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Mexico having control over its own resources instead of multi-national corporations is a good thing. Anyone who says otherwise does not understand energy or mineral independence.

"Close to a dozen foreign companies currently hold contracts to explore potential lithium deposits. The largest is a site in the northern state of Sonora run by Bacanora Lithium, which is controlled by Chinese firm Ganfeng Lithium Co."

Why would you want a foreign company in control of your mineral deposits?

Populism has nothing to do with it. The article in Financial Times is biased.
The U.S. branch of TOOOL (the Open Organization of Lock Pickers) maintains a web page detailing lock picking laws by state: https://toool.us/laws.html
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You could just run an unrooted LineageOS? What exactly are you getting out of a rooted phone that you couldn’t get with a straight LineageOS install?
Australia plans to fight China.
I think that it’s not really possible to conclude anything from the force charts. Switch feel is so much more than amount of resistance spring has. I’ve been testing switches that should be very similar according to charts, yet they felt totally different.

I think there are plenty factors at play here. Spring resistance, wobbliness of the switch, activation distance, feel of the tactile bump/click…

Recently I've been using Otemu brown, violet, and orange and Gateron browns. All should be quite similar, yet in the end they feel totally diferent. I love Otemu oranges and dislike brown and violet. Gateron browns feel very good, but a bit wobbly for my taste.

I have tested more than 20 switch types, and most of my guesses based on someone else opinion or specification were usually wrong. The only thing I know is that I want tactile switches, with rather low activation force. Except of that, I have no idea if I'll like the switch or not.

I like the way that author approaches this, but I'm not sure we can conclude anything from a scientific approach here. Switches are just like art or music. Sometimes you like a song you think you should hate. Yet it makes something to you and you just can't stop listening ;)
I don't use TSA compliant locks on my luggage when I check it. There is NO legal requirement to use a TSA compliant lock. The legal requirement is that the TSA must be able to inspect the luggage. You can get around this by requesting pre-inspection as part of checking your luggage (which is required for firearms and some other types of checked luggage in the US, anyway). Pre-inspection is typically done in the presence of the passenger, who can then relock the luggage before checking it.

In other countries, pre-inspection is typically required as well, but they don't have any concept of "TSA compliant" in the first place, that's a US thing.

TSA compliant locks are a ridiculous concept and nobody should ever use them for anything. Certainly not for anything important you travel with.
He has acknowledged that there are locks he can't pick yet: https://twitter.com/LockPickingLwyr/status/10701189010973818...

IIRC, he has since picked the referenced lock (Abloy Protec), but hasn't yet picked the Abloy Protec2. I imagine most of the locks referenced in the original post are in the same category.
I’ve used Ubuntu for a few years. The hoops are pretty uncommon and usually involve a 2 minute search for syntax to fix
Yes, not a good look from plotty and SaaS in general.
> Wobbly windows

I miss back when you could do this in Linux. Ever since GNOME 3, compiz has become a piece of software that integrates poorly with the rest of the desktop and causes screen taring or straight-up driver crashes if you enable wobbly windows.
Sad but real. Necessity breeds unity, however as creatures of natural selection, we are evolved to all make ourselves more fit and more successful for selection. We compete, have wars and are in conflict because it is woven into our basic biology.

Unity exists in biology only as an anomaly, because the complexity of your biological existence from your brain to your arms, hand and feet exist because your ancestors triumphed over others.
Did those LEDs reflect off the front of the display? They said they tried something like that, but it wasn't good enough. It looks like the reflectiveness is closer to epaper than a mirror.
> Did you read the article? It has images comparing the screen to the original Game Boy's under different lighting conditions halfway down the page.

That's a good point, but how fair is the comparison really when the Gameboy's screen is at least 20 years old and has surely degraded during that time? With that said, neither look great under the dimmer lighting even if the Playdate is a step up.
Most other devices “actively hindered” by bright sunlight, whereas this one is not. Seems like an interesting tradeoff.
> The GOP could use that information to decide they need to change policies to attract different demographics, and widen their audience

I agree the GOP fails at providing a policy alternative. That is undoubtedly true, but it’s not clear it will remain so.

That said look at how Hispanics in polls are moving heavily towards GOP. But gaining votes by just not being democrat and putting on a pretense of not supporting the woke policies is not a stable way to shift coalitions.

> weird stuff about their opponents being Groomers or CRT theorists.

More than 50% of the second biggest teacher union voted to teach CRT even in states where it’s illegal. I’ll summarize why a few popular activist teaching tools accurately fit the term grooming.

Queer theory as praxised in schools seek to teach the student to deconstruct their sexual identity and interpret it in an oppressor/oppresssed dynamic. Goal isn’t to acknowledge and stabilize a sexual identity, but to destabilize the kid sexually into constantly engaging in a critical introspection of their sexuality as a Marxist activist. Queer theory seek to destabilize in the vulnerable stage when the kid is learning that they are a sexual being. This was piloted by Lukacs in the Hungarian communist revolution.

CRT does the same as queer theory, but for race.

Critical pedagogy (SEL, the other CRT etc) that is applied across almost all schools instead of teaching skill, teach the student to interpret the words and math through their personal emotion applying the Marxist process to find the oppressor/oppressed dynamic instead of skill.

Paulo Freire that invented critical pedagogy, like all Marxists, view skills teaching as evil because it at best train people to take on roles in the meritocratic system they deem evil. In Marxist theology skilled people manifest the status quo reality through false consciousness. They believe a skilled person act like a robot based upon instructions of dead people.

Critical pedagogy results in a huge expected drop in functional literacy in high school graduates, that means they can not read words on a page and understand what the sentences mean, and the math skills are dropping in the same way. That’s not surprising when you spend school talking about how you feel about a subject instead of how to establish a shared interpretation and practicing skill.

SEL is a super evil corruption of group psychology techniques by teachers unlicensed in psychology to break kids resistance to the teachers activism.

Why should we allow Marxist teachers to indoctrinate in Marxist process instead of teaching skill?
He’s not saying no military expenditure should occur but it has to be in balance with other things. In the US, where our military more often than not is used imperialistically rather than purely defensively, while the poor are allowed to starve or work for less than living wages, homeless suffer on the streets from mental illness, people are allowed to drown in medical or school debt, and where we got caught with our pants down in a pandemic when we should have been the most ready nation on earth,
suddenly spending ever increasing amounts to defend ourselves from some imagined future threat doesn’t make much sense.
> But peace must be recognised as a luxury bought by the blood of others.

Blood is not the only way to achieve peace! There are non-violent ways to sustain and build peace. War is certainly one tool in that can cause (eventual) peace, but it is not the only one.
The lack of buttons killed my interest. The difference between the Gameboy and Gameboy Advance was night and day with just those two extra buttons. The crank is cute, but nothing speaks to these games having enough depth or choices to actually want to carry around this device.
> Why would you want a foreign company in control of your mineral deposit?

For the kickbacks they give you?
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A recognisable alien invasion happening in our lifetimes is... astronomically improbable.

I think it would be reasonable to be initially skeptical.

Certainly if I just saw it on TV, it seems most probable that the news has got it wrong somehow.
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It is a hit or miss for me.
But with TopJohnWu gone to google I wonder how long will Magisk last.
Social media will play a role when we're heading to Mars. Because we need the political will to do it, and social media is good at hyping up that will. The fact we haven't put humans on Mars yet is disappointing. It doesn't matter who's running Twitter, social media will stir up hype regardless. Musk just wants a new toy to play with.
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What guy on Reddit? Would love to follow his work!
Whoops... forgot caps. Was supposed to be the US. I'll fix it. I'm doing this while I get my caffeine ready =[
> written from my frankenstein arch linux macbook pro

oh... oh you poor soul :P

I used to use Arch on a high end gaming laptop when I was younger and had time to waste on things like dotfiles and perfecting my vim config and jumping through hoops like Bonus level Sonic.

Now I opt for lovely simple boring functional Dell laptops from my employer and install Fedora on everything.

Out of Windows OSX and Ubuntu/Arch/Fedora/Sabayon (Gentoo variant), Fedora wins the "everything just works" thing by miles on the supported Dell HW and _still_ supports stuff better out of the box with my home desktop.

Yeah yeah I know everyone's experience is different, but...... Out of using all of the operating systems on the daily for 15 years, linux is the one I consistently begrudge the least.
It can still benefit private companies (local ones, in particular), so state vontrol of mineral deposits is not anti capitalist.
If your SIM card is really old, some carriers need you to get a new SIM card for VoLTE to work, no matter what phone you have. Also, this is probably a dumb question, but are you on the latest build of LineageOS?
> You can either defend yourself, and possibly survive, or you can die. That's generally the choice throughout history, because hardly any country has ever always been the aggressor.

Absolutely. When my home country declared independence, Pakistan engaged in genocide to stop it. Having been disarmed the British, the independence fighters had to steal Pakistani weapons: https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/bangladesh-liberation-...

> Most of the weapons used by the Mukti Bahini were taken from defeated soldiers. Then, there were homemade bombs, knives and even instances of the use of bows and arrows…

> The better equipped Pakistani army used imported guns, automatic weapons, mortars, artillery trucks, armoured personnel carriers, tanks, airplanes, and ammunition.

Eventually, Bengali regiments of the Pakistan military defected. Even then, independence wouldn’t have been possible without India joining the war against Pakistan.
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Some others I've noticed after using MacOS briefly:

Disable font anti-aliasing and enable full hinting (essential to get sharp fonts without needing a slower and more expensive 4K monitor)

Disable vsync (necessary for reducing latency to the absolute minimum when you don't care about tearing; requires Xorg)

Disable window decorations (for a pseudo-fullscreen mode that leaves the panel visible)

Disable mouse acceleration

Disable mouse wheel acceleration

Change mouse polling rate

Set keyboard auto-repeat to arbitrary values (I use 72Hz auto-repeat with 200ms delay)

Remap colors for compatibility with display hardware with non-standard black/white levels (I have a DVI to VGA converter that expects TV black level but computer white level)

Send arbitrary DDC commands to the monitor (e.g. to change brightness)

Disable and enable the mouse in software (to prevent accidentally waking from power saving with mouse movements)

Switch virtual desktops by moving the mouse to the corner of the screen and then moving the mouse wheel (corners have infinite size for the purposes of Fitt's law, and mouse wheel inputs should only change presentation of data not the data itself, which means there's no danger from missing the corner, so this is the best way of quickly switching desktops by mouse).

Disable all UI animations
Settings says "Android 12" and the build date is this month, so presumably, yes.

Their firewall is pretty simple though (per app enable disable). Does lineage support more complicated policies?
A fairly significant portion of Europe's GDP is dedicated to the healthcare and welfare for non-productive groups: the Retired, and non-Western migrants.

Pensions in Italy are 17% of GDP, for example.

Europe will need to cut those two groups loose and unleash massive tax reforms if it wishes to craft a better future.
For those in this thread critical of military spending in general, please keep in mind that the following were/are directly or indirectly military projects

1. Global trade as we know it is possible because since WWII the US Navy has, by policy, secured the ocean for all participants in the global economy. Merchant ships generally don't need to run armed or with escorts because of this. Now we did it to produce an economic engine/alliance to fight the Soviets, but the effects on uplifting entire nations out of poverty and increasing global economic development cannot be denied.

2. The US Interstate highway system was a Cold War measure so we could move troops from coast to coast quickly if needed. Eisenhower himself was on the first coast-to-coast US Army expedition in 1919, which took 56 days and laid bare America's lacking infrastructure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_Motor_Transport_Corps_con...

3. European welfare states are indirectly subsidized by US security obligations and global trade (see point 1). If Europe had to secure their own shipping/take on Russia on their own, their military spending would have to increase an order of magnitude.

4. GPS

5. The moon landings

6. The early internet

7. Many early microprocessor designs

7. The Hubble space telescope was basically an inverted spy satellite

8. Satellite communications in general

9. Modern ship propulsion

And the list goes on. Now granted there's TONS of wasted money in the military, and tons of corruption and death from needless wars, but let's just keep in mind that if the pacifists got their way we likely wouldn't have had any of the above. I know HN is pretty Silicon-Valley centric, and from everything I've heard about the valley people who work for defense contractors can still get called baby killers there in the right company, (what are we in 1973?). So I figured I'd put the alternate perspective out there: War is an ugly truth of human existence and will remain so as long as there is some combination of resource scarcity and assholes. Pacifism historically does not work long term unless the pacifists are defended by non-pacifists or have nothing of value worth taking. The world would be far less developed without modern military spending. In fact we wouldn't even be having this conversation without it. So let's take the pros with the cons.
Yeah, all this makes sense.

> Also, I have a bit of a disdain for the current state of generative art. The people hyping up the technology want to use it to kill and eat artists, by replacing them with AI that can bury them in post-scarcity.

Yuuuuuup. Which makes me sad to say, because I had a big generative art phase when I was younger and loved seeing what I could do with hex editors and circuit-bending. I don't want to tread into the minefield of evaluating others' artistic processes, but my taste is for art with apparent intent and intentionality. In an era where notions of artistry have been largely divorced from technique, and technique is increasingly democratized anyway, I want to believe there is still some room for distinction between a neat image and a piece of art.

Many people see that as elitist gatekeeping or something, but if everything is valuable, nothing is valuable, and I think value is important.
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Yes, that is exactly what I am doing, because I don't want random things I don't need running, because I desire control when I run Linux. If I want random junk that breaks everything and has no use to me running, macos and windows do that just fine.
Same reason they default to whole filesystem search and disorganized icons. No idea what the reason is, but there seems to be a wellspring of bad somewhere.
How is that in any way a detriment to his content? He's highlighting the utter failure of the product to provide the security it purports to. See: where he opens the small safe with a plain kitchen butter knife

Maybe if he was blatantly 'cheating', by using a battery powered sawzall or an oxy-arc torch to just blast off the lock. But he uses more mundane items, like the knife, or two crescent wrenches.
As I recall the double crescent wrench thing was mostly for demo purposes, and to show how he thought he had a more effective technique than another youtube channel.

While he sometimes he does destructive attacks just to highlight weak security (zinc, plastic) or poorly fitted parts, the vast majority of his videos are picks, often using specialised tools, like the disc detainer he helped design.
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Not all military spending is designed for offense. I currently work in the defense industry and the projects I've been on have either been intelligence gathering, passive defense systems, or currently some work on satellites.

Advances in these systems do lead to other technologies that are used in other industries. I understand your concern considering that the cost of a Tomahawk missile is $1.87 million dollars. I personally don't see myself working on technologies used for offensive purposes but I find a sense of fulfillment by trying to keep soldiers and sailors safe.
>I wasn't aware those were documented world-wide issues. Please fill us in!

Social sciences has basically fallen on its face because they discovered that these are myths if not literally the opposite. Society and even the judicial system allows women to be violent and does not punish them. It's kind of remarkable because social science leans left-wing and they basically proved the right-wing social policies right. This has resulted in quite the problem in the political sphere.

Like just going to reddit can prove this in a heartbeat. Social sciences have proven women are equal or more violent than men. Largely speaking due to getting away with their violence.

I really like this one. Though you can't actually watch the video anymore. Tons of 'social experiments' showing women being violent to men and bystanders won't lift a finger to help a man.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5d33c36d-cd41-4351-97...

Anyway, this women arent violent stuff is actually extremely harmful to society.
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I recommend this book: "Time Off: A Practical Guide to Building Your Rest Ethic and Finding Success Without the Stress" https://www.amazon.com/Time-Off-Practical-Building-Finding/d...

I read it over vacation last year.
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Absolutely, there are different reasons for it. Maybe a 4-bar loop is a bad example since, as you rightly point out, getting stuck in a loop is commonly due to lack of songwriting chops and is a more technical skill that needs to be practiced.

On music production forums I frequently see people comment that they've been working on a track or album for years, they're just trying to get it perfect before they finally release it, so they're constantly doing tweaking to what's already there. That kind of behavior definitely indicates fear to me.
A lot can be blamed on the "you're only competitive if you do X" mindset causing crashing waves of technological arms races that only indirectly concern the societal functions of computing.

What the end user ultimately wants to do is nothing that special: they either want to enter and edit data in some medium, or process existing data. What that "looks like" just depends on what layer they try to do it in.

For example, you could do your photo editing by writing code that loads the file and pushes bits. You could do similar on the command line by invoking Imagemagik. Or you could use a dedicated photo editing app. Or you could use a photo editing feature baked into a social media app.

Advancing age eventually makes one jaded about this, from two directions: "Back in my day, you edited photos in a darkroom, with toxic chemicals!" And then, more philosophically: "The point of you editing the photo is to gain clout with your buddies or sell some product, isn't it? So having the latest and greatest photo editing feature is just a fashion."

But of course, at some point in your life you're a user who wants to buy some version of this feature, but you're doing it without knowing what you want, exactly. So you ask around and end up with something.

And that doesn't really change just because you invoke a compiler or build system to access the feature. That's just the particular way in which we've professionalized software "development". At the bottom layer we have some Atlas effectively lifting the world by implementing the base algorithms, and the way in which they do so sets up the dependency structure of everything else. Atlas usually doesn't get hired to do his job: he implemented the thing 15 years ago as a research project and then moved on. Everyone depending on him is just some mercenary saying they have the best solution for your photo editing needs.
I wonder how long until not having a safetynet approved (tm) phone is a serious hindrance in everyday life. Their effort is admirable but I can't help but think the tech world is moving in a different, darker direction.
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What if you have multiple houses within the same country? Do yo need a subscription for each house address? That would be pretty mad

Personally, I think, you shouldn't need to have multiple subscriptions even when you have houses in different countries but I understand that's a bit of a stretch.