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> But basically hardware is really difficult and we plucked all the easy fruits long way back.

Remember the old saw "You only use 10% of your brain."? Yeah, that's wrong, but what is almost completely true is "You only use 1% of your transistors."

We have a zillion free transistors and they spend all their time idle--even on tiny, battery powered electronics. We haven't even scratched the surface of what to do with all these transistors.

I have two entire Linux machines that communicate in such a way merely to open a door. And I only feel slightly guilty about being that wasteful. :)

Everybody programs embedded hardware with dongles with underpowered microcontrollers. Why? Put an entire Linux computer behind it (RPi or Beaglebone)--now what can you do?

The current failure of tech is lack of imagination. Or, perhaps more charitably, lack of competent implementors (hardware and software) with imagination.

Transistors are free--now let's build something out of them.
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What GPL symbols? They don't support Linux.

Their most popular game (League of Legends) used to be somewhat playable on Linux through WINE, but that was never officially supported. They've banned Linux users on multiple occasions due to false positives in bot/cheat detection (e.g. [1], [2]), and rolling out this anti-cheat driver is likely to make Linux play completely impossible.

[1]: https://dotesports.com/league-of-legends/news/riot-games-ant...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflinux/comments/8pag4y/banne...
I think you're they're ideal customer. :)

I agree that most get driven like you said - from the airport to the hotel and back - i.e. sensibly. But I have known people to seriously abuse their rental car. One drove back to the rental lot in 2nd gear because he was mad they gave him a model he didn't like. Those are the ones I wouldn't want to end up with.
Not compartmentalising is trickier than you imply, as the whole corporate-capitalist system of power (which supplies nearly all of your and my goods) depends at its root on current exploitation and drawing down on its investment in future destruction (of the entire biosphere). We can point fingers at many hideous individual corporate citizens in tech (Dropbox & Amazon spring immediately to mind, current Microsoft doesn't), but the whole system depends intrinsically on maintaining the ignorance you write of.

How to extricate ourselves from all that? Personally, I'm for revolution to take it all down. But we know that isn't going to happen.
The name Cortex is in use for the scalable Prometheus storage backend: https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex
Linked article about DMA-based cheats is even more interesting: https://blog.esea.net/esea-hardware-cheats/
Do you know if the standard 10 year fund life was different back then? If not, I'm curious how that interacted with their relatively slow investments.

Maybe it's just that companies went public at a much earlier stage back then.
Microsoft also releases games on Windows, though, and also has the cheater problem in them.

It is still odd that in all their gaming pushes on windows with things like the Windows 10 Game Mode ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028293/windows-usi... ) that they haven't just made this a "thing" yet. Have a flag or some way for an application to signal that they want their memory actually restricted. You'd at least stop all user-mode cheats overnight, and can also attempt to impose restrictions on kernel-mode drivers. Or let a game know if there's unsigned drivers installed, and let the game segment off that user population.

But I guess they won't do anything about this until someone's kernel-level driver anti-cheat becomes a PR disaster for Microsoft. The same way they didn't do anything about anti-virus protection out of the box until McAfee & Norton went off the deep end and contributed to the constant perception of Window's horrible slowness.
The update process runs as
admin, so basically anything.
Also, you can still export your own posts to preserve them. You could even use that to reimport them (just as said without the ability to migrate faves/boosts/replies/other interactions).

The email analogy isn't always great with ActivityPub federation, but it's still a useful analogy as email is our most common federated service, and here ActivityPub migration is no worse than email address migration, and certainly at this point in some ways already better (follower migration is something email could have used; updating your email contacts list is still a very manual process).
but how does politics apply to such a boring tool like github? its like saying ICE shouldn't use Google Docs or Gimp...

its not a weapon or an advantage in actual human cruelty that furthers non altruistic goals.
From all the API's I've looked at IEX Cloud seems the most comprehensive with a generous free tier https://www.iexcloud.io
How far around your head do your political blinkers wrap? Would you be happy to write control programs for torture workstations?
Didn't he answer that in the comment you're replying to? He needed to get enough revenue from ICE to make GitHub free for non-enterprise users.
I totally agree. Full page rendered app are way easier to code. It's like an immutable function - request in, transform, html out. I think as soon as you want to add some niceties with React you end up setting up a load of front end stuff. You suddenly need APIs, create-react-app, webpack, babel, build scripts, redux, routing etc. And you also end up losing out on some of the Django side, forms+validation, templating, views, urls. And often you end up having business spilling over to your front end.

I'm working on a project that lets you build your Django app like you normally would with templates and views but you get a React app and all the benefits of a single page app. You don't need to write any APIs or use redux etc. It will have a bunch of components built in and if you don't need any more then you don't even need to build the javascript yourself, you just include the already built file. At the moment I have a sort of Django Admin equivalent example working and I'm looking for some feedback. If you or anyone else has any ideas about it I would love to hear, feel free to PM me (email in profile).
Or it's too hot or cold because you don't have temperature controls, so you could lose a few months of studious productivity per year.
so is this like the only programmable drone out there? or is this the only one that is open source ?
how much something like would cost? anyone have an idea ?
I think part of the issue is that politics appears to have become something akin to a national sport, where we elect to support team A or team B. Because it is similar to a sport, our hopes and dreams, our entire being is drawn into this particular identity. That is why if team A supports position C ( that happened to be supported by team B previously ) it becomes a valid position. I do not know how to make people dislike sports.

I absolutely agree about the importance politics at local level. In fact, this is likely where regular citizens have biggest chance to actually influence an outcome.
I've tried Remote - SSH plugin from MS and it wasn't great - slow and buggy. Do you mean a different plugin?
The point is to iterate, innovate, and compete. Name one major social media site today that was based on a “new protocol”? Answer: None. They all started as slight twists to an existing site. It’s kind of strange to me that the word “central” has such a bad rap when it really just describes an efficient means of organization, which naturally lends to other efficiencies.
I know, it was just a tongue-in-cheek comment but oh well
You should make a biography about what it took [you] to moderate HN once this site blows over, then you can just spill anything, man. Insert Deity; I guess this is hard work; or some wayfaring good algorithms.

Thanks man. I'll troll less, knowing how much dung (huh) you're in daily.

Please write the tricks once HN goes under or whatever.
https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/0,9309,7-387-90499_90705-52...

"Close areas of the store—by cordoning them off, placing signs in aisles, posting prominent signs, removing goods from shelves, or other appropriate means—that are dedicated to the following classes of goods:

C. Garden centers and plant nurseries."

But then there's this:

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/can-you-buy-see...

"[...]Holland said the state Department of Agriculture told her group that garden supplies shouldn’t be sold anywhere, even in small stores."
I totally agree about not needing to make the whole page reactive, it definitely drops the amount of work required.

Regarding the page loads, have you looked at Turbolinks? https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks/blob/master/README....

It's basically a drop in upgrade, makes the whole site feel like an SPA with none of the work. Lovely.
They're not converted but can be implicitly casted to pointer types.
Yeah, it should be the opposite. HackerOne should have a pool of experts that small companies wouldn't be able to afford and large companies don't have to hire security experts that sit idle most of the time.
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I think it's going to arrive, but some time is needed to see what works in Rust or not.
D is going this way as well, so should provide another data point.
"graphical browser" is anachronistic, but there were certainly graphical interfaces for online services before the web was a thing. I wasn't using them until the early 90s, but someone must have, in the 80s.
Of course you understand that that is not a reasonable solution.
I feel this is not only about markdown vs Word, but a way to show that the problem exists and that you can solve it by using the Unix approach. So it's simple in the sense used in Toki Pona: "good or fixable".
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The best poker players lose hands all the time. But over time, they win consistently against less talented players.

Talent increases your surface area to catch luck.
Why would they do that? They don't need to send the data through the kernel, they can just IPC it to the process and use the existing telemetry stack.

Also, what gives you panic here? What more damage can they do than running in user mode? They can already access all your files, steal all your cookies etc.
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> Ha! If the industry hasn't moved past Terraform in 5 years time, it will only be because HCL has adopted enough of the general purpose programming language featureset as to remain competitive. That's certainly its trajectory.

Quite a statement to make for somebody who has never used Terraform.
Seconded! Nothing beats Mathematica at mapping the concepts of mathematics into software. In certain verticals, sure, but overall? Wolfram has been spinning this flywheel for decades, and it shows.
So are you accusing them of lying when they say they've had external security audits done, or are you commenting without any knowledge of the topic at hand?
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Dr. Seheult touched on this as well in his update a few days ago. Really worth watching as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8aG63yigjA
This HackerOne thing seems weird. It's like they looked at Google and decided "let's apply their customer service, but for security researchers." With this model, things like this blog post inevitably follow -- including the "they ignored me until I complained on Twitter, then they instantly fixed it". (Classic.)

I took djb's "Unix security holes" class in 2004 and he advocated for just disclosing the security hole immediately, things like this haven't changed my mind. I know people want the money, but it's peanuts and doesn't seem worth the hassle unless you're really young. Nobody is going to spend months looking for obscure bugs for $10,000 when they could get paid that in a week to write the bugs (accidentally) in the first place.

It all makes very little sense to me. If you care about security, you'll have a team like Project Zero. Anything else is just applying the "gig economy" to engineering work, and the results are pretty predictable. It's kind of sad.
> Do you actually believe this was the reason behind developing Docker wrapper for VS? I mean you can always try stretching out the worst intention and motives, but do you actually believe this?

I don't think there is an explicit conspiracy. I do think there is a negative spiral where IDE addicts (for the lack of a better term) produce tools that "help" others avoid leaving their comfort zone.

I'm not immune to it either. When trying to learn Kubernetes I spent weeks fighting the graphical dashboard before just hunkering down and learning the core concepts and building my own intuition.

And I still like having an integrated environment. But with Emacs I'm at least generally just a `describe-function` or `describe-key` away from peeking behind the curtains.

> The fact that you can distribute software for nearly free doesn't make the cost of producing it to be cheaper than hammer.

Bad analogy. Producing it would be closer to developing the blueprint. Which is:

1. Done once

2. Tends to happen without economic incentives because, as it turns out, you probably want a hammer too
So if someone criticizes the government, and it responds by saying "We're no longer going to enforce laws protecting this person; anyone who wants to burglarize their home, or rob or kill them, feel free to do so.", that doesn't qualify as violation of free speech as long as the government is not actively initiating or assisting such attacks?

(Genuine question; I obviously don't agree, but I'm curious as to what moral principles you're applying here.)
Now try Rails and get enlighten.
I actually just attended a remote standup comedy show last Friday. Its tough for the comedian but it can work if:

1. The audience is encouraged to turn on video (so the comedian and others can see them) Unmuted if possible (but most wont its like giving everyone in the audience a live mic)

2. For those not willing, encourage them to use chat. Emoji, me-too, reactions

3. The comedian should keep bringing the audience in. Read off chat, talk about people with cameras on, etc

4. Dont just use your regular material, lean into the current situation, use the audience and tech.
more importantly why not?

github is not doing anything special to make ICE worse. the reasoning of divestment from disagreeable organizations is an individual right, but does not make sense to be adopted as a company policy to not work with LEO's.

being politically minded at a company is fine, but trying to shame companies into adopting your ideals is unrealistic and counterproductive for neutral tools like Github
I do not understand why any body would think that Bloomberg could do political stories in China. I do not understand why Bloomberg would be embarrassed about spiking political stories in China.

I am not defending the press and political climate in China, but it is what it is. The Chinese make up their rules. Why should Bloomberg sacrifice billions of dollars in business for the sake of some political journalists work? I am glad they got their story published - good work. But Bloomberg would be insane to publish it.
Crazy how if the executives of Uber hadn't been blatantly evil as fuck, Lyft might not exist today.

My partner and I still exclusively use Lyft just because we don't like the ethics of Uber
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It's tough to say that the urge to replace free software and open collaboration protocols with proprietary, closed source pay-to-play tools that the user isn't in control of (the whole GitHub SaaS model) isn't "malicious intentions".

It's replacing an open, free (in both senses), decentralized system with a closed, for-profit, centralized one that expressly benefits a single organization at the expense of everyone else in the ecosystem.

This is not to say that GitHub isn't a benefit over emailing patches around; just that it's probably also worth mentioning that Linus et al have not migrated to this shiny new (centralized) system for the largest collaborative development effort in the history of the world, and, indeed, git itself was developed specifically to avoid a hard dependency on a single, centralized point.
They could have tried to cover it by hiring outside reporters to talk about both sides, I've seen my local newspaper do that.
I've been keeping tabs on it for a while. Feel free to point out where I'm mistaken.
This makes sense. Each person has limited bandwidth...
If the vast majority of the wealth becomes concentrated in very few hands, those hands will simply start making bigger deals.

When you divide an investor's total thinking capacity by the total amount of money they have to invest, you end up with less thought going into each dollar.
The average amount of thinking per dollar drops and you get less efficient allocation of each dollar...

Allocating capital is clearly very challenging and yet the argument which advocates for increased concentration of wealth relies on the assumption that people are getting better at it on a per-dollar basis.

All evidence would suggest that people are getting worse at allocating capital on a per-dollar basis. The more dollars someone has, the less they will care about each individual dollar. An increasingly complex world should require increasingly more thinking going into each dollar.
I think sometimes primitive graphics are equated with Prodigy, which was around in the 80s, I think.
The rise of AMD has been like a dream come true. I only wish Intel could get their cards straight and compete in the prosumer space.

It used to be that Intel was a good choice of money wasn’t really an object, but as time has gone on it has become harder to justify Intel chips regardless of the pricing.
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Yes, that's one of the examples in the video, but thanks for sharing anyway :)
that’s great for those users, but forget about mass adoption
I came to the same conclusion. The tone is incredibly condescending, and there's very little technical substance to the article. (As mjg59 pointed out [1], the Wikipedia infographic they used -- without attribution! -- even implies that drivers run in Ring 1 or 2, which is only true if you're running OS/2.)

[1]: https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/1249962092850900992
I'm taking their claims with a large dose of salt.
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> Imagine if police could arrest you, and keep you, without telling you why. That's something that society figured out a long time ago isn't healthy.

The judicial system that backs it is a massive beast. If someone wants that level of assurances, they should be paying thousands of dollars for a github account. You get the level of perfection you pay for.
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> 5. use the burner phone via vpn in order to establish social media accounts.

This often doesn't work or is much more difficult than it sounds.

Many social networks don't allow anonymity and they detect attempts to stay anonymous.

In an extreme case your account might be blocked soon after creation and you might be asked to upload a photo or ID scan.
If we go along with companies that do that, and aren't aware of the potential and looking out for it, then everyone can be complacently complicit.
Thank you so much! I was able to find it by looking at the front page for a specific day.

The language is called Pointless: https://ptls.dev/. It appears to be a scripting language with functional programming ideologies.
Wow that's a shite article. It starts with "This post is kinda tech-heavy" and then never gets tech heavy.

The "I think I'm going to panic" section is super condescending. It obviously does give surveillance capabilities it didn't previously have: I could previously disallowed the user that was running a game from viewing a file, and Windows would respect that. The game might crash, but it would not have accessed the file.

They are being directly misleading in the article and trying to use technical terms to confuse people. Ick.
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got it, I misinterpreted your tone, my apologies
We are planning on releasing for both windows and linux soon. Due to the app being focused on accessibility for developer workflows, mobile applications are a little further out on the product roadmap but will be coming eventually!
I did a security audit last week, which was mostly the managers writing a runbook for weaseling out way out of trouble if a data breach happened. Actually looking at overall system architecture, the specific encryption services, etc was not a popular topic.

So yeah audit does not fill me with confidence.
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This has far less content and fewer concrete action items than the lowest-tier Mckinsey or Accenture report. And that is setting a very low bar.

The roadmap appears to be "we have no idea, so we'll set un-measurable goals and pretend we've hit them, once the collateral damage of economic collapse is unbearably large"
It's actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenklatura
I'm not a data guy, can you explain this part a bit more if you have time?

> you have realtime data ingestion, you will also have to build tooling to re-ingest older data that has changed or needed to be amended. This will end up looking like a 'lambda architecture'
Ok, so that'd cost me USD$56, leading to a higher monthly than previous pricing. So, steering users toward the Action landscape is obviously a better monetization model.
Anyone here using Keycloak for a home setup? I've been considering this v/s https://www.ory.sh/, which is more OIDC focused and can't decide.
I mean the company is writing it's own code for a significant part. Let's say one has to integrate SAML/OIDC into a Java app of some sort.

One can find an open source library to handle part of the SAML or XML in Java, but it doesn't take the right settings or import user attributes as needed or handle URL redirections properly. So the company has to write a ton of authentication code to make it work. It may start from an open-source library but the result is either separate code on top or an outright fork.
organized crime doesn't exist. governments are indeed allowed to commit organized crime as you said.

if you want to overthrow or change that government you are free to do so. revenue obtained from that government is as bloodstained as any capitalist money, and most sources of profit can be dismissed as exploitive. its quite literally the point of profits.

if github teams were funded by isis I literally would not change my opinion on github.
The amount of autonomy and legal recourse of a private corporate entity in China compared to the United States. While the US does not have a great track record (Room 641A, National Security Letters, v-chip, putting export controls on strong encryption, etc) entities like the EFF and ACLU, plus corporate entities have successfully and repeatedly pushed back.
I am not an expert on Chinese corporate entities, but my anecdotal observations from working in companies with arms in China has been it's always a very careful process to not annoy the government, as it means losing everything with little recourse.

Edit: The implication is that, if the government of China, was exceptionally interested placing a backdoor in the software of a Tencent system, they may not be able to reasonably object. Where if the FBI came to Apple, (and we know they have) they can say no. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encryption_d...
Some people believe that if you cheat, even in a single player game, it lessens the reward for them.

FWIW: I've experienced "cheating" both utterly ruining and enhancing a game.