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For DevOps, how important is it to have lots of experience with Azure? What if you mostly have been working with AWS?
Many people in my circle are slowly diversifying away from google utilities, and I think that the low-level anti-google sentiment is useful to spawn new services, especially those that can be deployed and shared from a VPS, or for a relatively small yearly fee (subscription email, sovereign ansible playbooks, mastodon, etc)
> A deeper example would be "culture jamming" and the maybe-ironic prankster/trickster political style.

[...]

> The right is now weaponizing this style and implementing it at scale with Qanon.

That's an interesting observation at the surface level, as there are small tactical and strategic elements of culture jamming involved in the production and dissemination of disinformation like the right is creating, but this style shares more in common with "ratfucking" (dirty tricks) than culture jamming.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ratfucking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Segretti#Overview_of_"d...
I've been generally OK with systemd, and think most of the complaints about it were over-dramatic, but this is exactly one of the things we were warned about, right?
The only thing online advertising does for me is deliver malware.

The sooner it reverts back to simply delivering GIF or JPEG banners with a URL (without a few thousand lines of JavaScript) the happier I will be.
My main concern is that people who have my email from years ago now try to contact me and they find I've changed my email address. Is there anything to do to avoid that?
I guess it's just the Reality Distortion Field at work.
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You can count me as 1. The only Google service I’m using is Calendar and only because my employer requests it, google search from time to time when I need ambiguous search result (“the movie with woman in red dress on poster”).

Not one post though as it was growing in me.
I think that you're going a bit too far with 'far' faster - there isn't any evidence that this is the case and a lot of engineering effort has gone into making Arm fast - not least from Apple.

Apple aren't moving to Arm for no reason though so I think it's worth considering the reasons why this might be the case: power efficiency (probably the most important), price, ability to incorporate custom silicon, a single ISA to support, full control over the stack, access to best manufacturing process.

On the last point, I think Apple (Tim Cook especially) has probably lost faith and patience with a company that has overpromised and underdelivered for a number of years.
This is a great compilation, but it sort of misses the point. The problem isn't that Google owns all of the services we use. It's that someone owns them and even if you switch to a handful of independent services (which is a worse UX), someone else is snooping on you. Google's value proposition is that if you're inside the Google family of services, each service is made better due to having a unified analytics and user profiling. This is a double-edged sword:

1. A single service has full visibility into your habits
2. The upper bound for the efficacy of each service is higher.

Is this worth it to you? That's the question you should be asking yourself.
Yeah, this one seems to be a lot of FUD. That's not unusual, sowing distrust seems to be a big component of VPN marketing.

One one hand, yeah, Google could suddenly decide to use your VPN traffic for tracking. On the other hand, couldn't any VPN provider?

The latter might also be why Google is rolling out their VPN: they don't necessarily want that data but they also don't want anyone else (competitors) to have a monopoly on it.
Google Play Music is shutting down. I haven't checked recently, but did they update Youtube Music to allow personal uploads?
The people making the wages in the article aren't engineers.
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True.

I'd ask: "If this data is truly useful in a financial market context, why are you selling it instead investing with it yourself? What data are you collecting that you're not* selling?"
I switched from Google to duck duck go. Switching other products is a little bit trickier.

Alternatives need differentiation to specifically pick them and being not Google isn't good enough.

Ddg has bangs which make it a universal search bar.
Replace 'you' with 'hook' in the url.
The JavaScript Self-Profiling API
not the op, but for me...

1. the big sur ui is not very attractive (i know it sounds arbitrary, but big sur just looks very non-desktop, very fischer price, and i have no alterantive since catalina wont be supported)

2. virtualization for x86_64 apps, that wont last forever, and at some point those x86 binaries wont work anymore (i already lost a ton of apps with catalina...)

3. for my work i already need vmware alot, and the idea of running even half-speed at best is a non-starter

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that being said, as a consummer oriented device, or an iphone/ipad app developer machine i think its defintely going to do well
This system might be able to determine causual relationships as well as expended energy vs delivered energy and what components are driving vs being driven.

>90% of all energy spent on compute will be on matrix multiplications.
But lots of people would want the second one (since lots of people have free Prezi accounts). And the second option effectively gives the user the choice between the first and second options; and even more than that, since the choice is per-presentation. So it's the user-friendlier thing to do.

I don't think Prezi are doing anything bad here at all, except possibly communicating their policy badly.
Every couple of years people express interest but no one has ever done the work. It is very much doable as the original port showed, and the zfs driver already exists for image layering as that works on Linux.
Any good alternative to Gboard for Android? Possibly an Open Source one?
The issue is that for all the customer-centric rhetoric today, actions like these speak far louder than words.
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Switching from gmail and forwarding to your new address sounds easy unless you insist on deleting it and changing every account referencing the old email.
Opera as a non-tracking alternative? It's almost entirely owned by Chinese interests. And Cloudflare as a non-tracking alternative?? This site needs to revisit some of its alternatives.
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In my past I've used Bonsai; all in one proposal, contract, invoicing and payments dashboard.
Seeing Notion ranked so highly makes me wonder what other people do that's so different from me. I try to like it (I was an early paid adopter, and now my company uses it so I must too), but there are so many points of friction that most of my effort is spent fighting it rather than using it.

Does the general typing latency not bother people? There's a noticeable delay between pressing a key and seeing a character appear. Other apps, Electron-based even, don't seem so slow. But then you type something like a/b and you realize why it's so slow. About half of the things a technical person might type while writing notes or documentation result in some "helpful" popup which must be canceled. I have a long laundry list of usability issues, but from all appearances their company has been growing and selling but not making good on the promises of addressing feedback.

My team and I use google docs to get the initial collaborative concepts down, and then one of us manually creates a Notion page with the more permanent result. I sincerely wish to find a collaborative writing/spreadsheet/drawing suite that was open source (paid service even) that could come close to the utility of gdocs.
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Actually there were differing qualities of these manufactured. I had one of the early ones and it was fantastic, I could run my fingers touching over the surface and lightly depress while dragging and the audible feedback had such low latency: joy. Sort-of regretted replacing it with mechanical keys. Later Atari 400s had barely registering keypresses that was a workout for your fingers.
Genuine question - what is lacking in Arm documentation that Intel provides?
> there's nothing 'official' about it. If someone goes faster but never tells anyone, they still went faster

The word "official" refers to authority, not to reality. I'm using the official definition.
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I rather have google track me than infest my machine with cryptominers.
I disagree. Sell-side research using so-called alternative data is a different skillset from trading and buy-side research. Some datasets comprise sufficient alpha in of themselves to trade on, some datasets have some edge (i.e. are not yet priced in) but require more sophisticated analysis. Good data is necessary but insufficient for developing viable trading strategies.

Source: Also used to work in this space. Still do, but not on the sell-side anymore. I wouldn't give trading capital to someone if their entire pitch was just possession of exclusive, useful data.
Because Brave is chromium-based I believe you can actually use that exact feature in Brave if you install the Google Translate extension.
Replacing ads on sites you visit with their ads, wrapped up in a cryptocurrency scheme, like you'd expect from a literal virus, brought to you by a guy too homophobic to be on Mozilla's board.

Plus, and I have no evidence of this apart the synchronized hype they do for the browser, but I'm pretty sure Brave is secretly bankrolling those very... political... Linux YouTubers.
The AI should be fixed or abandoned in the long term, but it seems a single hat could have made this game much more bearable to watch.

Immediate fix now, better long term solution later.
> I'm euro and I agree, it seems people who never set a foot here fetishize it.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

> Americans have insane amount of disposable dollars compared to Europeans and they also spend like crazy

That's the other side of the fence. Most Americans you noticed had insane amount of disposable income, the ones you don't register possibly don't.
In average the disposable income is higher in the US than in Europe, but so is the income inequality.

There are up-sides and down-sides to each systems.
Agreed fully, although in media usually mention planet in danger, planet is fine, few million years now and then and there will be life again flourishing on the planet, but we do not know what/how will that life look like. Issue is that our race and ecosystems as we know it - are in danger.
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I'll bite, how about all the dire predictions that Trump would start a war with North Korea? Or that he was going to crash the economy right away?

I am someone who does believe that we are having an impact on the global temp. and I do think we need to do something about it.

Screaming the sky is falling is not helping.
Stonewalling any other source of power except Solar and Wind is not helping.
Suggesting that we cut back farmland drastically, in a move that would kill a bunch of people is not helping.
Telling people to give up cars and planes is not helping.

We need to work to come up with solutions that will work for everyone, not just San Fransisco, New York, Amsterdam. We need solutions for Valdosta, GA, Snowshoe, WV, Salmon, ID. These solutions can not be "Just move out of dying places". That is just as bad as telling coal miners to learn to code.

That means that different regions will have to have different standards, something we have not seem to come to grip with here in the US.
Background watching has suddenly started working for me on Firefox on Android recently.
Maybe not docker, but there is pot: https://potluck.honeyguide.net

Which aims to provide something similar as Docker for FreeBSD.
Security is not absolute. There are many different types when we talk about email:

1. Encryption in transit - Yes, indeed unencrypted SMTP is common. SMIME and GPG are not as common as they should be

2. Encryption at rest, server side - 99% of providers don't do this

3. Account security - supporting MFA, u2F etc

4. Application security - If there is an official application, does it store saved mail property (ie, not in a big dumb PST file)

So yes, somebody could sniff some plaintext SMTP email regardless of your provider, but the other features are very valid and important.
I’m afraid these are depreciated
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There are lots of positive feedbacks, but they are very difficult to predict the timing and magnitude of with any degree of certainty.

Some examples include:

- increased fires increasing CO2

- melting permafrost releasing CO2 and methane

- less ice decreasing ocean and land albedo and absorbing more sunlight

- greater temperature and salinity gradient reducing the mixing of the ocean and reducing the amount of CO2 it can absorb

- warm water absorbs less CO2

- and lots more.
I thought this should be called the Raspi 400 as a nod to the Atari 400 computer, my first.
I've used it for over a year and yeah it's nothing more than a feeling -- experience has just been better than anything else in terms of the default ad blocking. "Disable your ad-blocker" things also leave you alone because they know if you are using Brave you aren't going to budge.
Another thing I'm curious about is what the distribution will be like. Smooth, across a wide range of places - anywhere with a decent internet connection - or will people follow previously trodden paths to places like Boulder or where I am in Bend, Oregon? There are plenty of towns with lots of outdoor access in Oregon that are cheap because the mill closed. But they are not 'hot' destinations.
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Taking the meta-view: the cynical take is that you only care because you and people you know are in the crosshairs. If you feel that there's a role for government here, perhaps you should be more considerate of a role for government in areas you'd previously thought it unwarranted; clearly, it's impossible for any one person to have personal experience for all the ways people can be screwed over, and for which the only real recourse is intervention by the public-at-large (i.e., the government, at least in a representative democracy).

There's always a bigger fish, you just met yours. I'm all for serious reform (and even dissolution) at Google et al., but I also don't think everything will be hunky-dory just because America's entrepreurial upper middle class gets their satisfaction. While we're swinging the antitrust hammer, might want to take a look at retail and gig "employers" too.
I imagine that google can do on-the-fly translation because they can eat the cost of the servers running the translation. Best I've seen for firefox uses deepl, which I've heard (on HN) is better than google translate.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/to-deepl/
Do you get disaster relief when this happens? Or do you have to just pay massive premiums?

Thinking about a cabin myself at some point and wondering what the economics look like.
You should see the plans for the BART station in San Jose. There will be pointless mezzanine, of course. The excavation will be the size of an airport. It's completely ridiculous.

There are S-Bahn stations in Switzerland with 10 times the daily riders of BART that are nothing more than a signpost and a place to stand. The American obsession with gargantuan stations serving a couple thousand daily riders costs a lot of money.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/29/barts-san-jose-extens...
Great - tell me how to make mouse gestures work on ALL pages - that include new tab page/speed dial and firefox internal and I am sold. Unfortunately I don't think that anything short of messing with the code and rebuilding makes it possible.
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It does look like there are many of cards that don't claim any sort of wear leveling (doesn't mean they don't do it at all but they don't call it out). This is surprising to me, but if you want to make sure you get a card with wear leveling, look for it in the specs. These SanDisk industrial cards[1] are ones I've used in the past that specifically claim they do wear leveling in the spec sheet:
Advanced memory management FW features power immunity, auto/manual read refresh, ECC, wear leveling.
They're also only a few bucks more than a "normal" microSD card.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Industrial-MicroSD-UHS-I-SDSD...
Sounds more like you've never written an app.

But put logic aside being able to use the same programing language across platform eliminate a lot of the context switching.
>push clients to accept monthly net 15 or net 30 invoices. Doing any more frequently is too much overhead and cashflow isn't a huge concern for me.

Just a thought... after I had a client try to not pay me / slow pay me, I moved future contracts to a more aggressive invoicing / payment schedule, plus I added a harsher late payment penalty. Especially if you have payroll to make, it becomes very important to never let a customer get too far into you.
I'm sorry to say that only using ddg would impact my work performance negatively.

I don't care if google know what I'm working on.
I could definitely believe that it's the corporate-ness that makes these groups so vapid.
Speaking from experience, just do not try any fringe distro. Pick one of the top 3 popular ones - they are much better in little things that you will appreciate.
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The opt-in ads are a bunch of shady crypto-currency things, but I love it. I've actually been making like ~$5/month from ads consistently for almost a year now.
Imagine your car only tops out at 250mph. Pffft how embarrassing.

Top speed is a pathetic and long-ago irrelevant metric as its immaterial to driving enjoyment (or anything really). While interesting and meaningful innovation will be done around weight, packaging, efficiency in the near future, none of this will derive from these circle-jerk Influencer “Hey guys” 330mph wankfests
Also, Apple services in Big Sur circumventing VPNs and Little Snitch is a complete nonstarter for me. I’m staying on Catalina with an Intel Mac for the foreseeable future.
If I have a "known" function, map() for instance, and I pass a function into it, that's fine, because I already know what map() does. But if I have a function foo() that takes another function bar(), and I don't know what either one does, then I have to look at both foo() and bar() to understand what is going on. I have to look at two places, not just one.

But this is not unique to FP. If I'm using OOP, I can do the same thing with virtual functions. In UI frameworks I can do the same thing with callbacks.

Frankly, I don't like it, whether it's FP or not.
You should live by your own principles. Get rid of all knives in your kitchen. Because one was just used in France to behead a person.

Does this ultimatum still make sense?