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Everything has positive and negative consequences. These are just tools, they provide choice.

There is a need to package closed source software, to provide dependencies. Some people use outdated distributions, that's root cause. If distribution is switching I'd better search like minded and help with maintaining (or it would be systemd scenario).

At least there is application. Everyone is free to make native. There is Void (Linux), runit [1], at least on Arch Linux there is big choice [2]. Fork Gnome, KDE 3 forked as Trinity Desktop Environment [3]. Boot to xmonad — 100MB RAM, Chromium — several GB RAM.

It is easy to imagine arguments against — Steam builds distribution platform on top of Linux, no packages there, Wayland vs X11, distributions spread resources, maintainers breaks software. I am not Steam user, I am not Ubuntu user, but I benefit from wider community.

[1] https://voidlinux.org/

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/init

[3] http://www.trinitydesktop.org/
Agreed!

One of the points of having a VPN is to be able to run software without every single middle man on the network knowing what you are running.

For example, say someone hypothetically wanted to post a comment on twitter that, again, hypothetically, was politically inconvenient for some authority figure.

The fact they launched twitter at about the time that comment was posted might be something they would prefer to not have reported on the internet at all, and certainly not without encryption.

Generally, this falls into the general category of "I may disagree with what you say, but I will fight for your right to say it".
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I know it can come off as harsh and off-topic, but I say this when I see the signs because I wish someone had done the same for me. I spent the first 35 years of my life bouncing around from topic to topic, taking on far too much, achieving far too little, and generally turning my life into a hot mess. No one ever told me I could have ADHD, nor would I have known the signs to recognize it (since the reality of executive disfunction disorder is not the popular image of ADHD).

OP is asking if he should try learning 3 new languages over the next year. If he has the problems with focus that his post and submission history indicates, then he has a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding without medication. But properly medicated he probably could.

So OP: if you want to learn 3 new languages in 2021, consider seeking psychiatric help. Not a dig, just advice from a fellow ADHDer.
I've been wondering about that me too

I wonder what could be good ways to "calibrate" one's words against each other

So thereafter two people who say "depression" mean the same thing and X strength
I wonder what enterprises with managed macbooks would think about this. Internet traffic has to be routed through the company firewall in some corporate networks and this restriction will likely cause the company to ditch Apple.
If you choose your relative objects that you compare carefully, even much simpler systems can be seen as expanding much quicker than the speed of light, relative to some specific theoretical observer.

But nothing can travel faster than the speed of light (no matter or energy or information), relative to the source point.
Here's a video of Magnus Carlsen being shown various board positions from another player, and then recalling which games they are from and the moves taken. [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acVvkz4MsKc
As someone who worked in bars, restaurants and nightclubs for much of my adult life, I can absolutely assure you that racism of various flavors exists in every restaurant scene on the planet. To believe otherwise is painfully naive. Perhaps willfully ignorant.
I've said this before, but I'll say it again - if you want to get ideas, try to get exposed to some (pretty much any) industry as either a consultant/freelancer, or even regular employee. Most industries and businesses are rife with smaller (and larger) inefficiencies, especially when we're still in the twilight of digitalization.

This is obviously going do the B2B domain, and a lot of the problems and products will be deemed "boring", but hey, there's good money to be made.
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You can't run the VPN on the router if you don't own the router, which means that you can't protect your device's traffic when you're on the go, using mobile hotspot, or connecting to an ISP-supplied gateway without additional hardware.
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So? You mean that it's exhausting to be reminded of the negatives of a choice you make?

The sentiment expressed is basically the same as in 'Your Computer Isn't Yours' mentioned in the article, which has already caused Apple to respond and enact change. That criticism directly caused real improvement.

>I think most Apple users behave this way

http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html ?
If that sounds like an "ether" to you, wait until you read about https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_field
Wouldn’t it be valid to consider Kafka/RedPanda a bottleneck and another point of failure that may delay data getting to a destination?

In some cases, the performance, efficiency, and reliability gains from caching and consolidation make sense.

But, I’ve seen enough poor architectural decisions and lack of architectural oversight result in use of various log streaming, cloud messenging, app monitoring, object DBs, etc., all discounting the request overhead in time and traffic, points of failure, and overall complexity for some false sense of scalability enough to where things that seemed cool ten years ago make me physically sick now.

What are some questions to use to help determine whether Kafka/RedPanda actually make sense to use, without having to first baseline, then implement, then compare request time, reliability, and data freshness to gauge whether it was worth it?

BTW- I think there are valid cases for using it and appreciate all of the work!
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Epic! This thing also opens songs from modarchive, so there are thousands of tracks to listen too...
Conversations (Android XMPP client) added encrypted audio/video calls in April
Well, if a social anxiety about asking a second time for someone's name is the only use case for a device, it's bound to fail.

I actually just say: Sorry, I forgot your name, what was it again? In most cases they forgot my name as well and are happy that I asked. Problem solved. Can I have my 500€s now?
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Basque are the orcs of Europe?
It only works at home. Or you need to always have and take your "router-in-the-middle" wherever you go, this is a way more complicated solution
Audio boards based on ESP32 boards are quite under the radar and have lovely features for just a few bucks. Running LibreASR on a RPi should also be feasible soon.

Thank you for your kind words! :)
You're not kidding.

From https://www.apple.com/privacy/ :

Privacy is a fundamental human right. At Apple, it’s also one of our core values. Your devices are important to so many parts of your life. What you share from those experiences, and who you share it with, should be up to you. We design Apple products to protect your privacy and give you control over your information. It’s not always easy. But that’s the kind of innovation we believe in.
There won't be 100% security or certainty, at some point you'll have to trust someone. Do you have the schematics or your network controller, your CPU? What about your ISP's router?
My suspicion is because they decided there was a possibility of a malicious app trying to intercept / block the connections.
Farewell, macOS
One of the best things of Linux support is that the more mundane the laptop is, the better supported it tends to be. And also cheaper.

All I'm doing to have perfect Linux support in all my laptops is to go for the boring models. No RGB keyboard, no bleeding-edge dGPU's, and no dual, or foldable screens.
The first thing that came into my mind too. Great importance to international cultural heritage, but hey, they are auctioned off to a private person instead of ending in a museum/whatever is best qualified to take care of it.
Linux isn't just an OS you use because you want to use free software.

For a good number of people it's just better than Windows and macOS.
Allopurinol is as old as the hills.

However it cannot be taken during an acute episode of gout or it will worsen it. Ie it is a preventative not a treatment.

I’m presuming you went to your family doctor rather than the emergency room so your gout flare (relatively speaking, not necessarily from your perspective) probably wasn’t so bad which is why they gave an NSAID and sent you on your way. Ideally they should have told you that if you get more flares and dietary/lifestyle modification don’t help then you should take a long term preventative
That's one creepy looking bunny. Not the best choice either.
> Yes, using HTTP in 2020 is worthy of scrutiny [...]

This is the understatement of the year.

It's one thing for Apple to "curate" their offerings and not allow you to do everything with their devices. It's quite another thing for them to pretend they're about "privacy" and then sending confidential information over the wire unencrypted.

When businesses use macOS, they might be fine with the "curation" and "you're not allowed to do everything" aspects (that everybody was aware of), but certainly not with something like this.
What purpose does it serve? Is it to make people transporting harvested organs use Lambos?
Another complication is that some romanisation schemes are ambiguous with regard to long vowels. 「とお」 and 「とう」 might both be represented as "tō", "too", "toh", or (god help us all) "to". It's also somewhat common for signs to be written in kanji and ambiguous romaji, which changes a quick Google Maps lookup into a dictionary adventure.

A direct mapping from kana to romaji produces "tou", which is not how it's pronounced[0], but does make it much easier to type in.

The classic example is 「東京」/「とうきょう」, pronounced "Toukyou", romanized as "Tokyo".

[0] I am currently studying Japanese for "it would be nice to be able to read my bank statements" purposes, and the teacher has spent a great deal of time emphasizing that pairs like 「とう」 and 「とお」 have the same pronunciation. But try to convince someone that the name John ought to be written 「ジャン」 and you'll get the blankest stares.
It matters a huge amount which languages you're looking at, and which languages you already know. Learning Spanish is a heck of a lot easier than learning Chinese for an English speaker, for example.

What languages are you looking at, and which do you speak already?

You might find this forum helpful:

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/default.asp
Your premise is based on the assumption of something approaching power equity. The Roma have zero clout in this situation— they can only, primarily, affect their own circumstances, and considering that people are intentionally blocking their access to the economy, they can't even do that very effectively. This isn't two equal weights pushing against each other, it's one sitting on top of the other and blaming them for the fact that they're being sat on.
With root access you can bypass a VPN and firewall on Linux and Windows.
Hey, That's my project (caissabase).

Small world, thanks for mentioning it :).
You are using the word "organism" in a very poetic metaphorical way. (And even then not a widely accepted one, but it being poetic, no one can really dispute it.) But the article talks about a very specific question in established physics which has already established terms and theories. It explains a valid question within that specific framework. In that framework talking about space as organism does not make a lot of sense, it doesn't add any new useful information.
>If Intel moved away from x86, a lot of their strategic advantages would disappear; they'd be one player among many

They are in fact one player among many. Their strategic advantages have evaporated. The entire mobile space passed them by and now AMD is seriously threatening their x86 business. Something has clearly gone very wrong at Intel. Shareholders can't be happy about that.
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I advocate the same (teaching kids) Poker for the same reasons you mentioned (certain self-control and tactical/strategy concepts) but this is often greeted with controversy anytime I voice it.

Learning to weigh the odds, exercising patience, taking calculated risks in the face of incomplete information, making allowance for the vagaries/emotions of your opponent all seem like great skills that would help one in life.

However, people often voice indignation at teaching kids the "vice" of gambling.
I love chesstempo too and use it a lot also!
True, but that line of thinking assumes they will harden those things in favor of the customer/user.

The article suggests that Apple may be exempting its own apps from user-defined network traffic protection measures in order to clamp down on geographical licensing loopholes, or to keep its app traffic out of VPN servers. Either case would be to the benefit of Apple and the detriment of the customer/user IMO.
Maybe, if you had a string of pearls of LEO missiles orbiting above New York at all times.

But you might as well have land based anti-aircraft nukes, I guess. (Shooting nukes with nukes.)
apple will easily get around pi-hole.

Apple is allowing apps to specifically their own DNS over HTTPs. This DOH setting will not be transparent to the user and will be per application. So imagine a world where each app can bypass your system network settings .... already here
Still do, in some parts of the country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yotsugana
I disabled all telemetry in Windows and use Glasswire to check what's up, but planning to add RPI with some extra traffic monitoring. Frankly this is untenable. Users shouldn't have to go to such lengths to protect their privacy. Apple and Microsoft need to be held accountable and ordered to delete all personal data harvested to which they cannot provide legitimate reason to have it.
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“Thank you for sharing that” I think
Maybe I'm kinda skewed because I started with Windows, but I don't feel difference between downloading e.g Firefox on Windows and typing `apt-get install nginx` on Linux.

Maybe because it requires "huge shittons" of effort to try to controle the software, and yet, at the end of the day I still have to trust somebody (OS, Drivers, ISP, Firmware/Hardware, Govt)
Narrow columns are easier to mark up with a pen for editing and note-making purposes.

On the other hand, I have often wondered why this convention was used so much, especially when some types of content would never reasonably fit into a single column (and people didn't want to float a graphic in there)

What sort of tablet are you using in 2020 which doesn't have the pinch-to-zoom functionality?

"two columns to squeeze it all in" Just use a single column and half the pages then...
There are parallels to Fischer but if you want that movie "Pawn Sacrifice" is a decent movie.

As for realism when it comes to chess, as a (former - covid bleh) competitive league player they absolutely nailed the "feel" of the Chess world for me, better than anything else I've seen - yes they compressed the games and showed players moving far too quickly but that was a necessary compromise - hard to show a 7 hour game in real time as a TV show.

The camaraderie and eccentricities of the Chess world where displayed really well.
What does Google's software have to do with an Apple issue? Is this a form of whataboutism or what's the actual point?
Similar to SQL, GraphQL allows dynamic manipulation of a result set. Projection (filtering columns), selection (filtering rows), and sort order can all be specified on the client. Traditionally, REST interfaces have a fixed response representation for each endpoint.

For a dating site, a user can have a custom configuration specifying which profile attributes to include or exclude which helps optimize response size. A user can also generate advanced queries based on a faceted search interface.
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Every router I have seen in the past decade has had at least basic VPN functionality built in (L2TP/PPTP).
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Just some really basic questions since I don't understand all the jargon in the article, can someone help me?

* They're talking about 100Gbps ethernet traffic. Where does one even see that line rate? It seems those rates would only occur at carriers, optical transport, or in very large data-centers.

* Intrusion detection, AFAIK, would mean that the packets have to be parsed and inspected. But most traffic is encrypted, right? How far beyond typical firewall capability can you get with this stuff if you can only look at the unencrypted part of the packet?

* Not sure exactly what "intrusion" means in this context? What are they looking for? What are some common rules that get applied? Every protocol is going to be wildly different and working at an application level. Don't you need specific application experts to even think about writing such specialized rules?

* There are commercial products which, I think, do this stuff from Gigamon and Netscout. These products have special FPGA-based switches that have many 10G, 40G or 100G ports, how does the tech in the article differ? What's the use case?
And install Lutris https://lutris.net/
Kind of ironic to click the link only to be presented with a cookie popup that defaults to all tracking enabled.
This dynamic of a superior vs underling criticism is an angle I find fascinating. I know that if I received criticism from people that I consider I am above in the corporate pecking order I take that criticism way differently to if I received that criticism form someone who I consider "above me".
OpenSCAD can only produce triangulations (STL), not CAD geometries (STEP/IGES).

If you want an OpenSCAD-like workflow, but in Python and producing CAD (Brep) files, then cadquery 2 is progressing very quickly. They now have assembly support, so constructing a multi-solid part (as a STEP file) that can be dragged and dropped into FreeCAD is quite easy.

https://cadquery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
As a chess player I could never get into RTS games though my friends were playing them alot, especially Warcraft 3, but even then they switched to mods like Dota). Instead, I'm pretty good at turn-based games like Civilization V and VI. It feels very cumbersome to control all these units in real time. I could never get used to it and I played many games in that RTS genre: Rise of Nations, C&C: Generals, AOE 2 and 3.

Nowadays, I'm not a PC gamer anymore, I have Chess.com, Hearthstone and Civilization on my iPad, it is amazing how a tablet can be a very good medium for turn-based gaming.
I'm not saying they weren't successful. As someone who tends to over-engineer things, I do admire their ability to get a product out quickly - I think for a startup that was probably the right decision!

But that's what I've been missing from your article - more on the distinction between the approaches, and the drawbacks of having a thin back-end layer as the product / company is growing. In the beginning I thought you were talking about how to make your startup more efficient and flexible - basically consciously building some technical debt, having weighed your options.

But if that's not the idea - personally I don't know how to scale with this approach, neither technologically nor in terms of team structure. The thin back end layer could work though if you have a lot of small products that are independent of each other - developed by small teams that can afford to act like early startups. Maybe that's what you meant, but I didn't really get that from the article.
I feel exactly the same way, chess and other complex strategy games are more work than they are fun for me. As someone spends a portion of the day thinking and solving problems as part of my job, I prefer to unwind with other hobbies.
I love your app and have been wanting something like this for a long time...
That's such a weird complaint. I own an Android device and use Google services and yet, I'm perfectly capable of criticising Google and their practices (criticism that, I might add, is least as frequent on this page as criticism of Apple - see AMP et al.). I expect that especially on a forum such as this one, people would be able to make informed choices and understand trade-offs. To say "I use Apple/Google/Microsoft devices because the trade-offs work best for me" is completely reasonable. What I don't think is reasonable is to perceive any criticism of a big corporation whose products you happen to be using as a personal attack.
I mean, the list is of names that have showed no sign of activity since 2010. The rule is there more to stop people just claiming good names, without ever using them.
If you use Debian Stable, set the backports repo as 9999 priority and then upgrade everything.
Funny, I’m just considering moving away from GraphQL since I feel it adds unnecessary complexities while not really helping anything

I’m considering JSON+HAL for our next project
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It's not chilling effects. It's honest-to-god photographic evidence of breaking the law. Now it's a shit law that I certainly don't agree with, but it is law. MPAA would be fully within their legal rights to shut this project down, with prejudice, based on that screenshot. Why risk it?
I'd guess the way in which a persons screen-writing job normally concludes doesn't involve either quitting or being fired.
But then you need to stand on your hands to read the labels
In some cases, targeted advertising is still quite dumb. Advertisers themselves choose who to target. In your example, someone may have said “We need more women interested in Jordan Peterson! Target white women 25-35.”
While your points are valid, this is not what the overwhelming majority of Windows users consider. People use Windows because it's what came installed in the computer and it runs the software they think they need. In their point of view it's not broken (because either they never experience the brokenness, or because they don't know what not broken looks like).

From my point of view, Linux is not broken at all. It runs the software I need (I'm comfortable with Gimp, I don't have spreadsheets that pass the limits of LibreOffice and I don't use EA). Lately, the move from X to Wayland has been introducing some brokenness - it's not as easy as it used to be to run X apps across the network - but I imagine all these will be eventually fixed.

Like you said, most users don't worry EA is Windows-only because most users don't worry about things like OS.
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I think their point is regardless of whether it's Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc the end user has increasingly little control over their devices.

The only way to fix this in the long run is open platforms
Very interested in your case. What is your use case? What was your stack? What was the biggest downside?
It's not showing a DVD or BluRay player, or a web-based streaming browser plugin. It's showing a clearly named Matroska video file containing a copyrighted movie that is very unlikely to be legally available in Matroska format.

Sorry there isn't a defense here that would stand up to review.
> Looking good is a secondary target.

What a terrible goal. Why not make it just as important as performance?