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CCC in Germany does really fantastic work and they are well recognized in the public. And they have some friends. Years ago, the club was moving from Berlin to Hamburg, I think. They had an ongoing dispute whether they are, tax-wise, recognized as a charitable, non-profit entity (many associations in Germany are recognizes as non-profits, but for some that are politically inconvenient, such as the Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) [1], the tax administration as well as politicians are trying to dispute their tax exemption).

Then they got a mailing where somebody mailed them an entire collection of correspondence between the tax administration and other government bodies which was apparently intended to be sent to the Hamburg tax administration. It detailed how they were trying to actively put obstacles to financing the CCC's work. Apparently, that mailing went accidentally to CCC, which was not the intended address....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Action_Germany#P...
"We're supposed to be free to spend our money without the indignity of having to explain things to some bank or government."

Why do you think that?
It's a space to hang out and meet people, where you can talk about and tinker with technology.

Only socializing online is just not the same.
It's been about a decade since I've used ftp. I'm trying to remember if there is anything it provides that sftp/scp does not? I remember the egress ports being a pain, and encrypting the traffic required ssl certs and being even more of a pain.
In Germany the CCC has a lot of physical clubs where people hang out. They have some specialised equipment, but are from my limited experience more social spaces for cohacking, giving talks, etc. There's also the chaos communication congress, with is a big hacker festival/conference (by the same group of people), run by I think the same org, and I've never fully understood how one navigates the identical acronyms...
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make or if you're objecting to anything in particular, but being global carbon negative seems like a good start.
First, "cloud software is harming consumers", then the conclusion is "use MIT and leave regulation to the government".

A very strange article with bits of Stallman hate sprinkled in. I think the cloud vendors will love this article.
"You cannot rehabilitate a person without rehabilitating their self-esteem, their perception of being a man or a woman," she says.

"You cannot ignore this part in our life. It's very important, powerful. It's the centre of our personality. And you cannot just talk about it. Sexuality is something dynamic, is something that has to be between us and other people."

Unfortunately, the prevailing sentiment is that you fix yourself in all other ways first, and then this aspect will automatically be ok.

I would disagree (EDIT: with the prevailing sentiment) but this is a minefield of a discussion.
It wasn't about gymnastics or movements at all. It was a vast spectrum of different technics and practices used mainly for spiritual purposes, thre were many and many "yogas" coming from different teachers. What we call yoga today, was a system invented by Tirumalai Krishnamacharya as an amalgamation of many of these ancient practices into one modern system. They were not previously widely popular and you couldn't easily learn them, most of Indians didn't know about it. What Krishnamacharya changed was that he started a school of yoga and was traveling the country and popularizing it - and the reason this was possible was that Maharajah liked the modern fitness ideas coming from the West and though it would help his people to accept these habits of paying attention to fitness, but it was time of Indian nationalism and he wanted to protect their own traditions and ways instead of just taking it from Brits, so he hired Krishnamacharya to make an authentic Indian system of training.
Yeah, that was my overall take: reasonably convincing, neither a dumpster fire nor a slamdunk.

These days I don't believe these sorts of psychology effects until I see a Registered Report, but this also isn't the hot steaming garbage you'd expect from the OP summary. It's more or less what you'd expect from a small but not super-small sample investigating a moderate real effect across the board which does seem pretty plausible a priori.
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There are enough diss tracks and mentions of fanta4 in german hip hop

I always found them whack...
> if you give a raise to a current employee, you'll be expected to give raises to all employees

I don’t get this - how would the other employees know about the raise ?
Yes, it would have to be a perceptual hash. False positives will occur, so there needs to be a way to appeal or remediate the algorithmic decision. We already apply this approach in a bunch of places. I believe the major personal cloud storage providers (OneDrive, etc) already do such scanning.
They will probably solve the panic issue. However, it is strange to me that no one is explicitly mentioning the fundamental underlying tension here between C and Rust. Rust is a reaction to the lack of safety inherent in languages like C.

Rust is an opportunity to really evolve operating systems forward. That's why projects like Redox OS have more promise in the long term for me than dragging the Linux community to Rust.
Amazing.

I never thought I would say this, but I actually implemented an FTP server in 2020. This was needed to support firmware updates to specific hardware (Electric Vehicle charging stations). Apparently embedded software developers choose FTP whenever a spec doesn't specify how binary file transfers should work.

It was kind of amusing getting FTP to work in a modern cloud environment. I run a single Kubernetes pod with a Node.js based FTP server optimized for one thing: Transferring files between FTP and Google Cloud Storage. A series of ports are specified in the Docker file to enable passive FTP transfers.

Even more amusing was the number of varieties in which FTP was implemented by different hardware manufacturers. I regularly had to dive into the FTP libraries to add support for crazy edge cases (tcpflow in kubectl exec -it is your friend!). Example: one device added a newline in the middle of a command (USER\n myusername)..

The latest curve ball I received this week is that a certain firmware version of a Qualcomm modem chip cannot deal with the size of the IP packets coming from our FTP server... Fun stuff!
I always thought that legal language looks like C code that heavily relies on macros after it has been through a preprocessor.

Don't lawyers have effective ways to include and reference things, create standard definitions and procedures without pasting the same stuff everywhere?
Aren't some contracts designed to not be readable with long drawn out passages?
It's hard because of this reason. But I'm certain alternate acquisition channels/go-to-market could exist. It's a matter of understanding the customer's journey and capturing them at a stage other than "discovery" or "search".
So after seeing like 10 bbc links on the front page today I feel entitled to a cookie banner rant.

WTF BBC!? You had a perfectly acceptable (by the already very low web standards) cookie page that simply informed and allowed an opt-in. Now I have to manually uncheck every single fucking tracking partner in a list of hundreds?

Have fun without me from here on out. *ragequit*
HBM2 is like 2Tb/s, how is HBM3 7GB/s ?
Nice, thanks for sharing this! Sometimes I forget 50 years doesn't refer to the 50s or 60s anymore :)
Chaos Computer Club also means there are actual physical club rooms where members can meet.
The problem is that this wasn't the only way they were gathering this info, and that they misled consumers by allowing them to turn off a setting that supposedly stopped this kind of tracking, while still continuing to track due to a different setting defaulting to "on".
> it would have solved others (e.g. the Office Team being able to use undocumented OS APIs to get an edge on competitors).

I mean, it might have prevented learning about and using new undocumented APIs going forward, but it would be in none of the newly-broken-up companies' interests to break the existing usage.

> splitting some of those divisions further into competitors

Even that I'm skeptical of - first, because you'd need enforcement to prevent them from simply merging again after a while (glares at Ma Bell breakup companies reforming into a few huge companies which usually deliberately avoid competing in markets), and second, I'm not convinced that deliberately fragmenting Windows into 2 distinct codebases is beneficial for consumers?

Even assuming you could avoid one of the two competitors simply winning the vast majority of the marketshare after one round of OS upgrades, you'd likely end up with mutually incompatible API surfaces, thus breaking one of the main reasons people like Windows - compatibility.

(I still claim, though, that given two initially equal products and equal resources, that one will probably relatively quickly eat the other's lunch. Look at what's happened almost every time a large open source project has had a high-profile fork - look at egcs and gcc, or OpenWRT and LEDE, or libav and ffmpeg.)
> our technological global civilization

Good riddance. If our technological global civilization results in conditions that make technological global civilization impossible, then so be it. It wasn't fit to exist to begin with. It's a self-regulating problem.

> There’s a long scholarship concerning resource conflict and the destabilizing effects of mass migration. We don’t have a good track record of dealing with this, and I see little reason to expect us to become better at it soon.

I don't know what you mean here - are you suggesting mass migration is inevitable?

> The geoengineering idea is especially ludicrous to me - what we’re really talking about are emergency uncontrolled experiments to stave off a worse disaster. We’ve organized our entire global economic system around carbon - any geoengineering project has to not only compete with that, but actively remove more carbon from the atmosphere, which is a problem you’re underestimating the difficulty of.

No, I mean spraying dust into the atmosphere to make it darker, so less sunlight comes in.

It's not just a matter of economy - people aren't even picking the low-hanging fruit. If any country wanted to severely cut CO2 emissions, there's a simple thing they could do:

1) reopen all the closed nuclear plants
2) deregulate nuclear power plant construction, focus on mass producing cheap power plants with no regard for safety
3) shut down the coal plants
4) throw everyone who protests in prison

Obviously, this isn't done because all of these steps are politically impossible. But it just goes to show - if we were serious about this, we'd have picked the low-hanging fruit already. If we haven't even picked the low-hanging fruit yet, how can you say it's impossible?

> To close, what has humanity done to convince you that we’ll 100% restructure our society to collaboratively solve this crisis “once it gets bad enough”?

It's like people procrastinating their homework until 5 minutes before the deadline. Eventually they'll get it done.
the spam emails are pretty shit
It's interesting as they are pollyfilling Node APIs so they can stick with the much more performant V8 engine for edge based workers
It's a lot harder to play god of men than of wild animals.
Genuine question: would Amazon suffer such an affiliate to live long term?
<Quote> In the 2020s, the enemy of freedom in computing is cloud software (aka software as a service/SaaS, aka web apps) – i.e. software that runs primarily on the vendor’s servers, with all your data also stored on those servers. Examples include Google Docs, Trello, Slack, Figma, Notion, and many others.

Agreed.

<Quote paraphrasing> (insert hand-wavy excuses why GPL isn't good...)

I'd say its time to look at the GPL3 Affero license https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

--Paragraph 13--

13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software. This Corresponding Source shall include the Corresponding Source for any work covered by version 3 of the GNU General Public License that is incorporated pursuant to the following paragraph.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the work with which it is combined will remain governed by version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
Might start a brand "NetZer0" (see 'Seaspiracy'). Companies can pay me to have the logo so consumers can have a false sense of security and I can buy an island, make it apocalypse safe and live there with friends, family and anyone who can pass an empathy test.
Not when the algorithm is controlled by Google. Just like SEO efforts. Google will tweak their FLoC generation to ensure they get what they want out of it.
Bitcoin is making coal economical whereas a year ago coal was on the way out because it was not cheaper than wind and solar. So we are headed backwards. Very frightening
There's also the local DC chapters, http://dc612.org/ has been going strong up in Minneapolis for years.
First and foremost, thank you for your work! And I would certainly say you're likely considerably more versed than I. From my research, I felt like his escapades at Millbrook and also his shenanigans with harvard did 2 things: On Millbrook, pushed away from his work as serious work and more towards play, that rubbed people the wrong way. On Harvard, I don't think the universities were as open to ideas in that direction after he caused a ruckus. I did quite a bit of research, but it was years ago, if you wanna drop me an email I'll see if I can rustle up the things that lead me down that thought path and send them over, it was mostly from interviews of others around that time.
Bing.com has Google Earth first on the list as well.

I think you are overreacting to how many searches give Google products as the first result.

The only products that do rank high are literally the most popular products. What do you think they should rig the results against themselves? Why would that help people?
both of these require very large audiences to make money, the amazon affiliate program pays very poorly and people hate & block ads. Not saying it's impossible but the days of slapping a few ads and affiliate links on your website and expecting to make decent revenue are long gone. Especially if you want to offer a good UX
That’s all well and fine for third party libraries, but less so if you work at some company with some internal framework or whatever using the old system still.
It also seems like your brain is doing most of the work here:

https://nvlabs.github.io/GANcraft/images/vox2img.png

The renderer seems to be adding some resolution, smoothing, and mipmapping. Shaders can do the same thing, and in real time.
At face value, this seems like mere prostitution. However, when viewed through a medical lens, you’ll realize that sexual satisfaction is an essential human need that can have a profound impact on our general health and wellbeing.

A change in perspective and a little compassion makes a world of difference.
Let's be honest: there is prostitution in every country. The people getting this therapy aren't going for prostitution. They could get that elsewhere easier.
Could you clarify the point on Android and copyright issues? At least at the time in 2017 when Google blessed Kotlin as an officially supported language, it seemed like the reasoning was Kotlin was far more ergonomic than Java. How does copyright come into this?
It's mostly Java that's playing catch-up, so arguably it's Java "cloning" C# rather than the other way round, and it's been that way for years now.
So when we remove the legacies and school fund donators (roughly half) - about 40 to 50 percent of the class, athletes (affirmative action for rich whites with relatively lower credentials and scores) - about 10-20 percent of the class, and regular affirmative action ( about 15 percent of the class and mainly affluent politically connected blacks and latinos). The remainder is the group based on traditional credentials.

The academic reputation of these schools is disproportionately from that remainder group.

The rest of the world just has an exam system. Interesting way of comparing the systems.
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It's not unconstitional. But neither is the proposal here. That's the problem: the rules allow a lot of things that are considered unfair and un-collegial. If that's successful, then eventually the tactics will be considered by the other side.

It's a political judgment call of whether it will be a net benefit to them. (My guess is that they'll conclude that packing the court is not but term limits for future nominations are.) But it will undoubtedly be constitutional -- and pushed as far as they think it can be.
Which part do you disagree with, the prevailing sentiment or the article quote?
I worked with 88K DG/UX. Back in those times our company did a desktop environment for UNIX workstations (X Windows didn't come with one as standard). We had over 20 different versions of UNIX systems, including a Sony workstation.

88K DG/UX didn't last very long before they switched to x86, which we also had. Under my desk I had Motorola's 88110 system (a stackable with a SCSI floppy disk!) The thing that stood out most about DG was just how nice all their staff were. I mean really nice.

Even in those days it became very apparent that whatever workstations developers worked on were what was then best supported in the products even for non-GUI software. Slowly but surely the workstation vendors dropped support to server only, meanwhile Windows spread from workstations to servers even though it was considered inferior. Linux also spread for the same reasons.
I'm mostly thinking of spouses, parents and children, and I think that a blind trust should probably suffice (you could own stock, just not have direct control over it).
The CCC is both. It's a club of computer- and technology-interested d people. Most cities have some rented space that doubles as a hacker and tinker space. It really depends on the members in each city what the specific location looks like.

That there is also a branch of very public security experts is... Incidental, I'd say.
Python 3 was necessary for cleaning. Having default new style classes, super() and so on are goodies, not necessities.

It was necessary for the things that are were not easy to do without breaking compat such as unicode, fixing comparison bugs, etc.

Now none of the stuff that broke compat in 3 after the initial release were things that were necessities. They were goodies. You don't need make from __future__ import annotations as default. You don't need to make async/await keyword.
As someone who worked as an audio engineer, solving problems before they can occur saves so much time and headache. There's no reason to faff about with software or complexity-inducing algorithms when the whole problem can be fixed by toggling one switch.

Technically you could accomplish the same thing by applying a parametric eq to the master buss, but then you're no longer software agnostic.

It's like photography; sure one can post-process photos in photoshop. But getting everything right before taking the picture, at a hardware level, simplifies things for everyone involved.
Exactly. I dropped out of university, so I can't be hired by any German agency/office, because a degree is a hard requirement. But I can work for them as a consultant asking for more than two-three times the money...

The salary is a joke, I've made their base salary, which requires at least bachelors degree, as part time working student in private sector.

There is only one reason to work for the government in Germany and it's called "Verbeamtung" (a legal state where you are not employed, but appointed for government service, it's almost impossible to get fired and you pay little to no taxes, etc.), but the whole office politics and long decision making channels are awful (source: me working for a company owned by the local government years ago).
Yes. Last year I made an app that _kinda_ does this ( https://www.seamless.cloud ).

It solves the security issue by making you define the query first in Seamless, and then you get a REST API endpoint to run that query, with optional parameters that are run in a prepared statement.

Query (in the Seamless backend)

> SELECT * FROM posts WHERE author_id = ${author_id} LIMIT 50

And corresponding REST endpoint for that:

> GET https://primary.dbapi.seamless.cloud/somecompany/queries/run...

I dogfooded it while writing the serverless backend for BudgetSheet, and in practice I got tired of having to pre-define each query up front in the app before I could run it from the app. It was kinda painful to switch back and forth vs. just having the queries in the codebase. So... I have definitely been thinking a lot more about how to move the SQL to the client, but in a secure way (perhaps in cobination with the Seamless app that only allows "verified" queries to run in production, etc.) There is definitely some room here for a little innovation.
Yes, there are all sort of weirdness in their rendering but that's what you get in a research paper. Put that in the hands of actual game designers and you will have incredible possibilities.
If physicists can have dark matter and dark energy, then why can't we have dark bytes? Why should we let the physicists have all the dark fun?
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Well, law of big numbers. Java is used everywhere. For every failed Java project, there is many successful one as well. And honestly, chances are that team would have failed in any other language as well.
https://thestorygraph.com is a better goodreads. It's found my last 8 or so books for me.
For those interested in the topic of sex surrogates, I recommend the movie "The sessions" (2012, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1866249/)
I hear you. It's not broken. It does serve the primal use cases like shelving, reviews/ratings, meta-information pretty well. But there is also so much more to the experience of reading. Is Goodreads really the best we deserve?
I think what comes closest is the Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/
I think that’s per-Pin bandwidth?
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My piece of opinion: https://gist.github.com/pavlukivan/711faee4b771dde0299429cc788a1099

Perhaps I should've posted it as an article, but since my main goal is discussion, not presenting my opinion per se, I feel "Ask HN" is a better choice here.