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> Mastodon instances will be down in matter of seconds. How do you approach this?

The same people who pay for everything right now will pay for it: us. Some instances will have patreon, others will be voluntary donation, others will use some craptocurrency, others will have contractual subscriptions, some will have ads... And whatever models are best will win out. Quit with the FUD. Just sit, back, relax and watch it happen.
I would argue yours is a poor point of comparison and you have missed the forest.

google isn't requiring specific 2FA data, like address, because they are stalwart guardians of data. They are harvesting data because that is their business.

The homeless don't have enough data to be of value to an entity like goolge
Stop conflating “reality” with “perception”.

Reality is the objective truth. Perception is out individual mental models of reality, built up by our own past experiences and our limited information set.

Edit - I think this is actually a very important distinction to make. There IS an objective set of facts that can answer these questions definitively. And we need to remember that. By conflating terms like “reality” and “truth” with ideas of mental models and perception (or even using phrases like “my reality”), we’re already giving up before the game is even played. Reality and truth are must be defined as the objective, omniscient state, even if it is practically unknowable. They must be defined this way because we must acknowledge that those states exist at all so we can strive to get as close to them as possible. If we cease to acknowledge there is a real, objective truth, then everything is arbitrary and unmoored - we’re lost at sea with no bearing and no direction.

I do agree with the general premise of the piece, however - that perceptions of reality in society have been weaponized and manipulated on an industrial scale. But it’s super super important not to lose the idea that “reality” exists.
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At section 0.3, the author links to his CSS file: https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/GTD/GTD.css

It seems to be of his own authorship, not a framework.
> In one of the later posts, the OP writes that the homeless will lose any physical thing after N weeks. So what kind of 2FA would be homeless-proof? I don't see a solution.

This is not a technical problem and should not be automated away.

Rely on trustworthy third parties. Universal utilities like Google should have retail outlets which are adapted to local conditions and can exercise educated judgement. In some countries, the police might certify the identity of the individual, and then Google could trust that certification. In another place, it might be some combination of the Red Cross and a public hospital. Obviously some identifications will be easier and others harder - if a person in New York claims they are the owner of an account based in Spain, the employee should be suspicious and require a higher burden of proof (and the reactivation might be logistically more difficult).

> The other thing is, we want at the same time Gmail to be unhackable against best hackers and state sponsored adversaries for the billions of users, including high profile dissidents, journalists, and senators who will inevitably have accounts;

I'm not really convinced high profile dissidents, journalists and senators (why senators?) should be trusting Gmail to protect them from state sponsored adversaries. Google generally wants to do business in territories controlled by states which means they have to follow laws and will sometimes be subject to intimidation; but they have no intrinsic motivation to be unhackable.
I run 5+ instances of qBittorrent on my unraid server and have not experienced any of these issues, same on macOS.
Going to grad school. Took on a bunch of debt, which would have been fine if I'd been able to pursue my original career choice. I got MS my last semester and am now stuck in the limbo of 'able to work so I can't get my loans discharged' but 'not able to do work that would PAY ENOUGH TO PAY OFF MY LOANS and not able to do the work I trained for'.

Possibly undergrad as well.

I think I would have done much better in the trades, honestly, but that was not an accepted/encouraged option in the early 00s. Especially for girls. My parents are still giving me guff for having left an office job.
It is more that generating thousands of phone numbers is extremely expensive. It is cheap for real users, but scammers and spammers have to pay a lot.
> based on a single news story

I've seen more than one story about this sort of behaviour from US housing associations.
They have one lever, and it isn't innovation.
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Then IMVHO full self-driving must be disabled on not clear/accessorized for helping FSD roads... A phantom break in a dense traffic does not harm much, at maximum led to a minor incident. One on a highway it's a different thing.
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Ask HN: How to stop emailing my ex? Any technical solutions I could use?
I deleted her number. However, sometimes I have a few drinks and end up sending her an email when I come home. Then we start talking again. I know it sounds offtopic, but is there any technical solution I could implement? Somehow ban gmail dns on my router from 11pm to 2am? Any ideas please? Thanks a lot.
I would rank a home as more important than email; I'd certainly rather lose access to my email than my home.

But by definition, the homeless have already lost a home (assuming they weren't born homeless) - and I've forgotten passwords before. So "the stupid homeless just need to memorize their password" isn't a solution.
The 10k thing is ridiculous for anyone who understands basic pedagogy and, as you mention, actually pays attention the competency of their peers across their life. Most individuals are stuck doing the same challenges over and over very early in their trajectory. It is not at all efficient for learning, but it is the safest bet for employers to ensure consistent production (in their minds anyway).

The main benefit is having any kind of positive coefficient in a world where you have to work to pay your bills anyway.
It means they are effectively the same as you shift rightwards or leftwards on the neck. So you can play a G major chord, move the same exact shape "down one string" and now it's a C major chord. This is not a feature of standard guitar tuning.
>But I assume he implicitly talked about Google (which doesn't provide that option).

Google provides backup codes. You can print them on any kind of paper you want.

Regardless, OP argued that printed backup codes don't work because everything is lost every few weeks.
The Gladwell book is so bad it's laughable. It's a gross misrepresentation of the work of Anders Ericsson, with completely unfounded extrapolations. So bad it prompted Ericsson to get a non-academic writer to work with him to write his own popular science version of his work, which is titled "Peak". Outliers is the worst example I know of of popular authors bending facts to make a narrative they want to tell.

In a nutshell, Ericsson never said "10k hours will make you world class" or "it takes 10k hours for mastery". He said (BIG simplifying paraphrase here) "the most notable difference we saw in elite performers between sub-elites and elites was practice, with most elites having achieved roughly 10k hours, or 10 years of 3 hours a day". He also limited this to PRACTICE, a part Gladwell totally missed. (ie the Beatles example is complete bullshit, gigs are not practice). He never said it was either necessary (lots of music prodigies are world class in way less) or sufficient (literally millions of people do 10k hours and get just decent).

So... throw that book in the garbage and make your decision on other criteria. There are many, many good books on learning and performance, but not by popular hacks like Gladwell. Anecdotally, I know lots of people who started new pursuits (and got very good), or successfully switched careers or started new businesses in their 40s.

It's really not about age, it's about all the parameters that are typically associated with age. As in, by the time people hit their 40's, most people can no longer carve out the time to consistently spend time learning a new thing, and are way out of practice at learning. Most, not all. I know lots of professional musicians, for example, who took up some other hobby late in life and got very very good, because their entire life has been constructed around leaving time for effective learning, and they are experts at learning something on their own. If you can rearrange life to enable you to learn effectively (or found a company, or whatever), 43 is a great age.
I think its good for the society as a whole to always view Mega Corps. which have more money than several governments combined with suspicion, Because even when they get punished for their 'shady dealings' the fines are usually a rounding error for their weekly revenue;
Meta's recent $400M fine for Instagram not protecting children's data comes to mind.

Public opinion on the brand seem to hold more accountability than the courts for these Mega Corps, After all Facebook did become Meta FWIW.
I find this explanation to be the most compelling by FAR.
Humans are a social species, so we are hardwired to keep the peace as long as things are going well.
I agree that a tight house is desirable for many reasons, but proper ventilation and indoor air quality are areas of building design and construction that are often severely neglected, even in new construction.

And with the amount of ventilation needed to make a PVC lined box into a healthy living environment, your kids will be conducting airfoil research at the dining room table.
> Prostate cancer is, from what I understand, one of the cancers with the least amount of genetic differences from normal tissue.

Would love to find any references for this.

FDA has only approved BRCA+ and few others like PALB2 for genetic targeting. It doesn't really matter how many others mutations that are found they won't be targeted with PARP.

So the question becomes is PC less likely to have target-able mutations compared to others ?
Lost half my money in Gold/Silver mining stocks. Broke at 30.

Didn't start that businesses I wanted to in my 20s. Would had been in the same position financially by now anyway.
On Wikipedia, I once tried to link the Recursion page to itself. (Un?)fortunately, Mediawiki didn't support it.
but if you read the whole thread it turns out that's not really an issue as it's scanning just like any AV
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Yup. Host a single-user instance.
I was not part of your community, but thank you for what you've done with it.

May you have all the needed grace, patience, wisdom, and strength (both physical and mental) to navigate this next stage of your life in caring for someone who needs you more than ever right now.
I have the 2019 16-inch i9 MBP for work, and even that has served me pretty well for almost 2.5 years. I'm fairly conscious about what I have running at any given time, I force-quit out of apps that I only open occasionally to free up resources. Sometimes the fans will get going quick if I'm doing a lot (running Java services, in a Teams call, etc - on top of whatever the hell processes are being used by jamf, VPN, and zscaler) but I can't recall it ever "slowing to a crawl." It mainly just gets hot until I'm done with one of the big tasks the laptop is currently doing.
or American buses, or anything culture centric. The US version of hydrant is just not present around here.
I was homeless my final year of highschool, and basically homeless the year before. I took the SAT, but it was hard to figure out how. Even harder to bring myself to study rather than work.
Complex doesn't mean hard to remember. XKCD936-style passwords (four words with no special chars) are nearly uncrackable and quite easy to remember. Something even simpler like [mother's name][father's name][year of birth] is also very strong when you aren't being targeted specifically (you almost certainly aren't, especially if you're homeless). The remaining issue is password reuse, but that's mostly solved by having two passwords - one for your email and one for everything else.
As a daily IRC user: IRC was never reliable, but it persists still. A distributed system is easier to hurt but far harder to destroy.
Reinstall the app and restore private keys from off device backup.

The lack of key backup and restore is one big reason not to use Google's authenticator app. Other compatible apps are not so brain dead. I backup every time I add a new sign in.

If you don't have the ability to sign in from multiple devices and the ability to install access onto any new device, then you're doing it wrong.

Phones are highly portable devices subject to being stolen, damaged or just dying for no obvious reason --- so always be prepared. This is simply not possible with 2FA over SMS.
It's not a fantastic proxy, I agree, since the aggregation rule implicitly assumes linearity and it's almost certainly not. I think it's somewhat mitigated in practice by the kind of small intersection between situations where it's strategically safe for a party to push bullet voting and where it's useful to do so being pretty constrained to elections where the top candidates are mostly acceptable to the same voters, though? I find it pretty unintuitive to construct an approval vote election scenario with a rational spoiler effect, and that's probably less big a deal than the vote weighting issues that crop up with multi-point score votes, but that's definitely something you can quibble over.

The wider point imo is that compared to all forms of ranked choice voting, arbitrary-precision score voting is pretty obviously night-and-day superior (information-content-wise, at least), to which approval voting is a "close enough", at worst moderately inferior but at least theoretically equivalent, trade-off in favor of implementability.
Not you, but the OP certainly gives this vibe.
The same way I remember everything else: I think about it enough. There are plenty of good memorable password mnemonics out there, too. So that seems a non-issue.

In any case, I'm sure those involved would prefer the option of remembering a password to not having that option and getting locked out forever. Seems like a good solution. There may be better ones you can implement once this one is, always room for improvement you know
The misguided war on drugs was first and foremost a sincere attempt to curtail the prevalence of drugs. That the effect of this so-called "war" has disproportionately fallen on racial minorities is due to broad systemic racism, but it was not the intent or purpose of the initial declaration of "war."
oh stop it, tech people always think the world works in binary.

Apparently this multi-billion dollar company can't see fit to help humanity because it's literally hard (or impossible?). That somehow I, as an individual, have more of an effect because charities only ever accept money from individuals and not billion dollar corporations?

seriously, just stop.
Mind, I'm just talking "legitimate" pharmaceutical dispensaries. Their entire reason for existing is to safely deal with things like this.

Street labs, by their nature, are unencumbered by the same systems and incentive structures that result in generally safe dispensaries.

Part of medical tourism is the risk taking inherent thereto. Part of being an FDA approved drug is regular audits and compliance of your supply chain, plus regular mandatory inventory QC, with enforceable consequences for failure to comply. It's expensive, but it means (generally) a high quality product with known behavior at the condumer end.

That goes out the door if you aren't regularly looking for failure states because your regulator takes a "hands off" or paper pusher approach.

I'm not saying failure can't happen in the U.S. it certsinly can. Just that there are relatively fewer sources where we don't have the capability to tighten down amongst law abiding dispensaries. Black Market sources are purely an at your own risk affair.
Maybe. Look up George Carlin's soft language skit. It's happening to "homeless" now.
Ask HN: Brain development activities/games for newborns
Curious what other parents have been doing with their baby/babies for brain development.
Please share links about games/activities, and ideally some articles/books/studies etc.

Context: I have a son born premature (6 months), and he'll need additional help from us for his brain development.

Thank you!
> For servers that run Mastodon.

Running a server that can cope with thousands of users would probably cost just a few dollars a month. Donations would be more than sufficient.
The super bowl that year had ~82 million viewers.
this feels like a workaround.

We should not be treating phonenumbers as SSN round two, where everyone relies on it for your identity, and it should never be changed because of how much shit was needlessly tied to it.

I rue the day I need to change my phone number and my digital identity becomes a huge headache, especially for far flung services that decided they wanted my phone number, but I wouldn't have considered going explicitly to them to update it.
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I don't have one. I'm not a security expert or researcher or anything like that. But the tech industry has invented thousands of things that to most people would have been inconceivable beforehand. That doesn't mean there's a way to improve on the tradeoffs we have now — but the fact that no one's invented it yet doesn't mean it can't exist.

The tech industry self-styles as the smartest people in the world, who try to solve the hardest problems. All I'm saying is that we shouldn't throw our hands up when we can't immediately come up with a solution to something we only learned about five minutes ago.
Backup codes could work - but if they have the support of a trusted person they likely can be assisted in other ways, too.

Defining a state-sponsored email account that can only be logged in from specific government machines (imagine a kiosk at the DMV, say) where there are trained clerks who can identify homeless in some way could work.
> Weren’t you complaining about mastodon having “no users” in the last big discussion about it here?

Yes, I said: 'Little to no users'. After looking at it for a couple of years, it is not the typical twitter user that is self hosting their own Mastodon instance and just the same tech-folks that are doing that (unreliably) and sitting on Mastodon. The level of social interaction on Mastodon is so low and limited, that they still use their Twitter accounts more than their Mastodon accounts.

So yes, it is not early days anymore and we have given it enough time and it has already failed.
>So what kind of 2FA would be homeless-proof?

Drop the password requirement. Use fingerprints + face. Very hard to lose these, but not impossible. Note, this solution is 1.5FA, but would solve the issue at hand. (pun alert)
I’d love to hear more.
You lose your entire Google account if you lose your 2FA device or number (assuming it's a phone number), for any reason. Even if your Google account is set up with a non-Google email address which you still have access to, and you still know the correct password. And there's nobody you can reach at Google about it, no appeals process, nothing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33098261
Mastodon.Social has a Patreon page. Quite a few supporters. Obviously Wikipedia, NPR etc are a model.
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> Actually giving homes to the homeless would probably be cheaper than whatever we are doing now, even taking into account the mental illness and drug-abuse problems that factor into this.

This point is worth reiterating. Homelessness can be solved by providing housing. Yes, homelessness is a complex multi-faceted problem, but the first order solution to the problem is to provide housing.

Homelessness is a problem with huge externalities to society. Put another way, homelessness is an enormously expensive solution to the problem of providing space for humans to live.
This is the sort of performative response that is the problem. Let's say we force Google to switch off 2FA. Now we have exposed millions of people who don't know any better to phishing attempts and financial loss. And the group we are trying to help isn't really better off. There are so many other questions we could be asking. Why are they directed towards picking Gmail by default? Why is the system to give a replacement phone every 12 weeks instead of investing in a dedicated device that's much harder to damage or lose? Why is keeping the same number a hassle? Why are we tackling the problem with caseworkers instead of something more ambitious, that would ironically be less costly in the long run? There are so many angles we could go for, but instead we are stuck on this performative nonsense that gets retweets. It's pseudo-empathy at best, because it's not oriented towards a real solution.
On average I guess that makes sense. The peaks must be ridiculously high though.
See also the great, nerd-friendly blog series "Guitar Decomposed" by Bartosz Milewski[1]. Yes, the same guy who wrote Category Theory for Programmers.

[1] https://bartoszmilewski.com/2020/05/24/guitar-decomposed-1-w...
An RSS reader does almost everything I'd expect my fully distributed Twitter instance to do. Only thing missing is ability to post, packaged into the same client.
I'm not the person who said that but I can take a swing at it:

If the person does not migrate off of the instance, they'll lose the account and yes, you'll lose a follower. But if they do migrate, both of you keep the connection.
We as a society failed to see the bad thing about the internet and the services we are creating. May be it’s capitalism or may be it’s our naive trust that humans will figure it out, but the internet exaggerated our ability to lie and cover up that lie by lying again and again. People do that in real life too but the ease, quickness and scale at which one can lie and provide corroborative lies is something we completely missed. The 2016 election cycle made is when people fully realized this and q is the manifestation of this. Prior to the internet grifters would just operate in a geographically limited area but now it’s basically free to reach the whole world. They are taking advantage of every news event. Some worried that AI would the downfall of our civilization but the internet started it and AI with deepfake could just complete it. May be I am being too pessimistic ut I don’t think we can fix it at this point.
Simple: It collapses and the millions move on to the next one, leaving the collapsed server to catch up and come back online. Like a scared but surviving turtle. Most servers are crowdfunded. Even the project's instances get funding through Patreon.

The official instance finding site seems to be good about spreading the load out every time Twitter burps. You have to meet certain reliability requirements to even be listed.
The staffers setup the new servers and did all the heavy-lifting.

As a user, I only had to point my client from Freenode to Libera (exactly one line change in my client config), run /msg nickserv register to register myself, run /msg chanserv register to register the channels I op-ed, and it was all done.

Total time spent was less than 30 minutes. The next few days, others did the same and the community started trickling in to the channels in the new servers. Seems seamless enough to me. I doubt such an easy migration is possible if Twitter disappears suddenly.