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Hello Hacker Community: I'm not sure exactly what I've stumbled into actually pointed at but I'm still reselling NeXT Hardware after 28 years. My first day working for Alembic Systems selling NeXT Hardware, software and 3rd party products, NeXT shut down their hardware production line and layed off 400 people. So it began ..... what a long strange trip its been . I see my reputation proceeds me and I have a good one there and love my job.

I am a one man shop these days for the most part and well you can see hundreds of NeXT projects I've worked on at youtube.com/robblessin ,

I'm compmuterpowwow on eBay and blackholeinc.com is my perpetual disaster of a website.

When I started the website it was basically a very tiny web , as Sir Tim Berners Lee is one of my customers, I repaired his NeXT cube https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2012/08/10/s... , a lot of war stories fairly sure between NeXT, Alembic and incarnations of leading to Black hole , we actually sold stuff on the Web when most people had no clue what it was lol. I we inadvertently invented spam , when we had the bright idea to send demos of the solid Thinking Modeler using NeXT mail to the University of Wisconsin and it replicated itself a whopping 3mb file bringing their 300 baud network down , oops . Not what we intended to have happen , however when the someone with a NeXT actually completed the download and figured out what it was they thought it was cool. Everything before then involved paper cuts stuffing envelopes with brochures, we evolved and set up a website with downloadable software links http://www.blackholeinc.com/catalog/index.shtml .

I saw acomment below on the original optical drives , they were and are crap , I've had them actually catch fire from the laser igniting the dust lol , then they turned the cooling fan around not sure if it was an improvement. It is possible to repair them now .... the hardware improved and NeXT was the first company to distribute software on CDrom hence the Sony 1X drive , first computers with CD Quality sound card and 56001 DSP , you can even boot them up as a Mac running up to version 8.1 .
When I Tunes crashed fortunately I had the web objects software they needed to update it .....

Sorry to crash the party with a rant but I'm mainly at NeXTcomputers.org or NeXT Computer Enthusiasts and have a lot of cool vintage hardware not just NeXT . Apologies for the rant.

Best regards Rob Blessin
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I didn’t say it would be transparent or public. I’m a government plant for saying the government could just tell Apple to scan for whatever they want without messing with the CSAM stuff? I’m saying governments are already capable of ordering this kind of thing, gag orders included, so this specific tech implementation doesn’t really change that. And yes that’s bad and scary and we should probably try to prevent our governments from doing that.

But no, I don’t believe that a government could “fool” Apple by adding non-CSAM images to the database. The review step would catch that.

I don’t like on device scanning in principle and in precedent. I’m just saying this specific tech stack doesn’t seem like it would be useful for your surveillance scenario, and most of your criticisms don’t seem to be based in having read how this system actually works.

I’m AGAINST this system, I just wish the discussion here weren’t so full of misinformation and bad assumptions.
It happens. I appreciate the reply.
"Peter Pan versioning"

This really should be the term for projects that are perpetually releasing 0.x versions.

Maintainers are free to release their software under whatever terms that they wish, but if you actively encourage people to use your software and do not want to maintain backwards compatibility, then IMO, you should be very honest about that.
I know this one! The answer is: stackoverflow
We are in the Post-PC age with mobile devices and Raspberry PIs. The PC is almost dead as Windows 11 requires newer CPUs and TPM 2.0 that won't run on a majority of older PCs.

Apple is a trillion dollar company for a reason, their tech is Post-PC, people want easy to use iPad Pros than a Surface Pro. People want iPhones and the MacOS has evolved to the point that it can be ported to ARM chips.
Unvaccinated people have the virus longer and enable it to mutate more. Getting vaccinated will help irregardless if it is a "leaky" vaccine.
You don't need a licensing side channel if you just detect watermarks from pirated/leaked recordings.
Europe is looking to mow down US forests for "climate friendly" "carbon neutral" power plants. https://mashable.com/article/europeans-burn-forests-bioenerg...
Well but of course! These functions are already implemented with basic exception safety in mind. What if they weren't? This is exactly the same situation as a function that has

callback();

which cannot be changed into

if Err(error) = callback() {
return error;
}

because that would break some invariants.

Changing return type from "void" into some "result" is a mechanical change.
and that's the problem I really expected to be explored in this article. They briefly touch on it but anyone who has Teams, Discord, Adobe, or any other of the growing number of programs based on Electron. Then there is literally multiple Chromes running at once.
What does immune resistance mean?
What criteria do you use to evaluate whether a post takes a thread further into a flamewar or not? In what way did my reply make the rest of the discussion "shallower, more tedious, and nastier"? I felt that this sparked a lively (albeit short) debate about a blindspot that a great many readers seem to have.

It took a six hour rollercoaster ride before flags killed it - not even a fair shake for anyone to vouch despite no flagged children.
I dont even care about random encounters that lead to ideas, i miss them because they were random and had relationship at work with people with whom i have no work overlap whatsoever,yet we bonded while making coffee and other type of office routine activities. Now, i rarely recognize people on slack
> Not to mention my biggest annoyance, clicking on the empty space on the sides when viewing a post will navigate to the subreddit?? Why?

A/B testing shows it generates more engagement

/s
Inequalities in narrative text data for suicide deaths
The reddit outage yesterday was the worst one I have seen in years. Reddit used to go down multiple times a day 3+ years ago but it seems pretty solid now.

They also used to shut the site down for hours at a time to run updates.
Wow. How’s that a reasonable answer? The OS did a very bad job at upgrading something that should be upgraded in an atomic fashion and blew up on both that and a failsafe boot to previous kernel. Neither should happen.
Atari BASIC's tokenization scheme should have made it faster than others. But it suffered from some poor implementation details which made it perform quite poorly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_BASIC#Performance
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Someday your browser will automatically convert metrics based on your location.
New Light Shed on Once Top Secret Tacit Blue Aircraft by Veteran Program Manager
The point stands that wolf reintroduction has been lobbied for by groups like the WWF.

1250 24th St NW, Washington, DC 20037

https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/wwf-s-green-headquarters

https://defenders.org/wildlife/gray-wolf

https://defenders.org/newsroom/defenders-of-wildlife-speaks-...

"Defenders of Wildlife Speaks Out Against Wisconsin’s Proposed Excessive Wolf Quota"

Defenders of Wildlife, 1130 17th Street NW Washington, DC 20036

How many farmers are included on the committee?

How are farmers compensated for wolf predation?

How are farmers compensated for reduced grazing productivity?

Who pays this compensation, if any?
Please keep talking points to a minimum, and stick to the science.
Windows killed off the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. It almost killed off Apple until Apple bought out NexT to make MacOSX and bring back Steve Jobs.
How do you corrupt your kernel? What leads to that?
Guys, an opt-out whitelist is per definition a blacklist.

I.e what is done explicitly defines the color.
Explicit Allow (blacklist opt out) -> whitelist
Explicit Deny (whitelist opt out) -> blacklist
Somehow this reminds me of the 'Gopher VR' project...
Oh recovery was easy because I follow the same separation of / and /home (and some other stuff, like I have /var/lib/pgsql/data on this other SSD).

But ultimately I like booting up and getting to work. Maybe I’ll fuck with DKMS and Nvidia a little but that’s it.

Oh man, rough luck with the btrfs there. I got bitten by the XFS zeroing out bug back in the day so I empathize.
Faster at what?
One option would be a mixed member proportional system.
Not for an article that will be read (from the perspective of Axios) by 99% american audience.
The problem is you can not tell users to just go fix it themselves. This is a device that should not _ever_ require fixing. It is not ok to ever tell a casual user to open up a terminal and correct the system state.

An immutable OS gives a huge safety layer by allowing all mistakes to be rolled back automatically.
> people are just frightened of them

Which is pretty bizarre, statistically speaking. Wild animals deserve cautious respect to be sure, but there have been exactly 2 fatal attacks by wild wolves in North America since World War 2 [0]. For comparison, more than 20 people have been killed by dogs this year. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_t...
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Such an indispensable tool! I’m running mosh+tmux 24/7 on my remote desktop and every day just open my laptop, connect to VPN and continue where I left off the previous day
You can also create a bookmark to play a page you're currently on:

javascript:audio=document.createElement('audio');audio.controls=true;audio.autoplay=true;audio.src='https://per.quest/'+document.location.href;audio.style='position:fixed;right:0;top:0;height:revert;z-index:10000;';document.body.appendChild(audio);
> iMessages are already E2E encrypted

Well, actually...I don't know if this post or another, but I remember something about Apple being able to invisibly add "someone else" to the E2E conversion if they really wanted to. But at the very least, this post mentions that most "E2E iMessages" are auto-backed up to the iCloud, which is NOT E2E.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/26/can-appl...
I think this is where people are reminded that Delta started in India, not the USA.
If we hire everyone to be a people inspector we can use the employment records as the census.
There's a difference -- often a big one -- between being theoretically able to build some feature into a phone (plus the server-side infra and staffing to support it), and actually having built it. That's the capability angle.

However, the difference between having a feature enabled based on the value of a seemingly-unrelated user-controlled setting, versus having that feature enabled all the time... is basically zero. Additionally, extending this feature to encompass other kinds of content is a matter of data entry, not engineering. That's the policy angle.

When you don't yet have a capability, it might take a lot of work and commitment to develop it. But on the contrary, policy can be changed with the flip of a switch.
Interesting that you say that. I took a 10% raise in March and I was content with it. Last Friday, very unexpectedly, my manager (an SVP) gets me onto an ad-hoc 1:1 to tell me that I was approved for a 15% raise. Hush, hush, don't tell others -- of course, I spoke with some colleagues about it; I've worked very closely with a few of these people for over 7 years, there aren't many work secrets between us, pay included, and many of them, but not all of them, also received significant mid-year bumps this year, as well). I've never had a mid-year adjustment... Never.

This explains what occurred in a very neat and tidy package and also confirms my own suspicions.
I think there will always be a small number bad people in the world, that will always find a way to be bad.

I know they’re out there in the world, but I leave my home anyways, because living my entire life curled up in my bed in fear would be a sad and short life.

I’m more afraid that people will lose the ability to be happy because they’re so full of fear and skepticism that they don’t form meaningful relationships, relax, experience life.

I’m also more afraid of what can happen when a small group of people are allowed to dictate and control the lives of many, justifying it by pushing fear. Then it’ll be more than a small group of abusers harming a small group of people (in this case, child abusers). It becomes a different group of abusers (dictators) harming the entire population through their dystopian politics.

How many people, including children, died when a group of dictators used fear & skepticism in the 1930s to push an agenda that ultimately led to WWII and concentration camps?

We need to be extraordinarily careful that we don’t try to save a very small number of lives at the expense of many lives in the future, as a result of policies that we put in place today.
Do you know of any project that has produced "a Lisp" language?
And the west doesn't? XD
wrt WeChat, no longer entirely true.
- Moments does embed ads, but far less than western social networks
- It's no longer pure chronological, you only see posts from people who allow you to view their moments.
- You can't set expiration time for individual moments posts, you set expiration time on your moments feed. It goes as low as 3 days (not 1).
- The comments visibility can be odd as you often only see one side of a conversation.

They have a ton of powerful privacy features, but the issue w/ them and most, is that they're all off (i.e. public) by default.
It's geared toward "technician"-type work (read: not "engineering" or any kind of development). If you're looking to work helpdesk, as a sysadmin, or maybe in a datacenter it might be worthwhile if starting out. Personally the only certs that ever seemed worthwhile to me were the redhat ones.
The difference between a=a+b and a+=b in Python
Finally if you use Chrome on Mac you can create a hotkey for the bookmark (named playthis). Create this as a service using Automator and then in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts map a key to trigger it:

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Chrome"
tell menu bar item "Bookmarks" of menu bar 1
click
tell menu item "Mobile Bookmarks" of menu 1
click
click menu item "playthis" of menu 1
end tell
end tell
end tell
Thanks for this.

Not as far into the end as shock but I've learned to watch for the signs that my daughter is tired and crashing. Sometimes it's as small as being a little distant (harder, many possible reasons) to full on tantrum (much easier).

If you've raised a baby, you'll know the concept of "overtired", but it was absolutely baffling to me as a first time parent.

You're tired kid, just go to sleep!! But they won't unless the conditions are right. Miss the window and they'll go into overtired which causes them to scream/tantrum for way longer than anyone wants, again baffling.
> Very few people are using Chrome-only APIs which are not in the standards yet. So it's not really a concern.

Ah yes. But SQlite not having competing independent implementations somehow is?

Also, "not many people using something" is not as great an argument as you think it is. See, for example, the latest problem with browsers deciding to remove alert/prompt/confirm: https://dev.to/richharris/stay-alert-d

> The web is in business (and thriving) as an application platform because it's being pushed forward relentlessly.

A quote from the same article: "An ad company shouldn't have this much influence over something that belongs to all of us".

So somehow non-standards that Chrome pushes (many of which will never get a different implementation because both Safari and Mozilla consider them harmful) are good, and push the web forward. But SQlite is bad because there are no independent competing implementations.

Got it.
My point is that even with the catalyst of a new regime, no one wa able to form any organized opposition to Taliban..

And yes I totally get the frustration with he state department. I have a neighbor whose son is a state department employee in Burma. And I'm just listening to this guy talk about his son like he's some hero that will singlehandedly save the Burmese from themselves. He talks about how his son has been influencing all these politicians to make a better government more amenable to american interests, blah blah blah. As the child of immigrants from a British colony, I'm just sitting here shaking my head, and frankly I pity that he doesn't realize that the majority of the Burmese likely think his son and people like him interfering in their governance are the problem.

The tragic part is that the coup ended up killing a lot of the people the son interacted with in his quest to impose american norms on Burma. As a diplomat, he himself bears none of the actual pains of course. And I'm sure the state department accomplished it's goal. America treats other countries as disposable. It's gross. Time to leave these foreign interventions completely.
The trouble is those phrases are all quite hostile whereas telling someone they are overthinking can't be construed to mean "your stupid".
Project Whirlwind (2014)
> It’s a whitelist, but it’s opt-out.

That's a blacklist.
We keep using percentages as if they had a true meaning. All the values that keep flying around cannot be compared, as they all measure slightly different things.

That 39% number (protection against symptoms) wasn't checked at the trials, or at least wasn't reported. In that same article, they state that protection against being hospitalized/ICUed is still around 90%, which are the same values we heard before. Guess that doesn't sell clicks.
Oh wow, I've only ever sold to cash buyers & come to think of it my preferred title company wasn't even a point of negotiation. I suppose it does protect the buyer more, I just like working with a competent and fast title company
The vaccinated shed mutations - it’s the conclusion of the paper. They are the petri dishes of which new vaccine derived mutations spawn.

You’re attempting to tie these mutations to only the unvaccinated. They likely shed mutations as well but that’s not what this paper highlights.

Not only can the vaccinated spread the virus but they’re likely making it more pathogenic in the process. See here:

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/info:doi/10.13...
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Flagging and suppressing reasonable people open to conversation is not an open culture, or helpful

fyi HN

If you are offended, then the offense is yours to deal with and learn how to cope with. Flagging and hiding such things might make you feel better, but it does not improve you or the people who ask those questions you dislike

Otherwise should i ask for your views on censorship, you who censor?
Some do [0]. But obviously the gov & corporations controlling them prefer a more expensive prophylactic than a dirt cheap one.

0 - https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/covid-19/povidone-iodine-kill...
I hate OneDrive because Office apps have some extremely strange interaction with it. They are not always in sync with the main client.

There is nothing like changing an excel file, having it correctly modified locally but still seeing the old data in a linked PowerPoint because OneDrive didn't update.

It also managed to lose me a day of work once despite having saved the file regularly. None of my modifications were properly synched to the history.

I also hate how it pauses itself when I'm sharing my phone connection and tends to struggle when I restart it.

I used to really dislike Google Drive before my company migrated but between that and the abysmal outlook search I really miss Google.
"has anyone yet found a legitimate use for throwing an `int`?"

I could image throwing an int when writing a shell utility and throwing the return value of main as an int but I suppose doing that usefully would be pretty rare. Usually one cares more about whether a shell utility is successful or not not so much about the precise reason it failed. So, while I could imagine doing that, I don't see myself going for that option too likely.
You might refer them to the manual: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#cGVyZm9ybSQkd29...
Maybe having gotten vaccinated, if I got Delta the serum antibodies would protect me from serious illness, and I'd gain mucosal immunity from the upper respiratory tract infection to complete the set? Not that I'm planning to get infected; I'm just looking for silver linings to soothe myself about the possibility.
Don't enterprise licenses have a lower per user price compared to individual licenses? For example volume licensing for office 365.
You can get a physical one by printing out a QR code, afaik.
No I'm not assuming their honest. I think the foundation of Tether is a pile of lies. But I do think that the people involved have a visceral enough understanding of their own financial best interest that they wouldn't accept IOUs printed out of literally nothing. You're assuming counterparties which are deeply financially stupid.

Tether being collateralized loans against crypto actually offers a service that people would buy, and offers a mechanism to defend the pin by having the loans be dollar denominated. I don't assume they're honest, but I do assume they're out for(what they believe to be) their own self-interest.

It also explains why Tether is issued as bitcoin increases and not when it collapses. If Tether was just IOUs the demand for them would boom as bitcoin price fell and people sold bitcoin for Tether at the top. All the printing during the run up to $50k makes sense if it is collateralized crypto, it makes no sense if its IOUs that sops up excess bitcoin selling demand.
I have a PinePhone, but don't really use it. Too many usability bugs, like these:

* the cameras working only in the Megapixels app,
* no sound notification about incoming SMS,
* poor microphone quality in the calls (to the point that the person on the remote end complains),
* the blue LED flashes all the same for all missed notifications, so I don't know if it is an email or a missed call,
* there is no way to dismiss the uninteresting notification (e.g. without reading the email).
>where are the competitors?

They are bought and integrated or killed by giants.
hopefully all of them ;D
Can we talk about the irony that the NCMEC's database of CSAM (two abbreviations I didn't know before this week) is literally a huge child porn collection, or is that too immature? The whole story sounds like bad science fiction to me, I gotta say. But sadly I think we have to beware of anything that's packaged as anti-child-porn just like whatever's anti-terrorism, anti-crime etc. etc. You should be thinking "What is the thing that's slightly less heinous than child porn, that needed to be wrapped in the magic cloak of comparative heinousness for anyone to be horrified enough to accept it?"
Realtime world map of air temperatures
Second this. I use Ubuntu Mate on a RPi4 for a couple of weeks now. All went fine. Last week, I suddenly thought: I should connect my printer as well, and expected to have a slightly harder time, just like setting up my printer on my last Ubuntu pc.

Click-click-done. I didn't have a hard time, not even with connecting my printer. I'm almost disappointed a bit, since there's no way I'm a cool computer guy if it's this easy.