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Could Signal ever do an email service? I’d switch to it in a second. I realize I’d be sending it to insecure addresses but at least my end wouldn’t spy on me? I just realized how dystopian that sentence is.
> that many people will use technology wrong is not an argument in itself against that technology

Author makes this argument best when they say PGP leaves emails "at the mercy of the least secure person they’ve sent them to."

You can have the best UX gating your PGP emails. But if you send them to me, and I have the option of replying on plaintext, there is a non-zero chance that I will eventually respond in plaintext. The blast radius of that compromise is the entire message thread. If what you're communicating about requires actual security, that is an unacceptable risk. If what you're communicating about doesn't, it's fine. Herego, it's a bad solution for secure messaging.
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> Another reason to use windows is if you are on a laptop and care about battery life. Browsers on Linux still don't have hardware accelerated video playback.

That's just not true. Might be a problem with some GPUs but not with all. At least I got hardware accelerated video playback on Chromium with my AMD GPU.
It could be ordered from most to least likely like search results. Multiplication is more common so put it at the top. People will assume that it's not the right thing and work down the list
OP's post on PGP basically boils down to bad UX https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
I noticed a few days ago that it didn't work for me, but used a site up/down checker that also said it was down. Figured they were having issues and didn't think any more about it. I just added a static entry to my pihole, so it works for me now.
You can work remote, I left San Diego in January but kept my CA level pay while moving to a significantly lower CoL area.

Also San Diego is nice, but damn has traffic gotten horrible in the last 20 years. And the house prices. Don’t even get me started.
uuhm going back to a time before the algos took over my timeline would be awesome.
> Yet, it does present a non-negligible risk,

Negligible: so small or unimportant as to be not worth considering; insignificant.

The first page of search Mastodon results for me are all about a heavy metal band from Atlanta. Sounds like a negligible risk to me.
I mean, he "resigned under pressure"[1] over his behaviour and comments - it's not like he voluntarily upped and left the NYT for Medium.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/business/donald-mcneil-ne...
Not if you use GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, Netlify, Neocities etc etc. They all offer the same kind of deal substack and wordpress do, ie an author.platformname.com kind of domain.
Word of mouth. If your writing is good, it spreads itself.
>You pull any random business major and they barely understand Excel.

I'm not sure you could pull any random Linux user and have them truly understand Excel either.
I thought they were useful for embedded use cases, where there isn't much going on so it can take a long time for the OS to collect enough entropy.
Political affiliation is a protected class where FB and TWTR are headquartered. Considering the overwhelming majority of Republicans remain on the platform, it seems the removal had nothing to do with class.
Privacy isn’t an absolute pass/fail. Giving authoritative nameservers my IP via EDNS leaks my IP. Sure, other things also leak my IP, but that doesn’t mean we should throw in the towel and accept any new way to leak user data.

In many cases, DNS logs aren’t going to the same place as web server logs, so this keeps my data in fewer log files owned by fewer people.
The study found that effectiveness dropped to 80% for patients over the age of 65, while for younger patients, the vaccines were 95% effective.

Let that sink in for a moment...

The best way to boost overall vaccine effectiveness is to extend it lower risk groups - healthy children and young people - regardless of whether they really need it or not.
Informatics is roughly what's called computer science in the US.
Obese people do not directly affect your health. I get that you’re trolling and don’t really believe what you say, but at least show some creativity here, rather than repeating nostrums that grew tired 250k dead ago.
For the ones that don't know, incunabulum is a book printed before 1501 [0].

I find the story behind incunabula really fascinating. Also, for what it's worth, incunabulum / incunabula sounds quite odd in Italian (it resembles some dirty words), and the few times it got mentioned here and there, most people don't know what it means and assume the worst.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incunable
Fully-remote workplaces are very rare, so it's a lot more likely that remote workers will lose out.

E.g. there is a task that requires the help of person A or B, where person B is working remote.

I'd argue that person A will be chosen 9 times out of 10 simply due to convenience.

To counter that, workers are required to spend 2 or 3 days in the office.

Slowly but surely some will go to the office one additional day, causing the remote workers to be left out of some tasks, while on-site workers form stronger bonds.

So i don't see a very bright for WFH, but it's all very new so time will tell.
> Verbose commands are an enabler. They enable novice users to read scripts, instead of only masters being able to write them. Long, systematically and consistently named commands enable discovery through wildcard searches.

For short scripts, this works great and improves discoverability for newcomers. This is the siren's song of PowerShell. However, the long commands and particularly the often unneeded/overly verbose parameters frequently creates a wall of text. This really hurts readability for everyone in all but the shortest scripts. Additionally, this wall-of-text that is all to common in PowerShell scripts is very intimidating to newcomers.

Regarding Tab completion in PowerShell, it frequently isn't terribly helpful. To work yourself up to something like Get-ItemPropertyValue is quite an incantation to remember, while being worse than a lot of bash ergonomics.

> have you considered writing "heavyweight" PowerShell modules in C#?

That is an interesting approach and would make life more bearable in MS-only shops. However, I can do the same thing with Python, which is superior to PS in so many ways and doesn't suffer any huge, glaring flaws (as PS does).
Yeah, but that’s not syntactical structure. When you read prose you aren’t thinking about subject, verb, and predicate, because semantics are far more important.
Exactly, don't accept "blame the algorithm" excuses. Facebook/Google/Twitter has entire departments working on tricking and controlling people with psychology. If they can bend you to their narrative, it's great for Advertising, voting, etc.

The whole hacker/programmer community is/was freeing information, never trusting governments or mopolies. Culture sure has changed.
Right, so let me gets this straight. They use a low-carb, aka meat heavy diet to lose weight hoping to improve global green house emissions. Not sure this one is thought out through.

An alternative approach would perhaps be to advocate a plant based diet which has a much lesser carbon footprint and also can help reduce weight.
Hard agree. The overhead of fixing all the issues with the Storybook versions of components made a lot of people just skip it all together.
> The point I was trying to make was that constantly playing around with your tooling (configs, plugins, etc.) leads to very marginal productivity gains at best

Oh I completely agree, the problem is that is expected in many areas -- especially the JS stack (hence why tools like `esbuild` started emerging eventually).

I agree that many devs just "pimp" their setup all the time and that's not productive. Yep.

Sorry if I vented too hard; it did seem like you're one of those guys that scream "real men use vi!" but since you are not -- my apologies for the not very constructive comment earlier.
Would be bad for vendor lock-in.
> Sure, it's annoying that I'll need to use a VPN or change my DNS resolvers to use a pretty slick (and otherwise convenient) website archiver.

You can alternatively look up the IP address using something other than Cloudflare DNS and add entries to your /etc/hosts file for archive.is and archive.today.
EDNS is an optional feature in general. Client subnet is even more optional.

There may not be a whole lot of private information in the client subnet, especially since it seems likely that after querying for an A/AAAA record, a client would then send a packet to (one of) the resulting IP(s) and reveal their address, but it's not required to pass it on, and it it seems better to reduce potentially private information passed on.
Faraday cage your house with anti emf paint and stop using wifi.
even if they do, you have to maintain compatibility with "other" popular email providers. Protonmail encrypts all it's emails among it's own users. But at the end me with my gmail can't read them without jumping through hoops.
I'm not saying it can't be done cheaper or more efficiently on simpler providers or even self-hosting, but you need the expertise and time to stand up the foundation of a secure platform yourself then. For example, AWS Secrets Manager is just there and ready to code against, as opposed to standing up a Vault service and working through all of the configuration oddities before you can even start integrating secrets management into an application. If you already have a configuration-in-a-box that you can scale up, then more power to you.

Your use-case of running a web service that is written in a very efficient language like C++ is not something you see too much these days. While it would be nice if most devs could pump out services built on performant tech stacks, our industry isn't doing things that way for a reason. Even high-prestige companies with loads of talented engineers only build select parts of their systems using low-level languages.
The correct syntax is \*, so you can write ***lala*** or \\* or something.
Well they already realised that early and so they built their own social networks and they are still up and running today. This 'censoring' should be unsurprising to everyone here.

I thought what happened to alternative social networks was a warning to show that not only they can do it to anyone but it shows how anti-competitive they really are.

What happened here to this person mentioning Mastodon is no different but was like 1% of what Facebook and many other private platforms can really do.
Silos are ideal for knowledge workers: their often autistic personalities and the nature of the work fit really well a quiet corner office.

Managers don't really exist without the chitchat: if managers are fish, then chatty open office is their fish pond.

The guys above them, VP+, who I'd call "gamblers", don't really need the open offices. They build networks anywhere they want. The in-office connections are too fake and weak anyway.
> There's been DDoS in the news lately, I'm surprised nobody has yet leveraged those bot nets to bankrupt orgs they don't like who use cloud autoscaling services.

That’s interesting because I seems like it would happen, but what is in it for the attacker, whrn under threat they can implement caps?
TinyC/tcc [1] still is a single-pass compiler and can go all the way to ELF files (or directly running via tcc -run) in a few milliseconds - sometimes an order of magnitude faster than the minimal start-up time of an interpreter like Python. But yes, gcc will generate faster running object code..a long standing trade off (like -O0 vs -O3, etc.).

[1] https://github.com/TinyCC/TinyCC
Facebook is an entirely different kind of business than Walmart or Amazon.

Facebook (and social media in general) is essentially a public forum and comes with the expectations of such since these companies control such a large part of internet discourse.

If all of them said "we won't allow anyone to talk about any of our competitors on our site" then it strikes me as a company using their dominance to silence other players in the market, i.e. anti competitive behavior.
Thing with email is that you'd also have to get everyone you talk to to move to it and ensure they don't fall back to any of the services they have been using for all this time for convenience's sake. At which point, it doesn't even matter if it is email behind the scenes or something else.

There's also the issue of SMTP being very metadata heavy and there being no option to mitigate or encrypt any of the metadata. Which is why something like Delta Chat (if you haven't heard of it, it's basically Signal/WhatsApp like IM piggybacking over email) isn't very private.
The Mindset of Successful Developers
Works fine in Firefox 92 and Edge. Maybe a temporary error?
Medium blocking copy/paste and instead prompting tweets of the highlighted text must be one the most infuriating things I encounter on the web. The only thing making it bearable is FireFox reader mode.
Weird take. People's concern here is that this sort of behavior is anti-competitive, enforcing rules that applied to everyone re: inciting violence is pretty different.

Seems odd to think that folk have to support a generic action rather than how that action is done. Like, there are people who like baseball but would probably be a bit upset if you randomly threw a ball at them at 90mph in the middle of the street despite them being really supportive of it in a different context.
> SGX is a super-privileged, encrypted, and isolated enclave in the main CPU memory that can be used for anything.

My position is s/"a super-privileged, encrypted, and isolated enclave in the main CPU memory that can be used for anything"/"a failed experiment in computer pseudoscience".

And the nightmare scenario I imagine is a more lubricated path to framing political dissidents by forging attestations that they were searching for child abuse imagery or some similar scenario.
He said this after his presidency had ended.
I feel like storybook is more complicated than it needs to be, but it's still valuable. I've used it with success in the past. It essentially gives you a standardized way to build out a fully implemented design system rather than just the spec for one in something like Figma.

That said, I've really wanted a good alternative for React Native that's similar. Storybook ostensibly works there, but it's more than a little clunky.
It's amazing that we will gladly accept social engineering to stem COVID but not obesity, which over our lifetimes is 100x a societal problem.

We will soon hit 50% obesity, and possibly 20% of those being morbidly obese. As other nations accrue wealth, they will surely catch up to American obesity rates.

Obese kids are now common, not even teens and already on track for a life of poor health.

It's not just that we're obese relative to those living a century ago...we're obese compared to people twenty five years ago!

Obesity is what you put in your mouth and how much you move. Anything else is an excuse, but people with college degrees don't want to appear as unable to even attend to their own health so we're subjected to idiotic arguments about genetics, socioeconomics, race, etc.

Perversely, privatized health care is the only thing preventing the obese from consuming all of the nation's health care resources - that will change and it may be the last time the rest of us ever are able to see a doctor.
> They have eliminated the actual ads, but left in place all of the incentive structures favoring the production of low-value clickbait articles.

This is my biggest beef with Medium - which isn't really a problem with Medium itself, but how certain "authors" are (ab)using it.

It's quite often that I'll be googling for something, and end up at a Medium article - but it's 50/50 whether it's a good article, or a single paragraph of basic information that's been largely copy/pasted from somewhere else.

There are lots of good articles on Medium, but the large quantity of articles that are basically SEO spam have me clicking through from Google less and less these days.
I lived just outside of NYC when this happened. I'll leave it to others to explain what that was like.

What stuck with me was the eeriness of the serene skies after it happened. There are several international airports in the vicinity. There wasn't a plane in the sky afterwards, and the usual contrails were absent.

I didn't see something like that happen again for about another 20 years until the first wave of COVID hit and essentially shutdown air transport.
I'd go one step further. I have done research on "silos" and actually believe they form naturally, even virtually, and we should be looking how to take advantage of the natural tendencies and make them more effective rather than eradicate them because it sounds like a good thing to do.

I'm not saying a return to pure tribalism here, but I am saying maybe realistic acknowledgement of tendencies and how to make those more effective/efficient and less problematic might be a good idea.

In other words, turn a negative into a positive. Work with the tendencies with incremental improvement.

There's another way of thinking about silos - call them organizational boundaries - and observe a complete shift in thought on the topic.

Some might call this heretical thinking.
That's true, so does webcitation.org, which doesn't obey robots.txt.

4chan has archives dedicated for that site anyway (Warosu, etc.).
You could have moved to a different part of California. Texas has areas that meet the exact description you have for California.
> So the people most at risk of huge unexpected bills are also not going to be the people knowledgable enough to setup the billing cap correctly

Yes, which is why AWS builds it.

> . So it would mostly be a feature for enterprises and most enterprises would rather just pay the extra $ rather than potentially turn off a critical system or accidentally delete some user data.

It would be mostly not Enterprises IMO
A recruiter explicitly told me to study trees and related algorithms and even offered an FB study guide. However this happened after I told them I didn’t do game show style interviews. YMMV.
> there are no "people who structure society" in a meaningful sense

That is ridiculous. Our society is governed by laws and social norms. Those are not handed down from heaven by the gods, they are made by people. Yes, it's true that "the people who structure society" is not a small or easily-identifiable group. That doesn't mean that this group of people does not exist. It most assuredly does (and if you are on HN you are probably a member of that group).
Surely it is not the first co-founder convicted of murder.
Saudi Arabia is ruled by Sharia law and is no. 12 in the world for median income per capita.
They're the exact opposite of stable. That's why they're so oppressive. They're constantly fighting against high levels of instability that never leave the system. All dictatorships and authoritarian systems have a lack of stability to varying degrees based on their systems. If you have stability, you don't have to oppress, murder, purge people to maintain power.

They play whack-a-mole with the constant instability.

People get this backwards very commonly. It's not stability they always have, with occasional instability. They always have instability, it's a constant, and the regimes exist in never ending fear of the population because of that. Their actions are the process of removing the greater extremes of instability as they creep up to threaten their power or as they become threatening enough to be noticed.

The most common example of this I see, at least over the past ~20 years, is Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. There is a forever stream of claims that: hey, at least Iraq had stability before the war. No they didn't, they had the exact opposite of stability. They had extreme oppression, extreme instability. If you have to constantly oppress people to keep your power, it means your system is wildly unstable. Saddam had to constantly murder and purge people, even within his own ranks, to fight for keeping control against the never ending instability that his regime prompted. Saddam could never stop fighting against that instability, or it would have toppled him rapidly.
Is this idea that representation of less advantaged groups within leadership can lead to more equitable outcomes that disagreeable of an idea?
The story is not quite the same for XMPP. For example, with XMPP you can determine ahead of time whether or not a contact has OMEMO. And clients configured to only use OMEMO won't "fall back".
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I've just stripped it down a bit and created a gist[0]. There is still some manual steps, such as logging in to services (e.g. I use Trakt to manage watched movies/shows), but usually that's the only thing I have to do.

[0] https://gist.github.com/dandidums/a9c92f77f6ef940ec727395b45...
> “A woman who drives a car will be killed,” says Sheikh Hazim Muhammad al-Manshad

That’s the first line of the article. I don’t think it’s really subjective to say that killing women for driving cars counts as treating them badly. (Unless you just want to make some kind of general philosophical point about everything being subjective, but how would that be relevant?)
True. But in Vietnam, Afghanistan (both Soviet and US conflict), and other environments, targeted assassination of civilian targets became a much bigger thing.
If you wanna join a meeting from another company and you dont have teams licence, you can only use browser or mobile app (not sure if this was changed later or not, because by winter every company I manage had bought ms 365 business. Though teams licence is still an extra item in MS365 admin so I'd assume it hasn't changed)
> Your numbers are being used to lie: You only have to get the MMR vaccine once.

Children generally receive two MMR shots. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html
Even outside the US - there was some of this.

I was in Brighton Conference Centre (Uk) where Tony Blair was due to give a very heavily trailed speech.

After Tower one got hit we all went out of the main auditorium - I then realized I had stupidly left my bag unattended and had to go back and retrieve it.

After tower two got hit a lot of us started to think what if they have a plane targeting Tony and this building - though its a grim thing to say the RAF QRA where armed
Did you read the article? Why would they plan to spend 77 billion over 5 years for a 50% increase in production if they could crank it out of their existing infrastructure in under 100 days?

And even if Russia repudiated every other contract they have in Asia, it doesn't look like they have the pipeline capacity to get that much oil to China, even if the cross border capacity for China to import it existed. So it would have to come on tankers, which would generate some interesting geopolitical brinkmanship.

That's assuming things don't escalate far beyond sanctions or a possible blockade. The risk with a naval confrontation is that it's very easy to quickly generate casualties that would make backing down politically suicidal. Even just a few of the smaller ships getting sunk means hundreds of dead sailors.