do not engage in such behavior, yet they are primarily B2B rather than consumer facing, and usually in regard to items that are being purchased in the dollar range of tens and hundreds of thousands.
> The people screaming loudest about free speech are more than happy to shut down the rights of others.

Do you have an example of this?
Burnout is a complicated topic, but I think we can all agree that it has real mental health effects. Trying to solve for the symptoms is one approach, but it’s also important to understand why it happened in the first place. What motivated someone to work themselves to a state of burning out?

A therapist is one approach, and in my experience they will help uncover some of the inner workings to help you explore and understand maybe why it happened in the first place. They are like our rubber duck to help us debug ourselves. And with that information, we can start to make the necessary changes in our personal and professional lives so that we maintain a healthy work-life balance.
>It's also trivial to refute-- if I'm wrong then the messages OP is sending from their custom box should show up with a blue background in iMessage on the recipient's iphone. Is that the case or not?

The distinction that the iOS messaging app uses to set the color of the message bubbles is whether messages are sent over SMS/MMS or iMessage. Since they're sent over iMessage, the message bubbles will be blue.

But yes, adding Matrix to the mix does add more potential failure points, since there are now two messaging protocols involved instead of one. That's just the nature of bridging messaging protocols though.
Maybe that is Tolkien's genius, people can just imagine their own prefered food.
...but also please don't leave it lying there, in case that needed to be said.
Software Engineering Daily was the first software podcast which, for me, sparked my interest and delved into technicals but also explained the simple things. At the time I was feeling rather like a novice even though I had a BS in Computer Science, but this podcast really got me excited and made me feel like I was learning what was out there; what was possible to explore. While I still don't understand everything, the broad sweeping topics are great for sparking certain ideas or improving overall understanding of software engineering topics.
When I was a kid, growing up, I recall when the "moral majority" (umbrella term describing the coalition of various protestant groups), and they decided right and wrong, and had the power to a large degree, to shove that down other people's throats. Everything was closed on Sundays, dry counties (no alcohol sales), various conservative dress/grooming/self-expression conventions.

They have mostly lost this influence and power, only to be replaced by something equally distasteful, your explanation not withstanding. You sound exactly like the supporters. Sure the details differ, but you've nailed down the "ends justify the means" spin, just like every other movement that wants to push their world view and morality. The kicker is the whole "it's not enforcing morality" or defending a world view schtik. It's deciding not to do business with various groups of people, under pressure from other groups of people. As a JFK democrat, and individual, I say fuck that. Good riddance.
Several brands got famous doing this. One of the earliest that comes to mind is Craftsman. You could return anything they made even years later, without a receipt. Nordstrom is also famous for this same policy. Amazon basically has this policy today, as does NewEgg. So does the kitchen goods company Zwilling J. A. Henckels.

Even though it seems like digital products might be easier to rip-off, they have nearly no cost to produce -- so the risk is higher for a seller of physical goods. They'll incur the cost of giving you a second product or refunding your money after you've used up a product so that it can no longer be sold again.

In selling services, I've always offered this policy. Few very people will take me up on it -- far less than 1%. Probably 0.2% in total. Knowing they can get their money back if not satisfied gives new customers the confidence to try me for the first time and encourages existing customers to spend more.

Studies have shown that most of your new business will come from existing customers. In this case, the cost of acquiring that business is probably less when it's just giving them a product (or a refund) vs. trying to acquire them from the market as a new customer through advertising.
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What a terrible quote, horrible in the sense of reducing Man to the sum of his capability to build ever greater machines. Surely intelligence bears no relation to goodness!

I find Spandrell (and Land, who helped popularize the idea) atrocious.
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The Joe Rogan Podcast.
Well, "only" is an exaggeration but yeah, racist stereotypes do work against you.

I'm half-Asian, which I guess is "white enough" to fly under most of the (conscious and subconscious) racist radars out there. OTOH I can get quite a tan and I used to grow a beard years before it was trendy to do so. Pretty much right after 9/11 actually. The Islamophobic associations were definitely real.

I figured out a cheat mode though: wear thick rimmed glasses[0]. I used cheap plastic +.25 reading glasses so they didn't look fake but didn't give me a headache either. It's totally stupid but it made a huge difference. And this was years before the famouse Curb Your Enthusiasm bit[1], which clearly is an example of "it's funny (and sad) because it's true".

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/z8h21/whats_the_...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ECj4OcCC0
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I think we basically agree, just using words differently.

Ideology is, in my usage, an identity. *"I am an X." X can be socialist, catholic, christian democrat, moderate, african, working class woman, flat-earther... Some are more fixed than others. But genrally, people make political decisions based on these political identities.

Your example is perfect. More or better facts will not change people's understanding of that politically charged fact. It will usually be a byproduct of their wider political identity... including ideological affiliation. Ideological affiliation is probably the most important form of identity.
I taught myself to program. Badly. I spend my time doing grunt work. I used to think computer science research was the domain of theorists celebrating toy problems, but, if you look at the 8 queens solution at the bottom of the article, it is difficult to deny that the best of CS is anything less than “a bicycle for the mind.”
Ah. I have noticed that one actually, but I chalked it up to someone confusing Github/SO/Reddit markdown. Didn't realize that Reddit itself was inconsistent.
I'm curious, what do you do for a living during that time?
https://samharris.org/podcast/

Sam's podcast.

The goal of finding the _best_ answer, not _your_ answer changes the conversation completely.

If you want to see clear thinking in practice, this is where you should spend your time.
I really enjoy Sam Harris's 'Making Sense' (formerly 'Waking Up' podcast).

He invites experts on various topics and has informative conversations with them. Some are about scientific topics such as climate change and others are more about personal stories and explorations of thoughts such as recently with Stephen Fry.

Sam's business model is also very exemplary: no ads and the podcasts are free. He has the luxury of having many supporters who donate so that he can keep doing what he is doing and some side businesses like meditation app. What this means is that he doesn't need to shy away from difficult topics and can have more honest conversations on those without some advertiser getting cold feet.
Except for the recent decisions of Uruguay and Canada, marijuana use, all countries party to the UN International Drug Control Convention strictly prohibit non-research use of marijuana, so unless this use occurred only extremely recently in one of those two countries or was part of a research program, it was illegal at the time.
Sorry to be annoying, but as a Brazilian who constantly sees people making this mistake - it's São Paulo, not Paolo. Paolo is the Italian version of the name Paul, Paulo is the Portuguese (also Spanish) version.

But hey, at least you got the til (~ diacritic) right. A lot of people don't even know that's a thing.
While I see that there is a definite trend, if culture had nothing to do with it, why would the Israel and Faroe Islands outliers exist with many more children? And I see a ton of groups there that have the highest life expectancy and < 2 children, all Asian countries. That seems to indicate that 2 is not in fact a magic number at all.
Even if the OP had gotten the headset working with bluetooth they'd be disappointed.

On Macs at least, using a headset with mic via bluetooth you get 8khz sampling, even if the headset can do more.

Sounds terrible. Tried a bunch of esoteric plist changes to fix it.

I switched to a USB wireless setup which works much better.

Supposedly there are fixes (http://ssrubin.com/posts/fixing-macos-bluetooth-headphone-au...) for this, but none worked for me.
Until just this week, Chrome OS's Instant Tethering was exclusive to Google's Pixel and Nexus phones, and was clearly advertised as such. Even now, the feature is only available for a small selection of phones (relative to the vast number of Androids in the wild).

Just use your phone's hotspot feature. The amount of time saving between using your native tethering vs Instant Tethering is negligible.
I mostly listen to podcasts just for fun, but weirdly enough, Mac Power Users. It's a long running podcast about using Apple products and their native software productively.

I like that it's run by non-engineers - seeing people that don't program be more productive than me using just apps and their own smarts is very cool. I've learned a lot of tips and found very good native software through it.

Of course, if you're not invested in the Apple ecosystem, it's probably not for you. Same with The Talk Show, Accidental Tech, Connected, and AppStories.
> Which is exactly the kind of useless functionality that they don't need.

So says you, yet the vast majority of people I subscribe to on Patreon use it as a delivery platform for advance content to subscribers. One of the major ways it promotes higher donation amounts is by letting those people have gated access to content. How else would this be easily accomplished except for this "useless" functionality? A single password that is handed out? A large list of passwords that the artist needs to manage?

It quickly becomes obvious that this useless functionality has a very real use case, and I think it's in fact one of the drivers of high donation rates in some cases.
Important to note that these two authors wrote another book in 2013, claiming that Canada would never elect a Liberal government again, because of demographics or something.

This was 18 months before the Liberals won a massive majority.

https://www.amazon.ca/Big-Shift-Canadian-Politics-Business/d...
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MEE Audio MB6 work fine for me on Elementary 5.0 Juno. They're also great for the gym and I'm pretty happy with the sound.
Reminds me of the time my wife cancelled our internet with Vodafone and three months later we got a letter to say our arrears were being referred to a debt collection agency.
I spent an hour on the phone, talked to 8 different people to only end up back at the 1st person.
They claimed we only cancelled the direct debit and not the account, I agreed that they would pull the call and if that was the case I'd pay what was owed.
As soon as I was off the call I got a mail to say that it would cost me €6 for them to listen to their recording.
I got mad and looked up the CEO of Vodafone Ireland and found her direct email on a chamber of commerce website and email her a polite description of my experience.
10am next morning I get call from the head of customer service apologising and advising me that all fees had been waived, a win so I thought.
A week later I get a call from HR asking if I had emailed the head of Vodafone from my work email, we had a corporate account and Vodafone complained that I had emailed their CEO using a work account on a personal matter.
I could see the person in vodafone who checked who I was on linkedin the day before I got the call from HR.
That was over five years ago and I still get annoyed, gits!
Indie Hackers. I've learnt SO MUCH from those interviews.
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