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Mozilla is really the sad old tale of how money can in fact corrupt. Ruining great technology, firing talented people all so that some CEO can make millions.

So many people would be tremendously happy about a free Web Browser that is not run by corporate interests, respects privacy and offers power user features.

And yes it could run on donation just fine. Wikipedia is running on donations and it more than well financed.

I have so often wished for a way to directly donate to and only to Firefox development but no they know better.

Not to mention the GNU project has proven that developers are in fact willing to work for the greater good for free, especially if you pick a license that protects users freedom instead of corporate interest.
>NetBSD. And it was a real pain to start working with Emacs.

You could use any other editor, both for GUI and CLI.
There are many factors that contribute to appreciation and depreciation. Decay is just one of them. There could be other appreciating factors that outweigh the depreciating ones. Also, if you measure the value of something in a generally depreciating currency, you automatically get rising prices (ceteris paribus).
> What to do?

Buy a dumbphone, strictly restrict access to the internet via computer. Wait a year to regrow your abilities.

Sorry to sound like your dad.
"Not as bad as Windows" is such a low, low bar.

Mozilla would be far more effective if they would just properly align their incentives.
I think this zero-sum game thinking, where Firefox is either the default browser or it isn't, is antiquated.

While I'm not necessarily representative of a broader population, I find that I prefer different web browsers based on what I want to do in my browser.

For example, I really like Safari for shopping because of its first class support for Apple Pay on my Mac. I just tap my finger on the sensor, and I'm done.

When I use Google Meet, Safari doesn't work great, so I will boot up Brave or Chrome.

For reasons that are unclear to me, Firefox renders pages with extremely rich and bright colors that jump right off the page. So I love using Firefox for browsing pages with a lot of photos or interesting graphic design.

Apps like https://www.choosyosx.com have helped make workflows like the above a bit easier, but are far from perfect. I wonder if there is a place for Mozilla to explore a way to make the UX for multiple browser vendors even better. I think many people would love to have Firefox as their default browser for 80 - 90% of the web, but not 100%.
I know someone who works as a contractor for Google (not through Modis). It's quite odd. They had to go through a lot of Google specified training, they only work for Google, their manager is someone from Google, the computer was supplied from Google, they're doing work that is directed by Google, they receive performance feedback from Google. But at the day, they're officially employed by this vendor company. I just don't see how it can be argued that people like this are not really employed by Google. If Google doesn't need this job anymore, this staffing company isn't going to retain them. It's not like they have other clients where they can redirect the person to as far as I can tell.

Why is it that Google uses these staffing firms? I get that they don't want to provide the same benefits to lower skilled workers but then why not just have 2 sets of benefits? One for higher skilled employees and one for lower skilled employees? I suppose the other answer is when it comes to layoffs, it won't be in the news because these types of workers are not officially employed by Google.
> Ms Wait would have to break her back schlepping spools around a jobsite for a few years before she could get onto the actual electrician career track.

Ms Wait would be paid >=$15 to do this.
Yep. It's an awkward situation. A lot of the data engineers I work with are CWs, and under the circumstances of normal interaction they're pretty much indistinguishable from FTEs. But there are all sorts of compliance reasons for why you aren't supposed to treat them as real "team members" with all the attendant perks and privileges. Many ICs will not even realize that their colleagues are CWs since it's not the default presumption.

The "solution" of just converting them all to FTEs and effectively giving them massive boosts in total compensation is impractical. So this awkward, hushed reality is likely to continue as a least-bad solution.
Green hydrogen: 'Rust' as a photoanode and its limits
I disagree. It is an autopilot that works well when applied correctly, it is not generally viable full self driving which is what I think people tend to hear when they read ‘autopilot’.

Wikipedia: “An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle, allowing the operator to focus on broader aspects of operations.”

The problem is when people don’t understand the difference between an autopilot driver assist system and a fully autonomous vehicle.
In this hypothetical I'm logging into the account from two different devices, one connected through the local ISP and the second on a cellular network (either through a hotspot or directly from my phone it doesn't matter). My IP for things going through the cell network get an IP that is located by GEOIP as being in Atlanta while the local ISP would locate to the RTP area of North Carolina.
One can really watch the news cycle acting like an ecosystem where one species feeds on another. Richard Neville and Julie Clarke published their book about Charles Sobhraj’s murders in the late 1970s. Recently, the book got yet another media adaptation as the television series The Serpent, and that TV series in turn has spurred newspapers and magazines this year to publish all these new articles about Sobhraj.

It must feel a bit odd to be an elderly participant in this drama who suddenly journalists want to interview again decades later and ask all the old questions, even though no new facts have really come to light, and that original Clarke & Neville book remains a perfectly adequate reference.
Your home network and a cloud datacenter aren’t comparable. Many clouds have host level firewall policies as a core feature, and anyone competent is managing them profile-style using Terraform or an equivalent. It’s really quite easy from that perspective.
But that's the thing. The individual property gets fixed. New houses get built. But the community doesn't benefit. The 'new' folks do not integrate into the area. They don't shop local. They don't send their kids to the local schools (and in many cases use their money to legally fight with the district about funding because their kids go to private school). They don't really 'live' out here. They just happen to stay here.

>It sounds like your area had a major influx.

And that was my point - the OP I was responding to said that s/he would welcome tech refugees. I was trying to point out that it's genuinely not all roses and gold. There are specific problems with that influx of people and money.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the insurance, which is officially "not required", but no bank will give you a mortgage without one. Depending on how you decide to pay for it (installments vs lump sum), that can end up being another significant expense.
Do you have a specific example? Datomic is great for evolving in prod (https://blog.datomic.com/2017/01/the-ten-rules-of-schema-gro...), and Clojure is a great language for generating data (or ETL) when you want to make radical changes in dev.
>The US is such an odd country.

It's not odd once you understand our culture celebrates and almost worships exploitation of some form or the other. It may be exploitation of science and engineering leading to technological growth that we can all share, it may be exploitation of natural resources we've found for a bargain, it may be exploitation of human labor finding how the least amounts can be spent of necessary labor to maximize revenue.

The recent focus to me seems to be on targeting labor and optimizing those costs since the low hanging socially acceptable fruits are starting to give diminishing returns that can't meet some peoples' insatiable appetites for financial growth. This contract position is yet another story of yet another casuality in the cost optimization war by business against human labor expenses.
If you install in-wall cat6 it’ll probably be obsolete by the end of the decade.

No. Most devices will still work just fine on Cat 5e for another 10-20 years, running at 1gbps. Cat 6a, running at 10gbps, will be fine for residential for another 25-30 years.

Putting fiber in the walls is an expensive overkill. If you are worried about future proofing, just install conduit with cat 6a.
Planetary Defense Conference Exercise – 2021
4 works fine with thumb = 1 too!

But clearly you are right, the pinky is by nature the smallest digit. :)

<Hand raised with 9> Rock on!
Show HN: Type-aware code search for Go
Currently searches on most starred 100 Go repositories on Github including big code bases like Kubernetes, Ethereum... and returns results mostly under a second.

I couldn't find a similar solution so building and experimenting on it.

Let me know what you think!
> It isn't giving up your garden: it's swapping it for a much larger shared garden with facilities you could never dream of affording on your own.

And for some people, that's great. For me, not living in a flat in the city (quite the opposite) isn't because I want a garden and facilities all my own. It's because you can't control how terrible your neighbors are, so if they're farther away from where you spend most of your time, even if they're terrible, they have little impact.

Take a loud neighbor who works nights. He'll play his music loud at hours you'd be sleeping, and pound on the wall at hours he'd be sleeping, because you're too loud.

Now add 5000 square feet of land between you.

"Good fences make good neighbors."
Airbnb Deploys 125,000 Times per Year with Multicluster Kubernetes
Some of it is also local costs of living and remote work. Look at the recurring talk of SV salaries vs the rest of the country and how companies should value their remote workers. I've seen people on here claim that $200k-250k isn't enough to raise a family on, yet it's multiples of my salary. People come to expect that high salary even when they move to lower cost areas for remote work. Even if they take a 50% pay cut (almost unheard of) they are still in the top 10% of earners in many rural places. Just. a couple people like that won't move the dial much. But if you have an influx of people to a specific area, then I can certainly see that driving up the cost of living in that area regardless of the typical monetary or fiscal policies of the government.
As I have slowly started to shift more workloads into my homelab I have started to ponder the right monitoring solution. I would like to be able to see hardware and OS metrics for my entire fleet in one area, regardless of the host, vm vs bare metal etc...

Munin, Monit, Nagios, Zabbix and a few other tools are on my list to try out.

My biggest concern is around the data management. Ideally the underlying datastore can be moved, expanded, etc... as I sort out how much history I want to keep.

What do y'all use for this? I have 2 VM hosts (esxi), 1 bare metal box, and a handful of ubnt networking equipment.
Thanks for your response.

Most likely I don't want to start out too early with a large team. But I can only get so far as a team of one. I at least need a co-founder and would like to know how to handle a relationship with one and what kind of agreements we should have about money and decision making. I worked with a designer on a small side project, a few months into it we had a disagreement. I wanted to pay a fair price more more work, but the designer wanted control over the direction of the project instead. Ultimately, the designer asked me not to use their work, and I ended up redesigning the whole thing from scratch. Barely salvaged the personal relationship from that. I want to get better at making agreements with other people and potentially building a small team when the time is right.

> Do you really need initial funding?

I at least need a plan for paying my bills until I start making money from something. Not to mention getting help with things I'm not good at, like design, marketing, etc. With only enough money to pay my basic bills for a year, the amount of time and money I can invest into a project would be limited. If I'm investing my own time and money into starting something, I'd have about 6 months, maximum, before I'd need to start looking for a day job again. This is just my thinking about it. I welcome any pushback or different perspectives.

Edit: whoa, while I was writing this comment you added quite a bit to yours. :) The concrete steps are helpful. I can focus on the first 5 for now.
Basically, every browser now has to copy Chrome's incessant nagging, or continue to lose ground to Chrome.
Maybe a somewhat problematic name choice.
When I read the headline, I thought it was meant to simulate a Shadow PC. https://shadow.tech/de
Maybe people's families are more important to them than not being called racist by a corporation.
Fracturing society is a feature, not a bug, of our current news landscape. It keeps people from thinking too hard, about things like Billionaires and members of Congress generating fortunes during a pandemic.

No, I think this technology is much simpler. It means that product placement contracts can now generate annual recurring revenue, instead of once-off revenue.

Movies and TV shows could be shot and distributed with exposed 'source code' (eg. visible green screens) which the client or local distribution network then seamlessly overlays with an appropriate brand.

Advertisers can be rotated in and out depending on who pays the most, and multiple advertisers can be signed up based on a segmented viewer base to maximise revenue.

Its also a long-term source of work for advertising agencies and video technicians, I guess.
Annoying your users, even the ones who have explicitly said they don't want to be annoyed, is not the key to market success.
Whoa I love this idea. I usually refer to it as "transactional" (always growing, represents the daily activity, read and write heavy) vs "lookup" data (almost exclusively read, not changed often). But still store them in the same database.

What ends up happening is we end up separating the two more with "cache this one, not that one" rather than two different databases.

I will explore this idea on my next greenfield project, whenever that happens.
“Can you sign this 10-Year agreement to make Firefox your default browser across all devices? Click here”
Fiber it is!
Lump sum in Belgium. You might be able to get away with tacking it on to the mortgage, but only if you have additional collateral (another home, rich parents, whatever). Or maybe if it's a really cheap house.
In this case I think the disadvantages would be you're locked into one machine type and your blast radius is a bit wider.
I didn't expect to be soo offline. It's literally snail mail :D
Moreover, housing prices historically have been linked with median wages. Houses should only be worth as much as buyers can reasonably afford. However if you look at this graph you’ll see that house prices have departed from the historical average significantly, as they did in 2008 before the housing crash.
https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

Responsible buyers are supposed to put less than 30% of monthly income towards housing, but prices require much more than that. This is leading to most owners and renters being cost burdened and unable to save.
I think this would end up sitting the draw next to my camera. For me phones are "good enough" for music given I'm mostly listening on the go so there are many more factors that influence the sound.

The best audio player is the one you have in your hand right now. (to butcher the quote) And that for me, just like my camera, is the phone that is always there.

Having said that Music, like coffee, or keyboards is a very personal thing that people connect with and so I can see the appeal of the focused device. It's similar to the e-book reader I suppose where there are not the distractions of a full connected phone. Just you and the music.
No, it might look something like Innsbruck, Austria, which is a beautiful city.

It may come as a shock to Americans raised in suburbia, but there are housing types between single family units and skyscrapers that are very human-scale and attractive. Look at pretty much any mountain town in Europe.
Well, if this is the plan, fine. I think it is inadvisable. However, I also think asking people nicely, in creative, well grounded fashion is better than a full on nag, however low key it is.

"Please consider using Firefox as your default browser because [insert what FF is all about] matters."

"Browser monoculture leads to [insert it here], why not help out by using Firefox as your default browser?"

You get the idea.

Again, inadvisable, but if you all are going to do it anyway, really do it. Have some fun, be passionate.

Maybe it will work despite the naysayers, myself included. Sometimes things do.
and someone drunkenly asks you for a cigarette
I am thinking from the cultivation aspect. I love that here in Michigan I can grow my own cannabis 100% legally. I also love that we are starting to decriminalize active/psych mushrooms (Ann Arbor so far) for the same reason (home cultivation).
Monitor Starlink Power with WiFi Enabled Power Plug
The Time I Sold Furbies for Money
Localizing dates in a Perl web application
Is Microsoft Developing a VR Headset for Xbox Series X/S?
The last company i worked for wanted to charge employees for laptops in case of accidental damage or loss (appart from a clause charging for negligent damage or loss).

I decided not to sign unless they removed the accidental part. In the end they removed it.

People dont realise but they have more power than they think. Specially in smaller companies.

Companies wait until the end of the interview to reveal all those nasty bits. But at that exact time, it's when they know they need you and they wa y you. Ask for your a copy of your contract before you decide. And feel free to comment on it. It is the only moment when you as an individual have the upper hand.
A lot of the workers are FTEs, hence the "class system". Those FTEs are likely the ones that would handle such emergencies.
Zoning in most of the US is pretty much the same. California just got bad before other places did.
Well, the zero-sum game isn't really Mozilla's fault. This is just how the OS works. There is only one default browser per user. It's the one that handles hyperlinks coming from other apps.

What is their fault is bugging users with no way of turning it off.
Even a fully unencrypted local video feed would require someone to park outside your house for the duration of the broadcast to capture it all. Meanwhile, in the cloud, user data sometimes gets dumped into unsecured S3 buckets that anyone in the world could access. Even if the video is properly secured, there's no guarantee the service in question is not keeping it indefinitely for marketing/machine-learning/other purposes and it eventually leaks in a security breach.
Limitless options make it a bit harder to know what the good options are. I'd prefer not to just jump in with zero direction. That seems like asking for failure.
I'd be inclined to agree (my own workplace has some managers that are pretty rough but I wouldn't call it a shitty place to work), except if this manager is quoting "IBM policy", then it's probably not just the manager.
So like GNS3.

Ah, ok, without virtualizing/emulating.
Such great suggestions, thank you all
> And guess what It would happen even more without police making thousands of interactions.

This claim is dubious — there are studies showing both a modest decrease [1][2] and no correlation [3] in the drunk driving crash rate when arrests are increased.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4254192/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK217455/

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6221143_Policing_th...
I bought a zx500 because I wanted access to my streaming services, on top of my usual Flac library, because I cannot trust myself not to fiddle around in a web browser on any other machine haha.

The only thing I’m not happy with is the volume limit (I have an EU machine). It doesn’t leave me any headroom on insensitive planar magnetic headphones like Fostex T50’s and Dan Clark Aeon’s. Worse than that, they limit the 4.4mm output to the same power output as the 3.5mm and have removed high/low gain completely in software in these systems
The question is if the feedback is in line with the announcement.

Basically the same a pointing out a spelling error on a single slide in a CS class. You are technically correct about the feedback, but it is misplaced and not worth spending time on in class.
New study finds birds give people as much happiness as money
Could be the biggest post about BPES ever And with examples
It's standard in all IT contracts. You will not get a job otherwise.
The point isn't that they take everything, but you'd have to run it by them for approval. You are not then not allowed to have e.g. a second job with a potential competitor or provide the same service as a freelancer as through your company.

In this case, I assume IBM wants its employees contributions to be noted as open source support. They are a major contributor to Linux, in and off paid hours, they will not have a problem with one employee doing open source work, just want the PR.
Thanks for y'all's feedback! I'll do my best to improve formatting here so that the reading experience is more enjoyable.
Actually, it will annoy me in particular even though FF is my default browser. Technically, Choosy (https://www.choosyosx.com/) is my default "browser" on macOS and FF is the preferred browser in Choosy. I hope there will be an about:config preference to disable "nudging".
Show HN: Rolo's Money Box–finance app that gives you visibility of your savings
Wouldn't the low bluetooth bitrate eliminate most of the advantage?
dishwashers have standard dimensions

"A standard dishwasher is about 24 inches wide, 24 inches deep and 35 inches high. Most cabinet openings are made to fit a standard dishwasher size. Note that certain handles may affect the overall dishwasher depth. Oversized dishwashers are built wider than the standard opening."

they come in three sizes compact standard and custom.
Hey, creator here I made Rolo's Money Box because I wanted to take my savings and split them up so I could keep track of how I'm saving for things like a new car or a wedding.

e.g. I want to say "I have £10k in my savings account, £6k is for my new car and £4k is for my wedding"

It's free to use (with a Buy Me a Coffee link https://www.buymeacoffee.com/rolosmoneybox) to help with running costs.

We're in Beta just now and so any feedback would be welcome.

Happy to chat through the tech stack if anyone is interested too (Rails).
Autechre have been doing that for quite a while now using Max et al., including computer based composition. Irlite [0] (and Bladelores) both feature some form of compositional changes throughout the track.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmwW5kBfltk&list=PL1yYEMwtFZ...
There are pedal powered boats. People take canoes across the ocean so it isn't impossible if you are prepared. Every pedal boat I've seen has been worthless in even a gentle breeze, but this should "just" be an engineering challenge.
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To paraphrase a common saying: "Harrison Bergeron was a warning, not a instruction manual."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron