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TL;DR: CentOS Linux 8.x will end in 2021, CentOS Stream 8 will be RHEL 8.x plus whatever updates are in the pipeline for it. CentOS 7.x will remain as today until RHEL 7.x reaches EOL.

I'm very pessimistic on what this means for the RHEL ecosystem as a whole...

If I understand correctly, CentOS Stream 8 should be relatively stable just after a RHEL 8.x release, because the pipeline will contain just minor updates. But as the next "x+1" release approaches, the pipeline will contain whatever is being tested for inclusion in it. This makes CentOS Stream unsuitable for the vast majority of people that currently use CentOS in production (i.e. the people that choose CentOS over something else like Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS).

One can argue that these people can go buy RHEL licenses, but they most likely don't do that already because they see support as the value added by RHEL-proper and they can support themselves just fine. Many will also have RHEL instances along CentOS on systems that need vendor support, but pushing them to license everything may also push them into another direction altogether. Suddenly, standardizing on Ubuntu LTS (with paid support for a subset of instances) starts to make sense.

I think Red Hat (or maybe IBM) is vastly underestimating the value of CentOS in keeping the whole RHEL ecosystem competitive. They may be setting themselves up to be another SUSE.
If they don't want it, I'm more than happy to fly to the UK to get it.

Hong Kong doesn't seem to want to vaccinate most people before 2022

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...
I mean, you jest, but look at how the tech press covered Apple for years, especially after Jobs' death: "Tim Cook should be fired, he hasn't brought out anything as world-changing as the iPhone in the two/five/eight years he's been CEO!" Not to mention "The iPad doesn't do these five incredibly specific things that Android tablets do, and one Android tablet maker says they'll be making one next year that's faster than the current model iPad!"

So many people, even those who should absolutely know better, seemed to get caught in the trap of believing that a company—any company—can only be "viable" if it can constantly outdo itself and all its competitors.
> I wonder why his family got out of South Africa as soon as the apartheid ended and hasn't got back since at least once tho.

Could it possibly has something to do with his father being abusive to both his mother and himself/siblings? You can allege things all day long, but the fact is that your claims don't bear out in reality.

> We should tell the kids mining cobalt in congo that Elon Musk's family wealth is in fact, not from an emerald mine and that Elon is a good guy after all!

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-emotion

Even though completely unrelated to what is being discussed, since you brought it up: Tesla has constantly re-iterated their commitment to responsible sourcing of minerals up and down their supply chain in their filings (https://www.tesla.com/ns_videos/2019-tesla-impact-report.pdf). If you are making claims, back it up with some evidence.

Besides, their batteries use much less Co than others today and will be phased out entirely by next year. The oil industry uses tons more cobalt in refining than Tesla ever does in production.
Police helicopters circling a city are environmental terrorism
SL never released version 8 (they switched to CentOS8). Amazon (correct me if I'm wrong) does not release installer ISOs. AFAIK, closest to a plain free RHEL8 clone is Oracle Linux.
> I love being able to switch between my iPhone and my Mac on my AirPods.

Is there some secret feature of Airpods that I don’t know about? I use Airpods everyday, but I still need to go to Settings > Bluetooth > Connect every time to change devices.
Nobody is denying the convenience, just the claim that there is no alternative.
They protect themselves from the US by being banker to a lot of their dirty money.
Because OpenSSL is everywhere and everything requires it and all instructions say `do apt-get install libopenssl-dev` or something. Or the setup script does exactly that.

And changing that introduces a lot of risk.
Takeaway for GTK+ crowd: Qt thrives, and GTK certainly doesn't.

KDE, and Gnome are both toolkits flagship projects.

Look at how much developer share KDE gained, and Gnome lost in the time since Gnome 3.0.

The reason is they had few very toxic "thought leaders" who alienated countless developers, and they did not have courage to give them a well deserved kick to the butt, not even an idea that doing so would be right.

Now, if they want to recover, even if they will give a kick to Lennart & Co., how would they do so if they have no normal devs left to deliver that kick, and carry on the project after?
Then there's Sony WH-1000XM4.
But is the higher price necessary or an artificial segmentation of the market? Of course expensive sounds better than cheap, but could $100 headphones sound as good as $500 or are they really that much more expensive to make?
The problem is benevolent dictator too often becomes tyrant.
We have used Qt in our video meeting products for a few years now and are pretty happy with it. For us it was especially important to have the same UI on plain embedded Linux, Android and Windows.

We were always going to use the commercial version so licensing wasn't a major problem, no worse than any other commercial library.
Frankly, I probably can't hear the difference and the reason I'd pay is for a decent interface.
Calling an English expert. Is “AirPods Max” singular or plural? Help.

The AirPods Max is a headphone.

AirPods Max are headphones.

I saw two AirPods Maxes.
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My sub-$300 Sennheiser HD1 closed, over-ear, BT (w/ cable option), active noise-cancelling headphones are hands-down the best purchase I made in a decade, maybe ever. I'm not a deluded "audiophile" poseur, but I'm a musician who cares deeply about music, and a software dev / architect whose family depends on my ability to focus deeply on my work, and I wear them for about 8h/day.
Cost got me as well but what gets me is the weight, nearly a pound on your head. No thank you.

(13.6 ounces, 384 grams)
> it's no longer the web is it - just a way to deliver traditional applications

This statement is meaningless to me. What makes it "no longer the web?"

"The web" now includes fully-fledged applications. It's fine to make a distinction between things that are full applications and things that are close to blogs, if you like, but it doesn't change the fact that many people develop full applications for the web.

And I think this is clearly a lot more common you are recognizing.
> The US vaccination plan

No such thing, AFAIK
Because Beats have the same quality that Apple products do - people who buy Beats headphones continue buying them, regardless of any other options.

I myself own several headphones from different brands, and yet Beats Studio are still my favourite ones - there's just something about that muddy, dirty bass that no other manufacturer can replicate. Even Sony's extra bass headphones with bass cranked up to +10 in EQ don't get anywhere close. For certain styles of music, they are the best headphones I own. And yeah, the hinges have broken years ago, the headband peeled off just as long ago, but they still work and sound as I like - I'd happily go and buy another pair.

Apple aims to capture the same market - people who buy AirPods Pro don't compare them with earphones from Sony or Sennheiser - they buy them because they are made by Apple and they integrate well with other Apple products. That's all.
Your last paragraph could easily apply to Apple fans and their unjustified love of Apple products.

Any fandom or hobby has over the top individuals who spend 10X the effort for 0-10% gains. Just like there are people who install their own electrical pole and transformer for audio equipment, there are apple universe devotees who claim they need all the added features and then just browse the web.
Oh, the places your pee will go (watersheds and rivers)
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I’ve heard similar stories from other people I know. In fact, I don’t think I’ve heard someone speak positively about them, so when I look for appliances I steer clear of Samsung. I’ve stuck with Whirlpool for the most part and been quite happy.

Last year I bought a new house. Any guess what brand of appliances the kitchen came with?
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Meanwhile this study about human coronaviruses tells the exact opposite story: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1083-1

A group of Dutch clinicians have been taking blood samples from a cohort of people for 30 years now (it started out as a project to study AIDS/HIV) and measured antibody levels against the other human coronaviruses. They find that people get re-infected after a year or so. There's no reason to believe that the immune system should behave any different towards COVID-19.

Given the US government's past track record on the pandemic, right now I'm disinclined to trust the CDC.
> By experience, I mean the experience you get from using the product, I don't mean the money spending experience. Audiophile industry definitely provides you the spending experience but taht's not what I expect from products.

Man, its painful on my eyes to even read stuff like that, how you contradict yourself within few lines. It would help to have some rational discussion about pros and cons, but you undermine the pro-Apple side pretty badly.

In this case Apple isn't doing anything magical or novel, there are similar products on the market for 1/4 of the price, looking better, possibly even sounding better. But sure go ahead and buy them, there are tons of folks buying 'quality' like Bose, Beats or similar.

I'll keep my cable plugged for my Sennheisers, but my main criteria is sound quality.
I have $4,000 audio setup (Sennheiser HDV820 + Sennheiser HD800) and honestly a $500 Sennheiser HD650 plugged directly to a 3.5mm adapter sounds way more fun in everyday use. The exponential quality curve only goes up to certain point and beyond that it's all about the sound characteristic (HD800/S is good for classical/jazz) and how much the manufacturer is going charge for it.

That being said, I still use AirPods Pro a lot more than both HD800 and HD650 due to convenience of using it even though the sound quality is way worse. Fidelity isn't really much of a concern when I'm doing something else with background music.

I'm very excited about AirPods Max.
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Yeah most of the NHS hospitals I know have "Minor Injury Units" - I generally think that if you can make your own way there they it probably isn't one for A&E.

Mind you the last time I went for something I thought wasn't very serious (a cat bite) I was told to go to A&E pretty quickly!
I m torn about this move. My gut reaction was that this was a bean-counter move. Thinking more about it the key issues I see with this move are:

- CENTOS fills a need, that many users have and superficially it looks like Red Hat (IBM) is now abandoning addressing it. On the other hand Red Hat does offer RHEL for free (gratis) [0] and that should fill the needs of CENTOS users (right?). However it would have been much better if that option was mentioned in the announcement.

- I thought Fedora was upstream of RHEL. However after thinking more about it I realised that RHEL has a significant delta over Fedora. I 'm guessing CENTOS stream will be partway between Fedora and RHEL. It makes sense from Red Hats open development approach to have the delta between Fedora and RHEL happen in the open. Done right that should strengthen RHEL.

- Why the rush to drop support for CENTOS 8? I m sure some people are using it in production and they are unlikely to to want to move to this new CENTOS stream. It's a new OS distribution with a philosophy different to the one that was right for them!

Overall I 'd prefer if the new thing was called RHEL stream and provided for free (gratis) as CENTOS stream is. Also making more explicit the RHEL availability for free instead of having competing brands would be good. Now that there are competing vendors (Amazon Linux, Oracle Linux) trying to entice users it'd be better to strengthen RHEL brand rather than dilute it with multiple offerings. Unless RedHat/IBM plans to pull the plug on option [0].

[0]: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/03/31/no-cost-rhel-d...
TB equally F, by the time you have headphones, amp, and DAC, you'll be pretty close to that price anyway. HD 6XX + Magni/Modi is about the most cost-effective you can get, and with shipping you're looking at about $450 all told. Worth it for sure, but it's pretty rare when you get into this kind of stuff that you're just paying for headphones.

(That said, an HD 598 or whatever replaced it in Sennheiser's line is a great intro - the quality of reproduction is very much in the same ballpark, and you don't need specialized equipment to drive it. Considerably cheaper, too.)
the bigint is just 64 bits so I b64 encode the binary representation which is about half the size.
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Sorry, I mixed up comment chains. Someone referred to how black metal bands in Norway burned churches and people routinely claim violent video games cause violence, but I'm saying the causality goes the other way. Church-burning Norwegians 'cause' black metal, rather than the other way around.
Not everyone has the space for a decent speaker setup. An open back pair of headphones will work anywhere as long as the environment isn't too loud. Another reason could be if you are living in an apartment with neighbors who won't be very happy with your speaker setup blasting sound through the walls into their apartment. Open back headphones do leak sound but in a much more localized area. Also, you can get a great pair of open back headphones for $200 or less and then with a $50-$100 amp have amazing sound. I haven't looked closely into speaker setups but I feel like a good speaker setup is going to cost more than that.
> It's likely that "historic moment" is quoted as Powls said those particular words.

That could be. Hopefully it's understandable that I didn't come to that conclusion because the article does not attribute those words to anyone.

> The vaccines would be a current and global talking point. It's natural that the first post-testing vaccines would be a significant moment, that someone involved would feel it was of historic note, and that a publication would use that phrasing to accentuate the story's weight.

Yeah, I suppose, but it's still weird to me. I don't care about the details of the first publicly administered dose. What really matters to me is that doses are now publicly available (kind of, depending on need for now).

Nothing about the "first" dose strikes me as being of historical note other than the timestamp and the milestone it represents. But I guess that's a matter of opinion and a lot of people seem to disagree with me.
LibreSSL has long outlived its purpose.

It was started in a situation where OpenSSL had bad security practices, a chaotic coding style and plenty of obsolete garbage. None of that is true any more.

If you look at the vuln posted here it's a sign how mature OpenSSL became: They rate it HIGH, but it's a rather insignificant vuln that will barely matter in practice.
Actively, as in, it is pushing you towards this content. You do not have to seek it out specifically, the algorithm will steer you towards it.
> I used the zoom native client and not the web one

You might want to reconsider that; they have a pretty bad security track record: https://www.securemac.com/news/zoom-security-flaw-puts-you-a... https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-20... https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-20... https://blog.0patch.com/2020/07/remote-code-execution-vulner...
$2.5B for development, and $270M per launch for 4 astronauts.

cf. shuttle costs of $1.5B per launch.
Hey, this is cheap by high-income Apple fanboi prices. It's cheaper than a simple monitor stand:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand

A monitor stand ... holds up a monitor.

This has noise cancellation, wireless connectivity, rare earth magnets, and a ton of precision manufacturing.

I'd definitely take the Apple headphones over a monitor stand. At at 45% lower price, they seem like a bargain in comparison.

Disclaimer: I'm not an Apple Fanboi, so I'll spend my $550 somewhere else. But I don't think this is that far beyond the pale.
If I read Tutanota's explanation of encryption correctly, messages sent between users are encrypted on the client side. While it would be obvious in network traffic if they sent back plain text to their server, it is possible to encrypt txt with multiple keys, ie their key as well as the intended recipient's. Would something like that be able to be detected on the client side, in particular for one user? I'm guessing yes but it would require verifying the js everytime you used their service, right? (asking)

(added 'correctly')
Yeah, hence OP's original point:

>There's an exponential curve of cost vs quality
But it does. It really does, it is well documented that it does.
Vaccines themselves are established tech, getting one to the market that fast requires a massive amount of money and a massive amount of political will. We had both.
>> CentOS Stream now sits between the Fedora Project’s operating system innovation and RHEL’s production stability

So if we compare to Debian, this means:

Fedora <=> Debian unstable (Sid)

CentOS Stream <=> Debian testing (currently Bullseye)

RHEL <=> Debian stable (currently Buster)

quote source: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innova... (linked from the article)
The concerns are not being "simply dismissed". You just didn't take the time to read any of the material.

"JCVI recognises that the MHRA’s advice is based on the absence of evidence in pregnancy, and
not on the presence of evidence to implicate toxicity in pregnancy."

It's all laid out for anyone with true concerns. Here you go: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I'd be up for it, no doubt.

Hong Kong doesn't seem interested to vaccinate people before 2022ish.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/artic...
Same boat here. I've already spent thousands of dollars on fancy audiophile stuff. Can you guess what I use to listen to music most? My Airpods, because everything about them is so damn convenient. Can't wait to get these, even if they don't sound quite as good as the ideal set.
So you think we should believe these company officials?
What makes you think the sound is better?

There is a good chance these are competitive in terms of sound quality at their price point.
In my personal experience, the problem with individuals with narcissistic psychopathic features in management or executive positions is that there's almost always opportunity costs with regard to a different way that could have achieved more with less cost. That is, they are ruthless and destructive, and claim doing so was necessary, but it's only because there was a very very simple alternate approach (often requiring some modicum of social awareness) that could have yielded something even better at a fraction of the financial and personal cost. Their approach is often presented as "harsh but necessary" when it's anything but.

Also, they tend to deceptively take credit for progress, in the sense that things that would have occurred regardless, even without them in that position. Often things were already in progress before they attained their position, and often the people who were responsible for that are actually eliminated by them so as to remove threats to them getting credit. This is part of the problem: that they tend to manipulate others and the system for their own gain. In fact, I'm a bit suspicious of attributions of success associated with dark traits, even in a research context, because of this phenomenon. I wouldn't say I think the association isn't there, but I think it's a serious research design problem that isn't completely addressed (e.g., let's say you have a company whose profits are starting to increase with acceleration, and a psychopath who wants to gain from that. if they move up in a leadership position as they see it as profitable personally, are subsequent institutional gains due to them or the pre-existing conditions the psychopath appraised? It will look like the gains occurred after the psychopath entered the position, but in reality, the causal direction goes the other way around -- that the psychopath was attracted to the position because they saw it as something that would reflect well on them).

I think there's some kind of bias in play with these sorts of social-personality characteristics, where people tend to have a blind spot to the opportunity costs of this behavior (akin to survivorship bias but different). It probably has an established name, but I don't know what it is.
I've been on this journey myself, not that I'd ever harm anyone, but I was definitly radicalised by some of the far-left areas of YT when I was younger. I lost a number of friends because I was so convinced I was morally correct and they were wrong on topics like immigration and capitalism.

I'm aware of a few cases now where subscribers of TYT have killed people, but it's hard to know how direct those conncetions are. I know for me TYT definitely misled me and caused me to believe everyone who didn't share my views were evil and I have wondered before what I might have done had I been a violent person.

I don't really know what the answer to this is. I know for me YouTube was also part of my deradicalisation process. Listening to people like Sam Haris allowed me to shift into the centrist I am today.

Given the very low numbers of people who people who commit violent acts like these part of me wonders if we exaggrate the problem. Young men have always been fairly poltically radical. I think it would be incorrect to assume radicalisation is any higher today because of the internet. These types of events have happened for a very long time.

I know often findings like this are followed by calls for censorship, and it does bother me today when I see content online obviously lying or misleding people about news stories to push a certain narrative. Still, given how poor of a job YouTube and factcheckers have done at trying to combat this stuff (as they often also have their own political agenda) I'm personally not convinced censorship is the right answer.
Quoted further up:

"He said after being assessed by the psychologist and psychiatrist, there was no evidence the terrorist suffered from any mental disorders or psychiatric conditions, or that he showed any clinically significant cognitive impairment.

The psychologist determined he displayed a range of traits akin to a personality dysfunction, but not to such an extent as to constitute a personality disorder..."
“when there are a lot of established professional audio companies offering better sound at a cheaper price”

Have you tested these?
"instead for being part of some deeply troubling subculture where passionately debating about very expensive cables and gadgets without ever being able to pass a blind test on the claims is the norm, almost like cargo cult."

That sounds like Apple though ...'I pay for fewer ports!'