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The telemetry is shady but the automatic updates are a... necessary evil. People would delay updates for MONTHS by clicking that postpone button.

Windows is by design meant to be used by not very computer literate people and unfortunately these kinds of users need to be forced to do the right thing sometimes. As they said back in the day: "the user will do everything possible to see the dancing bears, including downloading that toolbar, installing that gizmo, disabling security settings".

People smugly complain about this, in many cases from their Linux box (= technical users on a system with a 1% desktop market share => smaller target and better human protection) or MacOS box (= slightly more technical users than the average Windows user, on a system with a 5%-10% desktop market share).
Both of those pollute your history, which sucks, majorly.

We really need a "update uri without side-effects, at least in #scope.
> once they could crack Assange’s sophisticated formula for devising passwords.

How could Assange use such terrible opsec as to use only obscurity and no random key in a own-rolled password generator?
You don't think of Assange as a journalist? Could you explain why?
There are a lot of people on HN that would take serious issue with any implication that any given tax dollar has anything less than a net-neutral effect for the taxpayers as a whole.

Oddly they seem to keep really quite when the topic of the war on drugs comes up.
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When my GPU died I still could play most 3d games at 720p on my iGPU. I'm sure you could play 70% of all games ever made directly on a cheap AMD APU system that would cost $300 at most.
Why did Assange given them a password to any documents he didn't share with them?
> Why do people still think Amazon and Google can compete with this?

Maybe their target demographics are different, they want attract a new set of gamers who were not serious about gaming earlier.
Even if we say that people “need” a smart phone.

A) do they need an iphone?

B) do they need any of the apps that Apple doesn’t allow?

C) in the case of Epic, why should Epic be treated differently by Apple than it is by consoles?
It's really sort of weird that a mammal ended up becoming Earth's first technological species. Birds all have the good neuron scaling that in mammals mostly only primates have. They have high energy intensity lifestyles where the extra energy cost of a big brain isn't a insuperable obstacle as with our pursuit hunter ancestors but not most other mammal lifestyles. Also they've got unidirectional rather than tidal lungs which might not be important for intelligence but is really cool. Without the end-Cretaceous meteor we'd probably have had intelligent dinosaurs a long time ago.
My migration from 2000 to XP meant blue screens. Most likely caused by drivers. But that left me with a lasting impression that 2000 was way more stable than XP.
The kind of "journalist" Luke Harding is was brutally exposed by Aaron Mate by simply repeatedly asking him for evidence for his claims when Harding was flogging a conspiracy theory book. Nothing more than that reduced him to powder.

It's an amazing thing to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ikf1uZli4g

I have no idea how this guy Harding is employed by the guardian, or indeed anyone or ever was. Obviously not a competent journalist, what he is... I'd never heard of Mate before seeing this, Mate just gives him rope and let's him do it to himself. That's the guy the Guardian had doing hatchet jobs on Assange when he was getting more death threats every day than every guardian journalist ever put together has received. [1]

[1] I have no evidence of this. But it seems a lot more plausible than the Guardian's hatchet jobs. Where is Alan Rusbridger nowadays? He was editor back then. Ah, wikipedia says principal of an Oxford college. When not appearing in cameo perfomances of movie versions of Luke Harding's hatchet jobs on Snowden. Must be where he thinks he's best speaking truth to power nowadays. He may be right.
You could honor the TTL, that's why it exists. Just one DNS query every 1min, 5min, 1hour... whatever TTL you have.
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Unity is still an apt-get install away. I’m using it with 20.04 and haven’t missed a thing, even though it’s not getting any new features.
"You want to update XP so it can run with new hardware? Go for it." - I would really like to see a version I could use with 2013-14 MacBook Pro/Air.

I have a MacBook Pro 2007 multi-booting XP, 7, Ubuntu, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11. Surprisingly, XP is the OS I use most frequently on that laptop, by choice.

I got some old HP laptops running XP for the homestay family kids, and have been playing network games and chatting with Escargot MSN.

Windows XP still supports 16 bit DOS games. If the Luna theme seems childish, it's even more appropriate for young people using computers for the first time. Buttons have icons, which is easier when you're 6 and can't read quickly.

I hope this source code can allow me to boot XP natively on my main laptop, so I don't have to carry around another computer just for compatibility.
I've tried several epub readers after Edge dropped the support. It's probably not a popular choice, but I now use the CLI tools from Calibre to convert epub books to azw3 and then use the Windows Kindle app to open/read them.
I tried to see if it's available for Windows but now luck or did I miss something?
If you'd like to go a bit deeper, there is also this nice tutorial which walks you through building a small DYI Git implementation in Python:

https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/
I haven't; there are definitely some protocol scanning differences. But off the top of my head, you could try 1) do a reverse lookup on a v4 address and then query the name for a v6 address, 2) do DNS probing for a domain you're interested in, 3) try the v6-in-v4 mapping to find v6 addresses mapped to v4 addresses. If you could sit on a backbone and sniff DNS traffic or something, that'd be a nice sized cache of addresses.
I think part of the issue is that there are fewer and fewer people who are both apple enthusiasts and have been apple developers for a long time.

Up until snow leopard lots of very old APIs had been kept around so actually pulling things apart was not only an interesting thing to do but even profitable (because the knowledge gained would be useful for years.) Contrast Apple's current generation of operating systems where the API churn is comparable to lots of JS frameworks. Not to mention how unfriendly the company has been to smaller developers
Apparently there’s ‘some’ recent drama going on at massimmersionapproach.
>>> The other day we ended up discussing why Wikipedia isn't allowed as source at school.

Because Wikipedia has made obsolete all research tasks given by schools? One search and the wikipedia article will tell you everything there is to know about a subject.
I'm not disagreeing with you but I want to come here in defence of John Sundell as an excellent Swift programmer that is releasing amazing open source code.

I don't consume his content (neither his website nor his podcast) but he sure knows his Swift. His recent code is probably some of the best Swift code I've seen and I have very high standards for that.

He creates amazing DSLs / abstractions / APIs by leveraging the type system which in my opinion is exactly what Swift should be about.
Modern PHP frameworks initialize "entire application" only once at startup and process each request really fast.

See the benchmarking charts there: https://github.com/gotzmann/comet
But that's the trade: you either pay with time+effort or with money.

What everyone seems to miss here is that the GNU Affero General Public License offers the ability for people to make that choice. Cloud providers would be forced into an ugly situation if almost every single XaaS codebase switched to AGPL. Their business model depends on being able to make minor investments to provide things people want as a service and not share it with the community.

However, if the AGPL was normalized and used more often, cloud providers would be in a situation where they'd either have to A) build everything of theirs on their own if they don't like the license or B) use the software people want, release their improvements back to the community, and everyone benefits.

It's amazing how everyone has forgotten why Linux won over all the other server, mobile, and edge platforms, and is slowly inching to dominate everything else. The terms underlying most of the core Linux system software, including the kernel obviously, require things incorporating it to be released with usable sources to the public. That is what enabled individuals to sustain a project and make it into the successful juggernaut it is today.

But because Google has managed to poison the well with AGPL, we're in a situation today where "business-friendly" permissive licenses like the Apache Software License are used and companies are surprised when they get sucked dry by cloud providers abusing the properties of that license.

Companies building open source software should expect one of two things: money or code. Both are intrinsically quite valuable to them, and they should take care to nurture that those are the two valid options.
I don't know where to start here. If you think those quotes reflect a hatred of men, you're without context to such a degree that I don't think we can even begin to have a conversation about it.

I'm a white man and I don't have a problem with any of that. I think it's essentially all true. Can you square that?
Having issues is not a disqualifier from HN. If there's a better source, mods would switch it. But no one else is reporting on this major event.
Other than [OWNRESEARCH], i.e. experienced that a few times? Not really, no.
Notepad is simple to build in Visual Basic, Delphi, heck even assembly because the controls are inherited from Windows[1].

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/indi...
Completely agree with you. Let me add my voice too to say how glad and grateful I am for all the work done by the author. He's always helpful too on the forum and friendly.
> My vague understanding is that you are allowed to enter evidence to impeach someone (show that they are lying) at any time, most notably right after they lied.

In England and Wales, yeah, as long as the other rules are met (it's of value, relevant, not extremely prejudicial to the defendant, not hearsay, etc.)

You wouldn't impeach them though. It could be perjury if they lied under oath, but otherwise it would just be standard discrediting of a given person.
Can you find a victim without doing tons of mental gymnastics?

If not then it's not worth the tax dollars to send the cops after it.

And FWIW anarchy is a lot like children and terrorists. It makes a good heuristic for detecting unsound arguments.
Unity happened mostly because Canonical was betting on convergence - which neither Gnome2 nor Gnome3 were practical for.

Supposedly, it’s also super nice on mobile and tablet, I didn’t get a chance to try.

If you want gnome 2, Mint is still maintaining it as MATE and it’s in the Ubuntu repositories.
You’re better off teaching people not to click any URL in an email at all, it’s almost impossible to list all the tricks that can be pulled.
Acknowledgement by Telegram: https://twitter.com/telegram/status/1309452845536681985

(only mentions Eastern Europe but users across Europe are reporting issues).
America is just a goldmine. 300 million people with GDP comparable to Norway and Switzerland, that all speak the same language, and are covered by a single set of federal regulations. Plus taxes are much lower and there are fewer consumer protection laws in general. It's a businessman's dream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...
Well there is more in the BBC library that are commercially available, something like 30,000. A lot of which are not just short samples.
The regulations on anything that’s so addictive it’s debilitating would probably be to make it illegal. I realize it’s not the case for all drugs, but a lot of them fall under that umbrella.
In the US, that is how hard it is to get a government benefit like unemployment or food stamps, but public schools are one exception. There have been several states that have passed laws banning undocumented immigrant, but those laws were ruled to be unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court in 1981 because to deny education to these children would ”deny them the ability to live within the structure of our civic institutions, and foreclose any realistic possibility that they will contribute in even the smallest way to the progress of our Nation." More info here: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/plyler-v.... As you can imagine, people who hate immigrants also hate that court decision, but it's the law of the land and I think it is fair.

The case with employment is pretty different, I don't know much about it other than that the employers figure out how to pay people with cash in a way that they're able to not get caught very often.

But really my point is just that undocumented immigrants work incredibly hard at essential jobs and have very difficult lives, and hating them for not going through a long legal process that's usually not even open to them is unfair.
Are exotic skins out of fashion?
Caa you steal a secret if that secret is illegal?
I disagree.

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2020-09-22/guardian-silen...
Assange built an organization dedicated to uncovering wrong things.
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nope, i dont believe that is the case at all. The issue I have is that those descendants now seek to prevent others from enjoying opportunities that they themselves have enjoyed.
yea I know thats the case in the USA. I was without health insurance for a bit while fun-employeed and didn't want to pay for the $500/month plan.

After an unfortunate running with a friend's pet rabbit, I was left unable to do anything strenuous due to acute bronchial inflammation. After suffering for a few days, I was willing to pay anything to be able to breathe properly again

I ended up paying a doctor out of pocket $200 for a consultation. I literally told her what I had and that I needed albuterol. she agreed and wrote me the damn prescription so I could pay $75 for the inhaler.

All in all, 4 days of sufferring + $270 in expenses

LONG STORY SHORT,

I ran into a similar situation in Thailand. I walked the pharmacy within an hour of having the reaction, bought the inhaler for $3 and was fine within minutes.

again: $3 vs $270

The whole system is a racket and a big part of why I prefer to not live in the united states anymore.
Are people too young to know who Assange is or something? Did you considered this article journalism?? It was a hit piece.
FYI: This is how TV works in Europe. Ads are banned during children programs, early morning before school and evening after school.

Sometimes a blanket ban is a good thing.
I remember I had to reinstall it at least once per year to keep it fast. Except that it was OK. And yet my last XP laptop performed much better when I eventually ugraded to Ubuntu 8.04. Fast, no need to reinstall, pen drives immediately mounted and ejected, no drivers to install for printer and scanner, etc.
Pre Crime.

And we are shocked at the abuse of AI and ML by the Chinese govt and citizen scores while in our own backyard the same thing is happening.
Git is pretty great. I have used it daily for well over a decade now, and have been "the git guy" on four out of the last five dev teams I've been on.

The UI is atrocious, though.

I have been keeping tabs on all the things I'd like to see changed about Git in a pile of scribbled notes on VCS design here:

https://github.com/nateeag/next-vcs#things-git-does-poorly
Yup. When saying "XP was great", people mean "XP SP2 and on" - for me, the move from W2k to WXP was "the same thing, now with Fischer-Price aesthetic!"
Reading [0], then [1] directly after is very pleasing.

Thank you for putting them in that order!
Visual c++ 6 circa 1998 was the pinnacle of responsive IDEs, and was more responsive in 2000 on 2000 hardware than the the visual studio 2013 o last used in 2015 - are new versions any better, or so you still wait a couple of seconds when pressing “run” just for the IDE to figure out that no compiling needs to be done?
> Boulder is a very left leaning city

> So the question becomes is this a violation of the bill of rights?

Seems less like an issue of being "left" and more "authoritarian". I wish there was a pithier word than "Auth" available for this. Some left-wingers still defend the 1st Amendment.

I hope the parties this decree impacts sue and bring this to the Supreme Court. The biggest issue with lockdowns now seems to be lawmakers' fear of making a deadly choice. We need a high court opinion to be clear on what government can and cannot do. IANAL but the language seems clear in 1A that there shall be no law restricting peaceable assembly.
Well then, let me introduce you to the regularly occurring 23:59:60: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
So liquor and oxycontin?
It's a 58-character password. Every password strength checker I try certifies it as extremely strong. Remember, it wasn't cracked, it was published in a book by a Guardian journalist.
Yes please, that buggy piece of...
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I know of several programmers still running Visual Studio 6 because of how much more pleasant it is to work with than any modern VS version due to its responsiveness. That's without it even being bug free.
You were lucky that you parents were well off. There are many families what live paycheck to paycheck and wouldn't be able to feed the children after they lost 600 bucks in a phone scam.
It specifies that it will accept L1 connections from: LoRa, FSK, or BLE. So this is basically L2/3. Great, but is it an open-source license-free standard that anybody can put on a (e.g.) RPi, or is it just their way of dominating the IoT? Is there an IEEE for secure stateless mesh routing? I would be shocked to hear that AMZN is the first to figure this out.
Many games did not work so well on 2K, and XP brought some substantial improvements specifically in that department.
Many compress quite a lot before uploading. For gaming for example, I noticed significant improvement if I uploaded the 100Mbps raw data from Shadowplay compared to say a 25Mbps intermediate version.

I also think the depth of field is helping a lot. By blurring out the background the bits can be spent encoding the details of the plumage.
The conflation of administration and leadership is a really good way to put it. I’m frequently amazed that people who seem to be doing the work of a secretary are actually highly-paid “managers”.
This thing is giving me huge cyber punk vibes!
Nicely executed (the sound itself is pleasant to hear) and fine balance (the sound is used only to avoid a STUN server, the transmission is happening through a standard WebRTC data channel).
I mean, any VPN, despite marketing guarantee can never ensure "privacy". If you don't control the server then you can't expect much. I suspect their contract says just that. Not entirely sure of the point to the article.

I use 3 VPS in different Geo's as VPN servers and a 4/5th to my properties. Not practical for most people really. So one would assume the level of privacy needed is proportional to the risk of exposure of information and services administered appropriately
Looks like handcuffs. Maybe they should have used it as the marriage symbol instead? :)
If Assange isn’t a journalist, then there are certainly no journalists left in MSM.
I run a calibre-web docker instance on aws.

I can just upload any ebook file and in a second it's available for my family and friends. One click and it imports the necessary metadata from amazon books.

Custom shelves allows for collaboration or sharing of collections of books.

It's a great web adoption of calibre.

I hope Calibre 5.0 gets merged into it soon.

https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
Have you seen https://www.listenlively.com/ They're a fair bit below what you've quoted above.
If you take a snapshot of the state of things at the height of opioid prescriptions and a snapshot now it's hard to say that it wasn't a hell of a lot better.

People weren't ODing or engaging in petty crime with anywhere near the same frequency when they could get their fix from their doctor. The feds cracked down and people turned to the black market and that gets us to where we are today.

Obviously manufacturers giving doctors kickbacks for getting people onto addictive substances is far from ideal but the enemy of my enemy is my ally and all that.
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The government today is ideologically and politically opposed to the existence of the BBC, go figure. I don't think Thatcher was exactly a fan back in the 80s but equally they had more pressing matters to attend to
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Honestly, it's simpler than that. Instead of doing <= for your end time, simply say <.

That is, give me events where time >=30/1/2020 00:00:00 and time < 31/1/2020 00:00:00.
It's extremely unsettling that my tax dollars go to waste like this to essentially ruin someone's life. The people now have records and all the unnecessary paperwork to go along with it.

The furthest I would be willing to compromise with this regime (won't call them a proper government) is to allow them to tax our substances. It's better than what they are getting as it is, because all they are doing right now is locking poor, innocent people up.

Prohibition and criminalization of mere substances never has, and will never work for us. Everyone I know who wishes to take drugs does so without as much as a single thought to the law.
My item was a direct quote from the BBC trust's description of the channel remit. Indeed it was the remit in full
I do not understand why this is about consciousness. My take of this study is that they establish that there are two type of neurons: (i) those recording whether there is a signal ("neurons signalling stimulus intensity" (ii) those recording how to react on the signal based on a rule ("representing the crows' percept").

This is cool, but what does this to have to do with consciousness?
They mention that they're not sure either about "phenomenal consciousness" and "access consciousness", but I wish they elaborated further on this.
Well Unity sucked and Gnome 3 also kinda sucked. These are relative terms - I only compare them to what existed at the time.

Right now I'm using Ubuntu Mate 20.04 since Ubuntu 20.04 won't run on my machine. After a fresh install it just boots up into a black screen, and I can't ctrl-alt-f2 my way into a terminal, etc.

I've always found KDE pretty decent.
At a far far slower pace, maybe.
Grandma can lock the door. So can nursing homes. What grandchild wants to hurt their grandparent anyway?
Thats the one. Took it out no more blackouts.