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As other poster jitteriest noted already, "conspiracy theorist" labeling is used to stop having any discussion with those who are labelled as "conspiracy theorists".

The whole dialogue is skewed in the favor of those who call others "conspiracy theorists". Once labeled, no more dialogue. This is one of the dialogical moves, and conflicts with the cooperation principle to resolve disputes.
It doesn’t matter whether you use encryption or not. State got backdoors at cpu level. So long as you are connected to Internet you have to assume that data is not secure against state surveillance.

Encryption is against lower level non-state actors.

State-level surveillance can be eliminated through physical data diodes but it is would be very capital intensive.
> you do always feel one step further removed from your code, so it can be a pain to debug and troubleshoot.

This reminded me of a story I heard about RMS's kernel, GNU Hurd. Linux being built as a monolith in the 90's, Hurd was being built as a microkernel (microservices) architecture. Guess which one was easier to debug[1]?

1: https://biblioweb.sindominio.net/telematica/open-sources-htm...
Given Microsoft's recent forays into Rust, they should acquire these engineers and put their muscle behind Rust.
Yes, and they apparently did.
> most CEOs are 40+ and have driven BMW

This precisely proves the point i was trying to make, thank you :)

BMW, Mercedes ect represent old school "money is everything" mentality. Porsche is famously a "doubhebag" car

https://www.gq.com/gallery/douche-cars-jamie-lincoln-kitman
Do you think consistent campaign contributions to both parties, relentless industry lobbying and this all being perfectly legal may have something to do with it as well?
> IMO they can keep the 30% but they should just allow apps to offer other payment methods.

Would this just result in every app being free, but using (non-apple) IAP to gain access to any content beyond the opening screen?
Quantum mechanics is immune to the butterfly effect
looks like there will be some bots that pull images on a periodic basis cropping up
Couldnt the title be "Epic Direct Payment" on Mobile?
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Google doesn't need the search engine placement in Firefox. The market share is tiny. (sadly)

I can imagine that Google is somewhat interested in keeping Firefox alive as an independent browser though, just to ward off monopoly issues.

Yes, there are plenty of Chromium reskins, but Firefox is the only other remaining full, cross-platform browser engine.
Gotcha. I wanted to know if it was POSIX compliant (it wasn't clear to me last time I looked it up).
Hackers can eavesdrop on mobile calls
So in your opinion, someone can only commit violence against people? So outside of personal injury behavior cannot be violent? I'm sorry to say I disagree with you. (To be clear, this is not an endorsement for or against either "side" in the current culture war in the US.)

I hate to be that guy that quotes the dictionary, but let's start with dictionary.com[0]:
Violence (noun):
- swift and intense force:
the violence of a storm.
- rough or injurious physical force, action, or treatment: to die by violence.
- an unjust or unwarranted exertion of force or power, as against rights or laws:
to take over a government by violence.

Now, Wikipedia [1]:
Violence is "the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy". Less conventional definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation."

What about domestic abuse violence that doesn't even involve physical abuse? From WebMD [2]:
Domestic abuse is more than just hitting, shoving, and other physical attacks. It’s a pattern of controlling behaviors. The goal always is to get and keep power over an intimate partner.

To be clear, I'm not comparing these riots to domestic violence. What I'm trying to do is debunk this argument that somehow because these rioters aren't hurting anyone that they're not committing acts of violence. These acts of destruction are very much acts of violence. Words are important and the truth matters. Let's call this what it is, violence and destruction. Just because people might not be being targeted doesn't mean that they aren't getting hurt and traumatized. And yes, this is violence.

0. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/violence?s=t
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence
2. https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/mental-whatis-domestic-a...

(Edit: forgot my references, and changed "Webster's" to "Dictionary.com"
> Why would Google pay for something they get for free

For the same reason Microsoft saved Apple: to prevent anti-trust inquiries
Rich people knew. Rich people have always known how important air quality is, its why we have large yards in suburban areas, electric cars, go to summer homes and vacation far from major cities. The poor die disproportionately of preventable lung disease, that is by design.
> The internet is the platform now with ubiquitous web technologies built into it, but vast new areas are developing (like Wasmtime and the Bytecode Alliance vision of nanoprocesses). Our vision and abilities should play in those areas too.

Two days ago, the CEO said that focusing on technologies like Wasmtime was one of their plans for the future[1]. Now we find out that they're actually getting rid of the team. They really doubled down on the corporate speak for this round of layoffs.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-chan...
Choosing between coding and whisky.
The elevation of CSuite as magical makers of wealth, when most of that value is created by the organization, needs to stop. Good leadership is important, but CEO comp is completely atrocious and unsustainable. Especially if the alternative is to lay off a ton of employees just to maintain operations.

We can see it right here how it’s killing a value generation vehicle. The CEO won’t accept a pay cut, but is willing to shut down entire product lines. A similar story has played out across America.
"sustain" yes. Rust has been in a position for a while to outlive Mozilla's involvement. It is developed independently and has sponsors and contributors from other companies. https://www.rust-lang.org/sponsors

That being said, I do think this will slow progress (even if for a short period), many of the engineers laid off were on the Rust core team and contributed a lot of commits and knowledge. Things like the Cranelift backend to speed up compilation for debug builds relied on the wasmtime team who have lost people.

So is Rust going anywhere? No, I'm not even worried about that.
However new features and fixes might take longer than expected.
I don't see how that's relevant to the cut a company takes for running a game store. Epic is only able to offer such a low % take on sales since they're subsidizing their store with the money they get from UE and Fortnite; Valve is already running their store sustainably and at a profit, much like how Epic would be if they weren't "angel investing" into their own product.
Could someone explain key differences between Parity and GPL? I haven’t encountered this before
I can't find where I read this, but I remember seeing some article about how Pocket was essentially dead, i.e. nobody's really working on it.
Why is that a feature?
> At a Microsoft sized company I'd get it because they can basically blow billions on that sort of thing

It also helps that Microsoft is in the business of selling IDEs.
It only makes sense to do something if you expect results. The victim doesn't get mad because there is no point to it. (or they just feel that way) They just have to accept whatever is coming at them. (or they just feel that way) Are there labor laws if you cant afford legal action?
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It's a little baffling how monstrously big Amazon has become over the years. Pretty soon there won't be an industry left untouched by Amazon's tentacles. Hard to see how they can continue down this path without getting broken up.

On the bright side: each new satellite launch should lower the barrier to entry for the next satellite launch. This combined with growing competition in the space industry could lead the way to commercially viable spaceflight. There's so much opportunity for off-planet industry, it'll be pretty exciting to see where all of this leads.
Since images tend to be based on each other I wonder if someone's analyzed the corresponding dependency graph yet. In theory you should get quite far if you isolate the most commonly used base images.
And, even for longer road trips, there are fewer genuinely remote areas in Europe than there are in the US. At this point, there's no way I would buy an EV as my only vehicle in the US. I'm not going to plan out weekend trips based on whether there are charging stations available.
This!
Lol I even went one step further..
On my monolithic apps I use the language framework mvc or mvvm option. (Currently developing on Asp.net) and only has spa on a complicated page! My productivity has been great. Coming from someone with a background across just about all backend frameworks and working with spas since pre angular 1.0.
well it sounds like someone's gotta pony up the bucks for a their own image repo, rather than freeload off someone else's storage infra.
Of course you mean System 1, not MacOS 1.0. Handles were used all the way through System 7, last released in 1997. Perhaps by then it was more about the legacy than the need. Don't know the physical limits, but a Quadra 950 could support 256MB RAM and more through VM (ramdisk), and of course these later gen machines did have MMUs.

In ye olden days, addressing was probably physical, so being non-multi-tasking ensured the safety of using handles, ie if used properly. IOW the system process was free to clean up the heap and manipulate your pointers b/c your app would only yield at specific points where you aren't holding onto a dereferenced handle.
> Serverless container services such as ... Google Kubernetes Engine ... You don’t have to worry about running the cluster that hosts your control servers, node servers

You don't have to worry about it, you get to worry about it.

At least from a cost perspective, GKE isn't serverless. Also I always end up with 2 node pools because the default one is misconfigured. Also kube runs so much crap that the first node barely fits any app containers.

Wouldn't call GKE a win for 'not managing nodes'.
Muqaddimah
> That's more of a "I don't know what I'm doing" story, isn't it?

Sure, but k8s is big enough that "very few people know what they're doing" is a valid argument. It's loosely like saying that git sucks because the technology is solid but it's extremely complex and hard to get a grasp on.
Rocket League; if I remember correctly the Linux support was dropped and it was intended to no longer be on Steam. Unsure where it stands now as it's been a while since I actively followed that game.
> You also need engineers to implement new features of the rapidly changing web.

What kind of things are rapidly changing these days?
Lambda is a "Function as a Service" product and FaaS is (usually) serverless in nature.

S3, DynamoDB, AppSync, API-Gateway, and Faregate are also serverless, but not FaaS products.
Those things had zero impact on their bottom line because there's no way to give them money for those things. All anyone can do is donate to the Mozilla Foundation where the money can get spent on whatever non-technical things the foundations wants.
> nobody would be able to do anything about it.

Microsoft is using Blink for Edge and is upstreaming changes, I recently read about a power usage optimisation coming from Microsoft.

I sort of agree with parent poster, if this was their plan then Mozilla could have given up on Gecko and focused on a privacy focused Blink/V8 based browser. There isn't much value in developing Gecko at this point, they canned Servo and a large chunk of the dev team so I don't see where the technical innovation is going to come from. V8 has won as well, Node uses it, it's ported all over the place.

Their only value right now (after firing so much of the R&D
and dev focused engineering talent) is the privacy/open reputation of being released by a non-profit, why not scrap the area you aren't competitive in and focus on your strengths. I wouldn't be surprised if they announced a blink/chromium based browser soon.
The old pit
Does this assume that the handle consumers have to somehow 'release' the handle in addition to 'deleting' it? As was explained with an example of delayed release of some deleted but still GPU queued element.

I'm not sure if the suggested generation counter approach is the optimal way to deal with the delayed release. Also, when it comes down to own memory managers, benchmarking is a must. Added complexities may eventually eat up the initial savings.
Yep, everybody will have a small scheduled Github Action pulling their image once per month or similar ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> Security – The operating system installed in a container is usually short-lived, very minimal, and sometimes read-only. It therefore provides a much smaller attack surface than a typical general purpose and long-lived server environment.

Is this true? I always thought things like Docker are massively insecure because they don't respond to the threat landscape that well, since they are kind of 'frozen in time' and kept that way for years at a time without any critical security updates.
Apple sells the iPhone though. You can think of this as a simple transaction where Apple is profiting off of the device sales and the app developers are providing a reason for customers to buy those devices.
No, I'm asking if they will allow people to buy digital PC titles on EGS via direct purchase to the developer and bypass the percentage EGS takes. People are bringing up digital currency or IAP, but if Epic is arguing for 'direct payments in all apps', why would this be limited solely to digital currency and not the digital item itself?
> contribute a little back

Clang was certainly an in-house Apple project from the start, and it would be hard to claim that it hasn't been a project that has seen huge uptake outside of Apple.
I've also seen a number of people following along in this book in other languages, including Rust. It really is a well written guide, even if you're not fluent in Ruby.
>If they keep Fortnite on the App Store, they're going to need to make a rule change to allow alternative payment methods within apps.

That is already allowed. It's a common misconception.
Microsoft and Google allow alternative browser engines. Apple does not.
That's a little myopic; it's just another business model. They could instead price an app itself at $99 or whatever is desired to support development, marketing, profit, etc costs, and not have any in-app purchases.
I think a lot of the AMD hype for enthusiasts comes from the fact that without AMD being a meaningful player in the bulldozer years, desktop CPUs became VERY boring. 4-cores and single digit performance increases from Intel at enthusiast prices for approaching a decade. All you have to do is look at a youtube channel like Linus Tech Tips to see that a lot of people find it interesting when there is competition.
It's worth money as long as the company that runs the search engine is willing to pay for it.

In a scenario where Google no longer sees the value in that arrangement, what value would Microsoft be seeing in it?
I think they overstate the case for clean energy being cheap. It is cheap because the costs of storage are externalized. If you don't have fossil fuel producers then suddenly you have to add a lot of storage into the mix, which is not cheap.

Of course, if it's doable in practice I'm all for it, and if clean energy is really as cheap as they claim, then we'll get there pretty soon just on economics.
I see poverty as an orthogonal issue here, since there are plenty of African Americans from affluent families. If Microsoft's goal was helping people of any race break the cycle of poverty, I would consider that perfectly fair. Fighting historical racism with new-age racism in the opposite direction isn't the way to go.
I've been a Firefox user through all these years and still am. I don't like Google. I can still admit that during a crucial phase, Chrome was the better browser. Nowadays I don't think it's much of a difference, but the ship has sailed.

I never said that "Google did nothing wrong". I'm saying that if Google were to do something wrong that users actually care about, that would open the opportunity for competition to gain traction by offering a better product - based on their own codebase even!

That situation is what limits Google's options and that's what differentiates it from an actual monopoly. If you have a monopoly, your users are forced to use your services, because nobody else is able to compete. Nothing forces me to use Google's browser.

If you're making an anti-trust case, it has to be solid. If you just don't like the situation or making some sort of moral case, that's a different story.
Hi everyone, the Rust core team has been talking about making a statement on this, but I left this comment in a personal capacity yesterday:

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Mozilla employs a small number of people to work on Rust fulltime, and many of the Servo people contributed to Rust too, even if it wasn't their job. They also pay for the hosting bill for crates.io. They also own a trademark on Rust, Cargo, and the logos of both.
Two people from the Rust team have posted about their situation, one was laid off and one was not. Unsure about the others. Many of the Servo folks (and possibly all, it's not 100% clear yet but it doesn't look good) have been laid off.

The vast majority of contributors and team members are non-Mozilla, though the Mozilla folk are very important. Rust will survive. This situation is very painful, and it has the possibility of being more so, but (thanks to a lot of work from people (not speaking of myself here) who used to be at Mozilla!) Rust is bigger than Mozilla, and has been on a long road towards diversification. Some other companies have stepped up to pay a bunch of the bills that Mozilla used to pay, namely Amazon and Microsoft. Here's hoping that we get even more involvement in the future.
I think it'd have to have to caveats, e.g if offering payment you have to also offer apple payment at the same rate to the user.
>games aren't cheaper on the Epic store, in spite of the allegedly smaller cut the store is supposed to take

They are literally handing out free games, Total War: Troy, a brand new game, its free today

>they're Windows only (and here comes the China reference, they only know about Windows in there)

Games will not have first class support for linux for years to come, this is not indicative of the linux platform, simply that the market is tiny and developer time is better spent on supporting platforms that are widely used.

>they have bribed developers to give them exclusivity, preventing me to get the games on the store of my choice.

Seems to be a pretty simple calculus to me. Epic is willing to pay developers and publishers to have exclusive access to their games. Steam takes a 30% cut, Epic takes 12%. I would take that deal in a heartbeat.

>btw the above means Steam but also GoG. You people calling out Steam for being a monopoly, how many titles have you bought on GoG?

plenty, they offer a useful service by providing older games with support for modern OS. They have their niche within the ecosystem but they are by and large not competing with Steam

>Epic's only meaningful contribution to gaming since Unreal II is... a free to play arena shooter? Is that even a game? I can't afford free to play games, sorry.

Besides Fortnite being an economic and cultural phenomenon, they are very generous with providing access to their Unreal Engine software, even cutting the cost of using it until they the developers are actually generating revenue.
They sound strange because they are bad analogies.

This is a case where a resource was hijacked and is being used against other people. A similarly bad analogy, but more accurate, is if you had a car that was stolen, and subsequently used to commit crimes. If it got stopped, it would be beneficial to society, even if it could cause you financial harm.
Simplest answer is to release the code with a Dockerfile. Anyone can then inspect build steps, build the resulting image and run the experiments for themselves.

Two major issues I can see are old dependencies (pin your versions!) and out of support/no longer available binaries etc.

In which case, welcome to the world of long term support. It's a PITA.
The old negotiation tactic of I'll chop my arm off to show you that I don't need your money.
Maybe you're thinking of FandangoNOW? AFAIK Fandango does not let you 'buy movies'.
Israel’s West Bank annexation plan and why it’s stalled, explained by an expert
There will be many here who see no ethical issue with this type of lending and that is their prerogative. So, without debating the ethics of this type of information sharing, it is clearly of the same type as old services like Napster and The Pirate Bay. As such, authors don't object to libraries as the article asserts, rather they object to what they view as piracy.

From a creator's perspective you have a site that did not pay for a single copy of your work, yet is willing to share our unlimited numbers of copies of your work. Authors believe this is clearly not how a library functions but rather exactly how piracy sites work.
This 'broken' goes all the way back to Marc Andreesen.

He leaves a publicly funded team building a web browser, starts a commercial entity, and for whatever reason they don't feel they can charge for their browser funded by private equity. You could in fact buy it in a box at the local electronics store, but with the pricing I suspect most of that money went to distribution, not NCC. So they try to find other ways to make money, like their web server and overpriced consulting (for their notoriously awful web server).

The entire dotcom era then emulated this pattern. There were certainly other logistical reasons for it (like the state of credit card billing at the time), but I can't help but feel like this was the rock that started the avalanche of adware and commercial cyberstalking.

And so here we are 25 years later, and the last remnant of Netscape is trying to build the free browser and not much to fund it. I'm kinda surprised it lasted this long.

To be fair to them though, and particularly on the topic of this story, if they were going to build a free browser, it always should have been on the community to contribute to the dev tools. It's the part of the browser that we have a vested interest in.

And in fact, it used to be that way. Firefox had no dev tools at the beginning. They copied a very popular add-on, which I now recall made absolutely no sense to me at the time. I felt like their attempt was less effective in several ways, and why are they shouldering out this tool that made them in the first place (as GP asserts, nobody develops first-class support on a browser they can't debug in, or at least not when there is an alternative.)
Its not its bad, different type of signaling.

BMW = money is king, capitalism, golden toilet, 1990, closed minded to new things.

Tesla = environmentally conscious, "i care" , forward looking, open to trying new things.
Not to mention that Angular is listed twice essentially, and that in terms of quality/philosophy it did more damage to the industry than good.
Once Tesla is done competing with gas cars, it will also compete with trains and airplanes. Remember GM trying to scrap public transport projects?