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My 9 year old is comfortable messing around in Unity, Scratch, and Blender. They're super beginner friendly and the amount of free tutorials available today is staggering.

Flash was also a platform, though you were still reliant on a host like Newgrounds to upload to. All of this is relevant to today's ecosystems. YouTube, Itchio and others have grown beyond anything in the Flash era.

> There isn't, and hasn't been, a replacement for flash animation suite, which is such a great, easy to use, integrated tool of drawing, animation and timing with a relatively simple scripting model. Even amateurs are able to make interesting animations with it. I bet you can't say the same for any of the tools named above.

I agree that the learning curve for Blender, Unity, etc, is probably a bit steeper than Flash. That wasn't the point of the article linked, nor is it what I'm arguing.
Which version of gnome are you on?

>No way to adjust mouse scroll speed; official answer seems to be "don't want that". (Or install imwheel and change your mouse scroll to be equal to hitting the down button (!) which breaks other stuff)

I just checked gnome settings and it has option to change touchpad speed. Don't have a mouse so can't comment for that but it should be there.

>To make an icon on the favorites bar in gnome, you have to edit a .desktop text file! Madness. I mean, I'm a programmer, so I'm capable of it, but it's seriously annoying

Open the app and right click the app icon in dock(if that is what you mean by favorites bar) and it should have an option to add to favorites.

>modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent

I have found gnome to have the easiest way to edit all shortcuts. Settings>Devices>Keyboard should show you all the keyboard shortcuts and if you scroll to bottom you will find option to add custom shortcuts which you can set to any command. Much more extensive than the frustrating MacOS keyboard shortcuts in my opinion.

> installing a gnome-shell extension was way more difficult than it should be

https://extensions.gnome.org/ for finding the extensions
for installing the extensions on the website use this chrome extension using which all you then have to do is click install while on the website
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gnome-shell-integr...
Gnome tweaks to manage them otherwise

> brew isn't the best, but on linux I need to use both brew _and_ apt because you can't reliably get anything approaching up-to-date software with apt

Agreed. That's why I use pacman. Pacman is hands down the best package manager I have ever used. Combined with AUR it has the most extensive up-to-date packages. Pacman is the default package manager for Arch Linux. I use arch, btw. Had to do this :)

I agree linux was in a pretty bad shape a decade ago and we still need to improve a lot but to say it is still the same is ignoring all the hardwork of a large number of wonderful people who have been contributing to the codebase.
For the same reason regular cars that kill e.g. 1 in 10,000 in accidents (as we know them), are more acceptable than a design that might be far more safe individually, but when in the (far more seldom case) one blows up, it kills everybody in its 2km periphery.

Even if the total death count is the same (or even if its less for the new design), the widespread small scale pattern is more acceptable than sudden mayhem.

For one, you could just not get in a car, and avoid recklessly crossing the street in the first case, and you'll be fine. In the other case, in the off chance of a new-car blowing up, it can destroy your whole 5-10 block periphery. I wouldn't accept that...
I'm surprised they even explained it. So it sounds BS too.
Western political culture feels like a softer, distributed version of the social credit score. How large of a distribution of opinions are you allowed to hold while keeping a job in the tech sector? We know from the examples of political firings that the range is not infinite. And people have gotten "cancelled" from private communications being made public on more than one occasion.

Because it's a volunteer, private process and not the government doing it, we still call it "freedom" but it really doesn't feel like an open society anymore. But I do acknowledge that we still have it way better in the West than they do in China (for now).
This is a very interesting point, "removal" instead of "removing" but if you are only stringing nouns together you are speaking babyspeak. Country Protection President Military Borders -- what is this babble? It sounds like the researchers stumbled onto a different idea, which I don't have a name for, but it's the one where you try to avoid vocalizing what you don't want and only express what you do want. If you have to change verbs into nouns, you have to either remove the negation from the verb, or choose the opposite-meaning noun. Like "stop killing" would be "life saving" and then noun'ing that. But the operation of going from verb-> noun necessarily means you have to frame it in a positive way. Plus, how are you going to know what someone's associations with a particular word are? You might trigger them with the word ice or fed when you're just talking about lunch.
The culprit could be Google Play protect. You need to use a google account to use Google Play, and then Google Play periodically scans apps, even if they aren't downloaded from Google Play like F-Droid (even apps I loaded for testing using adb). So that scan, whose results are sent back to google could reveal NewPipe and associate that with your account.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.

I draw my line somewhere, so does everyone.

The choice is not between wanky surveillance defence jobs and going full hippie and living in the forest.

To address the ad hominem: my personal attitude is to use the money I get from software dev for philanthropy. We earn a lot and have a duty to help the world. Noblesse oblige at a smaller scale.

I don't work at FANG because I think advertising is evil. This is a fairly common viewpoint on HN and hardly unique.
I think it’s also China’s awareness (more so than in the 1980’s) of the cost of being ostracized internationally.

Being seen as a bloody dictatorship makes doing business much harder.
User does claim they received a message from Google "saying that I was using 3rd party app outside of Play Store to go around Youtube ads." We haven't seen a copy of that message, but I'm assuming we can take it at face-value.
You normally have an admin super user account as well as your normal one. The admin account can do anything to the normal account. Also has access to support, which is pretty quick.
> and no one was allowed to profit off of it. That's how the original telephone network came to be in the US.

This is flat out wrong. AT&T made A LOT of money off this.
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How is a natural monopoly comparable to a free email service that you have a million alternatives to?

No one is stopping anyone from paying Fastmail or using a slew of other services than Google, other than people’s unwillingness to pay for things.
With so much tied to a Google account, there should be some means of dealing with it. With this person being in Finland, they should have some means of at least extracting all account data thanks to the GDPR or other protection laws.
This will not work. There are stories of entire companies being locked out of GSuite because one of the admins got their personal account locked out for a spurious reason.
Apple under fire for sending browsing data to China
>A 50% chance of recovery in 6 months is still a drastic improvement over a 0% chance of recovery if you lost money in stocks.

Not from a taxation standpoint. And investors shouldn't get better tax rates than workers because their is a non-zero chance of losing their investment, if nothing else the deduction of their loss is already built into the system so why give them additional lower rates?

>But you could easily invest several years of worth of salary in the stock market, and lose the majority if it crashes hard enough.

The only people who can "invest several years of worth of salary in the stock market" are independently wealthy people. Again 40% of the country don't have $400 in savings, the numbers speak for themselves the median savings of the top 10% is $170k (even that wouldn't be several years of salary for them).

Risk has nothing to do with capital gains being lower than payroll/income taxes.
Don't forget China's other colonies - Australia and Canada.
I've been laid off multiple times, and am facing it again due to a M&A.

I've worked very hard to synthesize the situation and understand that it wasn't anything I did, just that it was a matter of circumstance.
Not everything that ever lived is as adapted as the camel and not in as many ways. it has huge fat stores so it can go a long time between meals. It can go a long time without even drinking. It has for thick enough it won't sunburn but thin enough it won't overheat easily. They have a third, translucent eyelid that opens to the side like something you might see on a reptile, but they still have the two main lashed eyelids like most mammals. They have a long, strong swatting tail. Their feet, unlike a horse or goat, are not hooved. They have a split foot with webbing in the middle that resists sinking in sand or soft soil. They're able to drink brackish or even salt water. They can eat stone fruits like dates with the stone. They'll eat cactus with the spines because their mouths are so tough. They eat fish, seeds, grains, and all sorts of things. They can eat foods far too salty for other animals and will even eat bones. Arabian camels will travel tens of kilometers a day in the wild to forage, in conditions many animals couldn't even survive, but can go two weeks between meals when they must.

Saying they are no more complex and adapted than any other organism sells them far short. Yet they're more stubborn than a mule, somewhat slower than a horse, they smell worse than either, and they'll spit on a person like a llama. They've been known to bite. Their shape is not is amenable to riding although they are used as mounts. So there are things one might really want to change before spending a lot of time with one.
I concur. Manjaro solves a lot of the problems of the Linux desktop, and brings with it the great Arch community.

And for keybindings, you're probably better off figuring out how xmodmap works.

It's not pretty. But honestly, if you want pretty when it comes to keybinding, nothing beats a good keyboard. Like the UHKB, Ergo Dox, anything supported by QMK basically.
Well that's terrifying. I always ensure that any third party YouTube apps I use are only logged into a secondary account but it seems like Google went searching through his phone and burned every account on it.
Rotary dials didn't emit tones, but basically briefly disconnected the line. IN most countries it was 1 pulse for the digit 1, 2 pulses for 2 etc. up to 10, for zero

However Wikipedia notes:

> Exceptions to this are: Sweden (example dial), with one pulse for 0, two pulses for 1, and so on; and New Zealand with ten pulses for 0, nine pulses for 1, etc. Oslo, the capital city of Norway, used the New Zealand system, but the rest of the country did not.

If ever you were in a house which tried to prevent outgoing calls by using a lock on the dial, you could still make a call by tapping out the requisite digits on the hang-up buttons.
And glass products.
I desperately want this. I've been looking for something open source like this since I bought my first Kindle.
I am not sure under GDPR they are “allowed” to stop you.
Not to be that guy, but do you have anything to back that claim up? I'd love to know if it's actually true or not; it seems like GDPR is often used as a catch-all magic wand for "I want my data therefore the company has to give it to me", but I'd love to know if it actually applies in the case of a terminated/suspended account and/or an account found to be in violation of the service's terms & conditions.
With Windows it feels the same way, except a lot of what Windows Update does runs silently in the background, sometimes during your most precious computing hours with no way to stop it except force quitting through the Task Manager. And half the time the updates fail. And when you quickly want to shut down sometimes Windows also forces an update...
Thanks, but I already tried that in the past. I didn't notice any difference. Maybe it looks decent if you have a screen with high enough resolution, but ony my 1080p screen it still looks bad.
From https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

> if everyone hates the current system, who perpetuates it?

And Ginsberg answers: “Moloch”. It’s powerful not because it’s correct – nobody literally thinks an ancient Carthaginian demon causes everything – but because thinking of the system as an agent throws into relief the degree to which the system isn’t an agent.
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It does seem similar. If you don't want to see the ads, don't use the service.

I don't use an ad blocker, and if I don't want to see ads I pay for the service, such as with Reddit, Ars Technica, Windows Live Mail, Netflix, and YouTube. Technically, I quit Netflix once they started showing me ads, even though they were for their own shows (general dark patterns were the more significant factor though).
I use both Windows and Mac. I find Windows file management and window management to be much better. Love the preview you get when you hover over an app icon in the taskbar. Also love how windows don't automatically take up the entire screen. I like to have two windows open simultaneously. This is much smoother on Windows than Mac.

I also prefer Windows' taskbar instead of Mac's dock.

The negative is changing preferences and the general ugliness of Windows. Mac is just prettier.

The two systems seem to be built for different things. Mac prioritizes single application, focus based work. Windows is better when you're multitasking.

I do most of my writing and creative work on Mac. But when I have to do some heavy duty productivity work with multiple apps/windows, I switch to my Windows desktop.
That sounds to me like it's authorizing them to remotely "access" the computers and networks, and failing that they can perform an on-site inspection. So yeah pentests, not necessarily with the corporation's knowledge...
Where do you get pentesting from? This translation sounds like it could mean anything from an audit to full-packet capture.
Does this describe a pattern, or one person you used to work with who didn’t do a very good job?
Google does not care about one user not seeing ads. It isn't worth even 5 seconds of an engineer's time.

But if that guy built a custom build of NewPipe that did a million simultaneous downloads, and that impacted service availability for other users, that would make Google ban him.
Yes. This could be against YouTube TOS but losing your Google account which also gives you access to email, phone (if on Android), GSuite + anything that uses your email for authentication, is a horrible measure. I don't understand how this is grounds for terminating your account?

Do you want to block me from using YouTube with this account? Fine. Do it, that's fair. But terminating the account, effectively blocking someone to access anything tied to that account is a "piece of shit" move.
>everyone should have free access to a basic web based email service.
>It should be a public service, paid for by the taxes

No, that would lead to even worse abuses.

Cf the present day Hong Kong protests, and Yellow Vests protests - in both cases, the government would use snooping power to spy on the communications, dragnet style. Anybody seriously suspected of partaking would have the account shut down. Since the account would be "the official one", that would most probably render them unable to access other major services, like banking, judiciary, or healthcare records.

Having a corporate steward of email is one more level of indirection. While imperfect, the corporations do put up at least a bit of resistance against governmental over-reach. Even just the fact of having to create, send & monitor official correspondence to demand snooping & take-downs is slowing down the snooping a bit.

Moreover, it would be highly probable the government would mandate a "real name" policy, or otherwise tie the email service to your offline identity. Cue the abusers by online platforms like Facebook & other advertisers.

Lastly, it's more feasible to compete with corporate services than with tax-paid services. And it's competition that drives innovation, quality increase, and cost reduction.
>I wish, world would be black and white

Doesn't have to be black and white. In fact, it's anything but. You can get a lesser job, with, as you said, 60K instead of $100K, and still take the principled stance. Black and white would be more like having to either work for the surveillance company selling to authoritarian regimes, or starving.

Losing your perks is not a "black or white" ethical choice.

>And job market would be fair with unlimited opportunities everywhere.

If they can only be good if they have nothing to give up for choosing so, and only when there are "unlimited opportunities" to ensure that choosing the more ethical job doesn't hurt their salary at all, then they shouldn't bother...
It would be interesting to know how this affects Taiwan.

If the CPP regards Taiwan as part of greater China then does that mean they believe they have a right to all information held in Taiwan including that owned by foreign companies?

Or does Taiwan get an exception for now at least?
Peace Lillys are nice!
Video can still cost a lot of bandwidth on your personal hosting. .. I've actually been meaning to rehost all the stuff I have on either Vimeo or YouTube on a personal PeerTube instance, change all my embeds on my blog to point to PeerTube with YouTube/Viemo removed and links under the video to those respective sites as mirrors.

None of my stuff gets enough attention for me to care about exposure, but big content creators who rely on YouTube ads really can't get away from it.
That's generally true, and the solution is to avoid linking them.

It's a rock-and-a-hard-place problem, since the most common scenario Google is dealing with is criminal enterprises trying to obfuscate their activity behind dozens of "independent" accounts (so of course they have to try unifying accounts). But this is analogous to the scenario one deals with separating concerns when forming an LLC; you keep your work and personal stuff separate, including finances and capital (i.e. don't do work stuff on your personal computer; that's riksing having your LLC status collapse if someone has occasion to sue you).
Hype as the solution to boredom is a symptom of intelligent, capable people, not being tasked with valuable work they feel passionate about. I'd argue this is heavily due to built-in friction into our systems of indoctrination, educational pathways and a lack of basic foundation of capital to survive from - e.g. to develop your ideas, your skills - perhaps coding and designing, story telling to better, more eloquently express yourself and your ideas - all necessary skills to become a leader, to manage an organization - to organize.
I don't disagree but it's not just Google. Apple is doing the same thing. In fact agressively with their new login system that they require that if you support any 3rd party system you must support "Sign in with Apple"

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#sig...

AFAIK Google has no such requirements for apps on Android.

As more and more people use "Sign in with Apple" it will end up being the same issue. If Apple locks your account they'll ruin your life.

I generally use neither. I don't sign into things with Google nor Apple nor Facebook. The exception is I do sign into a few dev related things with github but only of they are related to my github account (example, Travis CI). I also have my own domain as I learned the hard way in the 90s that losing your email address to your ISP is no fun.
If it's paid for by taxes, then it's not free. The cost is just hidden.
The Chinese government effectively has infinite resources and unlimited time. They will proceed with slow divide and conquer, jailing people one by one until either the protestors give up or turn violent. If the protestors can be provoked to violence then the mainland government can respond in kind. China either wins slowly or quickly. There's no scenario where they don't win.
pretty sure even with my adblocker, I still see the "watch 5 seconds and skip ad" ads. May've configured it that way, not sure, been a while.

But to your question, if the ad blocker is subverting the company's revenue model and they can detect it, you risk the company blocking you. Per the Issue, it looks like the service that is there to scan for bad actors on your device may've picked up that NewPipe was installed on their device which may've caused them to look (speculation on all counts).
The "should" is in the spec's description of how to interpret "off": "When an element's autofill field name is 'off', the user agent should not remember the control's data, and should not offer past values to the user."
Is there a link to a live demo?
Yes, there are certification requirements spelled out in FAR 25.175.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/25.175

The requirements have the form of "In configuration <XYZ>, the stick force curve must have a stable slope at all speeds within a range which is the greater of <range definition> above and below the trim speed."

It is this linear stick force curve requirement that was failing that MCAS was implemented to address. The airplane is still aerodynamically stable.
Every time there is a change of party in a modern government.

It is so commonplace that we miss it, but one ruling organization steps down and another, often with opposing views, steps up.
I bought, very unaware at the time of the tots redic state of Android updates, a brand new, 9 months from release, Samsung Androd tablet.

The release of Android (5.x) was obsolute at initial product release.

There has been no update. There is no update path. The device is locked down to the point that I have been unable to root or re-ROM it.

I'd been under the impression at purchase time that 1) OEM updates would be provided, 2) rooting was possible, and 3) re-ROMing was an option. All three beliefs proved false.

Samsung are directly to blame.

But Google can fix this. Google haven't. Google aren't.

Google can pleasure itself.
I tried. It didn't help, the root issue is that Apple removed anti-aliasing, which is the only thing that can make fonts look readable on a 1080p resolution display. An old MacBook running OSX 10.6 looks perfectly fine on my external monitor.
I've been extremely happy with zoho.com for all my business email. If I had any problems with Gmail I'd probably move everything over, but if there's one other service I'd recommend it'd definitely be Zoho.
So he's most likely talking tough with a statement like this? Just seems worrisome to hear him talking about grinding up bones.
Ctrl+F for my comment above to see how they won't give you anything in response to a GDPR request.
Learning (some) Rust in (almost) 8 hours
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Some thoughts regarding extreme learning of a new tool, which in this case was Rust language.
In the sense of self-benefit, yes, it's rational.

>The difference between $100k a year and $60k a year is enormous.

Principles shouldn't depend on that though. Else "Yeah, I'd help kill kids and kittens for $1m" would also be an acceptable answer. $1m is also enormous compared to $100k.

Decent people have made much bigger sacrifices that living with $60K a year for doing the right thing...