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> “Homegrown, violent domestic terrorism from white supremacists, and other racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists, remains a serious ongoing threat that demands the full coordination and efforts of our federal law enforcement agencies. We must provide the necessary tools for our law enforcement to investigate, prevent, and prosecute these heinous, violent crimes,” said Rep. Fitzpatrick (PA-01). “This bill would also direct resources for investigations into hate crimes incidents with a nexus to domestic terrorism. As a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent, I am proud to introduce this bipartisan legislation that would codify offices within our federal law enforcement agencies to combat and prevent domestic terrorist activities and threats.”

> “White supremacy and domestic terrorist organizations have no place in America. Rhetoric from the outgoing President and right-wing political leaders have emboldened white nationalist groups to pursue violence as a means to an end. On January 6, we experienced the terror of white nationalism in full display as domestic terrorists attacked our Nation’s Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. This bill would provide federal agencies with the resources they need to keep Americans safe from the threat of home-grown terrorism and strengthen partnerships with state and local law enforcement to combat hateful violence. The Domestic Terror Prevention Act is more important than ever as we work to root out and rid America of this cancer,” said Rep. Vincente González (TX-15).

Could someone help me understand why people thought the Capitol protestors were white nationalists? I'm not saying there were no white nationalists among the thousands there (obviously), but it seems rather divisive (and a huge stretch) to label the entire thing as a white nationalist terror attack?

Am I the only one who also thinks the threat of white nationalism is being way over exaggerated to push new surveillance and censorship policies? I'm sure I'm being ignorant here, but I genuinely can't think of a single white nationalist terror attack that's happened in the US in recent history. Perhaps the worst thing that comes to mind was the Charlottesville rally, but that wasn't exactly a terror attack.

What's more, there have been actual domestic terror threats which have resulted in deaths and millions of dollars of property damage. Groups like Antifa literally pride themselves on their violent and destructive methods to bring about political change, yet this seem to be of little concern.

Am I being unreasonable to think the threat of white nationalism is being exaggerated to push policies which restrict our civil liberties? Obviously we need to ensure we have the right tools to prevent terrorism, but I often get the feeling this is less about preventing terrorism.
So is there a standard license people can use to prevent this? Something like "Apache 2.0 but the only thing you can't do is resell this service as a managed cloud product"?

I think that would be valuable and the right choice for many projects.
Sending those mails to the spam folder to reduce their reputation is a hobby of mine.
I agree that we should be careful with personal anecdotes, that's why I did not comment earlier.

But I can say that personally I was also able to do it without looking to some extent (perhaps a whole sentence with very low issues to correct), and I'm slowly losing that ability (which was accentuated with a change of hardware, but I was also feeling the loss of accuracy beforehand).
The problem is much more fundamental. Free Software is about users having the right to understand and modify the software that they use. This is my understanding of 'the printer story': https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/201cthe-printer-story201.... With hosted solutions the software runs on the supplier servers - so if the user wants to modify it he has to resign from the hosted solution (or maybe negotiate a special case - this does not seem very realistic). This is a fundamental limitation. If the software is Open Source the user still can copy it, modify and run it on their own servers (or on some other cloud supplier who would agree to the change) - but it is a lot of hassle (and hassle is important - after all with enough work you can always decompile a binary so it is only the hassle that differentiates source code from binary). Maybe if there was enough competition between cloud providers - then this could work - but I think the economy is against it.
It still works like this and they have plenty of headroom with the new solution. Chances are good that when they need to upgrade this solution, technology will have advanced far enough as well. Guessing what their performance demands are (far, far more reads than writes) this seems to work fine for them, so why make it more complicated?
They do talk about read-only replicas, so they have some distribution.
Clearing browser history should be interpreted as "nuke my browser container's cache directory please". This also requires that all "cache" gets into the cache directory though, which might not be the case.

Unfortunately nuking the whole of the container while effective, it's probably not desired, as it contains various browser settings and browser extensions.
Anyone has a link for the actual technical architecture ?

This talks about "three-tier architecture" and "no database needed", which is obviously pure marketing spiel.

Are they re-inventing the wheel by implementing a distributed database directly into ownCloud ? I don't get it.
Ah I see. Perhaps the need to always have an aggregation confused me, which is specific to relational databases (all? most of? some?). Of course the aggregation has to work on something and that might be the same as a partitioning. Thanks for clearing that up!

The downside of a library is often, that it comes with its own dependencies and a lot of things you might not need. In general you should not buy into using a library whenever one is available, that among other things offers one procedure, which you need. The decision to use a library should be thought about a little more.
VC's like recurring revenue..?
A subscription to remove a forced watermark? No thank you.

I wish this to be "Sherlock"d by Apple, hopefully on the next OS release.
This memory issue is also driving me insane. Why its so hard to fix ?
there are still plenty of tweets that havent been deleted.
So Netflix are another company, like amazon, that are now paying tax on revenue?
They can be accused of a crash even if there isn't a crash though. And if they have no data to back up their side of the story, why would any court believe them? In other words - people can just randomly accuse them of hit-and-runs and they'd have nothing to say otherwise.
What the hell is a pirated version of flash? Isn’t flash free? Can you even pirate a free software?
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It's mainly meme type stuff https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/
We don’t need a General AI to get killed. Simple AI will be enough
It hasn't done so so far.
Because they weren't placed at the capitol where everyone was getting snap happy
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Maybe the innovation is that Google bought some interesting new translation/mapping/phoneOS thing and made it robust enough to power half the world?

Sure, they bought it because they saw that it will go nicely with their adtech thing.

Or who knows. Really. Google is very big. They always has been quirky and enormously successful and profitable. It's very hard to attribute causality to its actions retroactively, especially because even the small numbers are in the billions range, but they are always dwarfed by the adtech blob.

But there's room for nuance. 74% of their revenue was from adtech in 2019 (11 months, 162B USD)

But that means they made 40+ billion from other "stuff" ( https://d3jlwjv6gmyigl.cloudfront.net/images/2020/04/Google-... ).

One of the big problems of Google is that anything that does not integrate with adtech just doesn't really makes sense for them. They have no real model of what to do with things that are not adtech. Chat apps? Whatever the current flavor is. Social network? Yeah, we tried to copy FB, made everyone put +1 buttons everywhere, but ... did not really matter, as it was an insecure hack and it did not really give that oompfh to adtech that they expected.

But they could have kept G+. There's a constant need for a FB alternative. Every time FB fucks up a bunch of people would have tried G+. I'm not saying G+ was good, but shutting it did not make much sense. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I made the transition from Resilio to Syncthing and I am very happy.
>your own car or a car provided by the training school. The exam centres don't have cars.

Same in Switzerland.
love the vibe ! And eager to see it for real !
may i ask if using phone as camera and/or audio support will come to linux users at some point?

i didn't see on the site how audio was handled, probably just my reading skills :)
Another thing to consider is that Go is much easier for beginners to contribute to, I've contributed to a couple of Go projects without having written a single program myself. Rust is a different story, and often larger projects tend to abstract things behind type level "magic", which for a beginner/drive-by contributor is a big ask to understand.
I have, but syncthing doesn't have iOS clients, or at least it didn't last time i checked.

There was a client on the appstore called "f-sync", but that is gone now.

Also, Resilio (with paid license) supports features that Syncthing didn't support like selective sync, and encrypted folders, which allows you to share a folder with someone for redundancy and have things stored encrypted on disk.
Yes, this is what I used to to, but it has drawbacks.

If you only join from your phone, you can't really see other participants (unless you use your front cam, and in that case your screen is obviously still very small) and you won't be able to screen share.

If you join on both, you will be in the meeting twice (which can look weird to other people).
In my case, I want to use a dedicated microphone, not my phone's microphone that might be blocked by the arm that is holding it in place.
That results in a weird AV delay since the audio is coming from a different user in the call (and it means your video is not highlighted when you speak).

In short - my current setup hides the implementation details and makes it all work transparently without bothering people I'm in a call with.
I though shielding with water was the way forward there.
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You'd better to show more details here. What are the project you are interested in? why do you want to take it for free? and what's the stack? The more details you provide the more emails you'll get. For sure.
Re “spirit of open source”:

For people who believe in this, please study your history — look up the claims and counter claims around Emacs, specifically how it was created, commercialised, and then liberated (then forked and merged again).

“Good intenshuns” (my somewhat humorous term for “spirit”) is no way to settle even moderately complex commercial disputes — say for a text editor which in those early days of late 70s/early 80s, had very niche appeal and a small user base.

In the 21st century, with bigger markets and more money at stake, “good intenshuns” matters even less and this is why we have a bevy of F/OSS licenses to suit every need.

It’s very telling that RMS needed to create a license to support his vision of Free software. Perhaps from his experience he realised that legal code was the best way to enforce desired behaviour.
One step at a time. First let's get the webcam quality looking good locally, then we can solve the network problem.
Maybe we should consider legal solutions?

There are real-world threats that you can't 100% defend against and yet we are mostly safe because the law is an effective deterrent.

Why not apply the same on the web? How come we have draconian anti-hacking laws (that are sometimes abused), but none of them are used against this tracking where it's essentially the same result as installing spyware?
There is so much to tell, I will mention only a few key points for the each field.

Software: self driving capabilities (i.e. autopilot), FSD (Full Self Driving) beta, shadow-mode neural net testing, OTA (Over The Air) updates, games and entertaiment, Autobidder energy trading platform, etc.
Battery: tabless design, dry electrode, new 4680 form-factor, nickel instead of cobalt, manufacturing and cost improvements, etc.
Electronics: efficient motors and inverters, custom ASIC chip for FSD computer, Dojo supercomputer, etc.
Mechanical engineering: "octovalve" thermal management, structural battery pack without modules, "mega casting" aluminium body design, etc.

Edit: forgot to mention supercharger network.
This is called market segmentation, and is for some reason considered a good thing. Actually it's the means to extract maximum cash out of customers who want anything more than the bare minimum.
Thanks, their website was pretty crap at explaining what it is / and how it differs from other lightbulbs.
Do you find the questions about sky and sattelite space are often addressed by people's representatives?

I don't think I heard it addressed even once on public media during major elections.

You'll probably say: "then change your representatives or do some lobying or choose representatives who care about this".

This is a little more complicated than this: people are busy with hundreds of other things when they vote, and the fact these questions are never addressed in public debates should not give an 'implicit consent' about "Ok, tech companies, you can do whatever you want with our sky. Dozens of thousands of new satelites? Ok, no problem, please do!"
i'd pass if I knew a company was gonna record me and retain it for their free use indefinitely.
$500/h for a one day/week contract compares to stuff like $80/h for a 6 month contract.

There are vanishingly few people getting $500/h and getting 40 hours worth of contract a week, 50 weeks a year. I don't think I've ever heard of one.
I would apply the 90/90 rule here [0]. It looks ready, but I don't think their safety is up to scratch yet and I'm almost certain the cars aren't safe in adverse conditions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
Yes, that's what's strange to me.

Either laptop manufacturers are missing a trick that would help them compete, or people don't really care about picture quality in remote video calls.
Even with TOTP, it's trivial to set up the same key on more than one device at the same time.
I wonder if such “price on application” behaviours is partially what drives services like AWS

I’m looking at buying some fortigate firewalls to do some natting, looks like 200Fs will be fine, but even the fortigate sales guys won’t give me a price, I have to go to resellers who also refuse to give prices, which adds friction. Cisco exactly the same.

When looking at options, price is at the forefront of my mind, but sales guys want me to choose their company, and even commit to the specific device and numbers, before I even see the price.

Almost walked away from the fortigate option until I found avfirewalls which gave me a ballpark idea of what I could afford to implement, and what trade offs. The benefits of the fortigate over a mikrotik were worth it at that price, but it was painful getting the price out and they nearly lost the sale as I assumed it would be 10 times more.
Build quality is surprisingly good to my experience (just received a Lemur Pro), as also confirmed by a couple of reviewers of that model.
I think people's gut reaction to this being wrong is that a conglomerate is making millions off of others work, I think that's a fair reaction.

Open source software was about empowering people in particular, not corporations. It has however made it very, very difficult for individuals to make money from their software whilst the corporations reap the rewards from countless man hours of this free work across the a myriad of domains.

I still think it's something we can get better at as an industry. Just choosing different licenses doesn't really solve the problem, people regularly shun paid software licenses, feeling entitled to all software for free, and I think that's an issue for the ecosystem as a whole.
Hint for ElasticSearch: The AWS fork is hosted on github https://github.com/opendistro-for-elasticsearch

If I were working at ElasticSearch/Kibana, I would be filling a DMCA takedown on GitHub against all the offending repos.

This is how to defend your copyright and trademark.

And yes, it's getting into aggressive territory and not everybody might agree with that strategy, but that's how the game is played. It's a full on conflict and the result might very well kill elastic in the long term if no action is taken now.
What makes news sites so special that they, unlike every other website, get to charge Google when they are indexed, and more shockingly, that they can compel Google to index them?
> perhaps software on such a large scale that "scratch your own itch" motivations have insurmountable ramp up difficulties

I don't think that's true, at least for software such as Elastic, Mongo and RedisLabs.

There are a lot of big companies that benefit from those, and might want to invest it, despite not being their direct revenue driver.

See for example the Cassandra database released by Facebook. Or how Amazon is going to invest in their Elastic fork now. Or how Linux is funded by dozens of companies (IBM, RedHat, Oracle...)

Or pretty much any programming language: I haven't seen a programming language that's not truly Open Source (as in the compiler/interpreter + API) for decades.

The kind of software where it's not going to work is where it's solving a business need for companies that are not software companies: but Open Source isn't common in those fields anyway.
I remember meeting a taxi cab driver in the US that told me about his experience coming on a tourist visa, getting married to stay and working towards starting to work as an engineer.

There are ways to move anywhere you want, and ways to get remote work at us companies, especially now, if you don't want to move. They are not easy, but they exist.
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No FOSS license would have protected ES from the problem they have with Amazon. Amazon is in full compliance with the AGPL for example, so if ES had changed the license from Apache to AGPL, nothing would have changed - that is why they had to move to a non-free license instead.

Basically, their problem is that it's impossible to compete with Amazon on delivering a managed SaaS, and most of their money was coming from that.

In terms of the software itself and user freedoms, the licenses used have achieved their goals - ES is free, people using it can control exactly what they are running, can patch it and redistribute etc. No one owns ES itself, so it is Free Software in your sense.

The people who are having a problem though are the project behind most of the work on this. Now, whether this is a real problem (the company is struggling to remain profitable because of Amazon) or just a fake problem (the company is profitable but it's not growing as expected in some 5 year plan) I don't know, but this is the reason for this type of change.
It’s a win-win already. Google is listing those sites giving them the opportunity to be seen by lots of people and news sites sell subscriptions or put ads on their sites to make money. I don’t really get why Google should pay news sites for promoting them and helping them make money. Personally, I always clicked to read more if I wanted to know more about a certain topic.
> TL;DR:Signal gives stronger security guarantees than Telegram.If you want to prioritize security, use Signal. If you really like cool stickers, ginormous groups (100 000 of users!),and are willing to trust the guys at Telegram (they are not Facebook after all), go for Telegram.Either choice gives you better security guarantees than WhatsAp :)

(from the article, including the smile)
Seems it has a modular storage back-end[0], the default uses a built-in storage engine local files with oCIS storage driver [1].

[0] https://owncloud.github.io/ocis/storage-backends/eos/

[1] "The default oCIS storage driver deconstructs a filesystem to be able to efficiently look up files by fileid as well as path. It stores all folders and files by a uuid and persists share and other metadata using extended attributes. This allows using the linux VFS cache using stat syscalls instead of a database or key/value store. The driver implements trash, versions and sharing. It not only serves as the current default storage driver, but also as a blueprint for future storage driver implementations."
> Doctors want to make SWE salaries too.

SWEs make extremely high salaries in the US because there are too few of them and there is way too much "dumb cash" waiting to be invested.

The problem with doctors is that unlike many in the general IT field, they are saddled with absolutely enormous student loans which they only ever can pay back if they make enough money.
Maybe the main driver is that self-hosting of Elastic seems to be a very frustrating experience since it easily consumes a lot of memory and the default install seems quite insecure. Still AWS of course has automated all this. I guess completely free projects that are also controlled openly like Postgres don't have these problems and some of core developers seem to do lucrative consulting work. (So individuals are much better off I guess, and there is not the pressure to be like a Startup)
AWS drew attention to the violation of the TOS in mid November and provided extensive documentation of the kind of content they regarded as unacceptable in mid December [1]. You seem unaware of the most basic facts of the case.

1: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/filing-amazon-wa...
> And yet... for whatever torque the motor supplies at 0 RPM, you could have 4 times as much torque with a 4:1 1st gear.

There's no point. The tyres can't provide that much traction. My Leaf wheelspins if I put my foot down at 0 RPM (until the traction control kicks in to moderate the torque). I assume it has no gearbox.
Let's not be pedantic. From the wikipedia link: "Loitering munitions fit in the niche between cruise missiles and unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) sharing characteristics with both. They differ from cruise missiles in that they are designed to loiter for a relatively long time around the target area, and from UCAVs in that a loitering munition is intended to be expended in an attack and has a built-in warhead."
Only if that the market you want to win in. Where's the synergy between Waymo and online ads?
I would like to see which corporations exploit which loopholes: 1) How much they saved on taxes, verses cost of loophole 2) Which loopholes are exploited for the most $.
Yep. It feels like the news corporations are just being greedy, but I'd like to see their side of the case.
Indeed. Knowing this is why I don't immediately doubt the story, despite its being outside my experience
Sorry dang. I’m just passionate about this stuff. I’ll stop the anti-fascist posting. Thank you for your work on hn.
ES has to provide a much better service to win. Amazon can use their market power and vendor lock in to drive adoption of a worse service and squeeze out a better ES.

Network effects are great for behemoths but not so good for consumers.
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