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Masterful plan for Rust to take over the World:

step 1: assume some parts of the Linux kernel will be written in Rust

step 2: start writing a new kernel which feature some of the parts which won't be written in Rust in the Linux kernel

step 3: add parts from step 1 to step 2

step 4: ask the community to write the missing parts from
step 2

step 5: ???

step 6: profit!
It is a service, because the bridge is a software that need to be keep operational 24/24h and sometimes this is not so trivial (if I don't get wrong WA need an Android emulator running).
Is that supposed to be a lot? Here in Sweden people usually take ~4 weeks or more consecutively during the summer vacation.
a lot of smaller planes have only magnetic compass, no gyro-based heading indicator
Exactly. That also goes for the Rust upvote rings artificially voting any projects with 'written in Rust™' in the title or every single Rust patch release.

Chances are, the crate is not even production ready.
Thanks for your insight. I consider myself reasonably well read, but I had no idea about the (small) scale of the Inquisition. I had always assumed it was much larger than that.
Outside of military uses when GNSS can be jammed INS is pointless when GNSS is available.

INS that is accurate is very expensive to build and maintain. INS that isn’t reliant on external inputs including from a magnetic compass for calibration is even more so.
Yes, once the very unique search phrase becomes public and lots of random people are searching it, I suspect the court would be less likely to allow such a warrant.
> Visions of the elites and their numerous followers are dangerous

Who are elites in this context? Do they include poorly-paid researchers at schools of public health?

I suspect that your definition of "elites and their numerous followers" would be broad enough to include nearly all humans.

> Any person disagreeing or challenging the assumptions or premisses of the prevalent vision are viewed not merely wrong in fact but also in a state of "sin" (by not following the elites propagated vision).

This is demonstrably false in highly polarized places like the US.

For example, there were massive protests after the 2016 elections. All of those millions of people were, to use your words, "challenging [...] the prevalent vision" (i.e. a federal government ruled entirely by the minority Republican party, which was supported by large corporations and the wealthy as well).

> let people bear the cost of their decisions. Not have 3rd parties make decision about individuals bearing no responsibility for the results, nor socializing costs of a decision post-fact.

This has nothing to do with Covid because other people bear the cost of individual decisions. That's the whole problem with infectious disease. It's infectious.

The libertarian fantasy that any decision is 100% individual is ludicrous on its face. All people have jobs, family, friends, pets, debts, promises, and lots of other entanglements that cause their decisions to affect others. They also use common resources, like grocery stores, airports, and hospitals.

I am hard-core in favor of individual rights, but that includes the right of a democratic society to protect ourselves from idiots who believe conspiracy theories.
I work with safety-certified systems written in C. The tooling around such things is extensive and mature: static analysis, extensive test runs with runtime analysis instrumentation (test coverage at the MC/DC level, valgrind for memory and concurrency analysis) it's all there and used.

It's true that a lot of projects written in C do the equivalent of using Rust's "unsafe". Then again, a lot of Rust projects use Rust's "unsafe".
You know what, do catalogue them. Fake contact lenses are not expensive, let's drive the spying industry crazy.
> "iCloud secures your information by encrypting it when it's in transit and storing it in iCloud in an encrypted format. Many Apple services use end-to-end encryption, which means that only you can access your information, and only on trusted devices where you’re signed in with your Apple ID."

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Edit: Mind that this would still apply much the same to copy-and-paste in MS Word and any (encrypted) remote backups of the resulting documents. Where is the significant difference? Also mind that iCloud backups are not mandatory, but yet another (optional) service.
Nonsense.

You can always browse closed issues. The fact that issue is closed means absolutely nothing to the promoted methodology.
The single biometric identity per person is a terrible idea because it cannot be discarded once compromised.
This kind of workflow can be achieved with GitHub or GitLab issues by using labels. For instance, I often add a waiting-on-reporter label when asking for more info.
Why should I care about what some IT guy in Russia thinks?
And the beautiful design hid the fact that this would have been a nightmare to make it work in software. Plug-and-play just was not a thing in that era, and it's barely there now.

I can't see how you would make the idea of "unplug the Apple ][ box and plug in an 80286 box" work without with a mountain of software to assist.
That implies a centralized signing authority though. We could do all of that without the retina scanning using normal old KYC
Not really similar specs to M1, but: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14.
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Governments responded to the Arab spring by taking social media much more seriously. There are a lot of ways to use social media to suppress and discourage dissent, outside of arrests; it's a very powerful counterintelligence tool.
I don't understand what you mean. Searching for problematic material is not a crime. Heck, it can be even done for legitimate reason such as research. I have a friend who loves watching decapitation videos but is otherwise a pretty amiable person and I hope he never kills someone. Persecuting someone on the basis of what they like to watch or what they search for is out of the question in any Western democracy[0]. When you add "social score" to it, it becomes an abominable dystopia nobody would like to live in.

[0] Well, until you actually find CP - it will be placed in your browser cache then, so technically it's on your hard drive now, not a pleasant situation from a legal point of view.
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Well, I read it off my phone at 7AM. My brain interpreted that as "a daily standup at 7AM".

I guess it illustrates precisely why it's a bad idea to have meetings very early in the morning.
> low value

There's a pretty decent size thread of interesting discussion beneath it, demonstrating that it is of value.

> I don't understand why this comment was singled out

I don't moderate this site, but if I did I might be tempted to use a script to scrape for keywords and phrases that sound like violations of the guidelines and issue replies at a key press or automatically. And that's a good way to do it, except occasionally it causes... well... a shallow dismissal?
> No regard for software that works great, the engineers that put time and effort into it to make it secure and fast, if its not Rust it must be broken.

I wasn’t aware that this was a widespread attitude in the rust community, my personal experience has been the exact opposite..
As much as I like OCaml, I doubt we'll ever see a tracing garbage collected language in the Linux kernel.

Also neither OCaml nor D make any attempts at stopping data races, which is sort of a selling point of Rust. Ada/SPARK, I suppose do, but I don't know at what cost; I'm sure though Rust syntax will feel more familiar to C developers than Ada, even if a lot of Rust syntax comes from ML. But it has {} :).
Personally, I really didn't regret waiting for 11.1 back then... unfortunately this wasn't the first bugged major release.

While Apple's hardware and product interop is still top notch, I feel way less safe about their grip on low-level and OS technology. For me, the (lack of) handling of their bug bounty program speaks volumes towards their priorities and I'm actively looking for the next platform that I can trust my data to that works out of the box and I don't have to babysit or debug.
You're not alone, I never got bar/drinking culture either. What was always really weird to me was how homogenous it actually is, like how the nightlife in a city is more or less interchangeable, you just swap out the music and the clothes people wear, but otherwise its the same set of interactions every time. How this was settled upon as THE way to socialize is utterly baffling to me.
You cannot practically do this in the age of certificate pinning. All you can say is that a smartphone communicates, which should be obvious. What it is communicating is frequently unknown.
>The contact tracing protocol for Covid was anything but more surveillance. This is what happens when you buy into simplistic narratives.

Guess you're not following the news. Things that look simple can be deceiving.

>It did seek to assuage fears, however, by repeatedly assuring Singaporeans that the data collected with such technology would be used only for contact tracing during the pandemic.
And that’s where things went wrong.

>Earlier this month, it emerged that the government’s claim was false. The Ministry of Home Affairs confirmed that data could actually be accessed by the police for criminal investigations; the day after this admission, a minister revealed that such data had, in fact, already been used in a murder investigation.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/11/1016004/singapor...
Not everything that someone does has to be "a deliverable" on some project manager's radar. There's joy in doing work that's satisfying and beneficial but that doesn't necessarily align with the immediate stated objectives of the manager, project or organization.

There's a word for this kind of thing: "covert agency".

I don't remember where I first saw it, but looking back at my own career, being able to exercise some covert agency made miserable jobs worthwhile in some ways.
selling garbage for $40M and charming an upcomimg billionaire requires insight and ability.
> There are small companies like System76 but I think they mostly just use ODMs like Clevo et al.

Yes. I remember seeing several Clevo models in their offerings. Like most laptops, they have really bad thermal management and atrocious manufacturer software.
I have sympathy for the author and find a lot of the criticism a bit harsh.

On my teams, I tend to be the person put in the role of doing DevOps-ish work because it's something I'm familiar with. I honestly find it incredibly stress inducing. It seems to me there is an asymmetry in the risk of work between team members that never gets captured by management.

There are degrees of difference with security and data concerns in regards to frontend versus backend versus devops tasks. There is some work that can carry the risk of permanent and irreversible data loss, yet everywhere I've worked, it is apportioned as a regular tasks. Failures like Ops are first and foremost an organizational issue.
Unless you're the maintainer of the parking_lot crate, you're not "inventing your own". And since parking_lot is AFAIK the second most popular implementation of mutexes and RW locks in Rust (the most popular one being obviously the one in the Rust standard library, which wraps the OS-provided lock implementations), you can assume it's well tested.
> Another possibility that doesn't involve you being smarter than everybody in the room

No one made a claim like that and your rudeness is uncalled for.
“Considered Harmful”
> We need to find ways to make it extraordinarily costly to start using drugs. This is how you prevent the crisis we’re in currently

For this to work, people need to think about the longer term consequences of their actions. They don’t.

My personal experience has been that life can be so unbearable, you’ll turn to anything to get some relief from the pain of being alive.

I’m fortunate to be high-functioning bipolar. My uncle isn’t and he can’t tolerant medication. It doesn’t surprise me he constantly struggles with alcohol, along with the rest of his father’s family.

The only reason I’m not an alcoholic is alcohol does not have any positive effect for me. It just makes me sick. Same with opioids.
Who told you what language to write in?
Stale bots sucks. You know what’s even worse? Bots that lock conversations after they’ve been closed by the owner.

Like. What. The conversation is not over, you’re wrong, now I have to open a new issue.
I'm definitely not an Apple fan but what's available on the market at any given moment is an apple to apple comparison of what companies are able to do. I mean: any modern army (or pary of) would crush Roman legions, but they had to do it 2000 years ago.

The article ends wondering about the impact on PC OEMs. I presume they are extrapolating the performance improvement curves, talking with Microsoft about Windows on ARM and working at HW contingency plans in case they have to leave a sinking x86 ship. I don't think they are resting on promises of big improvements from AMD and Intel.
> You can't easily cover the camera in the Librem 5

Librem 5 has a microphone/camera hardware kill switch.
This looks awesome!
I wonder how difficult it would be to integrate it with Gnome Recipes?[0]
The interface is really nice and even automatically makes shopping lists for you based on recipes and intended servings you selected.

[0]https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Recipes
Yeah, I thought so. As it was published, it was pretty late/early in France… (Happens to the best. Thanks for the article!)
The author meets a collection of friends at 7am because a later time conflicts with taking his kids to school. Friends, not co-workers.
Yes. People like you are very rare. I wish more people cared HOW and WHY an applicant did things rather than WHAT he/she did.
It’s quite discouraging to stumble upon a well-written bug report that matches exactly an issue I’m having and see that it’s been “sent away”.

I’m not getting angry, per se, but more disappointed and concerned that the project might not have enough resources to make me feel comfortable using it in the way I intended. (The one I’m thinking of was a cross-cloud app that obviously got more love on AWS than GCP. I got the feeling from the staled bugs that GCP was the “red-headed stepchild”, so we phased that app out after the POC.)

I like the “bug reports are signals, not tasks” idea, though. As a user, I’ll keep that in mind and see if that helps change my gut reaction to the stalebot.
> with not just the content of your messages

Yes, for bridged chats. Matrix <-> Matrix direct & group chats are E2E by default.

> but your account identity/login information as well

Yes, however identity/login does not permit access to E2E messages (and cross signing prevents E2E compromise [1]). Matrix supports migrating accounts to other servers [2] while keeping your data/social graph (depending on your history viewability settings I believe, someone please correct me if I'm wrong!).

[1]: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/05/06/cross-signing-and-end-to-...

[2]: https://ems.element.io/tools/matrix-migration
I don't see how the deterministic nature of retinal scanning hashes means they couldn't be forged randomly. If there's secret sauce or a secret key in the algorithm that generates the hash then it's not an open platform. And given the stakes, it's only a matter of time until that gets cracked.
I very much doubt that most recipe timings actually involve a timed test cook at all. They're just guesstimates.
So, you bought a device that runs software you cannot inspect on a zillion different CPUs (the one you think your phone runs on, the one running below it, the phone modem’s ones, the one in your flash disk, etc), one of which has to tell the phone network where your phone is all the time, so that the network can find your phone when you get a call. For most users, another one regularly tells the manufacturer of your phone where your phone is, so that, if you lose it, you can use it to locate your phone.

With neither, you can check whether that data is deleted in a timely manner or whether extra data, such as IDs of phones near you, is being sent out and collected.

Now, the seller of said phone adds a feature, documenting that it collects hashes of phones near you on your device.

Again, there’s no way for you to check that, but why would that require more trust?
What’s the point of having an open/closed status if an unsolved bug is now “closed”? You might as well close Issues and use Discussions instead.
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I think a useful approach is, instead of closing or locking the issue, to have a bot that periodically (say every 90 days) pings everyone involved in that issue and tags it as "stale" if no one replies, but nothing else.

Issues do get stale: maybe the problem has been solved in the meantime or is no longer relevant, in which case you close the issue, and if the problem is still there, it's nice to have a reminder.
Apple has always been evil and buying it's goods has never been a good idea. I have not disputed that.
We're due for some more "Microsoft is Evil" stories soon, too.
> It's just that you have decided to drink and keep on drinking. It's your choice.

That's kind of the dividing line, though, isn't it? If it's your choice and you could choose otherwise, then you're not an alcoholic. Some people don't feel like it's a choice.
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You can't modify an iPhone/Android such that it runs 100% free software.
One week, that'll certainly show him /s
youre right that at least one person thinks thats crazy. Strange how we all see what we want to see in the end. Myself included.
This works to make a form that looks okay on your screen or when printed. It will not make a form that works correctly if the recipient wants to process it using proprietary Acrobat features.
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Other than being carbon neutral what does ethical require? Have a look out for b-corps (example https://wunderism.com/)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation "that includes positive impact on society, workers, the community and the environment in addition to profit as its legally defined goals, in that the definition of "best interest of the corporation" is specified to include those impacts."
Yes RxDB conflict resolution is equal to PouchDBs. At least for now, there are plans to improve from there where you have a global resoluting function instead of listening for conflicts in the changestream.
My comment was based on the understanding was that the government was already involved with the company and proving subsidies already.

"Isn't that why the government has the power of taxation or the ability to levy fees?"

My point was that some taxation is based on usage, so charging those using the utility would make sense. This would mean still charging the people connected. Otherwise, who would the government tax to subsidize these other citizens?
A Dataflow architecture ISA would. It's been tried before. But, working out the entire software stack from scratch is a moonshot.
According to your comment, there's reasonably no reason to replace our old asm/fortran codebases with better, more modern alternatives.

Well, science goes forward one burial at a time, same goes for IT I guess.
In most companies in the USA, 2 consecutive weeks off is longer than normal. Not unusual to have a total of 2-4 weeks vacation to use each year.
If you have even a mildly successful github repository, you will understand.

People are weirdly entitled and feel like you really, really must fix the bug.

Often with no real actual datapoints or way to reproduce.

Still, auto-closing bots are annoying. But I see why people might want them
(This thread seems hijacked already. The top comments are all missing the point to the degree I have to wonder if people are thick or it’s a PR hit team for Apple.)

Conflating tracking cookies with surveillance instruments such as phone/device scanning at all times is absolute gibbonry.
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On the other hand I found it eyeopening.

I love Apple’s privacy stance and have bought in. However this article made me realize that if apple ever wanted to flip the switch and monetize the data they’d have a treasure trove to work from.

It’s not hard to imagine a future Apple facing stagnant revenue growth, a new CEO brought in to turn things around and enabling a new revenue stream monetizing their privacy features as ad features.

I think the real takeaway is we need better government regulations to ensure situations like that cannot occur. Eg. You can’t change the terms of service of existing customers in ways that reduce their data privacy.
We are probably talking about the same feature. What I meant was this kind of page https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/new/choose
My comment was based on the understanding was that the government was already involved with the company and proving subsidies already.

My point was that some taxation is based on usage, so charging those using the utility would make sense. This would mean still charging the people connected. Otherwise, who would the government tax to subsidize these other citizens?
Apple asks you if you want personalized ads in the app store and news app: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/22654121/apple-personalize...
Writing secure C code is a fool's errand. The sheer volume of C code and the vulnerabilities therein is perhaps the biggest obstacle to computer security today. I don't care if it's Rust or some other language, but it has been clear for some time that C needs to go.
Nope, Eastern Europe. We both got pretty good education (even got to study abroad for a few semesters) and it was free for both of us, but her annual pay is around 30k$ while mine is around 35k$ (the median wage is about 15k$). Its really easy to earn more than that if you remotely work for a German or American company, but as a doctor you cant do that unless you move (not an option).
The orbs are centralized either way. And I personally am less worried about someone having a hash of my eyeball data than my passport and everything else.
How many dozens of millions are they getting in compensation? Who’s going to jail for making it happen?
Seems like providing the north woods of Minnesota better internet than the Twin Cities is a rather poor investment of resources
>I am not very experienced with Arch, but my impression is that it is actually more reliable

It is only an impressions, Arch fanboyus will quietly try to fix the mess and blame themselves for the bugs, only some honest users will tell you straight in the face "never update Arch without first reading some news page and never update if you don't hve the time to rollback and fix shit".
The “but muh upgradable RAM” folks need realize: computers are so fast now that just making RAM human-replaceable requires such long connectors that resulting speeds are unacceptably low (due to speed of light vs clock cycle time).