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I would like to know what is background story of all this?
UFO stories have their hype each decade and I am interested why, is it some kind media diversion tactic or what?
Because, I have feeling that no one cares anymore, at least I do not, after years of media "hypes" and "shocking" news my personal reaction to everything is meh. I have feeling that even if mother ship appeared one day I would have the same reaction. So, I am not sure what is there to hide. And how exactly would that change our perception about humanity.
Religions will still exist, corrupt people will still exist, corporate greed, corruption, global warming and everything else will just continue as usual...
Why anyone even thinks that some kind of external agent will save us from our selves and give us even more technology, when we are not capable of handling technology we have now?!
>I don't think the guillotine was meant as a literal threat to his life personally

Isn't the narrative the exact opposite for capitol attack? eg. "these rioters had gallows set up and everything, could you imagine what would have happened if congress wasn't evacuated in time?"
Netflix will not necessarily be considered “liberal” forever. More importantly, the barely ruling party will not remain liberal forever. Lawyers get paid well to think about these contingencies.
Incorrect. The main conclusion of the article is that firmware can't affect the function of the switch.
If the two points you select on the sphere are poles of eachother (ie, their distance through the sphere is equal to the sphere's diameter, then you need to have an infinite distance from the sphere.

What you're looking for is a triangle between the two points and a third point forming your observer. The two points are visible at the same time if the derivative of the sphere's surface and the side of the triangle between a point form a positive angle (the derivative intersects the triangle at a point other than the points).

So the question then becomes "if the two points are poles, what does that mean"; easy, if the two points are poles and they're only visible if the surface derivative is within the triangle, the angle between the observer, the point and the other point must be 90°. This must hold for both points as the solution is symmetric. However, there is no well defined triangle that has two angles of 90° inside.

So the solution is "doesn't work" (or possibly infinite distance).
> The SOC (system on chip) controller seems to be connected to the flip flop resets, which makes sense as the product powers on with the microphone enabled as default....

It sounds like you could press mute, walk away and it could reset unmuting itself in the process without you realizing. You would need to constantly monitor that LED for assurance it is still muted. It’s not clear to me from the article how the SOC is connected to the flipflop reset. i.e. can the flipflop reset be initiated via software?

A mechanical switch that can’t so easily and unexpectedly lose its state would be preferable. There are probably good reasons they didn’t do that (aesthetics, cost, reliability?)
Do you think your comment improves the quality of discourse here?
Why not push it on both fronts simultaneously? Right to repair has strong benefits for both individual freedoms and the environment.
I think it’s like a bar kicking out a patron saying “they weren’t adhering to our values.”

The bar can certainly refuse service to anyone, but if they act in such a manner they will affect their clientele.

And then imagine there’s only three bars (aws, azure, gcp) and if you get thrown out of the bar, you die (go out of business).

I don’t think this is where we are now, but I think this is a step toward this dystopian state where corporate bureaucracies make these decisions.

I think the real risk is that amidst banning all the clearly bad people, they will also convenience ban anyone they like since it’s impossible to audit since they have information.

It’s kind of like not being able to do discovery in a lawsuit.
I know I'm not supposed to complain about lousy web design. I've been told in the past. I know.

But still.

I don't have an ad blocker. I'm using a run-of-the-mill browser here. Won't tell which one, you would probably laugh.

And the website is blocking me on grounds of having an ad blocker. And there's no way around it. I can click "learn more", only to be redirected to another page which is equally blocked by this "we need your money" shit.

Look, I understand you need money to survive. But at least give us a way to contact you, or something?

EDIT: Well, I have a PiHole which I forgot about, actually. So they're probably right on the ad blocker. lol

EDIT2: Oh no, that's hilarious. It actually happens because I've rejected permissions on their cookie popup.
The reset stays. If the soc toggles the reset line, the microphone stays on and the led turns off, until the user presses the mute button
The difference is wealth buys you out of pre-trial detention and other mistreatment by "the system" prior to conviction.
> The most widely used implementations of these Standards -- Gcc, Clang, and MSVC -- are in fact the same project in each case (although MS's [until recently implemented] a long-superceded C Standard), and are, in fact, themselves C++ programs.

Yes. Though as far as suitability for 'systems programming' is concerned they might as well be Python programs or bash scripts, as long as they produce suitable output in an adequate amount of time.
That’s only due to a regionalism where ‘coke’ means fizzy drink, soda pop, etc. not because of sales incentives.
Interesting analysis of the differences between the two scenes, but I'm not convinced of Danco's assertion that bad angels keep away the good. It seems equally possible that the attractive draw for angels (and all VCs) of a red-hot scene like SF is simply too powerful, so all the "good" angels flock there rather than waste their time in a less productive market.

The same phenomenon he describes where liquidity events propagate the cycle of early movers becoming angels could easily take place on a larger scale where an exodus of "good" angels from SF seeking value in other markets disseminates this model and evens it out a bit. This could also dampen some of the externalities created by this feverish form of capitalism i.e. ludicrous real estate prices, crushing income inequality, etc.

Of course this would take some rather weighty exogenous event taking place to make either SF or the US unattractive locations to start a business.
Boards of Canada?
I want Facebook gone, it causes more harm than good but their employees shouldn't be harassed or assaulted because of it.

And there are more companies like this. Do we assault anyone working for companies that pollute? What about people working in banks that made possible the 2008 crash? And I could go on and on.

If anyone is doing anything illegal, they should be brought to justice. Violence will bring only more violence and won't solve the problem.
Agreed. They can, but they never are. For car drivers, the expectation is that they have right of way on a road, and they that come to a halt at the road junction, and not a few yards before it because there's a bike path crossing.

Town planners/local planning departments are under so much pressure that they literally just end up ticking boxes, and rarely push back on house builders to change their site plans. The 'desire path' is a straight line, for both pedestrians and cyclists, yet new housing estates are allowed to put in bendy cyclepath/footpaths next to otherwise straight roads. It is ridiculous.

Anything 'new' to car drivers in the UK is a problem. We definitely should try and change UK roads to be more bike friendly, but that's the reality. The new bike roundabout in Cambridge, unique in the UK, but common in Europe, and.... accidents: https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambrid...
M1 can _only_ be held by commercial banks. The banks _only_ use this money to settle transactions between themselves and as eligible reserves. The money isn't used to buy stocks or bonds or whatever. The purpose of an increase in M1 money supply is to incentivise the commercial banks to lend more.

It's not the case that some person has more money because M1 has gone up! Instead, what happens is that as the banks are more willing to lend, people will be able to get credit easier, so more people borrow and that's how money that you and I can use (I assume hardly anyone uses notes and coins anymore) enters the economy. If the banks don't lend because there is no demand for credit, then the increase in M1 has little to no impact on the aggregate money supply. You can see that M1 increased by 25% over the year. Bank deposits only increased by 15% over the year, implying that the increase in M1 didn't have as much as an effect on bank credit as you might imagine.
There's a combined total of around 30 million people in those places. That's a decent enough population size to to make me wonder why places with a lot more draconian restrictions have worse covid outcomes. I don't know if noise is a sufficient explanation to me for 30 million people.
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So, stopping the climate disruption before collapse seems like a better choice than needing to plan recovery.
Indeed, but you see, individual freedoms is not enough anymore.
this. the endless complaints about telegram not being E2EE by default always blow my mind. can we have a discussion about other more serious issues with Telegram, if there are any?
I don’t know, you could maybe follow the laws of every country on Earth and hold people accountable for the violence they actually carry out?
That is not the case of YouTube, though. YT pushes recommended videos on you.

There is an interesting speech by Zeynap Tufekci on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI
I can't tell if these are troll accounts from the FSB or people whose brains have been colonized.
The implementation is different, the effect is the same: do something against the wishes of a small powerful group and you're a pariah. Not because many people think you've done something wrong, because these people would join you in the pariah ditch if they talk to you.

That's not how it should be.
sidtran, which Sid Meier used to use in the 8bit days (and maybe 16 bit). I don't know if there is any spec or sample anywhere on the net but was forth like stack based with DUP, SWAP, POP, etc. It had to be small since it ran on machines with 32k-64k

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22sidtran%22+sid+meier
2008 was 12 years ago. How well has the Italian economy fared in the interim?

It's been stagnant ever since joining the Euro, and nothing material has changed which would improve matters, and I don't see the status quo being tenable. 2008 might not have been the tipping point, but doing something which isn't in the long term interest of people can't continue indefinitely.
> Violent insurrection is how the republic that governs the people who operate Twitter was started, there can be good parts of it

So you're comparing the insurrection that happened last week, in a mature, functioning democracy to the overthrow of rule-from-afar by a king? Are you sure that a violent insurrection in America, today, could be a good thing? An insurrection is usually to replace the embedded status quo. What should democracy be replaced with that's better? Do you believe totalitarianism/fascism is really a better system? Because that appears to be Trump's preferred system of government.

> I don't trust that Trump incited the violence

He staged a rally called the "Save America March" with a speech loaded with violent imagery and threats to "weak republicans" with phrases like "We have someone in there who should not be in there and our country will be destroyed and we're not going to stand for that" with repeated phrases like "fight like hell", giving the impression that there were similar marches around the country, etc. etc. all carefully crafted to make it seem like today was the day that, if the mob didn't do something about it, they would lose democracy itself. Making it appear that the election was still ongoing, putting it in the present tense, and that in 1 hour's time, it would all be over. He even laid out plans for what he would do in office going forward, like a State of the Union speech. It was all timed to finish 45 minutes before the electoral college votes were due to be counted.

This was after Guiliani had called for "trial by combat".

If you haven't seen the full transcript of his speech, I would encourage you to dig it out. The incitement is absolutely plain as day. It's textbook propaganda and was designed to rile up the crowd to believe they, the "real Americans" (like Hitler's "real Germans"), could stop what he was decrying as a fraudulent election.

I get it that if you're a Trump fan or a Republican, you may be willing to give more of a benefit of the doubt. But to a non-partisan (I'm not American, but deeply concerned by what I can see from my part of the world) it's plain as day.
Utopian thinking is the great irony, isn't it? Your utopia is someone else's dystopia? TBH, I have a really hard time wrapping my head around these philosophical paradoxes.
Private companies can censor too. For example, your ISP, browser vendor or email provider could block websites/emails/ads from a given source without telling you.
As far as I've understood, judges can (perhaps are even expected to) throw out cases that have no real evidence behind them. I could accuse you of stealing my car and sue you, but unless I have some basic proof, the judge doesn't have to take my case seriously.
I don't think the author of that intended the clinical definition of sociopath, at least when I read it I thought of it as "enterprise corporate person out for themselves."
Internet Explorer ? Midori ? Epiphany ? Konqueror ?

BTW I am using an adblocker (uBlock Origin) and it is not blocking me, prolly because it also blocks its anti-adblock script.
I truly do not understand people who whip trash out the window of their car. It's not even convenient to maneuver around in a car to collect trash from in there. And you have nothing to do while you sit at the gas pump, where there are conspicuously placed trash receptacles...

Personally, I think they should drop the fines for littering and change it to being required to clean up litter for some duration, maybe 20 hours.

Go see the fruits of your labor, and what it takes to clean up after you and what we put city workers through to clean up.
What service from Wikileaks is Visa/MasterCard dependent upon? How does that apply here?
And when the people who farm, mine and do other work to provide services to you decide that you are the unrepentant asshole, will you be just as gung-ho about them cancelling you as well?
> People spend weeks or months preparing for interview and then some of them move to the other end of country to work there.

Right, so that's what it takes to get a tech job. And if you can't do that anymore (maybe you're a carer for example), you'll struggle to get a new job.
That's an excellent teardown! Thanks!

I think we should appreciate that while this isn't the best or most secure design (I'm not that happy with the host controlling the reset), it at least has an LED that shows the microphone status, which can't be controlled by software.

I think this is the very bare minimum we should require from all our digital devices.
I think I agree with you on the big lines. Although I'm guessing large population migration will be more due to rising water (most humans live along some cost line). And if millions of people have to move, there will be wars with or without fascit goverments. With this scenario, the 10 year time frame seems pessimistic, I think 2050 is more likely.

Either way, the earth system will regulate, it would be nice if civilisation managed to survive the transition. I'm pretty sure there will still be humans around, happy humans I'm not so sure.
iptables don't let you know when a particular program tries to access an outside host and choose whether you want to allow that.

Speaking of a desktop (not a server) firewall I'm rarely even interested which host/port/whatever is a connection about. What matters to me is what app initiated it (if it's initiated from outside my PC it should be always blocked).

Iptables used to expose a field attributing a connection to a particular process but this feature was only available in old 2.4.x kernels IIRC.
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I’m clear on why trump was banned. Clear that a coup was attempted and lots of people will, hopefully, be brought to justice.

I’m not clear on why the RNC would be kicked off.

I’m not being facetious, why was the RNC whatevered by Salesforce?
"I know there's been a lot of information about the Sedition Act out there, that's probably why you're asking the question," said D'Antuono. "We are not closing the book on anything."[1]

D'Antuono is the "assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office."

[1] https://www.fox5dc.com/news/fbi-50000-tips-connected-to-capi...
On a more macro level, doctors and lawyers use regulation to keep the competition at bay.

In some jurisdictions, there are limits that make it harder for outsiders to employ doctors or lawyers and sell their services like you would employ programmers.

(In eg Germany, that even applies to pharmacists.)
I guess you’re getting downvoted for this one because you’re more explicitly blaming the system instead of the actors.

I agree with you that until we fix the rot in the system that leaves so many in despair, unrest will continue to escalate.
By current standards, a big part of human decency is putting the safety of the marginalized before the comfort of the privileged. Republicans as a whole have a very poor track record with that.
It's a problem if the only space on the political/social spectrum you consider "decent" is woke liberalism. The great benefit of civilization is that we can live peacefully with people that we disagree with. If you think everyone who is not a woke liberal is an asshole, fine. But if you want to cancel all assholes, that's not fine.

There have been many times in history when positions that you undoubtedly take were considered "asshole positions" by those in power. Those time will come again.

We need to figure out how to live together.
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Can the device turn itself into automated update and then restart thus enabling adversary to listen to whatever is going on at someone's house?
> Currently, kernel builds use -std=gnu89, based on the rather less shiny C89 standard. Zijlstra and Deacon both added that moving to 5.1 would allow the removal of a number of workarounds for GCC 4.9 problems.

Why isn't the Linux kernel compiled with `-std=gnu99`? That's been supported in GCC since well before 4.9.
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Wasn't the reported reason for the Tik Tok ban that we don't want them to have our data? Yet an American company with some of the most data on American citizens was already info with China.

So this begs the question, what is the real reason for the Tik Tok ban?
Threatening to behead someone outside their home is violence!
"in the interests of preventing further violence and undermining of the democratic process"

And yet your proposal would absolutely undermine the democratic process and encourage additional violence.
I just spoke with someone who clicked "agree" recently to the WhatsApp updated policy, and said they didn't know what they were agreeing to, they just assumed it was one of those numerous minor tweaks to some obscure policy wording.

They didn't really have a choice though, because WhatsApp is now the only way they communicate with a family member, who doesn't have a phone any more.

They both use a Facebook Portal instead.

I think it should be illegal to put users in a position where they are pressured to agree to something without significant effects of agreeing being made clear.

And I think they should be able to return the Portals for a refund when something like this changes on them.
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Oh really? In which encoding? ASCII? EBCDIC? UTF1/6/8/16/32, TRON, and gazillionz of other historical artifacts?
If there was "just one bug", that might be possible, but there are probably dozens or even hundreds of bugs fixed in newer versions of GCC which effect 4.9.x. Someone would have to figure out which bugs are in 4.9.x, backport the patches (which could be hard if significant changes have occurred).

As you say, it could in principle be done, but GCC doesn't have a huge amount of funding (most companies support LLVM/clang if they support any compiler, which to be honest makes a lot of sense, they are much more business-friendly)
I am not clinically depressed (and do all the expected things besides - meditating, walks, etc). It must be said I never said there is no light, there's plenty!

What I disagree with is the good outweighing the bad (in other people, in aggregate). As fortunate as my life has been, it just isn't what is there to see.
Mostly peaceful guillotine.
> But how you do actually position an organization to build products that people actually want to buy?

I wish that mattered, but I'm not sure it does. Many (more than half?) of all US business are either in non-competitive fields or have semi-locked in customer bases. These companies are effectively money-trees, they could do almost anything and never actually lose enough money to need to fix themselves.

Imagine AT&T gets a bad CEO. Or Comcast. Or Ford. Or GE. Or WalMart. Or CVS. Or UnitedHealth. Or ExxonMobile. These companies basically can't get into major trouble, no matter how many bad calls they make in the next 5 years.

If you are starting something new from scratch, then you have to worry about product (a new company, or a major new product in a new market, etc). But unless your doing that, your leadership-types often never have to learn anything about the business itself. They can pretend every business is just an identical spreadsheet of numbers, and even if they're wildly wrong, they'll almost never get punished for it (internally, or even by the market at large).

This is probably where MBA types get that impression from in the first place.

> Successful business leadership needs to make the right strategic decisions and that is not a trivial problem.

I wish this was true. But my experience has been that this is not nearly true enough. Terrible leadership can hang on for decades and never really get in any meaningful trouble for it.
Good points - I mostly agree with 1 of them.

1) Storming the capital is far more concerning than some hippies setting up shop in Seattle. But I would contend that that these two extremes are pushing each other to more extremes and there is a distortion that whoever acts last is the current problem. Prior to the capitol incident, the fringe left had a monopoly on disgraceful behavior and unchecked violence in the streets. What would have happened had Trump actually won?

2) I think that rejecting the "both sides" argument _is_ the removal of the nuance.
Those who want to read more might enjoy Leo Brodie's book "Starting FORTH", complete with hand-drawn illustrations and retro monospaced font. I never worked with the language, but found the book an enjoyable read in the 1980s when it came out, as much from seeing how he went about explaining things as from the things being explained.

Unfortunately my copy was eaten by a rat. But a scanned and OCRed version of that 1st edition is available as a PDF here:

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/