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You can actually grab non-google Chromium. This site keeps track of the latest stable and nightly builds and how to download them directly: https://chromium.woolyss.com/ You won't receive automatic updates, or be able to login to your google chrome account, etc. The theme is slightly different in color but it works exactly like normal Chrome. Chromium is the open source project that Chrome is based on, originally it was a web browser built by the KDE team for Linux.

I disagree that Chromium is evil. Personally, I use Firefox because I like it better. Though, on Android I use Brave which is based on Chromium and has ad blocking, privacy, and anti-fingerprinting built-in. Just a really quick easy way to get all of that in a simple no fuss package.
Intelligence and fertility are known as complex traits. The fact they are complex doesn't mean they are not acted on by genetics: they are just highly polygenic. Almost all attempts to measure the heritability of intelligence have reached estimates between 50 and 80%.
The Touch Bar was what finally pushed me over the edge to remap caps lock to escape. I'm shocked at how much I enjoy ESC being close to the home row (I'm not even a big vim user). For this change alone I am glad to have the Touch Bar.
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I don’t know where to start... I hope you’re never in a position to design something that people have to use.
Here's a constructive proof that does not rely on the law of excluded middle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root_of_2#Constructiv...
Not GP, but any action that does not occur at a global level is nothing more than a feel-good measure. You're kidding yourself if you think that this, or even this multiplied across all of Europe would make a dent in climate change. Meanwhile, it allows people to feel like they're doing something, reducing the likelihood that we will actually see a globally coordinated effort to really change direction on the climate.
And the other point of view:

> We're certainly aware of how significant ad blocking extensions are. This release required a great quantity of features with only a six month timeline until now.

> We already support a very limited set of the WebExtensions API to offer features like Reader Mode. Rest assured that more features will land in the coming months.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298143

This reads like FUD to me. The dev team know how important extensions are to their users.
Ah gotcha, then that is a pretty handy shortcut.
It should be easy to see what happened to the tax revenue in the budget numbers. Large taxes and fees are risky. Governments are usually careful to not put an entire industry (including thousands of jobs) at risk of overnight collapse. Also, airlines already benefit from aviation fuel tax exemptions (to the tune of billions of dollars). Maybe we should be looking at slowly getting rid of those too.
Getting to CDG...by train...is pretty easy.

Traveling by train through Paris is a PITA as it often involves a station transfer via bus.
That's interesting. I've never thought of this before.
This reads far better without the first sentence.
> Volume changing? That's better with the touchbar.

Not really. My wife has low vision. Changing the volume used to be a muscle memory sort of thing. Now it's an awkward fumbling mess, especially if she's in the middle of a meeting and trying to mute her laptop.

We've locked the buttons to a static position so she knows where to press but there's still no tactile feedback.
When I was 7 at the time I had a killer Ross Perot impression that my family thought was hilarious. But yeah, I remember those times well and I remember my grand parents actually really liked him as a candidate.
Two interesting things from this, I think:

1. This goes a long way to show that there isn't probably zero human interaction with the "Amazon's Choice" listings and that it's completely algorithmic.

2. Making fraudulent listings on Amazon is extremely effective. So effective that it can be sent to the top of the charts.

My question is this: even if the listing gets removed, I'm sure it's been up long enough to make an insane amount of money, probably far more than they paid for the review-bots or the stock (if they even sell the correct thing). If they get the listing removed and "banned," what's to stop them from making another shell corp and doing it all again? What's the barrier for entry for fraudulent listings?

Tangentially related, if "Amazon's Choice" is based on reviews and popularity, what stops it from becoming an echo chamber? Age of product doesn't seem like a good factor, nor time spent in the amazon choice spot.
Thanks! I'm investigating it and sadly it seems a bit stale with last commit made 5 months ago: https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android

For browsers this seems like a bit too long without updates. I can imagine maintaining such project is demanding but hopefully the project can gain more attention now with the new version of Firefox breaking extensions on Android.
Data Saver makes the images go through Google's servers, so the browser doesn't get the ETag. On the other hand, it's much easier for Google itself to track you.
My only problem with it was the naming. I had people ask me for buying advice assuming the "air" MacBook was the one that made compromises in order to be smaller and lighter, when that was the non-Air MacBook.

What the heck did "Air" mean?
Both P25 and DMR are open standards, the only closed part is IMBE (which I believe is patent free now) and AMBE+2 (which will be patent free in the next 5 years). DSTAR is also a open standard too, but I think only has a single implementer, same for C4FM.
Can anyone comment with the family name, I'm being paywalled for being over my free views and not interested in paying 10$ for one article.
"A 2-day adventure involving trains, cars, ferries,hotels is much more environmentally (and physically) costly than a $300 flight"

Based on what?

Sea travel is really quite efficient, so are trains, especially when we're talking about French trains powered by French nuclear.

And why are immigrants a reason that its regressive? Low paid eastern Europeans aren't going to be flying around Europe, well paid international businessmen probably will.

Edit: Ignore the "And why are immigrants a reason that its regressive", I'm confusing my threads. The point stands though. Poor immigrant doesn't necessarily correlate with having to fly.
I'm legitimately curious. Please help me understand.

Again, I don't see how its worth all the hassle and surely extra cost for Apple to push it, but really don't see how it's any worse than the previous bar.
Finally. It's really frustrating to see how heavily subsidized airlines, plane fuel and airports are and how big of a tax breaks they get when they come to a city.

At the same time people are shamed for buying salad in a plastic bag when the big lever is somewhere completely different. Had the same thought yesterday when I saw:

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1148317244893597696
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He talked about a conspiracy by the Republicans to ruin his daughters wedding. I thought he was crazy at the time, but now I believe him.

I remember his hour long presentations with the flip charts of how things were screwed up.

Too bad he didn’t win. Instead we got the scumbag Clintons.
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Portugal is generally not connected by train anywhere else.

Last I checked we didn't even have more than one or 2 routes to Spain by train, due to different gauges, and spain has different gauges from france.

If you want to go from Paris to Lisbon by train expect a whole day of travel if not more, with multiple changes
Devuan is but one fork among many. It has zero traction in the enterprise space. Devuan, Gentoo, et al, are niche players. While their userlands may be "pure", they represent a minuscule fraction of Linux users.

And yes, systemd is a dependency for quite a few userland programs. Here is one of the best articles I've read on why systemd is really bad.

https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2016/05/18/systemd-it-keeps-ge...
Then why can extensions still not customize the UI, even for something as simple as putting the tabs below the address and bookmarks bar?
>opt-in data processing consent not conditional on service

I see this violated so often with full-screen popups requiring you disable adblock or exit private mode. The EU really needs to fine these companies into oblivion, I should not have to create an account just to look and see if they have a disabled tracking toggle (and they usually don't, so the only way to prevent tracking is private mode/adblock).
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Yawn

There are much worse polluters, sure, travel is a contribution to greenhouse gasses, but I guess fuck people for wanting to take a plane somewhere

Though the tax is small, so this seems more like a money grab than anything else
If Marriot can prove that they anonymised the data wherever possible, deleted all the data that they didn't absolutely need, took all possible steps to prevent the attack, and took all the required steps once they detected the breach, then they won't be facing huge fines. The fines aren't for "having a breach", the fines are for mismanagement of their customer's data and negligence around the breach.

It's not the inability to protect yourself that's the offence, it's not doing the right thing in the event of a breach that's the offence.
Ah! Thats what I might do... At work we just have Bluetooth keyboards so its not as annoying to us thankfully since the Magic Keyboard has all the keys and the keys dont suck as much. I make too many typos on the new MBP keyboards I never made on a previous Mac.
I'm mostly talking about a PR suicide that is speaking against beliefs of majority, or even a vocal minority. This has real economic consequences, so it makes businesses stay in line with the accepted beliefs by talking the only language that matters to them.

Yes, a state is an instiute of enforcement, violent if needed. Nothing new here indeed. People just tend to see enforcement of ideas they like as good, and of the ideas they don't like, as evil. Nothing new here either.

I just tried to explain the train of thought that may have led to the original (flagged) comment.
Sorry, never heard of that, and since the rest of the story was so similar, it didn't really register in my brain as something entirely different.
How did you reach them? When I go into the online store for my country the site asks me for the serial-nr and then offers me calling, chat or store. Choosing the call and chat options tell me that my device is not eligible for that kinda support but I could make an appointment in the store (which then tell's me that it's not possible at this time and I just should show up).
Just kill javascript on the domain, it will let you through every time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Hoare_%26_Co
This is only tangentially related, but Veritasium has a fantastic video that discusses the genetics behind the random color patterns of calico cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw
I wonder if this will roil the working masses like the planned gas taxes did. Maybe it will take a while until the work stoppages and lay offs kick in.
I'm still salty about the magsafe.
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I'm fine with the "traps" mentioned. I know I would pay attention to those things even if I was looking at many job applications and I would expect anyone I'd hire to do the same.

As for "talking about life" I think it's a great idea. Many people ITT think it's about finding buddies, it's not. It's about getting a reading of the person and be able to make a better decision. This goes both ways, the candidate will also know what type of person he will be working with.
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Our insurance agent had his arm in a sling a year or so ago when we went to talk to him. Routine surgery nicked a nerve and he lost control of his hand. Saw him a couple times after and sounded like it was just something he'd have to live with.

Then we bought a house and were in to talk to him about insurance for that. His hand was working fine.

Asked him about it. Apparently they took a nerve out of his leg and put it in his arm. "Can't feel my foot, but that's a heck of a lot better than not being able to use my hand"

It's a wild world.
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What's the point in asking them what they could do, there's plenty they could do but shouldn't.
Why on earth do I need to tap twice to adjust the screen brightness? I couldn't find a way to just have two increase/decrease buttons. Why can't I adjust how long the touchbar stays active for? Why does it disappear at all? I can't imagine the touchbar would exist in its current form if Steve were alive.
I don't understand why this comment is currently ranked so highly. It is based on pure conjecture, goes against what Mozilla has publicly stated, and assumes Mozilla is working in bad faith to deceptively drop add-on support.
Is there really any likelihood of that happening? If Torvalds got cold feet about systemd and started making it less integral to the upstream kernel (or at least more walled off as an optional subsystem), there's a chance Debian would take that as an opening to move in a non-systemd direction. But as long as the upstream kernel imports more and more systemd-related stuff and treats it as the default/expected configuration, and then things like desktop environments follow suit and depend on it, Debian would need to maintain what amounts more and more to its own fork of the rest of the Linux world to do otherwise. When this was last discussed, most Debian developers didn't think it had the dev resources to do that.
This thread is going to dissolve into a pile-up on the Touch Bar, so I wanna jump in front of this.

Readers of this site are mostly “hackers,” however mutated or dumbed-down that term has become over the years, correct? Everyone here has their windows and spaces just so, a full complement of shortcuts and trackpad gestures, and if they're serious about the Macintosh tools like TextExpander.

As standard as GUIs are, we've all experienced a moment of disorientation when borrowing another person's computer. The more experienced and skilled that other person is, the greater that disorientation due to the amount of “hacking” they've done on their own environment.

So how come this impulse stops at the Touch Bar?

I've hacked the hell out of mine. I've mapped inscrutable keyboard commands like cmd-opt-ctrl-D to context sensitive buttons, included globals for quick terminal visors and development tools and password managers… it's slick as hell and I hate giving it up when I occasionally opt for the external keyboard at home.

The Touch Bar is amazing, you just need to hack the damn thing. Yeah, Apple should have done a better job making it more useful out of the box, but it's possible to do some really wild stuff with it.

map your Caps Lock key to Escape and go to town. https://github.com/vas3k/btt-touchbar-presets
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The issue is it takes away a significant amount of utility without adding any. Volume/brightness is slightly better, but you can get the same effect by holding down the physical button. Some users like to use Caps Lock for Ctrl, and this is an instance of the touchbar forcing a loss of utility with no gain.

Function keys are used heavily in IDEs, and forcing a large reach of fn + f# key isn't adding any utility either.

I have yet to see a situation where the touchbar adds some utility that merits the loss in other areas for users.
I doubt they would do it on their own, many of the trips via schiphol don’t have Dutch endpoints, which is Europe’s biggest hub.
Accessibility is a good reason to not like it, that's very fair. That alone puts it from my original neutral position to it being a negative overall.
> tactile feedback

Not tactile, haptic only but there is https://github.com/niw/HapticKey
Coming back to this from a few days later, the search "Dr. Paul Drago" doesn't turn up anything negative in the first dozen pages. Unfortunately for him the search bar is offering up "dr. paul drago domestic violence" and "dr. paul drago botched" as auto-complete options.
I always end up having to google how to do stuff with CLI tools but GUIs let you discover how to do things intuitively. Tried using man pages but they're always slower to find stuff in and a stackoverflow answer is more likely to target the use case I'm going for.
> the move towards FreeBSD

Who? Where? for what?

You mentioned BeOS. Sorry, I love nostalgia too, but I have no idea what you're talking about. Out in AWS, GCP, Azure, DO -land... it's still going to be Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Windows, etc for a long time.
The NeXT thing is neat.
Also of course he made it into the Simpsons.

"Go ahead, throw your vote away!"
You mean like this? http://ericpdollard.com/2014/06/23/the-landers-facility-of-e...
So half of what Apple spent? That’s hardly damning.
I'd argue it's a bit of both -- it's a sin tax, and a pigovian tax. Sin taxes _are_ meant to cut down on use, while pigovian taxes aren't meant to cut down on use, rather, make up for external damage (such as to the environment).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
We are descended from at least 7000 generations of man, and 99.9% of these ancestors had never even heard of toothpaste.
> I thought the main issue was that MS was preinstalling IE and making it a pain to uninstall it.

The root issue was that Microsoft preinstalled the (free) Internet Explorer at a time when other web browsers were commercial. Netscape Navigator in particular was free for personal use, but Netscape wanted a fee for business use.

That was the original sin of the monopoly: Microsoft used its dominance in the operating system market to take over the browser market at a stroke. They compounded on this with "embrace, extend, and extinguish" practices, where they would introduce and maintain IE-only web extensions to the detriment of existing and upcoming standards.

You still see the modern legacy of this with Internet Explorer 'compatibility mode' hacks, since it turned out that Microsoft itself became stuck in its own morass.
The amount of FUD in this post is astounding. Here's relevant github issue: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/662#issuecomm...
You won’t buy one, but you’ll use one daily to make a living. I was expecting a different conviction given your strong language. ;)
I have also written Elixir in the last years, after 10 years of Ruby, and the syntactic similarities are obvious to me. Luckily you don't have to take my word for it, as the author of Elixir said multiple times that, while Elixir is not about syntax, its syntax was inspired by Ruby.
I'd like and use the touchbar more if it was quicker. Occasional 5 second and frequent 0.5 to 2 second lag on the escape or a volume key is very frustrating when physical keyboards should be very fast.
Same. That plus the realization that you can adjust volume or screen brightness by holding the brightness/volume button and then simply sliding left or right made it actually intuitively usable. It's still a little gimmicky and probably not worth the effort.
So you're cool with folks touching their genitals and then touching you?
Some kind of NDA terms are not unheard-of. Like a 1-3 month period in which to work on things during which disclosures won't go out.

That said, there's a slight disconnect between Zoom's two statements here. The first is that the researcher declined out of concerns over Zoom's NDA. The second is that NDAs are common. What this doesn't say is that Zoom's NDA is cookie-cutter or what the specific terms are.

If I were to guess, Zoom was using some unusual NDA and attempting to buy permanent silence.
Let's add in the BWI airport too. And while we're at it add Baltimore too. But that's it!
Good suggestion here.

I created a single serving Ansible docker image with a couple of playbooks for this very purpose --devs were asking frequently to pull schemas or dump from various data sources internally "Hey I forgot the command to do this, what was it again?".

Eventually I gave them a Dockerfile, wrote up some documentation on how to change hosts in the run command if they so desired, questions all but stopped immediately, and the devs loved it.

I now get a new question "hey, can you make one of those but to do this?"

"Sure, here's a playbook for it, put this in that directory on your local machine and it'll be available in the container". Combined with dynamic host inventories, it's made me a few friends lol
Ranked choice might work for parliaments, but it would just create unwelcome surprises in the US. I cannot help but think what happened in a sport (NASCAR) with its switch from winner take all to a series of rankings would mean if it were something as important as voting. You might find sports is not a serious argument, but this is the US and the reaction shows some tendencies towards other aspects of life.
>impact or not

Willing to solve problems is not the same as willing to be a prop for a problem.
I remember... I still have very little trust for anything MS comes up with or buys that supports something other than Windows, or in the case of Office, MacOS. Every single application they have for non-windows hasn't made it two releases after. .Net Core at least seems to be holding strong, and I do appreciate it.

I tend to prefer software that works everywhere I do. I use Windows, Linux and Mac on a daily basis. Though haven't done desktop Linux in close to a decade at this point (next desktop will likely change that).

On the flip side, I actually appreciate that MS has done a number of apps with web and electron focus. VS Code shows you can do a well performing editor in a browser, I almost didn't even try it after atom and brackets. That it's on all three, I really appreciate. WTF the Teams app isn't available on Linux irks me to no end. The Azure SQL Studio is also progressing nicely. I also happen to like the relative ease of using Azure's services, but it's more than I'm going to pay on hobby projects.
yeah, it's going to be an interesting argument between the bits of government that want to read your mail, and the bits of government that want to ensure that you protect your customers' mail from being read.
As someone who was around for the "evil Microsoft" era, I am also frustrated by this.

There's no reason Apple should be allowed to force Safari exclusively on iOS. We had an entire anti-trust decision about this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor.... It should be bog-standard-illegal, and Apple deserves an equally bad rep for this.
As a native English speaker, I have always been irritated by that usage (which I’ll be the first to admit is not really rational) and I’m pleased that it seems to be dying out.
Wasn't aware of Pock before your comment. This looks really cool, thanks for the tip.

https://pock.dev/
This was entirely reactionary.

Microsoft looked at what AWS was doing and realized they were getting left in the dust and they are still playing catch up, albeit in very good shape.

Nadella discusses having to catch up to AWS in his book.

Ballmer's major contribution was finally allowing the company to follow Amazon's playbook.
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