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Even more so when you know that Edge uses Chromium under the hood, which would defeat the purpose of this exercise.
I don't think the parent said this is not parsed well, or at least I didn't read it that way. I share the feeling that you see that code and unless you know the implementation it's not clear what shell brokenness is carried over and what isn't. And which shell and version is being emulated. It's much easier to set expectations with a new syntax that's also easier to document than "what to expect of this macro".
This could have been a nice little writeup of arguments in the decentralized tracing vs centralized location-based tracking approaches. But it is framed in the introduction as an argument in favor of manual tracing vs apps in general and fails massively to live up to that claim by focusing exclusively on the badness of central/location.

Centralized, geo-based apps have a million ways of failing at privacy and real life implementations will likely strike a few? Who would have guessed, that's why the proximity-only decentralized approach exists.

And those "most at risk students" who would be least likely to actively use a privacy-encroaching location tracker? They'll be invisible to manual contact tracing for exactly the same reasons. The situation of those people would make a very good example for how decentralized, proximity only apps can not only be better than location tracking but also play an important role stepping in where the manual approach has blind spots. But somehow it's used as an argument against apps in general.
It is pretty bad that they started Degoogle page with largely Google-unrelated privacy-focused extensions which break websites and sometimes do more harm than good. For example ClearURLs by default disables ETag header which is very important for caches to work. Yes, ETag can be used for tracking but there are many many more ways to "track" people and many definitions of tracking, installing such extensions won't fully protect them from all kinds of tracking. Instead, by installing extensions like this people end up with lots of websites broken and slow browsing experience and blame Firefox for lagging and unresponsiveness. How do I know? I have gone through all this. And I ended with only a few extensions - uBlock Origin, Neat URL, I don't care about cookies, ViolentMonkey, Stylus, Cookiebro, User agent switcher.

I especially don't recommend ClearURLs, Privacy Badger, Decentralays. Users or these are begging for problems [1]. Look at how bloated their code is. Prefer smaller extensions focusing on one thing only.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/g2dett/firefox_75_...
"How do you get regular people to care about free (as in libre) software?"

Make the software easy to install and easy to use. Make sure it's properly documented
so users can consulted the help when they get stuck. That's what matters to "regular people".

What is the value of source code to "regular users" when they can't read the source code in the first place? (Publishing the source code doesn't have to be open source either.)

You could try and convince users that having the source code means it can be inspected or audited by programmers. But there is no guarantee that other programmers will inspect the code given the thousands of open source apps available. (How many programmers have the time to audit medium or large codebases voluntarily unless they are actual users of the app?)

We've seen examples of bugs in open source code lying dormant for years, challenging the widely-held belief that "many eyes make all bugs shallow".

The strongest arguments for publishing source code for "regular users" are:

- it's a guard or protection against malicious code or intrusive tracking. So that even if users can't read the source code of an app, it can still give them confidence the app doesn't do malicious things or spy on them. (Although that can't be guaranteed.)

- the app, if it's open source, won't lock users and their data into the app. And if the app changes direction or focus, other developers have the options to 'fork' the app. (But again that can't be guaranteed either.)
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Last time I checked(and I might be wrong) Telegram did not support XMPP, has that changed?
I suspected that the network wasn't ready, so I configured the service start after network without much luck. I didn't go further than that.
1. It should at least be something to strive for.

2. Some biases are more harmful than others.
Why are these called independent? There’s clearly nothing independent about it...
What I gleaned from the article was that the French only released a handful of non-security-compromising photos (eg, closeup of a flag raising), and the author padded out the remainder of the article with drawings and pictures of other forts.
This kind of posts/articles bother me quite a bit.

Mostly because blockchain technology was meant to fundamentally work as a viable alternative to existing payments systems, not data stores or other kinds of stuff. One of the local grocery stores (Carrefour iirc) prints a code on the receipt through which, allegedly, I could read the receipt off a blockchain. Why anyone care about that?

Now you tell me I can have access to money transfer services without the hassle of dealing with banks and intermediaries, that is actually interesting.

James Mickens has made an interesting talk abou blockchains and how most of them are basically the wrong solutions to most problems. And it's kinda fine but mostly misses the whole point of blockchains as monetary system.

Tl;dr: yeah blockchains are the solution to /almost/ nothing, but can you blame a screwdriver for being bad at opening a can of soup?
IANAL but I believe it is necessary to "defend" your trademark or risk losing it.

That being the case, I can see why Apple would want to make at least a pro-forma challenge to an app with a similar-looking logo.

EDIT: Apple makes apps, so there is potential for direct competition (albeit unlikely in this particular case) in the app space.

EDIT 2: Anyone who has watched iCarly as a child knows that there is precedent for using a Pear logo as a substitute for Apple: https://icarly.fandom.com/wiki/Pear_Company
So the argument here seems to be: ‘I want to ditch google because of privacy concerns but, I will not compromise on usability’. Bad UI should not be that hard but google has many popular feature because they can analyse user data.

I hear the same argument with search and maps. Yes, DDG and Apple maps is not quite as good as Google’s. But, if you want privacy you will have to sacrifice something. Google has so many resources to put into their core product. Off course they will be better. And they use user data for some features which privacy focused companies just can’t provide. You just can’t have it all.
Oh ! totally makes sense, nice guess. and very interesting
My biggest problem cutting out Google from my life is with Maps.

Now, I can do just fine with OpenStreetMap (and such) as a physical or even a road map; but there are just so many venues and businesses that are listed on Google Maps... with their opening hours and links to websites.

Also, a lot of municipalities transfer public transport data to Google, which you can't quite get anywhere else (ignoring Google-reliant apps).

Search, browser, email - I don't use them.
If only this Twitter user had a blog to write on.... (/S he is a famous author and tech blogger and should know better).

Or if only each tweet had, instead of just a page number, also an indication of total number of pages. Like 10/15 ("oh, only five more tweets") instead of a useless count 5 ("oh I'm on tweet number five, that's of no use to me as I've read the previous four")

In the end I gave up after a few tweets . I would have liked to be able to say I gave up half way but there was no way for me to know that.

Edits: there are 23 tweets.
>Is it UX differences? Economical incentive differences? Someone with wested interested pushing things in one or both? Just a fashion thing?

The main difference between desktop pc vs mobile is the availability of programmable APIs to access underlying hardware. This leads to many apps using native API SDK on smartphones but many desktop software (especially newer software) to be browser apps.

On mobile, the underlying hardware is changing and getting enhanced at a faster rate than the standard browser APIs can keep up. Although smartphone innovation is slowing, the new phones released each year still add new features faster than a standards committee for the Javascript api can adopt. E.g. front & rear cameras instead of just rear cameras, accelerometers, voice recognition, fingerprint id, etc. In short, there's a delta of functionality between the native iOS/Swift/Android/Java SDKs vs the web api with Javascript. If that missing functionality in browser Javascript is important, you'll end up with native apps.

As just one example, look at the web browsers API compatibility list to see if there's a standard unified way to query the accelerometer: https://caniuse.com/#search=Accelerometer

Notice all those red rectangles instead of green ones? Developers notice that Apple Safari doesn't support the web api accelerometer. That's one example of pushing developers towards native iOS API+Swift instead of web Safari+Javascript. Another difference between mobile native vs web is push notification from apps.

On desktop, the pc hardware has matured and is more stable. The motivations for choosing native would still be accessing hardware specific advantages but these become more advanced use cases for "power users". E.g. creating arrays in RAM larger than 4GB in size, accessing GPU, use latest cpu instruction sets, etc. E.g. a banking app that let's customers check balances and move money around doesn't need any advanced hardware access and can be written with Javascript for web browsers. However, CPU and RAM intensive software like CAD modeling or After Effects video rendering will be written in C++. The lower resource apps like banking are more common on pc than Autodesk and Adobe. Widespread adoption of WASM would eventually bring more cpu intensive desktop apps to the browser but the gap will remain for many years. On the desktop, there's also a delta of functionality between web browser and native but it's less important for common use cases so browser apps will suffice.
Do you mean that you want `cmd2 <(cmd1)` as a synonym for `cmd1 | cmd2`? In that case, I’m happy it doesn’t; it drastically lowers readability compared to left-to-right command pipelines, and I don’t see what value it adds.
Whatever happened to ad-hoc mode?
You should definitely start with Qt and choose something different if you have a good reason to (e.g. really don't want to use C++ or Python).
Removal of the advert seems to be a penalty to me.
It had no engines. The sun-side tracks thermal expansion provided the energy to keep pushing the city into the night-side.
HLS is just chunks of video in different files, track exactly what files are actually served.
Systemd can be very powerful and you can even depend on individual devices being added/removed. I’m pretty sure you can even replace the udev rules with a systemd equivalent if you tried hard enough.
> Powershell isn't even concurrent

It's got "Start-Job" and now gets "ForEach-Object -Parallel". What else do you think it's lacking?
The general public would still call that an abortion.
In your mind, how was the last paragraph relevant to the other country thing?

But the answer is yes they can be forced, absolutely. All countries have more to lose with the US (not that there is an ideological line in the sand, countries willingly cooperate with FBI, which is instructed by Congress to handle foreign investigations as well) and this is exactly what has played out in case after case after case.
Read the article. (Which by the way isn't about ads either)
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Nuclear fission ?
The same exact claims were made about 4G. Even if it delayed 4G by a year or two, it was well worth it.
I was going to say "yes!" but then I looked it up that Amazon actually launched before Ebay as a business. I don't remember actually using Amazon personally until the 2000s but they've been around since 1994, almost a year before Ebay. I'm struggling to think of any earlier online retailers who would have been building ecommerce software.
Does the Tensorflow model run in JS? How fast is that?

Would it be feasible to run the model in wasm or in the GPU?
Something like a Dutch auction?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction

My guess is that people that paid more will complain.

Perhaps a version where if there are 100 items, everyone pays the price of the 100th person that pressed the button.
Why is that not easy and widely used as nearly all devices we used like camera (dslr to car camera) and remote controller all resolved to stop WiFi and switch to another mode etc to connect.
It's a combination of numbers and technology.

Numbers: Android and iOS each have over a billion users, so it makes more sense to make dedicated apps for those platforms. Desktop platforms are much smaller, so it makes less sense to dedicate the resources.

Technology: Chromium is available on desktop platforms, which allows you to easily make cross-platform apps. Chromium is not available on iOS, because Apple has enforced a WebKit monopoly. There's not a great cross-platform app technology that covers iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac, otherwise developers would probably go for that.
The script is heavily based on the article. Full credit to the article!

For everybody interested in details, the article gives useful insights on configuration automated by the script.
Maybe I should have asked, "Why do you care?" Absolutely I made the comment with the intention to debate. The points we're discussing here are all moral and speculative, there is no cut and dry right answer.

In those cases I find good faith debate to be the best way to expand my view on the subject, even if I don't end up "budging", at least I understand all the positions a little better.
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Not quite. "<(cmd1)" creates a pipe, connects cmd1 output to it and replaces the expression the pipe name. With one argument you can often use "cmd1 | cmd2 /dev/stdin", but with two you need something better.

Think "diff <(something) <(other)" without using temporary files.
> weird poorly-documented helper scripts which have strange interactions

I've never found a packaging tool without an extensive and clear manpage with examples.

> I think the biggest issue is the social problem of the long and arduous process to become a trusted Debian Developer. Although there's now an easier Debian Maintainer option for restricted access, it's still not easy to become one. Other people have to go through a developer to update or add packages.

There is an arduous process to become a senior engineer in a FAANG, or a tenured professor, or an airline pilot.

That's why a lot of people trust Debian.
Thats not what they said. If it was the average, the sum of all plans (42 @ 0.81) would be 34.02 which is less than the most expensive plan at 108.
>I think claudiawerner is making an extremely uncharitable assumption in the first place that the primary complaint is about ego rather than loneliness.

That wasn't my assumption at all. Ego is irrelevant to feelings of self-worth, which is a basic psychological need, as is togetherness. It's not self-serving the ego to want to feel like one has some worth. My point was only that the idea of a man's worth being in the number of sexual partners he has had is harmful to men overall, and places undue pressure and causes doubts about self-worth.
Incentivizing people not to work leads to people not working.
Agreed, Australia and NZ are doing aggressive manual contact tracing (in addition to the app that was released in Australia in April).

Last I checked NZ had managed to link all but two of the cases back to the one source.

Victoria (AU) likewise has managed to trace the majority of cases to a breach in the quarantine hotel, because security guards weren't wearing PPE and were sharing a cigarette lighter (if I am correct).

It's part of a tool chest, as is the lockdown, the masks. As much as I am glad not to be locked in Australia/NZ right now, I am proud of how they've been handling it in general.
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Hmm, didn't think it that way, you're right.
So Apple is allowed to trademark a common word and now they go after another fruit in a completely different domain and the logos don't even come close to being similar? How is this fair?
Not sure exactly what you're referring to, did the author explain in the past they rather want ad-hoc network setup or something?

Otherwise, ad-hoc is different from AP+Client, as ad-hoc is only between two devices (at least from what I gather) while AP+Client would allow a distributed network where clients are interconnected.
I come here for these kinds of posts. Informing, interesting, and quite sad in a way.
What is that? like we all agree to just start calling all computers "MacBooks"?
A bit off topic:

I'm looking for a project that starts with an AP. Once someone connected to it; it opens a web page to configure the client (choose which WIFI from a list, and type the password).

It connects to the chosen WIFI and shuts down the AP.

Anyone here did something similar to that?
This is fixing issues in the packaging, not the upstream part of the package. I have plans to also have it fix issues in upstreams, but as you say - those will go into the upstream repositories.

It processes the main Debian archive, not PPAs. The bot makes changes to the Git repository with the packaging - developers would get a pull request with the changes after doing verification, and they can just click "Merge" on the GitLab UI. That seems pretty similar to what you're saying would happen in arch.

For a broader description of the design, see https://jelmer.uk/debian-janitor.html
A very strange and especially grumpy take on it. Why is he so frustrated, why does he care that much?
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Most people I know just click "yes" on all popups until the website starts working. In between every other website asking for notification/location permissions and a huge pile of GDPR popups (which are actively hostile towards users that attempt to opt-out), we've managed to condition web users into routinely agreeing to give up their privacy and security. Hooray.
My personal reasons: been using Mullvad for a couple of years. Team and company based in Sweden, country known for it's strong privacy laws (FRA non-with-standing). One of the first VPN companies to launch Wireguard support with tons of their edge servers supporting it. Anonymous payments and finally super easy to use, even for non technical users.
I don't think Microsoft left any Google tracking, and Chromium is an open source project
It is true that what Google judges to be best search quality is not the best for the world.
Google is google unfortunately
It's possible but it means moving the cable modem & AP there, then adding cabling back to the study (or buying a CPL kit and hoping it works well enough). So far it's really not been worth even considering, the small branch is just the kitchen and I'm not much of a cook so my internets requirements over there are limited.

I could also put some sort of wifi repeater there, seems simpler than moving the AP, but even that's not been much worth investigating for now.
My kid would just turn off the extension and keep his business going... :'(
You’re throttled to 3Mb/s, right? I’m already using PM. 1GB @ 3Mb/s is good enough for about 10 hours of RDP, so I’m satisfied with it. I was mainly pointing out that to get to $12 / GB you have to be jumping through some serious hoops or adding it to a high tier plan, so the number in the OP is almost fictitious IMO.

The real metric to be concerned with should be the cost of the first GB.
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What a lot of people replying to this are missing is that nobody wants visual drag & drop systems. Not coders, not "no-coders". Not anybody.

This is the root cause of an endless series of failed ventures and products.

The successful no-code products are something else entirely, merely masquerading as no-code. Excel is probably the prototypical example of this: it is a reactive dataflow system, but you'll never find any dragable widgets with little input ports and output ports you can connect.

It's trivial to get started with Excel. It's trivial to connect cells and get some computations going. It's then a nice smooth transition all the way up to multidimensional analysis, and not once do you have to break out into a full programming language.

That's what people want.

What you imagine they want is something childish and useless. To be honest, it's simply arrogance. By assuming the user can't code, it's natural to assume that they think at a level of a young child and need only toys.

For fuck's sake, Excel is 64-bit and fully parallel! Did you know that? I've seen 60 year old ladies from accounting produce spreadsheets that can bring a 16-core terminal server to its knees, and that spreadsheet was doing entirely legitimate, useful, productive computation. Show me the last system you built that can efficiently utilise a modern high-core CPU for a single user!

Your market is adults. They need power tools, not toys.

Start thinking like that, and you'll have a successful product.
Not sure I've seen a HN post before where so many people in the comments have clearly not read the article. Not even the summary of key points right at the top.

The piece is not anti-nuclear.

Also, risk is not binary. Finding out the true risk of something does not mean it's high risk and therefore negative. You can assess the risk of something and conclude that the risk is low and generally overblown, which is the point of the article.
Similar in Switzerland. There are multiple providers building FTTH infrastructure and wiring houses. But each house is only wired once and the government mandates that if you build FTTH infrastructure, you have to rent out the (dark) fiber to anyone else under fair conditions (not quite sure if the gov sets the exact price or not).

This did quite a lot for competition here. Speeds went up and prices went down significantly. Small independent ISPs started renting the last mile and offering symmetric gbit at affordable prices which forced the old established ISPs to also drop prices and offer symmetric instead of artificially restricting upload speeds on fiber.
I can't speak for this specific model/extension, but "most" neural networks aren't that big at the end of the day, and you are just a few matrix dot products away from getting your classification (of course, I'm drastically simplifying).

Its the training that takes forever, due to the fact all those numbers need tweaking. However one you have the model, classifying is pretty fast.
A lot of small businesses in Europe and the Middle East don’t accept Amex, due to the transaction fees. I understand that they’re interested in maintaining a luxurious image, but it just means I drive my finances elsewhere with these businesses by using MasterCard. I hope they will increase the card’s outreach
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> And those "most at risk students" who would be least likely to actively use a privacy-encroaching location tracker? They'll be invisible to manual contact tracing for exactly the same reasons.

Yeah he did a real poor job on that point.
Partially because of chip capabilities, and partially because understanding networking is hard.

I don't think most chips can do this fwiw, but it's definitely cheap enough now that cameras and IoT devices will probably start doing it everywhere.
It's not similar looking. And it's not in the same trading space, which is one of the qualifications for a valid trademark challenge.