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The person that quit the project (and possibly the internet at large) wasn't a microsoft employee.

In my mind, there are two asymmetries.

* Microsoft v. Users

and

* Casey's network v. a 3-4 man open source team within microsoft

I don't disagree that the former is abusive.

However, it's my contention that this incident is primarily about the latter.

Casey, rightly, already had some pent up rage about the former asymmetry as well.

But it was a human manager/dev? within that small team, not Microsoft writ large, that got defensive about the software he was responsible for.

I believe I'd feel embarrassed and defensive too if something I'd worked on turned out to be flawed in a painfully obvious way. I can understand avoiding the grim truth by denying that the problem has truly been solved by ~700 lines of C.

Something else that I'll note here is that the vast majority of
"Your software is too slow, Here's how to fix it, I could do it in a weekend, and by the way this whole problem space is actually super simple."
tickets do not end up realizing software speedups.
Without proper context, they just sounds patronizing, making the argument easier to dismiss.
It is something the clothing companies are experimenting with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obO1PKfXGpQ
I assume it's more profitable to milk old customers that don't care about price rather than try to get new customers onto POTS.

Realistically the only reason any of us would switch is lower latency calls to people that have shitty WiFi. That's an shrinking market.
That sure don't look like commits to open source projects managed by other people, bucko.
I feel like living somewhere and having an area code from somewhere else is a secret hack for this. Call from my area code 1000 miles away? Definitely without a doubt spam. Call from the local area code? Almost always legitimate. If I ended up having a local number I'd lose this natural filter.
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Obviously not, that’s why I specified tax software.
If everyone were like you then I would have no qualms about Apple's anti environmentalism. Personally I upgraded a garbage 2011 MBP from an unusable state with a SSD (came with HDD)and ram extending it's life. I find it ridiculous that I can upgrade an ancient MBP's ram to more than comes with the current base spec.
How will the poor multibillionaires survive if they can't abuse their employees :(
You could get rsh on the host machine, it's probably available from the package manager. And already there on the guest os. Not the most secure thing, but works.
I don't think any other country does taxes as awfully as the US. Where I live, there's a government provided portal that has most of the stuff already filled from my employer. It gets "complicated" if I earn income from the side such as investments, contract work etc and even that is just a matter of filling forms on their website in a similar manner to how the author suggests filling fields in an Excel sheet and other fields get the values automatically calculated. If I have refunds pending, I pay nothing. If I have taxes to pay, it redirects to my bank, I pay my taxes and I'm done
I think it's part of being smart. If you never question and research anything, you never learn anything, hence your head is empty or full of conclusions drawn from pure speculation.

There also seems to be an emotional aspect to it - I know some pretty smart people who always trip on bullshit that evokes emotions.

Looking up ADHD and going the "these people are geniuses" path (most aren't), or looking up Covid vaccine information and focusing on the negative effects (most don't have them). That kinda shit.

If the idea that some people are prewired to believe conspiracy theories is true, that could explain it. There's just not as much excitement in the mundane, I guess.

Of course, the government being out to get you is more interesting than them being unbelievably incompetent.
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Presumably, the "security" does not come from the assumption that the serial numbers are private information -- it comes from the assumption that you can only reprogram the parts with top-secret Apple internal tools. There's no reason the serial numbers need to be paired per device; iOS should be able to check any serial number to see if it is genuine Apple. Much like you can go to https://checkcoverage.apple.com and check the warranty status of the whole iPhone based on its serial number.
It already exists and is enabled by default (at least on my Pixel phone using the default messaging client).

https://support.google.com/messages/answer/10262381
In many cases we could encourage/discourage the same behaviors by simply spending money on those things instead of using tax deductions. That's how most countries do it, and as a result their tax systems are much simpler.
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but it is most likely not as easy as an app on your smartphone

You mean an app like Google Voice, or one of the many other SIP/VOIP apps out there? I use Localphone as my home SIP provider, and they have an app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/localphone-international-calls...

There are tons of ways to make cheap calls from your phone -- when I used to travel internationally a lot, I set up my Android phone dialer with my SIP provider, then I could make and receive calls from the default phone dialer.

But now I don't even bother, I just call home via a video call using Hangouts/Meet or Zoom and use my local SIM to make a local call.
In this case, Google is providing a wrong answer to not confuse people. People don't understand that a time zone can exist but not be observed at the same time
This is a clever troll. It's so full of ignorance I thought of reporting as a troll, but that would only serve to validate one of your false claims that one can't have independent thought.

The point ideologically is that society should not be so dependent on one private company. Government is regulated by the people and serves the public interest. Facebook serves only itself and profit.

Government intervention, so the theory goes, could mandate a market or set of chat protocols that prevents a single operator from dominating the chat sphere via network effects or by technical operation.
Most things in life require regular maintenance or checking on. When my dad went to the garage and saw that some of the boxes of comics he'd left there for years had gotten damp, he was pretty sad, but ultimately accepted that that kind of thing is part of life.

If this person wasn't using their "wallet" for four years it sounds like it wasn't a huge part of their life.
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Thanks for that I was a bit bothered by the shorts transform but thought it was my not understanding something. All the animations require the twist to just kinda disappear.
A great breakdown was given by Anton Petrov here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzVXNFkI60Q

I also recommend his other videos if you enjoy space science.
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It just doesnt take a trillion dollar company to maintain a decent OS and office suite. It never did.

We'd all be so much better off if every trillion dollar company were replaced by 10,000 $100mil companies.
Just out of curiosity, and obviously if you can disclose... How does FB availability affect your ability to enter your apartment?
Isn’t Facebook huge in some Asian countries? Supposedly 3.5 billion people use one or more of its services. WhatsApp, Instagram and Oculus certainly aren’t just used by the elderly.
Same. I started online in the late 80s with something called Wired Writers - we shared stories online with famous writers who critiqued us. At the time I didn't think much about it (I was a kid) but it was sponsored by an oil company. Now I think about it a lot. I went on to digitize libraries, set up university databases (Silver Platter etc). I think about how my nieces don't know that internet that we saw. It is because the form of our society does not allow decentralization. This censors the content. I think about that.
My understanding is there has been a large push to have communist party members have a formal and active role in businesses. The economist had a nice article on this: https://archive.is/HGX2L

This is at the very least much more explicit than the control political parties in the US exert over businesses.
"On Friday, the company's vice-president of policy and public affairs, Nick Clegg, wrote to Facebook employees ahead of Haugen's public appearance."

The memo may have been sent by Mr Clegg but the Sharepoint URL in the PDF suggests its was authored by someone named Phil Reilly and stored in a folder named drafte speeches and articles.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28741157
The big tax companies do offer some guarantees of the accuracy of their calculations.

Which is probably not the kind of mistake you’ll have on your taxes anyway. Basic arithmetic is easy. And if you do make these mistakes it’s not likely the IRS does anything more than correcting it. But it’s more than no guarantee.

Also they do provide human support.
> It takes an army to build and maintain

Perfect for open source - if decomposable, so each issue can be dealt with in isolation (or many can). e.g. using a "plug-in" architecture of some kind.

And somehow recruit non-dev folk - if you go to the trouble to understand some specific tax point, you often would like to share it, and also record it in some "easy to use" form, for next time (and a starting point for amendments).

Maybe a "tax DSL", "business rules"? Or a user specs it, and a dev codes it?
Thank you both for the tip! Will start working on it right away!
Oh boy here we go... This will not end well.
No because you are breaking the UX with the price reduction incentive. Let’s say we care about the customer’s choice of OS and that they chose to have that single UX. If the app choice is: pay $X using iAP or pay $X using our own payment system: which one would most ppl choose? I’d argue that it will be the iAP.

So they prefer the UX Apple provides.

Now if we start adding incentives towards the other method you are pushing them more to what YOU prefer they do. You as a single developer would always be incentivised to take as much money from as many customers - hence dark patterns. And sure not every product and not every developer but most.

Overtime the trust in the “it just works” erodes as it doesn’t really work well anymore. I don’t think this is something that Apple want to see.

I think I might be happy for a limited trial of same price diff gateways method and see the results.

But as I always try to point out: I chose iOS for the look and feel. I don’t want the freedom in Android. I don’t want to have 30 subscriptions in random places my grandad got tricked into buying. Developers can always make the choice tell ppl to use Android & not develop for iOS and I respect that.
If this occurs, the Japanese will acquire nuclear weapons.
Raph Levien implemented an attack-resistant trust-metric that had some formal similarities to PageRank for Advogato, a free-software developer community which failed: it turned out it needed some moderation even with this mechanism, and it didn't get enough. But the ideas and experience might be useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato
This is not surprising in the historical sense. "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu shows how this repeatedly happened to industry after industry, with every disruptive comms technology bringing about a stage of unfettered, ebullient, and at times reckless innovation, followed by consolidation, monopolistic behaviors, and finally regulation where the govt essentially creates inefficient but necessary safeguards against otherwise monopolistic, predatory, large companies. It happened with radio, television, landline telephony, mobile telephony, Internet, PC OSes, mobile OSes, social networks, and it is not over. It is the natural tendency of capitalistic markets with network externalities. The saving grace of it is, and that looks rather unusual from the historical perspective, there is still a relatively effective notion of net neutrality (Chinese firewall excluded). This means it is possible for an upstart like TikTok to effectively challenge incumbents like Facebook or Snap in a way that competitive telcos never could have 30 years ago (they really needed govts to crack monopolies open).
I am one of those people. But even then, I am pretty sure we're a small minority: most people have many, many apps that they hardly ever use. If a website tells them to install an app, they'll do it, because the website told them to.
> The alternative is to ask the user what they want to do

Fair point.
My phone doesn't even ring if the # isn't in my contact list. Just goes straight to voicemail. Easy to do with Android "Do Not Disturb" rules.

Yeah, the "Telephone" app is the worst feature on my phone.
Sarcasm aside, the IRS customer support is excellent.
Dear Microsoft, you've gone astray. Please:

1) Disable ALL telemetry by default unless user explicitely opts in.

2) Let me use it without a cloud account (required on Home version).

3) Set out hardware prerequisites based on technical capabilities, not policy doctrine. I shouldn't need hacky workarounds to install without UEFI Secure Boot & CPU-embedded TPM 2.0, and I don't appreciate the threats about doing so.

4) Quit with the stupid naming WTF Windows 11 R2D2.

5) Restore absolute control to me as to when you may apply updates and break my computer.

6) Stop hiding the useful controls (e.g. network adapter IP address) under increasing layers of intermediary screens.

6) Cut the bloat. Focus on delivering a solid kernel that doesn't crash, performance improvements (your work is not done until my PC cold starts as quickly as my car), and intuitive tools to maintain and troubleshoot my system and applications.

Do all this and I'll happily consider giving up Windows 7 and returning to the fold.
Those short TTLs that FB likely has on its DNS records probably bit it in the ass today. If it had longer TTLs, caching would have helped it. Curious though that recursive resolvers won't serve an expired cached record when they can't reach the authoritative server. (I know that unbound can be configured to do so, but not sure about others.)
It is possible. My social circle is relatively small and may not be representative of the zeitgeist. But despite the data shown, the question is what an average American is doing. While there is interest in non-google, non-apple devices, those are still niche markets with some technical knowhow necessary.

Apart from that, both Apple and Google are doing rather well. I certainly did not see a decrease in sales of various panopticon enabling devices. Far from it. Amazon joined the fray and along with other players convinced people to install wiretaps in their own homes. There is an actual joke about it so I am not sure if it is a question of social proof or cognitive dissonance.

I agree there is an improvement, but I am not as optimistic it since I don't see it affecting profits.
This may sound goofy, but at least 50% of the reason I personally switched to full-time Linux this year was the shock of terror I experienced when reading about the “no more moving the taskbar” thing. As a die-hard “taskbar on-the-side” guy (mostly because of all you kids and your big widescreen monitors!) the thought of not being able to change that filled me with just enough horror to finally migrate to Fedora earlier this year. Couldn’t be happier so far - honestly I wonder now why I didn’t do it sooner.
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> The only problem is there's no evidence of this at all. The entire claim is hypothetical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei#Espionage_...

Ignoring evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it means you look silly in public arguing black is white, up is down, etc.

> I just regard the proven, illegal mass surveillance of Americans

You so effortless change subjects I wonder if you even realize you're doing it. The topic at hand is foreign espionage. And even comparing the dystopian nightmare that is Chinese warrantless spying on their own citizens to any other country is the height of absurdity: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/business/china-surveillan...

And you still haven't answered my question.
Wow. So people like you actually do exist.* This is both scarier and sadder.

*ie not already realising that people like them actually do exist.
I think it would be awesome of the USPS offered email and Matrix services for free to people. I could even see it being useful as an official government communication mechanism. And every post-office would be an in-person help-desk for getting locked out or requesting any access help. Also, free 100kbps wifi, completely open.

Along with banking and check-cashing, making the USPS into the generic hub of "dealing with money and communications with the goal of public service, not profit" would be amazing.
Yeah hell, I've ended up with one of the big names as my comm's lead.

That in itself was stressful, and became an example case later.
Is SHAKEN/STIR supposed to reveal the originator info for real now? I have noted I've been getting slightly fewer random phone calls recently.
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Using the Mac Mini form factor and a comparable Ryzen mini PC to judge the processors' suitability as mobile chips is certainly less than ideal, but it's not as worthless as you seem to be implying. In particular, this kind of comparison makes it far easier to get a more apples-to-apples comparison of the chips themselves, without other system design decisions as serious confounding variables. You won't find AMD's top mobile chip in any form factor that remotely resembles a MacBook Air, for example. And when trying to compare a MacBook Air against a Ryzen notebook that's 3-4x as thick, you wouldn't be able to make as strong a conclusion that it's the chip itself and not merely the heatsink responsible when the Ryzen does deliver higher performance.
> Maybe we can develop healthier forms of social media.

Sounds like "let's develop a healthier form of crack" to me.
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That's not part of RCS, that's a Google extension.
How sure are you that customers chose iOS solely for their ability to pay Netflix via IAP, and not like the fact that Apple makes the sexiest, fastest phones that run iMessage and let them call their mom using FaceTime? Like, this is how people choose operating systems, I doubt most users even know how the 30% cut works (not that Apple makes it easy for you to tell them…)
> Surprised it defaults to [y] option, especially since packages can be pretty heavy with artifacts and lots of dependencies to precompile. One accidental extra Return and you might be sitting there for five minutes.

You can interrupt it with Ctrl-C.
how do you do this, any hints?
Oh, I 100% agree, I'm just saying Apple may not see it that way anymore.
Does search finally work? ( I use search everything for that)
By your logic we should stop selling paracetamol.
Sure, but this just means open source tax software isn’t viable. TurboTax integrates with most financial services Americans use, to compete with them this functionality has to be matched somehow.
It's because they are actively, right now, as we type fluff about cute drones, engaged in the rounding up, brainwashing, rape, torture, and murder of millions of ethnic uyghurs and other "undesirables" like homosexuals, political dissidents, and have implemented armed imprisonment and starvation of people suspected of having covid. Because their oblivious middle class is blithely and ignorantly enabling an evil the likes of which the world hasn't seen since Nazi fucking Germany.

It's not about US interests or anything external. It's entirely and only about the atrocities being performed. It's about the forceful harvesting of human hair from prisoners for sale to blissfully ignorant western nations. It's about the organ harvesting of the poor and disenfranchised for the medical privilege of the elite. It's about the chattel slavery of tens of millions of Chinese citizens who are put to use at gunpoint by the power of the communist party. Kept in this world living conditions, brainwashed by the party to know their given role in life is to do nothing but farm, or labor in the fields or factories. Thedrug cartels, the human trafficking, the weapons and money provided to bad actors around the world, the unmitigated environmental destruction and pollution all over the globe.

It's about the soul corrupting oppression of hundreds of millions of human fucking beings who deserve more than willful disregard by us in the west, who'd rather not be inconvenienced by having to think about what the plight of those people means to our own place in the world. About the supply chains and economic advantages in life we enjoy because of the exploitation of those people. About what I it means to ignore the evil in favor of the easy.

So yeah, bub, sorry to burst your bubble. Some of us just aren't comfortable with the "just like us" modern happy narrative crafted by the CCP.
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Tesla's POV:

https://www.tesla.com/blog/regarding-todays-jury-verdict
I gave my son the 2012 MacBook Pro when I purchased the M1 MBP this year. He uses it for everything now.

I have tried giving older Macs to other family members, that didn't work out so well. So there are limits.

In general, used Macs have crazy high resale value, and if they work out ok, no problem with that. Both ends of the transaction receive value from the exchange.

I am in the process of clearing out quite a bit of e-waste, but we are talking fried PowerPC Macs and some iPhone 4 devices that I cant get working again. I have noticed that the Macs tend to be physically smaller than thier counterparts from the same era in my collection; that might suggest less e-waste overall, but of course the variation is all over the place.

The oldest operational x86 machines in my setup are two tower Mac Pros, a 2007 one and anither from 2009. These are somewhat upgradeable: you can use SSDs instead of rotating rust (duh), max out the RAM (easy), put in newer GPUs (drivers and BIOS permitting), or max out the CPUs (you need a moderately weird tool to get at the heat sink screws).

The fate of our electronics is indeed worthy of concern, but I don't see that Apple approach leading necessarily to more trash.

(oh yes: I am typing this on an ipad 4. I'd love to keep using it for another 14 months, it will then be ten years old. but it's getting a bit unreasonable. Works for hacker news though)
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> Edit to add: When CreditKarma gave up on me, I tried FreeTaxUsa. It sounds like a scam I know, but they are top notch, and cheap. Highly recommend.

Ah! I remember FreeTaxUsa. They have this silly verification thing in their signup. Your email address must be on an "American" domain. Mine is self hosted on some other domain and they literally say it's "foreign". Just checked again and it's still there. Hah... sigh.
I am not sure there is a difference?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages

Basically, the amount is intended to set an example and prevent re-occurence.
Perhaps they need to give us all the hops, and let us block calls based on that. I'd just filter out anything that has any non-US hops, that should eliminate most if not all of it.
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