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> And we (software professionals) are the ones with the power to fix it! It seems obvious but the answer is to just stop working on products/companies that are making the Internet worse!

I'm not convinced. We don't work in defense contracting but that industry seems to be doing fine without us.
Being able to copy / paste file paths is a feature that should probably exist, I'd imagine that would be accepted as a feature request.
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If you see a job where there is some validation cert listed you should apply anyway. Either the company is dumb and insists on the cert, in which case you dodged a bullet when they passed you over for lack of a cert, or they know that the certs are bullshit and will ignore them but someone (usually a recruiter) insisted on putting them into the description.
In medicine, if you opt in for something that falls into the domain of the experimental or research, then you should know that you are doing this for yourself, but for others who will benefit from the knowledge that it worked or failed. If it works, it'll just be a happy accident and means absolutely nothing in isolation regarding population-level guidelines.

Which is why officially, people have a choice in participating to research studies but aren't allowed free access to whatever drug they want to take. This opinion is also supported by current medical ethics and practitioners have a duty to make their patients clearly understand that.

Fortunately for the rest of the world, american patients have a lot of trouble in understanding that last point.
Right at the height of Covid. I'm willing to bet it will be back where it was when this is all over.
>Can read, parse, and highlight code from purely image files

>Finding and replacing of text from image files

These two features actually seem pretty useful. There's been more than one time i've found code as an image or something it would have been nice to be able to copy.

To be honest, it's come up enough that i've wanted to be able to copy text directly from an image I've wondered if such a tool existed. Never enough to actually go look for one, I'm sure many exist, but enough that i've thought about it at least.
Troubling, but lower than I expected. Calling “anti-vaxxer” an identity wrongly implies some innate quality shared by a large number of people. Some people have ignorant ideas about vaccines, others feel suspicious about specific vaccines, and some feel like they can roll the dice on herd immunity or luck.

People not believing in vaccines presents a problem. Making up a new “identity” category doesn’t help anyone.
Personal opinion? Good.

The restrictions and remedies here seem fairly harsh. Of the sort you'd only want to cover monopolies (but-we-don't-want-to-prosecute-you-as-monopolies).

Telecom definitely needs its share of modernizing, but it should probably be more targeted.
This is Newhartian Technique. See the master at work:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gjc6V4QaxIY
I have the same feeling. I do not trust the "except for organizations operating thematic parks" from Florida republicans nor do I trust the Democrats who have collaborated both at party and official level with the very people they claim to fight against.
I think the counter is to use your new found freedom wfh to get real non-commercial social interaction. With friends, family, neighbors…

You’re at the mercy of your employer in more ways than one if you rely on them for such a core human need.
> Bell Labs and Standard Oil both ended up being good things.

These are nothing like the current tech companies. Their monopolies were based on commodities. Oil hasn’t changed since standard oil was broken up. AT&T’s monopoly was based on access to real estate to build a network.
Heh.

It seems to me that the discussion here is just rehashing all the discussion on the Gemini mailing list from the past few years.
Yes, if I wanted to write Java then I wouldn’t be writing JavaScript. Not ever. However, I do enjoy JavaScript and part of that enjoyment comes from not writing classes.
I don't want to be.
I'm kind of thinking that it was more about the new owners than about the site redesign.

I still visit /., but it just isn't what it used to be. If anything, the trolls are even more vile than they were back then.
You can use the 'man' command in Terminal to pull up the man page (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page) for 'powerd' (that is, by typing 'man powerd'). By doing so, you'll see that it is a "launchd managed daemon" that "manages Energy Preferences."
Audio is probably faster per person. However, it is serial in nature. I walk up to 4 kiosks and want a combo #3 with a coke, and I get to skip the three families, each trying to talk their 4 year old into choosing fruit and milk over fries and a coke.

Also, order verification is nice with a kiosk (for now). If I want something without pickles, I can see that right in front of me. It seems like every drive-thru and PoS that has a display which can provide order feedback has switched to displaying ads to buy some other product. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before the kiosks start to have modals which have to be cleared to continue with the order: Have you tried the hot apple pie? How are you enjoying the kiosk experience? Really, the people doing these things can never resist.
Offensive Security certs are worthwhile, so is GIAC if you can get your employer to pay for them. Other than that, having a CISSP is useful for some employment (but effectively meaningless) and having a few networking certs from either Cisco or Juniper is not bad to have.

Cyber masters are pretty much totally worthless, although perhaps some idiot employers think they have value. If you can get a masters paid for, the SANS masters seems like the only one worth doing. The NYU Masters is expensive, but somewhat value though it's value comes from basically being a CS degree so just go get a CS masters from Georgia Tech.

If you work for the government or military they have their set of required certs (8570 baseline). Certs overall are highly correlated with incompetence in my opinion. Experience is what matters.
You should take a look at Tik Tok. Companies with large marketing budgets and focused on digital channels spend the majority of it on Facebook and Google. Traditionally, the rest went to Pinterest and Snapchat, but Tik Tok has 1) built a huge audience and 2) built a good enough ad platform (which only continues to improve) that they went from nowhere to choice #3 in a shockingly short amount of time. Sound familiar? Yes, that's exactly how to Facebook surprised Google as well, only much slower.
Everyone knows you need to co-administer magnesium for D3 to be effective against earthquakes. Useless trial.
I believe that certifications that don't have a practical aspect to them are totally worthless.
I work in appsec and recently completed OSWE. The coursework was ok, nothing groundbreaking, learned a cute trick here and there.

Would I recommend it? Yes, especially if the company pays for it.

Company that I work for allows people to spend weeks of their working time preparing for top CTF contests and that is valuable because it is something practical. Just don't waste your time memorizing answers to exam questions.
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I have finally pulled the plug on #lisp on Freenode as of few minutes ago.

Only logging bots remained connected and minion, and one fellow op.

And and of an era for me - I think it's been over 16 years since I joined #lisp for the first time, and around a decade of being an Op there. It helped me maintain sanity at times. While pretty much everything got moved to libera, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt to do it in a way :|
My issue is that I don’t find it convenient to watch a video at all. For answering simple questions, there are many drawbacks to the format compared to text. I can usually extract necessary information from text in seconds. I might have to turn on a video and wait several minutes to hear the relevant information or spend minutes searching through it. Info in videos is not searchable by keywords or easily copy/pastable, and I may be in an environment where I don’t want to turn the sound up.
Oh boy, let me tell you, animals absolutely know what we are doing to them. They suffer immensely. Check this out, it offers just a glimpse into what that suffering includes: https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko
i3/sway are not the most popular but well liked.
Dfinity is a typical example of shady behavior in crypto space. Private VCs got in on 0.02$/token, then presale was 4 $/token and then on launch day there was probably lots of wash trading to lure the suckers into buying it at 300 $ - 650 $ /token.... A classic premeditated pump & dump. Nothing unusual, many crypto projects have done it and exchanges are in on it. Welcome to crypto 2.0. This is how it's done now. I think the projects has some merit, but the way that funding is done is just pure exploitation on unregulated markets. I'm wondering what crypto 3.0 will bring when the next bull cycle emerges.
Based on the direction the web is going, it might continue to be true. Easily 90% of the bandwidth a typical webpage uses is trackers, battery/CPU drains, and assorted worthless fluff when some text and a few pictures would suffice just fine in the majority of cases.
I think it's more about being able to see things from the audience's perspective.

It's hard to write good documentation without being able to visualize:

- What they know

- What they don't know

- What they're probably trying to accomplish

Some of the best API documentation comes in the form of examples, which doesn't draw much on writing skills.

That said, explaining high-level concepts/theory does require writing skills, but it also requires the skills described above.
It took decades to get a usable stack that I am confident on running on most of today's consumer computers.

And things like Wayland and Mir and some desktops reinventing their own wheels all the time are/were seriously putting that into jeopardy.
Imagine the two following hypothetical societies (we clearly live in neither society):

A) humane open pastures where animals grow to middle age before being killed for food, resulting in expensive meat

B) pure agriculture where land is cleared and irrigated for agricultural produce, completely devoid of animal life

I would argue that society A would be better for animals than society B.
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>Linux seems a bit of a dinosaur in this regard

To be fair, it has only whatever is on-hand to use. And the burden of running in a lot of different environments. Apple, having control of the hardware, and a very specific/limited set of places to run, can do smarter things around enclaves, etc.
This remark is really unkind. D3 precedes Observable, and the development path is exactly what someone would take if they wanted to make data visualization accessible - create a base library, and later opinionated tools to work with it.

The harshest way to interpret unavailability of regular JS tutorials should be that the primary authors don't have enough bandwidth or the inclination to work on it, and the community hasn't picked up the slack to make it more accessible to beginners. The authors deserve nothing other than gratitude.
Venmo isn't instant in the same way that USDC is though. When a USDC transaction settles, I know the money is mine, when a venmo transfer settles, or an ach transfer settles, there is an opportunity for the money to be clawed back for quite a bit of time [0]. We can argue if this is a good or a bad feature, but it does mean that the transfer really isn't instant as I don't have guarantees behind the money being mine.

Wire transfers are a bit better in this regard (my understanding is that "clawbacks" are quite difficult / impossible), but they tend to be expensive for consumers, and take a few hours domestically, days internationally. My employer regularly has to deal with overseas wire transfers, we would hands down use USDC instead if it were an option.

To me the fundamental difference between crypto and legacy finance is that my crypto is mine. I can move it when and how I want. With legacy finance, I am effectively asking a custodian to move the funds for me, and I'm tied to whatever antiquated system they use.

[0] https://twitter.com/bweidlich/status/1403084816665354241
I don't know, maybe most of what you're saying here is that ATT&CK is useful if you're a Windows admin. I may be biased, since I work primarily in software security and vulnerability research, and not IT security.
This is a profound realisation that is usually preceded by experiencing the sickness and suffering that comes with unrestrained desire. How it takes over one's discriminating faculties until one becomes blind to everyday beauty.

I cannot recommend meditation enough to train the mind to stay calm when desires want to run rampant. No mantras or music, just sit in silence and boredom. Thoughts will come and go and eventually you will learn to cope with yourself.
Also leaving Freenode: FSF, GNU, plus Linux and Python support channels
I came looking into the comments for tptacek's reply.

To the OP, take it from him and look no further. Get yourself enrolled in some learning course like the Matasano's crypto challenge and see where that takes you. Good luck.
I've got Unihertz Jelly 2. It is smaller than "Palm Palm" in width and heigth, but a bit thicker in depth, which is a good thing. Screen is a bit tad too small, but good enough for calls and other basic functions. Typing in portrait mode is tricky, at least.
I'm not sure that is true.
Maybe you desire intent in your art.
I'm glad you find my work useful. :)
Perhaps they have priests with costumes, and I am not aware of any alchemy, but are these "shortcomings" in any sort of fundamental, materially important way?
Storming the US capitol on January 6th
I don't find this true in the least. I've been at this for 25 years, ran a small consultancy for 15 of that, and certs have been wholly useless save for a very very small fraction of our business as a DoD subcontractor.

In general I found that customers that demanded certifications were not expecting our consultants to do much thinking, they really just wanted box checkers. I didn't quite understand this until after a few years of hiring folks that were hell-bent on stacking certs...they tended to be box checkers. So, intentional or otherwise, it ultimately made sense.

I find that the education associated with most (not all) certs to be sub-par and not particularly applicable, and it tends to stratify the thinking around how you educate yourself in a career that is at least as much based on vocational/practical knowledge as it is academic. Right now I'm working as part of an infosec org that is >>1000 full time employees and industry certs are a non-factor, the company generally doesn't invest in them unless they somehow directly align with your role and almost nobody that I work with advertises that they have any.

So, in short, I'm closer to anti-certification than anything. That said, don't be religious about it. If that's what the offerings in your area or industry of interest require, do it.
CPU standardization is already here, your iPhone runs ARMv8-A does that allow you to replace the kernel on your iPhone?

What it is about android that allows you to do so is the copyleft license on the linux kernel. Chips can be locked down, and they generally are.
Yeah there are carnival rides that basically do this. If scaled up to maybe 100 meter diameter horizontal ring the coriolis forces shouldn't be too bothersome. The floor would be banked to seem level to the people inside. There would still be some weird second order effects but it seems like it could be livable for days at a time. The room should be as thin as possible if the floor is to be flat in one direction to minimize weirdness. Having the outside of the wheel moving at around highway speed with >45 degree bank angle should give about 1.5 g.

Someone must have built a centrifuge barracks or something during the cold war. Have never heard of such a thing, though.
One point that should be repeated ad infinitum for those reading about the Pinephone for the 1st time: it's all about the freedom, not performance. One doesn't buy the Pinephone to brag about its technical achievements with friends, but rather to contribute building an ecosystem, even just by spreading the word, of people who put freedom and privacy above everything.
I also should be repeated ad infinitum why its hardware is limited compared to other devices, and I don't mean the well known ones but also those built by the hundreds of thousands by Chinese factories then relabeled under a dozen different lesser known brands. The reason is that Pine64 had to make all of it from scratch since obtaining any meaningful technical information from those hardware makers is impossible, so they had literally to pick what hardware had the most open documentation available.
Supporting them is our way to send a strong message: "we've had enough of your black boxes". Big players of course won't give a flying damn since the market of privacy conscious users wouldn't represent a fraction of a fraction of their user base, but hopefully that will help convincing other manufacturers to publish their specs.
Phones aside, there are other ways to help them. I'm waiting for a beefier version of the Pinetab, am considering the PineBook pro (with EU keyboard which is out of stock) and in the meantime got their mini solder iron which works surprisingly well (and I have two Wellers).
That functionality exists on iOS. When I open a site from Apollo, to use your Reddit example, I get a small "Done" button at the upper left corner of the screen. Touching that closes the browser window and leaves me right back in Apollo where I started.

Conventionally, most iOS apps seem to do it like Apple does with the native apps. E.g. when I click a link in an iMessage, it opens up the page in Safari and at the top left of the screen there is a little "< Messages" button that will take me back exactly where I was.

Honestly, it seems just like a Windows vs MacOS vs Linux thing. There are analogs for almost every behavior that is even a tiny bit popular, you just have to get comfortable with how to use it.
`git checkout` great for switching to a different commit and for throwing away local unstaged changes!
Certs plus experience are even more valuable. That is why the CISSP requires years of experience before you can test.
Also, note that the use of a pipe from a Unix shell is very different from the use of a pipe in most (all?) languages. So the property you're interested in is not really the fundamental mechanism (which is quite a complicated object, with error conditions and required logic to handle i/o), but the abstraction presented by the shell.
Is MATE still actively developed and maintained? I was under the impression it's even more on life support than Cinnamon…
You’re going to have a heart attack when you try to cat an executable on your local machine!
Unregulated encryption will be out in the next decade, it's too powerful for us plebes to have. Things will be safer when only the paragons of infosec like big corporations and banks get to use it freely.
> As in: how many libraries of Alexandria do we lose each day on the web? Because it it's too high a number, then the web is fundamentally broken.

If your brain remembered every piece of information it stumbled upon, you'd cease to function before your first birthday.

Your computer would be out of RAM before it gets past its BIOS check.

And your HDD would get filled to capacity in less than a week and become inoperable.

The web doesn't have to preserve everything. 99% of everything is garbage, and I'm being conservative. Forgetting is an essential capability, and we should focus on quality, not quantity.
It is still possible to find great communities outside of the corporate monopolies and fun websites, you just have to dig and spend time on the internet. Sometimes it is hard to escape your bubble of watch-time-increasing or addiction-inducing algorithms of giant ad-filled sites. Some sites cause addiction due to community and some due to algorithm.
I fundamentally distrust these people (on both sides)

I know it sounds cliché, but that's the sign of a good citizen. You should distrust. Particularly since so much money is at stake. Anyone who doesn't distrust, is either being naive, or more likely, collecting on the graft.

I also share your concern that they want to have some convoluted anti-trust regime, rather than a simple, straightforward law that says no sharing of any user data for any commercial purpose at all, ever. With draconian penalties for any infraction. That would stop all this in its tracks, so you have to wonder why they let the privacy stuff go relatively unmolested?

The only answer I can come up with is that they fully intend to keep violating privacy. Maybe with different companies this time? Or different people collecting the money? But in the end, we the people are still getting shafted.
Foods can be associated with a religious/cultural tradition, even without being prescribed or proscribed by it.

A Kosher deli is a good example. Having pastrami, rather than ham, is obviously religious, but the fact that it invariably comes on rye isn't.
No one said your co-workers must or should be your only social connections. Simply that it helps if they are A social connection.

You're still going to deal with your co-workers eight hours a day. Dealing with people who think of you as a friend is a lot easier than with people who don't.
Unless they manage to get the apps then they'll always be hobbyist or not a daily driver for the vast majority of users. Sure it's fun it's linux but nobody else in my family would use one if they couldn't access banking apps etc.