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I went to Vietnam a few years ago. The locals I spoke to had a very dim of view of their government, saying that it was deeply corrupt. It is a shame that the extraordinary sacrifices made fighting the French and then the US resulted in such poor outcome for the Vietnamese people.
I really like how they transition between different screens so seemlessly with guestures (and also voice commands). I'd like to be able to do something similar on my phone so rather than clicking the chromecast icon and selecting which device, I'd like to swipe/flick towards the device I want to use. And ideally I'd like to expand (sorry) this to non-chromecast stuff like Spotify Connect (or MPD etc). Is there anything out there like that for Android? Some kind of location/orientation aware "casting" helper?

Relatedly I wish there was less of a delay when trying to cast to the TV. Perhaps it's that, rather than the extra button clicks, that disrupts the flow so much. It's not like my smart TV hasn't got a powerful processor and a super-fast internet connection - why am I still seeing loading screens?!
also worth noting that some people go _well_ out of their way to express this point of view. There's even a subreddit dedicated to it (and at least once upon it was 'busy'). My issue is that it gives the impression that someone has a lot of free time and a serious axe to grind.

Nothing he is accused of is illegal, it may be reprehensible but I don't demand moral consistency of those that entertain me, just adherence to the social contract of law.
It doesn't.

It's the desperate actions of an entitled child. Lee was never fit to run an IRC network and now everyone can see how.
Then other power-hungry device categories will become the beneficiaries of this. External GPUs with a high power draw, for instance.
I'm a DS by title. I don't do any dashboards. Some people on the team collaborate on them occasionally but its generally deciding which metrics are tracked along with creating/maintaining them while the actual dashboard design and creation is done by the frontend team.

The thing is that Data department have essentially swallowed the former analytics departments, and many people who have done business intelligence/business analytics now seem to fall into the data science umbrella.

This is part of the reason the term now refers to different things depending on who you talk to or which team they are a part of. Look at job postings, its extremely difficult to understand what the actual job entails these days.
That is at best in research and at worst a moonshot idea. Moving electricity long distance is rarely done today (again, not trying to say it cannot be done... just saying this is not a trivial thing where all we need is better govt cooperation as the article implies)
Not quite. Church tax in one matter. Also Muslim women wearing headscarfs are discriminated in access to certain positions in government service e.g. at school, at courts etc.

UPD And also we have Bavaria :)
This!

Skype users had no choice after microsoft take-over. Whatsapp users had no choice after facebook take-over.

Proprietary software is a choice you impose on yourself; proprietary protocols and formats a choice you impose on the others too.
Trying to be sarcastic and clever?

Any taxes that you pay on your second home onwards simply gets factored into the rent and gets passed on to the tenants. It is just cost of doing business, nothing more. The tenants suffer, not the buyers.
I have a couple of repos on GitHub that point to their new home on GitLab. Would it be ok if GitHub took over these projects for the same reason?
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They see us as trying to fracture their community, even though these are our communities.

Ironically, by forcing us to keep the freenode channels open, they are fracturing our communities. Or, at least they are for me, because I'm not going to back down and move the official one for my project back from Libera. I might have done if they had acted responsibly, but taking the channel away with no notice, convinces me that these are not people I want to rely on in any capacity.

I am grateful to freenode for the platform it has provided to this point, and I thank all of the volunteers who kept it running.
Cases are not the same thing as infections. Comparing cases between countries doesn't work, even when corrected for positivity rate. Deaths should be a more fair comparison. Then there are a lot more countries with higher death rate.

I didn't mean that it is fair to compare a metropolis to Sweden when it comes to "who did the right thing". But it is a fair comparison when considering the effects of longcovid.

Sweden only stands out when compared to Nordic countries, not when compared to the rest of the world. Thus bad effects from longcovid should be more visible in harder hit places.
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Not if you want cables that are longer than two feet. There's a tradeoff between speed and distance.

And that's after you solve the problem of people trying to cut out a couple pennies of copper. And the people that want thinner cables just for charging.
Simple. The really bulky chargers will be suitable for charging laptops. Everything else is for phones.
This has been officially addressed by the new Freenode owners as expected and intended [1], so of course it's not the old staff's doing.

[1] - https://archive.is/LGsY2
No other country matters besides USA
I think Zulip is a good alternative. It's FOSS and has persistance and threading. I do dislike the fact that you have to sign up and can't see the discussions without it.
Well checking if your opponent argument commits logical fallacies is just the first part.
The second part is, of course, providing your own logical counter.
There are pretty good at spamming the libera network... Even get spammed on non-freenode networks and in my emails.
Because most desktops don't have integral screens and keyboards. Nor do they stay on and compute in an albeit degraded state in transit.

Not everyone is just using laptops as a word processor/browser. Sometimes you just need oomph.
I think that using e-prime to write, think, and contextualize thoughts adds clarity for me. Most folks I know who are familiar with it are not absolutists about it. It's just a tool in the toolbox.

Korzybski's work is very valuable in my opinion. It lets me think about things in a much less dogmatic and either/or way.
Not all of us are performative, or want to set the expectation that we don't have a personal life.
Thanks, I didn't realize this could be considered privileged. Seems pretty airtight then
Yup. I started off being mildly dismayed by the drama, but it didn't feel like it needed to affect me or my channels....

... now I am convinced I want nothing to do with freenode anymore.
No dude they are not the same. PUA stuff came out of a deeply misogynist internet subculture with close ties and many overlaps with far right activists, "red pill" violence, and ethnonationalism.

Plus it's just inherently manipulative and gross. I know no one on HN likes to hear a value judgement but seriously go take a look. And I'm sure someone will jump in with like "but it's not manipulation just acknowledging reality/it's empowering for shy nerds/whatever" and ok sure sure sure but no.
> Why does a nonprofit organisation need this privacy protection?

This isn't about keeping public information entirely secret. It's about controlling where and how public information is shared. As an individual, you might agree to have your telephone number and your address published in a paper telephone directory, but you might not be so keen to have that information published in an easily scraped online service leaving you with obnoxious sales calls, and junk mail.

The same applies to a non-profit as well.

> the information of the org is a matter of public knowledge

Yes. But the what and the how is typically explicitly outlined by local laws.

Typically, you could direct yourself to a local tax office or public registry where you could search and look into basic information about a legal entity as defined / outlined in a legal statute.

You might find that domain names aren't required to be divulged publicly by law, and doing so is entirely at the discretion of the organization. (Example in the same vain: a public office isn't going to outright hand you a list of employees at a company if it's not legally mandated)

Whether there's a moral responsibility is a different question.

> These issues are critical for the trust that the libera.chat domain isn't suddenly going to be pointing elsewhere due to it not being control by the "trusted" org.

The freenode.net domain name isn't pointing to anywhere differently over the past period. It's also still very much registered to Freenode Ltd. That hasn't changed. What really changed is the control over the Ltd as the a majority stake in voting rights changed hands some time ago, and how that majority stake is now suddenly behaving very differently.

In that regard, DNS records aren't a definitive indicator for trust.

You have to amend that by (a) looking at who's represented in the board governing the non-profit, (b) look at documents such as yearly account balances and year reports which are typically legally mandated to be made publicly each year to see how the organisation is governed and (c) gauging day-to-day operations.

Last week, I made a remark that the libera.chat website was precariously terse in contact information or mentions about it's legal status or whoever was behind this initiative. It's assuring to see that the website has been amended over the past week with the "bylaws" section and the "about Libera" section with mentioning full composition of the board as well as whoever actively contributes to the organiation.
I could make a laundry list of features (for example: not being forced into a linear order of includes (or at least having idempotent "include"s), no namespace collision for test files, not having to list all the tests in "runtests.jl",[1] support for pending tests, support for parameterised tests, proper assertion libraries with more useful error output, etc. pp.), but I also feel like Julia developers could just look at any of the other major general purpose languages, almost all of which have better module systems and testing frameworks because these are things that matter to application developers.

[1]: I actually tried to automate some of this in a project: https://gitlab.com/pfrasa/morcrypto/-/blob/master/test/runte...
Even under the charitable interpretation, he "cares about IRC" in a way very different from how any of the projects that use Freenode care about IRC.

Ask Gentoo or Ubuntu or Wikipedia what they want out of an IRC network, and they'll probably say, hm, more stability and less spam, I guess.

Ask Andrew Lee what he wants abut IRC and this is what he says (from https://irc.com/):

> Refreshed mobile apps, intuitive web apps, friends lists, working team support, video calls and file sharing. All within a few taps of the mobile device as people have come to expect.
Didn't we have that equilibrium (sorta) with USSR? I don't think it was a good kind of equilibrium - mutually assured destruction and all.
There are four lights!!!
I am not joking, I have been dreaming about it since the first USB-C showed up.
I thought of lose/lose http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/
>Teaching someone IRC

You mean handing them xchat/colloquy/kiwichat and telling them to come up with a name and click this text box to send a message?

Sure irssi is hard to use but unlike Slack and Discord you're not stuck with a single terrible client.
Kazan is a pretty weak argument for thinking Arab immigration into Northern Europe in the 2000s would go smoothly.
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FSF, GNU and wikipedia come to mind. They may not be that easy but certainly possible. Actually, sometimes simply making the content easily available is enough. No image was lost from openclipart because they were all previously easily available.
> the stories of Enoch and Methuselah show that any hard bound was clearly violated

you're taking things a little literally here; that's perfectly explainable, and is also paralleled in the other mythos you mentioned: a group of people would raise their own status by claiming to be descended from gods or demi-gods or something else extraordinary. Probably the most approachable example of this in western literature is the figure of Herakles/Hercules.

it is not a stretch to imagine that the people responsible for writing certain books of the hebrew bible raised their own status by claiming to be descended from extremely long-lived ancestors.

Additionally, methusaleh's obtained age was recorded as 969 years; this should be understood not literally, but figuratively: 969 is a looooooong time, and a mystical number. It means "this is important, pay attention to this. this person is special". It helps the narrative in an oral tradition.
#lobsters
> Why are people still using IRC? Aren't there better, more private/secure channels?

Equilibrium.

An old essay "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" explains this idea in an enlightening way:
https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisit...

> Some pieces of social software, like IRC channels and mailing lists,are self-moderating with scale, because as the signal-to-noise ratio gets worse, people start to drop off, until it gets better, so people join, and so it gets worse. You get these sorts of oscillating patterns, but the overall system is self-correcting
Of course, and it's well within their rights to look for sponsors and acquisitions. It's also very naive of me to think people would "keep it real", as if that ever brought anything of value.

It's just surprising, somehow I thought those sites were grassroot, made for passionate amateurs by passionate amateurs.

If you want to see the platforms you talk about I suggest taking a look at tilde servers, lots of passion and proper punk attitude
I don't use Discord but apparently there was some pretty drama a couple of weeks ago because they made a bunch of changes to the UI of the client that apparently the community didn't like.

If you want to have control of your platform then don't use closed source, proprietary solutions!
I think people are missing the point of supporting this much wattage as a USB-IF standard. There are already 130W power supplies from Dell, so it's going to happen with or without standardization, and I'd rather it happen with. It's also not just laptops that might be powered by this. The article mentions all-in-one computers like Mac might use this, and I could imagine it replacing those awful AC adapters used on monitors with no internal power supply.
This is exactly the situation DiscFerret has found itself in. We were bridging to guarantee a smooth transition... within hours of changing the topic to point to the new chat, they took over our channels.

This scorched earth policy is only going to make them look petty and childish, and cost them in the long run.
That statement from Joe Biden really irks me, given the treatment of whistle blowers, most famously Edward Snowden, during his last administration.
This is 100% a bunch of middle-class privileged people having a massive temper tantrum. They literally went around saying, "Assume Freenode is under the control of a malicious actor" just because they wanted to get other people to help out.

If you read both sides of the story, you can decide where the middle ground is. The staffers have a right to decide they want to split off and do their own thing. But going around saying the data is unsafe and there are malicious actors at play seems nothing but a grown-up having a temper tantrum. Crying about a sponsor having a logo on the website is beyond words.
The thing is that is called pandemic because a reason: the virus is still mutating, and I don't know how possible it is and it's up to discussion, but a mutation is possible and your nation (which by the way still has many cases) can be reinfected again.

To think that "my nation has less cases, all is over now for us" is to don't understand what pandemic means.
The move to Matrix was not a community decision, which is why it's now fractured slightly between the different systems. Maybe someone will bridge them in the future.
there's also the very real danger of identical ports bricking devices. See the nintendo switch issue where some users have bricked their devices due to nintendo's implementation of USB C. This limits the chargers you can use and nintendo may well deny a warranty claim if a third-party charger was used.

Not the best source - https://old.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_...
I don't think the "other side of history" is much better most of the time
If you're 5 pounds overweight, you have a "comorbidity". If you die of COVID, I guess you were going to die anyway so it doesn't matter, right?

No, your hypothesis is wrong. COVID has massively increased death rates, indicating that people who wouldn't have died before are dying now.
This is cool as heck!
Do you consider it to be expired?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Just as long as it gets fixed when it's broke.
Should be detectable though, at least in many circumstances.

USB-PD has bidirectional communication, so at least in theory both ends could know how the cable is performing by comparing voltage and current measurements at either end.

If the cable drops too many Watts, the load can be disconnected.
> If you went on to some message board and posted hey come to my message board we're over there. Even though the message board makes no profit, that is still someone's project and they will not take kindy to taking their userbase and will delete the message.

Let's not pretend that this is normal. I can freely mention https://lobste.rs on HN and my comment is not going to be deleted or flagged even though lobsters is a directly competing message board, as long as my mention is relevant to the discussion. This was a case of channels being taken over for merely mentioning liberachat as something they might care about in the future, not even trying to actively direct users away from Freenode.
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I was quite relaxed about the whole thing and was willing to give Lee a chance, but mass purging channels and forwarding them to ## namespace, and deleting their topics...

#go-nuts had libera.chat mentioned in the topic... saying that they were on libera.chat as well "if freenode dies". Suddenly every user was forwarded to ##go-nuts, the topic empty, #go-nuts invite only ; that certainly is a classy way. This was the official golang support channel, no warning, nothing. Can you understand what kind of breach of trust that is? How can you host a support channel on Freenode for any kind of official project, if that's what they're doing?

I was k-lined on Freenode for repeatedly pointing out in one of the hijacked channels what had happened. This is _not_ something I ever considered doing, but it was so unfair. People being forwarded to an unofficial support channel not realizing what had happened.

Freenode staff are very aggressive about taking over channels in order to limit exposure to this whole fiasco. And they go way overboard. From the beginning my impression was "this is ops fighting, and who knows what's true, hopefully things will calm down", but the way Lee handles this? Like a privileged, rich, socially inapt teenager. Every new ounce of information released on freenode.net reads like what I would have written with 16. https://freenode.net/news/for-foss is this the person you would entrust your official support channel for an OSS project with?

I still don't know what's true and what's not. And I can see both sides of this. Libera will first have to prove itself, and so I hope channels will also consider switching to OFTC (which promises far less trouble, and more stability at this point), but Freenode definitely is not trustworthy anymore. It's pretty much as simple as that.
I wonder what their goal is with this. Freenode users are not regular people, like Whatsapp users, who will just bend over and let stuff like this happen. All of them can very easily move to another network. It makes me wonder if the people doing the hostile takeover even understand what they are taking over. Do they think they have a Discord/Slack/Whatsapp?
I made this point because (I thought) TFA was saying all we need is better government policies, but we also need cheap storage and long distance transmission (which are hard/expensive). Your example shows that the storage cost is still on the order of the cost of panel installation, and you live in a very sunny place so probably use the battery less than average (I’m guessing based on AUD).
Not true, the bricking was from was blatantly broken chargers putting 9 volts onto low-voltage signal pins.
No need to be sorry it's just me being a boring old fart)
> Not sure what is the consequence if they just walked out.

Typically you'd be charged by the company for the time you didn't work. Since you generally are owed money when you leave (like vacations, bonus, etc) they take it from there.
Arc welding is typically 50-500 amps.

Presumably this would be a negotiated system like USB-PD, where only a tiny amount of power is available at connection and with pins physically configured to ensure breaking connection in order you may be able to shut down the higher power before the main contacts disengage).
There's small missing part of the story here - many channel owners have been adding full bans before leaving, meaning that noone was able to join the channel and talk about the topic anymore.

Most of those channels got "taken over" and bans removed so people could continue conversing on that network if they would.
The very fact that you are trying to rationalize someone buying multiple homes at the expense of someone trying to buy their first home highlights the problem. Take Canada for example. A whole lot of homes are bought by Chinese buyers and are sitting idle, at the expense of Canadians trying to buy their first home.

How can you say this is morally right? It is all find and dandy for the Chinese buyers, but what of Canadians?
> Consider the alternative though. With a fixed money supply, a dollar buys MORE every year, as a stable percentage of an expanding pie. Then society goes to shit as the "haves" bunker down in their rooms hoarding gold coins.

The rich already do this with assets that generate income faster than they depreciate in value (businesses, stocks, art, collectables). Inflation doesn't touch the rich. In practice, they are also isolated against any real-world upsets like the coronavirus, the financial crash, or Brexit. They may get slightly less rich, but they are set for their personal life.

In contrast, the poor and the working class generally aren't educated enough, confident enough, or don't have the right access to take advantage of similar opportunities.
I guess you're referring to recent reporting that she might have made up some of her earlier claims, e.g. that she was being asked to "delete" deaths from the system: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/rebekah-jones-the-cov.... Does look like she might not be the hero some people think she is, but maybe let's wait a bit on other reporting before vilifying her.