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> Gmail obvious spam still #1 in the quarantine folders..

-- Michael Peddemors, President/CEO LinuxMagic Inc.

https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg14526.html
These surveys on platforms are basically a way of evading the deep tracking they used to implement on their apps. Since app stores and device makers clamped down on app-based tracking, many social platforms lost their ability to track people deeply to better target ads, so now they do covert psychological and cultural profiling to get the metrics they want.

It's also why many platforms are handicapping their web sites and why some only allow access through mobile apps, because web site interactions don't give them deeper tracking cues they want, like access to device cameras and microphones, without alerting users first.

If you use TikTok or IG, you'll realize that whenever you're about to share something, your camera is activated, and it can capture a lot of details about you like your skin color, or snapshots of where you are... App makers have been over-reaching in privacy for ages now, and you're always giving up something personal for using any social service, whether it's your money, time spent watching ads, unrewarded labor in generating their content, or your privacy.

I don't do any surveys, they're often driven by mis-guided objectives that don't help user experience at all.
This is great advise. I do #1 and #2 but not #3.
I use sendgrid.com for #3. They have one of the highest (if not the highest) deliverability rates in the world and mails arrive really fast (faster than gmail).

As a bonus: I get to see report which of my emails were classified as spam or not opened.

Also, first 100 mails per day are free (which has been enough for me so far).
While I like the concept, the title of this article is misleading, as nowhere on the GitHub page or even at https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ does the author highlight the privacy implications of this.

As mentioned in another comment, https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect seems to be more relevant for privacy minded folks.
I like Swift a lot, and if Apple were smarter and support linux/windows/android i will not move to Rust.

But swift have a lot of "magic". The major advantage of Rust, the biggest one for a system language, is how explicit is about almost everything.

Is incredible how much you can know just looking at the code at hand.
Unbuffered I/O is slower than buffered I/O regardless of language. It’s not just a Rust phenomenon.

Making syscalls like write() every time you want to send even a character of output down a stream is much more latent than just sticking bytes in a buffer.

In general, the only time anyone should use unbuffered output is when there’s a real person consuming it - for example, when you’re prompting a user for feedback or input.
Unbuffered I/O can make any language you use much slower. It has nothing to do with Rust / language choice.
A game where bots turned out to be real players would have been fascinating though.
Alternative title: Poor Interface Design Makes Most Rust Programs Much Slower

That programmers need to consider this stuff on each new project is a failure of the standard library design, it's a problem not even C++ suffers from
Merry Christmas to the entire Hacker News community. I am so grateful for this funny orange site, and the people who gather here.
It's not clear to this reader which of Intel or Apple you mean for each of your examples.

"Everything else about it sucks" certainly seems like it doesn't apply to either.
Couldn't agree more! That first chapter hooked me harder than anything I have ever read. It would hav been amazing had the entire book held to that pace, but I personally felt it got too bogged down at times in the more philosophical bits. Still a great book on balance, and deserves great credit for its exploration of the metaverse.
Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I had an itch for some good epic world-building after finishing the Game of Thrones books and giving up on the next ones being released. Was not disappointed.

Structurally, Hyperion is a play on Canterbury Tales, but it weaves in hefty amounts of sci-fi, fantasy, philosophy, history and theology. Lots of WTF moments, and a great balance of humor and truly dark shit.
> All that is required to beat this, honestly, is a few people serving as positive role models with transparency and not abusing their authority

Good article, but not sure about this conclusion.

You don't need a few role model, you just need rules that applies to everyone, ref: Singapore. Nobody has a moral compass? No problem, just pretend you have one while there, or else.
Out of curiosity, how much of that Bing load is the lazy-loaded background image? I would guess that the rest of the page is very light but maybe I’m wrong.

On my mobile device, Google feels slow because they have to throw up a spinner for 2 seconds while they figure out what local news to share with me. Bing manages that seemingly instantly on on my device.

For full disclosure, I’m a Microsoft employee. Not trying too shill for Bing. I’ve just been surprised how slow Google feels lately due to their (slowly) lazy-loaded content.
Regardless of the politics, it is frustrating to see people cheat the system and get away with it, that is universal.

I have this vague notion that this was less of a problem 30-50 years ago and people would be punished or more against doing this kind of thing just by way of culture and ethics, but I can't verify if that's true or not, or just the sense you get from movies and tv. I feel like every time people got away with things, the entire society slipped a bit and little by little it eventually eroded to where we are today, where it feels like we are hitting that exponential growth on the curve for societal shittiness.

There always seemed to be a notion of "that person can't do that and get away with it, it'll be all over the news" and that would ruin them or get them punished, but it feels like the last few years people have just called the bluff on that and taken it to it's extreme conclusion and can get away with saying or doing anything and it doesn't matter if it's reported on, people will just go "I can't believe they said or did that" and nothing happens or changes (It just got normalized). The smart cheaters took this as an invitation to get away with things more frequently and openly now realizing there are very few repercussions. The only punishment seems to be for a small scale person or business that's really only serving a local community. I guess there is no larger sense of community anymore?

Do role models exist or have any power to inspire or do they have to become something they aren't just so they can be big enough to be seen for their message? Perhaps in a world where there were only like 30-100 tv channels and no YouTube and shitty internet it was easier because there was really only so few options of who you get to see and they were more curated, but now anyone can be seen and the algorithms will just optimize you into something you maybe curiously or accidentally clicked on and take you into (and trap you in) your own tribe, healthy or not. It just feels like there is no way to dig society out of it's direction as all the holdouts will eventually give in or their children will. Why is every future sci-fi dystopian pretty much? You take today to it's logical conclusion.
Micropatching “Ms-Officecmd” Remote Code Execution (No CVE)
Happy belated Hanukah, Merry Christmas, Happy Three Kings Day, Happy belated Solstice, and may 2022 make up for 2020 and 2021.
I’ve been burned a few times but realized how I need to vet and communicate better before and while working with someone. I had a chance to see a venture fail for reasons other than an incompetent cofounder which was educational. And I had great success in my most recent venture.

You listed at least 4 ventures this was the cause of. I hope you have realized what you need to change as well.
What Is Hyperconverged Infrastructure?
Any reason this isn't for all apps ?

Even now, Google allows users to ether pay directly to app makers. I still vastly prefer Google Pay. As in most of the time I'll skip an an app without a Google Pay option
Potential DOJ suits against Apple and Google delayed amid budget woes
> 1. Foreign countries use our aircraft for free for 4 years (DOD) $773,000,000

> 2. US bought Afghanistan planes that were later thrown away (DOD) $549,000,000

> 3. Funding Green Energy programs in Africa (State) $179,000,000

> 4. Fattening eels for human consumption (FDA) $337,500

and a few others

> Social Security overpayments to beneficiaries in Fiscal Year 2019 (SSA)………$4,200,000,000

> Pigeons playing slot machines (NIH)………………………………………………..$465,339
Are you telling me that law enforcement is facilitating the sale of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of drugs over the course of many years on the internet? These dark markets work - you get real drugs in the mail. I find it a little hard to believe they'd put so much effort into it, have the competence to do it, and facilitate so much harm at the same time.

Also compounded that some markets require Monero - why would they require something that makes their jobs harder?
Brand new Intel 16-inch MBP will blast fans doing even the simplest tasks. A single Twitch live stream open in the background. Running IntelliJ. Docked 4k monitor. Especially in clamshell mode, the fans will ramp up and stay ramped up, and the top row of the keyboard will get so hot that the machine is unusable without an external keyboard.

(I use one for work, it is terrible. And I used to have one for personal use, which I traded for a M1 Air)
How about planning around the single most celebrated holiday in the US, religious or not: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_Unite...
TikTok seems like a more casual/fun experience to me. I suppose it depends on how you use it. My son and I have a great time watching animal videos, jokes and some other stuff.

I never got into instagram, but Facebook is always trying to lure me in with suggestive “interviews” of college girls and weird mom videos on the Facebook feed, which is otherwise very curated.
Hmmmm... I read the article, and MT seems to think COVID guidelines are "hyper-paranoid". I think it's just a tradeoff at the end of the day. These projects are often very expensive, and they are systems that rely on the health of a few key components. Even a few sick days for talent has a price for production. Film sets are crowded affairs. I think it makes sense to be a little draconian in this setting. Anyways... doesn't matter what anyone here thinks LOL -- plenty of bodies willing to work in the film industry. This sort of stuff will start to disappear when either:

1. COVID becomes a less harmful and less contagious virus.

2. Studios and production execs stop caring about wasted money or failed projects.

But even then, the specter of a liability lawsuit will probably keep these staff employed for the duration of the decade.
Elizier Yudkowsky is just a really good author. can’t speak for HPMOR, but i love his other series, The Sequences, which per my understanding communicates the same ideas via more succinct, nonfiction writing.

https://www.readthesequences.com/ or the paperbacks are on Amazon.
https://mobile.twitter.com/alexanderchen/status/133965811974...
And much easier! See, this is why a team of people is better than just one person with tunnel vision.
This article is sadly a little disjointed in how it articulates the various problems, and I don't live in SF, so it's hard for me to assess the specifics that are being described there, but as someone who lives in NYC where there are similar concerns (and from speaking with police acquaintances) it seems like there are a few things happening:

- "Organized" rings of theft are nothing new - groups of kids (and adults!) figure out that product X are easily acquired, aggregated, and resold and there's a mini-wave of thefts of X - a few years back it was ice cream, Tide detergent has been a thing for a while, etc. These things get sorted out through some combination of the stores making product X harder to get (glass doors, sensors) and police arresting some of the folks responsible, and it drops off quickly.

- Random shoplifting is up a lot - from seeing a lot of this in nyc, it's usually the same thing - random person (often homeless) shuffles into a store, walks to wherever, grabs something, runs on out. A couple of times I've seen a store manager look at someone coming in and say "I just want you to know I'm watching you", and they turn around and head back out

- Bail reform/defund the police is a massive red herring - from speaking with cop friends, while they're annoyed about "defund" and bail reform, there isn't actually any evidence there's any correlation between the two, other that in some cases prosecutors were using bail as a cudgel to keep low-level offenders in jail. The cops in general feel that was a feature, not a bug, despite that not being the point of bail. Otherwise, overtime is up, violent crime has mostly stabilized or gone down, reopening of the homeless shelters have made it easier for homeless people to get indoors which reduces the amount of police interaction with them. The wave of police retirements in nyc were good for everyone - police pensions are dependent on your most recent (or highest?) two years of income, so pandemic + protests mean that lots of cops are going to make more money by retiring last year vs. the coming 4-5 years with budget uncertainty. For the rest of everyone staying, more overtime.

In my neighborhood, the overall response has been for uniformed, on-duty police to be posted in a lot of the stores during high-traffic times. From chatting with managers, it's had a huge benefit. The cops think it's boring duty, but it beats being out in the cold.

All this to say - there's lots of stuff getting stolen, but it doesn't actually impact the businesses besides them locking up more stuff (it's annoying to get toothpase now). There's no grand wave of organized crime, at least any more than there was before. Cops are not "under siege". Everything is fine relative to everything else that's on fire in the world right now.
Another day, another crack in the garden wall.
Until they backpaddle on it again.

When they bought Oculus they made a definitive statement saying that Oculus devices will never need an FB account to use.

To me they lost all credibility. Not just because of this instance but many other instances of lying and deceit.
Taxes pay for far more than “welfare payments” unless you expand your definition of “welfare” to include the general welfare (functioning roads etc).
Happy holidays to everyone at HN - Sri Lanka. It's being an awesome year
> However, the EU requires every single individual business with any stock located on EU soil to register and file individually in every single country where the stock is distributed regardless of revenue. I can only assume this is to create jobs for bureaucrats.

You've just misunderstood what EU was it's not a . You have to file individually in every country because they are individual countries: you wouldn't expect to file for VAT also once for all Asia, would you?
How much did NASA, ESA and CSA each contribute to this project?
I absolutely hate seeing these near zero value added listicle pages everywhere in search.
Agreed! College students are at the most malleable period of their adult life.
Why net neutrality would have been nice, exhibit 78
> To say the biggest source is Gmail might be technically wrong though - I suspect there's a large volume of spam that Migadu (my provider) is dropping before it even reaches my inbox, i.e. emails that it is 100% sure are spam and it can just drop. Nevertheless, an overwhelming amount of spam I observe/have to deal with is coming from Gmail. Second to that is outlook/hotmail.

This. It's more likely to be survivorship bias -- the gmail emails happen to survive because gmail is more trusted.
https://pski.net/2011/11/01/parkshark/

ParkShark was a parking space sharing iOS app. The technology was sound but the market timing was a little early. We were even talking to some larger delivery companies about a business-side component. The product failed because the two founders, myself and a friend, are engineers through-and-through. We just didn't have the passion for the business side of things to really make it happen.
Github already has my public ssh key so I can push/pull/clone without typing a password. Why the heck don't they support ssl client authentication so the same thing works when I use a browser? SSL client certs are an actual thing yet no web site I have ever seen uses them. Why?
> However, I'm always baffled how everyone seems proud that the telescope has something like 200 SPOF during deployment, and if even one of them fails the whole mission could fail.

I'm not sure I've seen anyone who is _proud_ of it, lots of people are just setting expectations. Probably due to the similarities with Hubble (although JWST can self-align it's mirrors!).

It also might be posturing to show how well the thing is built. Space is hard, like really hard, and these agencies keep knocking it out of the park.
My desktop rig went from a recent overclocked i5 32gb ram hackintosh to an 8gb ram m1 mini when they first came out, and the performance was mind blowing. I also grabbed an m1 mbp at the same time, which demolished my previous intel mbp but the hackintosh comparison is the one that sealed the debate for me. I had a massive cooler installed and yet the m1 mini was easily twice as fast.

I couldn't get my hands on the 16gb versions at launch, and for the first year they were still so much faster even when swapping 6-10gb but I am feeling the ram crunch a bit these days. I recently upgraded the rest of my team to the new 14 inch pros with 32gb ram and I'll be grabbing one for myself when I have the time next year to do a time machine transfer.
There are languages you could write open-source applications with /s

There are definitely proprietary languages on that list.
The thing is: Some of the worst remote workers are actually the best at appearing always online. They’ll go out of their way to remind everyone that they were “working” at 8PM or on a weekend because they need to compensate for the lack of actual work done.

One of the worst remote work offenders I ever dealt with had a routine of doing things every Saturday morning that would ping the team: Lots of Slack “@channel” questions. Lots of name tags in Slack to generate pings. Some e-mails with unnecessarily huge recipient lists. If someone had only measured time online or number of Slack messages sent, this guy would have been at the top of the list.

But it was all a show. It was all low-effort, high-volume content designed to give the impression of working hard, and it only came in short bursts. Anyone paying attention knew he wasn’t delivering much but he was generating huge fanfare over tiny things he did.

So yes, focusing too much on perceived hours worked or activity in Slack or e-mail is one of the worst ways to do performance management.

> Kick people based on repeatedly violating the deadline for deliverables.

This is the other game they play: Come sprint planning time, they’ll invest huge effort in exaggerating how long a task will take. Then they’ll go to great lengths to find ways to be “blocked and waiting on so and so” during the week. Eventually they’ll push their deadline back so far that hitting it is trivially easy.

Which is why it’s important to have managers who can spot these exaggerations and investigate the actual code and deliverables when they arrive. Engineers are good at spotting when someone has been lying about effort, but managers without engineering backgrounds can often (but not always) be fooled by charismatic remote workers.
While having a moral compass is great in this case, because you LOST nothing. Sometimes it's a lot more damaging because in certain environments having it means giving up things to people who don't.
I mean that SES gives you SES IP reputation, and they force you to have a low bounce rate & complaint rate, thus SES specifically is usually not blocked by big providers nor small enterprise networks.
Youtube ads have reached the point of ridiculous. Many people, in the early days, moved from TV to Youtube to avoid ads. But the last time I used the apps (on the iPhone) to listen to a song, I had two unskip-able ads before and one later.

Today, I bother with their HTML website on Safari (because of iOS ad block, it seems that I miss most of the ads) but their web app is shitty (and maybe being made intentionally shitty?).
> SystemD changed that behaviour to "if a filesystem doesn't come up, and you don't set an option to tell systemd it's ok if that doesn't happen, don't finish booting".

I still have to find a way to let it digest sshfs filesystems that may hang at boot without stopping the whole boot process.
Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
When I read an article like this I remember to ask myself “what does the author want to be true?” Then you can start making sense of it.
Christianity exposes a binary: those who are not for me are against me.

CRT theorists propose the same binary: those who are not pro-CRT support racism.

It is possible to be against both racism and CRT.

CRT is not scientific. It is ahistorical, based on storytelling and disagrees with basic fundamental statistics. It is a religion with followers and evangelists, demons and devils. It even has a salvation arc, original sin and the "sins of the father" as concepts. Blood guilt is not science.
I bet that the breath and cold water are still legal:) Do not give up!
Yeah valid. Though the whole "hurtling upwards on top of a bomb" part is still definitely scary in it's own right.
Exactly - 1000 req/s on modern hardware sounds a lot like "Look ma, I was able to slow it down!"
Internet was meant to be decentralized. Lets leave it this way.

I am running my server for 15 years and couldn't be more happy with "artisan" infrastructure.

I don't want or use webmail (sluggish), I don't want others fingerpoking my emails, I don't want various compulsory registration systems (like requiring my phone number out of """security""" reasons like google), giving others the ability to kill my account and do me a huge amount of work and on the top of that, it breaks the sites registration schemes, I have set up a script that accepts any email with some special structure and each and every registration gets a specially customized mail address (that I can calculate in my head, no configuration needed) that can be resolved back to the registration.

Getting spam? I am sick of you, whatever? No issue, just REJECT the whole address. It is used by only one site, like smart people don't reuse passwords, I don't reuse email addresses.

And you would be surprised, how many sites sell email addresses to others, and I know it as every one gets its own email address.

Rspamd eats the spam just as good as "ai infrastructure" /s

Even if you go for 3rd party email infrastructure, registering a domain is a must, so you can switch the provider fast if it gets vampirized.

Out of my whole infrastructure (100% self hosted, as said, for 15 years, actually more but not 100%), the email server is the part that needs the least attention.

The response to the author would be: nice that large providers have webmails and some other quirks that I don't want or need. Feel free to use them, but I have freedom.

postfix. dovecot. rspamd.