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Yes...now that I have kids, the libraries have great kids activities and I have gone back to the library more than when I had before kids. They also have educational adult activities as well like computer skills. They also have 3D printing, robotics, programming classes, etc so have kept up with the times.

To me it's like a community center with books, rather than a library.
Ah, that's fair.

Still, assuming a lack of other sandboxing, running a keylogger is pretty trivial. It's not by default, as you put it, but an un-sandboxed application has enough access to your filesystem to perform tomfoolery and get your credentials. At that point, there's no need to start a terminal, you just load some shellcode in whatever process you control, and say goodbye to your data.

As for sandboxing, well, you're right, although one could sandbox X11 if they wanted to. "X-on-X" is actually a thing, rarely used outside developing X, but I could see it being used for seamless sandboxing with some work. Work that, inevitably, no-one will actually do, so there's that ;)
This looks pretty cool. FB does crank out some cool toolchain stuff.
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According to the status dashboard: "Cloud SQL Instances entering recovery mode when Query Insights enabled"

https://status.cloud.google.com/

I'm personally seeing recovery mode even with Query Insights turned off
Or just use KDE Wayland, they support it fine.
I believe that this is being fixed soon if you compile Electron with "Ozone" support. Otherwise, I use the current workaround of using OBS with a "virtual webcam" which allows me to stream OBS to a webcam and just use my webcam as the screenshare. Actually ends up working better than any screenshare utility that I've used.
See also here: https://www.asktheeu.org/de/request/meeting_between_thierry_...
Microsoft and Windows Control Panel migration to System Settings argue its pretty difficult indeed, even for the most well-resourced companies.
The sizes of parts of modern transistors are measured in the number of layers of atoms (monolayers) that comprise them. Getting that stuff built requires some pretty beefy, expensive technology, and is not anywhere near the realm of 3d printers. There's a reason you can count the number of cutting-edge semiconductor fabrication companies on one hand (and the suppliers of some of the machines in the fab on one digit).
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Estimating their life expectancy using Lindy effect they will soon reach the age at which it becomes likely they will outlast me.

Are headphones Lindy-estimatable? That I don't know.
It gets even better than that: "unfortunately, the economic benefits [of outsourcing to Argentina] started to fail when the Argentine economy started to improve."
> The author's proposed solution is for sites to use DPI instead

This is untenable as well. You'll end up with microscopic websites on high DPI phone screens.
> Why does it mean one is selfish, when _a topic_ (not oneself) is more important to oneself than that other person?

You care about the topic, they don't want to talk about it for whatever reason. You are trying to get them to do something they don't like, because _you_ like it.
Wayland will win because Xorg development was taken behind the barn years ago in anticipation of Wayland finally being ready.
The chart also shows need vs. want. There are more opportunities to sell TVs than there is to sell health care. Nobody is putting an organ transplant on their Christmas wishlist if they don't need one. But that latest iPhone? Sure, slap that on there!
Wow, they listed hourly rates for China and Argentina but abruptly drop it for India, lol!

The article speaks against my experience and working alongside some talented people in Argentina, China, India and surprised they didn't list it - The Philippines.

The hourly rates also don't seem likely for what "they're" paying them, but more what the end client is. I don't see $35/hr common in China for a BPO/offshore provider, see that as what is being billed to the end customer.

And at that point, $35, 45, 60/hr dev rates for Dynamics CRM and Salesforce, might as well employ locally. You're not saving much, if at all. Geez.

But the cherry on top:

"A funny fact about offshoring to Ukraine is that we, as Americans, wake up when the sun is up. But when I came to the office, no one was there. They are not getting there until 11 AM – 11:30 AM.

(Editor comment: it is not always the case, in fact, the majority of Ukrainian developers prefer starting their day at 9 AM – 11 AM)"

Lol, what is this. What. It's simply hilarious this is even there at all.
I use dwm and X11. I don’t use a “desktop” and never will. I only use one monitor, and don’t care about screen sharing. X11 works fine for me in almost all respects—the exception is some applications drawing some of their text too small on my high-resolution screen. Is there any reason for me to know about Wayland?
We need to end exponential debt growth and shift focus manufacturing to long term sustainable products.

Exponential debt growth as that is making people go more into debt energy use creates higher carbon footprint.
>People in charge of large FOSS projects like Gnome should not pretend it's just some hobby project they can do whatever they want with. Those projects are essentially public infrastructure and should be treated as such. It's not their personal plaything.

They're not pretending. I'm afraid you're laboring under a misconception. Nothing obliges the GNOME team to accede to the wishes of people who contribute nothing to the project.
Yeah, it's weird. I suspect that while books and academic papers aren't Veblen, the fact that the purchaser and the decision maker are separate drives prices higher, price signals being replaced by marketing or something.
To play devils advocate why should someone learn marketing and and sales from someone that doesn't have real world experience? The noise to signal ratio is already so high in the field. Good luck regardless.
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The use cases like what Western Digital is doing seems like a reasonable driver as well. If they demonstrate some notable cost savings versus ARM, that should drive other companies that direction.
Also worth noticing, there are other operating systems that does not use the Linux kernel. FreeBSD does have an official Nvidia driver (although a pretty limited in term of framework suppot) and Nouveau is not ported anymore. The AMD drivers are a port of the Linux drivers and are usually some versions behind because it is work to port them. So it means that I cannot try out sway on my laptop, and as I am not planning to buy a new laptop in the next few years, it is not something I can try soon. Sure I can just run Linux and I do on another drive, but I just end up with X so I can share configurations.
The lack of transparency is huge red flag which would make me unlikely to want to do business with this company.
Straw man. I didn't say any of that.

> The notion that "free market enterprise" wants free markets, a lack of regulatory capture etc. is a fantastic notion.

I didn't say that.

Enterprises are gonna enterprise, they will suck out to the last penny if you let them. That is why it is so important to keep the market fair, it's the only real chance at even a semblance of meritocracy, if it even exists. That is the job of government, or it should be, but as you've said the disparities are increasing because surprise! the 'people's government' sold everyone out. It is about time those clamoring for more and more government intervention realize that sad, yet true, reality.
A few things drive major medical costs in the United States.

1. End of life costs. Americans spend an enormous amount of medical dollars in the last 12-18 months of life.

2. Medical Malpractice insurance. This drives aggressive testing and monitoring.

3. Obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome. These are the result of subsidized farming and sugar.

All three are entrenched and would take a massive lift to pacify.
>> In the case of Wayland, the “vague authority” are a bunch of volunteers who have devoted tens of thousands of hours of their free time towards making free shit for you.

>That does not mean anyone is under an obligation to like it.

Doesn't seem that was the point of that statement. Rather, it's asserting that it's invalid to claim that the very people who built the thing in the first place are a "vague authority".

How true the accusation it, I dunno, but that's my read of the sentence - not that the volunteer devs are somehow entitled to endearment by virtue of their volunteering. :-)
Why don't they cooperate with f-droid? So many open source app on github are already on f-droid
> because the community itself has no discipline to see things through

Maybe discipline is a problem, but time, money and access to information is too.
> I don't understand how that gives you dictatorial power over 100s of users who don't like the changes you've made.

Those hundreds of user are:

1. A vocal minority, most likely. People happy about it don't go on bug trackers to support devs.

2. Not making the software, not part of the decision making process. Don't like the end result ? Fork it if you have the ability. Give constructive criticism if you want and you think the team is receptive to it (or even cares about it. Sometimes, I just don't want your genius idea).

So, yes. They're doing this for free. Don't like it? Fork it, or don't be an ass. If you can't do either of those, the third option is to fuck off.
There is the page https://www.projectcensored.org/censorship/ and it links to a FB account with a lot more than 13 views / likes.
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Energy's going carbon neutral faster than you can reengineer society.
I read “physical changes” as structural changes in neurons and neural connections themselves, as opposed to the (at least popular) thinking that mental illness is down to imbalances in neurotransmitters. There’s at least some research around this related to addiction, namely that overexpression of ΔFosB produces changes to neurons in the reward pathways.
Our installer is indeed an important part of what we’re offering and we’re continuously evolving our operator to manage the ongoing maintenance. But in terms of being a feature complete, Open Source Datadog, you’re right that we have a long way to go to achieve our vision. As mentioned in other replies, we are working on other interesting components as well, such as a new collaborative UI (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25996154), API integrations (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25994268), and more.

That being said, in case you couldn’t tell, we love software from Grafana Labs. It’s popular for a reason. However, we want it to be as easy to install and maintain as clicking a button, i.e., as simple as Datadog. So one problem we are trying to solve today is that while, yes, you can stitch together all of their OSS projects yourself (and many, many people do), it’s a non-trivial exercise to set up and then maintain. We’ve done it ourselves, seen friends go through it; we’d like to stop everyone from becoming a subject matter expert and reinventing the wheel. (Especially since when our friends do it themselves they always skimp on important things like, say, security.) Bottom line—we’re inspired by Grafana Labs. We strive to also be good OSS stewards and contribute to the overall ecosystem like they have.

Another way to solve the “stitching-it-together” problem, as you mentioned, is of course pay Grafana Labs for their SaaS (which I’ve done in the past) or one of their on-prem Enterprise versions. However, these are not open source. The former is hosted in their cloud account and single-tenant; the latter have no free versions. We think Opstrace provides a lot of value, but we understand that it’s not for everyone.
I'm already on 28.x/native comp. Is this branch really tested and working well enough without any performance regressions? I read the LWN article about this branch and it did not increase my confidence.
Well there have been 5 major OS releases on said 5 year old computer.

So in OS-years, yes, the computer is old. ;-)
That's really cool, I had no idea!

Did a quick search on this, and I believe the Linux portion of this is the responsibility of the "UNIX-Class Platform Specification Task Group" [1]. They seem to be quite active, which I'm reading as a sign things are progressing.

[1]: https://lists.riscv.org/g/tech-unixplatformspec
If one considers everything spent on health insurance companies a waste, which I disagree with, one should look at the loss ratio to see how much the insurance is extracting. In the linked report, the loss ratio is 84% so the insurance companies extracted ~16%.

The comment by orwin says that 22% is spent on bureaucracy in France public healthcare. 16% doesn't look that bad.

I'm not saying US healthcare doesn't have problems and there aren't some weird practices but if you can't measure or identify the problems correctly, you are not going to fix it.
> It is actually one of the big, unfixable, conceptual problems of Wayland

Why not have a shared implementation?
This doesn't seem as straightforward as 'click the screenshare button to share your screen', which is how it works in xorg mode.

Editing since I can't reply - I didn't mean to come across as rude, sorry for that. Just explaining that as a user, it doesn't work out of the box. Having to explain to users to do the above is not an ideal solution.
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Really? "Us, open source devs demans nvidia to alter their ways". And you wonder why people are disappointed in wayland?
> So not the Linux community then. Outside it.

Sadly, that ship has passed... long ago. When you encounter a random person about "Linux", they will think of the Linux ecosystem, not just the kernel. In other words, your and GP's definition of "Linux" is different, and they are both correct depending on how would you read it.

(And before you go almighty on definitions, the majority of linguists agree to just monitor - or "describe" - the words as normally and plainly used.)
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>if the different implementations doesn't have a common interface it's goodbye to ever having screensharing work for everyone.

No, not really. In practice what happens is Discord/Zoom/etc do implement it for the most popular compositors and then the other compositors follow suit if they want to support those applications. You would be complaining even more if they only supported weston because their screencast mechanism is pretty limited, and it would suck if the other ones just copied that.

The current "standard" is to just use pipewire and have the display server talk to the pipewire server, most commonly using xdg-desktop-portal. This is obviously outside the scope of Wayland, because any application can talk to pipewire and share/receive a video stream. I don't know about Zoom, but Chromium has support for this in the works, so Discord should get that eventually from updating their Electron: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/26022
This is a motte-and-bailey fallacy.

When your disagreement with someone drives you to contact their employer and demand their dismissal, you've gone far beyond a right to disagree.
Wow, such broad statements ("universally", "major", "unsuitable") in a single sentence and backed by …?
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Or making room for a device that runs either OS and making the transition less jarring. Though I suppose a MacBook touch (M1x) would already be able to run iOS apps, theoretically, and it would just help the apps themselves, rather than the OS, fit in.
> this happens most often if you accidentally install an Nvidia GPU and use binary drivers

So, the vast majority of people wanting to play games? Let’s be real, Nvidia is currently the king of gaming GPUs. You can’t just handwave it away when talking about gaming on Linux.
Yeah Sway looks really appealing to me since i'm already using i3wm. But every now and then i'm searching if screen sharing on MS Teams already works. As a Software Engineer in this pandemic i rely a lot on screen sharing. But every time i search for it i find out that it still does not work (without a work around). That's basically the only thing that holds me back. Does anyone know if Sway or Wayland is trying to fix this? Seems like a high priority fix to me in this pandemic.
Hot take: As a software engineer, or absolutely anything else, don't owe these people anything. I'm building software in the direction that I want to bring it. If they're unhappy, they're free to leave. But to have them come on public forums and call you a jerk, that's just comical.
The hourly rates are quite meaningless anyway. If you look for the cheapest price, the offshore providers will give you fresh grads who muddle through the work with little guidance and supervision. This is especially true for clients who aren't perceived to be particularly important in the long term.
Russia and China are no stranger to playing politics with their exports (see: Gazprom and the various China-Japan scuffles over rare earths) so if I was a Western policymaker I would not make any sort of vaccination strategy dependent on that.
This is so awesome, bookmarked!
The promise of RISC-V (as I see it) is that it allows for innovation in chip design with a relatively lower level of fragmentation than would otherwise be true. Without an open and extensible ISA companies would either have to afford the ARM architecture license, or build their own ISA, with all of the tooling and infrastructure cost that implies. This level of innovation implies some fragmentation, but by building on a common base, the pain of that fragmentation can be minimized.
I havent seen any mention of large profits yet, and they probably aren't going to talk about it.

One of the themes of this whole thing is that while there has been a consistent amount of "short interest" as the stock has risen, some smart people think that this is new shorts.

The theory being the original shorts (the $15 and less gang, probably Melvin) are all out / covered. The short interest is from new shorts.

So its entirely possible this was short squeezed, its just that smart people realized where it was going to land and took a new short position.

Personally, I believe in the next few weeks here, it will land around $50-$150, which is in the range of the fundamental value "bull case" for the stock.

Well see.
> why did ubuntu use wayland and then switch back to X?

They're switching again to Wayland: [1]

[1]: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/trying-wayland-by-default-aga...
Thank you so much for this! I've been looking for a solution in picom config for way, way too long.
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It depends what level of broken is okay with you. X11 by design allows any application to see what you type which I would consider broken and a security risk.
> RISC-V seems like it hasn’t learned anything from CPUs designed after 1991.

Never mind what RISC-V says about itself. Here is Dave Jaggar, a key ARM architect, endorsing RISC-V as state of the art in 2019: https://youtu.be/_6sh097Dk5k?t=51m10s.
> None of the Wayland detractors have a clue. They don’t understand Wayland, they don’t understand X11, they don’t understand Linux graphics or OpenGL or Vulkan or anything else in the stack.

So, end users are not supposed to complain because they don't know the full stack by heart? What kind of crappy piece of opinion is that?
Your comment is completely irrelevant and hence being downvoted into oblivion.
That's the thing with proprietary tools. You're always always trapped. To be completely honest, when we were considering Penpot's huge roadmap we told ourselves "even if it's just the tool for education, universities, etc, that'll be fine". It turned out to be much more than that, but I see where you're coming from. And hey, if you'd like to fiddle with the code yourself or install it locally... be my guest.
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Xorg didnt define policy, which is why things like window management was offloaded to the window manager process. Look and feel was also not part of the policy of Xorg, and was defined by the widget sets, window manager, etc.

In the wayland model, these previously modular components that communicated through process boundaries to cobble together those policies that make a desktop are typically subsumed into one process called the compositor. Look and feel is still the domain of the widget set, but window policy is not.
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You can probably walk up to a Gnome, KDE, Windows, Mac or Chrome computer and use it after a couple seconds. I don't fully understand all the configuration options my car has - I set it to "comfort" and that's it and yet I can drive it.

I don't think I can tell you immediately whether my laptop is running under Wayland or X (I only can because Wayland and FontForge haven't been talking for some time). Does it annoy me? Yes. Does it annoy me to the point of anger? I'm an adult. I have other things going on in my life besides graphical back-ends.
Which is often not the case for a writer, a video editor, an electronic musician, and many other jobs...
This is a poor analogy. "Wayland sucks!" isn't a conspiracy theory, its an opinion. There is no basis in truth to the statement "Santa Claus is awesome."

Developing software is difficult and thankless, even if FOSS. I don't know what else to say other than this article feels like a waste of space.
There needs to be a better way to discover random stuff like this.
4. Insurance is state-level. This entrenches big players.
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> 3. Obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome. These are the result of subsidized farming and sugar.

This is true in Canada, the U.K., and elsewhere in the world with Universal healthcare.

You could have have summed the above as "insurance".
To add something similar: I've seen non-tech companies that have no ability to evaluate or mentor tech staff, hire 3-4 junior people at the lowest rate they can find... they all struggle and have no one to ask, tons of incomplete or barely working projects... The workload could be done by 1 competent mid-level dev... costing half what they're paying for those people. But the company is happy because they got a good deal and didn't have to pay "ridiculous" tech salaries.
Windows patch auto-revert-settings is cancer. It breaks my bluetooth every time and my setup is very typical so it probably does it to millions of others.

Details: Bluetooth headphones with microphones actually show up as 3 sound devices, one high quality output device and a pair of low quality input and output devices. Whenever a microphone is requested, the low quality pair is selected. Output quality goes to shit and any apps that don't get the memo will still send its audio to the high quality output device which has since become an inactive sinkhole. Since many apps request microphone access for non-obvious reasons, the symptoms are that you do something non-audio-related and sound in the rest of the system does some combination of {go to shit, stop working} on a per-app basis. The solution is to disable the low quality input and output devices, which keeps sound output functional and high-quality until Windows Update reverts your settings and sets the stage for the next microphone access to break bluetooth audio again. Ugh.