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I read my ISPs terms of service (the biggest ISP in Australia), and it specifically says you can't host servers on your residential connection. They expect you to buy an extremely expensive small business service to do that. I would assume this is the same for many ISPs, and I think it is terrible.
How many people are even at liberty to just say “no sorry I’m not attending any meetings in this 4 hour block” ?

My boss/team leader/other manager would just laugh in my face if I said I couldn’t attend meetings or asked to have them moved because of swiss cheese or something
Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this.
I used to think he was "crazy" and I disregarded a lot of what he said. Recently I was reading the FSF website and I realized a lot of the stuff on there is actually full of some pretty good points, even if it's sometimes presented in a slightly "judgemental" or perhaps emotionally-charged manner. Some of the statements might not be 100% perfectly factually precise, but the jist of them is generally on-point. I have recently been a LOT more cognizant of the ways that corporations and software outfits exert control over the people who use their software. Now that I see it more, and look for it more, I am getting suuuper unhappy with the current state of computing. :( A lot of the complaints I've had about software and computers in the recent years are generally the direct result of the software motivations of for-profit/proprietary software vendors. I can still use all the OSS stuff just as I always have, and it's actually the most stable and reliable stuff I use.
I stopped using apps from companies or projects I don't know some time ago. Which left basically small local companies, the big global ones and FOSS-projects. This of course is not perfect but at least leaves some sort of accountability.
It actually ran quite well in Wine even back than.
That's the first time I've heard of that mixup.

"Time to go live" is more along your meaning.

ETA is more common for what you mentioned, but even that is more for transportation.
You probably overestimate Apple here. I'm pretty sure you can do a lot of fuckery with WebView, JavaScript and an innocent-looking API and feature flags in JS that gets swapped for bad behavior remotely after the review process is complete.
Often all the context you load into your head is other people's code. Sometimes you don't have control over how complex the codebase becomes. Debugging also requires a lot of context.

I didn't downvote the comment (yet), but I understand why many people did: It's incredibly dismissive and wrong! Yes, you should adopt methods for keeping the context so you don't lose it and continue from where you started. I've added plenty of tools to my mental toolbox, and now I work on more complex problems more quickly then before. However, even with good context-keeping skills, protecting a block of time will still 10x your productivity over being interrupted constantly.

Developers don't demand focus time for their own comfort. It's because the focus time is necessary for good work.
I think both Android and iOS have been shipping a built in QR code scanner for some years now.

Wechat had 1.17 billion users last year and has had a QR scanner built in for many years now. Given that you need the app to login to their web or desktop applications, it can be presumed that that many users have the app installed, possibly making WeChat the most popular QR code scanner app.
> I can't think of another sport that so closely tracks an idealized version of warfare and group combat.

I've heard the term "it's chess but played with fridges" before and I think that fits.

Besides that: great explanation.
Depending on the org you work for it can range from "pretty much everybody" to "nobody".
Thank you, I was not aware. Interesting to read the other side.
And the state of lower saxony owns ~12% of Volkswagen!
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The title says "Barcode scanner", but this is a QR Code scanner app from qrcodescanner.com
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I’m not so I just add something to my calendar. Busy meeting people often use the outlook scheduler to pick a time, and since I’m busy they don’t bother, and just find some other time. Works most of the time.
> Yes, we are corrupt.

If you are corrupt, please do the right thing and turn yourself in to the authorities.
Edward Bernays FTW
And in German ;-)

I played this so much back in the days that it is the only game I can say I played it on a somewhat competitive level. A friend and I dominated the 2v2 games only some Scandinavian guys were better then us ... good times :-)
You are the one pretending not to understand English.

The fact that apostasy is possible and exists, in France or elsewhere, is precisely the proof that religion is not 'essential' (to use your own prefered word) to a person's identity. I'll let you look up what "essential" means, it's perfect in this context.

That makes religion far more similar to musical taste (ever heard of Rock'n Roll as a way of life?) than to ethnicity.

By the way, accusing people who criticise the barbary of blasphemy & anti-apostasy laws of islamophobia is a cheap move but quite typical.
Interesting to see that software in Vala doing great. Unlike other languages like Zig or Rust there is almost nothing about it here.
What do you usually use Userscripts for? I could never find a userscript that serves some novel purpose not already served by existing extensions.
I'm glad that Firefox on Android now has a built-in QR code scanner. This is the best UI and security improvement they added in the last 5 years.
They are free to make money during the term of the copyright, but that term should be reduced by a lot. And I don't think the definition of copyright should be extended to include someone's voice, style, appearance, recipes, or others that I'm leaving out.
> Positive attention from strangers is a singularly terrible thing to hinge your wellbeing on, but man. It sure feels nice.

The addictivity of facebook/youtube/instagram/hackernews upvotes condensed in a single sentence, great insight!
The most efficient vaccine should be put under the public domain, and its production liberalized in every country. Market and private propriety here are not efficient.
I don't need to be seated, but when they seat you, the staff already knows that you there. If you just sit at a table, it often happens that they don't even notice you. Especially if they didn't clean the table yet and it looks like you've just finished.
> This can have a big impact for end users. Imagine an authenticator app ending service to all their users in such a scheme and how you will be cut out from all your accounts by this. How many authenticator apps do you have to use in parallel to mitigate this risk of a single point of failure?

This right here is a big reason, apart from actual restorable backups, why I root my Android device. Sure it is not required nowadays but it does give a sense of control if thats the right word.

So many times I had to restore older copies of apps like Chess or even Yoga app. The older apps allowed a functionality (downloadable content for offline view) which was straightup removed in newer versions.

Same for Authenticator or any other app which does things locally.
Except this is like 20 years older :-)
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That still seems like a win, though. Getting 10x further on the available reaction mass in exchange for needing to wait for the batteries to recharge sounds like a great deal for big trips.
Thank you for your work! I used to play Soldat for hours a day when it was first released.
Because people like systemd.

It's one of those situations where the minority that doesn't like systemd is just a lot more noisy than the vast majority that likes it.

Easy as that.
Asians and Europeans are very different, not a homogeneous group.
Its not terribly difficult if you only have say wage income and some interest on a bank account [0]. But, it can get very complex very quickly if you have other sources of income, or want to be sure to take all of the deductions you might be eligible for. On top of that, each state has their own set of taxes (though in my experience, they are simpler and largely rely on information from the federal taxes). Hence why most people use software or pay tax professionals to prepare their taxes for them.

The IRS probably could provide a more or less pre-filled form for many people. They have the information on most taxable income already. However, they dont. The reasons for this are complex, like the tax code, but mostly boil down to "politics".

[0] Here's the main tax form: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf
Not to mention that President Macron came out with some genuinely anti vaxer statements on 29th Jan which are completely false

> “The real problem with AstraZeneca is that it doesn't perform as we expected. (…) Everything suggests that it is almost ineffective on people over 65. "

Anyone who has paid attention to the response around the failure of the EU vaccination program knows this is pretty standard diversionary politics.
Worth noting that the JJ vaccine (which is similar) showed 89% efficacy against severe disease (hospitalization) wrt the SA variant. So - it's very likely that all vaccines will prevent healthcare systems getting stressed and significant excess mortality. Additionally if the vaccines are retarding the viral loads (it seems likely) then they should reduce transmission.
yeah this is one reason why I can't take mobile app end to end encryption, or client side only, claims seriously. a single update at any time could undermine all of that

and secondly, they or an analytics package can just read everything client side and upload it to a server anyway

doesn't matter if its whatsapp, or signal, or some protonmail client if such a thing exists

I just don't use them with that assurance in mind, I use them for other things.
LMMS is more akin to FL studio, geared toward making electronic music with a sequencer and such. Ardour is more akin to Cubase, geared towards recording music from instruments and arranging it. Both are highly capable and can easily do both. There are a number of videos or blogs explaining the diff check them out.
I never use my bank app because I don't fully trust my phone but they redesigned their website to be more mobile friendly. Now I can only see 10 operations at once instead of 30 before, and I can no longer sort by amount...

When I complained 2 years ago about it my banker told me to participate in their feedback program... Now they send me market research polls about future products and features, no way to report usability issues, it's not even run by the bank itself...
It’s interesting to note that while no single idea is revolutionary, the design choices in putting together this bunch make for a particularly slick interface where the whole is much better than the usual shell.

PS: I look forward to trying this out! Since I don’t know much Common Lisp, are there particularly useful libraries that would make it easy to cover functionality commonly used through the shell? I’d love to see a tutorial with a compilation of examples. EDIT: Found some useful stuff in the CL cookbook (Eg. section on files & directories) https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/
It has? How does one use it?
You can write down the code for all authenticator entries upon scanning the installation code with a barcode reader app for later reuse :) (I suggest to use fdroid versions for both barcode reader and authenticator anyway to mitigate the issue)
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or something else
What is the best tech stack to build mobile apps?
Why don't we talk more about this ? How many deaths could be avoided ?
C4ADS produced a fantastic report on this. They used AIS data (the system ships use to broadcast location) to document boats that were anchor down, yet had dramatic shifts in their reported location when Putin's motorcade was nearby.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/566ef8b4d8af107232d53...
If you make it easy and legal you'd get stuff like Wall Street seceding from the US to pay less tax.

A possible model for Israel like situations is both parts become part of some larger body like Eire and NI both joining the EU. I know that's changed now but it did quite a good job of stopping the troubles.

Maybe something like the earlier EU were you get free trade and human rights courts but without the latter attempts at a single currency and political integration.
Tariffs are complicated as fuck. Trump tried to half-ass it off the cuff and fucked up a lot of industries.

People import and export the weirdest shit with China. Even a small adjustment on tariffs might cause unseen ripple effect on businesses.
No more so than Twitter.
As a desktop Linux user who don't really care about that stuff, things have always “just worked” for me. When I started using Linux back in 2009, I've heard horror stories form the past about how pulseaudio was a nightmare and never wanted to run, but I've never had issues with it myself (nor on my mother's and wife's computer, which have also been running Linux for a few years).
I very much preferred the title "imperials encryption", thought the empire was destroying encryption. Probably would have caused the Star Wars if they hadn't occurred already!
A 20 hour work week, a pattern we should all strive to follow.
> Imagine an authenticator app

I will imagine that anyone who creates an authenticator is half-decent enough to NOT take that bribe and serve the greater good.

I will also imagine that when people install authenticators, they would NOT trust one from HenryBemis but only from sources that they recognize (Google, Microsoft, Yubikey, etc.)

It always amazes me how come all smartphone OS creators switch every connectivity option to ON by default on every new app installation. It would take a use another 3-4 seconds per app installation to prompt the user whether they want this app to access Wifi/Data/Background/Roaming. In the same sense than the OS asks you whether you allow access to Calendar, Contacts, Camera, etc. At least half my apps on my Android do NOT need access to the internet to function. They may 'want', but definitely not need.
This isn't all that unfamiliar in the US. There are many people against "Obamacare", but once you start actually polling on the individual pieces that it entails it turns out it is very popular.

There is a reason why despite two years of full Republican control they could not agree on the repeal they kept banging on about for the better part of eight years, and why repealing Obamacare was not really talked about in 2020 lest Democrats successfully bludgeon Republicans over taking away their constituents' health insurance.
Don't challenge the narrative, you'll get cancelled.
Intuit will acquire or break the company before it gets legs
The iPhone stock camera app also scans QR codes btw, guess most people just don't know since it isn't advertised heavily
Google's stock camera app supports QR codes.
> The vaccine wasn't a generous donation.

Note that AstraZeneca's agreement with Oxford is that it will manufacture the vaccine on an at cost basis for as long as the pandemic lasts (and no sooner than July 2021).

While it's not a donation, it's also not being sold for a profit; they may be able to make a profit in the future.

Source: https://www.ft.com/content/c474f9e1-8807-4e57-9c79-6f4af145b...
thank you for the clarification of no conflict.
Here is a simple example. You buy 10 stocks from Robinhood for $50. You sell them for $75. You now have to pay taxes on this. The broker can just inform the government of this taxable event and thus automatically deduct the tax for you.

One argument in favor of filing taxes yourself is that you can transfer the stocks to a different broker. No single broker knows what you have been doing with your stocks. However, the government already exists as a central entity and it can simply receive a full record of all taxable events from all brokers.

Where do you see this misaligning the incentives between the net tax payer and the net tax consumer?

If anything, it would make cryptocurrency based credit cards viable as a means of payment because the taxation problem is no longer intractable for the individual tax payer.
Is it considered unkind or do people just avoid it as some do not react well to it? I avoid giving negative feedback, especially if I need to interact with that person again, as people tend to get defensive and mad at me for giving them it, while they are happy if I praise them.

Don't want to deal with that, so everything I say is positive. I don't avoid giving it it out of empathy and consideration, but self interest.
This made me curious and I went and found https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/. (Can strongly recommend ignoring this site's volume control and using your own for the lower frequencies!) Playing around with briefly unmuting my audio output for short bursts, I found I couldn't go past 17kHz too. I did need to judiciously turn the volume up though.
TamperMonkey also went closed source, which is a dealbreaker for me given its privilege level.
And even when you choose to only manually upgrade, carefully looking at the changelog, but it just says "Bugs fixed."

The Play Store doesn't give enough information to really judge if the upgrade is necessary.
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj did a segment on this, and also set up a site to link to the real free programs of various companies. It's here:

https://www.turbotaxsucksass.com/
I thought cancel culture was about trying to get individuals fired for things unrelated to their work?
Telstra? Yeah, they're about as consumer unfriendly as it's possible to be. I went out of my way to avoid paying them any money a few years ago, including moving my workplace (>10 branches around Australia) off Telstra comms infrastructure and onto a competitors whilst also saving about 30% per year.
Feature request: distinguish clicks from taps, and move the frequency indicator say 50-100px upward so it's not directly under my finger :P
AFAIK this does seem to extract Widevine from Chromium on first use.
Interesting analogy. The nice thing about ATC (when VFR) is that the phraseology is well defined and outside of emergencies the number of requests and instructions are limited and usually expected.

When flying IFR then you've planned ahead, filed that plan, and either received exactly what you want or gotten an updated plan. If things change along the way you get small digestible updates. And you are of course going to brief your approach before executing it.

Meetings are much more dynamic.
Give this money to your friend, ask them only to give you back if you complete certain task before deadline.
Have you experienced any backlash for doing so?
Its basically Turnpike reconstruction problem. if you have local prices and final total you could.

On a different note every year when I file taxes and I have to go through checking a bunch of numbers I wish there was an helper AI that executes this and tells me how I could have come up with that specific number from all the inputs.
>yeah this is one reason why I can't take mobile app end to end encryption, or client side only, claims seriously.

If it's a large company like Facebook that values these products like Whatsapp at billions I trust them at least on this issue. I'm pretty sure they're not going to put junk third party malware for 50k into the Whatsapp client.

This is mostly an issue for apps done by individual developers who have huge incentive to take these deals, like the barcode scanner in question.
This comment is a prime example of Muphry’s Law (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law).
That is awesome. Using Flatpaks of mostly proprietary clients is not nearly as much fun as using a native client. Really great work.
Elementary OS was basically all Vala for their custom desktop apps, back in the day. I’ve not kept up with it, but it was a nice environment back when I used it!
Adobe Scan is a solid option as well.
https://project-awesome.org/brunocvcunha/awesome-userscripts
For me (on Linux) I found (after figuring out how to translate "unmute the mic" into alsamixer-speak) that it did require a bit of fiddling with in order for the mic to pick up. Sometimes reloading the page worked. This was in Chrome.
The early adopters. There are always people that will weight that risk of latest & greatest and vs buggy differently, it should be a choice. Especially for apps that don't have a beta testing or early bird channel.
App review... maybe? But the review (especially on Android) would have to be much more careful than it is nowadays...
Yes, I paused reading your note, to read the PDF, and I came back to add the coffee/beer comment, but it was already there!

Yes.. even if your time is all blocked up, you can always have time/space for a coffee with a loved one!
I noticed the package name com.qrcodescanner.barcodescanner. and went to https://qrcodescanner.com/ which advertises another very popular barcode scanner wescan.

they also offer an sdk of their own for including a barcode scanner into your app. https://github.com/WeTransfer/WeScan

I'm not really sure they are connected (package names don't verify domain names AFAIK). Just curious.
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I used to offer a free plan on https://pdf2qrcode.com but not anymore since it costs to have free users and I did not see any conversions into a paid plan. Replaced with a 60 day free trial and it gets the job done.
Advertising is an attack on human psychology. Children need to be educated to reason beyond the surface to protect themselves from the ubiquity of modern-day advertising.
This is why I root my phone. I block internet access to any new app that shouldn't need it, if it refuses to work, I uninstall it.
Can you please elaborate a bit? What differences did you notice?
This is an infomercial, by Respeecher.
I've noticed this too - both the absence and the success. As I understand it Vala gets compiled to C, so maybe that's why HNers don't like it - because it is an incremental improvement over something older and less sexy. I hope I'm wrong about that!

I for one will try picking up some Vala this year. Who is with me?
I don't think "new country" and "growing pains" is a valid excuse for the absolute humanitarian disaster that has been allowed to happen in SA under the current government. And no we don't think it's because they're "black", it's because they're incompetent and evil, and care more about enriching themselves than helping their countrymen.
Considering you can run a site like his off of a $10 VPS with room to spare for x10 more users, any dollar beyond that better be worth it.

Sure, going to $50 won't matter to most wallets, but at around $100 you're just getting ripped off and someone is having a laugh at your expense.

So I'd put 'paying a fortune' at around $100/month for his case.
His distant relatives did, like second or third cousins. The point of GEDmatch is to connect you with other potential DNA matches in their database. That is not the point of whatever service your family presumably used, and their data is not used in this manner. Apples and Oranges.
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Give a user a choice though, and they dismiss the update notification because it's naggy and annoying and usually involves restarting your app or OS (I'm mainly thinking of operating systems here).

Microsoft went in hard / aggressively and are forcing update installs and restarts, which IMO is going the wrong direction.

Wasn't there a Linux project where they could update the OS / kernel without a restart? I feel like this is what all OSes should aim for. I like to think Android is going in one direction, moving shared libraries (Play Services) outside of the core OS so it can be updated independently.