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> The non-technical among us, the 80-90% if you will, are not going to use a desktop Linux distribution the way they are currently setup. A home user is not going to use Google to fix a problem. They're not going to call their technically-inclined family member. They're not going to edit text files nor understand the minutiae of their hardware (and it WILL happen, eventually, 100% guaranteed). They are either going to throw "that piece of shit away" or they're going to call their buddy Steve who can put Windows on it.

So what are they going to do when they encounter a problem on windows? Pretty sure MS hasn't yet figured out how to directly install a Window manual into their userss brains, and the thousands of unanswered windows troubleshooting questions online can attest to that.

> Unfortunately, the community is still "the community," and much like those kids who wouldn't get out of their parents' basements, they're now in their 50s, crusty and pedantic as hell, sitting in their own ivory tower, incidentally not much different than the one they rebelled against in the 90s. Anyway... blah, blah, blah.

Is this basement-dweller fantasy something you have personal experience with or is it just a story you like to tell to make yourself feel better about your own technical ignorance and laziness?
> Azure AD is just AD hosted somewhere else

Azure AD DS (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory-...) is a specific offering from Azure which gives you a hosted AD instance, but otherwise AAD is completely different.
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VR is tricky to get a sense for without actually wearing a headset. When a coworker brought in his Oculus for the first time I thought it was going to be gimmicky, and I was blown away by how immersive it is.
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Yep. My large, distributed government agency was a free-for-all for several years. After letting everyone try things out, they've now decided to standardize on O365 and dozens of team-specific Slacks are getting torpedoed in favor of the agency-wide Teams instance.
How can spending less and being mindful of what you own a thing only rich can do?

Sure, if you're throwing away useful items and replacing them constantly then you're wasting money. But if you're buying only what you need, discarding items that haven't been used in 18 months, and constantly being mindful of purchases/items you own, there is no way it's "only for the rich".

What an absurd sentiment.
I am shocked people still get shocked about the elite being treated differently

Sports, TV, designer stuff... all heavily dependent on emotional attention. The attention economy is older than we realize.

Brand building is at the core of this, and we’ve seen this with of elite brand builders over and over.

Those who can do. Those who can’t are CEOs
> how to address the political/social side of it to actually "get 'er done!"?

While it will definitely happen faster with government effort, the main point of my comment was that we can do all of these things in the free market.

In fact, we already are well on our way to doing all these things in the free market.

So, I wouldn't consider this a political extreme. My policy is simply to allow entrepreneurs to acquire private funding and test out their ideas. We already do that.

> ... "Core Transformation Process" ...

This is an interesting idea, I do think it is a fairly difficult issue to figure out how we can make meaningful political progress in today's world. It seems like the gears of democracy are slowing down more and more every year.
I'm also a Gen X and would buy a VR set just to play this game.
I was only referring to software that's still tied to Windows out of legacy/inertia. I'm not saying all desktop applications are legacy. But It's appropriate because if those application were going to be rewritten today, there is no way they would tie them exclusively to the Win32 API.

Blender, Jetbrains IDE's, and even VSCode (pretty sure Unity is multiplatform too) are all working just fine with multiplatform and aren't dependent on any particular OS. If you've ever had to deal with Autodesk like software, it's a mess of old code and poor practices. It's a nightmare getting that kind of software working for Enterprise/Educational environments. Just looking at the Enterprise Architect site brings me back to the days when software used to come on actual disks in large, book-like boxes.

Yes, the software is useful and has yet to be replaced by something more modern, whether web based or at least multi-platform. But that's why it's entrenched in many businesses and Microsoft is riding on the back of that by making sure it's tied to their platform.
I'm also not a fan of things jumping out at you but I think it's going to be like food that's too spicy but you keep eating anyway. The adrenaline of the time critical puzzles and gunfights should make up for the scary bits.
you bought a machine a year ago, so why not wait until they inevitably release it in the macbook line and buy one of those. this is your ultraportable “trashbook” line you’re looking for.
How to fix an old and broken cassette tape
VC-s as a rule of thumb do due diligence before investing. They didn't throw money at him on the whim. They examined the books and everything else you could think of (or should have done so).

Unless he was cooking the books or conned some other way - you may say he is the one scumbag to rule them all if you like for walking with fuck you money squared while his employees get the shaft, but he did nothing wrong in pitching high valuations that the others side accepted.
I'm sure Valve wanted to make a AAA VR game to help sales of their hardware so they made a new Half Life. Rather than they wanted to make a new Half Life game and then decided to make it VR.
No one would want to rely on MS ecosystem. Why would anyone trust them?
Yeah, I've just got Gmail as a 'native' app. Which sort of defeats the purpose of switching to Fastmail for me hah.
Percentage of people living on web-apps is > 10%.
Linux Desktop is 0.8% according to Statcounter, September 19

Which is the bigger threat?
Do people still get motion sickness from 3D movies?
> That is all available in WebRTC.

Seriously? I thought it was just a networking protocol. Can you please provide some examples so I can dig in further?

* streaming your game to others - I know that there are window capture APIs in browsers now, or at least in WebExtensions[0]. Then you stream the result over WebRTC, makes perfect sense to me.

* identifying running processes to display games as your status - Does WebRTC really have access to inspect running processes? That's horrifying.

* downloading and launching games - By downloading here I meant managing your installed games like an app store. They had everything from 2D games like Hollow Knight to open world 3D games that require a decent amount of horsepower like Saints Row. It looks like they've actually killed this feature, but either way I'm not really sure how WebRTC helps manage installed applications.

* displaying a chat overlay on top of external game processes - I can imagine how you'd accomplish this via WebRTC for games that expose an API to enable it, but rendering on top of an arbitrary game doesn't seem like something WebRTC allows.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...
Orkut was pretty much killed in the English speaking world by the Brazilian Portuguese speakers which took over any group which was created. They pushed every photography, climbing and Linux group to the point where, as a non-Portuguese speaker, the site became way more noise than signal. You could flash a group as being for a specific language, but it wasn't enforced when someone violated this. Orkut admins ignored complaints and the malfeasanant posters rebutted with something which might translated to "who's going to make me?"

So, it became a useless site because there were no teeth to the rules.
I thought clicking around different combinations of buttons to discover what would happen was part of the fun. I kept trying to kill it to no avail.
> The bigger problem here is that Allbirds ISNT a luxury brand.

Sure, perhaps I should have said they price themselves like a luxury brand (or something above commodity pricing but below luxury? I'm not an expert on this stuff)

From their marketing on sustainability, and their prices, it seems to follow to me that they probably have a high markup and don't ruthlessly cut corners to survive on a tiny margin at brutally low prices.

> By the way, your analogy of sunglasses is flawed - those cheap sunglasses look, feel, and function cheaply.

Admittedly I wrote my post under the assumption that Amazon's generic wool runners probably feel cheap in one way or another from having cut some corners to lower production costs. I wouldn't know, though.
"so I decided to watch your video and... instant motion sickness."

That was the effect it gave to me too. I believe it's due to the the player moving the field of view rapidly: I played this game less than a year ago and experienced none of this. Being in control helps a lot as the brain knows we're moving and expects the view to change.
Thanks! I haven't been involved involved with Fastmail for the last 10 years, so I can take no credit for how amazing they've been throughout that time - but I'm thrilled to see that they're still doing well. I'm still a very happy Fastmail user :)

So many little things are done right, and all with open standards.
> (assuming that's the case with Alyx)

Uhh. Nope:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/half-life/images/9/9f/D1...

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/65727186/...

The character isn't 90s Lara Croft.
Great articles for when you want to know how it works but want the code to play hard to get.
Yes I don't know books.

But at least I know action movies.
I'm not going to defend Amazon or capitalism as much as others in the comments, but Allbirds are fairly cheaply made shoe sold at a high price to well off tech workers or tech-adjacent workers. It was only a matter of time until someone that can eat the margin (Amazon) stepped in.
Advertisers will love this.
Royalty is only legitimate if they got their wealth by pillaging the entire world, like the Brits, not if they got it by pillaging just one country.
ETL with a Glue Python Shell Job: Load Data from S3 to Redshift
If there is such a thing as planned obsolescence of a product, why do we not require it to be listed on the packaging and/or specs? Why not also include hefty fines for products that do not have this information listed cleary (like nutritional info), listed incorrectly, or simply fail on avg before the "POdate"?
I’m very happy about the 8tb. itunes media has proper bitrates (looking at you google with your “4k”) so having your entire media library with you is a nice benefit as well as having some room to grow. i’m currently sitting on about 2.5tb of media and ~500gb of user data. buying a 4tb would max me out in a few months after buying more movies / shows.
It would be good if this only requested permission to read the relevant sites, instead of all sites. I tried using Chrome's options to manually restrict the allowed sites but the extension could not tolerate it and stopped working.
This is VR's big moment given the mod support. I have a gaming grade PC, but have been completely sold on the Oculus Quest ever since they announced Oculus Link support and that you'd be able to play games on Steam with it as well. I need the standalone support to make it more useful, taking it into another room and using it either for gaming or watching a video.

Looks like I'll be picking up that Quest, upgrading to Ryzen 4900X and a Nvidia 3060 when they're out next year for this game.
Most ‘filament’ LED bulbs are driverless and flicker horribly.
> Exchange, Outlook, Sharepoint, Lync (Skype for business) integrated into Office mesh... They have great product.

After a multi-year hiatus of using Windows (because my customers were running mostly on Linux, Mac OS or did BYOD), on my current industrial/research project I'm back to using Office (Skype for Biz, Outlook for team comm and partially Sharepoint, Excel and even PowerPoint (!) for spec docs) on Windows VMs and I have to say I can't fathom how these people can get anything done at all. Lync/Skype4b is bordering on ususable for me (normal Skype works just fine), and it not being available for Linux is a show-stopper. The only tolerable tool that doesn't get in the way all the time is Excel, and even that has laughably primitive versioning in SP compared to tools of the git era. With this office software lineup I think web-based tools will totally dominate the next decade.

Classic office suites on Linux is a sufficiently well solved problem with Open Office/Libre Office IMO, and I don't expect it to get any better, ever. The reason is simply that classic office software where people print out, sign, scan, paper-mail, and fax letters has run its course.
Sure. I read the article and understand the concern. But to me, RestorePrivacy is quite different than the spammy ones the article alludes to.

I think Sven does a decent job of analyzing each service/offering and presenting the information in an approachable way.

That being said, it is wise to take his rankings/thoughts on each service with a grain of salt.

I just wanted others interested in this topic to be aware of another resource that I have found useful.
We are somewhere between February 1933 and November 1938.

The analogy to Nazi Germany is not perfect (no analogy is), but we are in fact witnessing a transition from democracy to xenophobic totalitarianism in the US, among other places.

I invite you to question your own reaction. Why does it bother you so much that people make this comparison? How could making this comparison “incite unrest”? Would you recommend forbidding anyone from making this comparison?
I see no mention of VR Games. I am fairly certain the ` well-controlled sensory stimuli` does not cover the latest shooter from the video game industry.

I would agree that VR can help with PTSD, but only in the same way as drugs can help with disease. Doesn't mean to say that drugs don't also cause huge problems.

The devil, as always, is in the details and life is not simple.
>"he believed in his own spin and was phenomenally successful at building a large, real business.'

How was he "phenomenally successful" if the company needed an emergency bailout because they were about to run out of cash?
Could be just age related, as well. I didn't used to get motion sickness on swings as a kid, either. Now suddenly when I take my daughter to the park I can't stand 'em.
sadly he was given 1.7 billion as an exit package. he's capable of starting multiple business ventures tomorrow if he desires
Does that also work if I live in the woods?
I hate that In The Valley of the Gods was cancelled for this.
The verification ecosystem for C is the last reason that tool-augmented C is safer than Rust. A Rust-to-C compiler might let Rust leverage that. So, thanks for the tip.
> I think a fascinating part of Alyx is Valve choosing a female protagonist.

There has been other games with a female protagonist, but the backlash was so bad against them that they were completely forgotten. I know it's obscure, but you can look it up, there's those two games called "Portal" and "Portal 2", and the two main characters are female. You've probably never heard of them because of all the misogyny.

... or something.
1. A movie is what 90 minutes?

2. Movies aren't often filmed from first person perspective for any length of time.
This really depends on the retail methodology of a company. Space allocation in a category planogram (layout) is often ultimately decided by the category manager (corporate person who is responsible for P/L of that category), but can be affected by the heavy hitters in that category using their internal "retail services" department to help said category manager formulate their planograms. This usually results in somewhat biased product assortments and layouts that give preferential treatment to specific brands, but rarely is space outright purchased within the aisles of a store.

End-caps are a different story, but often the "purchase" of an end-cap simply takes the form of wholesale pricing concessions, which allow the store to make more money by promoting those products for a short period of time. Historically, some DSD brands will lease end-caps at stores (speaking specifically about supermarkets in this context), but these are serviced and stocked by external companies. Depending on the marketing strategy of a chain, private label products are often placed on end-caps to drive volume for what are often their highest-margin products (due to heavy control over the whole supply chain) and are not subject to any purchasing.

TL;DR:
The extent to which retail stores "sell" shelf-space is often exaggerated, a kind of folk wisdom that may have been more truthful in the past but doesn't reflect modern business practices.
I'm sure you will be able to watch the story on YouTube at some point.
Have you ever read a serious defense of slavery or of Nixon? If not, perhaps that's a good place to start trying to humanize the other side?
I was in such a debacle recently. As I have developed a Stalwart Business Model.
AIMING for 2020 as that seems to be the CLEAREST VISION for HITTING TARGET #'s & reducing OVERHEAD. Question = Is it imperative to FULLY staff right away? CUTTING CORNERS can be DEATH to a START UP like mine. I'm sure your familiar with the "honeymoon phase"? A lot of small minded/BIG EGO operations think they have it in their PALM. My mindset is that if it fits in my palm, its NOT BIG ENOUGH... FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING!
Yeah, I just recently shutdown my account. Moved over to mailfence. I already miss fastmail's functionality, and that fea.st domain was pretty fun. Still... Australia.
GraalVM 19.3 with JDK 11 Support
That makes it suck slightly less, but TM can pretty much never be "fast" the way it works now, with the number of files we all have these days. In the best case, if a folder doesn't change, TM can hardlink to the previous backup of that folder. If even one file has changed, it has to copy the changed files and then hardlink every unchanged file in the folder, so TM chokes on any large folder where even a single file changes often. If you watch with `fs_usage -f pathname backupd`, you can see TM take dozens of minutes backing up the Mail/Messages/Calendars folders, or cache folders with ridiculous numbers of files like Slack's. Any folder with thousands or tens of thousands of files is putting TM into its worst-case performance corner.

Personally, I find TM bordering on unusable for backups these days. Maybe I'd feel differently if I still had a desktop Mac, but with a bunch of files on a laptop that moves around and sleeps, having to tether to a USB disk for several hours to do a backup is ridiculous. And network backups are even slower and frequently self-corrupt, especially over WiFi. The glimmer of hope is that APFS replication has some really cool new features in 10.15. It's clearly still very much a work in progress, and some big parts are missing, but the stuff that's released seems to clearly point toward a future where we can do block-based copies of filesystems or even deltas between snapshots. Which is much better for performance on spinning hard disks than the eternal disk seeking and grinding that file-based backup solutions all do.
Hard to say. VR might be a gimmick in the game space. On the other hand, taking a step back and looking at the hardware, there's been a progression since at least the '70s of working immersive infrastructure getting cheaper, easier to use, and less nausea-inducing.

This local maxima of design and hardware may be a fad, but if it is, I expect in my lifetime to see another fad in maybe 10 years. The tech is just getting too cheap for people to not risk throwing a few mil at it every so often.
https://github.com/txthinking/x/blob/master/cryptkv.go

This is in the library it pulls in.

https://github.com/txthinking/mr2/blob/master/client.go#L47

Homebrew cryptosystem.

On a quick glance, it appears to be using a string password from the command line directly as an AES key, in CFB mode, with no authentication.

tl;dr: this is the cryptographic equivalent of that bridge in Florida.
It uses the Iridium network which means it's very, very slow. Fast enough for emergency SOS messages and perhaps tweets, but it's not what most people expect from "The Internet."
I agree in principle, i really want most software to be multi-platform.

However I cannot ignore the reality that multi-platform software is fraught with peril, either for the developer (QT and the like) or for the user (electron).

Each platform moves, introduces updates, removes support and features (looking at you, OsX!).

For some people the choice is: single platform, or no software at all.
The board has the perspective of _ownership_. The employee has the perspective of _being commanded_.

Imagine something nice that you own- like your car. Do you feel compelled to understand your car? Must you be an excellent driver to own that car, if you can afford it?

No. And while it's not exactly the same, the people generally look at the company as a machine that makes them money. They don't have to be good at anything to own that machine, and if they want, they can even share it with their drug addict fail-child.
If employees think their employer is doing something unethical, that harms morale.

If morale is harmed, good people are more likely to leave. If an employer has a poor reputation, it becomes harder to hire employees with in-demand skills.

Poor retention and difficulty in recruiting employees can end up harming the business.
Antifa used physical violence to confront any idea they did not like.

Silencing an opposing political opinion through violence is a definition of fascism.
Got it - can I ask why you want to work on a personal project? Is it because you feel like you haven't worked on practical / realistic examples while you were learning the language?