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The "it's more important that your code is not exploited by corporations" crowd doesn't actually find GPL suitable anymore either, it still allows too much exploitation.

This position increasingly wants technically not-open-source licenses that reserve the right to profit from the code for... actually, a certain corporation, the one of the "original developers". It's not really about "by corporations", but "big corporations" vs "plucky entrepeneurs who deserve to get rich from their innovation".

Whereas before, for open source enthusiasts, it was about "those who get rich from code" (whether big corporations or 'plucky entrepeneurs') vs some kind of 'commons' or 'public good'. (The new ideological position believes they are still open source enthusiasts somehow, but that their non-open-rights-reserved licenses are somehow 'more truly' open source than... actual open source licenses including the GPL. The term 'open source' still has too much credit for them to say they are opposed to it, even when they are).

There is definitely an ideological shift going on. I am curious if anyone has written/researched more about it.
That's why you never learn about shenanigans in N Korea, Russia and China.Yep!
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It is NOT Sanskrit, which was foisted on the world by the british. Please be respectful and call it by it real name, given by Panini which literally codified and formalized it.
doesn't take $5000 to open a survey monkey account.
Google -is- a malicious and exploitative surveillance capitalism company preying on people that don't feel like they have a choice.

Inch by inch "don't be evil" has been replaced with "maximize profit".

I have no doubt that if in 20 years decrypting "historical" Apple user data for "training purposes" is legal and will make Google leadership more money, they will pressure ethically flexible engineers to do it for them.

Assume anything profitable that is legally defensible somewhere in the world will be done by every surveillance capitalism company at some point.
Nintendo did an upgraded 3ds called "New 3ds" that had a better chip and could run games the regular 3ds couldn't. The only prominent one being a port of the Wii game Xenoblade that they clearly couldn't get working on the regular 3ds.
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your complaint does not align with your final statement.

If controller's longevity is inherently problematic, how is it suitable for solo while not so for copperative?
Yeah sorry, sloppy wording, but the point is the same.
Even if it's only added to cover their asses or for legal purposes, with no intention to exercise that provision, it's already there, which means that changing their mind in the future and making use of the provision costs them nothing, and they won't have to tell anyone about it.
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Kanopy. Free with many library cards. Views are rate-limited per month, which limit I think may vary by library system, but still, you can watch at least a movie or two a week for free if you're part of a participating system. Some major, recent films, lots of mid-tier non-blockbusters and the kind of thing that plays the film festival circuit. Tons of (often political) documentaries, if you're into that. Damn good, for free, and you can ignore the documentaries and just focus on the movies and still have loads of content. Only weakness is that, oddly, it's awful for kids' content.
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Reading the comments here makes me less optimistic about Rust support in Linux. It starts with adding support, and will perpetuate into flame wars about why so and so needs to be replaced with Rust cause C sucks. Before long the kernel devs will no longer enjoy working in a toxic environment.
The exploitation is completely acceptable when you are paid $300k+ and don't even feel exploited, yes. I fail to see how getting paid huge sums to do what you enjoy doing is even close to 'exploitation' for any reasonable definition.
One side of the sword makes hiring more difficult, the other side means you become homeless, lose your health insurance, and cannot provide for your family. It can literally be life threatening to the worker.

The power differential favours the employer so much in this situation that it is ridiculous.

I agree if there was a social safety net like UBI this would be a non issue, but we’re nowhere near that.
A while ago, a very simple agent I made had to do tasks in the maze and evaluate strategies to reach them. I wanted it to have no assumptions about the world, so it started with minimum knowledge. Its first plan was to try to remove walls, to get to the things it needed.

It is a fun feeling when your own program surprises you.
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Incorrect and unrepresentative.
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Sure, and I can spy on girls I like just so I can learn how to offer them a better experience when they meet me.

Having good intents does not justify skipping consent. The “opt-out” mentality is a very slippery slope, since you’re already stating that consent does not need to be explicit (hint: it’s not consent if not given explicitly AND freely).
> If memory allocation fails, an exception is thrown and a retry with less memory requirements is a possible execution path.

So, since we're talking about the Linux kernel, that's a red flag straight away. Notice a whole section of this new LKML post is about their implementation of Rust's alloc crate? Linus doesn't want useless exceptions here and has previously objected on that basis.

Meanwhile... Over in the C++ world they have this same behaviour. For them these exception handlers are a fiction, in reality popular standard libraries (never mind everything else you're using) will blow up in low memory and it's game over. Maybe Ada does a lot better. Maybe.
That sort of thing can't really exist. Consider this scenario:

A developer of an email client wishes to use telemetry to figure out which IMAP features are most worth supporting. They could, say, log every IMAP server you connect to. Or instead run an IMAP ID command and log the response. Or they could ship the CAPABILITIES response verbatim. Or maybe they could carefully parse the CAPABILITIES response and only report the existence of specific tokens (which may include capabilities not yet supported by the client) back as telemetry.

There's a gradient of scuminess going on there, all to (purportedly) track the same information. What matters for privacy concerns is the choice of data being tracked; how it's actually collected and transmitted is comparatively unimportant. So what you really want is someone to approve the choice of what to track, which isn't what a third-party library or service is likely to give you. And you don't need to necessarily route it through a third party; if we're talking about open-source software, the data that's being tracked is public knowledge--an organization that reviews telemetry and gives a stamp of approval would be sufficient to achieve the same ends.

But even then, I suspect many people are going to have different ideas as to what data is safe to track. Even the list I gave for tracking IMAP, I fully expect that there exists sharp disagreement about whether some of those entries would be okay for telemetry purposes.
Why? Where I live, even with DST, in the summers the sun still comes up at about 5am. Without DST, it would come up at 4am. that is surely wasted daylight for >95% of the population
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yes, probably different product lines (in fact definitely, the Xbox stick is threaded metal), but I dug into ALPS's inventory and they don't offer more than two or possibly three models in total.
Microsoft Surface/Surface Duo or similar will be the first truly convergent device.
not any more, they've blown all their good will
I have the same experience. If I knew, I wouldn't never bought it. And once I experienced it, everybody was like, oooh yeah, joy cons are broken, buy pro controller. I have 4 joy cons and all started to drift and thus unusable, 3-6 months after I bough them. Bought pro controller 6 months ago and so far it still works.

So bad yet so expensive. I am honestly amazed there is no drama around it, its THAT bad. People can obviously tolerate any kind of shit.
Vedic Samskrutam was a different language than Paninis classical Samskrutam. We need to recognize size that.
If they stop showing up, you would have legal cause to fire them.
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Ahem, underperforming indie games. Most indie games can barely handle 30fps at 720p, which is pretty telling about Unity which probably runs more than 90% of them.

And there are also underperforming first-party games. BOTW had drops to 15 fps in some areas, and Link's Awakening had major performance issues.

Good thing we got WarioWare and whatever the current version of Wii Fit is called.

Nintendo is seriously out of touch with the market and they are still viewing themselves as a toymaker. I have no idea how their core fanbase doesn't get tired of rehashing the same 5 games for 4 decades.
Genetic algorithms are based on the same reward/cost function setup. They could easily arrive at the same conclusion because suicide might be the dominant strategy.
> Twitter is being assholes. they should just patch up like facebook which fully complies with government meaning facebook becomes the best monitoring and investigation portal for them. like the last time facebook had found some political influence on their software but once they found the ruling party was involved, they dropped the investigation

Nah. I like the increased scrutiny against Social Media companies that has come up.
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On a more CLI oriented design, take a look at Debian's report-bug program. It's completely transparent, and still gathers enough information that most times a one-line description of the bug is enough for anybody to understand everything that happened on your system.
Completely agree. In addition to the large space I'd also callout the ability to use your shoulder, elbow, etc. (rather than relying on fine movements) as an ingredient toward achieving, let's call it, a "frictionless" creation/brainstorming experience. The comfort of using an instantly-intuitive tool like a whiteboard allows the thoughts to pour out as fast as you can move your hand.
Those rumors never made any sense. Nintendo has no "specs masterrace"-spirit. Their focus always was elsewhere. And they always denied those rumors, never saying a thing even hinting in those direction. Complaining here is very misguided.

And there is also another point to consider. 2020 brought a huge drain of hardware-supply, we've seen it with the new xbox and PS5. Nintendo already had supply-problems in better times, now way would they risk bringing some new hotseller in the actual situation.
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That's an extreme example obviously, but still one where there might be significant legal costs if the firee lawyers up.
The US was a major source of anti vaccination FUD. And while in the US vaccination is stalling because of "muh freedom" EU governments developed an app that stops unvaccinated people from entering restaurants and airplanes. The latest 3D chess move was letting children get the jab without their parents permission.
I was seriously worried about our civilization for a moment but sanity prevailed. We will be at 90% soon.
Safe, GC-less memory allocation. Nim requires a GC, at least runtime refcounting, in order to not leak memory: https://nim-lang.org/docs/gc.html

The ownership/lifetime system is basically novel to Rust (well, it's based on Cyclone, which would probably have been an interesting choice for the kernel too because it's based on C, but Cyclone is no longer actively developed), and it allows you to get the performance of manual memory management (no refcounting required) without either leaking memory or hitting use-after-free bugs.

Rust's ownership system also tracks shared/immutable references and unique/mutable references at compile time, avoiding a whole bunch of setups for creating race conditions or otherwise corrupting data.
Booksmart was the first thing I thought of too when he said, “since 2012, the only successful comedies have been animations aimed at young children.” (edit: I mean to say, you can still see movies with originality even if they're not "successful" i.e. blockbusters)

In 2018 when I originally got AMC A-list subscription, I tried going to 3 movie a week at first, so I went to a lot more movies I was unsure about but they were very original and memorable, but they weren’t super popular (at least I was the only person I personally knew who had seen it).

Sorry to Bother You ($18 million)

Blackkklansman ($93 million)

Eighth Grade ($14 million)

Crazy Rich Asians ($238 million)
This case may or may not involve death threats, but a great many others do. They're very common. So common that he may not even have bothered to mention it.

So I was speaking more generally. I believe that the FBI should start taking Internet death threats seriously, even though the fact is that the vast majority of them aren't. They have a serious chilling effect and are already felonies. All that would be needed would be the will to enforce existing laws.

They're not prioritized because it would require a lot of work just to scare some kid (who would almost certainly be given little to no sentence). But the larger effect might be more significant.
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You just needed an old analog TV. The UHF tuner would pick up AMPS.
The GPL may make commercial use infeasible, but the Descent public license has gems like:

> IN NO EVENT SHALL THE END-USER USE THE COMPUTER CODE
CONTAINED HEREIN FOR REVENUE-BEARING PURPOSES

Which is still better than no source release. But it doesn't get your code out and used by other projects.
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gosh lets you write Go code directly at the command line. You can use Go then as a command-line calculator or for small scripts that you might otherwise use the shell, or python or perl for. You can also use gosh to write shebang (#!) scripts in Go.
Author of the Lancet paper did not disclose ties to WIV

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It seems to me that you are proving my point.
The philosopher Hubert Dreyfus argued that computers, who have no body, no childhood and no cultural practice, could not acquire intelligence at all.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0494-4

What he means is that computers, which can learn rules and use those rules to make predictions in certain domains, nevertheless cannot exercise general intelligence because they are not "in the world". This renders them unable to experience and parse culture, most of which is tacit in real time, and sustained by enduring mental models which we experience as "expectations" that we navigate with our emotions and senses.

Culture is the platform on which intelligence is manifest, because the usefulness of knowledge is not absolute - it is contextual and social.
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Because Twitter likely doesn't wants to have the Indian Govt dictate what should or shouldn't be shown on Twitter. Facebook and Google, on the other hand have decided that the business they get in India is worth the censoring/govt backdooring.

Also, it is rather hard to appoint a Chief Compliance Officer considering that this person can get arrested easily. The last interim hire that twitter did quit in a month due to continual gov't harassment;

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/twitter-interim-grie...
I'm pretty sure the elite are going to meet their reckoning long before they get to live in climate controlled domes. It's going to make the French Revolution look like a pillow fight.

I don't reallly think we're even at a real risk of actual extinction though. We as a species have gone through far more traumatic climate change in the past. Modern civilisation might collapse but humanity before the hubris of the state and capital - hunter gatherers and nomads will just continue business as always. Even many modern anemeties might be able to persist using more decentralised and sustainable fabrication methods. We will have to make up for the breakdown of those supply chains but there are many alternatives to modern electronics that are not being persued because the status quo is currently more economical.

Hopefuly, the next iteration of civilisation will do a better job of stewardship with the planet instead of being a pest.
Can't wait for scalper bots to buy them up!
> Don't you think it is a bit of an overreaction to say that "Audacity is now joining the ranks

No. I do not.

They now have the ability to take any data they want "accidentally". They can now give that data to whomever they want (it's in their Ts and Cs I believe) and even if you switch it off, what's to say they won't turn it on? What's stopping them selling the product to another company that now has a bunch of data.

It has not been needed up to this point. The product works. It works well. Why can't they send surveys? Or ask in a forum? Or ask users to download their alpha/beta/nightly version with the telemetry in it?

Once they get that data, they may want more!
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>Doesn't seem like an extreme claim to me

The Nautilus article gives many examples of effects which would have a similar statistical significance to the one presented in the OP. Which ones do you think are equivalently significant in reality to the effect of meal times on judicial sentencing?
Why not do local logging by default (opt-out), and ask users to upload their logs if and when they want you to diagnose some problem?
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In many countries it is.
I agree with you. A tiny bit of effort could potentially have a large knock-on effect. It's certainly worth trying.

I'm not surprised that they don't. But I really think they should.
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I'm reminded of The Sidley Park Hermit in Tom Stoppard's beautiful "Arcadia".
Calling it surveillance is misleading in most cases.

The most recent crash reporting system I worked with was little more than a stack trace without any user data recorded at all. Not even IP addresses of the report.

We didn’t care who was crashing and we didn’t collect any PII at all. It was a simple report about where in our code the crash occurred.

It was very useful for fixing bugs. No surveillance or PII involved.
He wouldn't be allowed to visit the cockpit either, which is an enduring joy from my childhood.
This is a great idea, but I want it to go one step further. Some projects I do want to send some telemetry. It would help if there was a standard way to name environment variables or config entries across projects so I can predict what I need to change for each one without digging through docs. Perhaps a per-account dotfile that lists projects with 0, 1, or 2 depending on no data, limited subset / anonymous only data, or full data.
> No. It's not, or at least, it wasn't. By law, it is a constitutional republic.

Woof, I gotta say I super dislike the parsing out of "republic" vs. "democracy". It almost always deliberately misses the point: our government is supposed to represent us. And honestly, what does "by law" add here?

> You're just using one form of corruption to justify your chosen form.

There's nothing corrupt about social programs? That's not what "corruption" means.
Doesn't need a gun, just network access.
That would be great IF the current hardware could handle the games. It can't - even indie games mostly can't sustain 30fps and rely heavily on resolution scaling which drives the resolution way underneath the internal screens 720p resolution.

Just try something like Apex Legends and you'll see how it pretty much looks like you're seeing through an oily film. Even the DLCs for the console darling, Breath of the Wild, can't sustain smooth 30fps gameplay.

People didn't expect better hardware to get 4K. People expected better hardware to make their games playable on internal 720p screen.
When you add numbers together you start at the little end. Imagine a bignum implementation with multi-word numbers. Now imagine you have a bunch of them in a file you want to add up. If the numbers are in little endian order you can do a streaming implementation that reads and adds at the same time. If they are in big endian order you need to read a whole number before it can be added to the accumulator.

Obviously this example is very contrived. This sort of thing was much more of a concern on 8-bit computers. But little endian still seems more natural to me.