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I've been recently learning all about hobby electronics recently (circuit design, microcontrollers, basic components so far), so I want to give a beginner's perspective, and honestly this water pressure /flow analogy is actually really distracting and misleading as soon as you get past the basics of circuits and components.

If you're an educator please reconsider using these analogies that fall apart later on becuase in more complex concepts but the analogy may stick on in your students head when it doesn't apply. Or at least heavily stress that these are analogies and not to expect that this "water circuit" analogy will hold forever.
I installed firefox focus which is a privacy first mobile browser that advertises that it cuts out phoning home. I was irate when I dug into the settings and found out that "Studies" is on by default. Research data collection should always be opt-in rather than opt-out, especially for privacy focused software.
Or maybe the premise that Mozilla is beholden to Google because of their income stream is false?

It seems like every other month there's a thread complaining about how Mozilla would never really do anything against Google's interests because of their income stream, and then every other month in between those rant threads Mozilla launches some new tracking protection [0] or privacy initiative directed specifically against Google.

[0] https://twitter.com/__jakub_g/status/1365400306767581185
Sounds like their problem.
"Open Source" and "Free Software" are almost legally identical - the only difference being that the OSI's definition of "open" was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines which are very slightly less restrictive[0] than the Free Software Definition the FSF uses. If a license passes FSD it will pass DFSG/OSI; and almost always a license that passes DFSG/OSI will pass FSD.

The primary difference between "Open Source" and "Free Software" is political. The FSF was explicitly a political organization to promote Stallman's idea of software freedom[1] while the OSI was created specifically to make an "apolitical" business case for it. This means a lot for advocacy and ideology but not so much for the actual rules of what you can copy and when.

Also, Apache license is both OSI and FSF approved. The main problem is that you cannot combine GPLv2 and Apache software. This is only a problem if you don't want to take GPLv3's TiVo clause and/or blocked v3 upgrades.

[0] If I remember correctly, there's one license that requires modifications be distributed in patch form, which satisfies DFSG/OSI but not FSD.

[1] To the point of writing a documentation license, GFDL, that prohibits you from removing Stallman's rants on free software, which ironically makes it non-Free.
The gif time-lapse gives me some anxiety - it reminds me of the Sega game Space Harrier where the enemies come at you quickly, within a few frames.
I think most industrial waste heat is indeed wasted. You don't tend to build for example chemical factories close to where you would have offices or homes.
Related: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
I didn't mean to come across as berating, but rather as suggesting a better way to link. I hoped that 'request' and 'please' would set the proper tone, but am certainly open to better ways of wording it. I meant 'always' to indicate that I specifically wasn't just complaining pointlessly about the present case, but rather talking about future links; but I can see how it came across like the scolding 'always' as in a phrase "you always do this."
Would the naive approach "just work" (although slowly) in Python since it has arbitrary precision?
Of course, and it is vastly better than using an ORM.
No we are talking about how web3, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies are all separate yet related ideas. You are saying they are equivalent.
Usually it's to protect the rights of minorities. This is well covered in the Federalist Papers.
So I hate my data being collected like this, and try to reduce when it happens whenever I can. But, buying an Alexa and then complaining they store the audio? When they confirmed they kept it about two years ago?

Imagine I found out the library kept a list of titles I borrowed! Or my bank account storing my transactions.
Also corrupting the governing authorities to get a free pass for lawbreaking.
a common argument given against stating that healthcare is a human right is that if you make a positive right a human right you will make the provider of those rights slaves. that is because they will be forced to provide that service against their will. it always sounded like a weak argument to me, after all child education is a positive right and teachers are not treated like slaves. however, barring people from working at their main competitor is a pretty good way to force them to work at their current company in order to not lose their income and their house. that argument is starting to make more sense to me now.
Yeah, one of the consequences of purity is that packages can't/shouldn't refer to paths outside of the nix store (/nix/store), so it needs to be hardcoded. Otherwise you end up not being able to match hashes against a binary cache.

The glibc issue you ran into is actually a prime example of this problem, and the version shipped in nixpkgs is patched to allow multiple instances by changing various hardcoded paths to the glibc's path in the nix store.
How long ago did you compare them?

I have been using FreeBSD for networking for awhile now but not at those levels
I'm looking at the pdf embedded in the article -- on p5 the 858.92 charge is in the 'in net medical/rx combined' section -- I assume that means it's an in-network charge?

this thing https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21177150/january-2022...
I'm a US citizen, completely clean record - but I've had multiple bad experiences at these checkpoints, so I try to avoid them when I'm planning to travel. The fruit inspection stations don't seem to be as bad - they're so busy that they just wave everyone through. Some of the border checkpoints are pretty deserted though, so they have enough time to ask you the standard LEO questions.
Are there any folks here doing metal detecting in the Netherlands?

I've been tempted to start, since I live in a village that dates from the 1200s (but likely had Romans passing through long before) surrounded by farmland. There's bound to be something interesting buried here and there.
I disagree here. What could the North have done differently (post 1792) to seriously address the slavery issue? The Southern states had enough political power to put off any major reform; e.g. they had enough clout to engineer the dreadful Dred Scott decision.
A public share might be the entire point of using a service.
Another option if Linode's included bandwidth + overages is too much is a dedicated box from Reliable Site. I'm not a customer nor am I affiliated with them at all, I just occasionally check in on their low end prices and noticed that they've started included an unmetered 1Gbps port with every host.

https://www.reliablesite.net

(search HN and reddit for that URL, you'll see they've been around and recommended for a really long time).
Doesn't matter; Tesla has already said they would, and started the pilot program a couple of months ago. (not in the US yet however)

https://www.tesla.com/support/non-tesla-supercharging

But to answer your bigger point: others networks aren't incentivized yet to push harder to compete. The demand just isn't there yet. For EVs to be successful in the US, there needs to be more than one successful company. This is a goal that is bigger than capitalism, and sometimes you have to work at odds with capitalism to accomplish those kind of goals.
Compare it to investing. Do you wait for the stock to go down and then sell, or do you sell when it's high and take your profit elsewhere? Even if you invest it in something that then goes down, you still made your profit. If you move before things get bad, you'll always be able to look back at your time at the company with happiness. No burnt bridges, no bitterness. Sure it's a risk to move somewhere else, but in this other world where you wait for things to get bad before moving then 100% of the time you're signing up for some period where your (work) life sucks.
From the post:

> In the end, though, Google is heavily invested in users landing on their result pages so they can be served ads. So it's hard to imagine they would voluntarily redirect people away, even if they are clearly searching for a specific page.

The sad part of this is that Google, in the "10 blue links" era, actually did optimize for users clicking through to a result (and not immediately coming back to click another, which indicates the page wasn't satisfactory). This extended well into the early AdWords period where optimization extended to showing highly relevant ads in the sidebar or at the top of the results.

Things seem to have started to go wrong first with a series of design changes that made it harder to distinguish between ads and search results, and accelerated with the introduction of info boxes sometimes scraped from external sources and integrating results from other Google services (such as maps).

Since those changes, Google seems to have been optimizing for two use cases: either the user does a search and then stops (indicating they received the answer they were looking for) or they click through to a Google property or an ad and don't come back to the search engine. Clicking through to a search result is a lower priority.

The problem, as I see it, is that the first case of searching and then stopping also indicates "these results are garbage, why even bother" which dilutes the signal. You can potentially distinguish the two cases of 'completely satisfied' vs. 'completely unsatisfied' with a bunch of other weaker signals (clicking through to the long tail of SERPs, trying a bunch of search variations one after the other), but most users today won't try further no matter what (Google, ironically, has all along been training users that the first result page of the first query they try satisfices).

In short, Google has been shooting themselves in the foot by muddying the strongest signal it had for search quality.

I imagine that Google's solution to this involves behavioral tracking/profiling and analysis as in "is the user in the 'easily frustrated' bucket" to amplify or discard the weaker signals appropriately, but clearly whatever they're doing isn't working as well as the unambiguous signal did.
As I understand, the market is in decline because "The Fed" is trying to tamp down inflation by increasing the price of borrowing money. The fact that this kind of market correction is deemed an acceptable byproduct of countering inflation tells you how seriously the "fiat" economic system treats loss of purchasing power.

AFAIK, Bitcoin does not have a mechanism for doing something like this to stabilize the currency.
US is vast and sparsely populated. It takes many hours to reach the next closest city to Denver or SLC. China is small (compared to the US) and extremely dense.

China has tons of cheap, subsidized electricity due to its love for coal. The present US administration hates coal, coal power plants, and coal mining. No cheap electricity == no incentive to buy an EV.
Why does the mechanism of election for the head of the federal executive branch matter so much? Because the federal government has so much relevance to the matters of the individuals living in the states.

The founders didn't care that much about maximizing fairness per person. They were trying to maximize fairness per state. The electoral college works fine for a federal government that's mostly confined to managing the states themselves which is what the founders were trying to build.
I have heard that too, and at some point I might try it out.

Honestly I just wish there was a way to run ZFS as a core partition on macOS. APFS is pretty good, but a full on ZFS thing is really cool, and makes FreeBSD so much more appealing as a result.
A moisture vaporator, also known as a vapor spire, was a device used on moisture farms to capture water from the atmosphere. Though stationary, they included programming that used a binary language to communicate with other equipment. Author employs moisture vaporators as tremendously clever reference to a notorious feature film and modern mythology.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUH2_n8jE70&t=0m30s
Doesn't Mozilla's main source of revenue come from putting Google in their browser? I.e., they are dependent on Big Tech partnerships for their continued existence.
Tether has a $69 billion dollar market cap

USD Coin has $42 billion, Binance USD has $12 billion, Terra USD $9 billion, Dai $8 billion, ...

you were saying?
> you get to run `nix-collect-garbage` manually

If you mean running NixOS (the distro), rather than just Nix (the package manager), then there’s an option for this `nix.gc.automatic`. You may also want to look at `nix.optimise`. When using just Nix however, I don’t know if they bundle the timers.
If I buy 25 old tablets, put them on a wall 5x5 and then open on my laptop 25 browser tabs each with different streaming data e.g. webcam views, messengers, news, can i use this software to achieve this?

Then again... could ofcourse then also anydesk to each of them to change whatever they are showing.
> For example, proposed laws to limit abortions fail in a lot of places: the majority of the population favors access to abortions. The Republicans got a Supreme Court that will judicially do what would be legislative suicide.

It's more complicated than that. You certainly have states where the majority of the population doesn't favor abortion access or doesn't care that much, and all any conceivable Supreme Court decision will do is allow the state legislators in those areas to legislate in ways the local population accepts, which won't be political suicide for them. That much is a fact, because restricting abortion access (regardless if it stands or not) has been a winning issue for those legislators for a decade or more.

> There's a ton of other issues that are like this, from marriage equality to drug de-criminalization to "intellectual property" to regressive taxing that would be legislatively impossible (Republicans losing power) but will almost certainly be accomplished judicially.

What you say would be true if the US was a "unitary" government, with non-geographic elections (e.g. by party list), but that's just not how it's structured.
Absolutely it's a sincere belief. "Slave" is hyperbole, but only just barely.

The link you posted indicates that 80% of people think it's reasonable to show ID at a polling station. I think you'd find that's a pretty common opinion on it's face because it's perfectly reasonable to show ID to do things like vote or get social security benefits or register property you own or all those government-y things.

The trouble comes when you hijack that perfectly reasonable expectation by then making ID preferentially difficult to get for certain classes of people. You don't need to trust that this is the case - it's apparent from the statistics. More than 10% of adult US citizens don't have ID. Why not? Because it takes time and money - you need to pay fees, you need to travel, you need underlying documents that can sometimes take hundreds of dollars of fees themselves to generate, etc. Politicians also can 'tune' what counts as ID to preselect the voters they want. TX for example, counts concealed carry cards as ID but does not count student IDs.

In fact, in 2014 the GAO itself found that strict photo ID laws reduce turnout by at least 2-3 percentage points on average with significantly higher proportions in economically depressed and racially diverse areas, and it's well documented that the people impacted by that lower turnout are overwhelmingly members of specific demographics that tend to vote for specific policies. That's a pretty big incentive to marginalize these people if you don't agree with those policies.

It's undeniable that for many of the most vulnerable and powerless members of society obtaining ID under the current regime is in direct conflict with simple survival, and is unlikely to be a priority. If we want to require ID for voting we should make the process of obtaining that ID require as little economic power as possible - a task that is easily within our grasp.
Yeah moving from software to hardware is swimming up river financially. Slow down on your day job a bit and set up a workbench at home.
'Corrupted' doesn't mean unsalvageable. It's easier to patch a broken system than it is to make a flawless system on the first try.

You can't start patching a brilliant set of ideas until you look directly at the flaws and their sources. Like, voting is a great idea, but they forgot women in v1.
What's wrong with filling out surveys? Data collection is an important way for product developers to improve their products. This can either be done without user consent through shady data collection practices or explicitly with the user's consent as is the case with surveys.

You are free not to fill out the surveys but saying that any form of data collection is akin to "doing what big tech is doing" is an extremist position and undermines companies which are respecting users' privacy and requesting rather than forcibly extracting data about user behaviour.
Yes, the premise might be false but Mozilla is not doing a great job clarifying this.
Anytime someone uses "big" as an adjective like a pejorative, the argument should be obviously weak to anyone with a critical mind. Why should the size of a company have any relevance to its unethical or abusive actions?

If a company engages in monopolistic, anti-competitive, or abusive behavior, call it that.
i remember BlackDuck flagging a one pixel (white) image as a copyright infringement in our product.
I'm kind of surprised they got two people to let them stick their faces with quotes that are so irrelevant to the pages content, other than being some kind of endorsement.

> “Mozilla Rally has the potential to be the Hubble Space Telescope of the Internet.”

> David Lazer, University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

and

> “Mozilla Rally is a revelatory tool that seeks to fix the information imbalance created by tech platforms at the public’s expense.”

> Julia Angwin, Editor-in-Chief and Founder of The Markup
Things I actually care about:
kernel that supports my hardware, ZFS for secure snapshotted data, scriptable tools to manage NICs and ppp and VPNs, a fast optimised C++ compiler, the latest versions of dynamic language runtimes, a shell, a text editor, a terminal multiplexer, a nerdy window manager and an evergreen browser.

On that playing field, the integrated nature of FreeBSD is nice but it’s an asterisk on top of the kernel rather than anything approaching what makes up a the system part of an Operating System. Almost everything else comes from a third party (and I’m fine with that.)

I haven’t used FreeBSD as a daily OS for over a decade though. What’s the new coolness?
Daniel could take a couple of seconds to ignore this email and there was very little time wasted.

So, in your opinion, sending spam or robocalls is not in the least bit disrespectful to whomever is on the receiving end?
Mozilla should go ham on Rust. Make a Rust GUI and then an app store and a cloud hosting service. Become the one stop shop for building anything Rust and make money that way.
This is nonsense. The Firefox user base is narrow, self-selecting, and small. They won't be able to "uncover Facebook's tracking network, understand search engine choice, and help local news find sustainability" with that limited instrument. How many Firefox users actually use Facebook? Maybe 100 total?
"*years ago when I was young and foolish about surveillance"

So I guess now they is just foolish?
Yes, I believe that explicitly qualifying unnamed and named rvo should be the norm and would clarify a lot of confusion on these topics.

I guess it makes sense that an optimization that GCC is not able to do at all should not be part of the standard ; I'm pretty sure it should be possible to write cases that clang wouldn't be able to optimize either.
Yeah there were amazon search results in app searches for a time. It's part of the reason why I switched to PopOS, which has none of that crap but builds on ubuntu's base.
That's about the same size as the Henry's Fork Caldera [0] which is within the much larger Island Park Caldera [1], both produced by the Yellowstone hot spot. The Island Park Caldera is one of the largest in the world.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%27s_Fork_Caldera
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_Park_Caldera
Copyright is fundamentally a monopoly on data. The very name implies that you can restrict who can copy data, how many copies can be made. Copying data is among the most basic, fundamental computer operations. Therefore all computers are inherently capable of violating copyright, they merely need to be instructed to do so. It's the 21st century and copyright is absolute nonsense. Computers make it seem absurd by trivializing copying to the point artificial scarcity is exposed for the illusion it always was.

So in order for copyright to exist in the 21st century, it must be impossible for us to instruct computers to do anything. They must own our computers. They must ensure computers obey them so that they can make it refuse to copy data without approval. We cannot be allowed any control because we can easily subvert their business model.

So in this matter it really is us or them. Either the copyright industry loses, or we lose computing freedom and everything hackers stand for will be history. There's also the looming threat of government encryption regulation which faces the exact same problem. I say computers and the internet are jewels of humanity and too important to be compromised by these governments and stakeholders, and I'd sacrifice a thousand copyright industries to keep them alive and free.
Dero is the worst name.
What were they thinking. Dero/Derro is Australian slang for derelict, poor. It sounds cheap and nasty.

If Mina can rebrand from Corda, (much better name) Dero should think about it too.
I see à lot more scare mongering, irrelevant paranoia (the definition of vaccine was updated on a website? Oh my clearly a conspiracy) and statistically insignificant anecdotes than valid citations.
You're right. The first machine I installed Linux on wasn't my own. It was a friend's Pentium, and he had partitioned a drive. It was 98/99 before I was regularly trying out distros from Cheapbytes, Linux Mall, etc. My dad's company closed their doors in 99/2000ish so that would have been when I was finding those Pentiums.
What I'm reading in your comment is that the skin is put on to answer the question: "what would it look like on radar if it wasn't covered in radar-absorbing paint?", right? Probably a stupid question, but my first thought was, "doesn't making it more detectable defeat the purpose?"
The time of SQL alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053860
Why should gas stations be forced to open their networks? Why should AT&T home internet let you sign up for Comcast or Google Fiber? Why should Verizon let you take a device you bought through them to T-Mobile? Why should Edge let you download Firefox?

I'll give you a few options: consumer choice, freedom, interoperability, less physical waste?
All software has bugs; I'm not mad at all that this silly test case was flagged incorrectly. The truly infuriating part is "A review cannot be requested for this restriction."

Translation: "We have no idea if you actually own this content or not, but it would be _way too expensive_ for us to find out for sure! So you're out of luck, but don't worry — it's all worth it so we can make sure children can't stream Marvel movies from Google Drive! Thank you for your contributions to Disney+'s bottom line."
The same I deal with the myriad of other things in my life that's out of control. I grumble, then maybe make some changes.

P.s. I use Linux everywhere currently