skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> F-Droid builds are custom signed and can be made by random parties without proper auditing after initial review.

F-Droid follows a similar model to traditional linux package managers which has shown time anda gain the they are both trustworthy and secure (or at least, they offer the user the freedom to choose the level of trust they have in the package signers).

When installing from a Debian repo, I'm typically installing a package that is not build/signed by the upstream developer. I am implicitly (in the case of a default install) trusting the Debian developers signing practices or explicitly (if you add a third party repo). This means you trust both those in charge of the building/packaging/signing as well as the upstream developers. The same is true of F-Droid.

Of course, the notable exception is that F-Droid also supports upstream packages signed by the developer if the builds are verifiably reproducible.
Interesting I didn’t know. It’s odd, Namecheap is registered in Arizona. Does employing a lot of people from a country make a company effectively from that country? A lot of companies employed large numbers of people in Hong Kong, particularly in the financial services and tech industries. Many of them still do business there today. I guess it depends. Nevertheless it’s probably a good idea for us all to reconsider where we do business based on the geopolitical moves our home countries make.
I just want to point out that this is the first time I've read a Russian resident's perspective on what's happening right now.

The overall picture I get in Western media is that Russians are being dragged into this against their will by Putin. People have started calling for sanctions on certain regime members and supporters, but have so far avoided more broadly demonizing the Russian populace. I hope it stays that way.

Good luck.
Not Russian (I'm from Argentina), but I'll move all of my domains right away. This is absolutely nuts. I do not care about this war at all, but more importantly, I won't be keeping my domains in a registrar that arbitrarily cuts down on customers from being from a particular country.

How anyone would support this is beyond me. New world order virtue signalling at it fullest.
LT user for over a decade. I'll definitely stick to it as long as it maintains its feature set.

One of the nice things about it is its lack of decent AI (and they're open about it). They're not trying to hit those kinds of user engagement metrics.
Sure, it shows those colours to the user. But they're not exposed to the website; if it tries querying the colour of the links, the browser returns the same blue value for all of them, visited or not.
hg ftw!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_foreign_agent_law

The best|worst situation here would be if NamecheapCEO would think this is how it should be. I would laugh my ass off on this hypocrisy.
see: https://www.namecheap.com/careers/ukraine/

(copy/paste from the page):

> Find easy inspiration on your way to the Ukraine offices each day, whether it’s the ornate architecture in Lviv, the vibrant student community in Kharkiv, or the many waterfront parks in Dnipro. Here you’ll join the central hub for our Product, Technology, and Customer Support teams, where we work closely with our longtime strategic partner, Zone3000.
Historically I can't find any significant example of sanctions that helped topple a dictator from outside (Iran, Cuba, Syria, ...)

It might very well be inflicting lots of suffering on the populations, for no result.
I think WebAssembly is going to play a key role in Universal Computing. In my impression, the pace for moving some Wasm specs forward could be improved, but there are big players that need to be aligned and that has a cost.

On the other hand, the ecosystem is really picking up a good pace and there are new players and tools being launched everyday. I'm personally very excited to know where we are heading as a community!
All of those countries have support from larger countries that aren't party to the sanctions/embargoes they face. Russia is the entirety or a substantial part of that support. Who does Russia turn to that wouldn't worry about being similarly isolated?
Russia Today is a propaganda outlet for the foreigners.
Note that this does not apply to Ukraine because (as an ex-Soviet country) it uses the same rail-gauge as Russia.
> that damages the economy, that is what economic sanctions are designed to do

They're designed to cause regime change, or at least diplomatic changes. That has failed in Venezuela's case (and Cuba's, and North Korea's, and Iran's, and so on).

What's funny (actually, it's very sad) is that any sanctions strong enough to truly harm Russia would destroy the stability of the world's financial system by triggering a global liquidity crisis; we would see a repeat of 2008 (likely worse due to some factors having changed since then). Be careful what you wish for, as those who virtue signal naively today, thinking it'll only affect citizens in faraway lands, may themselves face frozen ATMs, credit cards, and bank transfers in a few months, if the worst-case (i.e. their dream scenario) occurs.
I am from neither country but I’m going to move my secondary domain away from namecheap. What you’re doing is not only immature and unfair, it’s simply absurd and stupid. You’re coming across as an edgy and impatient person trying to score some desperate goodwill brownie points.

And you know I know for sure it’s immature and stupid? The way you’ve been responding in this thread. “Okay maybe we will extend”, “maybe lenient if we see it’s needed”. Ffs! Looks like someone at namecheap has gone bonkers.
Even worse if you use this domain as a way to track (and block) incoming e-mails. People at <FOO LTD> often have a hard time accepting that e-mail might actually be <foo>@<my name>.
I am completely in support of this. Hopefully the Russian people understand that these types of measures are not taken because we are trying to exact revenge on them as a people.

This is our way to motivate you, to encourage you to go out in major cities and protest by the millions. More so than any other profession, we in tech are often shielded from major events happening in the outside world (see pandemic). We need to get off our asses and fight for what's right because we're not living in the metaverse yet.
From 2020
https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/space/science/lattice-confinement-...
I always felt the Playdate was more competing with things like the Arduboy, Gamebuino, or even the Pico8. A new platform for brand new games that is perhaps retro inspired but not actually retro.

I don't really think many people are debating between the Playdate and the Analogue Pocket or Steam Deck.
Ukrainecast from the BBC. Updated daily
Once the power is produced it's going to become heat regardless, so if you're not able to scale down generation you're going to get that heat. But as I said, it's certainly debatable whether there's any value in that type of work.
Healthy eating requires insulin to drop. Eating all your calories within a short time allows this drop to occur. The same calories spread over a day and into the night keep your insulin levels up and this is not what our bodies like, long term. I was a skeptic of Dr Ekberg and the other holisitic doc's, but I needed to try something, and boy oh boy are they on to something. It's only a matter of time before constant snacking is viewed as dangerous to your long-term health as smoking.
Virtue signaling is yelling about your virtues without actually getting off your ass and doing something.

This is very different, this is the company sacrificing some of their business to take a moral stance against a fascist regime invading a neighboring sovereign.
How is that any relevant? It's still nearly double Biden's "public approval" and yet...
On improving data-adjacent code
Doesn’t it though? It is in effect part of a larger parcel of sanctions the west is applying to Russia for their actions, and in that light is only one tiny lever; but if enough levers can be applied then I firmly believe there is hope for change for Russia.
Well it's Linux's whole memory philosophy really. That you ask for data storage that may or may not be memory. This ties in with overcommit, because if you promise more memory than you have then you need a contingency plan. And that means flushing caches, it means swapping data to disk and it means erasing executable code (it is file backed, so it can just be read back in).

This fuzziness of what is and isn't in memory, is why stuff that is rarely needed needs to hit disk meaning a latency spike.
I'm not from Russia but moved my domain from namecheap to gandi. I saw a lot of people here and on Twitter complain that they got the termination email but have nothing to do with Russia.
Now I pay 2 more Euros per year but I have peace of mind that the domain I use for my main email won't get shutdown because I fall into hastily setup filters, atleast I hope so.
I was comparing specifically to Li-Ion in the comment above. As to why major automakers are not using LiFePO4 or other chemistries in their cars, I don’t know, but it’s not anything that makes Toyota unique, which was what I was talking about.

There are, for sure, a tons of great lithium chemistries in existence. But, outside of some very specific markets, they are not used in cars yet.
Are you saying you own your own tld?
> I also have a bit of issue with india also abstain.

India depends on buying weapons from Russia, and they are afraid to loose Russia into even stronger hug with China. The worst thing they can do now is to spoil their relations with Putin, also they don't care about Europe (China at least partly does).
This a dope, can’t wait to get my hands on my playdate!
I actually made a screen recording and thought about writing up a blog post. But it seemed like the overlap between [people who care about law/lawyers] and [people who care about dark patterns] was too small to warrant much effort. I considered sending it to Above The Law, and I'm open to other suggestions if anyone has any!
The Machine that Changed the World and the Toyota Way describe the theoretical advantages of having your supply chain situated in this manner. The pa democracy has been stress testing these advantages and demonstrating the downsides.
Yeah, I've just initiated transfers on all my domains with them just in case they dont get back in time before the 6th.

It was only 5 domains out of my 16 that I had with namecheap but its still not fun to do, plus the ~£50 of renewal costs I've had to stick on credit card that I wasnt expecting at the moment when they are due ranging from April to August.

I managed to transfer 3 to Google Domains and the other two which were unsupported moved to Porkbun, I've heard good things about them.

I hope the transfers all go smoothly, I really dont wanna lose the domains, luckily I'm not a business and the domains are all personal for projects, vanity emails etc so any potential downtime in the switchover wont have too much impact.

I have 3 accounts with Namecheap and it seems odd, only one was flagged and I have no clue why, it would be interesting to know how they are deciding this particular account is connected to "Russia", I checked all my account details and compared them, all identical with the exception of the email addresses used to signup but they are all from the same domain, so like account1@domain.tld , account2@domain.tld etc. The only logical explanation I can come up with is my username is "MysticKnightUK" and perhaps they are seeing the abbreviation "UK" at the end as "Ukraine" rather than "United Kingdom", but even that is a stretch as their ISO 2 letter country code is "UA", however their 3 letter code is "UKR". It's a complete mystery to me.
Doesn't the Russian government control the .ru TLD? Can't they just seize it regardless?
???

Russia is actively threatening nuclear war. That’s a threat to everyone, not just Europe.
Looks like some wasmer users (sponsors?) are crypto companies taking advantage of the isolation/sandboxing properties of wasm/wasmer.

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aspacemeshos+wasmer&type=co...

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acosmos+wasmer&type=code
>Why would they smash hundreds of billions of dollars of investment for freedom from the Chinese yoke, if they have to choose between the fabs or lots of people dying?

MAD, or at least MAW (mutually assured wounding). Taiwan wants China to know that a hostile takeover will cost China TSMC[0] thereby disincentivizing China from taking over Taiwan. To say 'we value our people over our fabs, please show mercy' just makes them all the more likely to be taken over.

[0]including associated international outrage over losing their chip supply.
Because when cornered and angry people lash out, it’s part of the human condition.

Also it does score points.

I wonder how many of their Ukrainian customers have .ru domains …
I think it's because it is off topic, and also HN generally does not like humor, unless it's particularly clever.
It's a fair point but it's contradicted by Putin's rambling speech where he seemed to talk of a sort of Russian-version of Manifest Destiny. He expressed regret at Lenin having created some of the countries as separate states, and gave the viewer a history lesson.

That's in contradiction with the "he had no choice, he was encircled" theory.

Also the claims of neo-Nazism is wildly exaggerated, even if you have Russian sympathies. It's hard not to see that as wild propaganda.
Hey @NamecheapCEO, Ukrainian here. Thanks a lot!

Please notice, there needs to be some sort of verification mechanism. The russians have already figured out that simply setting "Ukraine" in profile data a) works b) might suffice to bypass the upcoming restriction.
After Ukraine recruits an “IT Army,” dozens of Russian sites go dark
I don't know how to respond to this because you are responding to the particulars of this decision (which aren't relevant to people that don't live in Russia) without looking at what it represents.

NC's willingness to do this in this case means that everyone needs to update their priors about when else they might do something similar. When people have been historically principled about something but take an allegedly one time stance against the principle, you update your priors. I don't know what else to tell you lol.

> This is being cut off because the country you operate in is engaging in open hostilities against another country.

Why do you think I live/operate a business in Russia lol. Literally nothing I have said or done in this thread suggests that.
This is an ad. You can’t read the actual report without giving your name and email.
Having flow a lot after living in different countries, the US major airlines used to be pretty flexible compared to others. I can recall landing at a connecting airport, strolling up to a gate for an earlier flight and asking if I could switch and after checking it was usually “sure”. Missed flights rebooked, etc.

I recall connecting in Vancouver with Air Canada and asking the same and the answer was “thatll be $130 to change your ticket”. This is with a half empty flight leaving in 30 min.

I know United started charging some fee for last minute flight changes, but it’s way better than other airlines.
> For a clear cut example, something like "Competitor X has a rootkit which will upload all your nudes to Facebook" is libel (unless they really do that) and you'd lose that case in almost any jurisdiction.

In some jurisdictions it can be libel or something legally similar, even if they really do that. In the one case I know (Japan), things change, though, after the justice system has issued a sentence.
Dangerous can be necessary, unfortunately. The US healthcare system for instance routinely fails large demographics of people, leaving them to foot the bill for excessively expensive medication that increases in price year after year (despite no significant chemical change to the active components). Making one's own insulin can quite literally be the difference between life and death. AIDs medication is another prime example of this.

See https://fourthievesvinegar.org/ for an interesting home-biolab premise if you''d like to know more about stuff like this. Their approach isn't perfect, but its a solution to a problem that most people otherwise would have no ability to change.
same, it's better than a business card, especially among tech circles

"just email me at 'my name at my last name but dot ski'"

super memorable and shows you know your way around the stack :)
I initially set up my email on my domain as me@mydomain.com. I don't really remember why, but it was a really stupid idea as it's so hard to explain to people. "It's me at mydomainname.com. Well, no, not my first name, it's emmm eee at..."
> A private corporation is able to choose who to do business with, for any reason they want. They are not beholden to anyone but themselves and their shareholders.

Regardless of their motivations they are also beholden to the law. I don't have a lot of experience in this area but I would hope they would be in breach of contract for suspending legal/paying customers without notice.

Namecheap probably have a generic clause in their TOS that theoretically covers situations like this but these are not always enforceable.
I don't understand how anything other than FPS matters in a gaming oriented distro. Does that mean less input lag?
> The Linux namespace scheme was explicitly inspired by plan9, but didn't have nearly as many gotchas

There were other OS's doing similar stuff at the time, e.g. BSD jails predate Linux containers AIUI.
Experienced Developers Review Code – By Miloš Živković – CodeX
As I understand it, this is not permitted under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Is that correct? I would think that certain licenses do permit this (MIT possibly?). Could anybody with knowledge chime in?
.co is actually fine usually as people in Australia are familiar with .co.uk and .co.nz (even though the “co” means different things in those contexts)

I share a name with a US Governor which is great for keeping my teenage internet activity buried in search results but made it tricky to find a suitable domain name.
if you just take things that belong to other people, of course it isn't called a "profit", but that's hardly the point.
Several blockchains like NEAR are using WASM, but I could only find these resources about blockchains using Wasmer:
https://wasmer.io/case-studies/confio
https://cosmwasm.com/
"CosmWasm is supporting fourteen different Cosmos projects, including Terra, Regen Network, and Crypto.com"
Is this just a way to collect on insurance?

American factories are closed because of “chip shortages.” It seems way too early to say it was a cyber attack, much less for it to already impact production.
> which is always what happens when a protest or sanction inconveniences someone

Not at all. It’s this particular message and phrasing that rubs me entirely the wrong way.

As well as all the people here that claim Russians should have done more to stop this.
I’d say support is more official than paying a contractor
Understandable yes. But within their rights? I doubt so. Contracts are binding for both parties (client and the company). What they are doing here is an intentional breach of contract. Depending on the jurisdiction it can have nasty legal ramifications.
Some of my must haves:

Termux: terminal

Antennapod: podcast client (RSS)

Fennec: Firefox (allows custom add-on collections so I can use Vimium)

KeyMapper: HW key and button remapping

Open Link With: open links with alternative apps

RedReader: Reddit client

mupdf: PDF viewer

Shattered Pixel Dungeon: roguelike

Something I am still looking for: folder-based music player with a seek UI that works well for long audio files (for example fine-seeking in a 4 hour long mp3)
Very interesting! I appreciate you sharing your experience.

I wonder if the other teams who present in the same meetings are doing the same kind of careful behind-the-scenes double-checking, motivated by the concern that someone might find an error in their numbers during the meeting. That conscientiousness seems like it might be beneficial to you, even though it's an unwanted cost when it's your team that's saddled with it?
Yes, and there are a number of past stunts that include forking the Linux repo, pushing fake/misleading commits, and then showing how Github lets you see those commits in a context that implies they are part of the upstream Linux repo.
On a parallel note, "optimized" translates to "made best" in Turkish.
You are only confused because you take it for granted that countries of the first world can do whatever they want and don't comprehend that people in other countries take it as double standards
Wyoming Senate cuts UW’s Gender Studies program
Anyone else read that as Counterstrike:Source for a second?
For context, it looks like Namecheap has about 1700 team members in Ukraine, if I'm reading this right.

https://www.namecheap.com/careers/ukraine/

One of the offices is Kharkiv which the Russians shelled with cluster bombs:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/28/kharkiv-rock...

Sounds like it happened today - and the date/time on the article above is this evening:

https://twitter.com/_vsv_/status/1498458616155852805
The problem with yours is that I can't help but read numbers starting with 0 in octal.

How do they write BCE years?
Russia is engaged in an illegal war of aggression. There will be consequences for this. If the people of Russia are suffering they need to put that pressure on their government from inside.
I own lastnamelaw.com (I am a lawyer).

Another lawyer with the same last name owns: lastnamelaw.net

I get email addressed to that firm almost on a daily basis-- even as "responses" to the firm.
Turning SWIFT off for Russia does actually hurt the ability of the Russian government to finance its operations. But this action does not, and that was exactly my point.

That aside, there seems to be this popular sentiment that if sanctions hurt your average Russian enough, they will revolt. I don't know why it's so popular given that it never worked out like that in the past. North Korea got to the point where they were literally eating grass in the 90s, and the Kims are still there.
> Putin was right and West is against them.

Counter point: Look at West Germany and Japan after WWII. The West changed tack pretty quickly after the war ended. The West wasn’t against the people, they were against the ruling parties and the infrastructure/policies that supported it.

If it’s possible to punish an authoritarian aggressor without harming the citizens, I’d love to hear ideas. But in Germany and Japan, the average citizen paid a huge price for getting caught up on the wrong side of the war and I’m not sure how much differently it could have been done without countering the unprovoked aggression of both nations of which other country’s citizens paid a huge price.
I think there's a solid chance that they can twist it in a way that bolsters support for Putin.

He's long said something like "when the West hates me, that's when I'm on the right path." (My paraphrase from memory)

So the population is perhaps primed for another conclusion.
Namecheap used to be that way. They put out a blog post last year about how they support free speech.

https://www.namecheap.com/blog/internet-freedom-the-state-of...
Anyone can create their own F-Droid repo. I added Bromite's[0], for example. I strongly support this type of federation because it gives users control over these sorts of issues.

[0]: https://www.bromite.org/fdroid