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> but he said these things are like a pendulum, and eventually it would swing back.

No, data collection only expands.

Our TLAs vacuum up everything they can. The fusion centers do data mining and send automated faxes to local police stations. Luckily they complain it's too much to read, so the faxes go in the round file.

There's a misunderstanding on HN that TLAs can't spy on US domestic citizens, but that hasn't been true for over 20 years. (Before that, Echelon and email users suspected of having one or more foreign parties were the fig leaves used to spy on people, but those rules are no longer followed.)

(Yahoo has a linux kernel module installed on email servers to allow real-time keyword matching of traffic, approved by Mayer.)

> eventually, we'll have Chinese-style, socially-scored citizenship, just run by corporations instead of the government.

The government has X-Key-Score. They also buy social media feeds and credit stream data.

Family courts (!), of all things, essentially monitor everything you do and every step you take after they get involved in your life without any effective oversight - it's like parole.
> ordinary people are tasked with saving the planet

I can’t read minds, but my sense is that much of what individuals are asked to do is knowingly conservation theater. If you want to put a positive spin on that, you can say it makes them feel more committed to supporting the regulatory changes necessary by building a sense of shared sacrifice. The cynical version writes itself.
>This is the problem I have with people who claim to care about the catastrophic impact of climate change. It's more about claiming moral victory over western countries than it is about actually working to reduce the CO2 in the environment. If someone was about to destroy the world, wouldn't your main focus be one preventing that to happen?

Here is a better idea.

How about developed nations, with their might of research, resources and human capital, put aside economic growth for a while and steer the world towards a sustainable future.

Its not about moral victories.

The approach of developed nations has been wrong. You see people like Trump and lose all hope for humanity.

There is only so much a developing country can do when you have scenarios where India has 4 times the population of USA, yet per capita Carbon production is 7 times less.

Still, it is the developing nations who have been most successful in meeting climate targets, be it in renewable energy or reduction in per capita carbon generation.

Sure, I like to whine and point out the moral failures of the developed world, but it is rightly deserved so. Because developing countries also act on climate change, in spite of knowing the effects it has on their economies.

But god forbid angering an American voter by talking about being responsible for climate change.
And why would that make "capitalism" "come to an end"?

It opens up new niches for food production. Especially more capital intensive ways (eg vertical farming).

The trend of less and less people being employed in food production continues.
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com comes quite close IMO. And: make it long-term-proof, so you can leave things as they are for decades.
Jitter sucks universally.

this particular example of jitter suck is probably closely related to the reasons jitter sucks in the audio world; you can compensate for latency and other problems to an amazing degree but then it all goes to hell when the timing gets thrown off.
Ok, now we just need to know how ferroelectric crystals compare to conventional solar cells to find out what this "1000x" really means...
> if there is no killswitch for the speakers, that can be used as a microphone, too?

I know that physically / electronically, a speaker is a microphone, but is there any way for someone to actually record sound through the speakers on the librem? There is a lot more to a microphone than just the diaphragm...
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It’s not bad faith. Plenty of arguments in the US have been around wages where the govt has to provide additional support. It’s called “corporate welfare”. The argument is the company should pay enough on its own.

Why can’t you have a conversation in good faith?
> In cultures without industrialized agriculture, losing that many people to war would doom everyone.

The Black Death killed an estimated 40-50% of Europeans between 1347 and 1351, but the survivors were not doomed. In fact, living standards increased as the amount of agricultural land per person increased.
It's agendas like these when you realize submitting your country laws to legislation from Brusel was a fatal error.
> What if "safe for the environment" isn't just another brand that you can choose to buy if you're willing to pay the extra dollar?

But "safe for the environment" is a brand that you can choose to buy. Every environmental damage can be offset.

I'd reverse the question: what if solving global warming is something that can be achieved without outlawing anything, including SUVs, plastic garbage and wasteful lawns? Certain people perceive global warming as an opportunity to reshape society in their preferred image; (visibly) ecologically conscious, "green", friendly, local, low power, low consumption, etc. This can be seen in the discourse around technological megaengineering solutions to global warming, such as a space sunshade - usually you will find in the comments someone saying "but then we'll just keep burning fossil fuels!" Yeah, so? I thought this was about warming?
Easy solution to this and many other problems: leave the EU.

The UK did it and they're still alive.
This was posted about a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28010133
Are you saying that Covid has had zero net effect on people's political inclinations? That the stark lesson in the importance of coordinated action has only hit home amongst those who were already "government inclined"? Because I don't that's true.
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I actually followed this guide the other day. Pretty neat to be able to run NeXTSTEP and play around with all the old apps. Be warned though, as the article says, the mouse is very difficult to use/control due to the drivers and differences between modern mice and the mice of the time.
I do see your point, and I've thought about this consequence a lot.

I sincerely don't think it would cause a financial collapse, as ridiculous as that might sound.

200% plus 10% compounding per annum is the lowest I think we could reasonably go in order to be in with a chance of reaching peak carbon by 2030.

It forces deeply painful changes on the world, but no more painful than is necessary to avoid the collapse of civilisation.

The problem until now is that people haven't been given the justification to go along with the astronomical task being asked (i.e. Stop burning fossil fuels immediately or we all die).
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/catholic-priest-...
The issue is that you're asking young people to give up a lifestyle that their parents considered normal, in order to compensate for the pollution that past generations have caused.
Yes, I 100% agree. Our features prioritize safety and interactivity. Of course, apart from gamification, we also have moderation tools like word filter, audit logs, member repots, etc. To facilitate better discussions, we have post categories and subforums. Our Quests are also geared towards facilitating conversation and rewarding participation. We have quests like "Get 10 upvotes on your post" or "Comment on 10 posts" or "Create 3 polls" and so on... When members level up, they get access to special profile upgrades and other perks.

We're also currently working on community monetization to allow members to support their community, and owners to generate revenue.
Maybe it would be topical to use a "herd immunity" argument. We all need to have privacy to protect those who are vulnerable as it's impossible to only protect the "at risk" people.
I was thinking out aloud. I hear daily about someone or the other has died.

I now realize that this is not a topic I should've started.

And my second point was that I agree with you that the energy reduction is only temporary
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Not me. As freelancer I work from home over 5 years. Many friends was sceptical about that until all of them had to work from home as well. Soon they realised it has many advantages, especially if you have small kids. It is not a stigma to work from home any more.
Honestly, if we take the ratio of 1 in 10 seriously, I think the time for human focus and caution has passed. That's an epidemic. To be clear, I'm not letting schools, churches, sports clubs etc off here; all those places clearly need massively increased external oversight as well. But at a 10% rate, we cannot exclude the family; it must be considered an institution in a state of failure.
yeah, not as keyboard, but e.g. mouse? Would even make todays VR much better / less anoying imo
Science's Biggest Names! It got a chuckle out of me while reading.
Like the professor in TFA I am also confused: how can the ground be imparting power to the propeller while moving downwind?
In the China brand lifecycle, Xiaomi was just at a different phase of the cycle than Huawei. Now they also have €1000+ phones to compete with Samsung and Apple flagships. Similar story happened with OnePlus.
Funny thing, even 2000 years ago or so this concept of "Nothing to Hide" was known. There is a passage in the bible about "throwing the first stone".

Seems people in power throughout history have been wanting to pry into people's private lives. And 'regular' people feed that need themselves by watching "Reality TV" and following paparazzi type media outlets.
But given that we appear to be burning the carbon anyway, it does make sense to burn it at the highest attainable efficiencies. Ignoring clever tech just means more coal burnt for nothing, in defiance of the fact that 85% of our energy comes from fossil fuel.

If the tech doesn't reduce carbon emissions then it isn't exactly a dead horse. They just aren't investigating it in an effort to reduce carbon emissions.
I can no longer visit End-To-End encrypted sites anymore at work. It sucks because I use ProtonMail and end up having to use my phone to forward things from there or to my Google email, which I wanted to stop using entirely.
I did this a few days ago and was really surprised by the copying and untaring not having progress bars. I know this thing is old, but as it is heralded so often as a really great system, this little detail struck me as really user unfriendly and I would have not expected to find something like this there.

I have to admit, setting this up was kind of a pain in general and I am not sure if it is worth the trouble.
Maybe someone can give some examples while it might be? I personally wanted to take a look at Lotus Improv, but could after setting it all up not find a version for intel. I guess there never was one?
Slightly off topic, is there a nice/modern way to deal with filenames that can have spaces in bash scripts? The only solutions I have seen use tons of quotes are are unreadable/unmaintainable.
In this case, your BS detector is giving you a false result: https://youtu.be/yCsgoLc_fzI?t=275
This report [0] is all I could find. I would have expected this to be more widely reported, and I'm surprised to see it isn't.

[0]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-0319...
I'd bet a lot that non-video-streaming web browsing is a tiny bit of "tech carbon consumption". What's consuming most is probably big DCs doing various backend compute stuff and high-speed/high-bandwidth streaming (on the web and mostly out of the web, like netflix and co). Also for high-tech a very big part (in the 10s of %) of whole-life energy consumption is used at manufacture (and destruction), not during use, so a big driver of consumption is culturaly and technologicaly-induced turnover/obsolescence.

As for the web, imho there's mostly one hard solution being static web-sites being aggressively cached in a broadcast tree (as in real offline-modes, website downloading). Just like high-speed personal transportation vs collective fixed-schedule medium-speed transportation. I'd guess internet consumption is not much dependent on distance, but speed and duplication of the transfers, that's probably a thing.

In this kind of realm i'd be curious to see the life-cycle energy cost comparison of radio-broadcast numeric TV vs cabled broadcast. Perhaps we could use numeric radio-broadcast as a distribution channel for many-to-one websites like news and newsletter-type of big social media profiles. I hope to one day say "oh it's 4:03 i'll tune my receiver to get the local blog updates".
One child less means halving population after every generation.

Only if you assume the average is two children per couple and a replacement reproduction rate, which doesn't fit the reality I know. We have a huge population in the billions precisely because that's not what is going on.

If we drop to something below exponential growth rates, this is not a tragedy.
Shocked to see food waste reduction is the thing with more potential emission savings.
I guess there are a lot of network effects behind this.
This is what corporations have done to the society at large. They raped the idea of critical thought.

When you see large corporations putting money into something, it is 100% a for profit venture. Capitalism has taught them so.

No, the world did not come together, not with trump shouting the virus is "fake" at the top of his voice.

Corporations saw an opportunity, grabbed it. The opportunity is lax regulations in the hurry to get out the vaccine.

Also, this specific type of virus was being researched and vaccine formulations were being done at the time of the outbreak.
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Covid is almost gone in the western world so we need another stick to hit the people
The small demonstration that made it click for me is from that video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsgoLc_fzI&t=812s

This is exactly what the blackbird does, only with a propeller pushing air in place of the big wheel, and it's a much clearer and simpler demonstration of the same idea, which you can trivially verify.
Apple pushes back against child abuse scanning concerns in new FAQ
As far as I know, the code is secret and the data that it runs on is secret, i.e., it is not science, and it is not really even attempting to appear to be science to anyone who knows what science is. Not reproducible even in theory due to secrecy means it cannot be science. It's not even wrong.

Besides being secret and likely buggy, any simulation of the climate necessarily incomplete, i.e. it omits quite a lot of phenomena. Complex systems are fundamentally non-amenable to simulation, but in this case, the results of the "simulation" are garbage squared, because they're "simulations" of some system that doesn't even exist.

This is the kind of stuff being passed off as science these days.
iMessage has an e2e backdoor on by default in the form of plaintext escrow via iCloud Backup (not e2e).

iMessage is, in practice today, no longer e2e.

Apple knows this and intentionally preserves this backdoor for the FBI:

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1ZK1CT
Is it really, though?
Both child abuse and the pandemic are serious issues with real world victims, and both are riddled with privacy, anonymity and personal integrity issues.
If we don't act against them, people will die/get hurt, and if we act against it in a Macchiavelian manner, democracy and quality of our life suffers enormously.

My observation is that in the name of:
a) Covid
b) Counterterrorism
c) Child abuse
almost everything can be presented as justifiable, at least to the mainstream media. The burden of questioning the rulers' decisions remains on us, and the limitations of personal freedom, both digital and physical, set a dangerous precendent to anything that might happen in the future.
We have decreased ours and they have increased theirs but we are still buying more and more shit from them - their emissions are our emissions - while the demand side exists the supply will too - it will just be supplied from somewhere else...
And almost comically CRT screens.

Anyone remember blackle.com?
> Most of the people could use a decades-old computer and a <1Mbit/s connection

The computer I'm writing this on is nearly a decade old and performs perfectly well on modern websites. Granted, I'm not going to try using a < 1Mb/s connection.

That being said, I agree that things like client-side (and server-side) scripting and video decoding (and encoding) reflects a disinterest in environmental concerns. I will disagree about the quantity of data playing a negligible role, since serving it may not be very energy hungry but building out infrastructure is. We can satisfy our needs with a lot less if we used all of our resources more effectively.
Am I the only one seeing a swastika in the image?
I am confused? Does your employer just block any https site?
<as long as they are required to preface every module and program with `implicit none`>

A small price to pay for being able to run code from 60 years ago. And no, there is no such requirement as such.

<need to specify the "leading dimension of A">

A very clever way of applying your algo to a submatrix from the days of sequence association and no array expressions. Nothing to do with dynamic memory allocation and you know the compiler will have no excuse to copy data.

Why is it a defect that I/O needs keyword? Fortran has doubled-down on that "defect" by making coarray references through syntax [] and not an MPI-like procedure call. I don't think it's a defect at all, it's a strength.
It seems like western countries are penalized for having birthrates and population under control when the "per capita" emissions numbers are used, vs absolute output (which is declining in West).

China and soon India are the two countries that make me feel hopeless about controlling CO2. I get that's not "fair", but the planet doesn't care about fairness.
>>if the government YOU are electing

Except like I clearly said above, I'm an immigrant without the right to vote, so I'm not electing shit. Again, how exactly am I supposed to vote my way out of this?
> However, I would quickly adapt and think it was just normal.

This definitely does not happen to me in these temperature ranges. 32 is too hot to function no matter how long I sit there. 30 is livable, but permanent discomfort. 28 is more or less ok, through I prefer lower temperatures.

You can feel how those differences affect your body.
We already have an ideal carbon capture technology optimized by Nature Inc. through a state of the art evolutionary algorithm running trillions of parallel processes for billions of years. It's called Trees (TM). With Trees (TM) the CO2 emissions problem has a simple two step solution that anyone can accomplish with ease:

1) Stop cutting down Trees

2) Plant more Trees

That's it. The end. Problem solved.
> It's that industrialized agriculture had been developed, and thus you could still feed millions of people who were fighting.

That sounds like a factor in determining how long an attacker can sustain attacks, but the underlying hypothesis is that defense far outweighed the ability to sustain attacks.

To quote the OP:

> "But the real problem was that, for the first time since castles vs. troops without cannon, defense was stronger than offense."
> (In layman's terms: not only is the bell-shaped curve shifting over to the right, it's also getting squashed down flatter and wider.)

Maybe you've already accounted for this, but I'm bringing it up anyway: increasing variance doesn't necessarily mean flatter and wider bell curve. There are at least two more options:

- A bell curve with a more pronounced peak, lower shoulders, and more mass under the tails. This would correspond to experiencing even more normal weather, but the extreme weather that does occur is insanely out of whack with normal.

- The peak separating into a low number of different peaks which drift apart. This would correspond to weather flip-flopping in its behaviour based on time or location.

I'm not saying this is what happens, I'm just saying we ought to be mindful of automatically committing the Gaussian fallacy whenever we hear summary statistics!
It seems like a pretty worthless as a gun although it may have value as a collector item. Who knows in 10+ years it may be very valuable.

Guns are interesting that way you never know if they'll book become desirable later on as a novelty or museum piece.
I can't recommend the talk Dr Byrd did on this enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfBQmvr2Hc

It's one of my favorite programs to play around with. I wrote about an Erlang implementation of this a short while back:

https://thingstoreadabout.substack.com/p/lisp-in-seven-parts
Isn’t Musk the climate change guy you are looking for. He’s done more to advance the cause of sustainable energy than perhaps anyone.
I mean, damn I had to come back to this. Can you imagine launching WhitePineTV - white only content and production?
“Let us be clear, this technology is limited to detecting CSAM [child sexual abuse material] stored in iCloud and we will not accede to any government’s request to expand it,”

Which could be a carefully worded truth that says absolutely nothing about government demands. What is Apple going to do when they get a national security letter demanding that they never speak of it and demanding that they scan devices for other things?
The link title should probably be capitalized the way the company spelt it (NeXT), because otherwise I see this in the article list and I’ve no clue what the article is about (“Next” reads simply as a titlecased adverb).
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Well, there was that priest who got outed through data brokers recently…
Right on. Looking into ways of stopping this from happening has given me a very real feeling of desperation. There's no real way for an EU citizen to stop laws like these from getting accepted. No option for a referendum, no option for a veto, the best bet is getting the EU court to annul it, but that takes decades.
> I guess the manual verification will ve done as a joint venture by apple and the authorities

Do we know this for sure? And even if it is, this is still apparently illegal under current law.
Hold your horses, put down the pitchforks. You realise the author is a _member of the European Parliament_??

And at least in my corner of EU we vote on who to send to EU parliament. You can vote on whoever you want in the national elections and then vote for the pirate party for the EU seat.

Edit: from your comment history I guess you vote far right, which is usually the part of EU pushing hardest for these measures??
Looking forward to the 2050 Asshole Control Act that will mandate daily colonoscopies in case someone is hiding a pendrive with CP on it. Just in case. You wouldn’t be opposed, would you? What are you a nonce? Arrest the downvoter.
> China is particularly troubling since they make up 28% of all emissions (US is 15%) and they have both a growing population and growing emissions per capita.

That is just providing proof that we cannot eradicate poverty on the planet without destroying it in the process with 8 billion human beings. And this is just CO2 emissions but the issue is with consumption of resources in general: What is happening is simply that consumption of resources increases when people are lifted out of poverty (quite obviously since that's pretty much poverty means).

The only sustainable way for human development is to bring global population down at the same time at global standard of living increases.
Zero is not the limit, emissions can go negative. India has said it already [1]

> Developed nations should not talk about Net Zero, but focus on removing carbon from the atmosphere they add. “Net negative is what they need to talk about,” Singh said.

[1] https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/ri...