skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem to provide much value to bad actors, since you can't trigger this exploit without physical access and a reboot, can't get any device data without the passcode even if you've done that, and can't persist anything that requires privileged access even with the exploit and the passcode. That makes it moderately useful for hackers and security researchers trying to experiment with devices they own, and most likely of little to no use for any hostile agents, with or without physical device access.
I do not present any opinion about his decency. It is under scrutiny for sure, but I won't publicly judge him.
His personal site is not related to the FSF. It’s hosted by Positive Internet in the UK.
Define "ordinary person", as plenty of people here have. However, there's very little difference between downloading a reproducible system that compiles everything on your machine and downloading a binary with a known checksum from a perspective of trust.
I’ve not met either the Kickstarter management nor the people that were fired, but isn’t it possible that these folks knew they were poor performers and were on borrowed time with the company? They may have wanted to start a union that could bargain on their behalf with a lot more power.

I’m not saying that unions created in good faith are bad, but there are union leaders that give off a vibe of self-enrichment. Kind of like political lobbies- some are good, some are bad.

I don’t know if we should take the fired employees’ word for why they were fired. I’ve seen too many “bottom 5%ers” make up excuses why they were fired when the reality is that they plain couldn’t hack it. I’ll reserve judgement until there is a court case or a settlement. If it really is a slam-dunk case like the Twitter-verse makes it out to be, there are lawyers that are begging to help these poor souls.
I think more practical concerns are cases of forced seizure by the government. The easier it is to access private data against someone’s will, the more often it will happen.
I believe what he's referring to is this:

> The word hypernormalisation was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach in the United States. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s.[3][4] He says that everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.[5] Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the fakeness was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed hypernormalisation.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
The protocol isn't what makes this happen, it's the system itself. ClassDojo provides that structured system. Email existing does not.
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Why would legalizing the selling of sex increase the stigma of selling sex?

The assassination industry is also underground... what does that mean for murder laws?
The same message where he resigns as head of the GNU project is posted both on the 27th and the 28th of September on this page. Strange.
Probably the correct argument is that Google is a monopsony here. Unless all publishers form a cartel (very unlikely) there will always be one that can enable the snippet and get all them clicks. (Ignoring whether this is good/bad for end-users, how this would effect the market.)

Now, did this law/regulation/policy-change help with that?

No, because there are still and probably will always be other news sites that enable the snippet preview feature. So Google is not incentivized to spend more on news snippets. (Ignoring whether they otherwise would, since they likely don't make money on them anyway.)
It's a pretty automated process. I'd estimate 1/10 of all people who can use a computer and install software at all could do it if they wanted to and had sufficient time.
Richard Stallman is a victim here. He's been taken out of context, provably so, and then the lies repeated and amplified by social media and even legitimate news outlets.

It is a witch hunt, pure and simple. There is no smoke, there is no fire.
You should read his actual emails, he never defended Epstein. Sites were just parroting what they read on a medium article written by someone with an axe to grind who'd never met RMS.
A warrant canary isn't proof of anything.
I'm not sure it wasn't answered before, but why do you refuse to open-source the client app, since, as you say it yourself, you try to have no secrets on the client-side, encryption is supposed to be e2e, technology is well known and implemented in many alternatives and basically there seems to be nothing to protect in the app itself?
As a Jekyll user, I don't get why you were copying and pasting HTML. Jekyll has includes for reusable HTML components.
Did you read it? They just stopped promoting it. It is literally still up https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/804992239/help-current-... . They claim they won't be back... but we will see about that

"We were unable to continue promoting our campaign, because every time we did, people criticized us for partnering with an anti-union company, which you have now admitted you are. As a result of our inability to promote the campaign in good conscience, our fundraiser has made far less money than it otherwise could have. "
The same can be true of analog. The 'legendary' synths were such because they limited you to the nicer parts of the range. Similarly, the lighter weight yamaha synths do too. Check out a pss-470 or similar and then the challenge is to get weird. The interface is truly the insturment.
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I sure hope you are right about that.

I feel the TSA will just continue to grow. It is being fed threats and has nothing else to do but grow.

I want security, but damn.
RMS' bad opinions hold the weight of a handful of average people at most while his opinions on FOSS hold the weight of thousands.
Amen to that. Engineering is unique in that both experience and talent is required, and is valued. IMHO, that plus competition is enough security for me. I don't need another layer of bureaucracy "helping" me be less productive. By raising barriers to entrance, barriers to change, and by protecting the entrenched a union would totally devalue my worth.
Huge thread already here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21103133

Most importantly, the top comment observes that it's somewhat likely this is fake.
Please implement a warrant canary while you still can, before you are legally compelled not to.
Note that Stallman probably qualifies as a public figure for the purposes of defamation law. At that point, meeting the bar of defamation requires showing malicious intent or reckless disregard for the truth, which is quite a high bar to meet, and I don't believe it is met here.
HTTPS: //www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/26/my-life-without-sugar
My life without sugar
Which kind? There are SRE that are SWEs and then there are plain SREs.
I eagerly await the next step in your brutally obvious motte-and-bailey game.

Try being less dishonest, you shameless sack of shit.
My point was not about what China is doing and what they are capable of. My point is that the reporting is shoddy.

You simply cannot recognise someone’s face in a large crowd with a traditional wide angle 320x240 resolution cctv camera mounted high up on a pole. This is not the movies where you can “zoom in and clarify”. Traditional cctv can place people at a certain time based on the colour of their clothes, their height etc. It is used for gathering evidence after a crime has been committed, not for automatically recognising people.

Modern cctv has high enough resolution for facial recognition but nobody bothers reporting numbers properly. It’s the differentiation between the capabilities that I want to point out. It’s like saying that there are 1 bn toy guns AND real guns in existence. It’s a meaningless number.
>FM modulation levels have a very narrow range from “enough modulation that it sounds interesting” to “too much modulation and it sounds like garbage”.

Yes, FM programming is surprising in that way.

On some patches, the range of "sounds different, but good" values is larger. On others, a small change, and your glorious soundscape descends into early 90s videogame sound or to metallic screeches crazy fast.

Still, the Reface DX does an admirable job of making FM programming enjoyable and fun. As you said: there's no point in change all of the parameters at once, you end up going operator-by-operator. I think the Reface DX offers a great balance UX-wise.
It's interesting that the people who cite "freedom of association" as a justification for canceling people don't believe in freedom of association in other contexts, e.g. with respect to so-called "retalation" against corporate activists, which is just a company using its freedom of association. Freedom for me, but not for thee.

I don't respect principles wielded selectively and as weapons.
These days, it's easier to thwart the Evil Maid attack, as it's known, by replacing the device, and some recommend doing that when entering/exiting China, attending DefCon, and a few other scenarios where it's credible under a given threat model. Most of us aren't Edward Snowden, but are still cases where thats not so ludicrous. The FBI has installed keyloggers into laptops supposedly fresh from the factory that have been discovered before. It's not just specific person devices, either. Aspersions were cast on Supermicro motherboards installed into Cloud provider data centers, even if nothing was ever found/proven.
A lack of one is.
Personally, I think the comparison to Socrates drinking the hemlock is probably a little dramatic for this scenario. Or at least a little bit idealistic on RMS and a little bit harsh on "us".
Because there's nothing to regret. The article was a hit piece, wildly inaccurate in it's editorialization that equates to a lie. People are foolishly listening to some ignorant ranting that takes everything out of context and my supposition is that it was something people when wanted to jump on when the opportunity arose.

People, notably nicknamed SJw's, have been trying to target big names in GNU and Linux for years and is an established fact in many circles of honeytraps trying to snare some of these people.

I don't buy this at all as anything less.
> I don't get why he doesn't simply apologize

He could give a fake apology with the hope that this would stop this whole drama, but I believe that he is more principled than that. Plus, apologising for something that you have not done wrong hurts.
> For starting a green revolution in the notoriously dirty car industry which will save millions of lives by saving the environment.

I'm all for doing things that benefit the environment, I kow but I think this is a bit of a stretch.

The cars are too expensive for average consumer, so you will not see widespread adoption any time soon.
Hence my second paragraph?
Thank you for correction. There is no excuse for getting this wrong.
I'm only familiar with devpi [0] as a free on-prem package manager. What others are you referring to?

[0] https://github.com/devpi/devpi
But Android is already kinda Linux. You can even get shell and everything.
I'm not good at physics, but it seems to me if this 9mm object had the mass of earth, then at a distance of about 6400 km it would exert 1G, and at minimal distance, it would exert about a zillion Gs. So even assuming it didn't pull in matter per se, the gravity and tidal forces ought to destroy earth about as effectively as colliding with a regular earth sized planet.
Are you being sarcastic, or do you see the parent post as an attack on the concept of metaphor?
Looking at his biography on Wikipedia, it seems that he:

1. Earned a BS in Physics from Harvard with a near-perfect GPA.

2. Got into a PhD in Physics program.

3. Dropped out of the Physics program to pursue a non-degree-track research program in AI.

4. Published stuff and gave talks.

His work around that time sounds like what a typical grad student would be doing, i.e. performing research as a research assistant to a principal investigator:

> While working (starting in 1975) as a research assistant at MIT under Gerry Sussman,[13] Stallman published a paper (with Sussman) in 1977 on an AI truth maintenance system, called dependency-directed backtracking.[17] This paper was an early work on the problem of intelligent backtracking in constraint satisfaction problems. As of 2009, the technique Stallman and Sussman introduced is still the most general and powerful form of intelligent backtracking.[18] The technique of constraint recording, wherein partial results of a search are recorded for later reuse, was also introduced in this paper.[18]

Without looking into precisely what he did, that sounds like the sorta thing someone could type up as a dissertation and defend to earn a PhD.
How many? Could be as few as 2. Out of thousands.
Was it Revolution OS by any chance?
A clickbait daily beast article is not a meaningful source, you're engaging in the same crap that blew this tire fire up.

First of all, RMS was defending Minksy, not Epstein.

Second, he was saying the most likely scenario was that she presented to Minsky as willing.

All he was saying was that the person he knew, Minsky, was most likely oblivious to her being coerced by Epstein.

He never came to the defense of Epstein, the alleged trafficker, to the best of my knowledge.
DOH has the possibility to leverage the wrong parties against encryption. There needs to be a barrier of control.
>If you want a tactile UI ...

If you want a tactile UI, get a Yamaha Reface DX[1]!

It's amazing how much fun you can have with an FM synth with a couple of sliders that allow you to change the sound as you play it.

I can write love odes to that machine.

[1]https://usa.yamaha.com/products/music_production/synthesizer...
Which part of Adam Smith are you paraphrasing exactly? Have you read him?
I think Vatican City qualifies as being wealthy af.
Now they do. That wasn't always the case though, for those on older devices (Anything older than the 5s, I believe), or older iOS versions.
We do know that phones and tablets are vulnerable - so it's not like we're unaware of any backdoor that may also be used to subvert whatsapp.

It'd indeed be interesting to know if the FSB had some kind of baseband vulnerability that they'd used willy-nilly to facilitate dragnet surveillance.

I suspect William Binney was right though - blanket surveillance is just expensive and hides your needles in a mountain of hay; you really want high quality in the data you store in order to ease extraction of meaningful information / intelligence.

(that's not to say that aggregate meta data isn't interesting - just that with actual content noise is a problem)
Whoa, does he have a history I'm not aware of (honestly asking)?
Have you seen the Reface DX?

It's the new life of a DX7. Still FM, but something you can bring to a campfire. Or a party. Or to the office. Always at your fingertips.

I never leave this thing at home; it's either in my car, or my backpack.

https://usa.yamaha.com/products/music_production/synthesizer...
FWIW I have never heard of Sarah Mei until today. I had a quick look at her Twitter account. There must be over 100 tweets and retweets about Stallman and the FSF over 10 days, that's when I stopped scrolling.

I have no horse in this race, this is too much of a hot topic to take a stance about personally, but I can't say I'm enjoying the modern viral Twitter shit-storm phenomenon very much.

The loudest campaign, wrong or right, wins by deafening everybody and amplifying their moral stance through that platform.

I have nothing against Mei personally, but I _loathe_ the modern Twitter driven moralism. Does everything have to be a crusade?
well thats what I meant. It's really sad that some people do not got enough money to have savings.
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Slightly related - I needed a generator for maps of encounters in the wilderness for my d&d campaign, and the ones I found weren't working well for me, so I made my own - very unpolished version, but maybe someone will find it useful:

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This is very age dependent. Slowly growing tumors are vastly more concerning on a 9 year old than a 95 year old.
Only companies running their own data centers care about that stuff, the rest of us just rent managed servers from the big guys.
The implication is that Morris used Stallman's (publicly well-known) username and password to log in at MIT, in order to cover up his tracks. Morris was a Cornell student at the time and wouldn't have had a login at MIT at all.
That is easy only if you are writing nothing but callbacks. Every single other thing gets harder.
> code structure reflects organizational structure

(This is known as Conway's law.)
Not all people's bodies work the same all the time, and not all 5th graders have perfect decision making. Urgent bathroom needs are an event that everyone will have in their life. Negative reinforcement for isolated instances of this is abusive.

Bathroom usage is of zero concern to an instructor unless it becomes an abnormal pattern. And if it is, the interest should be out of a concern for health, unless demonstrated otherwise, not a concern for discipline.
The entirely willing line again? The actual claim was that Epstein ordered them to appear willing. Not that they were willing, but that they were forced to appear that way to Epsteins guests. It was part of Stallmans defense of Minsky, who he thought had no knowledge of Epsteins crimes.
The fact that you used the Creative Tim Material Dashboard Angular [0] is super obvious :D. Off-topic question but what did you think of that template?

I decided to use it for my own SaaS and I've come to liken it to something that's beautiful on the outside but poisonous on the inside. The mix of Angular Material with Bootstrap and JQuery fallbacks instead of using the defacto Material components has made my bundle bloated and unnecessarily complex. Curious to hear what your experience has been like.

[0] https://demos.creative-tim.com/material-dashboard-angular2/#...
They hired people to amend the regulation and succeeded, but like I said, its not specific to "the Internet Archive".
Just a tip (with no offence intended), you may want to avoid terms like "SJW" in the future if you want your post to be taken seriously or engage in honest discussion with others.
Interesting! I just took a sample (be it small) of 5 people I speak with - none of them have noticed this as a problem.

I wonder if it’s something like geography based? By chance are your contacts mostly in the same country - if so which country?

Everyone I speak to on Signal is based in Australia, mostly in Melbourne but a few in Brisbane and Sydney.
Root cause analysis.

1. Why is static linking[1] complicated? Because we want to 'reuse' libraries unmodified.

2. Why do we want to use libraries unmodified? Because libraries can get quite complex, and building them isn't always trivial.

3. Why are libraries complex to build? (Here I must resort to a weasel word.) Largely because we want to provide the ability to reuse libraries unmodified[2].

Oops, did I say root cause? We just have circular reasoning. I'm working on coming up with an alternative: https://lists.tildeverse.org/hyperkitty/list/tildeclub@lists...

[1] Dynamic linking has other values, like reducing memory requirements. But not static linking.

[2] Here's an example, about how Unix `cat` has gained bloat over time, purely out of compatibility concerns: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510#11341175
Depends on the type of "good". In computer software/ethics, sure why not.

What about compared to police officers taking criminals off the streets, firefighters saving people from burning buildings, people volunteering to build shelters in third world countries? There's a lot of good to be done in the world. I'm all in support of free software, but I would not put rms in the same category as those people.
Source: https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/getting-there-greener

Turns out motor coaches (e.g. Greyhound busses) are the most efficient at pretty much any distance.
No, it is simpler. US intelligence agencies pre-911 did not share intelligence or pass along warnings across agency boundaries. That meant events such as the terrorists that went to flight school in Florida, did not get passed along to other agencies.

It is why post-911 there is a DNI.

However, when you have a chaos president, who distrusts the intelligence agencies, because he doesn't want to hear about Russian interference in his election, it is just as bad.
> aren't the people who refuse to associate with Stallman simply drawing their own lines?

It seems to me like he has enough allies to continue all of his organisations with some replacement of those who wont associate with him, so it seems to me like people are drawing lines for other people.

I have mixed feelings about his running of the organisations on a technical level, but I have more reservations about organisations after such a social coup. Similarly, I find Brendan Eich's political views distasteful, but I am more inclined to draw a line against interacting with Mozilla than Eich over people drawing lines for other people, and I would definitely shun Mozilla had they removed Eich for expressing political thoughts without making actual monetary donations.

I've worked with people far more distasteful in far more areas of their belief and behavior than those two, and I would rather the nonsense stop than empower one more moron on the web to bring someone to "justice". How is this mob going to sleep at night in a few months?
>people have the fundamental right to have private conversations

Any comment on this?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/11/nsa-americans-...
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Ubuntu's MOTD displays dynamic ads and at least one of these ads was about Istio. E.g. as best I can tell, every Ubuntu installation that hadn't disabled dynamic MOTDs displayed this Istio ad for most of August: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-motd/ubuntu-motd/trunk/... .

(Of course as a Linkerd person I think it's ironic to advertise Istio on MicroK8s because Istio is anything but micro. But Microk8s has great Linkerd support these days, so maybe we'll get a Linkerd ad one day, and harmony in the universe will be restored.)
It used to be possible to reform one's reputation. Now, people with a grudge will spread old stories about you to strangers for as long as you live and make it impossible for you to get back on your feet. Is that a just society?

The guy is an old man who's already been stripped of all positions of influence. Why do you want to make him sleep on the street too? At what point will you believe justice has been served? Attacking the defenseless and powerless is cruelty itself.
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