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While I agree on your basic premise, this might be one of those times where a horrible article makes valid points and is correct in its assessment of the situation.

I think this is one of the greatest flaws of current journalism: By increasing the "feel good value" for its intended audience and confirming their respective biases, an author can completely disenfranchise readers coming from a different point of view.

You and me were both repulsed by the sweeping statements and lack of nuance and, since time is precious and the article looked like yet another propaganda tool, you rejected its value. Rightly so.

Yet in it where description that were correct and pointed to a deeper issue of whom we believe and why.

So by writing for just a section of a possible audience any discussion is impossible.

I won't read the National Review (just this article) and thus their content will be irrelevant to any good discussion I'll have in the future.
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"Divisive" is exactly how I'd describe it.

"like walking into an old woman's kitchen used over a lifetime of cooking."

That was pretty close to my wife's reaction. It reminded her of her childhood in her grandmother's kitchen.

She loved it. I didn't. I won't put it in food that I serve to guests unless I knew they're adventurous.
> That sounds like interactive staging (`git add -p` or `git add -i`). You can do the same in magit, in the status window by selecting the diff lines you want to stage. I use evil-mode and use visual mode for that selection. Am I missing something about your requirement?

At least in magit, you get the error "new file ... depends on old contents" if you try to stage a hunk of a newly created file.

(i.e. echo "foo\nbar" > file, then stage only "bar")
This happened to me. I maintain a pretty small macOS open source application and our IRC home was on freenode. I decided to move it to Libera, so I updated our website/docs accordingly and set the topic on the freenode channel to point at Libera.

At ~5am UK time today both myself and the other channel founder were removed from the ACLs and the topic was set to one like that shown in the LWN article.

I was able to get founder access back by asking nicely (through gritted teeth) on #freenode-services and now I am trying to work out how I indicate to users that they should look elsewhere, without freenode taking any further action.
> if they just made it a bit harder for foreigners to buy our land

I fully empathize with how you feel, and I see the same sentiments in various countries. But I think it’s important to not bring the immigrant straw man into this discussion, when it is easily shown that the problem is much much larger than that. Institutions and investors are the real perpetrator, not an immigrant middle class.
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I support this line of thinking.

It's delusional to completely outsource the assessment of plausibility, it's a fast track to dictatorship. It's on each of us to assess how much faith to hold in such claims. Otherwise we fall into the trap of believing the powers whatever they do.

- Look, that show trial in the USSR (or Nazi Germany, etc) has concluded with the confessions of guilt from all the accused.
- But there was no solid evidence presented, there is quite some ground to believe they were forced to confess under tortures.
- *If they needed* tortures for the confessions in the court, *then if their story isn't plausible, it seems likely that it'll get thrown out anyways.*
- ???
Good point. I've heard similar complaints about engineered wood (glulam and friends) for structures vs regular lumber. In fires, solid lumber fails gradually and makes lots of noises before it does, whereas engineered wood just goes BANG and fails at some point.

I don't think this stops these new products from being used, it's just another engineering tradeoff.
Wow did not know it’s that hard to sideload. Essentially not possible practically speaking if you want to do it all the time. That sucks.
However, this does reinforce the idea that:

protocols > programs

But you can’t get funding for managing a protocol.
>Yet the US is still the premier nation that everyone tries to immigrate to

Yes, because they are richest natiom in the world. How is that statement not a complete non sequitur to what was being discussed?
Speaking of business, the UK company that technically owns freenode (Freenode Limited) is currently in a state where it's likely to be forcibly dissolved, because it hasn't filed any paperwork in some time:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
The Fed has turned us all into gamblers. If you've ever wanted to know what living in something like the .com bubble was like, we are in something much bigger now.

The next Fed chair will have no choice but to pull a Volcker
The economy as a whole is definitely not a zero-sum game, there's plenty of evidence of that.

However, that doesn't in any way invalidate the claim that parts of the economy are in fact zero-sum. How large are those zero-sum parts - 10%? 20%? 40%? 80%? Nobody truly knows. Needless to say, the optimal survival strategy in a world of 80% zero-sum is vastly different than in the 10% world.

Also, although there's no data to back it up, I believe the zero-sum games as a proportion of our society are growing, and quite rapidly at that. It's a very worrying trend.
I feel like you're confusing society having a virus under control & an individuals treatment keeping an infection under control.

With treatment, an individual can keep an HIV infection under control. Ultimately, you are still probably going to die of something HIV related. Earlier than you would have otherwise. It's expensive and not available to everyone.

HIV itself is in no way under control. We have literally nothing other than testing people and trying to encourage those who are HIV positive to avoid behaviors that spread the disease. That's it. The only reason why it isn't any worse is because it already is so bad in some areas.
97% LTV mortgages are a bit worrying, a big contributor to the last financial crisis was this kind of thing. Or even >100% LTV mortgages.
I'm not claiming that what Everett et al. are saying is wrong, just that the claims are so spectacular that I'd like to see more evidence before I believe them.
And Steam have been collecting that data for a while now - each game is tagged with no/partial/full controller support. They know what will work OOTB.
It seems the matrix bridge is not up yet, so I guess I'm not joining quite yet :/

Though the one channel I really frequent these days is totally not caring about the whole issue, and seems there is no motivation to move. (It is not a project channel, just some hangout channel around a topic)
Not trusting your employer should be the default strategy.
> A note on cancel culture

> I have also received hundreds of reports from project leads on freenode that they are being harassed and are at risk of being canceled if they do not leave, to Libera. This activity does not belong in FOSS. Stop it.

lmfao sure, why not? Claim to be a victim of "cancel culture", and that people moving to Libera are just being forced to do so by the evil SJW cabal (no, we're not giving you any proof).

This whole pathetic statement from Lee on the website really says a lot about what type of person he is.
That's literally just a form of law being practiced without being formally codified.
Related, an interesting side effect of CGNat use by ISPs with limited IPv4 space is an unreliability (without spending slightly more effort/money) in determining which customer was downloading at a particular time.
We have a fairly good idea how most sedatives work and which receptors they bind to. But even when we don't, I am not sure what your point is: even when we know some things there are still things we can't explain yet…which was basically what I said?
But what is the point of removing ops and some of the other things I’ve heard they’ve done? How does that further their mission?
In fact we lost the kitchen shears from the set for half a year, no rust.
> it would be impossible for it to not be passed on to renters. Indeed, ALL taxes are passed onto consumers!

Agreed. While not immediately intuitive, this is unfortunately very true for all taxes that are imposed upon institutions, corporations, investors, etc.

I wish this is something that could be fixed in a fair manner…
Love the show and the UI displays on it are no exception. And the post was interesting to read, but was anyone else annoyed by the way images were displayed on the site? You have to click on each image to see it and then use the browser back button to get back to the post! There must be better ways to arrange viewing of groups of images.
What? No. Our hackerspace decided that we should probably maybe move our IRC channels to libera.chat but have a grace period, generally do things carefully and slowly. We had 'moving to libera.chat soon' in our /topic, set by myself in haste just to let people know that we are aware of the Freenode kerfuffle and that yes, we will likely move over.

Then we lost control of our IRC channels on Freenode, because someone from Freenode took it from us. No-one member of the hackerspace has control over it anymore. That's a hijacking.
This is also a great example of why you need good user testing: a designer is hyper aware of what they’re trying to do design-wise, developers tend to focus on implementation and support, and we’re all too familiar with the product to represent users well. I’ve seen plenty of things like that where everyone spends months on it and the outside users don’t notice/care or point out that, say, the custom design didn’t work with their system font settings or screen reader.
> I think this is a very wise dissection of the problem.

It is, but this problem is not a good reason to abandon "systemic racism" as a concept. Rather, we should acknowledge that the idea that a focus on education and 'getting the right answer' is "acting white" and inherently incompatible with black culture is itself systemically racist.

Even though this toxic meme is now being spread by those who are supposedly trying to be less racist and "get rid of the racism" for us, it is still toxic and ironically one of the clearest example of how systemic racism can have society-wide effects.
And ~80% of that lives on the ~20% of land in Europe, making the rest of Russia very sparsely populated.
Low quality/tangential comment:

It was a floppy disk, not a hard disk. The magnetic surface in an FDD disk is floppy the magnetic surface in a HDD is hard (rigid).
I'd listen to the signal of the work you're seeing offered, and especially the gigs you're actually getting. That'll tell you if your strategy is a good one or not. If you find yourself having to chose between a few good offers, then clearly it's working. If you find yourself in between gigs for a while, then maybe it's time to re-think your strategy.
And that is why free-whatever (society, software, people...) needs immunity from arbitrary take-over from companies and governments too.
I'm 100% with you. What's Freenode supposed to do, let all their channels become pointers to some other server run by a hostile group who's actively defaming them?

The outrage mob only wants to be outraged, they're incapable of considering both sides.
You are correct for certain definitions of 'stainless steel.' However as other comments have alluded to, some grades of 'stainless steel' will rust so slowly that they will survive orders of magnitude longer than recorded history. For example, some "Hyper-duplex" stainless steels are designed to resist corrosion in seawater that is above boiling point. This steel is probably not economical for building construction, but if you wanted it to last for millenia, it may be the optimal choice.
I'm probably wrong, but from what I can tell rasengan was the only person behind this. He nuked channels and then disappeared, leaving his utterly confused staff to listen to the music from all the upset users/chanops.
I think I agree with you pretty much on everything.

>But nobody is making a dedicated portable streaming device as far as I know, and it seems like something that'd fit really well with a streaming service.

NVIDIA kind of did it with the NVIDIA Shield some years ago, and I think they're still supporting it.
Canada allows foreign ownership of property. Some provinces have an additional tax at purchase time for foreign ownership.
Absolutely. But the paper is talking about a long-term mortality divergence between populations, not a peak in 2017 like you were claiming (and there's nothing about 2020 data in this paper).
No, with many of the templates you quickly go well beyond "massaging". Not saying it can't be done, but you vastly oversell the triviality of it.
Modern phones have done their utmost to end these. If you even find the option to load a vcard they will (often sneakily) copy the contents to Google Contacts or similar, and you don't know if the phone is even keeping the vcard updated. It has made the approach feel unreliable.
You must be new to IRC - channels moving servers is not at all new. It's pretty unusual for server admins to actively resist it though.
My impression is that rasengan (Andrew Lee) does really seem to care about IRC, and he does see himself as the 'good guy', but his thoughts on how to make it all work clash with the somewhat more anarchic volunteer-based way Freenode worked, as the most charitable interpretation.

Slightly less charitably, it comes across as a rich dude wanting, expecting, and/or being used to being boss, and being (legitimately) confused as to why this is causing so much trouble from his volunteer underlings. It's hard to be a prince in this world...
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Is there a possible outcome where cable components become cheap enough that every USB-C cable is a universal cable that does everything?
It's a bunch of trolls from 4chan. They've been doing this for years on freenode trying to accuse the (now former) freenode staff of same.
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Protocols are better than programs because they give users power.

Programs are better than protocols because they don’t give users power.

It’s a matter of perspective.
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It had be write my first weechat script, it's fun :)
That's the tricky part, if these devices aren't locked to a proprietary OS/marketplace, users can shop around and you're basically helping your competitors while taking all the losses.
Mine is probably a niche use case, but I will absolutely jump on one of these simply due to my lack of storage space.

I live in a 450 square foot loft. I don’t have space for a tv here, so consoles were out of the question until the Switch came along. There is no room in my life — literally — for a gaming PC, but if they can cram that into another Switch? Sign me up.

It’ll be a big draw for university students in dorms as well.
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Matrix is still far ahead of IRC while still being open.
So it seems. It's actually lokedhs. I must have mixed up "loke" with "luke".
Let's solve this with NFTs!

Partly joking, but partly serious. Maybe we could use something like this.
I meant I had assumed the libera.chat staff still had admin status in freenode, and had been behind this move, but apparently they all got removed a week ago.
> I'm not sure I see the problem.

I don’t see why only parked properties are a problem? Rentals are always more expensive than the underlying mortgage - that’s what makes it an investment opportunity. This is a big problem since most people could’ve afforded the original property if they weren’t priced out by investors.
What's "that much power"? More than 100 watts?

I can find a laptop with a recent ryzen CPU and an RTX 2060 that gets 10 hours of battery life. At the same time, those parts could be pushed to 150 watts if you had enough cooling. And you'd need even more power to charge while using it flat-out.
When did I say anything about not understanding the math of the FT? I took a whole semester of classes in signals, control theory, comms, etc. Derived FT, FFT, and friends, from scratch. I understand the math. But I have limited intuition about what I can do with the math. I can look it up in a book, or plug and chug, but it's not very fluid. The amount of times I've needed to manipulate equations since that class is zero.

Yikes.
And non competitive multiplayer. And multiplayer within a group of friends.
Freenode could have reached out to channel founders and asked us to leave the channels open, and allowed us to indicate that they are now unofficial channels. Instead they just revoked our access to them and overwrote the channel topics.

Beyond that, yes, they are supposed to let projects decide where they want to be.
> promoted freedom as a cultural aspiration rather than rule by a monarch

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

Iran '53 and Guatemala '54 are some of my favourites, as is Timor.
Forget all that - what about giving access to the garbage truck?

I lived in a city the centre of which was "walkable" - one often overlooked issue in such places is that there are no adequate garbage containers, so you have to keep all your waste until it's garbage day.

And you'd better not miss garbage day - especially with organic waste during the summer - maggots appear after about 2-3 days.
Staffers might not have paid for the domains, but most of them have spent huge amounts of their time managing the network and turning it into what it was.

To pretend this is a bunch of staffers having a temper tantrum related to ownership of the Freenode domain name feels very disingenuous, and a rather odd conclusion to come to based on the events to far.
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No because vendors will keep putting custom things into their cables to support magic XYZ feature.
The bindings are also customizable in `~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict`.
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I’ve never understood the claim that CMB homogeneity implies those regions need to be causally connected in a traditional sense; they might be “causally connected” by the fact that they obey the same physics. Even if you don’t accept that the physical laws themselves could be spread over a spacelike boundary, it could at least appear that way due to selection rules (the same way entanglement collapse can appear superluminal without being so under MWI).
I think such kind of devices are primarily portable and occasionally mobile.
It is a subtle but important difference.
Most gaming PC notebooks over 13" are too bulky anyway to be considered mobile devices.
The only beefier notebook that still reasonably can be used as a mobile device even at 16" screen sizes are, in my experience, macbooks pro. but YMMV
I come from a time when IRC servers (inside each network, Freenode being one) were usually sponsored by universities, ISPs, foundations, etc. This mindset of "competitors" and business cost of hosting some IRC chatter as if it's on a 2021 datacenter scale is quite frankly absurd.

I doubt there are more IRC users now than in 1997, and in 1997 no one would care if an efnet channel linked to a dalnet channel.

My $0.02.
Silencing dissent.
Is it a social network? You can’t message any one or anything. The only voluntary info you have on other people is the bio.

There’s no way to search or filter for current rooms. Filtering as in filter by category. At least that would be something. The “curation” makes it hard to make an analogy with radio. Satellite radio has tons of channels. It gets tiring seeing rooms useless for me via the “curation”
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As long as there’s a penny to be made by shaving component costs, probably not.

I have USB micro cables that “work” to charge phones or for data but will give voltage throttling errors if used to power an RPi3 or later. This is presumably from using wires internally of too small gauge. I can’t see things like that stopping.
Yes literally never in my lifetime, even after the 2008 recession those same houses are worth more now then ever. Any findings that show house values are "going down" are just sampling errors, or more likely people being purposefully misleading by distorting the trends.
Yes! I use it to control both the amperage and temperature of a kiln.
I dunno, Musk has already indicated he'd put people in feudal serfdom to pay off a loan if they want a trip to Mars. And he'd get people volunteering for it.
This is a gross misrepresentation of what is taking place. I don’t want to pick sides in the current chaos, but it’s not "paid for the domain", it is "managed to get the domain transferred to them". I do not believe any of the current libera staff would object to paying the few dollars/year for the domain registration (or even the DNS infrastructure).

There is also something called "being decent". For a network that is (was) essentially a chat network for tons of FOSS projects, taking over the channels because people wanted to have a smooth transition from one network to another is not decent. This is a shitshow, especially for this kind of infrastructure.
I mean, it's both. It is a national misery and a global misery. The national misery is almost over. The global probably isn't.
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Typically they're throttled by poor thermals. I'd be interested to know if anyone has recommendations for rtx grade laptops with nice CPUs in 15-17 inch form factor that doesn't throttle but are still somewhat portable. I have not found any but I think I've been testing too thin ones (XPS and Blade).
There's also an ease of use thing. "Slack" and "Discord" can both be thought of as monolithic entities. For less technical communities, that helps with the onboarding. You don't have to worry yourself about the details of networks and servers and clients and nickservs and whatnot. Teaching someone to use irc is a rather thornier issue, and even some tech people might bounce off of it unless they have a compelling reason to burn time on RTFM.

Depending on the values of the community, those practical concerns may or may not outweigh other considerations. There's a lot to be said for open protocols, but there's also a lot to be said for UX.
Ok, let's look at Freenode's users as customers. They would not see it that way, but when you choose that perspective, consider how a business should act: If customers are leaving, do not kick them in the butt. Other patrons will notice your lack of grace. (Edit: With customers I mean projects that maintain a channel.)

I've so far been bemused by this drama I'm not involved in. Now I can just say that Freenode is burned even if they manage to wrangle that guy from the controls.
This is a great propaganda battle. China has really found the Achilles heel.

Actors working for for films that want access to Chinese markets can talk about womens rights, black lives, LGBTQ rights, Palestine, Armenian Genocide, etc. but their issue can't be Uighur's, Tibet, Hong Kong or Taiwan.

Same applies to Apple, Facebook and many others.