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15 years ago such 'app' used to be called a message board. There were many of these in existence. A lot of them were small enough that after a while, you would start to recognize usernames. Many had moderation relaxed enough that you could have fun threads about nothing in particular.

Anonymity was encouraged, which was great - it made absolutely no difference what one looked like, what gender they were etc.

There was no specific focus on making friends. In my opinion, joining something that has a friend-making purpose immediately makes it a bit awkward and makes interactions somewhat forced. Much better if friendships are forged 'accidentally', which happened a lot on those websites.

Threads and replies would be sorted by latest post, not by any notion of 'rating', and threads would never really expire. These made conversation more natural and discouraged people from just posting what they thought would be popular or risk not being even noticed.

After a while, people might have exchanged instant messenger contacts, which also had the benefit of being anonymous. People also were not online all the time, so could 'disconnect' any time, which also helped with feeling comfortable about it.

Search engines would show these message boards in search results, which meant that like-minded people would find them in similar ways and already have something in common.

Then antisocial media came along and made us all less connected.
Did you read the PDF? It’s actually really clear there. Lots of defamatory and false comments were made by the former staff - which are proven to be false in the document.

In terms of the ownership, it was on the main blog and website for the past 4 years [1].

Also checkout http://techrights.org/2021/05/21/freenode-facts/

Thanks!

[1] https://freenode.net/news/pia-fn
I'm curious about the name. Frum is Yiddish for 'religious'.
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I agree and you’re very welcome!
The overflow release valve of a dam is there by design but if it's gushing constantly that isn't necessarily indicative of everything being all sunshine and roses.
In the case of France, it's culture is a pretty good chunk of the country's GDP (indirectly via tourism).
Maybe that's exactly the problem: Lee was being a custodian in the background. Tomaw or whomever decides they want control, so starts spreading falsehoods about interactions with Lee / Lee's intentions. Because Lee is so hands off, these falsehoods gain a lot of traction before Lee is aware of them / can do anything about them and now we're here.

Not saying this is the reality, but it doesn't seem far-fetched given the IRC drama I've seen in the past. Certainly not any more far-fetched than the "Lee wants to takeover freenode" (the entity he already owned for years) angle.
Jessica Livingston had a good quote about how sales was making a few people love you and marketing was making a lot of people know about you.

I agree with you regarding sales and why its effective in real-time, but it doesn't have to be that way — technology is rapidly changing that, software is getting so good you can now just signup for products you'd typically previous have to talk to a human to use.

I think this trend will continue, and with Journey my belief is we can accelerate that even more with powerful marketing tools.

I would add that sales is absolutely also storytelling - a great example is fundraising! I joined a B2B technology company (AdRoll) and worked there for 4 years and saw first hand how effective sales people sell - by telling stories, not reading from slides.
Italy has had this for a few years now (people born from 1998 onwards, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-23/italy-s-1...): €500 to be spent on books, music and cultural events, so even looking at the app idea and graphics I would guess this is where it was inspired from.

Overall, I would say it was well-used considering the problem our country has with "free money" initiatives, although I definitely met some people who tried to "cheat the system" to some (smaller) extent, e.g. by using the voucher to get free high-end Kindles in bookstores.

Also, about 40% of purchases (if I recall the stats correctly) were made on Amazon, Spotify or other "big tech" corporations, meaning that while it gave a boost to the smaller economy, local businesses did not get from it as much as one could expect.
You should see Québec.
Another way to put it: the decision to open the door requires some minimum unit of energy. That energy is itself at maximum entropy: there's no way to regain it for useful work. The total effect of this is that you can't beat entropy in the long term.

That's often expressed in terms of deleting the information, which really does amount to the same thing viewed through a different lens. Looked at that way, the demon would be regaining the (organized) energy it would need to make the next decision. That requires energy input.

I find the "deletion" view kinda confusing, but it does work. It's all a matter of where you want to set your zero points.
This is a great list of current, and archival, interface guidelines:
http://www.geofcrowl.com/blog/articles/2020/2/17/collection-...

I bet you can find it, or something similar, there.
Username checks out; but seriously, don't over do it. Someday you'll hit financial independence, and you're going to need to have the non-financial aspects of your life (friends, romantic partners, health, hobbies, etc) squared away before you retire.

If you've been neglecting them all your life, it's harder than you'd imagine to repair them.
Problem is that it might be the case that this culture pass will only be spendable on government-subsidized venues.

In my country there already exists culture pass programs for young/poor people, but you can only use them in big/subsidized concert venues, art galleries, cinemas and museums. You can't use it in more "underground" venues/events which are too small or focused to get government grants, and in my opinion those are very important to culture as well.

Still better than nothing of course.
Some people looked into it http://banyan-vines.bamertal.com/pages/banyan-vines-download...
Im from a rural area too and am in a city. It's the funniest thing to me when I see a lifted truck or jeep with an imaculate white paint job, lol.
That’s completely untrue - The design of crumple and impact zones like the hood, bumpers and headlights absolutely do help pedestrians. There is a suite of Road safety tests designed to specifically evaluate exactly that: https://www.euroncap.com/en/vehicle-safety/the-ratings-expla...
I don't really think that's the moral of the story, Bluetooth in car stereos brings value to people, many use it. You could fix this pretty easily with more separation between the stereo and the "important" components.
Home inspection was super useful for us when we bought our new built house, they found a major issue with the house which would have cost us thousands to fix later
But how would you charge the truck?
If you've profiled the system and rate limit bandwidth to what's below the "steady state flow" of your network (including modem), then you never have buffers. It's usually only one or two layers you have to worry about before you get into some higher bandwidth backbones and the problem largely goes away. If L3's main links are buffering, the internet has some larger problems.

As a concrete example here, I run networking for our church, and we've had to make a facility that really wasn't designed for livestreaming into something that can toss out a tolerable stream.

We've got... no idea what we pay for, actually, but it reliably measures about 70/15 on Sunday mornings with nothing restricted. However, due to some various quirks of network naming, there are a lot of other devices on the network, some of which only get woken up for Sundays, and they like installing updates. Plus cell phones that recognize "Oooh, wireless!" I need to split the network up, but I also hate rejoining "things" to networks, and we have a few more of those than I really care to deal with.

Experimentally, while our max upstream is about 15Mbit, things start to get erratic beyond about 10 - latency starts getting inconsistent and we start having stream issues. I've capped the livestream bandwidth at 8Mbit (we hardware transcode on site from the Main profile h.264 coming out of the switcher to High profile, at a lower bitrate), and that gets first priority - I'm using Mikrotik queues, so any packet coming out of the server on Sunday goes first. I played around with what everyone else gets, and eventually settled on around 2Mbit - that can mix in with our livestream and still not impact anything outbound.

But I also had to cap our download. While the connection can do 70Mbit, I reliably saw upload dropping (even from 10Mbit) if something had pegged out download in the morning. So that's capped to a conservative 20Mbit, which is enough for most things, and is low enough to not interfere with the higher priority upload.

This is all on timers, and the limits kick in Sunday before the services, and drop off afterwards.

You can also find a lot of gains if your router prioritizes acks outbound. DSL modems were often so badly asymmetrical (think 25Mbit down, 768kbit up) that your upstream acks would end up in queues and not get through for a while (buffer bloat, though I didn't know that term at the time). You could radically improve a DSL modem's connection by putting some queues in to manage upload. Prioritize acks, and then limit your total upload to about 750kbit (on that example 768k modem) so that you weren't buffering in the modem.

And all of this is entirely in the scope of the router, even if it's working around issues further upstream.
Agreed. As I mentioned in an earlier thread on this scandal, [0] we already know that security bugs can make their way into the kernel.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26888129
> They limit the number of foreign restaurant chains like McDonalds and Chipotle

I've never heard of anything like that. McDonald's are everywhere, there are new American concoctions of dubious nature making their way into the mainstream everyday and half the central streets of any given city seem to be made out of kebab joints.
The DNS dispute is when I, who owned the domains, was cut off from the domains and simply asked for it back. As you can see I was approached by freenode to buy freenode please don’t twist it.

Did you read the PDF with the screenshots?
Why the heck would a IRC network, run by volunteer, with infra graciously provided by sponsors, have to sign NDAs with anyone? Everything about Freenode should have been transparent.
I think it's just Christel needed money and this guy took advantage and no one or almost no one with admin/operational duties was informed. So I think the legality of this transaction was dubious.

But, I don't think it matters that much anymore. People just need to get the word out that the network has a new name.
I’m pretty sure this is the kind of attitude that causes rural folks to be so skeptical of climate change. Some (I’m assuming) city-dweller talking down to them about how they don’t need what they feel to be a useful tool in their daily lives.

I mean, it sounds like your real reservation about trucks is not that they emit carbon, but that they are hogging up space and inconveniencing you, which is not a very persuasive argument.
Can things that happen to CEOs be extrapolated and applied successfully to regular workers?

Companies already buy salary information from brokers. So they already know what the competition is paying and generally try to keep in line with that. And that's pretty much a type of collusion. If everyone seeks to pay "market rates" based on these salary reports, then everyone will aim to pay about the same amount.
I think of it as saying that the two are really just equivalent to one another, in a different basis. At a mathematical level, there's a fine line between "proof" and "redefining your terms".
I have 1000/100 cable and my upload is consistently 110-120
If Libera.chat gets 60% of the users, freenode would still be the second largest IRC network. I think there will be a enough inertia among people/projects who don't follow hacker news or internet trends for the remainder of freenode to retain an audience.

The bigger question is if they retain enough server sponsors, who may be paying more attention. They might defect to libera.chat or OFTC, or just decide the whole business is not worth their while.
Not sure I understand your second comment. While I did say “energy generation” I think it is well understood the intent was to speak about electricity generation. Besides, we cant actually generate energy, only convert it from one form to another, always wasting some in the process.
Very odd, I'm on the same release (Catalina) and no difficulties. The certificate is from Google Trust Services, which presumably Chrome should honor.

Perhaps you have a proxy causing interference?

As the sibling comment notes, looking at the certificate using Advanced may help clarify things.

Update: here's the full chain that I see:

web.dev, signed by GTS CA 1D2, with a root certificate of GlobalSign Root CA - R2.
Most people use their truck for something where they need a truck about once a month. However the cost of two vehicles (insurance and parking space) means that they are better off with one truck than a truck and some other sensible vehicle.
it's free because the actual sponsors (the ISPs) paid for the servers and the staff volunteered their time to support the network

Mr Lee coming along and secretly giving christel a salary on the side would likely have had no effect on the operations of the IRC network had it not happened (bar maybe christel spending less time on IRC...)
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> As someone who used to work at a nursery that sold a lot of mulch, sod, etc, there are a lot of things that a typical single family homeowner would want that you absolutely wouldn’t want to transport in an SUV or minivan

People should do what is generally done here in Northern Europe. Get a Stationwagon/Estate with a tow hitch and a trailer. With that you get a smaller, more practical, car in terms of day-to-day driving. And when you really need to move something bigger/something you don't want inside your car you still have options.

Renting a trailer locally is incredibly cheap too, costing just $26 at a nationwide gas station. IKEA, and similar local stores, will lend you a trailer for free.

Here's how two friends and I transport our gokarts. One in the trailer, another secured on top. The car on the day of the picture is a Mercedes CLA Coupé. Other times it's the other friend's Ford Fiesta. And yet other times it's one of our dads driving an Audi Q5 or a Peugeot 3008.

https://imgur.com/jOoEzuS

A hitch gives you the price and size advantages of e.g. a Ford Fiesta while still having the option of hauling several hundred kilos worth of stuff. The Q5 can haul a ton and a half. I'd wager that very few people regularly (weekly) need to haul several tons worth of stuff, and the few that do have a legitimate reason for owning a pickup.
Why wouldn’t freenode survive? The people that want to go can go. The people that stay, stay.
>There will be few noticeable changes in terms of day-to-day operations, the freenode project will continue to operate with much the same structure and volunteer base as it does now
Yeah, I was looking for this reply in this thread and I'm shocked that it took this long to find it and that it's not upvoted to the top. CA has a similar law (and in fact I link it to every recruiter who tries to play coy about salary bands). The actual text of the CA law doesn't hold all that much teeth - but just linking the relevant legal code is helpful

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....

"An employer, upon reasonable request, shall provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment. For purposes of this section, “pay scale” means a salary or hourly wage range. For purposes of this section “reasonable request” means a request made after an applicant has completed an initial interview with the employer."
> To say business tools and confidentiality are at odds with open source is comical at best. Some of us work on FOSS as a career. We still have to sign NDAs with customers, we still upstream patches to core components.

It makes sense that credentials to services are confidential. But aside that, the whole point behind a bulk of free software and open source is that everything's done out in the open. You get to watch the meat grinder - and you can even operate it as well! The head butcher may have exacting quality controls, but again - its viewable.

And yes, many of us have NDA's. I have a few myself, only on the specific implementations of systems I build and/or maintain, and internal business things. I reviewed it with an attorney, and believed their limited scope was acceptable and reasonable.

> Throwing your toys out of the ring because business is business is why open source has a funding problem.

There's a few assumptions there.

1. I helped *migrate* people away from (un)Freenode to Libera.chat . I didn't throw them away - i helped move people over for a mostly seamless experience.

2. That open source/free software has a funding problem... That's just a troll statement - you're assuming business needs are the same as FOSS. They're not. And unlike closed source proprietary, once FOSS code has been written, everyone can share. But you knew that; and that's why I call it a troll statement. It's disingenuous at its core.
Bluecruise - "driver-facing camera and radar-sensing technologies allowing for hands-free driving on prequalified sections of divided highways called hands-free Blue Zones"

Struck me as a far different way of easing into the autonomous driving gig.
I don’t think this is really the primary reason for this at all. There’s an element of that of course, but there’s other factors as well. This is a decent short article about it. But the tl;dr is popularity of crew cabs + a gap in recent regulations that encouraged trucks to become larger https://www.insidehook.com/article/vehicles/why-pickup-truck...
It's worth noting that, unlike the integral chatlogs published earlier displaying Andrew's questionable views on Freenode, this PDF is full of heavily-snipped logs without context.
But how long does it take you to get it? Most people can walk into a dealership and buy a new car instantly.
Even more ridiculous when you know that the 19 year old of 2021 were 18 year old in 2020 and they could get 500 euros with the very same "pass culture". So it's really hard to see while they would be unhappy.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200521225211/https://pass.cult...

Edit: in 2020 the pass was not available in the whole country.
You get an update prompt on screen (and on your phone). The car asks you to schedule a time to install (normally 1 AM) or allows you to update immediately.

When an update is triggered (manually or on a timer) you get a 2-minute countdown to restart and then it will install.
Different argument but I can support that.

Point being people who live an apartment are far more likely to be buying a truck because they want it, and far less need for it for actual jobs & chores.
> DeepMind have been negotiating for years with the parent company for more autonomy, seeking an independent legal structure for the sensitive research they do.

> Its long-term goal is to build an advanced level of AI that can perform a range of cognitive tasks as well as any human. “Guided by safety and ethics, this invention could help society find answers to some of the world’s most pressing and fundamental scientific challenges,”

I'm trying to piece together what a different sort of 'legal structure' would mean to what DeepMind does or how they go about it. If the unit has autonomy in what it researches then the only thing would be to expand what it can choose from. If research areas are dictated, I don't know what impact a different legal structure can have. Also, up until now DeepMind has published in rather abstract problem spaces, board games and video games--though I guess that can extend to wargame simulations.
Why's that? 18 year olds are graduating secondary education this summer and now they have more money to spend in a society that's rapidly opening up. 19 year olds graduated last year, possibly the worst time to do so (especially given the strict lockdown in France), and they get nothing. Life obviously isn't fair but I can't help but feel for the 19 year olds.
Lots of the negative comments are about how tall this truck is (and how tall trucks in general are getting).

Truck owners don't just use them to carry rocks and trees, they also drive them to the city, where the high grille, large footprint, crazy rate of acceleration make them threatening, dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists, and frankly just detrimental to improving the quality of life in cities.

It's absolutely rational that a vehicle optimized for rural workload isn't going to be ideal in cities.

What's irrational is pretending they have to be taller and wider every year.
Shouldn’t be unsafe. Security updates are still coming out for the older OS that runs on these machines.
I would be really interested in understanding the breakdown in F150's as sold by model number.

For a lot of truck owners, there's going to be some resistance because they love having a v8 engine etc. I don't see those people moving over quickly (although they might be swayed by the acceleration/speed). But if you're using one as a tradesperson, this seems like an absolute no-brainer. You're not driving enormous distances regularly and if you're able to run your entire job site for free, as well as have lower servicing costs... why wouldn't you?
There is such as thing as letting the dust settle before you make your move. Look at what Facebook has done with whatsapp, a few years after the acquisition; clearly it was planned from the start but they had to wait a bit.
Well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_EV
I was all for this truck until I saw the range. As someone who has to run the heat in their car 3/4 of the year, I don't consider an EV with a sub 400-mile rated range anything but a toy.
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Would an estate or SUV with a hitch and a small/medium-sized trailer not work wonders in that scenario? It could certainly be cheaper.
Of course many home improvement stores will just rent you a truck for the afternoon. That’s the principle reason I see against owning a truck for a homeowner. Just rent the right tool for the odd job(s). It’s poor optimization otherwise.
Indeed; I was trying carefully to not imply that this was some unique advantage of the F-150, but rather an interesting property of the electric truck category in general.
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The way it does it is inaccurate and there’s more columns than that.