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Washing, and transport.

Plastic is the lightest, thinnest packaging material we have. Reducing its use may means trucks carrying less stuff that is heavier.
I've been using a Windows laptop as my work computer for about a year now and I'd love to have less MS in my life.
This is going to seriously harm their user base. I've used signal for years, but will have to drop it with change. People aren't interested in maintaining several different messaging apps.
Is it actually a vulnerability?

Or is this just the way the camera is supposed to operate (even if undocumented)?
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The PKK is not an anarchist organization. They have some similar political viewpoints but they are by definition not anarchist for many reasons, especially the points you make about having a strict hierarchy and leader.

More to your point though, sure, it's a praxis vs theory thing. There often will be agreed-upon hierarchies and leadership situations in an anarchist system but the point is they don't get to have coercive power and their authority is consensus-based.
It is weird because VR is the subject of this giant bet by Facebook. Really VR is still nascent. I bet you couldn't find a really bulletproof study in the 90's that giving employees laptops would boost productivity by a measurable percentage, but it still seemed like a reasonable thing to try out at least.

I believe there's work on getting cameras inside the headsets for expressions and gaze-tracking.
Yeah, just removing them wouldn't solve much.

But there are other possible reforms, for example, I'd want them to record all interviews (which is currently against policy last I knew) instead of relying on FD-302s.

And I'd like their case management system put under the control of an independent agency that will audit for things like missing Woods files, so they can't just go "oops" on stuff like that. And if they delete something, someone else gets to restore it from backup and report to the courts who did the deletion and when according to the audit logs.

I'd do similar things with police body cam footage. It should not be under the control of the police and if someone has a habit of never turning theirs on, it should be addressed and the cop reprimanded long before it impacts a case.

Same goes for jail footage, as well. So "oops" Epstein's cell camera died just can't be a thing, because it's not under their control at all and they address such things right away, not just when it's a problem.
So instead of lobbying with a group of citizens to get someone elected it's easier to start an armed attack on the mob leadership?

If you lose your dead, that's not the case in a democracy
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Stable Diffusion and DALL·E have made it simpler to create new images. But getting photorealistic results is still a challenge…

This is a continuation of our work from 3 months ago on “This Food Does Not Exist” (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32167704). We are now using both Stable Diffusion and GANs depending on the subjects we want to render.
This is far more impactful than Congressional stock trading because the real power lies in these agencies. But I doubt there will be a successful push for regulation because that would require admitting that power lies in these agencies. Also, Congress appears to want their power to be wielded by the agencies.
I absolutely agree. Personally, I've managed to convert around 3 times as many Android users as iOS users, because of this feature. And the few people who stopped using Signal after starting using it did so because of limitations in the SMS/MMS features (fewer number of users allowed in group text, etc). I fully expect to loose 2/3 of my Signal contacts as a result of this decision, and may drop it myself if the number remaining is too small to be worth running a separate app, as most of the ones left will probably be on Matrix as well.

It also puts a spot-light on the "your phone number is your username" policy. This made perfect sense when you are using Signal for opportunistic encryption of texting. It is much less justifiable when using it as a Silo'd app. I really hope they change that and give people who were waiting for that change time to join before killing SMS support.
That sucks. The data fee argument makes no sense – you could just have a setting or warning or something for those who live in places where you have to pay for sms (I know every setting introduces complexity, but I that's got to be nothing compared to the level of engineering needed for all those other fancy features in Signal).
If they are wireless cameras that connect to the cloud it sounds like they might be prone to auto-updating. You'd have to do extra setup to ensure the cameras are both connected to your WiFi but are not connected to the internet.
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I worked on this for over a year, and last week we've finally launched. I'm the type of person that loved self-hosting, but always thought server management was broken. Declarative infrastructure was part of the solution, but tools like Terraform didn't go far enough. Then I got into Kubernetes, and realized that it takes the declarative model to a whole new level. Cloudplane is built entirely on Kubernetes, and I already released a few blog posts on the technology behind it, such as CUE for templating.

Let me know if you have any questions!
NSA already knows his location and is streaming video from his house. :-)
I remember back when I had Android, how amazed I was that I could just make Signal the new default messaging app, and don’t worry about who were Signal-users and who weren’t.

It made it amazingly easy to get started yourself, and also convert others.

Why on earth would they decide to give up that advantage?
> with at least 2 servers is what I'd consider distributed.

There are several meanings of "distributed" :

(1) multiple servers coordination like Google's MapReduce BigTable, Cassandra, Hadoop, etc

(2) describing a split client+server architecture that may have just 1 server. This usage of "distributed architecture" in discussions was more common in 1980s/1990s with the rise of client/server computing. Visual Basic CRUD, PowerBuilder, SAP R/3, etc.

In the Jetbrains article, if you do Ctrl+F search for all occurrences of "distributed", it is clear they're talking about meaning (2):
https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2022/06/fleet-below-deck-pa...

To answer your previous question: >I'm guessing they mean the architecture is decoupled, [...] but with a fancier word?

It's not a fancier word. Jetbrains is re-using an existing description of "distributed==client/server" that's been around for decades. It's just that "distributed computing" has been recently dominated by the examples of meaning (1) above.
Thank you for the recommendation. Just installed it is indeed fast. Will use it for a couple of weeks to see how things goes.

I have a separate 2009 ear 2 gb ram laptop which I am using as my note/comm device. I am using "mouse without borders" to control that device. I have a github repo as my note repo with VS code online. But I am looking for a better solution. I need to sync notes on both devices with vim bindings.
The network effect of signal not being a hub for SMS and e2ee will mean less people using e2ee, IMO.
I think it's mostly because easily obtainable government ID will make it easy for Black and Latino people to register for vote, which means Republicans will never win any election ever again :)
The phrase "one step forward, two steps back" comes to mind
> but here in the States? No. We don't trust Zuckerberg

Completely false. I have multiple group chats in Messenger. The people who “don’t trust Zuckerberg” enough to not use his messaging products are a tiny minority of people in the US.
Correction, you dont need the privacy*

Telegram is absolutely the worst when it comes to privacy, it has access to everything you do and say.

If you want a master app, have a lot at matrix.org with bridges.
Why would this be different than any other password manager in that aspect?
Thank you for sharing your story!

I cannot fathom what your personal journey must have been like, but it makes me want to be a better person having heard it.

If I can ask, who or what helped you the most during this time in your life?
I'm happy with the change, SMS to should be sent through native SMS app, while Signal is just another chat client. Never understood why they have decided to overtake the default SMS app.
Sure, but here's the deal with this. Even with Yubikeys it has always been recommended (as long as I've been involved in these types of discussions anyway) that you should have two of them. If you lose one you have one safely secured that can get you into any service you need to.

This is my general stance on it as well, and one that I think I would still strongly recommend even in this new Passkeys era. That would cover situations where your device is damaged and you can't easily turn the old device on.

Part of this is solved by these keys being synced on each's services, they're synced via iCloud Keychain on Apple's side for instance, so you'd just need to get a new Apple device, sign into your iCloud account and provide the password for iCloud Keychain then you're off to the races. But if in the middle of this you opt to switch from Apple to Android, you're SOL unless you have a backup.

Just my two cents on it, I don't think any of this completely solves the need for backups, but for some portion of people it probably does, and that's those that are unlikely to switch between platforms.
In what way could you make the experience of this site better with js?
Thank you! There will be more coming in exactly how we did that!
This process produces sponge iron, which is then fed into an electric arc furnace. There is no free hydrogen around at that point. Whatcomes out of an electric arc furnace is carbon steel.

The issue with hydrogen, which was first noted IIRC in the high-pressure Haber-Bosch ammonia production process, in which H2 and N2 at high pressure over a catalyst in a steel chamber forms NH3, is that free hydrogen reacts with the carbon in the steel under these conditions, which caused the pressure chambers to regularly explode (solution was a sacrificial lining of the chambers which was regularly replaced). For low-pressure H2 it may not be much of a problem, but that's not very efficient for transport.
Unfortunately, at least in the U.S., most inter-OS text-messaging is still done via SMS. Signal was godsend in this field because I can slowly convince my network to switch to Signal (and this in turn had a recursive network effect as then they would do similarly). This change will mean Signal will become another bucket on my phone (along with WhatsApp) where I can talk to only a select few of my contacts.
Given that it's Google, are you sure they do true end to end encryption. I would be shocked if they don't have access to the contents of your messages.
https://www.jetbrains.com/help/fleet/install-on-a-remote-mac... - It seems it does support remote dev. Just played with it on my laptop and a Linux VPS I toss things onto from time to time, it worked alright. Haven't tried anything serious with it yet. When Fleet launched I had the option of connecting via SSH, specified the IP and port, and was able to connect. It uploaded some programs which run on the remote host to support the work. I was able to edit a program and then run it. There was also a terminal available on the remote host from inside Fleet.
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When the US does things, the whole world listens, and often follows. US corporations are all around the world, like coco-cola.
> Aren't blocking ads another whack-a-mole?

Yes, but the mole-whacker is whoever controls the software doing the rendering. So on a personal computer, the ads are the moles. But on a locked down "phone", the user is the mole.
Not just the USSR! The UK and US did the same too!

For more info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_warning_system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7-yvXf6f8

My personal opinion is the "Bitching Betty" voice with its crisp instructions and authoritative tone makes us subliminally think of our mother giving us guidance or reprimand at an early age. It is a great design; it has saved a TON of pilot lives who otherwise would have accidentally perished.
That's not what my comment said. People are mad because they like Trump, he was investigated by the FBI , therefore anything negative that comes out about the FBI is amplified. It lets Trump supporters pretend it's not about him.

The FBI following civil rights activists had been known for years. They tracked MLK for example
I feel like I somehow caused this mess by becoming a monthly donor.

It feels like I just got my friends to put letters in envelopes instead of only using postcards. Now we all have to drive to two different post offices - one for letters and one for cards - because the original office will stop delivering cards. Everyone is just going to go back to using postcards.

>Dropping support for SMS messaging also frees up our capacity to build new features (yes, like usernames) that will ensure Signal is fresh and relevant into the future

I don't buy this.
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Yeah, that works well too, it just isn't as common in component-based frameworks for the reasons pointed out in that thread.
If I were in your boat, I would talk to people I knew.

I mean if you have been kicking around for a decade, you have met a lot of people.

On the other hand, if you approached me as a stranger (not that you would) my first thought would be why aren't they working with someone they know?

Which is a round about way of asking, are you the kind of person other people should trust?

Because co-owning a company depends on trust.

Specifically the trust that the other person wants to make you rich.

Good luck.
WhatsApp definitely claims end-to-end encryption. There’s a bubble telling you so at the top of every new WhatsApp thread.
Because while both the server and the client are Open Source, the server doesn't federate. If you want to be able to communicate with anyone, you have to use the official server instance. And the official server instance doesn't allow unofficial clients (though some clients seem to get away with it for a while).
Depends on your criteria for "best". Utility or ethics?
This is what we do also. I have many streaming subscriptions. If a show is not available or is only available with ads (Prime Video does this a lot), then I feel zero remorse torrenting the show.

Additionally, if a show was ever on a streaming service while I had a subscription, I feel zero remorse for downloading that show once it is removed from that streaming service.

These license holders are getting more greedy by the year. If they don't want to provide the content for a reasonable fee through a streaming service, then they don't get my money. Simple as that.
> "Letting a deeply insecure messaging protocol have a place in the Signal interface is inconsistent with our values and with what people expect when they open Signal"

> "We’ve heard repeatedly from people who’ve been hit with high messaging fees after assuming that the SMS messages they were sending were Signal messages"

> "We can only do so much on the design side to prevent such misunderstandings"

It sounds like they are trying to protect users from themselves.
Well the risk is they'd invest too much into saving the side projects in the event of a downturn that they would put wikipedia at risk, which is why even people like me who don't have ideological squabbles with the content of the side projects are concerned by the bundling.
If you would like to be proven conclusively wrong, I'd suggest looking at Japan. Its zoning stayed much more liberal than the United States and despite the massive size and growth of Tokyo, it stays affordable. Even in SF, some of the largest housing advocates are the tech companies that don't like having to pay employees enough to live in SF[1].

[1]: https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/stripe-donates-to-californi...
It depends how complicated you want it to be and how much you’ve already thought of. You could have a nice clean UI and working app in around a week if you had a clear vision for what you wanted
I think this will only affect US users, because nobody uses SMS outside the US.
And switching between apps is the expected thing to do when trying to push people to another platform,

I have telegram, signal, whatsapp and Element on my phone, this is why the new digital markets act is going to be revolutionary, especially with bridge friendly platforms like matrix.org.
I'm calling shenanigans. I used to work in a lab where we had GPS repeaters to test consumer equipment. That alone costs big bucks. And, we had the FAA come down on us big time, because our GPS repeater broadcast outside the building too far and we got into some hot water.

If you were spoofing GPS campus wide over 1.544 GHz and had all your GPS sentences correct, with simple radios and antennas... and you hadn't got in trouble with Uncle Charlie or the FAA....
Is this company publically traded and you found the info legally? If so, please see if you can take a position in the market before you disclose.

Secrets are worth so much money, and knowing a stock will most likely move a certain direction at a specific time of your choosing has tremendous value.

You most likely don't owe any company a disclosure.

Hire a lawyer or do your own research on how to profit from this in a legal way. That's my advice.
What if that's the truth? It's useful to know what to expect and what not to, even if you'd be much happier if you only expect good things ... at least until your expectations don't match reality and you're swept off your feet because you never knew that might happen.
It sounds like they need to hire people that have the most basic understanding of security and authentication -- but that's just too expensive when most customers are looking for the cheapest camera and barely care. Also, you know... beg for forgiveness and all.

I wouldn't be surprised if this happened to this company before.
By that logic, if the law doesn’t actually matter, a regular police officer could also simply threaten the same thing, and there’s nothing differentiating them with the FBI. In both cases it would scare most people because they can’t afford it.
Yes I have a few - is the email in your profile current?
Internet access is optional, or can be intermittent.

If you use the cloud service (consumption based & optional) then you'll need internet access for configuration, logging, etc...
But if you lose connectivity, the robot will operate just fine until the TLS cert expires (always at least 30 days in the future).
Configs are cached locally so even a full robot reboot without internet access will work fine.

We think teleoperation is important as making perfect fully autonomous robots is incredibly hard, and by having humans in the loop, we can achieve much more tangible progress on real world problems.
> What was flagged?
None of the naysayers has addressed your point (and those of TFA) rationally, as you have.
> Maybe SMS support could be an opt-in feature, to accommodate both groups?

It already is opt-in.
Unless you enable fruit vfs then it thinks it's a mac but doesn't not what model you so get a big question mark.
The "authenticate itself" bit is what makes me curious. Is the tool authenticating with credentials this person created, a backdoor account left in by the manufacturer, or something else?
What a weirdly snide comment.
Looks like we're a couple days late on a release. (The current release is 32 days old.) If you edit the install script about here: https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/master/instal... to go for say, 45 days instead of 30, it'll work just fine.
Exactly. See the Aral Sea for a non-capitalist version of the problem and results.
Further — can anyone recommend a good Open Source SMS Android app? The only ones I can find are AOSP Messaging and Simple SMS Messenger, both of which are "Okay".
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Signal encrypts your regular texts? I thought it specifically did not do that?
> These companies are approaching monopoly powers and using it to squeeze consumers.

This doesn’t compute. Firstly, multiple companies cannot simultaneously have monopoly power of the same resource. Secondly, there is by just one company who controls the majority or all content. In fact, having to subscribe to multiple services proves that there are multiple companies who provide tv shows and movies.
It is a US thing. The majority of folks in the US still use SMS for text chat. The alternative is buying into a proprietary platform like WhatsApp, but not everyone you talk to is going to be on WhatsApp/FB Messenger/iMessage, etc, so you end up having 5 different chat apps installed on your phone at any time. SMS has been the only real ubiquitous one despite all its flaws.
And I’m sure no one would ever do that without careful consideration. And this, obviously, isn’t that. Not least because it’s passing at 0.2c with no chance of stopping. If it hits a planet by an extremely unlikely accident it will be converted into a very brief firework.
I think the parent was stating that it doesn't have to be that way, and that things could be better without SMS and 10DLC.
> but the result will have a lot of functions that are not differentiable and, thus, not quantum mechanics wave functions. So, I would be reluctant to take the resulting actual Hilbert space as what physics was talking about.

Wavefunctions aren't differentiable functions, because they're not functions. They're distributions - described in general by the rigged Hilbert space structure I described previously, and in the simplified normalizable case typical of introductory courses by L^2(R^n).

> to try to understand what is known and maybe to try to clean up what is commonly called its many loose ends and maybe make progress in some applications, e.g., condensed matter physics, super conductivity, maybe even something as common as just why a grid of wire reflects radar waves, maybe connecting with gravity, dark energy, the first second, the Casimir effect, Hawking radiation, and I would include entanglement, then IMHO we need to be as clear as possible on the definitions, theorems, proofs, passing between physics and pure math, etc.

Ok, but that's not what undergraduate textbooks are for. If you want mathematical physics without any pedagogical concessions, go read mathematical physics papers.
Signal has clear UI cues and redundant messaging telling you what actions are insecure.
so probably a red flag if you are not successful
I never used SMS through Signal and I will not miss this in the slightest.
It's completely backwards for me. When I'm out of data for a month, SMSs still work. I've had to press and hold the send button to revert to SMS on many occasions.
I use signal as my SMS program and a few people who have signal. if I can't use it as my SMS program I'm not going to keep using it for the handful of people who have signal and will likely just go back to SMS for everyone.

oh well
> Despite not wanting a touch screen and only a barebones car, nobody is going to make one.

This isn't a great example because the government mandates all cars have a back up camera, so given the real estate that takes in the center console, you might as well make it a touch screen and outsource some functionality to it. Mazda cars probably come closest to what you're looking for though.
There will be services from 1password, yubikey, etc. This is actually great news!
I hope this isn't too drive-by or basic but did companies ever ask "why should I hire you as a freelancer rather than a W2?" or is the trade-off an easy sell since freelancers don't come with as much baggage as an employee does?

I've seen others do exactly what you are describing and am wondering if this kind of pitch on a W2 job posting is an easy layup or if there is something you encountered that you would be willing to pass along.

Let me know if this ask of you is too much. :)