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Anyone thinking about gaming on linux should be buying AMD and avoiding nvidia these days, there drivers are fully open source and because of that they work well out of the box and are constantly improving.

> So it's possible, but it will never be without the friction of open source running along side signed proprietary binaries.

AMD are proving otherwise.

> What I would love to know is why linux isn't equal or superior to Apple and Msft in power management.

I think it has now, my old dell laptop now get's a lot more life running ubuntu than it ever did on windows. I get 3-4 hours or more out of it and used to only get a couple under windows.
That didn't prevent Vietnam.
So now the war has been prevented. Seems like a good solution.
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It doesn’t support OpenVPN, but I’ll leave a plug for the Outline VPN from Jigsaw (Alphabet). [0]

It’s similar in concept to Algo, in that you deploy your own VPN server on a VPS rather than use a hosted service. However, it provides a polished desktop app for deploying the server, and walks you through creating a VPS on DigitalOcean very easily.

This is incredibly helpful, because most folks I’ve helped with VPN setups are not comfortable aren’t handy with a CLI, and I’ve been able to walk more than one person through setting Outline up very easily.

[0] https://www.getoutline.org/en/home
Climate change is opening a new era in Arctic shipping
Kill billions and billions of animals for taste - and you're considered normal.

Eat rice and beans, refrain from causing harm - you're a freak.

/s
I contest that many of us tech savvy folk still don't like Linux, and not just because it is different, but because it has significant problems that make it more of a headache for our workflows than other OSs. I wish that weren't the case. I'd love to be using an open OS, but Linux's ways of doing things doesn't mesh with how I work.
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It's a nice thought but look at, for example, Donald Trump's deferment to see how it actually plays out for rich people.
Just make all the politicians go to war. See how their decisions change.
I'm sorry anyone brought out a serial killer comparison. Our dominant culture for decades has provided the belief that eating animals is natural, normal and necessary.

Some plant-based advocates suffer from amnesia where they forget they ever ate meat, along with the beliefs they held at the time to justify it.
Indeed, the abolition of the Selective Service System appears to be an option:

"The ruling comes at a time when an advisory panel, the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service, is studying the draft system, considering whether it should continue and whether women should be included."

Makes sense too: the government already has all of its citizens' personal information. Why keep maintaining the SSS as a separate and redundant database - after all, they can draft whomever they wish at any time by decree, whether or not they're registered with the SSS.
This looks like what we're waiting for. They almost look like regular glasses:

https://www.redsharknews.com/vr_and_ar/item/6168-these-smart...

"Still in the lab, but given a demo at Mobile World Congress, these glasses actually deliver 4K per eye and yield a 120 degree field of view (FoV)."
I doubt the scale of the data being intercepted is much concern for the hyperscale providers. AWS already has a customer-facing service that monitors for connections to its own "watchlist", I'd be surprised if all traffic isn't monitored in the same way.
I like it as well, but Netflix blocks it much more than a year ago...it's a shame, because I travel a lot, and changing country means that I can't finish a series that I was watching in another country
Yea because a fuckton of rich white men were able to get their sons deferments. Have you not listened to Fortunate Son? Also women were not in the draft, to the previous commenter's point.
I concur with the sentiment. Isn't GMO to create foods that require less pesticides? So wouldn't that be a good thing if there are less chemicals used on our foods, seeping into our soil and water supply? I never really understood why people are so scared of GMO....

I can see GMO foods being owned by the likes of Monsanto, earning healthy royalties on seeds that cannot bear offspring. I think there should be a GMO open source initiative...
Getting rid of selective service registration seems like the best outcome. In the case of need for the draft again, we could implement it without the SSS. There's also the weird problem that a truly existential war which would otherwise justify the draft is also the kind of war which would likely escalate to WMD and thus make the draft irrelevant.

My preference is, in this order:
1) No draft
2) Universal draft registration-only
3) Universal draft and national service of some form
4) Male-only registration-only
5) Female-only registration-only
6) Male-only universal draft/service
7) Female-only universal draft/service
Why is the defense for "there are problems with Linux" always some appeal to the workflow of a strawman 'average user'? A class of people which, I might add, still show no interest in using Linux.
The first question you should ask is why you want a VPN.

Because I believe many people newer ask this question and have some vague idea about "it somehow improves security and/or privacy". In most situations this likely isn't true. You add an additional attack vector and you centralize your communication to a single point.
I find it interesting that you keep referring to "the WSJ article linked" -- which now that you've actually linked to it turns out to be a 2017 article that as far as I can tell you're the only one who's linking to -- rather than the current article on Gizmodo we're actually discussing here, which describes an investigation that is in fact focused on the specific anti-NN comment submitted by (or through) CQ.

Even that WSJ article focuses largely on that specific blatant example, and notes that the several anti-NN statements they examined were "63%, 72% and 80% bogus comments" (the single pro-NN statement they examined "was 32% bogus.")

Astroturf exists and is a problem on all sides, yes, but this specific instance is far beyond the pale. Which is presumably why it merits this year-long investigation.

> It's trivial for any teen on 4chan to defeat those measures

That's... debatable. But also beside the point. CQ claims they vetted their submissions for "questionable submissions". If that vetting failed to notice that an identical comment was submitted through them that many times, with names in alphabetical order, then they either are lying about vetting their submissions for accuracy, or they are themselves the ones committing the fraud.
Here is what makes Linux work well for me: only run LTS versions. Never build your own kernel. Never install anything that isn't in the package manager.
Most websites also have rpm's and Deb packages.
I found a simple 55" curved 4K TV to be an excellent "desktop" where I can arrange all my windows around me. No, it's not virtual or 3d. Yes, I can lay out everything I'm using with no overlap. It turns out our "desktop" GUIs have failed to follow the metaphor very well - they've got too many features that make assumptions based on small monitors. I still like it though.
I'd rather eat anything other than tempeh - it turns my stomach.
Seems I prefer a normal phone and a similar price foldable laptop for now.
I'm using Nord because I got the three year deal for $99.
If there's not enough volunteers then pay them more. Conscription is slavery.
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Parent informed me of an option I hadn't even considered.
We know it hurts people on the end of the moral outrage so the default would be negative.

We also know state actors are trying to use it to destabilize countries.
Nord has a feature they call kill-switch that does this.
How does this compare to the Samsung Galaxy Fold? Is the Galaxy Fold "perfect" when it comes to visible screen distortion?
IVPN historically, but lately I'm just running wireguard on my home router.

It accomplishes 99% of what I used a VPN for (privacy on the go) and leaves only one point of trust (my ISP provider).
> So a best case scenario is factor of 3 improvement

Isn't the best case scenario that we replace cow-grown beef with lab-grown beef - that is, improved energy efficiency of 50/3 = 17 times?
it is popular in PRC.
They would still get out of it.
Wars changed a lot since WWII, having a very large military with cheap guns does not work at all anymore. The army is much more specialised than in the past, nowadays you need a smaller amount of well-trained people with expensive gear.
> We’ve been at peace for a long time

Who's we? And what peace? America's been at war for the last 17 years. It is America's longest war and it's still not clear when it will be ended.

At this point what is the win condition? How do you know when you're finished?
I have to doubt this kind of thinking. Sure they may not have personally butchered a cow, but your typical human will happily crush insects, or poison and trap various pest animals. Plus the usual hunting and fishing.

If it was still necessary to personally cut the heads off chickens to get chicken meat, I suspect you'd see virtually every household doing so.
True, but it's nowhere close to being final hardware.

As a concept though, I think this design makes a lot more sense than Samsungs. It gets to use the same full body screen, rather than the strange tiny one Samsung does. The fold being part of the outer body also makes more sense than having a wedge inside.
We haven't had the draft since 1973. What's in question is registration for the draft in case we ever decide we should need it again. I think this is largely a moot point, since we're well into the information age, and identifying all American citizens of a draftable age is likely pretty easy whether they are registered or not.
Then you get Israeli politicians. Service is compulsory so they've all got at least an idea how the military works, and the older folks were involved in wars, and therefore ex military or intelligence officers. Some work toward peace and improvements, and some become hard-liners. So, sorry, but it's still hard to pidgeonhole them even if they've been to war.
100% this. VPN marketing appears to have really gotten to people, everyone's always asking about it.

Real reasons I can see to use a VPN service

1) You want your traffic to reliably egress in that country. i.e. I live in New Zealand but to access some Australian TV on demand, I need to "appear" in Australia.
2) Errr, I can't think of any others.

If you are really trying to hide your traffic from your ISP:

1) Change ISP
2) If that's not possible, buy a cheap VPS and run OpenVPN/Wireguard on it and egress your traffic via it. Disable all logging etc.

i.e. Unless you need traffic to egress via a particular place and you don't care about someone you don't know seeing your traffic, buy a VPN service. If you DO care about your privacy really, buy a VPS service in the country you want it to egress.
The us is waging wars in seven countries. How is the us at peace?
Call it DNSSEC or whatever, DNS needs more crypto. At present security of DNS rely on manual intervention, 2FA, "multi-perspective DNS lookups" and other rituals. That does not scale to 250M domains. Expect more hijacks until then.
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How is that an interesting response to "make it mandatory with no exemptions."

You could explain why you are cynical about it happening, but just saying you are cynical about no exemptions is pretty boring.
It will make BGP attacks considerably harder. It will also make them more like one-off attacks: if you know a vulnerable CA, you can only reliably attack it once like this.

In the long run, I’d love to see something a little more like TLSA so that browsers can at least reject certificates from the wrong CA.
Relevant disgraced congressman quote: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/vance-mcallis...
I think a lot of commenters have made productive comments on how to get started in changing bad habits. A commonality between these suggestions is a process of self-evaluation -- that is, it's important to set aside time to analyze how you spent your time and whether it was productive.

One thing I'd like to add is that the process of self-evaluation becomes a lot easier when you learn to shut off the part of your brain that negatively judges yourself. Many people (including myself) have an inner monologue that chastises yourself when you do something that is sub-optimal to your value system. This negative superego makes it REALLY hard to start honestly evaluating your behavior because you equate negative actions with negative self-worth, and nobody wants to put themselves down.

Part of my path towards mental fitness has involved replacing this negative super ego with the same love and compassion that I would show a friend. Then, the process of self-evaluation becomes psychologically much easier to tackle. I like to think of the time I've set aside for self-evaluation as an opportunity to work on my self-compassion as well as a way to identify corrective actions -- two birds one stone.

Nobody is perfect, and even if we end up wasting a ton of time on this earth on mindless activities, it's not the end of the world. At the same time, it makes sense to take actions that lead to our most fulfilling life. And, it sounds like you've identified one change that you could make, so good luck :).
> We’ve been at peace for a long time, but one day war will break out

Say what? Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Iraq, Panama, Grenada, ...
Or, proof of dignity before Christianity is lacking after a millenia and half of Christianity eradicating and demonizing competitors.
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You know what will happen then? They will never be exposed to actual combat.
Women, transgender, non-binary etc should all be included in a draft.
Evil Communist Islamic Fascist Caliphate of Mexico, Canada and China: "We're declaring war."

USA: "We done have an army."

ECIFCMCC: "Nevermind then."
Yes, really. Most games do not however. I don't have programs though for testing.

Edit: http://www.ecsis.net/pub/netuser/ftp.html

tried Rftp, worked with Windows 10. At least 22 years of compatibility.
I'm not entirely sure. Just from videos, I think the Samsung might be better. I haven't seen distortion in the videos I've seen.

Samsung: https://youtu.be/-fcCQIdGpK8?t=175
If you think the military is mostly composed of those 'who didn't have anything better to do' then you don't really have any idea about the composition of the US military.
There is alternative option beside VPN, which is shadowSocket, you can search keyword SSR, it works very well, in order to use it, you need to rent a VPS (about $10 per year), which is used to deploy SSR service. it is more secure than VPN I think.
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> An other view of the history of Internet network security is largely the history of plain text protocols getting encryption and authentication.

Telnet was replaced by ssh, but they're both connection-oriented protocols that create a session between two endpoints. The same is true of the transition from X to X-over-TLS for the various values of X.

DNS isn't really a connection-oriented protocol to begin with and DNSSEC isn't really a protocol at all, it's a collection of DNS records for use in signature verification. Moreover, it's not encryption, only signatures. It doesn't provide privacy protection. The DNS equivalent to the transition to ssh or TLS would be something like DNSCurve, which is a transport protocol and does encrypt the data.
Flatpak is over-engineered garbage. You still can't even install things on different disks without setting up an entirely new 'installation' or whatever they call it. And you still need a repo. Meanwhile I can trivially make most Windows software work from a USB drive I can carry around between computers.

AppImage can do that too, since it is a lot less over-engineered, but sadly very few developers use AppImage and it even distributions like Nitriux that claim to support AppImages don't display icons for them. Could be trivially solved with a standard for embedding icons in ELF, but the unix world hates the very concept of a program that isn't spread all over the file hierarchy and isn't full of hard-coded paths so it'll never happen.
It's highly unlikely that the US will return to conscription, particularly for anything less than WWIII. The problem with draftees is that they tend to be less effective soldiers (since they didn't sign up to be a soldier), and the terms of conscription are too short to effectively train them--if someone is in the army for a year, and it takes 6 months to train them, you're spending a lot of money to little effect.

The main value of undertrained infantry soldiers is to provide literal boots on the ground to bolster the mass of a fighting force, but modern warfare tactics have generally lessened the effectiveness of this kind of mass: an integrated combined arms team can easily steamroll a fortified infantry line, as was shown quite clearly in the First Gulf War.
Mandatory military service would alleviate so many social problems in the US.

* people from different backgrounds and walks of life would live and work together at least once in their lives.

* people would recevie excercise and discipline training at it's most basic form.

* there wouldn't be a caste of people that serve in the military from one generation to the next.

* a lot more people would be exposed to the world outside of the US

* exposure to different types of work and training opportunities can alleviate labor shortage issues.

* last but not least, unity! America is dying as a result of extreme social fragmentation. I'd bet a lot less people would see issues as affecting the country as a whole as opposed to their "tribe" this way.

Look at how the society is in countries with mandatory military service (S. Korea,Switzerland to name two)
Compulsory service across the board has always seemed more appropriate to me.

It would help with the lack of discipline in the civilian population, while engendering a better understanding and appreciation for the realities of combat and war.

On the military side I think it'd add some much needed diversity and perspective to a group dominated currently by "America, Fuck Yeah!" types who volunteered to go kill people and blow things up.
If someone doesn't want pay, or donations, then don't ask for it. Don't put a donate/buy button and it seems like the problem is solved. I mean this is a bit strange: it's hard enough getting people to pay for great projects when the makers clearly need it and ask for it, so I am surprised by the need to proactively reject it as if unsolicited donations are piling in their bank account.

However there is nothing weird with discussing this, and that claim is exactly the sort of "moral" short circuit that I find so unpleasant about the whole thing. I would wager few if any people have donated to a charity in lieu for this case. But by announcing such a moral standing they've undermined anyone else who does accept or even request compensation for their creations: Do they have an adequately bad situation to justify such a request?
There's an old HN thread about it. Basically, the ProtonMail and PIA CEOs got in a catfight, and traded accusations. I don't recall what PIA was accused of. Maybe connections with China? But I've seen nothing more about that.

The PIA CEO basically claimed that Tesonet operated ProtonVPN for the ProtonMail team. And then additional articles appeared, detailing the connections. And adding NordVPN to the mix.

But many of their HN posts were deleted. And much of the other online coverage disappeared, presumably because of pressure from NordVPN and/or ProtonVPN. But I found caches for three of them.[0,1,2]

Maybe it's all bullshit. But it leaves me suspicious. And I gotta say that ProtonVPN's responses seemed evasive.

0) VPNscam.com: NordVPN, ProtonVPN, ProtonMail, Owned by Tesonet CEO Darius Bereika https://keybase.pub/mirimir/NordVPN%2C%20ProtonVPN%2C%20Prot...

1) best10vpn.com: Proof that NordVPN is Owned by Data Mining Company Tesonet https://keybase.pub/mirimir/Proof%20that%20NordVPN%20is%20Ow...

2) airvpn.com: Why You Can’t Trust NordVPN https://keybase.pub/mirimir/Why%20You%20Can%E2%80%99t%20Trus...

Edit: Also FYI

Lawsuit names NordVPN, Tesonet in proxy data extraction scheme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17873164

HolaVPN (luminati) is suing NordVPN (Tesonet) for stealing p2p proxy patents https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_AlNxNN-fiIVW64-605c_OJO0C...
And I hadn't heard of ABC, but it looks very similar to Python, grammatically at least, was apparently a major influence on it, and indeed van Rossum had worked on the ABC team.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_(programming_language)
We appear to be a dying breed. People who don't like walled gardens and middlemen between them and the people who make the tools they use.
There have been several wars where the slaughter of men was so extreme that the countries involved would have collapsed if the women were slaughtered as well, because the population could not have rebounded.

I heard long ago (sorry, no reference) that the average French soldier was a couple inches shorter in WW2 than in WW1, which was attributed to the male slaughter (though I suspect that food shortages were a more likely cause).

In France and Germany, after WW1 and WW2, it became commonplace for the women to marry foreigners and old men. I don't know if that happened in Britain as well.

Baby booms are common after the end of terrible wars. I read once that people were copulating in the streets of London after the WW1 armistice was declared.
Yep. Exactly this. If you get a laptop that a GNOME developer uses, chances are you’ll run into maybe two issues a year. But try to get GNOME to run on two 4K displays and an RTX.

But here’s the thing. Linux has won. Desktop is a dying market. Linux is literally the most used operating system on phone and in the data center, which is where it counts.

The DE has gotten much better transitively from all the work that’s gone into those other use cases. But we still have a gamer market that is incredibly proprietary holding up the middle finger to those of us who think proprietary drivers and codecs are evil relics of a less open world.

If you really want to see Linux on the DE, boycott NVIDIA, or write them a letter.
And when the distro decides you have to give up some software because of a conflict it can't handle.
> fsyncgate

Oh cripes, can we not?
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The number for at least one major petrochemical company is closer to $30/barrel
Best Thai restaurant outside Thailand I’ve ever been to is called Plumeria in San Diego — it’s completely vegetarian (optional egg) with meat-like substitues.

I never order chicken satay as an appetizer (even in Thailand) as I usually find it bland, the texture too dry, and generally boring — but I will always order the “chicken” satay from Plumeria ... better than meat.
Sounds fine if we can replace "military service" with "civil service".
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There are many other ways to achieve these goals that don't involve mandatory military service, and the benefits of these don't outweigh the costs, risks, not to mention loss of human liberty.