skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Freie Messenger / Free Messengers
Site with a lot of information about free and vendor-independent messengers: https://www.freie-messenger.de/en

Content:

- quick overview of messenger systems (PDF available in different languages)
- the unique "overview of messenger comparisons"
- thoughts on "alternatives to WhatsApp"
- thoughts on interoperability
- thoughts on end-to-end encryption
- thoughts on security/pseudosecurity
- XMPP/Jabber, Matrix, P2P, ...
- "why not" (e.g. WhatsApp, Signal, Threema, Telegram, Wire, Discord, ...)
- and many more

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Seite mit vielen Informationen zu freien und anbieterunabhängigen Messengern: https://www.freie-messenger.de

Inhalte:

- Schnellübersicht Messengersysteme (PDF in verschiedenen Sprachen verfügbar)
- die einmalige Sammlung und "Übersicht der Messengervergleiche"
- Gedanken zu "Alternativen zu WhatsApp"
- Gedanken zur Interoperabilität
- Gedanken zur Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung
- Gedanken zur Sicherheit/Pseudosicherheit
- XMPP/Jabber, Matrix, P2P, ...
- "warum nicht" (zum Beispiel WhatsApp, Signal, Threema, Telegram, Wire, Discord, ...)
- und vieles mehr
Blocking the MAC address from making connections outright seems like a more sensible way to prevent surveillance.

Assuming of course you are using it as a truly 'dumb' TV and not as a client for Netflix etc.
Seeing more of this Revisionism of WW2 since the cooling of US-Russia relations (adding to the long time downplaying of Chinese suffering in WW2 vs European suffering)

1 - While Russia was the biggest component, it was the Soviet army - which included Ukraine (and led by a Georgian). So you're tarring both sides of the current war in your comment.

2 - It was a World War, tragic for all parties involved. You look at each side and they had moments of brilliance and absolute disasters. The Soviet Union (nor the UK) didn't have the luxury to sit back and scale their industry because the Axis forces were literally on their front, not separated by an Atlantic Ocean. Would the SU have won without American supplies? We don't know, but to downplay the player who was involved in the biggest military operations of the war that made D Day look like a side battle (Stalingrad, Kursk, Seelow Heights, Leningrad, Operation Bagration, search any one of those) shows a lack of historical awareness.

Edit - Adding to the above - more Civilians died in the Soviet Union than the total combined military deaths of the other Allied Powers. War is hell and shouldn't be romanticised or seen as a solution.
> The DataFinnovation post shows that the problem of implementing an Ethereum-like system whose performance in all cases is guaranteed to be faster than any single node in the network can be reduced to 3-SAT, which is a canonical problem in class NP.

All of that math to prove such an inconsequential point.

In practice, scalability limitations of blockchains don't come from the limitations of a single node's processing power, they come from the overhead of the current naive methods of maintaining consensus over contract state and execution. By lifting the execution overhead using optimistic fraud proofs or zero knowledge proofs, and lifting the state overhead using state sharding and state/history expiry, you end up with a protocol that can come to consensus on arbitrarily complex computations with little more overhead than the computation's resulting state change.

In simple terms, the quoted author misses the forest for the trees. They hold that blockchain protocols can't scale further than the processing power of a single node, but miss that when contract transaction execution verification requirements are reduced by proof schemes to mere state changes, one node could crank through as many transactions as their state changes could saturate a modern CPU/memory/disk pipeline, which it's safe to say is easily upwards of tens of thousands per second - plenty enough to satisfy global demand and enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with the traditional payment processors.
Well I’m in Kyiv and that’s definitely not true :)

But keep believing in that, it will make our job easier.
There actually is a small base, called racket/base. It excludes a lot of built-in features - you can see a lot of "this module is provided by racket but not racket/base" in the docs - and people tend to use it for modules that don't need the full functionality, because it tends to make the code faster.
Color of the Year for 2022 for UX Design
This is the reason I hate Discourse forums with passion.
Just search for the professional line of monitors every major brand sells. Those are made for ads, conventions, etc and most of the time lack any smart features but have the same displays as their „smart“ counterparts.

Only downside: You pay more (>$/€1000) to have less.
Buy digital signage/conference room screens.

https://www.viewsonic.com/us/products/shop/digital-displays....
You can resurface solar panel wafers and then build new ones. Glass and aluminum are easy to recycle as well. Lead free solder is used everywhere.

Only cadmium based thin film solar panels are problematic.
Fastmail is awesome, but I wish you could use your own domain and choose how much space you need. I would be more than happy to use the service using POP3 only, if it meant that I could pay less.
Don’t know your exact specs or the premium you pay over consumer level but I buy/install commercial display panels and when I need a new TV or such, I just grab one of them. No extra stuff, fast input switching etc etc
My provider gives me a EON set-top-box which is just a smartphone with a ethernet and HDMI port. It's always connected as it's internet-based TV. This is the sad state of reality.
My guess is it went the way of Clojure. Small language that's generally loved but does not have a massive mind-share. Every once in a while you'll see some people gush about it, but then it's right back to regularly scheduled language wars.
The search term is "digital signage".
Algorithms and Data Structures – Transition systems (2004) [pdf]
report on wheat market outlook from Jan 2021 is interesting to peruse. there's certainly no one simple answer to why the price rose, but it does indicate higher consumption and lower yield overall in the world (higher yield in Russia but lower in China and Argentina) played a role as well as US wheat planting acreage that had been trending down in recent years. and that rising price of corn meant wheat stocks were used as substitute in feed.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/outlooks/100227/whs-21a.pdf...
how come phones have such high density displays and it's like buying a kidney to get that same density display for laptop and monitor.
Looks like a nice machine, a d a great price too!

Is there really only a single USB-C port, and is that port also needed for charging? Does that port support DisplayPort?

Thanks!
I hate to break it to you but I pulled it off.
The Emperor of Mankind [1], the most powerful psyker ever, still protecting humanity from the forces of Chaos 10000 years after his death.

[1] https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Emperor_of_Mankind
I think that's unnecessarily dismissive. Males do tend to have higher bone density among other things. Such things could contribute to the DNA being better preserved. I think it's a perfectly valid question in our layman conversation, even though it's certainly something the researchers of this field have already thought about.
Measuring expertise is particularly tricky with the nuclear industry.

Is it enough to be an expert in the underlying physics? Should you be an engineer with experience in any one of the dozens of disciplines? Do you need to be familiar with the specific design of a reactor (that is probably confidential)? Everyone is an expert but no one has a holistic view of everything. It's complicated!
It may be enough for that TV, but many devices have a custom-set DNS address and ignore the one given through DHCP, unless you set up a firewall where you block that address, then they fall back to using the one provided via DHCP. That's how Chromecast and Amazon devices are doing it.
That's a bit harsh of an approach. And I think at least Doom would disagree.
Aren't those called nowadays "computer displays"? But I guess it can be problem with larger size, 43-55 are way more expensive than TVs, like 3-4X more than same size smart TV with same resolution.

I mean if you worry about spying just don't connect smart TV to internet, but yeah, the interface will be usualyl slower than dumb TV.

If you are frustrated by outdated software nothing stops you from plugging whatever Android stick into HDMI port, that's what I did with my dumb "smart" TCL with extremely locked Android without app store, without side loading (no it's not possible unless you wanna disassemble the TV and hardwire it) and with Youtube regularly crashing.

But why would you want TV without speaker, that's what makes TV a TV, if you dont want even speaker then it can be hardly called a TV, that's like calling phone something which can't even make call.

Btw. there are always projectors, where it should be better situation and you are also not limited by size.
I think it’s great the kind of initiatives are becoming more widespread. Personally, I have little interest in these kind of laptops but the more choice and variety is out there the better it is for the users.
> But you would hope there are a few gh engineers who would be motivated to do so without manager approval in the dead of night because httpie is great

On the other hand, you should really, really, really hope that GitHub has internal guardrails to prevent their engineers making cowboy edits to the production databases without manager approval.
>My advice is to try out the trackpad on a laptop before you buy it if this is something that matters to you, not trust the opinions of Internet strangers.

I can’t disagree, but trying out Mac hardware is far easier than trying PC hardware. I can walk into an Apple store and try all the major hardware variations.

I had to get my XPS 17 based on online reviews. Because I can’t go out and try it. Buying PC laptops is the very definition of trusting internet strangers.
Yeah, Russians are responsible for bad things, real and invented. But if something good was done then it was done by Soviets.
If they want to step up the basis, shouldn't they have to pay capital gains taxes on the difference?

The estate tax's average effective rate of 17 percent (2017) is below the capital gains rate.
I agree, there is no way an oligarch just simply starts a war he knows he is going to lose. The least you would expect is that he wants to maintain his power as long as possible, not accelerate his demise
Sadly the XPS17 isn’t sold with Linux support. It might work but you can’t be sure of firmware updates or component compatibility.

With Dell at 17” and paid Linux support you have to move to the Precision line.

I wish Dell would just have a single line of quality Linux compatible laptops you could buy off the shelf and know would always work.
The better your military equipment is, the lesser the chance that you will need to use it.
'Never let a good crisis go to waste'. European leaders have long known they had to increase military ability, they just couldn't persuade their citizens.
I agree Linux support would be ideal, but hardware quality is of first importance; many of those companies are just rebranded Clevo.

Until recently I agreed about absolutely no Nvidia, though it might be improving. For a few months now the drivers support the standard Wayland interface GBM, which at least means any compositor should work with them.
> The war in Ukraine remains us of one thing:

I think it shows us instead that Germany worked hard to put itself into position where it is strategically aligned with Russia, and is willing to sacrifice life and freedom of everyone around to keep it that way.

Putin-Merkel is the new Molotov-Ribbentrop.
What use is all those perks for those of us, if the apps we use for work and play are not compiled for M1 nor web based? Meanwhile my "inferior" x86 machine can run everything I need to use.

Why do people insist you need to buy a Ferrari when your work or lifestyle requires an F-150?

Therefore, back to my original question, why do M1 fans need go off topic on every X86 article and spray the same things over and over again: "but muh' Geekbench score", "muh' excellent battery life", "muh' no fan noise" and insist you're wrong for choosing to go X86 even though you don't have a choice because of the architecture.

We know the pros, Ok? But some of us still need X86 machine like the one in the article, regardless if those are machines not for you. And if they're not for you, that's fine, but why always bang on with the M1 trope everywhere?
Hey, I'm the one complaining about the lack of options - the Slimbook Executive seems to check all the major boxes and it's the first time I hear of them. Do you have any experience or anecdotes with it?
Well, configuring their editor of choice to provide the same functionality is left as an exercise to the reader... :-)
This is an urban legend. There are 4000 statistical casualties.

Liquidators (not exterminators) were well over 100,000 and while I was too young in 1986 to participate in liquidation efforts, I knew a few personally later on. They got their share of health problems from poor logistics on the ground. Like sleeping for months in tents at sub-zero temperatures. But not from radiation exposure.
All those Linux friendly laptops are cool. but it's quite troubling to announce devices with Intel's 11th gen when 12th gen ultra-low-voltage is around the corner.
In reply to the dead post—

> The Scottish and UK data (which they'll now stop publishing) show that the effectiveness against hospitalization and death of those with only two shots is now negative.

You don't know how to read statistics.

https://twitter.com/simondotau/status/1444537141413888003
I have a Panasonic 50" and I just never connected it to the internet. I do everything on my old MacBook plugged in via HDMI which I control via screen sharing on my current Mac.
The UN has been useless for 50 years, this is nothing new.
wouldn't be easier just not set internet connection in first place? I don't think TV can hack into secure WiFi network
The fear and reputation of the Russian military/nuclear program/spying apparatus has often done more damage historically than the effectiveness of those programs. For example, because the CIA couldn't find evidence for the nukes and infra for deployment which they thought that Russia possessed (or could possess), they began to think the silos were just very cleverly disguised as mundane structures like farm silos, church architecture (IIRC), etc. Apparently they spent a lot of resources going down that rabbithole before realizing Russia simply wasn't that capable. Or how everyone was potentially a Soviet spy or secret communist; it got to the point that you could ruin a career just by suggesting it. This fear did more damage to the average American than any spies did.
Until you accidentally click the "Get new reddit" in the top right corner. You can hide it with your adblocker though.
Who needs firmware updates on a TV?
Gas was chosen because it is a cost effective transitional power source. You can turn it off the moment you have enough renewables. You're not going to turn off your nuclear powerplants, they are too expensive.
You’re right, the comparison is a bit unfair.

And there are examples in the JS ecosystem that prove me wrong to some extent like htmx, which is a small, simple library written in a straight forward style.

But it’s not entirely unfair either. Reading code is an important part of programming. Integration with libraries often too. You can’t just isolate yourself from churn that easily when everyone else doesn’t. Breaking changes, versioning issues, deprecation etc. happen regardless.
That doesn't work for certain cases - e.g, if you're browsing Reddit in an icognito window.

e.g, you want to browse for a gift for your SO and you're review-hunting, but you don't want it showing up in your sidebar as a recently viewed thread, or being in your history, or whatever - so you don't sign in. Userscripts/extensions force old.reddit.com regardless.
The page effectively forces tracking cookies, because the option to decline them doesn't work
Exactly. European countries are finally realising they can't rely on the US to defend them forever, and Russia has become a much more active threat.

For all my life I've opposed defense spending and supported reduction of defense spending, but not anymore. As long as Putin rules Russia, Russia is a real threat to any neighbouring country. Even if my own country is relatively safe, I think it's important we help other countries to defend themselves against this threat.

I would still strongly prefer friendly relationships with Russia, but Putin has made that impossible. We need to stop buying Russian gas as soon as possible.
Sorry for the snark in advance. Do you have an idea how many man years of work are in Linux? The estimated cost of developing it was 1.4 billion dollars in 2008.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press-release/linux-foundati...
You've been posting tedious conspiracy theories based on little more than misunderstood statistics. It's not interesting. Everyone here is bored of politely entertaining such junk.
Anorexia means without appetite.
We are demonstrably full of hunger for culture. But the quality and nature of that culture is changing rapidly with modern tech.

I think the author's metaphor is better framed around nutritional value.
Modern culture is rich in and dominated by junk. Consuming it builds junk values and junk ideas.
Learn Leetcode, get hired and boost your ego.

You can now argue with anyone. Enjoy!
I don't get it. Just reprocess the waste and dilute the rest back to original levels of background radiation. Bury small amounts all over the country.
It was known and there are many sites scraping GH for metadata that will have it anyway
I do have a degree in physics, if that helps.
And you know that there is no reliable casualty count from Chernobyl? The Soviets didn't count and follow up, nobody else wanted to do that neither. And long term effects, e.g. highe cancer rates, are extremely hard to quabtify and correlate woth a singluar event.
They have been caught trying to connect to unsecured WiFi before.
What prevents a given URL from disappearing? Does that just break a particular source version of the Linux kernel?

What happens when a given dependency adds new kernel-inappropriate features? Are kernel devs going to act like distro maintainers and decide between forking, maintaining patch sets, etc.?
Does it have to be a Lisp? I was searching for a language to replace Python for quick scripting, and eventually settled for Raku. If you use RakudoStar distribution, you'll get all the functionality you list (and if you use bare rakudo, you can install it with zef).

Why: Python can be verbose, and when I want to write a one-off script to rename some thumbnails in a directory somewhere, that verbosity doesn't help. The strong typing, while good for correctness, also doesn't help much in this use case.

What I tried: V, Nim, Clojure, Scala 2, Scala 3, GNU Smalltalk, Rust, Zig, Clojure, Racket, Emacs Lisp, Raku, Ruby, OCaml, and LiveScript.

Why Raku[1]: expressive power is insane. My test case of writing a script to merge requirement versions coming from two differently formatted files needed ~30 lines of code on average, while Raku needed just 10. The next best was LiveScript with 23 lines, then Elisp with 25 (counting imports; I have all the libraries already imported in an Emacs session, so I could go down to 19 lines, but thought that would be cheating).

The language being "write-only" is not important to my use case, but I also don't feel like Raku is write-only. Yes, reading something like this:

my @toml = "script.toml".IO.lines.grep(none "" | /^'#'/).map:{S/'='.*$//.trim};

can take some getting used to, but it's not really much worse than BASH.

[1] https://docs.raku.org/language/faq#Why_should_I_learn_Raku?_...?
We're not on the same page, clearly. To me, this sounds like dystopia had an early start. It's self-flaggelation under social pressure.
Thank you for pointing this out. I haven’t touched Lua since a decade and assumed it stayed simple and stable as GP was implying. But the general point and the other examples are still valid IMO.
Bit of a weak argument as you require and internet conneciton to pull the source.
Unless it's umbrellas. I probably don't understand some social custom here, but what should I call it when I leave my umbrella at the entrance and it is gone when I come back 5 minutes later...
Surely an expert actually does work to come to conclusions. They build a team, write papers, do research etc. Follow an objective process.
Why does it have a 3.5mm charger jack, but only one USB-C port which can also be used for charging? Like Just put two USB-C ports and no 3.5mm port.
they can still hack into open networks around you and monitor the SSIDs to get a sense of your position.
Good point. I meant "those are different, so your (their) experiences don't apply there".
Very good question. Unless there's a proof to a certain claim it should be dismissed. That's because anyone can claim their belief to be true.

I've done my own studying and proof checking for a couple of years on the Quran so far and i haven't found anything that suggest it would have been a human made book.

Even the English translation with its inaccuracies is unusually powerful. Lots of history, future predictions, biology descriptions and social system(s) that are either proved to be true, or hasn't been disproven yet.

Yet no human have claimed its authorship, unlike any other book out there which clearly mentions a human author or a human writer can be inferred.
The piece overly relies on the metaphor to the point of almost being incomprehensible. From the title and opening example I assumed it had something to do with literal human bodies. But then the definition of a thick desire is vague to the point of uselessness - "enduring, sustainable, and ultimately fulfilling desires", especially because it calls Putin's desires thick - as if megalomania is sustainable and fulfilling? This largely seems like an overly broad fluff piece, rather than rigorous and well thought out writing.
I've been checking these out for months, unfortunately the 13" is out of stock and apparently isn't listed any more in the site :(

Wanted a decent, light (physically light I mean) Linux laptop at that started at less than 900€, so probably not more than 1100/1200 after some ram/CPU tweaking.

Anyone know any similar options for that size?
> How will Germany solve base load generation for power and heating without nuclear or fossil fuels in a country with weather as shit as Germany?

Gas power plants which will be upgraded to burn more and more hydrogen distributed using existing Erdgas infrastructure stored in subterranean salt caverns produced by surplus energy using electrolyzers.

For shorter term swings are compensated with a mix of demand management, solid batteries, redox flow batteries, underwater pumped hydro, .... What evers s cheapest for the usecase
You completely missed the context of my comment. This was a discussion specifically about the acquisition of media companies unrelated to the businesses which create billionaires' wealth.

Elon Musk himself said explicitly in his interview yesterday that he "doesn't care about the economics at all" which supports my argument. For Musk owning Twitter is not about making money from it the way he does from Tesla.

https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1514696106223022088?s...
So dunning and Kruger were victims of the dunning-kruger effect ?
> But why would you want TV without speaker

Many people hook up their TV (or media box) to their home audio system which often has much better sound quality. The built-in speakers of TVs are a bit pointless in that context.