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Yes, I agree. There are arguably some corporate initiatives that are trivial PR stunts, or attempts to pre-empt government intervention; but $2B is a big chunk of change, and this doesn't seem like either.

From Amazon's perspective, this a good move (and I'm sure as much in the interests of their bottom line as long-term planetary altruism). But from a citizen's perspective, we shouldn't rest on our laurels and assume that corporations and private investment will solve the problem on their own.
Proactively attempting to change the planet to fit our presumed desires seems even more irresponsible than trying to simply negate our effect on the planet. And realistically, the planet was more like an iceball than it is today for a vast majority of the timeline of homo sapiens.
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Ok, I admit that "not worth it" is better rephrased as "not the end goal". If the end goal is interactive gestures, one-off discrete gestures are welcome as an intermediate step or halfway solution.

Ideally the input framework would know if the streamed gesture was consumed real-time, and if not (e.g. no support for such interactice gesture in some program), the one-off event is issued.

This reminds me of current xorg libinput two finger scrolling / wheel event. Xinput2 is the relevant keyword but I am not sure exactly how it all fits in, only what I can observe:
- applications that don't know about multi finger scroll/pan listen for and accept classic mouse4 / mouse5 events and interpret them to scroll in steps if relevant. As an example, xev x event testing uility is not xinput2 aware AFAIK nor are classic x or older gtk programs
- applications can be xinput2-aware (e.g. eog Eye of Gnome image viewer, but maybe also any non-ancient gtk3 application as well), in which case they can scroll more directly (pixel-smooth) and with appropriate acceleration / smoothing / inertia (gtk-specific ?). In firefox there's an env var like MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 which tells firefox it can do this smoother wheel handling, not sure if it's required or automatic these days.
To test received events including xinput2, there is utility xinput --test-xi2

As a closing anecdote, there's an interesting interaction bug I have experienced with xfce where both xfwm will react to Super+scroll (compositor-level full screen zoom), and the application under the mouse pointer will also react to the scroll up/down. I have not deciphered the interactions here but it depends on app under mouse cursor...
There are, in practice, 3 that anyone cares about - GNOME’s, KDE’s, and wlroots. I don’t know how much of their work is potentially portable across the three.

But while most users are currently on Xorg, the work going into improving responsiveness and suchlike is all going into Wayland. This project is really putting lipstick on a pig.
I absolutely never heard anything about "Github sponsors" until now, which is actually what I always wished that somebody would create... .

I thought as well (and still keep thinking) that if I'll ever manage to create something successful which generates $, then I'll share a part of the revenue with the (open-source) parts that my <whatever: app/website/etc...> uses/needs.
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Very different problems.

Many ISVs were stuck supporting IE6 for so long—long after it went into single-digit percentage usage—not out of some vague fear that someone, somewhere still used it; but because the particular moribund enterprise clients that they wanted to sell into still used it. (Otherwise, IE6 would have been just another irrelevant minority browser, like Opera.)

Mobile Safari, meanwhile, is "still" used by 25% of people; but more importantly, iOS is used by 26% of people (52% in North America!), and those people can't actually get any other renderer than WKWebView, whether they use Safari or not.
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> invent their own narratives

Your comments in this thread are recursively ridiculous and I'm not sure how far I want to unwind them, but people are "inventing their own narratives" (this is an astonishingly bad way of characterizing the problem here) in preference to siting hard numbers because the police are not holding themselves accountable, a phenomenon that includes the suppression of the hard data on how many abuses there are.
Thank you for this, love this work.
Thank you for xen-tools and xen-shell :)
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I used it for a while and once again I keep everything on one screen and use command tab. It isn't difficult to go back.
I guess the better point would be that they used to have, when email wasn't as widespread as it is today.
The "problem" with studying other countries is that US citizens are armed to their teeth compared to citizens of most of the rest of the civilised world. Police in the US pretty much always have to approach a situation fearing for their lives.

Not that this excuses their actions -- just pointing out that it's a systematic problem that's hard to weed out by looking at countries where police often leave their weapons in the car when they go to confront suspects of non-violent crimes.
True. But what happens when you run XFCE in one of those higher spec machines? the advantage remains.
> Well, wasn't the US about capitalism, free market and all that

That's an appropriate use of was. The US hasn't been a Capitalist nation in nearly a century.

It's a heavily regulated mixed economic system. That transition largely occurred from roughly 1930 to 1980, and the tsunami of unnecessary regulations have continued to rapidly pile up by the thousands ever since.

Free market? Ha. Sweden is more of a free market than the US. The US has a very large market with some free market remnants; the big economic outcomes that enables is what confuses people into thinking the US is still a bastion of Capitalism (while it rapidly speeds toward the French model of economic stagnation with persistently falling growth rates).
I'm certain that Red Hat and our kernel developers have no animosity towards you, in fact it's completely the opposite. You're well known in the community not just for this but for maintaining and writing countless drivers and loads of other great work in the kernel.

Fedora does use the LTS kernels.
I had a cop friend who told me he lived for high speed chases. Interestingly he died of an illicitly procured opioid overdose at 46.
It's in line with what people have been saying, but as parent observed, it's not in line with risks. But this is nothing new for people in general; we spend way more newspaper inches worrying about terrorism (which kills a fraction of people) than traffic fatalities (which is 8th leading cause of death globally).

This is, of course, as true as it is irrelevant. Because police can be 1/7th as likely to kill black people as non-police, and that's still far, far too many and a completely different category of murder (because the murderers are rarely punished, and are protected by the power of the state). Even if cops were 1/70th as likely to be the murderer of a black person, it's too many.

Some kinds of death are both avoidable and morally reprehensible for a society to allow or condone.
I assumed that was the point of linking.

The military is trained to avoid settling.
The military is prohibited from using tear gas.

Why are our police allowed those tactics and weapons, when we know they're not appropriate?
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I'm going to be downvoted for saying this but... ublock origin actually does slow down rendering your webpage. I think that it's sad that there seems to be so much pushback from vendors in regards to options like ublock origin, but I have found equally impressive results with system wide options like adguard without it reducing the speed of pages rendering.
> I think the point of H1B being tied to an employer is that a H1B entry needs to be temporary and not long term immigration.

If it needs to be temporary response to a shortage, it should be tied to a job category in which the shortage is certified to exist, not an employer. There should be no special restriction within the category within which the shortage is certified to exist, so long as it exists, since employer restrictions within that category will obviously exacerbate a real shortage, though they benefit the particular employer.

But H-1B doesn't exist to deal with real shortages, it exists to leverage the pretext of contrived shortages to mitigate wage pressure in highly skilled industries via captive labor.
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To the downvoters: as another person pointed out, the latest version of Windows would work perfectly on these machines - if I choose to install it, that is. But I prefer macOS and the apps I had bought. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't care.
Yep, animals learn from bad experiences quite fast. My little parrot won't go near towels anymore because we used to wrap him in one so he would hold still while trimming his nails. This doesn't hurt the bird and not doing it makes it hard for them to walk, but the sounds and struggle emmited by that pint sized green cheeked conure would make the unaware think I was torturing him.

Now, he won't even let us wrap him in a towel after he decides to dunk himself in his water bowl for a bath. No matter how wet, cold and pathetic he looks (birds smell like a wet potato after a bath), he won't let us dry him off.
Right. Most software engineering isn't the sort of hard-to-source skilled labor that the H1B program was intended to provide. Until we can be honest about that and have a real healthy debate about allowing the sort of mid/low skill labor that smart high schools can do, our immigration will continue to suck and breed resentment on all sides.

NB I'm pro-mid/low skill immigration. But these H1B conversations are intractable without first pointing out that, if the goal is low/mid skill immigration, then we need to fight for a new visa class aside from the H1B.
Great to see checks getting written for climate projects again! For anyone who may be interested, there's a supportive climate focused community and interesting climate projects over at https://collective.energy (founder here)
...released May 2018, stop accepting apps dec 2020.

At least there is this: "Meanwhile, it will add a new Quest app distribution channel without the current strict approval process, encouraging more developers to work with the headset."
Moderators can of course change the title, I don't think it's misleading and I was not trying to be. I guess 'reports' could be changed into 'finds' and it could be mentioned that it was found 'in its Linux kernel', not sure when the character limit would hit.

'current LTS kernels are not used in older Linux distros' - not sure what your point is with this. They absolutely could have used / can use LTS kernels if they wanted to or they could merge LTS-kernel changes which they apparently don't.
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As a person of color whose parents immigrated to America via H1B and saw the footage out of El Paso and Charlottesville and the murder of people that look like my uncles in Olathe Kansas the rhetoric has tangible effects and is anything but “baseless”.
Thanks for the offer mate. I really appreciate the general outpour of support within this community.

I am happy to say I have a really supportive group around me, so I do get to vent every once in a while. This week is a bit rough, but I should be able to find time to reach out on the weekend.

Being able to confide in a stranger like this is strangely comforting. If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know.

Despite never having met you, one thing about Covid that is absolutely true, is that 'we are in this together'. There is a sense of camaraderie having faced a common challenge.
Yes, I'm personally quite interested. Although more for my own curiosity than any business use case.
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I don't even see the point. If there's no enforcement of this law, why even bother with the illusion of legality? Just accept donations - and likely no one will ever bother coming after you.
I hate sponsorware concept OP is proposing. It seems to work for him but it’s opposite to the spirit of open source. His idea is that keep code secret until you find N sponsors. Further, he will hide important tutorials if you are not sponsor. I would hate to use this kind of open source project.

Here is more viable freelancing:

- create framework/library that everyone needs

- for feature requests/bug fixes, prioritize sponsors

- do office hours for sponsors

- invite sponsors/allow them to vote for future road map

- offer consulting credit to sponsors
I mean, I don't really want a job in a country paying a fraction of what I make now? It's true though, there is not an existing reciprocal program afaik, but so what? We have things much better economically. And who knows, maybe we could arrange a labor trade deal of sorts with these countries.
Forget about performance. Firefox still lags horribly behind in battery life.
I think there's a real shortage in software industry driving what you see. H1Bs come from mainly two sources - OPT students and oversea outsourcing company bringing in contractors. The US companies have incentives to hire contractors, mainly for shitty IT projects that no Americans like to do, at low labour costs no Americans willing to take. The OPT students is a result of both aggressive revenue generation for the US education industry, as well as the "American dream" ideal - which I think is a result of US culture influence (mostly movies and drama shows) rather than reality. I now realized that US is far more backwards than I thought. The US justice system, medical system and general racial discrimination. Digressions aside, US general population should far more outnumber the H1Bs but it baffles me that when we get qualified resumes, usually it's as much as 80% to 90% foreigners. (for junior positions. For seniors, many of these people already got green cards) There seems to be just huge shortage from US local people to study Computer Science.
> Please stop buying stuff. It's bad for the environment. But also keep working - we need you paying your taxes!

If I'm morally not allowed to buy stuff because its bad for the environment, then what incentive do I have to earn more than 40k/year? Do I exist just to pay taxes to the government to fund "more moral" causes than my own consumption?
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Looks awesome, thanks Zep Works
New GitHub layout is less accessible
The new web design layout on GitHub is awful and has less accessibility.

For example, the repository languages used to be at the top center of the page, while now I need to scroll past the bottom of the screen and find the information off centered in an awkward place.

The stars and other top bar links are off centered in an awkward way for the mouse and the eyes. Also, the profile tabs are less accessible because followers are now on the other side of the screen instead of in the convenient tab location.

Please contact GitHub with your feedback if you also think it's less accessible design.
Is it illegal if you sell an item/service/upgrade for a clearly absurd price?

The obvious workaround here is to paywall some tiny feature with choose-your-own-price, or perhaps offer something akin to Reddit Gold. I presume the law already thought of that?
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Precisely why it matters is that the debates you cite in the WSJ are in a completely different realm where you can have reasonable people disagree. I don’t think Cotton’s Op-Ed is novel territory for either the NYT or WSJ, but I think it’s a reasonable position that the NYT should not legitimize calls to violence as a resolution to an ongoing domestic issue.

The NYT operates on links, this is not cable news. Of course it will be shared on FB and elsewhere, so not getting your point at all.

As for the final point, I think there’s a reasonable debate to be had there! I don’t know exactly where I stand on it, I personally find the piece disturbing and it crosses the line in a functioning democracy. However, it certainly informed me beyond a doubt to Cotton’s and his colleagues’ opinions, so I just have to trust others felt similarly.
> ..he apparently isn't so much opposed to that corruption as an outsider looking into get in on the action. Also after being elected, most presidents tone down the divisive pandering

Agreed, of course.
9/11 was definitely more localized to New York and maybe America. But the pandemic has been the first major crisis at a global scale for this generation.
They have their own desks, instead of "clean" desks, so that's something.
You invented the same refactoring technique Michael Feathers suggests in his book[1]. You write tests to document the current state of the legacy software and then start slowly changing it.

Great book BTW, should be on a top10 must read list for software developers. (#1 will always be Peopleware[2])

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44919.Working_Effectivel...
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/67825.Peopleware
It could also be motivated by the fact that it's not entirely wise to base an entire multibillion dollar business around whatever text a non-employee happens to push to a repo you don't control.
Apple also quietly announced a change to the App Store review process, including no longer delaying bug fix rollouts over guideline violations for applications that are already available on the store, and a formal appeals process and the ability to challenge the store guideline themselves:

https://www.engadget.com/apple-developers-challenge-app-stor...

So many folks said "It's Apple's store, they should be able to do whatever they want". But if everyone is too scared to complain, for sure nothing will change!
A hack on the turbo of an ICE car sounds pretty out dated to me.
Tangent: would technical writers please stop using the phrasing “is X times smaller” when “is one Xth the size” is more accurate? I had to read the reference to “Crystal’s binary size is 5 times smaller than Go’s” twice to realize it was 0.2x and not 5x.
You seem to be effectively saying that your average black person is a criminal because they see extrajudicial murder as being a bad thing, which is a remarkably racist thing to argue for. Not to mention your incredibly disingenuous takes on the situations that occurred and the reason why people are angry.
I have a co-worker, middle class white collar living in a good neighborhood. Walking home with his kid from school. Stopped by police with hands on holsters and told to turn around slowly. Was afraid for his life. Talk to most any black person in the US and they have a similar story.
> iOS Firefox

Short of using Opera this might be the worst browser to use, so they're not wrong.
Societies aren't judged on how they treat their average members of society alone; also how they treat the outliers.

The US treats its outliers poorly. We have the highest rate of incarceration and a disquieting likelihood of police interactions ending in violence against suspects relative to other countries.
Wrong. Majority didn’t vote for his opponent, which directly means voting for him!
> does the tool allow for physically impossible layouts?

I hope so! I've definitely run some dungeons that had Escher-esque layouts. It's for D&D dungeons, not real life architecture :)
> H1B holders pay taxes for benefits they cannot receive like Medicare, social security, and a sleuth of federal gov programs?

H1B holders can actually receive social security benefits. See https://www.ssa.gov/international/agreements_overview.html
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This is unhinged. Seek help.
Honestly, I'm surprised. This doesn't look like getting cancelled for being edgy. There's no mob that I can see pushing to doxx him.

It looks to me more like the reporter decided that Scott's refusal to use his real last name was a weird request, not a legitimate security concern for his patients and himself. The reporter just doesn't get it.

It's not like it adds to the story. Every on the internet knows Scott as "Scott Alexander". I didn't even know it wasn't his real last name until today. It just seems so cruel to insist on doing this to Scott when I can't see any good reason to do it.
Seems sad that the modularity of Linux is not allowed due to issues with support. That, in my opinion, is the best part of Linux - which is finding solutions to problems that exists outside of the scope of what is designed by the vendors.
As I just said on Twitter [0]:

> Hrm. I just got switched to Github's new look and feel... and tbh, I _don't_ like it. I liked the 3D depth of the prior buttons. The new ones are too flat, the text is thinner, and they're too rounded. I appreciate that people worked on this, but... why was this change needed?

(See tweet for a screenshot comparison of the "New Issue" and "Edit" buttons before and after)

[0] https://twitter.com/acemarke/status/1275465823403020288
IMHO, the left has moved at least as far left as the right has moved to the right. The polarization has increased markedly. The other change is the vast increase in the speed of interaction and the number of vocal, anonymous individuals involved. There’s no time for reflection anymore.
This. Why do voters living in rural areas get more weight to their votes? This is obviously more pronounced in the Senate, but clearly also a problem in the House.
> I believe it is unjust and counterproductive to allow a crowd to seize control of a common area, even if they are motivated by grievance or message.

"Congress shall make no law [...] prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances"

IANAL, but it seems to me this behavior is protected under the first amendment no?
You are playing a dangerous game here.

The above poster said:

> from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals

Leaving the "more so than criminals" part out of it:

- By your numbers, 10% of the killings are done by police officers.

- Police officers account for much less than 10% of the population.

Hence, a random police officer is much more likely to kill you than a random person.

Now, the "more so than random criminals" part is much harder to pin down. Anyway, you can't know whether someone is a criminal or not just by seeing them on the street, so I don't even see a point in trying.
In theory, Chrome works fine without extensions. In practice, if Chrome was "banned by the Extension developers' guild" so that every other browser got to participate in the WebExtension ecosystem except for Chrome, people would leave Chrome quickly. (Sadly, probably for some "exactly Chrome, but not by Google" browser, rather than for Firefox.)
Also, I'm noticing a lot more "preload" pages ... e.g. the page loads with blank placeholder fields for the commit and text information that's then replaced live after loading the page. Maybe it did this before and is just slower now?
In the states non-profit means a company that is not for profit. It doesn't mean you can't pay yourself a wage that is inline for the duties and title you have.
Your dad may enjoy the Etrian Odyssey series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etrian_Odyssey) for the DS and 3DS where a big part of the game is you drawing the map on the bottom screen as you explore the dungeon.

Review of the latest game for 3DS: https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/17/16492092/etrian-odyssey-5...
Nigeria doesn't export much plastic to Denmark, or to anywhere, really, so it has very little impact either way.
Same on desktop. I'm using Vivaldi (Chrome/Blink base) and it's not working, but it does in Chrome.