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Skipping the semi-clickbait title. I like how the author goes into a deeper analysis of the concept, but I, too, don't agree with stressing the privacy-freedom of speech link. Privacy is about denying other people the information that they may use to obtain power over you in some way. This may include politics, but mainly the personal things that shouldn't concern other people at all.

Being able to say anything controversial in private is a somewhat worthless freedom in the context of politics. You might get that, in practice (in the past?), in some dictatorships, and still be subject to their arbitrary power. The important thing is the freedom of speech in public. People may not like you and dissociate from you, but your livelihood should not be in danger. No one, such as like your employer, should be able to force you into anything.

The thing missed in many idealistic analyses like that is that the society has to grant you some standard of living and social environment in order for this to work. You have to be economically safe enough to speak relatively freely. People have to look at you and assume good intentions and stress the value of your liberty, even if they don't like what you're saying or doing. It's easy to see that even in the West you can still be deprived of this because of ethnicity or economic situation. This doesn't justify taking away the freedoms that people have, but shows that this isn't and never was a fully solved problem.

I would agree with the author that laser-focusing on government power is deeply mistaken: everyone in society has some degree of power over all the people that they interact with. We have to confront this fact consciously.

Observing Eastern Europe, I've become especially wary of using the concept of freedom of speech for demagoguery (which this piece, to be clear, doesn't do). In countries like Russia and increasingly Poland you can practice various kinds of Western-"problematic" speech with loud applause from the government and its constituency. This is eagerly sold by the ruling group as "freedom", even though offending the ruling religion can land you in arrest. Yeah, I'm now doubly careful if people really mean full freedom for everyone, or just take only the empty word for the purposes of their favorite unfreedom.
I believe Bradley Kuhn does subscribe to this interpretation of GPLv2, based on watching this talk he gave at LibrePlanet 2020 https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/preventing-the...

First slide on the topic at 13:55

Returns to the slide at 17:20

If I remember correctly, somewhere else in the talk he says something like, "I don't think we need GPLv3 for this", but I don't remember where (earlier or later) and don't have time to re-watch the whole talk to hunt for it right now.

(edit: although I think he still prefers v3 / thinks it is stronger. Really you should just watch the talk instead of taking my memory of what he said for granted)
> but you ignored my point that the burn-chunks-of-random-stuff-for-heat setup is exactly what industry does

I guess I don't see the relevance of that point to the article's point. They are just completely different topics.

> You are trying to compare the toxic smoke produced from individuals to the toxic smoke produced from industry

No, I am not. I am not talking about industry at _all_ here, nor is the article. The article is making a narrow point: technological progress allowed us to make substantial improvements to indoor air quality for the vast majority of people.

I _think_ you're arguing that at the same time we reduced outdoor air quality by building industry and that we shouldn't have done that. Is that a correct characterization of your position and what you are trying to argue here? If not, what _is_ your point, exactly? And is the "that" that we should not have done "building industry" or "building industry that burns things" or something else?

> the toxic smoke produced by industry contains all the same toxins

It actually doesn't quite: industrial combustion is generally more efficient (read: more complete combustion, hence less particulates per unit of heat), and nowadays tends to have post-processing of the combustion products to remove even more of the bad things before venting to the general atmosphere. This latter part wasn't always this way, of course.

> the link I posted demonstrates that industry produces 6 times the amount of toxic smoke

I'm sorry, but I don't know what link you mean. The only link I see in your posts is to https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/CO2_emissions_vs... which is not about particulates at all. Is that the one you meant?

> I just gave you references, "Soil Biology" its a discipline of agricultural science with lots of literature and knowledge.

Yes, but I do not have the time to read up on an entire discipline, unfortunately, which is where asking for a specific reference for a specific claim comes from. I will take a look at Fukuoka's work.

> with the end goal being "Don't worry its fine".

I know for a fact this is NOT the author's end goal, so I am 100% certain that is you reading things into what they wrote that are just not there. The author, if you read the rest of their work, which I encourage you to do, does not think things are "fine" and is looking for how we as a species can most rapidly improve things so they will be closer to "fine".

> as climate change denial propaganda

See, this is where the reading into things comes in. Climate change is on your mind, and you are projecting it onto things that are not really about climate change at all, as far as I can tell.

> it starts advocating "Industrial Literacy" as a responsibility of every citizen, and it ends that way too.

Sure. It's not the only responsibility of every citizen, of course, nor does this article claim it is.
BTW, the main reason why this is getting downvoted is because the wealthiest investors already know all this and many of them read HN... They think they can keep manipulating the economy forever to keep their stock prices up through money printing and they want to suppress this information because they don't want shareholders to realize it and dump the stock before they do.

There is tremendous peer pressure right now to suppress this kind of content for insiders and employees to not sell their shares... But the bad news for these people is that the last people to sell their stocks are going to lose and it's a very fragile situation. It wouldn't take many employees to dump to cause a stock market crash now.

Usually employees and small shareholders are the losers. If you look at who is buying Bitcoin now, it's MicroStrategy, Greylock partners and A16z (smart money)... Many are also moving into gold and silver. Do you seriously think that the rank and file corporate bureaucrat/employee who's been sitting through useless meetings every day for 10 years is worth the $2 to $10 million in corporate stocks that they own? Did they deliver that kind of value to society? No.

If I owned corporate stocks worth even $100K and the bosses kept discouraging selling of stocks by employees, I would sell everything right now and change companies. You will never see such good valuation again.

As always, the first to jump on the new trend always win and it's always going to be the smallest group possible. The majority always loses.
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Static linking is dead. Most applications cannot be built statically, at all.

Solaris-style RPath is still an option on Linux, but it is rarely used.

As far as “security,” dynamic linking is not an attempt to contain applications, but rather to fix as many things as possible with as few updates as possible.

Flatpak actively encourages upstream developers not to participate in the wider picture, and as it turns out, upstream developers can’t be trusted to fix security holes in a timely manner.

This was a widely foreseen issue that was pooh-poohed in the early days of flatpak, but, well, look how it turned out.
We have almost exactly opposite opinions. I would have recommended Heroku back in 2012 without question. I would not now.

If Render is good enough for Stripe's production workloads, then it's good enough for mine.
Excel remains one of my most used pieces of software, and one where I feel like any education/training has re-paid for itself multiple times over. The more you learn, the more productive you are (and sometimes more informed, thanks to data visualizations).

OneNote (desktop) and Excel are the only two pieces of Microsoft Office that I regularly continue to use. They're the only reason I license it.

Microsoft Word after I graduated rarely gets used (typesetting? I don't even print!), and while I understand the value of Microsoft Access, I feel like using it is investing effort into a dead-end (i.e. people want online/real-time reports, not locked into a desktop software). PowerPoint, at least where I work, is almost a meme (as in "Power Point meeting" is a pejorative implies waste of time meeting).

As to Excel: Hopefully it won't take another 35 years for them to fix CSV opening so it doesn't auto-format long numbers into scientific notion or dates, then cause unrecoverable data loss when you save. If you don't know what the data format is DON'T GUESS!
it seems relocating would help with money, which would relieve some stress. why is your wife not willing to relocate?
That's too bad.. Sorry to hear about your experience with university and debt. At least, now that it's paid off, you can start building up something, instead of working for nothing.

> to pay off that debt, it felt like literal slavery

This is what I feel is almost criminal about systematically committing university students to years-long debt. Education shouldn't have to be traded for years of someone's life - especially when most of the labor market expects them to have at least a degree.

I think the root of the problem is deeper than education (as a business) though - it's how society is organized. To have a minimum standard of living, one must eat every day and have a place to stay - which is already a kind of debt, a constant need for money. Poor people are essentially enslaved to dead-end jobs, just to be able to survive.

Hopefully, in a sensible/utopian future, we will look back on this social arrangement as barbaric, inhumane and uncivilized. Until then, best of luck navigating, adapting, flourishing despite the setbacks.
The license seems self-contradictory. On one hand it says "THIS SOFTWARE MAY BE USED, MODIFIED, REDISTRIBUTED, DECOMPILED, DISASSEMBLED, REVERSE-ENGINEERED AND INCORPORATED INTO OTHER WORKS FREELY"

So, it can be used and incorporated freely, but it also says "YOU ARE NOT GRANTED LEGAL AUTHORITY OVER THE USAGE, PROTECTION, AND DISTRIBUTION OF THIS SOFTWARE." so you don't have legal authority over its usage. IANAL, but that seems to limit one's own authority over one's own work based on this software. It's very confusing.
> getopt is discouraged

By who? Why?

This is the version that I’ve always used:

https://manpages.debian.org/buster/util-linux/getopt.1.en.ht...
This one might be interesting to you: https://youtu.be/l7rce6IQDWs “The world’s worst video card?” Ben builds a framebuffer display device on a bread board from scratch, you’ll understand what every transistor does at a high level in an hour (don’t miss part 2).

That is abstractly what first principles graphics looked like some time ago - pixels were represented by a block of main memory, and the video system simply scanned that memory at the same frequency as the CRT monitor’s beam.

I’d say it’s pretty important to remember that what counts as “first principles” graphics has changed over time, and there was a time before frame buffers (the first Pong game was displayed on an oscilloscope) and the way we use framebuffers today is completely different - there is no more direct access to pixels in the same way old terminals used to work. The article here is detailing how we use a higher level API to draw higher level primitives, and the hardware takes care of the pixels.

I’d love to hear a little more about your goal... what’s driving you to study the old terminals?
The urgent need for privacy fades as stigmas extinguish.
> Should there even be a contrived concept of property in the digital universe?

Absolutely. Property in law designates rights. Frequently multiple different types of rights are bundled and coexist. This enables the same physical property to be the subject of several and often competing interests e.g. ownership, possession, custody, freehold, leasehold, legal and equitable interests. Having a property right means being able to exclude others from that property to a greater or lesser extent. This may then be modified in different legal contexts but not radically. The statement holds true grosso modo. Online property rights are modelled on traditional property rights without need for more. The discussion of online property is normally about rights of transferring, managing etc. or rights in the manner of acquisition, dealing, disposal etc. Of course this refers to physical assets, but since property is rights and these are created and managed digitally it is online property ipso facto.
Is there any reason to not have or generate RSS/Atom feeds?
> Services relying on Pub/Sub should be idempotent anyway. If you need to work around that for some reason, you are better off dumping messages from your subscriber into RabbotMQ or Redis for processing and use a Subscriber/Scheduler/Worker pattern.

Exactly. Pub/Sub is made to send messages to any consumer. To bring in order you direct messages to a specific consumer. Alright well Pub/Sub wasn't the right tool then.
I run inkscape from flatpak in my makefiles so it is not that bad.
Thanks!
You know what, I think I wasn't accurate enough with what I'm asking. In our org when I decide on a feature I know to say that customers need and want that feature. What I don't know is how to /measure/ it even after it is generally available.
For example:
Lots of customers say "yes I need X, if you build this that'd be great". So we go and build X. Release it. Customers use it. Now the question is - how do I know it helped increase sales? If sales didn't grow more than it usually does (by inertia) does that mean feature X did not contribute at all?
Wonder if NTFS 'lets' you. I know the API does not let it. But I wonder if you could get it in a different way. I know you can sneak case sensitivity in here and there.

Think I shall go ruin a VM tonight... :)
ksh's %q prefers quotes; for your example it prints 'text with spaces', and for the article's example,

$'This string \'has single\' "and double" quotes and a $'

vs bash's %q,

This\ string\ \'has\ single\'\ \"and\ double\"\ quotes\ and\ a\ \$
What do you mean with "the install finishes"? If you mean a .pkg install, then previous macOS version's already prompt to unmount and trash the dmg file in that case.
Targeted disinformation from ads was much less effective than widespread disinformation from paid shills.
Maybe this will be interesting: https://youtu.be/8KQcm0Mi5To

I found it interesting at least :)
It seems to me that all kinds of existing certifications in software have introduced insanity. It will create another layer of bureaucrats who are after certifications but cannot program.

It will further kill "open" source software, which already is destroyed by corporations.

I think programming is too open ended for certifications.
This is the worst possible take.

The majority of ways people are giving up privacy right now are optional - it's a consequence of using certain devices and software products. By declaring privacy dead you're only opening the door for things to get worse and for privacy violations to become non-optional - constant tracking devices that you can't take off, your home being monitored by default instead of your having to bring in a device that listens to you, no option to use encryption and so on.
You seem to be conflating "secularism" with "religious diversity". They aren't the same. For example, France and a lot of north/west Europe is largely secular. USA has religious diversity but is not secular.
Well, you're wrong, 1 is more secure then 2. That's the whole point of the article. OS packages and precompiled binaries don't install their own version (often older and unpatched) of core binaries they are dependant on.

By all means, use flatpak, but be aware you are seriously degrading your environments security.
“Get out of bed!”
But the important precondition is that you're working so hard that saying "no" gives you more time to work on what matters.
Yes I know some person came up with fictional alien species based on stereotypes or caricatures. In no way does that make it more okay to use those fictional alien species when discussing real people than it would be to stereotype or caricature people yourself. And it's not insightful to say "Hey, that story about Polish people reminds me of those scurrilous Romulans!"
I think the parent's point was not that privacy is unimportant, but rather that, if we want to seriously discuss what is most important, there are a number of viable candidates in addition to privacy.

The whole most important is a straw man kinda argument anyway, because it's possibly to have more than one "very important thing", and for the difficult stuff in life you often can't optimize for just one thing.
Correct. Another vehicle to display your point may be to consider the serial startup executive, who leapfrogs from growth stage startup to startup every few years, collecting 0.5%-2% of each in the process. For people who want to make returns from their stakes in startups, that seems like a better idea than going the VC route because it's easier to get better information and better deals as an insider.

You can only make so much money from startups by gatekeeping how other people's money is invested. That skill does not an operator make. VCs with operating experience I think operate with a different toolset and underwriting criterion than lifers.
That assumes that the spammers know what they are doing. They are just following a video. Many of them probably are clueless about even what Github is for.
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Agreed. This money will only go to the publishers that Google features. Thereby further subsidizing establishment voices.

News.google.com has gone downhill over the past decade. I almost never visit this site anymore. All of the suggested articles are irrelevant to me. Especially the entertainment and 'technology' subheadings. The older site allowed for more personalization.
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Staff at Top Tech Companies Less Liberal Than Often Assumed, Biden survey
I wasn't aware of their prospectus focus on this. I cannot stop thinking that "capitalism" is optimizing on surveillance. I wonder where that will lead us...
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Sounds like a Ponzi scheme :D

But in all seriousness, we all know lots of companies would not exist without VC.
For those that don't know, there was a public case about the legality of scraping involving HiQ and LinkedIn (https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2019/09/10/linke...)

TL;DR; It was considered to be legal because HiQ were scraping public profiles.

This case may be a little bit different because these scrapers seem to target both public and private data.

Also see: https://medium.com/@tjwaterman99/web-scraping-is-now-legal-6... (which mentions a facebook example very similar to this)
Spot on. My news landscape today is far better than what existed 15 or 20yrs ago. There are new challenges, but also many new solutions. I particularly love things like Substack where journalists can be paid for good content w/o layers of middlemen.
We learn from fiction. Try it. And... It's fine if you find it offensive. We don't care.
Well, the sandbox is a lie. Did you RTFA?

Plus, you can have rpms that provide their own packages, but it's rare and will still be upgraded if it's in the repos.
Both are very privileged issues. Pretty sure neither is the big concern for the majority of people.
Regarding elections, that would be gaining, or staying in power.

In other ways it could be for insurance or other intangible services that scale well but need to be perceived as somewhat valuable.

Even in cases where you still use goods to capture money, you can price the goods higher through changing buyer’s perception of value. In a way ads can bring you money from thin air if they are effective enough.
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lol, are you african? Why are you getting offended on behalf of people? Laughable!

I'm Bolivian, when I see someone selling clothing with indigena designs I love it because it reminds me of home.
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Primary revenue source of journalism is exposure, which is easier to achieve by low quality, emotionally captivating, cookie-cutter garbage - so there's little incentive for changing the business model into one that would support "money buys quality". Related to that is that free-with-ads is essentially an alpha predator among business models; honest businesses can't compete with it - so it's doubly hard for a quality publisher to exit the equilibrium in which the whole industry sits.
There are a number of different indexes we use to adjust for inflation, and different people agree on which index is the best.

That being said, per the linked source, the inflation-adjusted income has increased no matter which index you use to calculate the inflation.
Do you get nervous when it's too many caucasians too?
> A good VC is a huge value-add to any startup

What does a good VC add that would be hard to get otherwise? The obvious counterpoint to your argument is that good VCs play primarily passive roles in comparison to the good operators they invest in, by a very wide order of magnitude.
Yes, I would say so. eg many companies have rules against internal dating, not because they are against dating, but the possibility of problem it could cause. You can ban discussion on climate change, just because of the bitterness it could cause, not because you are taking a stand in climate change.
These numbers account for those that are unemployed, but also these numbers are all pre-COVID.
> could be a requirement for a programmer equivalent of a Professional Engineer to sign off on any piece of software that becomes used in a product or service offered to people

To be honest, it's funny graduating from a 4-year college with an Engineering degree, being offered to be inducted to the order of the Engineer, getting the ring and being told not to sign off on designs that would harm people while being offered thousands of dollars to get people addicted to software.

I wonder if we should call it "programmer's guilt"?
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We didn't sell. The capital owners decided to send there to increase their profits.
I would say the fact that we are fucking up the environment and rendering it inhospitable for human and other forms of life is the most important concept of our time -- but yeah, privacy is up there.
Or, the most successful people are able to say no to almost everything.