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> Private VPN companies are far more trustworthy, all else being equal.

How? I don't see how being a VPN company as opposed to an ISP makes a difference in regards government seizure or request of logs.
In my opinion, that article is pretty insubstantial and is mostly just responding to the same 4chan trolling mentioned in this wiki. It's just not a productive line of discussion and doesn't make any sense in the actual context of how open source works. But I'll answer your question anyway.

I think there are a few GNOME developers that have patreons or some other crowdfunding/bounty thing but it's not a major source of income for most. Getting $2 a month from a handful of people is not enough to fund a developer for any serious work. If you want to fund someone for real then you should probably pay a real developer salary which would be at least $75k-$100k a year in the US, and more if you want them to have competitive benefits. The price could be different in other countries. You might be able to hire one of the Linux consultancies to do it for the equivalent hourly rate. This is of course if you work for a company that can afford that. If you're a normal non-rich person then you're probably out of luck here, sorry. Software is expensive.

I also would be wary of anyone who guarantees they can get something into the master branch. To me that's scammer talk. Getting patches merged is an ongoing conversation between the developers and maintainers, you don't want someone who's just pushing code through without any checks. And if they're saying they can get something through before any code is even written and before anyone even knows if the solution is viable or not, then I would view that with extreme skepticism. If it's a major feature then it may end up taking months or years for it to get reviewed and merged, or it may just sit around for years and not get merged at all because it causes issues in some other part of the code, or it could end up being obsoleted by something else before then, or it could just end up being low priority and nobody gets around to it... or any number of other things really.

Hopefully that clears up some of those bizarre statements that are in that article.
This code should never run on your machine. :P
Discussions about the great firewall would be incomplete without mentioning the great cannon.

https://citizenlab.ca/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/
I feel like my life would be better if I believed in some supernatural being who loved me and cared for me and was going to bring me into his paradise of eternal ecstasy after I die. I don’t see how that couldn’t make a person happier and more able to cope with the deaths of loved ones, their own death, etc. It seems like being on a very powerful narcotic that still lets you function day to day.

But I don’t see any way I can make myself believe that stuff.
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That was the benefit of early account creation with several of those companies. Spam email address is the only link. Twitter and Facebook keep harassing me for a phone number but nah, I’d rather not use it.

Of course it would be trivial to link to my IP, but I’m not going to make it easy for them.
> can't do something

Have been setting up and running smtpd for various ISPs since 1999, thanks.

I have the benefit of having seen how it's done professionally on a large scale, which informs my own choice of architecture for my personal domains and infrastructure.
>” I can't believe you're arguing that people shouldn't need facts to back up their statements.”

I never said people shouldn’t need facts to back up their statements. I am trying to say that there are other ways to make assertions without having to cite peer reviewed studies.

And, that when people get stuck in a mindset of dismissing any idea that doesn’t have a citation to justify it, when subjects come up that aren’t easily studied empirically you end up with a blind spot. In my example the blind spot was infant pain. In my mind, any rational person would look at a crying baby and come to the conclusion that the little baby feels pain. But, if you demanded I bring a fact to back that assertion up, for the longest time I couldn’t provide you with one.
At its height it was 1/3 of the valuation of the Toronto Stock Exchange
JS is often (but not always) transmitted from the server to execute on the client machine
I'm chiming in to say the same thing. I've ran email myself since 2016 and send about 50 emails a day across all accounts. Either we're extremely lucky or it's not as bad as described.
Friend, I'd love to come to an agreement that your code won't end up on my machine. I'm buying beers when we get together.
Don't keep all your assets in anything, including blood-fueled fiat. I have bought plenty of things, traded, gifted plenty of crypto, so to me and a lot of ppl around me, it's a currency.
The generator stuff is pretty wild - I got some real Cronenbergs.

I wonder if, in 5 years, we'll start to see this kind of trippy AI aesthetic filter into illustration and animation. Or maybe the AI will just get more naturalistic.
No because the main thing that an old violin has is mystique.
We were stealing, and it felt good at the time.

It would probally feel better now, but the consequences are too stiff.

It felt good to be a gangster at a time when the laws were grey, or enforcment was not as easy as today?
1) congratulations, you won the VPS provider lottery for something with clean IP space. you're totally confident it will remain that way? in my experience, hosting services that any random person can buy with $5/mo and a credit card on the internet will inevitably lose its IP space reputation. The margins are too thin in the hosting game for a company to provide personal, human, granular attention to eliminating every spammer.

2) no, openDKIM isn't hard to set up with (for instance, postfix). and neither is properly configured SPF, DMARC, etc. But it's more than 99.9% of email users want to get into. If you're already really confident doing intermediate level linux/bsd sysadmin stuff? sure, knock yourself out, overall it's just another daemon with some text based configuration files, and plenty of good reference material out the on the internet.

If you're determined to do that you're better off with a real IMAP server setup, I recommend dovecot, than whatever this small project is in the linked URL. And then if you want webmail, either rainloop or roundcube. Or just set up a proper IMAP-over-TLS client on all your devices so you don't need webmail.
Thanks a lot for your advice. Yah. I regret not making use of the opportunity.
Facebook is now using Facebook News to publish positive uplifting articles about how Facebook is a force for good in the world! In other words, pure propaganda.
I was in the same situation. You are fearful. Embrace the fear. I’ve been through many leetcode kind of interviews and when I don’t know something I say so. I suggest you do the same. After your first few interviews you will be better at interviewing. You will not be a fit in all places you interview and that’s ok. It’s about putting yourself out there and that’s the scary part. The good news is you see the handwriting on the wall. Take this as a two prong approach: 1. Reach out to contract agencies who will help get you interviews. 2. use linked in to contact other employers. Update your resume and by the way. I took a 7 page resume down to 3 with over 20 years of work under my belt so get that in order. As you know once you start something it will finish as long as you put the energy forth. You are in your prime and an asset to any company. You have something called maturity and thousands of hours of programming under your belt. Others don’t. Some will appreciate that some won’t. Sometimes you just gotta smile and wave boys just smile and wave.
What does number of employees have to do with anything? First of all, most addons don't undergo a manual review process, so this means something is wrong with their automated system. Secondly, Google does a whole lot more than just make a browser so comparing total employees of the two companies is meaningless.
I did pay $120 for this refurb Thinkpad x230. The software on it right now, however, is all FOSS. Next time, I may try scrounging up completely free used hardware when/if this one breaks.

I'll say that if you're having a grand time exchanging money for entertainment, please continue doing so provided it's environmentally conscious (if it isn't, we all pay for your fun).

I definitely agree with your last point. I'm trying not to waste my life by earning money in the first place if I don't need it.
Don't request it then :p
Reposting this comment (with some expansion) from elsewhere in the thread, but I disagree that the second one is spaghetti.

B is once again a while(input == 0) loop, that exits to D. D and C together form a while(input == 1) loop, that exits to A. And A is again a switch between two routes, although in this case, rather than dispatching to one of two independent routes, it switches between a full route (go to B) and a partial route (jump straight to D).
This is overhyped ragebait masquerading as news. The reality is more nuanced - not everyone is on board with the idea that the government gets to mandate medical practice, and those people get framed as stupid or stubborn or antisocial.

There are deep and rigorously rational and ethical reasons to be against the current vaccine narratives promulgated by this administration. It's ignorant and disingenuous to dismiss the arguments as equivalent to the "vaccines are made of mercury, cause autism, the lord is my vaccine,etc" single digit iq cretins.

It got politicized because apparently both parties decided it was OK to fuck with America's pandemic response, because it justifies expansion of power and control. Never let a crisis go to waste.
Agreed.

I’m starting to wonder if adding garbage to your online identity is the best path forward.

If they try and use what you say online against you, well, make half of the content contradictory and easily falsifiable.

When they come for you with a claim of “posted messages indicating involvement in a conspiracy” I wonder how good of a defense it would be to clearly show half of what you post are outright falsehoods and lies.

Can they claim you were conspiring against X when half of your online presence is defending X?
jack has been a consistent source of pain for musicians and people that need proaudio.

its great useful software but most folks don't have the skills to get it working without drama and breaking pulse etc.

Linux loses many independent minded folks over jack drama. It's a shame but this is a new day I think.

Pipewire gives a great out of box experience that should just work on whatever distribution they choose. That's not incremental improvement for people wanting proaudio.
Almost the same time, Napster was slightly earlier, at least in adoption for me and my friends. Audiogalaxy was better but didn't catch on as much, that's when things really started fracturing.
If music becomes objective
> 99% of people now dying of COVID are unvaccinated.

Flat out wrong. Even when they were saying this earlier in the year before the Delta surge really took off, they had to count from the beginning of the Covid outbreak to get this number.
Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming (2018)
You're awesome dang. Thanks for the context.
Nortel execs killed it but there was rampant theft. I remember working on the WiMAX program and one weekend someone had downloaded years of research (Shanghai I think ) circa 2004/5 a few angry emails but remember everyone wanted the China market , outsourcing was cool etc. They brought in Motorola exec and GE exec with a background in washing machines to work in enterprise ( I cannot stress how different a line assembly is to multi service switching ). Toward the end they attempted to get a bail out but Oshawa region won out ( US car companies employing more people and more votes meant more at stake ). I joined in 1997 and left around 2008 just before the collapse. Wireless was sold to Ericsson and I heard they recouped costs in about 9 months , Nokia picked up the passports ( wan switching ) and dropped their own products … tons of stories like this. Interesting side story I joined the brand new content networking division around 2000/2001 worked on a new L4 to L7 switch ( TCP splicing and load balancing and higher ) that was developing a new network processor around Lexra cores at 10G but it all fizzled .. I do remember thinking what an absolute beast this chip would be “candlestick” would be. The cisco guys whom nearly took over had it right , down size to core networking … half staff ( it was around 40k when I started and 130k when I left ). China certainly did nefarious things but it was greed and incompetence in leadership that killed it.
As somebody that never felt they had some higher purpose I can't say that I feel any need for it.
I can understand you feel like you lack something when lose a higher purpose you've had all your life, but that (for lack of better words) sound like you have developed a dependency on that purpose. What you describe is common for many people leaving religion, but it is also something that is overcome by most after (sometimes a long) time.

Personally, my values of making the world a better place for future generations while having some fun seem to do.
Our culture / morality are clearly influenced by Judeo-Christian morals. I don't think churches need to be burnt.

However, IMO morality has a deeper source than organized religion. Human beings experience pain, hunger, will to live, and so on. We want to live in a society that allows us to thrive and we can deduce that if we were to kill people randomly then the same could happen to us. This applies to any other moral issue as well. This is social contract theory.

Edit: prior to the development of this philosophy along with liberalism, many people (in the West) were still Christian, but I'd say society was constructed in a less moral manner.
Ingmar Bergman was quite an interesting character. From his wikipedia page:

"His father was a conservative parish minister with strict ideas of parenting. Ingmar was locked up in dark closets for infractions such as wetting himself."

I came to find out how his own marriage went. At first, I thought the only reference to his wife was that his name were inscribed under his wife's tomb several years before his death. But, that was because I assumed his film listing would come after his personal life. Scrolling down shows that he was married five times.
Everyone needs a break from time to time. :P
Nothing will ever beat SquirrelMail
For anyone interested in another famous book from this time period I recommend reading “As a Man Thinketh” by James Allen[0]. I came across this book during a depressing period 8 years ago and it helped me climb out of my hole. In addition to this, I read a portion of another book of his, “Eight Pillars of Prosperity”, from which a lot of concepts are now probably common advice and platitudes.

I’d venture to guess that a lot of these older books have some “outdated” concepts within them — though it’s easy enough to ignore. There are still good parts within old books that you can take to heart, and selectively skip past things you disagree with.

I have not read Smiles’s “Self-Help”, so I’ll give it a shot here.

[0]: https://www.thinketh.io/
It happens everywhere, not just OO. It's just human nature.

I worked on C code where there were 8 layers of calls where each function was f() {return next_layer_f();} . The thing is sometimes layers serve a function and sometimes they don't. Then there's an always present pressure to look "professional" and so tons of layers and lots of details/checklists. The 4 lines of code that actually does everything you need doesn't cut it. And what will you do the rest of your day?

The funny/sad thing is it doesn't matter how hard you try to fight human nature it doesn't seem to work. I love how the Go developers thought `go fmt` will end the formatting nitpicks. Guess what, it doesn't. We just found other things to nitpick. Or "Agile" or whatnot. Python says "A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds" ... Well, try that on your co-worker in your next Python code review ;) Functional programming doesn't help either. In very small teams/companies sometimes the stars align and magic happens but it's really hard.

EDIT: Also nothing to do with the article ;) though maybe we can dream up some connection to the human brain.
If it's not part of any service that's marketed to me, I won't. However, if some vendor wants to run code on my machine, I _will_ be inspecting it.
Might be time for a class action suit!
Chetty also notes that his study can't be used to determine whether single parent families are a cause or an effect. Racial segregation and quality of schooling are also noted as being correlated with lower social mobility in that study.

I object to the notion that there is some acceptable level of violence and abuse we need to tolerate for the dubious good that any institution might claim. There is only one acceptable level of violence and abuse and that is zero.
Tunguska was a 20m asteroid by comparison. A 747 is 70-80m.
I think DigitalOcean does a pretty good job on managing IP reputation.

When setting up my account with Microsoft's feedback loop, DO was already registered as a steward of my droplet IP. It turns out DO doesn't want to be seen as spam-lenient.
Then why are you obfuscating it or even worried about people deobfuscating it? This thread is about Javascript.
Tweet sized fibonacci in 64 bit assembly for macOS
Did you Google any of that? :p

The terms 2d or boxing barcode are likely to be unfamiliar to most people, but everyone with a smartphone is likely to have heard of QR codes at some point, and thinks of them as such.

Branding and common vernacular are the enemy of precise language, so... good for Denso, I guess.
Google suing India antitrust watchdog for investigation report leak
If it's a choice between the mother's life and the baby's life, because of the medical condition, I would say let the mother make the choice.

But if it's a choice between the mother's feeling / opinion and the baby's life, I would say the baby's life overwrites the mother's feeling / opinion. The reason is simple, nobody gets to decide to kill the other person just because he/she doesn't like it. And the existing of the baby is the consequence of the mother's behavior.

The only exception is the that the conception is a result of rape, in this case the conception is not a consequence of the mother's voluntary behavior. But I still struggle with this, because the baby does not become less human because it's a result of rape.

I don't think there is a valid choice between someone's life and someone's feeling / opinion. And remember, pregnancy is something totally normal for women to do. And many women do several times in their life. It's not a punishment, nor a definite suffering or torture.

Also the "nobody else's business" argument is wrong, murder is the government's business.

As for when is the OK time to conduct the abortion, this is the question for people who support abortion. I don't really see the point here. The development is a continuum process. I don't believe there is a definite cut point where the humanness changes from zero to non-zero. Even when it's a embryo, it's a human embryo living in its natural environment, with the full potential to grow to a full human. I also don't see the need of a spiritual concept like soul or whatever.

Typing the above paragraph leads me to think about lab-grown human embryo. Google leads me to this webpage: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02343-7 "Researchers are now permitted to grow human embryos in the lab for longer than 14 days." Of course I don't believe humanness changes from zero to non-zero on day 14. Also I don't believe it's ethical to experiment on some human to gain knowledge to save other human.
ClearviewAI? Fuck those guys five ways! Where do i donate to help defend against this SLAPP-like behaviour?

You do not get to just shut up your critics like that!
I too have experienced ageism. It seems to be particularly bad in IT where knowing the latest fad has more value than years of experience and a track record of delivering results. Unfortunately, I have seen the issue arise in the hiring side as well. I have been rejected numerous times with various lame excuses.

Prioritize your personal needs. The decisions you make depends on where you are seeking work - both geography and technology. If you have sufficient savings to handle a long job search, then you'd be best to resign with your head held high. The emotional toll of your present situation is just not worth it. If you can't afford to resign now, then start looking for a new position. It's generally easier to land a new job when you have one.
the point of genuine faith isn't to be a narcotic that let's you function in day-to-day life, it's not some sort of theological Soma out of Brave New World, it's supposed to transform, which involves a fair amount of suffering.

Your life wouldn't be better if you you could believe any of that stuff, and no genuine believer treats religion or God like some sort of spiritual Xanax.
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> Religion clearly has mental health benefits, especially in terms of robustness.

The question is if this generalizes to society as a whole. For atheists it seems like living in religious communities has severe negative mental health consequences causing them to die earlier, but atheist societies tend to live longer and be happier than religious societies. So in any society it is better to be religious, but you'd rather that your peers weren't religious because their belief hurts you.

The main thing is that they create a social group that you can't be a part of. But aside from that they might also blame the worlds problems on your non-belief, pester you to start believing, they might obstruct your ability to get healthcare etc.
> Is it as easy to steal as it used to be?

Yes. The quality is better and it can be easily automated with Sonarr, Radarr et al. Torrents are not the way to go imho, but Usenet is amazing (notably it isn’t necessarily free).

There is content that isn’t available in my region or the legal options are worse in some way (resolution, app UI etc).

I pay for several streaming services (mainly to keep my conscience clear) but watch their shows via pirated means as the experience is better.

As the provider options get broader, the piracy option also gets more attractive as it’s all in one place.
Not quite true. Amazon will happily sell you counterfeit books, printed by their own publishing-as-a-service subsidiary.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/amazo...
I don’t know, but I know Bill Gates could do it faster than it has ever been done before if he wanted to. Also they could upgrade existing facilities rather than build brand new ones. For example there are facilities I’ve heard of in India and South America which claim they could manufacture the mRNA vaccines. If the details of the vaccine were shared early on and they had help from Gates, I imagine these facilities could have been producing them by now.
Why is religion the stopping point for those beliefs? What if religion is just an expression of something fairly benign relating to social cohesiveness(against external threats) and hierarchy(against internal threats).

Morality can be bootstrapped from selfish means. I don't need religion to understanding that punching someone in the face may end up with me getting punched in the face, and I don't like getting punched in the face. Primates exhibit similar behaviors without religion and merely having a developed sense of cause and effect.
> Given that all human behavior can (very likely) be reduced to mathematical equations

There is no scientific evidence whatsoever for this very bold claim.