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For a long while Debian and Ubuntu were the obvious choice for a free-as-in-beer (and not just free-as-in-speech) server OS. Fedora doesn't have an LTS program, and CentOS, Scientific Linux, et al. were unofficial. (CentOS is now more official so that benefit has gone away a bit.) Debian has an enterprise-compatible release cycle - a new release every 2 years give or take a few months, each one gets security updates for a year after the next release is available - and you can use the same OS the Debian developers use. Ubuntu has an even-more-friendly LTS release cycle, also every 2 years with security updates for 5 years instead of 3.

About 10 years ago I was responsible for some servers running Fedora and some servers running Debian. Fedora's update cycle was way too fast, but we also knew that switching to CentOS would get us software that was way too behind to be useful, and we'd be responsible for building a lot of stuff in /usr/local ourselves.

A small technical difference is that the dpkg ecosystem has a feature called "diversions" that let you cleanly say that you want to replace a packaged file. A config management system can use this to avoid having config management and the package manager fight each other. I'm the current maintainer of https://github.com/sipb/config-package-dev , a tool that lets you build Debian packages that express system configuration, and I've ended up using it at 3 of my last 4 jobs. For the Fedora servers, we were using some mix of checking out /etc from Subversion and rebuilding packages on our own. We surveyed our options and determined that we weren't really better off with any of the "real" config management options at the time (to be fair, modern config management hadn't really taken off then) and the lack of diversions meant we were better off rebuilding packages that we wanted to make changes to.
Because once getting started ~20 years ago (first with FreeBSD, then dabbled in Slackware, then Debian => Linux) re-learning the location of config files is not a priority and indeed I would avoid like the plague. Remembering slight syntax changes between distros / CLI switches that work on one but not another / similes (does this platform use "remove" or "uninstall"?) is the bane of my life.

Also I have never got on with yum. I still don't. It's a mystery of a program compared to apt or pkg.

Learning RHEL would've been useful (but not essential) in my career, but 20 years ago that wasn't obvious.
> cropped out benefits like corporate PCs

But that's not a benefit; that's required for performing the job. Did they also make the janitors bring their own brooms/mops/vacuums?
The plastic gear thing sounds incredibly familiar. (How) did you fix it?
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A short PIN seems nice for personal use (maybe on a self-hosted service) but wouldn't a short PIN allow people to potentially guess random PINs and download files that they shouldn't have access to?
> our Google Home has only 'misfired' once ... when someone on TV said 'Hey Google'

Is that a misfire? It reacted to the trigger phrase. Have you trained it to only react to your voice (I know that's an option for Google assistant, but I didn't do it for mine).
It is very dangerous to hold third party medical records in everyone's devices. It is also not integrated with the systems required to record care, so you still need to build a custom integration.
It's because the whole app ecosystem is proprietary and the open source packages aren't as polished. I remember when it was a huge pain to use Bonjour.

It seems like this should be a solved problem but maybe it takes a Mozilla or some other larger entity to push the marketing and the customer support and development to really solve the problem of transferring large files securely.
What is the point in having the college grads then?
"[Amazon] has captured 43 percent of all internet retail sales in the United States, with half of all online shopping searches starting on Amazon. In 2016, it had over $63 billion in revenue from online sales in the United States — or more than the next 10 top online retailers combined. It controls 74 percent of e-book sales, is the largest seller of clothes online and is set to soon become the biggest apparel retailer in the country." https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/opinion/amazon-whole-food...
That may be true. But they have a responsibility to make decisions with the information that is available.
Client side encryption keeps honest companies honest but no more than that
Sometimes I feel we invented the Krell Big Machine. The way social networking damaged our democracies is shocking.
The results of the investigation can't color the decision on whether or not to ground these planes today. Painting this as a knee-jerk reaction if grounding these planes is wrong and negligent if grounding the planes is right is crazy.
Russia Blocks ProtonMail Citing Security Reasons
All perfectly reasonable requests (except maybe the security policy one). If you ever move to the banking industry you can expect exactly none.
Much of the data I share with friends using dropbox is on time-limited data in the 1-2 GB space.

For certain reasons I get a ton of dropbox space, but for my friends, data quotas kick in on even simple files shared like this.

I believe this is a primary upgrade mechanism for DB--I'd say this new firefox offer is in competish.
That’s much better.
I interpreted this as referring to the privacy stuff on its own: paperwork, legal advice, etc. - and, yes, the place for his car to live. (Which sounds like it probably wasn't very expensive.)
You're wrong about their safety records. Ethiopian is the safest and best operator in Africa.
I oversimplified. It was understood in specific academic circles and to an extent by leading designers, but not widely by others. The cracks actually started at a hatch on the bottom of the plane which was added to the design without going through the full engineering design QA process.
How do you do this on your iPhone? I, and others, are of the opinion that this cant be done.
Gawker’s robots.txt file disables a single article by Sam Biddle
I don't agree with the notion that you need lots of traction to get into YC.

I was part of the W18 batch and I can only think of a few of the 100+ companies who had revenue streams. Some had $1M+ Annual Re-occurring Revenue but the vast majority were under $5k Monthly Re-occurring Revenue most were at $0. It was fun to watch many of them really ratchet up their sales in the 3 months of the program. As I recall there were quite few in the bio/pharam/med space and they were mostly dependent upon grants at the time of joining YC and were still years away from true profitability.

My exposure and knowledge of all local accelerators/incubators is obviously limited. Yet I have not seen or head of any local accelerators or incubators that have anything that comes close to YC's demo day. It is a value unto its own and quite the spectacle.
My understanding is that the MCAS was required by the FAA for certification.
I just had the same issue with rust linking to a 1553 bus library in /usr/local/lib yesterday. Seems like this should be on the search path.
The real question is the same as with teleportation (since it was brought up already) - it's probably not "you" anymore from YOUR perspective even if they do revive "you". As in, it's an identical consciousness, but reset, to where "you" died when frozen, from your perspective.
Interesting! Also, is this free/open source?
Can you give an example? Not sure what you're referring to.
Key problem for them to solve is not data, it's legitimacy.

The use cases for digital identity were things like getting speeding tickets, fines, taxation, collections, and other social management uses. Basically the stuff that nobody wants unless they want other people to be subject to it.

It meant that digital identity must be imposed, and so the customers for it needed to be in the position to do so. There are lots of systems, markets and communities that work just fine without registered identities, and arguably the only thing that doesn't work with collateralized social identities is subjugation.

The goal seems to be to create something with enough value that it will be worth federating to, but the legal and political factors in governing that federation will be on the order of complexity of creating another agency the size of something like the ITU.
The problem, of course, when all contributions are "limited" to those within the company, that the talent and expertise required to keep things going exist just in the company itself, and not in the overall open source community. So when the company behind the tech "goes away", all the knowledge does too. It's for that reason that open source that is totally under the control of one company is so dangerous. Sure, you have the ability to fork, but the reality is that such a fork is almost assuredly doomed to fail. You really are beholden to that company.
Exactly. We've been waiting for years for a real Dropbox client for smartphones, and now this.

I think you can you can activate sync for individual files. But as you have to activate this for each file individually, this it somewhat defeats the point. There are more options in the pro version, but why then count it towards the limit for free users.

I hardly even use dropbox on mobile anyway, it just happens to be one of the most convenient ways to transfer pdfs to my iPad.
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The Art of Fostering Teamwork
FWIW I'm not experiencing this issue. Sorry to be the guy with "works on my machine".
My question as well. I imagine it's a machine. I'm not gonna download/register just so I can listen to a sample. I find robotic voices to be annoying.
Already exists. Not a silver bullet. Each place has to transform the incoming fax format into their own emr format.
apt is a dependency resolver, and both apt-get and aptitude (an alternative implementation) are good at dependency resolution. Pre-yum (so for RHEL before 2007), there wasn't a good dependency resolver on RHEL. yum and dnf have each improved significantly on this, but it's a lot nicer to get the packages you need and know that they're compatible than to find RPMs and install them and see if things work.

As a consequence, Debian packaging policy is (in my experience) a lot more aggressive about using detailed dependency-resolution metadata to establish constraints and define compatibility, which makes for a more annoying developer experience but a nicer end-user experience.
It ships custom kernel and promotes doing things in a different manner that we are used to with Linux - boot.txt, overlays, rpi.gpio (even different gpio numbering scheme), raspicam and so on. Some of these are meant to make things easier for newcomers but IMHO it makes stuff much worse as you have a "special" rPi environment instead of standard Linux on ARM board environment.

You can run mainline on rPi just fine, with standard tools - the only problem is that most rPi projects on the internet won't work as they target Raspbian instead of Linux.
“Computer Play ____” from Spotify is great. Everything else feels like tedious novelty.
Similar to Evolution? A line in the article[0] suggested it would be similar to Race for the Galaxy, which got me really excited. Evolution is fun too, though.

> We have board games about some of the most banal possible topics

Absolutely true, but the article is correct that some categories are somewhat overrepresented. And while those overrepresented categories fit my interests quite well, I welcome every attempt at diversity.

> This does not strike me as a "Holy Grail in game design".

Maybe not the holy grail, but certainly a laudable goal. Many games have only a single path to victory, and generally games with multiple balanced paths to victory are considered more interesting, but also harder to accomplish (because balance).

[0] I could only read the top of the article because the rest is hidden.
Windows 10 can automatically uninstall updates with serious bugs
Thanks for the info. Let me see if I understand this correctly.

Browsers don't send the anchor tag (ie: with GET requests). FF Send takes advantage of this by using the anchor tag to store the key for decryption.

That is kinda novel. You still need to trust the upload client to not leak the key, but I see that you've written a CLI version. Interesting! Thanks for the response.
Everyone is quick to assume an MCAS malfunction for the Ethiopian Air crash but eyewitnesses reported smoke and flames coming from the plane, which seems to indicate something else.
That is simply untrue. Apache 2.4.x w/ the Event MPM is just as fast and actually has lower latency. That FUD has long, long since been disproved.
They attempted to use parts of a frozen cell, not to revive it. What they describe would be closer to cloning then anything else. I wonder here, what is the current cloning rate of success for the procedure they tried here but with fresh DNA? Is there enough experience with that to make sense taking on damaged cells now?
I was thinking the same thing but in Google's case, Chrome is the dominate browser and most people recognize it as something they already have. In the case of Firefox, it's more likely they'll recognize the name specifically as the browser they don't have and will think they can't use it.
Berlin offers women 21 percent metro ticket discount to highlight pay gap
This is generally why I avoid working in the banking industry. I've been asked to attend a number of interviews in the banking industry which have all resulted in offers that I've turned down for this reason.
Colors and accessibility
Google's security is designed to safeguard accounts from usage that would inconvenience Google. It's not designed to provide security to users. It's extremely easy to get locked out, even if you remember your password.

Simple use case. You create an account while on VPN. You don't provide a phone. Then you clear your cookies. That's it. If your exit point IP changes, Google will not allow you to log back in even if you know the password.
It is, when I don't know what I'm buying. Sure, I can modify my response in-flight using a worker, but how exactly? What can I do with it?

It wouldn't be a big deal if I wanted to evaluate it for my company, we'd just pay the negligible fee and be done with it, but when my weekend sideproject's marginal cost goes from $0/mo to $5/mo, that's a barrier to entry I will never overcome.

It's not about the $5, it's that there's very little incentive to pay it when the app is making no money.
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Thanks for pointing that out, I sent a screenshot & message to the team working on this.
Yes, doing two full-time things at the same time is an illusion. Obviously there are people who studied several subjects. Of those that I know better I realized they got sub-optimal grades and/or had to extend there study time.

Contacts and continuously growing your network in the areas you are good at or at least highly interested with basic knowledge is also key. But at the same time a lot of work is necessary but in a single position though.

Not to forget that many people who "did it" financially might have done that on the cost of other people, may it be friends or family.

But yes, it boils down to trading life for work.
'Ramen' is phonetic for 拉面 (lamian) which is a type of Chinese noddles.

That's also the reason 'ramen' in Japanese is written using katakana ( ラーメン ): It is a foreign word.
The difference between the other major retailers and Amazon is the search. When I go through a physical store I will see everything that they have up for sale and have the choice of buying everything - but on Amazon the sheer amount of products that are showing up in searches is the problem. Hard enough to compete against other vendors for the place on the first two search pages, it's unfair that Amazon gives their own brand an advantage.
It's not a new idea, the megaupload successor first did it as far as I can remember
You would think so, but that is not how it works with Elastic and lots of it customers. I have heard that from N of their (ex-)customers. I get why this happens for them. There is a certain vision and goal, and anything that doesn't align is a nuisance. This is part business part philosophy, culture, and brand you want to build in and around your business.
'Yelp for conservatives' MAGA app leaks users data
Banning overflight seems like a politically-motivated overreaction. Both incidents took place shortly after takeoff, and there's no current reason to believe the planes aren't safe at cruising altitude.
Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives
I find all types of credit cards with reward systems to be unethical. Their whole purpose is to bait people into debt in order to pay interest.
Bootleg: A new “shared royalty” crypto aims to reconnect artists with fans
Voice is mostly inconvenient and slow unless you have certain disabilities, at times when your hands are otherwise occupied (driving, doing the dishes, maybe when out-and-about via Siri or Google Assistant) and for the basic in-home stuff that people have already discovered (music, home automation, news, weather, timers, random fact from wikipedia).

At this stage I'd be very surprised if there was some new amazing use case. There are always going to be niche uses that some people really like. I create notes in Drafts on iOS via Siri all the time, for instance.
Planning a JavaScript conference in only 10 weeks
Given that Sam has acknowledged that he spends most of his time on OpenAI already, and this article mentions that he hasn't been involved with the operations at YC for a while, this sounds like a case of the org chart catching up with the existing structure.

I wouldn't be surprised if this indicates few, if any, changes other than formally removing the CEO title. In light of that, it's possible that they tried to downplay the public message because internally not much has changed and it truly isn't a big deal.

This is pure speculation, of course.
Not sure if this is smart by Senator Warren, or just campaign bluster.

The side of me that thinks it's smart, thinks that by asking for a lot (break up of tech giants) she may be able to notch a win that isn't so aggressive (data privacy regulations) It also "breaks the ice" for the argument for when she brings it up on the campaign, it won't be so shocking.

The side of me that thinks it's dumb, thinks that she's misreading her audience, in that most people could give two shits about privacy, and in fact really like these platforms. She may be overplaying the "progressive" hand, and as a result may be perceived as "too radical" to be elected by purple states.

Regardless, I think her presidential aspirations are doomed. She's a woman, smart, successful, outspoken, Harvard educated, progressive and from "the most liberal" state in the country. All these things are toxic to Republicans.
They were quick to ground the 787 when some of its internal batteries started to catch fire, so let's hope they act with the same speed if this crash turns out to be caused by the same reason as the Lion Air one.
"It's still living in the world of one process or one thread per connection."

It hasn't lived in that world for a decade or so. It's great to give advice, but at least make it valid and factual. With the Apache 2.4 event MPM, httpd is async and event-driven and is just as fast as nginx.
No, any amount of traffic can be served at any plan level.
I interviewed with pwc a while ago, other than the $$$ they were offering, the projects they were working on (this team was working on something i thought was very pedestrian), the location they were in (downtown), 1 1/2 hour commute for 40 miles, and the overly formal nature of the whole enterprise was off putting. I agree, there is no point being miserable at some workplace for a little extra cash.
US warns of WTO action over 'discriminatory' new digital taxes
Why Debian? It values freedom:

A) of software - DFSG
B) of decisionmaking - Debian constitution
C) of choice

Stemming from that, there are the following advantages I value (opinion ahead):

* both installed program and source is just an apt command away (A, C)
* has a large repository of software (historically largest; nowadays it's still among the largest) (A, C)
* security support for stable release for the whole archive (cf. Ubuntu, RHEL) (A)
* software from repository aims to play nice together (C)
* true community distro, independent from any single vendor (B)
* multiple kernels, multiple desktop environments, multiple init systems, a truckload of architectures (C)
It is not: https://danielpocock.com/what-does-democracy-mean-in-free-so...

The current Debian "developers" have reached uniform agreed that:

1) Neither of them will participate in election

2) People outside of "developer" circle (including major contributors, who do most of actual work on Debian) can't participate in election

The whole "crisis" is artificially created. Not like that matters, — most of decision making is already done by corporate employees, not some fictitious "community leader".
Even worse when you consider that their biggest competitor gives SSL away to free tier customers.
> The good news is that this possibility, too, has been foreseen in the constitution. In the absence of a project leader, the chair of the technical committee and the project secretary are empowered to make decisions — as long as they are able to agree on what those decisions should be. Since Debian developers are famously an agreeable and non-argumentative bunch, there should be no problem with that aspect of things.

Even if nobody puts their name this week or the next or the week after, and even with the sarcastic remark in the last sentence, it looks like this is not such a big deal after all.

> In other words, the project will manage to muddle along for a while without a leader, though various aspects of business could slow down and become more awkward if the current candidate drought persists.

Why should it muddle along or slow down? All the responsibilities listed (and linked to in a mail in the mailing list) seem to be things that others could take up, either individually or as smaller groups. It's something that could be worked out over a period of time.

> One might well wonder, though, why there seems to be nobody who wants to take the helm of this project for a year. The fact that it is an unpaid position requiring a lot of time and travel might have something to do with it.

The last sentence is probably the issue. Couldn't sponsorships help? The last thing we need is Debian to become corporatized.

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That doesn't seem so much different from a transcon flight in the US, which is mostly no big deal.
This is pretty wild. Seeing the FBI tackle something like this is so far outside of the legal and cultural norms of society that it's difficult to even really comment on.