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I went from DALnet to EFnet / Undernet. They're still near the top of Netsplit's list of Top 100 IRC Networks
https://netsplit.de/networks/top100.php

EsperNet is on the list too. I remember spending a lot of time on there way back when.
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Never change! Diverse thought is much more important than "diversity" itself. These days it seems there is tolerance for the superficial diversity, but no tolerance for diverse thought. If you have a controversial thought you will be persecuted by the group until you conform. Also it seems if you are part of a certain diversity sometimes you are pressured to have a certain thought even harder than another person.

Try to have a debate with them first, if you are met with hostility they aren't your friends, they don't know how to convey their supposed thoughts or even control their emotions. Politely tell them to fuck off and find a better group of more accepting people.
Man i miss my IRC Days ! Still have real life friends from that. Also got my fist MP3 'file-send' to me..Lol anyone remembers the wareZz-IRC-Bots/channels. Lol apart from competing in content they also competed in terms of colors/ascii graphics.

Still thinks its miles better than slack/skype for inter-office communication(Notice i said communication not app/task-tracking/1001-Things our over-engineered 'chat-programs' provide today).

XChat - Good times :)

PS. Would love to see some benchmarking for a modern-irc-daemon written in say Go or something else with good concurrency primatives. Was quite a issue 'back in the day' the max clients per server.
Why should I care what a serial exaggerator and liar computer technician thinks?
When I was a kid I would built the kit when I got it. After playing with it (e.g. as a car, house, helicopter or whatever) then I'd take it apart and build my own things (houses, towns, spaceships etc).

Sometimes they'd be static, or other times I'd try to use the pieces in a way they weren't intended, for example to create a sliding gate that a motorcycle could drive through (based on a tv show at the time) etc.

Then once a year during our big December holiday I would sort all my Lego and then rebuild all the original kits and play with them again.

I only ever lost 1 piece of Lego, a flat red 4x1 which I accidentally swallowed (which was funny because I really struggle with taking medications). Forever after my fire truck had a missing side piece.
It’s not really ‘the American model’ - it’s the model America was founded to try to avoid. The trend you identify seems to be in all political systems.

The fact that america as a political ideal is not immune to the trend does seem to be a failure.
Slur filters are a clbuttic mistake.
Because in PoS holders of large amount of assets are also political elite that gets to make the rules.
> Though really, the main problem with good forums is actually finding them in the first place. If no one points you at one, google might just be no help at all.

Try https://wiby.me.
Qubes is awesome, I think the main thing it protects against though is an application you don't trust too much escalating it's privileges (for example a website sandbox escapes into the browser and then tries to go up further) - Since we're on an air-gapped, immutable system all the tools we have on our CD have some implicit trust, so if you manage to get software that isn't playing nice onto the OS, you've probably done it through hijacking the OS CD anyway (I covered a similar-ish question here: https://community.monzo.com/t/how-we-protect-our-most-sensit... )

We also don't run that many complex commands on the actual OS, it's basically one of three things 99% of the time:

- Mount this CD containing some CSRs or etc

- Ask the HSM to please sign this

- Burn a CD with these files and then report the hash / PGP word list of the content on the CD
I guess we've found the person who considers it debatable whether people of color or homosexuals should be treated as human beings.

Please note I never said that wealthy white men should be considered lesser. Simply that policies put in place by wealthy white men have clearly caused harm throughout US history.

People of color never signed off on redlining.

There has not been legislation giving non-white male folks more rights than anyone else, but there have been many many laws seeking to limit their rights relative to others.

Loss of privileges other do not have is not the same as oppression. (Though it often feels that way to the privileged.)
If Masterclass were scummy with their cancellation policy, OP would not be able to see for themselves. A frictionless policy allows people to experiment with services. My wife and I subscribe to one streaming service at a time because of that.
I'm referring to a series of cultural criticisms that began around the 16th century and have continued into the present day. Some were by people who only encountered Europeans in America. Others traveled to Europe to debate and discuss policy and culture with people there as well. One individual that the book focuses on is Kandiaronk, a 17th century Wendat intellectual who debated the French governor in Montreal and whose arguments were popularized by the French soldier Lahonton.
> hoax was spread by celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Kehlani

> listening to celebrities

That's your real problem right there.
oh god, another one to put on the wishlist
Hey thank you for that! I am definitely new to posting these types of things. I did see there's a monthly "who's hiring" thread, but I was unable to post to it. I'll try that again :)
LibreSSL is the default SSL spec for OpenBSD's base, so it should be compatible with everything.
Ok, let's agree that the proposition we are discussing is this:

* Freedom is the limitation of choice.

My counter-argument is this:

Limitations on choice through potential consequences are ultimately self-imposed. To have any effect, they require me to refuse to consider the possibility of the alternative. To the extent they limit my action, it is through my choice, possibly implicit, to let them limit my actions. The option of making the choice never goes away no matter how grievous the potential consequence.

Since this is in a discussion around a post by Snowden, we can take him as an example. He did something that, according to this theory of freedom, is impossible. He wasn't free to do it, his choice was limited by potential punishment. Yet he did, the possibility of making the supposedly impossible choice was still there.

Consider a hypothetical man who has lived isolated indoors all life playing video games, never gone to school, never watched TV, nobody told him about any consequences. One day at the age of 25 he finally discovers a door to the outside and goes through and thinks "oh man, this is like GTA!" and goes around punching the elderly, stealing things, breaking all manner of laws as he has been taught is how you get points. Eventually the strange man is caught and sent to prison, but until that point, was he more free than we are? He was subject to the same laws and social consequences as we are, but they weren't able to limit his choices because of his ignorance. Clearly it can't be the laws themselves that limit choices if this is the case.

It appears to me there is something strange about the given definition of freedom. It lends itself to producing paradoxes, where people who aren't free are capable of being simultaneously free, and the same sources of limitation successfully limit some people but not others based on what attitude they have toward them. This type of contradiction usually means a definition is incomplete.
This is great - I have been looking for a simple diagraming tool that is source controllable and with a reasonably ergonomic user interface for a long time.

Thank you for making.
Solution: use a library for the e2ee, multiple clients and even the group that makes the standard could contribute. This is what matrix did. On the other hand Dino (xmpp) uses vala bindings for the official "libsignal-protocol-c".

Your favorite curve is suddenly vulnerable? Use a library like libsodium which has a solid track record and will be updated to replace the default algorithm if there is a need.

I will take signal's "hacked together" e2ee implementation over openssl.

As for clients without omemo support, I did not have any issue so far.
Wow, there's a neighborhood in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, called Kariakoo, I wonder if it's related.
Out of curiosity are you self hosting Beeper or did you manage to get past the waitlist?
That would be running python in wasm so python (script) -> pyiodide (cpython/wasm) which is pretty heavyweight this would be prometeo -> wasm which I'd imagine would be fairly lightweight. If someone is willing to write in AssemblyScript I figured that something like Prometeo might be a welcome alternative. As I said if it transpires to C there's nothing stopping someone from using emscripted to then go to wasm.
I think of it as a homage to the U.S. constitution actually. I respect your sentiment as it seems we are both coming from the same perspective. I, however, look at this not as a parody, but an incredible tribute and homage o the U.S. constitution....
If it brings attention to the constitution and bill of rights, so much the better. Besides, they will feature it in a public museum ( presumably ) so they will honor it and preserve it.
NERV leaf? Oh God, I'm having nightmare flashbacks to the End of Evangelion. What are they, EVA zealots?
"Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance -- which his growth requires -- who has so often to use his knowledge?"

https://www.owleyes.org/text/walden/read/economy#root-14
My opinion is that most wealth is attributable to the market, but the government is necessary to the extent that it sets and enforces the rules, resolves disputes, and provides defence. The government does help build wealth more directly (e.g funding science research) but it is not the primary driver of it.
IMO if the agency cannot disclose to the public the documents it prepared for the public, that's gross incompetence. It just adds to my argument that FDA should be shut down, since they are clearly incapable of doing their job.
I believe Debian Maintainer process and its keyring is one, if not only, project that gets this as good as it can get.

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMaintainer
I’m genuinely curious, how would that solve the problem? The real world event - say, delivery a purchased good - would still have to be flagged by both parties as “delivered” before the smart contract can execute. If you only allow the receiver to flag, then the problem inverts! Now the receiver can just deny the item was delivered.

Middlemen are useful, as annoying as they may be. I’d love to be proven wrong here.
This is covered more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266521

Sorry for not being up to your standards I guess :(
If this is true in your experience, you ought broaden your horizons on the topic.

If nothing else, there are certainly plenty of complaints about facially-reasonable-ish policies being implemented in an insane and incoherent manner — like when Facebook or Google take down "extremist content," but it's like video archives of extremists intended to be used to fight war crimes and bring their perpetrators to justice.

e.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/facebook-a... (Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes / Algorithms that take down “terrorist” videos could hamstring efforts to bring human-rights abusers to justice.)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-socialmedia-rights... ("'Lost memories': War crimes evidence threatened by AI moderation")

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21664951/facebook-ban-st... ("Facebook is deleting evidence of war crimes, researchers say / A ban on selling stolen artifacts is having unintended consequences)
It depends on length of stay.

But in general you will be paid full wages for intermittent sickness (ie three days -> couple of weeks)

As you are sectioned you will have a doctor's note by default, so there is no chance of being fired. (employment tribunal will back you up on that. However there is a cost(capped at £750) to that nowadays [thanks david cameron, you utter shitfacewankstain])

There are a number of rights for returning to work as well after a long sickness.

Should that fail, there is still nominally a safteynet of universal credit. However that has become rather inhumane recently (thanks again David you shitbag.) but it is not as inhumane as unemployment insurance in the US.
We should switch to using pure functional languages by default. Most of the packages don't need to do any side effects and only perform pure calculations. In a pure functional language it is obvious from function signatures if these functions are able to perform side effects, so it's not possible to hide a backdoor inside a pure function. An average project would depend only on a few impure packages, such as a HTTP client or a framework, therefore it would be much easier to verify the security (for small impure packages you could just inspect their code yourself, and bigger packages like frameworks would have many contributors that check the code and strict policies about their security). Languages like Rust and C++ for which the pure functional model doesn't work should then only be used for performance critical code, and projects written in impure languages should avoid third-party dependencies as much as they can.
been playing with copilot lately and even it just seems more annoying then it is helpful so far. Will continue experimenting but so far my impression has soured a bit
Yup, Wii U USB Helper. It's pretty magical.
This is a good answer. As a kid there were always ideas that I wanted to build, but I would for example not be able to construct the shape required in the working space that I had.

For example pieces like angle switchers, mixing holes for axles with other pieces, parts that allow things to slide etc.
The mega processor is one of my all-time favorite computers, along with the Magic-1 https://homebrewcpu.com/

The megaprocessor is just absolutely wonderful in how it bridges from 'here is a transistor, it lights an LED' to 'here is a computer, it plays tetris'. I always struggled to unwind the layers of abstraction in a modern computer from atoms in the CPU to running python, but being able to just look at a bunch of literal transistors (with LEDs on each gate!) wired up playing tetris shows how a computer really works in such a profound and awe inspiring fashion.

Magic-1 is sort of the next level higher complexity, where it is made out of very simple TTL (most complicated chip function is the ALU--a circuit I had to build as an EE undergrad out of or- and and- gates) and it hosts a webpage. It currently seems to be down, but you can see it on the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20210815180101/http://www.magic-...

I will never forget when I came across that site and realized that I was interacting with a wirewrapped pile of ram and nor gates over the internet. There was even a time when you could telnet in and play some retro text-based adventure games, To this day, the only time I have played Adventure was on Magic-1.
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I've never really understood why more of this kind of thing isn't optional in the _client_ to start with. There's this weird "I'll control everything" default with some of these projects thats just baffling; given the seeming point of distributed/federated systems.
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The first computing machines used relays which are electromechanical mechanical switches. Current would flow into an electric magnetic and it would magnetize a switch and close a loop thereby switching something "on." By placing these switches together into different configurations you could form equivalent logic gates.

Sometimes insects or moths would get stuck in the relays which would screw up the system. This is the origin of the word "bug."

Prior to incorporating logic into electronics, computing machines were hand cranked or motor cranked gear machines. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhUfRIeRSZE. The YouTube video literally is a hand cranked portable calculator.

The world you envision has already existed.
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Roy Ascott's Moistmedia and the Second Big Bang (Bits Atoms Neurons Genes)
Maybe some people are tired of sycophantic hero worship (in science and elsewhere).

>We are trying to look at the worst of someone that did so much for the world.

Have you ever considered that maybe hagiography is a disservice to these people? I know that if I were to do something extraordinary, I would be ashamed if other people used it as a smokescreen for my shortcomings.
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No need in electronics whatsoever - mechanical computing is a sufficiently advanced engineering discipline, as, incidentally, is fluidics!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics
I wonder if they are using the "community" edition or the "enterprise" version that LibreOffice wants organizations to use https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/02/03/libreoff...
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I do broadly agree with you.

However, all of those things are things that happen over time (except assasination, and Kennedy's assassination happened 8 years before), which does not explain the obvious inflection point in those graphs.

I honestly think that some of those things may have been caused by the removal of the gold standard, especially neoliberal economics. (Obviously, things like minorities and women's rights probably not so much; those things were already happening.)

So yes, you are right that those things also changed, but what caused what?
From having worked in UK FS in the past this reminds me of a more modern version of how PKI key signing ceremonies used to happen :)

It's an interesting contrast with how carefully root CA keys are handled in this kind of setup, compared to things like Kubernetes clusters, where you'll typically get 3+ root CA keys in the clear on the API server disks, and I've seen them committed to configmaps (e.g. in RKEs default setup), and even checked into GH repo's...
There's a great analytical paper explaining why game theory fails: It's because humans aren't perfectly rational agents.

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/5/1/53/htm
True, but because of the architecture it is not very useful self hosted unfortunately.
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That's what I did, their "sources" are opinions. That's not what "well-sourced" means.
I see plenty of right wing politicians and commentators (and also, though not recently, my extremely left wing ex) complaining that it was censoring their political views unfairly.

Very recently, I have even seen some call for an end to algorithmic timelines, though ironically I can’t find a link.
I'd imagine that after 10 years of plugging and unplugging, washing in random liquids, biting on them to get them loose etc., folding characters legs in and out until they become floppy any set would be a bit run down.

But I'm sure tolerances today are higher than ever before.
8 years ago, I complained to GitHub support about how they handled feedback
Fairly long-time Emacser/Lisper here. Personally I've never bothered mastering org-mode; using Emacs has never been a goal in itself for me.

In practice, org-mode in a team context barely scales because:

* it's a practically unparseable language: all interop libs (like those found for Clojure, Ruby, Haskell, etc) seem to have severe limitations parsing/emitting org-mode.

* Related to the previous point, it means one can't create .org files automatedly, from a CI pipeline. This makes it hard to have documentation guaranteedly up-to-date, out of a codebase.

* Sooner or later, at least a few people in a team won't be exactly org-mode fans (even in all-Emacs teams; I've belonged to a few).

* Lastly, github itself doesn't excel at rendering .org files - one can still find artifacts.

My take would be that if org-mode works for you - awesome! But please consider the impact of introducing it at work. Early successes can be deceiving.
> Consider proprietary graphics drivers - ordinary people won’t even know why that is an issue, where to look if the display flickers, or what even drivers are.

Why would an employee that wasn't part of IT procurement ever be thinking about that? If you're telling me that it's impossible to hire a single person for procurement who can figure out whether your machines will run on the OS your organization has chosen, I'm going to insist that's not true.

> I’ve never had a Linux box that didn’t require me to open a terminal to fix something after a while.

I'm going to make the guess that you never run a stable distribution for your own personal desktop, like Debian stable, for example. For some reason, most individuals pretend to need a bleeding edge desktop. Organizations don't. Debian Stable is as fragile as a mountain.
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Singapore is a real Omelas situation, where the little boy is all the migrant workers that underpin society. (Of course, the same criticism can be leveled at the US as well.)
When one Mafia family turns another one in, they're doing it to get back at the other family--they're not doing it because they think that crime is a bad thing. They're perfectly happy with crime, as long as they are the ones committing the crime.

It's the exact same thing for censorship. The people who are complaining about Facebook censorship don't want to end censorship. It's just that they want to be the ones doing the censoring.
GNU's not SysV/BSD UNIX. It isn't literally meant to be for a different OS altogether. Even Hurd has a POSIX syscall API.
OpenBSD won't have anything under copyleft licenses anyway. The OpenSSL license has never been an issue for BSDs; it has primarily been an issue for Linux distributions and other distributors of software under copyleft licenses.
How the hell are current markups unsustainable? I don't know how many deliveries the average driver does in a day but it can't be more than a few bucks worth of their time. Yet somehow my receipts are marked up 30-50%, in a myriad of different ways: service fees, convenience fees, invisible markups on menu items...

Convenience is not worth that much to me. I really wish it wasn't worth so much to others
Yeah this is confusing but that repository is basically just for Monzo employees, sorry :( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29266757

We're going to remove that link
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The same data was delivered from Phizer to the FDA, and then supposedly analyzed by the FDA in only 108 days.

That discrepency needs explaining, and the bar for acceptable excuses is high, and not met.
trying to get a balanced perspective on people who did a lot for the world is not cancel culture. Winston Churchill saved Britain from the Nazis, but he was also pretty racist. That doesn't reduce the meaning of his positive accomplishments, but it does give his character more dimensionality.