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SDF Plan9 Boot Camp Fall 2021 Announcement
The SDF Public Access UNIX System has opened registration for the Fall Plan9 Boot Camp which begins on September 22nd through December 10th.

This quarter the Boot Camp is a little different in that it now includes access to a shared server in addition to the individual virtual machines.

In 2019, SDF made an effort to incorporate some of the amazing work made by the 9front team and has moved exclusively to plan9front. While the older 9xen instances are still available, the focus is on continuing to move forward as Plan9 develops especially in the light of its release this year under MIT license.

What is Plan9?
Plan9 is a UNIX-like experimental research operating system that may be deceivingly familiar at first, but takes different approaches as to the way process environments are constructed and how fundamentally I/O is handled. Things we see in other operating systems as /proc and UTF-8 originated in Plan9.

Why a Plan9 Boot Camp?
While it is fun to play around with an esoteric OS on your own, Plan9 really benefits from a communal experience. The goal of the boot camp is to provide a very low barrier of entry to a curious user and immediately put them in an environment where they can experience Plan9 at its best. There are no "stupid" questions or "did you RTFM?" in the SDF Boot Camps. They are friendly experiences with users helping users as we all red pill a bit together.

Can I use Plan9 as my daily driver?
Many of us do, in fact, repeat Boot Camp members make use of their VMs with local installs and now with the 9p server, it has deepened SDF's Plan9 offerings beyond the Boot Camps and Plan9 for User Space.
> Is there any evidence of this?

No, because this is a conspiracy. Whoever claims something like that should prove it and not the other way around.
The actual disk portion on the inside was the floppy part, so it's still a "floppy disk". The rigid part on the outside was called the cassette.
Kristallnacht
I don't run TFmailserver but I self-host a postfix+dovecot setup and deliverability has been good so far.

I'm willing to try shooting you an email and we'll see if it arrives.
That's a flimsy solution as IP addresses are not generally static. Sure, you can manually assign an IP, but if the kids catch on, then they can just switch back to auto assign.
Probably? There may be a smaller one available for you.

Couchsurfing basically needs three things: a way to establish trust (Airbnb accomplishes this by appealing to a central authority), a demographic that’s able and interested in participating, and a way for folks to connect. Of these, trust is probably the hardest. What, in your own life, might enable this?

In my own experience, the inbuilt trust between returned Peace Corps
volunteers (from an American long-term international service organization) stemming from shared experience led to its own internal couchsurfing culture that was alive and well when I last checked (pre-pandemic). What other affinity groups might work? Work, school, religious groups, hobbies, music? Are you a part of one, or could you be?
To be clear, was FreeBSD used because of historical reasons or because similar performance can't be/harder to achieve on Linux?
> They asked

I actually researched it. All sources that every story about 'they asked' cited in the end pointed to RosKomNadzor press release on their own website. And it is very well known that Russian government never lies.

There were no public confirmation from either Google or Apple that they did receive such request and refused to act on it, like they earlier did on LinkedIn.
Well, in the first place the Cinepaint maintainer, Robin Rowe, wasn't a developer. He kind of inherited the tarball with the 16 bit patches, then tried to drum up financial support, without being able to actually maintain the codebase. There was one other developer interested in the codebase, but since Robin never really made releases, their work never really got out. And... Sorry, but "if bitdepth == 8 then, else if bitdepth == 16 all through the codebase just wouldn't have been maintainable for anybody.

Then a Scottish university donated a tarball of a research project to the Cinepaint project so then Robin had to maintain two completely different codebases, one which was presented as the successor of the first one.

Then Robin decided that the real problem was the antiquated autohell build system, so he decided that having waf, scons and cmake build systems was going to draw in developers. (The blogs announcing that aren't on cinepaint.org anymore, maybe the wayback machine still has them?)

That didn't work either, of course, and nothing much happened after that. Cinepaint.org became more and more vandalized, nobody put money in the project, and, well, seeing I'm the Krita maintainer, I probably should stop reminiscing, and go back to coding :-)
If they are not actually listening, has someone mapped out how I get an ad related to a verbal conversation? What did they do to put the pieces together? I would imagine several different scenarios to get an actual match - but Ive wondered this at least a couple of times (too close a coincidence that is).
What use-case is there for agent forwarding? My work does have machines only accessible through bastion hosts, but I never find myself using agent forwarding. It's too easy to ProxyJump (e.g. like you mention, it works automatically thanks to .ssh/config) or if a direct connection between remote hosts is required, generate a new key (e.g. to use rsync).
I'd imagine scaling, licensing and overhead all had something to do with it, too.
Ask HN: How back end engineer building startup should focus on UI?
Sure, but if someone was monitoring and they did have evidence then the EFF would most likely publicize the findings. You can answer the question “has anyone found evidence of popular apps monitoring audio data” by searching EFF archives. It’s not exactly the same thing, but it is something of interest.
It's a mod for RealLife 1, beta-tested with the Caucasus campaign.
I suspect a number of niche car and powersports brands exist in part as sales leads for financing.
> It seems you believe that BBC, Fox News and CNN don't push their own propaganda?

Please.

First of all: One of those things is not like the other, one of those things just doesn't belong. Can you tell which one is not like the other, by the time we finish our song? (hint: Fox News, which is mostly opinion blowhards).

It's the difference between trying to get the story right trying to get the propaganda line right. Even if you think the BBC is propaganda, you won't balance it with even more blatant propaganda that's far less focused on being journalism (e.g. from a country where the media is managed like this: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/directives-from-the-mini..., or who puts banners on their buildings that say "the surname of the central television network is the party" (roughly translated)).
In my country is was the literal army - first time in 30 years.

As for dismissing "why for the sake of why" being the fault of cultural relativism... shrug to me it has the same smell.
And yeah - while I didn't have luck with other ideas (e.g. DNS, /etc/hosts ...etc) because of that accounts.youtube.com or say wanting to still allow youtube for the other (toddler which was "home daycaring" because that was closed too) - somehow this Microsoft & Edge thing just works exactly as you would expect it.

And for the occasional "But teacher assigned us to watch this YouTube video" - kid can ask for permission to view particular URL.

That said - at that point we've usually went the route of just opening that particular youtube video on one of parents computers/phones and watching it together (or streaming to living room TV).
You don’t need to monitor the Facebook app if you just delete your account like a sensible person
Nginx and OpenSSL are open source. Give it a try and reproduce their results with Linux ;-).
Hi there. I'm a fellow 4eak. =). Perhaps this is irrelevant or missing the point (and I apologize if so). If I've understood correctly, maybe it isn't really that awesome to you. Often, I see myself just filtering through what looks interesting to find the very few pieces that maintain their persistent salience in my perception (though, I am often wrong).
How do Android and iOS known when you say "OK Google" or "Hey Siri" if they are not listening all the time? Or, is it accepted that they are?
Thanks for article. Today I learned about Project Leyden, whose primary goal
will be to address the long-term pain points of Java’s slow startup time,
slow time to peak performance, and large footprint.

I just recently started to explore Quarkus, GraalVM to optimize Java microservices for cloud architecture. It's good to know that Java moves into that direction.

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2020-April/0...
The odds of success are probably higher then using one of the now common dating apps.
In this particular case it is very relevant, because Navalny himself was warning [1] that it is a dangerous precedent which is going to help the enemies of freedom everywhere. And he was absolutely right.

[1] https://twitter.com/navalny/status/1347960298569928704
While I agree with this in spirit, it isn’t the experience I had back in the early days of OLD before it became mainstream - I regularly got pushback for suggesting meeting up too early… there seemed to be a trust issue or maybe being too expedient meant looking for a hookup.

It’s certainly a component for sure, esp as the marketplace is so hard for guys meaning they’re willing to go to greater lengths to stand out… but I feel this is more an issue of the process being so transactional and transitory.
Germany’s no-emotion voting guide surges despite campaign of personalities
Tesco Bank is pretty much a branding of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) rather than their own financial service company though.

I used to have the Tesco credit card which was useful for the reward points but after trying to report a rogue transaction I found the customer service quite awful and left.

Dunno if that was always the case of if they have just gone down hill of late?
I have a dovecot+postfix+rspamd setup and I read my mail with apple mail.app, thunderbird, and FairEmail on my phone. That latter app is excellent and I highly recommend.
I'm not a shoe aficionado, but Blundstone seems to be a highly regarded brand, which outsources its production to various countries throughout Asia.
Not "ten to fifteen", but "ten to the fifteenth"

A bit larger. :-)
The simple answer is that generally you don't, you first authenticate in some other way and then add biometrics (stored on the device) as an alternate means of authentication. It displaces other methods as the day-to-day commonly used authentication, but not completely.
Oh, cool. I think I hadn’t thought my comment through very well - don’t need to get transmission down to zero, just r below 1. Prep plausibly helps with that
Not just every company.

In GDP or GVA calculations any region on the planet that gets prosperous by building goods, food, mining, whatever, sees a jump in real estate activity that sooner or later grows as large or larger than the sector that produced the growth. After that people coast whether in a company or in a county or a district or a state. Until competion either pushes them out of their comfort zone or crushes them.
> I think in German it’s almost 80% of people, in Switzerland its below 30%

This doesn’t seem supported by any data I can find.

“In 2009/10 there were 3,094 gymnasia in Germany, with c. 2,475,000 students (about 28 percent of all precollegiate students during that period)”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(Germany)

A similar measure that’s a bit more comparable and easier to find data is rates of tertiary education. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_...

If you look at the 4-year degree chart, Switzerland’s graduation rate is 49% while Germany’s is 28% for the year 2015. That would be unlikely if Germany’s per-capita attendance for Gymnasium was more than twice that of Switzerland’s.
How is it tax efficient? Why do all franchisors not behave in the same manner? The land under hotels are very rarely owned by the hotel brands themselves.
Russian Electoral Commission obfuscates vote results to annoy researchers
The guy from the Facebook post above is a famous chemist who is analysing electoral fraud using statistical methods since 2007.
All those salaries put together are only about 50% more than what UF pays the football head coach alone. ($7.6mm)
There are some objective-ish criteria we can apply: plot structure, themes, language and dialog complexity etc.

There are also more subjective criteria which can nonetheless employed like character development and character complexity in general, plot lines and plot wholes, number of literary and narrative devices employed etc.

Mandalorian is a simple linear narrative with an episodic structure with a rather thin plot, little to no character development, and the only "arc" serving as the single motivation for the plot to advance.

This especially evident in Season 2 Episode 7, where they tried to cram a series worth of a character's redemption arc and world building into a single episode.

This doesn't make Mandalorian bad. It's a very enjoyable well executed show with surprisingly few really weak points. This also doesn't make Mandalorian great, or amazing.

In 14 episodes Firefly had more character development, better dialog, working jokes and better acting than 16 episodes of Mandalorian.

As to boring drivel, that's my view of Rogue One: thin plot full of plot holes. The only narrative structure in the entire film is "15 minutes of static talking heads followed by rather uninspired and badly edited CGI action"
I'd agree that it is "interesting", but as additional reasons to be opposed to cryptocurrencies.

1) Remittances for resale imply that ownership was not fully transferred. The item isn't mine, but is some weird mix of being mine, but still having some link back to the person who made it. This is already a problem with digital goods, where I cannot lend an ebook to a friend in the same way that I would lend a physical book.

2) The long-term interests are already aligned due to the existence of a second-hand market, and do not need additional technological protections. Somebody who buys cars new and sells them after 5 years still cares about the maintenance costs of a 15-year-old car, because those impact the sale price at 5 years.

2a) The siphoning of money from a re-sale discourages a second-hand market. If the original maker of an object absconds with 20% of the re-sale price, that gives me less of an incentive to sell it, rather than just throwing it away. This is both from an economic standpoint, because there's a decreased profit motive, and from an emotional standpoint, because somebody is laying claim to my efforts in securing a resale without having a valid reason to do so.
Any of the players in say, the typical Forrester wave report is fine. However, don't necessarily trust the report's findings...just for the list of names.

One big thing, to me. Call each as you would as a customer. Apparently some are easier to get ahold of than others.

Pick one where you can get a competent human on the phone quickly. Because when you're getting DDoS'ed and threatened by your bosses at 1AM, it's going to be a big peace of mind.
"Regain your independence and protect your privacy by installing your own email server. It takes less than 10 minutes!"

Well, I just spent more than 10 minutes and couldn't even find a download link. There's nothing in the page that suggests it's an actual free and/or open-source project.
>For businesses, especially those with enthusiastic marketing teams, it's harder because all it takes is a a bug in some transactional email code, or a bad email from a well meaning sales rep to some email list from a "digital marketing" forum to completely wreck your server's reputation.

Working as intended if you ask me.
I have been doing Ctrl+s for most of my life. I type a lot and this is like second breathing. I write a sentence, save. Some pause, save. Looking out the window, save. Its as common as pressing space or enter.
I'm not sure I fully appreciate the distinction you're trying to make here: "currying != partial application". Can you clarify?

In particular I don't know what's meant by "curried" and "uncurried" languages
And yet a lot of folks think Netflix is on AWS. I would think AWS gives a huge discount to Netflix and ask 'just run at least something on aws'. Those promotional videos have nothing useful about netflix on aws https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/netflix-case-s... and targeted to managers and unaware of the scale engineers.
I believe it's accurate that anti-vax positions are more widespread among Trump supporters. And while it's true that Trump himself got vaccinated and has spoken for it, he also didn't put much push behind it: e.g. he got vaccinated in January and it was then only revealed two months later that he did. And regarding the attitudes of his supporters, his railing of "don't trust the new administration, don't trust authorities/"the establishment"/the media ...", claims that the pharma companies were using the release of the vaccine to hurt him politically, ... play a large part in it. Similarly if you look at what a lot of his prominent supporters are doing and saying.

Associating "Trumpers" with anti-vax positions IMHO is appropriate, although I wouldn't put it as "everybody but a few Trumpers". (edit: swapped association order, this way round is better)
I doubt that even packaging would be that expensive. I myself ran warehousing, and packaging operations in Richmond, BC, Canada with local labour, packing bulk headphones, and USB chargers.

It takes 20 seconds to unwrap a heaphone, and nicely pack it, or 40 seconds on average if you account for people not being robots, and making breaks, going to bathroom. You get around 500-600 packed headphones per worker, per day. If you pay CAD $120-$140 a day (back in days when CAD was > USD,) it's just ¢40-¢50 per pack if you ad for other employment expenses. Easily, easily doable for a product selling for $30, whole costing near nothing in parts, and materials.
Volcano erupts on Spanish island of La Palma
I've run my own for about 4 years now with mail-in-a-box. It's on digital ocean, and it delivers fine to everyone. Like others have said, you just have to watch the lists to see if you end up in a block of IPs that gets blacklisted. It has only happened to me once, and like everyone else, it was outlook.com / live. It only took a couple days to get fixed.

With mail-in-a-box you also get Nextcloud for the users, and have a nice google drive replacement with the Nextcloud client.
This is an interesting write up. I was unaware of the massive increase in debt over the last 10 years in Chinese households. Curious to see how the deleveraging of that plays out especially in the not high end retail sector.
They don’t need to listen to audio, which is very cumbersome and error prone, if they have your location. If your location is available, so are all of your friends’ locations. The apps can easily see who’s in the same place at the same time and generate a “friend” network. Presumably you talk to your friends about your thoughts, and they talk to their friends. All it takes is a few people to start googling something new (or looking up products in Amazon, or searching for the same tags on Instagram, etc etc) in this network for the algorithm to realize this might be something you’re ALL talking to each about, and thus advertise straight to you, giving the perfect illusion that whatever you’re talking about is advertised back to you.
Interesting. Are there any benchmarks that you would recommend to look at, regarding FreeBSD vs Linux networking performance?
They are listening all the time. Presumably 'just' for the wakeword. Better yet, Alexa listens to everything you do inside your house, and the Ring Network listens to everything you do outside your house. And both of them are connected to the power outlet, so the 'but battery depletion' excuse doesn't apply.
You could call okcupid feature complete. Keybase however still had plenty of exciting greenfield work to do (IMO) - my friend and I emailed them asking to pay for KBFS but the founders declined!
The listening for the initial keyword (e.g. “Hey Siri”) is done on hardware designed specifically for that purpose. That’s why you can’t change the keyword to whatever you want. Only when that keyword is heard does it actively listen to and process whatever follows.

“Actively” listening all the time would simply consume too much CPU/bandwidth/battery.
Yes, all fiction should be exempt and public figures should be almost entirely exempt -- Wait! that's the law right now. Please don't invent your own fantasy version of libel law. Well, you can, of course, but don't expect success in the courts.
I'm not a huge fan of Java, but a lot of the improvements being worked on here are promising.

I'm 90% certain I would only really start working on a project if we could use Kotlin just because the ergonomics are vastly superior. If that requires the trial-by-error mentioned ITA to figure out the best practices of various approaches available I think I'd take that trade off.
Volcanic eruption ongoing on Spanish island of La Palma
The reasoning you put in also means kubernetes is unsuited to be controlled by terraform. Too many lifecycles (resources) to centrally control. kubernetes custom resources can have dependencies on others which terraform either needs to support as well. Which is not doable to maintain.. keep your kubernetes manifests outside or your terraform state.
Extra points for “earth-shattering kaboom” :)
This is a not-very-coherent ideological tirade against capitalism, and you haven't addressed the issue of IP protections value or not directly.
sendfile + kTLS. I'm unaware of the in-kernel TLS implementation for Linux. Is there any around?
Congrats. Well, you are confident when it matters!
Saving drafts on XenForums is a floppy, even though there is no local save involved.

I'm sure I've seen it in other web contexts.
The financial literacy industrial complex
Question: why is "breakup" always touted as the solution to these free market destroying monopolies? Why isn't the fix regulation and aggressive enforcement?
And in Finnish, "Köyhällä ei ole varaa ostaa halpaa", "A poor person can't afford to buy cheap things"
I think you mean a "false conspiracy theory", because if there actually were a conspiracy to monitor conversation through common apps, as other comments mentioned, it would have been found already.
In this case, the microphones are in fact on and processed by some relatively cheap (in terms of power consumption) algorithm whose sole purpose is detecting that phrase. Only after it detects that phrase does it start processing speech in any significant way
Was FreeBSD your first choice? Or did you try with Linux first? What were the numbers for Linux-based solution, if there was one?
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It’s less CPU intensive to monitor for a single trigger phrase (“OK Google”) after which the more general, CPU-intensive speech to text is performed (either on device or in the cloud).

The devices aren’t translating all speech to text all of the time and then checking it against the phrase “OK Google”. They’re looking for the trigger phrase.
I was also somewhat frustrated by notion's UI choices and wonder if as a quick hack you could get it into markdown and shove it in a gist (trying to optimise for "annoy me less with as little effort as possible for you" here ;)