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It’s amazing how tone deaf technologists can be when it comes to privacy, even when they have nothing to gain by exploiting the user’s data. DDG’s response reminds me of Mark Shuttleworth’s argument that they “have root”, so we can trust them with our life.

Dear DDG, you are getting complaints on GitHub and Hacker News. This is not the general public, it’s people who understand the issue. You should definitely reconsider whether you’re doing something wrong.
One issue is that if a bunch of code of a similar theme can be broken off, many times it will be (depending on the culture of the software team). Is looking at the source code of a big project with a hundred dependencies that were all libraries spun off to support the project different to looking at a project where people tried to keep everything monolithic (where you’d expect better re-use potential per line-of-code?)
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Reading that again I think our definitions are different. If you can pack for 3 weeks in the mountains in a VW Golf I’m honestly impressed. I have a feeling you rely on stores and dining out. I’m talking about what is now called “off grid camping”, what used to just be called “camping”. Yes, when I was 14 I could go into the Ozarks after school on Friday with just my brothers and our packs on our backs and make it until Sunday evening. Now I’m old and have the aches and pains of age, so I need more gear.
Looking at the iOS project linked, https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/blob/76faae8c6... , other than being written swift, it looks pretty self-contained/ok?
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I was corrected, that the US Congress uses something that is not exactly the same.

Might be similar for UK Parliament.

But you guys have the most downright entertaining government in the world.
> disservice by infantilizing people.

People around the world are more educated than ever in humankind history [0][1] , including ability to code

Possibilities are still out there, it's not like people are forbidden from building their own web stack from scratch - you can still buy vps, bare metal, R-Pi and static IP or dyndns - and just code whatever you want.

Of course, Internet is not what is was in 1996, doing trivial things like publishing cat/dog videos and photos is easy - as it should be. Amount of the content is enormous and one can find amazing, incredible, briliant things - maybe not necessarily on the top of FB/IG feed, but it is still out there.

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Hey, I remember you! Good times!

I was also involved in the GoG days but I didn't think people remembered that. It changed pretty quickly due to legal reasons.
Facebook isn't hedging any bets, it's just not giving into the mob like behavior by the advertisers. Facebook knows that the advertisement dollars were anyways not going to be coming to FB due to the recession, and if they take a political stand at this moment, then they are inviting regulatory risks from the other side.

Facebook is staying neutral, and not giving into any pressure, mostly because Zuckerberg's job is safe and FB has plenty of cash!
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I meant signatures, not checksums. A signature chain would avoid the repackaging problem if the signer's public key was distributed out-of-band. Groups and distributors alike could add their own signatures to create multiple possible trust boundaries.

I think the scene groups are a traditional bunch that in some respects are years behind because of it. I remember in maybe 2005 I'd still download releases that were split into floppy sized RAR files. Possibly, this tradition carried on for so long because the scene was so keen to shame groups that didn't package like everyone else. I don't know how it is now but I'm hoping they got over splitting releases.
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There's an interesting disease showing up here in the responses.

I accept DDG's statement that this is about a favicon and that they "do not collect or share any personal information", and despite that, I also agree with others that DDG should be on the safe side and just stop doing this small thing. It's just the safer and more moral thing to do (So DDG, as many are suggesting, plz stop doing it. Today is good).

But... the reaction here is "they made a mistake, let's pile on like kids in a playground" ignoring the genuinely huger issue of the amount of info and mining that google et al. do. There's no measure of proportion in the responses, someone is making a mistake then there's a wolfish, pack-like desire to get stuck in and hurt someone.

Which is why politicians rarely admit mistakes, because it's taken as a sign of weakness, not strength, to admit you were wrong. DDG isn't the big evil on the web but from reading some of these you'd think it was the 2nd google.

This isn't about DDG, just the proportionality of responses in public errors and what society you'd like to have.

(no affiliation to DDG)
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> the membership is in charge. Motions, after being discussed and amended, eventually come down to a vote of the group

Strictly speaking, this could be a subset of the group, so long as that subset is quorate. For some groups this quorate level is going to be a surprisingly small number of people.
Here's their kotlin implemenation, looks fairly straightforward/self-contained: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/tree/ma...
From st3fan's links, this[0] seems to be something that DDG developers can use. Took me about 30 seconds to dig it up from the repository.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/tree/ma...
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>> - Finally (and most unfortunately): A lot of the strength of Python is in its ecosystem, and a lot of that ecosystem relies on native code.

I was thinking the same thing... One can wonder how much value there is left if you build an alternative Python interpreter that can e.g. run in the browser, but cannot support C extensions.

I mean I like Python for what it is, but once you stray from the common/intended use cases, e.g. trying to embed the interpreter in a C++ program, skeletons fall out of closets around every corner.

For all it's merits, CPython feels like a house of cards, burdened by a legacy of bad engineering decisions it cannot get rid of anymore. It made me realize it's better to stop fighting it, use CPython as-is (which is great), and use other scripting languages for embedding, live-coding, web, etc. I very much prefer Python over JavaScript for example, but even then it wouldn't cross my mind to use some kind of Python-to-JS implementation for web frontend code, honestly.
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> If anything a nice cup of black tea or a good Irish coffee in the evening calms me down and I sleep like a baby

Tea in the evening knocks me out, especially chamomile tea. As for the Irish Coffee, i suspect the whiskey is the suspect in knocking you out :D
So it seems that this papers result comes to "more downloads => more citations".

Of course, that is hardly a surprising result. I think most authors have read most papers they cite (although things like reviewer/editor shenanigans could make this less than 100%).

Of course, such a pedestrian result does not grab attention.
Point taken, although I don't think I was engaging in that.

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I was interested a while ago (2013...) in this question, whether RPython might be an interesting general language by itself.

I asked about that in the pypy-dev mailing list. Unfortunately I cannot find a link to that thread, but here are some answers (from Armin Rigo and Carl Friedrich Bolz):

> we (= the general PyPy developers) are not really interested in this direction [...]. There is notably the fact that RPython is not meant as a general language used to produce stand-alone C libraries. It's certainly possible to make one in theory, but cumbersome.

> One of the reasons why the RPython project does not care much about this use case anymore is that we had a way to make CPython extensions. It was called the "extension compiler". It turned out to be a) extremely annoying to implement b) not very useful in practice. Thus a totally frustrating experience overall.

> The reasons for slowness was mainly: when compiling RPython code to be a C extension module, reference counting is used to reclaim garbage. That is extremely slow. Therefore the modules never got the performance anybody expected.

> When people look at RPython, an obvious feature is that it is syntactically identical to Python. "RPython must be an easy language, given that it has got the syntax of Python, which is easy". This is a common misconception. In fact, pleasing the automatic type inference process can be difficult. It requires the programmer keeping in his
head the global types of his whole program, and carefully writing code according to these implicit types. The process is much harder for newcomers, which don't have any written-down example to learn how to manipulate the types --- precisely because they are implicit.

> So this is the reason we are recommending against RPython now (and for many years now). Anybody who thinks RPython is as easy as Python is someone who will happily try out RPython and be burned alive by it.

Edit: I found one link to the thread: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2013-June/011503....

Edit: I also found a (closed, opinion based, obviously...) related StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17134479/why-do-people-s...

From the FAQ (https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html):

> First and foremost, RPython is a language designed for writing interpreters. It is a restricted subset of Python. If your program is not an interpreter but tries to do “real things”, like use any part of the standard Python library or any 3rd-party library, then it is not RPython to start with. You should only look at RPython if you try to write your own interpreter.

A related project (probably abandoned since a long time):
https://code.google.com/archive/p/rpythonic/
I don't think it would be that much helpful. Emulators usually struggle with speed, not with memory or slow start. The execution speed wasn't measured in the benchmark for good reason. Normally JIT compiled Java performs adaptive optimizations and the execution speed can become faster so it better suits program's real execution profile.

You might ask: why not run the program on real life input, save the execution profile and optimize GraalVM output depending on that? Indeed that is possible. But Oracle keeps that part of GraalVM proprietary (in fact selling such improvements are probably the most important part of their GraalVM related business, Oracle is not one of those companies which would make open source software just to be nice).

Of course benefit of such optimizations is minimal for containerized server applications that GraalVM is mainly used for, because they are not CPU bound, so for normal users it doesn't really matter. But I think that emulator is one of things where it would actually matter quite a lot.
Great, so now you have a website to maintain and pay for and your customers with their associated revenue are still owned by substack.

Getting paying subscribers to change their subscription method is huge friction and risk of churn, the more revenue you already have established on substack the bigger the risk cost of trying to move away, aka the boiled frog business model.
>Which doesn't make sense. When only the first book was written, people did not recommend the complete saga, and the value put on book #7 was close to 0. What they were recommending to colleagues, and reading by the thousands, was just the first book. If you reread what I said, I'm directly pointing to a counterexample to your reasoning that the saga is not interesting without book seven - because it was, back when it was 1 book, then when it was just 2, etc.

Give me a freaking break. I think you are taking the sample of 1 (you) and then making this argument.

Every single person knew from the start that it is going to be a series. But if they knew that he'd not write any sequel for 11yrs but will keep on writing prequels for his HBO shows then nobody would have bothered to buy his book.

And which idiot will read the first GoT book and will be satisfied. "WOW this is a great book and I don't care if the sequel is ever written". The value of the story is in ALL the eight books and not in any of the standalone books.

Talking to you is a waste of time and I am not going to comment. But your logic was so atrocious that I had to reply. but not going to reply to you ever again.

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> But my personal view is that sacrificing safety so people can get from A to B a little faster is not worth it, and perhaps it's not clear whether or not speed is a big factor, but why risk it? Whats the rush?

It's not that simple that less speed equals more safety. Even the posted link shows no correlation.

Some people argue that speed in Germany is not risk, but a safety measure. German highways are already mostly overloaded with traffic. Decreasing the speed by introducing the artificial limits would effective make driving more dangerous because highways would be more crowded with drivers with less distance between, there would be more lane changing during driving, drivers will be more tired because of spending more time on the road. Also, driving at the uniform speed at the speed limit reduces awareness of the road conditions.

Another topic is that limit also works as a framing. On the road where limit is 120, everyone will tend to drive around 120, regardless of conditions. For the road without speed limit, people will generally drive 100 if that's optimal speed according to the current traffic conditions. And if it's safe to drive 180, why not?
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Would it matter? I can release all the source I want, but what guarantees this is also what's running on the actual endpoint?
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I wonder if ~10% of current F-150 sales are hybrids, or if they are really projecting for this model. I'd think people would consider going hybrid for the increased power outlet capacity, which could substantially alter the sales vs previous generations.
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I wholeheartedly agree to your argument that right & left is irrelevant in India.

An "Activist" however is not a peoples representative. In a democratic country, you stand for elections to become a peoples representative.

These "activists" are instead involved in armed violence with the democratic state.If they did that in 1950 fine, there is some justification but not in 2020.

I would call them terrorists, mafia or fascists - the Indian word is Naxal/Urban Naxal.

Democracy is not perfect, but I am not buying the promises of insanely wealthy self proclaimed activists who have enough money & resources to run armed conflicts and hire the best lawyer, but somehow never win in the elections.
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> every single third-party Apple accessory on Earth made up less than one half of one percent of their annual revenue

That makes me even more angry about the ridiculous price of these accessories
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When google uses AMP which allows you to read news sites without loading gigabytes of ads, they're "breaking the free internet". When Apple try to become the arbiters of how businesses should bill their customers (or, how they should let users sign up, or dozens of other things), they're just being user-centric. I find this terribly incosistent too.

(Note: I'm not saying I can't see the issues with AMP, too.)
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>I am quite sure than a good percentage of Mac users never use any other software than an internet browser.

that seems like a particularly expensive device for only internet browsing.
No.

Most stuff runs on electricity.

60% or more is generated by oil + gas.
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