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Even more than a bug, it's a flaw in industry _culture_.

It's a flaw in Windows culture, where application publishers and device manufacturers are allowed and perhaps even encouraged to run amok, especially at install time, and run all manner of bespoke procedures with elevated privileges.

And it's a flaw in device manufacturer culture, where first-party device ‘drivers’ are expected to be bundled (sometimes optionally, sometimes by mandate) with entire applications for managing them, usually with flashy wizards and always-on GUIs that live in the system tray. More and more, it seems like manufacturers push that shit so they can track users usage of their devices, as well.

This is as much a result of device manufacturers' marketing teams' ruinous desires for customized, unique user interfaces and branding as it is a result of anything else. This kind of shit is really alien on platforms where universal management interfaces are the norm, package installation is expected to be well-behaved and non-interactive, etc. It's par for the course on Windows (and significantly so, but to a lesser extent, on macOS).
I don't have a reddit account, but it has (for now) the old, usable interface available, so the issue does not persist. Twitter doesn't, and one needs third party services such as nitter or other front ends to avoid the bloated, buggy, purposefully worthless UI.
This tendency to build walled garden communities can't end well, but at the same time the platforms introducing these dark patterns themselves aren't particularly honest, so not much of value is going to be lost as hopefully better alternatives get more adoption.

Anyway, up until a few days ago there were uBO filters to delete twitter cookies every page load and it seemed to do the trick, this may not work anymore.
The data isn't quite as compelling since you can't lock humans up in cages for this kind of experiment (unless you're an Arkansas judge) but most of the evidence suggests the same thing in humans too.

The instinct for "shock treatment" and to hope they hit "rock bottom" is completely misguided. While there is probably no one-size-fits-all treatment for addiction, in most cases they need resocialization, routine, exercise structured around activities that reward without the drug. In the case of serious addicts prone to relapsing or who can't get through withdrawal successfully, a slow medically supervised taper off is probably ideal.

Basically, you want to minimize the stress on the addict, avoid withdrawal, make the transition off the drug a gradual one, and stabilize them socially and economically so they have deeper ties so they build up coping strategies besides resorting to drugs. Unfortunately this is the very opposite of what we usually do. Criminal intervention often destroys social relations, results in repeated cyclical withdrawals (often with risk of overdose each time), results in job losses and housing losses, and generally just adds a great deal of chaos that makes getting stable harder.
Not sure if it is true in general. But from the perspective of the software industry, our company has been remote-first since its inception. We do encourage coming to the offices, but it has never been mandatory. I think there is a fine balance in this. Personal time saved vs. the social aspect. And of course some problems just get solved faster in front of a whiteboard.
I’d say humans’ success rate at modifying ecosystems to eliminate parasites is… a failure at best.

Life, uh, finds a way.

So I wouldn’t advocate for that approach.
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So... you're admitting that you are a bad predictor of future trends?
No really. Unless you think the ONLY future tech is certain niches in software.
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It's a proven model for non-essential items that people don't use all the time.

Which housing isn't. Hence why there's the community outrage and legal wrangling.
Managements always work toward managing towards what they can measure. I’m sure that daily signups are a metric that they track, hence they’ll prioritize signups even at the cost of user frustration and love, something that’s less tangible.

This is the kind of thing that kept me off Quora forever. It’s a great resource but I don’t feel like logging in 100% of the time. So now I just ignore all of their links.
That doesn't make it right, easy to address or something to dismiss.

The feminist movement showed that it is possible to address gender roles and inequities in society without it being a zero-sum game. Some men have noticed.
> You can't murder someone for slighting you, that would be intolerant in US law.

Yeah, they'll just put you in a cage, next to Julian.
I mean, for a couple of centuries, one of mainstream Christianity’s big things, perhaps its _defining_ thing, was invading Palestine and doing extremely nasty things to the locals when they won (and not just to Muslims and Jews; local Christians, being the Wrong Sort of Christian, also didn’t fare well). And that was all, at the time, basically accepted as compatible with Christianity.

Today, virtually no Christian would be okay with the Crusades, and certainly wouldn’t think of what was done as being compatible with Christianity. Christianity’s been historically extremely malleable, and what Jesus said has rarely been all that big a part of it for most Christians.
Actually, there is a specific set of features that guarantees planned obsolescence:

* Irreplaceable battery (or one that is difficult to remove by the user).

* on the iPhone, the Lightning socket and the Home button. The former starts to wear out after ca. 5 years; the Home button lasts a bit longer. Apple will repair both these for you but at this point you will be tempted to buy a new device instead because of the costs involved.

* the support for older devices is being dropped from SDKs. With time, it becomes more and more difficult to develop apps for your device. For many developers this is something completely natural and reasonable. For me it's not. I'm not asking Apple to support iPhone 4s (would be nice, but it's unrealistic), but just to let me still run and provision apps on my old MacBook with a previous version of Xcode. It used to work well in 2012, why can't I do it now? Upgrade, upgrade, upgrade, produce tons of electric waste, buy more, buy more. OK, I am buying new devices, but I care about the old ones. I won't throw away a perfectly working phone that will serve me another 10 years just because it is not considered modern enough.

EOL-ed smartphones are powerful computers, they have tons of different uses, I wish manufacturers recognized it and collaborate with their customers to reduce the amount of electrowaste.
I am not referring to that argument. There was no "antivax conspiracy nonsense" ... Just people who can't read.

I have made no statements regarding vaccination.

However, I do consider delaying until after the approval announcement the release of the update to what is known about how many people who are fully vaccinated against Covid19 are dying from Covid19 or being hospitalized due to Covid19 to be suspicious.

That is not a conspiracy theory. It happened. Information that was due to be released on Friday was delayed and released after the FDA approval on Monday. The updated information showed that known rates of death from Covid19 among those fully vaccinated against Covid19 continued to increase.

Plus, the CDC does not put out a proper time series table[1]. Every week, they overwrite the information from the previous week so one is forced to rely on external snapshots[2] to preserve what should be public record. Plus, many states don't even release or track information about the vaccination status of people who are hospitalized or who die from Covid19. For months now, CDC have been saying:

> Ultimately, CDC will use the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) to identify vaccine breakthrough cases.

What is the holdup?

I summarized why you want to care about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28287440

None of this is a conspiracy theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28280087

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...

[2]: https://archive.ph/https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/hea...
For people who post tweets, but don't often read tweets, I recommend creating an app to post on your behalf. It is pretty straightforward through their developer tools. That way, you can also save your tweets locally, instead of having to view your own writing through their platform.

If you like to read other people's tweets then you don't have any other option except to login, unfortunately.
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1984 was not a novel about getting downvoted by other people because they didn’t feel your point was a particularly good or insightful contribution to a discussion board, nor is a downvote in any way equal to censorship in any meaningful sense, so it seems a bit hysterical to suggest it somehow “proves his point”.
The best way to deal with BS is to not cover it at all. However controversy is a story that sells, so even seemingly neutral journalists will manufacture controversy just to get a story to be neutral about.

You see it in all the vaccines stories that manufactures anti-vax sentiment in various groups.
I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.
Does Uber pretend to be not a taxi? At least in the UK, they are just a private taxi company with an app instead of a phone number, and their drivers are licensed taxi drivers.
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This is an excellent summary of the non-obvious realities of building software at scale. Engineers often become so good at building quick, weekend prototypes that they don’t understand the realities of shipping software at scale. Practically speaking, the initial greenfield software development is almost always a tiny fraction of the effort that goes into building a business.

This is a common downfall of engineers who try entrepreneurship before they’ve gained managerial or operational experience. I’ve lost count of how many entrepreneurs I’ve talked to who got something running on an Arduino or Raspberry Pi and think that they’re one step away from a successful business. Really, the hard work is only beginning.
The US has not ratified C029 - Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), together with:

Afghanistan
Brunei Darussalam
China
Marshall Islands
Palau
Tonga
Tuvalu

See https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:11310:0::N...
> I don't use FB, so I'm not sure you can call it a utility anyhow

I'm not sure this logic really holds up..
Starts by challenging social distancing & quarantine mandates, because no one had first done a cost benefit analysis. What? Who is this guy?

"Nick Hudson on PANDA:

Panda started off as a conversation, really. A group of four friends, professionals – an economist, a doctor, a lawyer and a little actuary. What we shared was an observation that the data and the facts – the reality – of Coronavirus was far away from what the media and public health institutions were presenting to the world. We saw in that problem the seeds of a great tragedy."

Hard pass.
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My family has a saying "Life does't get better than sitting on a swing seat"

Which is a seat we have at the bottom of the garden which gets the last rays before the sun sets.
(No other interpretation intended, political or otherwise)
Women, not females
> As it sounds, they are one regulation/ruling away from going bankrupt.

I can't wait. I'm sure it'll move with all the haste of government bureaucracy, but the sooner this gets shut down, the better. This is inevitably going to entangle tons of people who don't know better or think they can make a buck. It's a recipe for creating legal rats nests.

No (with a material interest) wins. I don't even think the banks win. Early investors will make out like bandits. People with purely fiscal interests will largely win (some will get hosed). Equity owners will lose. Information-poor decision makers will lose. Prospective buyers in the neighborhood will probably see collateral damage.
It's scary to think you pay however many thousand of dollars for a feature, only to have the company you paid take it away from you because they don't like how you're using it.

Why do people think this is okay?
Unearthing Manchester's Victorian slums (2009)
"This is our archaeological handbook," says Chris Wild, brandishing The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844, a muddy, thumbed paperback. "Engels."

This, though, is far from being the only contemporary account of late 19th-century living conditions in this part of inner-city Manchester. In 1870, the Manchester Guardian – as this paper was then known – published a series of articles on the city's slums, opening with a scene of 18 adults and several babies squeezed round a single fireplace. Along with Engels' account, the newspaper's archive reports proved influential in the decision to investigate this site. And, not one to leave an investigation unfinished, the Guardian has today returned to the same streets (Miller, Dantzic and Angel) near the city's Victoria Station.
if it was, everybody would be coding in rust using neovim, which does not really seem to happen
Having a website doesn't make you a tech company.
Liquidsoap is great! It's hugely flexible, I can hardly imagine a broadcast-like use-case that wouldn't be covered by it.

Strange timing though; according to the liquidsoap slack channel, the "hopefully last beta" of 2.0.0 was released just two weeks ago, and it has some great improvements, like "first-class support of video" (which is huge, it's not just video multiplexing or these 24/7 YouTube streams, but some advanced real-time stuff[1] was already possible), and "Enhanced language features making the script language a fully-featured language" which sort of was a headache in my experience - it was in this "Greenspun's moratorium"[2] where you could do a lot of things, but some of it was really awkward, and there were walls in unexpected places.

So, when I saw this post, I thought 2.0.0 was out, but it seems it's right around the corner still? Anyway, I'm really looking forward to it, and I recommend anyone interested to follow the project!

[1]: https://www.liquidsoap.info/doc-1.4.4/video.html#detailed-ex...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
I was aware such an ordering was common in China, but thanks for that info about the USSR! It is a more consistent and logical ordering. The other ordering is so confusing that America and Europe have both adopted different mixed endian schemes, which just makes things worse. Consistently increasing-endian schemes are quite rare, but I think you can find one in Australia.
I’m hungry, but I’m stuck at a desk with a computer and a T1 line.

https://www.pizzahut.com/assets/pizzanet/home.html

Side note: not too long after the PizzaNet site, I would often order pizza from a computer lab at the end (ahem) of class so that it was waiting for me by the time I walked home. A critical problem for grad students.
TFA talks about "the dream of second home ownership". That's what this is. Second homes aren't essential.

Now there's a strong argument that second home ownership should be restricted in some places, but that's orthogonal to whether the house is under shared or single ownership.
Well, a recent arn-editing technology helped produce vaccines in record time to fight a global pandemic, for instance.

If you want something closer to computers, https://covidtracker.fr/ set up a site to help following epidemic data as well as a site to get a vaccine appointment more easily. The kicker? It's just people using technology to solve a problem, there's no sales afterthought, no business plan, no grift involved.
So... timeshares with an app, but they're suing to not be classified as a timeshare because nobody wants them in their neighborhoods and are thus banned. They can't actually explain how they aren't a timeshare, other than "trust us we aren't and unicorn disruption!"

>Potentially even more damaging to Pacaso's ambitions, however: timeshares are banned in many vacation communities around the nation. Hence, Pacaso has strong reasons to insist they are not a timeshare.

>"Unlike a timeshare model, the co-owners that Pacaso serves collectively own real estate, not time," says Ellen Haberle, Director of Community & Government Relations for Pacaso.

^^cool story bro. Except shared deeded ownership already exists in timeshare land, and you own a portion of the PROPERTY, not time. I can't tell if they're actually ignorant to what a timeshare is, or just hoping the judge is.
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> They imagined endless parties, noise, and cars overflowing their cul-de-sac. They worried those staying at "Chardonnay" would drive too fast and fail to heed local concerns about wildfires and droughts. But, most of all, they feared the Pacaso house and more like it would destroy their sense of community and turn their neighborhood into an "adult Disneyland."

We're not NIMBYs but don't come around here with your time share house!

This company is getting weird attention because it's just a time share. It's not even as bad as those landlords that run Airbnb flop houses. These people at least have skin in the game for their house and neighborhood. What a confusing article.
I have no idea what the timing was but Gleevec was first approved in the US 20 years ago. It was an old drug by the early 2010’s.

And that’s what I’ve observed. Yes, in universal systems you’ll get cancer care, but you’ll get the standard of care from 5-10 years ago. All the while cancer can has advanced by leaps and bounds.
Yeah, for years and years they were operating in regulated markets where they didn't have any medallions and didn't follow rules and regulations set out on taxis.
> So it's not like the "Prosperity Gospel" messages aren't there -- they are, in the Old Testament. But they miss all the subsequent reform.

I think that’s fair. It’s where Jesus’s hearers got that mindset he’s trying to change. Also see Luke 13 where Jesus is like “do you think the people that building fell on are any worse than anyone else?”
It’s definitely no substitute for AirBnB. They’re buying houses worth millions and assisting groups of people to buy them together. The truth is that most people don’t spend that much time in their second home, so a 1/4 or 1/8 share is likely more than enough.

In Whistler, BC, such fractional ownership is common. And it’s true ownership on title, rather than a form of rental like a time share.
A person may open a credit card at 18 and be given a limit of $2,000. That card may still be open 10 years later, when the issuing bank raises the limit to $20,000. Many banks do not even require attestation of income to raise limits like this. This is what I mean by no meaningful income verification.

Income verification is what happens when you buy a mortgage. It has nothing in common with the credit card process.
I think you missed the "abusive" part of "abusive head of family".
Agree that the direction of travel for several years has been to move monitoring and infrastructure to 'be code'. There are different names for different aspects - gitops (typically monitoring or ops activities) infrastructure as code, etc.

However, it has been incomplete. Two ways in which awsboilerplate is a natural continuation/implementation of the concept:

1. (Codebuild is a project step within the pipeline and Codepipeline is the overall pipeline). In AWS the codebuild build spec has been dynamic - when you commit a change to a build spec it updates next time the pipeline runs. However, the codepipeline / pipeline definition itself was not dynamic. It was statically created typically in the CLI or cloudformation. If you wanted to evolve the pipeline (add a stage, change a stage, delete a stage) you had to redeploy the definition outside of the pipeline manually => In awsboilerplate using and extending CDKPipeline the pipeline definition itself is now dynamic. It is defined in code and when you update the pipeline the pipeline will 'rebootstrap', mutate to the new state before running. This is already a feature in other devops tools like gitlab - this feature brings AWS native to feature parity.

2. Awsboilerplate brings all the different concepts together such that all the different aspects are truly 1) 'in code', 2) in a single mono repo 3) deployed by a singular pipeline (not an app dev pipeline and an infrastructure pipeline that need to coordinate) 4) if a developer can learn AWS and CDK then they have complete control over everything (no need for a separate cloud platform team to manage terraform) 5) cloud native implementation on AWS. Previously, you had to cobble this self together with different tools - days or weeks of custom effort.

In summary, I would agree with you that gitops/infrastructure as code have been the direction of travel for a while in the devops space. Awsboilerplate brings a number of these concepts together in a single cloud native implementations for all aspects of the project (app code, infrastructure code, pipeline code)
I found documentation > cookbook (https://www.liquidsoap.info/doc-1.4.4/cookbook.html) a better place to scratch this itch :)
> The two centralized networks you referenced have eliminated some abuse from their network by taking those steps.

That is true, but at the same time they have also eliminated many legitimate users and placed remaining users in dangerous situations by requesting more personal information that can and will be leaked and will be used again them.

Also, their anti-abuse model relies exclusively on the benevolence of law enforcement: that's why they collect more information in order to cooperate with law enforcement. However in most (all?) parts of the world law enforcement is neither concerned with protecting people, especially victims of cyber-harassment and misogynistic violence.

Internally, Facebook and such platforms usually combat violent (as in, blood is visible) and "indecent" (a woman breastfeeding in a photo, what a scandal) content but not hateful fascist/masculinist propaganda. It usually takes a massive media scandal for such platforms to close down well-known groups coordinating harassment/doxxing campaigns.

From my personal and political perspective as a politically-active non-binary person, that tradeoff is not worth it. But i can understand and respect if your perspective on the matter is different.

> unless you think it's possible to fully eliminate abuse

I don't think it's possible to fully eliminate abuse ever, whether in cyberspace or in the physical space. We can however, develop collective processes and reflexes in order to strongly mitigate the harm done by people attempting abuse.

From a protocol's perspective, reputation systems and WoTs are not hard to specify. The real problem that has not truly been explored yet is how to develop a good UI/UX for this pattern, where the user can turn many knobs until they feel safe, but they don't have to do it in order to enjoy reasonable defaults.

I'm not at all saying it's an easy problem to tackle, but there is also interest in anti-abuse systems in other federated protocols such as ActivityPub. See for example this talk "Decentralized social networks vs the trolls" from the last AP Conference: https://conf.tube/videos/watch/d8c8ed69-79f0-4987-bafe-84c01...

I sure hope we can make a better situation overall, and that sacrificing privacy to reach that is not an option on the table. Privacy/pseudonymity is a fundamental pillar of anti-abuse schemes and removing it for short-term gains is sure to backfire sooner or later down the road.
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