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It's from the FSF, so I expect my eyeballs to start rolling involuntarily. They do have a few good points that are consistent with their principles, but they dilute their message with disprovable claims. Like this one:

> In MacOS and iOS, the procedure for converting images from the Photos format to a free format is so tedious and time-consuming that users just give up if they have a lot of them.

First, there is no "Photos" format. The Photos apps are just catalog viewers. On macOS, the original files are easily accessible on disk organized inside the .photoslibrary file.

There are a few proprietary aspects:

- As of iOS 11, iPhones will store photos using the patent-encumbered HEVC codec. This can be disabled.

- Live Photos are undocumented but nothing special: a still frame bundled with a short video. (The video likely uses proprietary codecs.)

- Adjustments to images are nondestructive and stored separately from the file, in an opaque way.

Exporting a photo to a free format is trivial. The system usually does it automatically whenever you share the photo. Otherwise, it's literally just File > Export or even dragging to another app.

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This is also rich, coming from the FSF:

> “Dark patterns” are user interfaces designed to mislead users, or make option settings hard to find. This allows a company such as Apple to say, “We allow users to turn this off” while ensuring that few will understand how to actually turn it off.

Yes, because open source software is widely celebrated for the ease with which the everyday user can figure out how to change settings or modify source code.

(I agree Apple buried the ad tracking setting in a counter-intuitive place. But it's now in the top-level Privacy settings, where it belongs.)
This is very true, but a lot of software companies begin selling to SMB, but move "up" to Enterprise companies once they have traction.
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Damn, this is disappointing. I've long preferred hg over git but developer preference has clearly moved to favor git. I like using mercurial queues for managing local config changes but I guess I'll have to get better using `git stash`. I hope bitbucket provides some tools to easily convert repos from hg to git. Frankly, though, I'll likely just move from bitbucket now.
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Time to find a new job. I've worked fully remote my whole career, first by necessity and then by choice. There are lots of companies out there.
I don’t think it’s about “I want to download the maximum possible every month”, but rather “I want to wait the least time possible whenever I do need data”.

Eg downloading a new game is nowadays something like 20gig, software updates are regularly more than a gig, etc.

Then there’s the more basic a core issue: content latency is still one of the largest drivers of browsing performance, so even when there isn’t a lot of data you want high speed.

The article seems to basically miss the point.
Mass-market appeal isn't a primary goal of GNU, et al. Mass-market appeal is a means to an end for business. There exist a very large amount of projects that are both libre and very usable, but they don't all integrate with each other into a cohesive suite of products. Purism tried to put a thin layer over some fundamental tools and present them a suite, but the community hasn't embraced it (yet?), rejected it even. I think we should take another look at what they're trying to do from that perspective.
Years ago when I was growing up in the woods of West Virginia we had a particularly bad blizzard. During this time the power went out.

We were use to this happening and most of the time it was for half a day or so. So we pulled out the kerosene heaters and the oil lamps for light. Bundled up and waiting.

We ended up being snowed in without power for two weeks. My mom and dad would take turns bundling up and walking a mile or so every few days to get to the roads to get more fuel.

One thing I remember clearly was cooking on out outside wood fire grill, which was essentially cinder blocks and a grate. No worry about running out of wood since there was always plenty around.

I remember the whole ordeal pretty fondly. As a kid it was a good change of pace and like camping.
This may just bolster the researcher's point. That more than speed matters. What really matters it the performance of things on the application layer.
You need to specify latitude/longitude as a specific relationship relative to a specific reference surface. Polar coordinates alone are insufficient for consistent addressing.

For example, you could specify the latitude/longitude be interpreted as geodetic coordinates relative to the WGS84 ellispoid, neither of which will always be true when working with unspecified polar coordinates.
When I log off, I do Command+Q on Slack and e-mail.

Nobody can reach me after work through work channels. I simulate leaving the office.
That's one advantage of DSL over cable: the telephone is considered critical infrastructure and does stay up much longer than an hour.

I didn't realize that cable stayed up at all. That was one condition of switching to VoIP: my wife insisted that 911 from wired phones must continue to work through a power outage.
Any org-mode fans out there? I would like to hear how to make habits around org-mode and capturing the information necessary. I want to treat my notes as a brain assistant to free my mind of having to think of future events and tasks.

Particularly, the habits of capturing tasks when off desktop.
That's my question as well, they aren't saying anything about shadow profiles. It seems like a ploy to get people to create accounts just to 'stop' tracking.
> instead of a similarly priced hotel

There might be some specific exceptions (not enough to support a business) but generally you cannot find a similarly priced hotel with the same level of comfort. Not within a factor of 2, or maybe more. With Airbnb many costs become externalities.

Of course you already knew this.

I never would stay in an Airbnb because it's always been obvious that Airbnb cannot and has no desire to properly vet the hosts; and I'm not a gambler. Not in that way at least. I don't want to ruin a trip by taking the chance to save a few bucks.
we don't grow "for the sake of growing", there's plenty of poor people in the world that need that growth. Whether that growth reaches them is another story..
So now it becomes a cost / benefit analysis, and the loss of life is just the cost of doing business? Apparently a SpaceX launch is $57 million dollars. Given that you've massively reduced the regulations - if the red tape is in fact large enough to be a pain and the FAA is justified in reducing it to spur innovation, I bet you've saved that $10 million right there - totally worth it. Keep the deaths to a mostly low number, adjust insurance as needed, and you're golden! No more letting the price of a human life get in the way of private enterprise!
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I'm glad you're getting good reviews.

I've had a lot of employees in the past, and a fair number who were likely somewhere on the spectrum. Most did great, sometimes with small adjustments to how I interacted with them.

I've also had nightmare employees that have been ineffective because of excessive literalism and that have had troublesome interactions with their peers.

(I've also had socially adept employees that have engaged in problematic behavior and expected to get away with it because of charisma. You can "go off the rails" in any direction. But if your peers become scared to ask you for things because they can't figure out how to communicate effectively with you and your answers sound rude, it's a problem).
> It's a bit weird to me that an org that's been around for as long as GNU has such a black-and-white view of the software security/privacy/ownership landscape, when real life is a fair bit more nuanced.

But that's what allows them to exist this long. A clear consistent message that is both unusual and takes no prisoners.
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Those sound like issues with your IT department, employer, and/or video conference provider rather than issues with working from home. Any company with remote employees should require a consistent, stable solution
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I'm a manager. If I made that request, I have left the door open for a refusal BUT I would expect an explanation ("No, I can't do X because of Y...").

Also, if I received a firm "No" I wouldn't panic or read anything into it. I'd simply ask a follow up question or rephrase the request.
Could you get a dedicated fiber connection for your business? Those things cost a bit more.
> ...but neither is Android, which runs on a Linux kernel

The same goes for Ubuntu which runs Amazon Ads and sends usage statistics by default.

> As long as GNU keeps preaching this kind of absolutist position where the downsides of corporate-owned software ecosystems exist in a vacuum, they'll come off as doomsayers to many observers.

The FSF was absolutely spot on of raising privacy issues and that has forced a privacy overhaul throughout the entire tech industry. However it is still a shame at how they still cannot convince users to stop using non-free OSes or applications since they don't understand that most end users aren't willing to put the effort into migrating to another platform or to sacrifice convenience over freedom.

The only audience that seems to get the message are software engineers but not the average Joe or Jenny.
A censorship free p2p reddit-like based on ipfs.
I really need to find myself in a position where I have no responsibilities besides just writing code.
...the feeling of being locked into a walled ecosystem...

Out of curiosity what phone do you use now? And how do you feel about that ecosystem in terms of malware, tracking, advertising etc?
You don't have to work 8 hours non-stop. You can leave, meet friends (i.e. people you actually want to spend time with, not do because you have no one else) at lunch, talk to family, talk to neighbors, go to the gym, walk the dog, go for a swim (if you happen to live by the water) and still interact with people. But that implies you actually do have a social circle outside of your workplace or social abilities. If you don't have those, I doubt your workplace will provide any meaningful, organic interaction opportunities, either.
At least for me, something important that could be considered "heavy duty" is the ability to read and write notes from both my phone and computer.
I created a semi-private space inside my last big office job, and it made a world of difference; colleagues would come to me and discuss things without having to consider whether other people on the team would misinterpret what they were saying.

I think I was probably very blessed to have such an understanding and flexible company to work with, because thinking back, that was pretty crazy.
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I used to work for the government and we had a private gem server that introduced much for what you're asking about; delays in releases as a trade-off for security practices. Ultimately, I don't think there was any tooling available to automate the vulnerability scanning enough that a private server gives you much of a jump start on any kind of CVE that bundle audit wouldn't already catch. The workaround of needing to hit GitHub directly to get a current version and bypass the private server is also available.

Additionally, GitHub provides a bundler-audit like service for free. And, identifying those that are t CVEs yet seems like something scriptable but also obfuscatable (on the attacker end).

I don't think any team I've been on (federal or private) would pay extra for this kind of service given the frequency with which we do updates and the amount of effort that needs a careful developer spends when doing these updates. The most recent breaches have been noted well I'm advance of any updates we would have done.

I'd be glad to be wrong about it because I think a few more tools in this space would only help the community.

It would be nice if a service could summarize the differences in actual gem releases, to make things like the changelog and the diff easily digestable for all the available updates though (versus a scan/lint). That would let a developers more easily identify these kinds of breaches than cloning and diffing.
I don't disagree with you, but I think most HN readers are power users.

In the context of this article, I feel like most readers don't fall into this category and probably aren't getting that amount of return on their higher speed investments.

Though, your comment brings up an interesting point - I wonder if internet speeds would play a factor in getting more users to run their updates? In general they're disruptive so there are other issues, but it could be part of the overall frustration. Personally, I have a fast connection so I rarely have this specific problem.
“One particular detail” is a gigantic understatement. Having introduced several people to git, it is uniformly awful as a tool to learn, and that bad design doesn’t go away once you memorise the basics.
It's not the most popular overall because the largest number of CPU chips in the world are ARM (phones and other devices) which don't have embedded MINIX.

You could argue that the most popular shipping OS is the BIOS, or hard drive microcode.
Because being initially faster does not mean being able to run faster for the entire race.
This is a really good comment. I remember when Blue Apron looked sensible at a 70% discount-- the stock is now at a 90% discount since its IPO.
Cycling still works to commute between most suburbs and small town centres. (I should know; I used to live on unincorporated land half-way between two towns of ~12k people.)

For really rural areas where there is no “town center”—perhaps just intentionally park your car a good distance from wherever you’re going so that you have to walk the last bit of the way? (Sort of like the campaign a number of MTAs have going where they encourage you to get off one subway stop early and walk from there to your destination.)
My point is people are desperate - and for some it's difficult to find (or pay) a LLMD. There are groups on FB (one of the only uses I have for FB) with thousands of members who give/get advice. No they aren't doctors, but I wouldn't discount their lack of certification - they have experience.

Unfortunately I have not yet beat it (or whatever other disease(s) the tick gifted me.) I'm still on 3-4 different antibiotics and feeling generally like crap. But it's 'only' been 3 months.
> Unfortunately, most non-techie users like having their freedom taken away in exchange for [security, ease of use, etc.].

Are you implying that people buy iPhones because Apple stops them from sideloading apps? Because I don't think that's true at all.

A more accurate statement might be: Most non-techie users don't mind having their freedom taken away. If Apple allowed sideloading tomorrow a la Android, nothing would change for the 95%+ portion of iPhone users who prefer the App Store.
That's not very practical if salted hashes are being stored.
We do that, and to be fair, it's really positive. We have an open plan area, booths if you want quiet work, meeting rooms for, well, meetings - and then you can WFH whenever you want to.

It's a great approach, and I've enjoyed it for a good 3 years or so. It has the effect of damaging collaboration though - which for some roles is perfect (where I am, some roles you can be ignored for a good few days), but for ones like mine, it actually makes it hard. It also scratches out pretty much all sense of camaraderie, so it depends whether you want to feel connected with colleagues or not.

This kind of agile working is a double edged sword, the benefits give rise to different challenges, challenges I never thought I'd see as such previously.

That being said, working from home from 7:30-9, then heading to a coffee shop for an hour, then coming into the office for a bit, and then going home is freedom it'd be hard to give up.
This is a good way of looking at it

People on the spectrum aren't less empathic, they're lacking rituals which help hide one's lack of empathy
The growing trend or working remotely is clearly contrarian to this case.

As a startup co-founder and CEO, I've never found their offer compelling enough, way too pricey to put it bluntly.

And I really think that remote work is here to stay and grow.
> The FSF really needs better marketing and prioritization. Imagine how much time and attention they spent just fighting the Linux vs GNU/Linux debate, something that essentially no one cares about.

And yet almost everyone I know in tech knows about it, even my non-tech friends that use mastodon and pleroma have heard jokes about it. So given the exposure it's got them, it was pretty good for marketing.
It's an improvement, but hiking is still walking-as-an-activity, instead of walking-as-transportation, meaning that you're not increasing that baseline energy consumption.
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Well yes and on Windows they are a sequence of 16bit values, not utf-16. My point was the encoding of filenames differ. So you can't do a byte-for-byte copy and expect the same results across platforms.

As an aside, it'd be perfectly legitimate for Mercurial (and git) to reject filenames that aren't representable in unicode.
I've been wanting to journal more consistently, so I set up an automator task to open up my journal app at the same time everyday (typically sometime during my daily, so I come back to my computer and it's there just waiting for me).
My preferable alternative would not be to use a totally different toolchain for prototyping and production, and making the people responsible for the prototype also responsible for bringing it to production.

I've heard all kinds of arguments against it, but they mostly boil down to "data scientists/analysts/whatever" can't be arsed to bring it to production (or "do not have the right skill set") and vice-versa for software developers.

I've seen much more success with a developer and less-technical person working closely in a team and bringing a project from prototype to production together.
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True, I pay Comcast for 100Mbps and routinely get 250Mbps
The government reaped the value the railroad created for all of the other lands it held, beyond that, consider that the government used to give away up to 160 acres of land to anyone who was willing to homestead it, and improve it. As in literally free - the land without the railroad had considerably less value at that time.
I'd still rather work remotely. Commuting is one of the majors factors that makes me prefer to work from home
You should look for a vendor which understands that knowing the secret key inside the Security Key (that's how all the vaguely cheap ones work, they have a random secret AES key inside them, that's enough to do everything else securely) is a terrible idea and so they should arrange for the key to be chosen randomly and never recorded at all.

With SecurID and similar technologies vendors technically didn't need to retain the secrets inside those devices after they'd been manufactured and shipped, but you can see the practical temptation.

On a smaller scale, since the system doesn't use a shared secret you should just swap a brand new Security Key with somebody else or if deploying to an organisation just muddle them and let people pick whichever one they want. You don't care which key you have, the more random the better.
You would expect emigrants to be people who are productive enough to afford the increased costs-of-living of a city, which usually (but not always) implies health—at least insofar as severe unhealthy usually restricts productivity.
Not my experience, let me explain:

I notice that I have a baseline of appetite, hunger. Going below that makes me deeply uncomfortable. At the same time, I know that I don't need too much exercise to come to a calorie neutrality or slight deficit - but I can't reach that energy expenditure with a sedentary lifestyle.

If I do a 30min run every day, plus walk to work (another 30min), I spend enough calories so I can eat comfortably (still healthy).

A tracker like the Apple Watch helps to see this in action. Closing your rings in the city? Easy. Closing your rings while car centric? Hard.

People should not need to diet. They should spend enough calories to burn off excess food. Note I am talking about healthy BMI, not Instagram fitness model levels. Dad bod, etc. Not morbidly obese.
In some instances, how does one distinguish between social rituals vs managers taking advantage of employees - e.g. in a toxic office culture where every employee overworks vs it's a good office that really has an emergency vs maybe one manager who "nudges" emplyees to overwork to look good.
What they also failed to realize, which was also true then, is that the person I need a face-to-face conversation with is neither in the desk next to me nor at my employer's site the next country over: he was in my desk last year, works somewhere else now, and didn't write anything down because Agile™ told him it wasn't ‘effective’.
Oh sure. I generally stick to ext4. But IF I needed the advanced features of btrfs/zfs, then I'd choose zfs.
I've been diving most of my life as a hobby, but a few years ago I decided to give up software and start diving professionally. It was the best decision I've ever made.

Now Im not wealthy by any metric other than quality of life.
The challenge with having universal sign language, is that people communicate in over 300 different sign languages around the world.

Even in English speaking countries, like the United States vs. New Zealand, both countries have two different forms of sign language (ASL vs. NZSL) which are communicated amongst the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities.
The article seemed to portray the letters of being a symbol of a previous pattern of troubling escapism for her, and selling them was a personal affirmation of graduating from that pattern. Such items may be sentimental, but if the sentiments that they hold for you aren't a positive force, then it's better not to keep them around.
Yes, but the key space to brute force is the key space after truncation. You don’t need to brute force the original seed.
No but it does create more opportunities for them to get around: left in washer, or on you when moving clothes from washer to dryer.
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You're right and I stand corrected - it's not that hard of a problem. I found this out when (sometime later) I actually sat down to solve it, without considering any of the hints posted elsewhere in this thread.

At least there seems to be some general agreement (within the thread) that, while not super-hard -- it's still basically a "eureka problem" -- that is, even among what we may consider to be adequately good engineers -- some will get the visual solution more or less right away; but a fair percent (25 or more) won't.

And that's given ideal circumstances -- working alone and in unhurried circumstances. Throw in the (considerable) distraction of having to think aloud in front of other people (who themselves may not exactly be providing the most relaxing vibe, to say the lease), and all the other stress that comes with interviewing -- and I'll bet that 25 percent failure rate rises quite considerably, in turn.

And in many cases -- if you fail just one of these "eureka" problems -- and maybe fail to provide the expected canned response to a "behavioral" question or two -- than that's pretty much all it takes. To be considered, you know, "not a fit".

As to why I jumped the gun -- fatigue, probably, from being fed a few too many "cute" problems like these.