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> and there should be Linux distros packaged without systemd.

systemd should be an optional package on all distros. Shoving it down throats is one of the valid major criticisms. What should have happened instead is systemd was optional on Debian at setup and Debian was forked to include it by default. It is simply backwards that Debian needed to be forked for purity. Duvuan shouldn't need to exist, but it very much does.

The entire ideology of openness and freedom has been turned on its head. Instead of "what is best for everyone is good enough for me," has become with entitlement "what is best for me is good enough for everyone." Maybe you like the way you do things, but would any here really insist on forcing everyone else to use your methods and no others?

systemd, among other valid criticisms, is unmistakably fascist. For anyone but parent, don't just be thin-skinned and downvote my comment because you have allowed yourself to be insulted. Be courageous and disagree with me if you can. How is systemd not fascist?
Regarding the tags, great suggestion. Will add it to my list.

And regarding your earlier point, I agree. I'm yet to clear up the positioning of the site. I'm struggling with 2 separate, but intertwined angles.
1. A low-pressure place to write in public, because writing helps you clarify your thoughts.
2. A place to keep up with what your existing circle of friends is up to in life

You can't have 2 without 1, and hence most of the messaging is geared towards 1 right now. I'm thinking about ways to encourage users to invite their IRL friends to participate, as I think there's a powerful, albeit small, network effect to be had.
> 2. Why did they proceed to have half a dozen different messaging services?

Because they're different in ways that are not reconcilable into a single service. For example, considered just through an identity lens, you have:

Talk, which was a federated service with federated identity. Hangouts which was a centralized service with only Google accounts. And Allo which was centralized service using external identities (phone numbers). You can't do all of those, but need to choose one. And none of them is the obvious single correct choice.

(Hangouts and Chat are very similar though. But that was a completely transparent migration too.)

Or to put it another way: Why does Apple have both iMessage and Facetime? Because video + voice is different from text. Why does FB have both Messenger and WhatsApp? Because one uses FB accounts, the other uses phone numbers. Why has Microsoft made a dozen different messenger apps? Because what consumers wants is different from what corporations want.
I think the tech stack would whatever is easiest for the specific team you have. The app doesn't seem complicated.

The platform that I would like would:

- Block links. The platform is for sharing personal thoughts and quips, not spreading marketing or propaganda.
- Block "re-sharing." This would include detecting and deleting duplicate posts across accounts.
- Cost a token amount of money. Enough to filter out scammers and bots.
- No "engagement algorithm," your feed is exactly what you design it to be.

I just want a place where I can see what people are doing, what they have to say, without all the BS, and where people are accountable for the content that they produce.
Rewind: The Search Engine for Your Life
The boosters landing will always give me goosebumps.
Actuarial science might have a thing or two to say about that. All you need to do is make sure the average amount people pay is greater than the average cost for the life of an account. Before the recent explosion in subscription pricing for everything under the sun, we’d been selling software on one-time costs for fifty years. Subscriptions certainly are attractive and easier for businesses, probably easier to sell with freemium models, but they do have downsides like cancellations and not much money up front (may take longer to recoup investments).

> Unless the model included essentially building an endowment the first ten years and then funding the business off interest.

Ten dollars is surely much greater than the server costs for a single user for a month, or a year. That one-time cost may well be designed to be an endowment of sorts. Plus the avatar changing fees are probably, on average, not one-time fees.
Thoughts appreciated :) Wondering what features you think would be a good fit, all while maintaining a minimalistic focus. It's not meant to replace a fully-featured static-site generator like Hugo, but is meant to be more of a minimalistic tool with sensible defaults and a get-started-instantly design.
There are a quite a few RISC-V chips consumers can buy right now, but mostly MCUs (which are the majority of the market, just not the highly visible or exciting part of it). Higher-powered "PC-grade" chips and dev-boards are coming slowly, and the next year or so should bring a few new entrants, but I wouldn't expect to see a lot of them. Server/mainframe class probably won't be seen for a long time, if ever. It obviously takes longer to develop bigger chips, as well as being a far less attractive market for new entrants.
Calgary and Edmonton.
Very clear README on how to use and configure. Leaflet seems like a great resource. Also particularly appreciate this included advice for users:

> "You should always research your trip ahead of time, plan training hikes, become familiar with the terrain, carry a physical compass and map and know how to use them."

Here's an idea for an app: one that teaches users how to find their position with nothing but map and compass (though having a non-GPS, i.e. barometric, altimeter is also useful, particularly in poor visibility).
Most of these Chinese MCU's are probably targeted at Chinese OEM's and not the Western hobbyist / tinkerer markets.

But after a while they'll want to expand their market share and gear them towards hobbyists. With decent documentation and GCC support (hopefully).
I was lucky enough to be on-base for this launch and landing. The sound was something else.
I still believes that [xonsh](https://xon.sh/) is the best of its kind because I do not want to remember yet another language syntax
Nautilus 43 Backspace Back Extension (Gnome 43)
Adds ability to go up a directory by pressing Backspace button in nautilus. This will work with the new Nautilus 43/Gnome 43/Gtk4

https://gist.github.com/molaeiali/3f99f9c8b8b845b803bbdbb1fc...
As someone who can't quite tell whether I fit into an "extrovert" or "introvert" bucket, I appreciate this reframing: different activities require different levels of energy; budget appropriately.
This is great! Thanks for sharing!

Can I ask you how calculated the slope gradients (if I'm reading that right? like red = steep?)
Separating functions helps us use the right tool for the job. Taxonomies are for semantics, and the file system is for retrievability. The comfort of hierarchies makes it easy to try and do both simultaneously.

- From computer science, we know graphs give us expressive modeling capabilities. I sometimes use mermaid ER diagrams as a concept map to capture complex relationships between files and concepts.

- From library science, faceted classification works well for extensive collections because inserting a new entry does not require thinking about existing entries. I maintain entries in a spreadsheet for extensive collections that matter to me. Note: Facets are meant for unchanging or infrequently changing properties.
Creating a concept map and maintaining a faceted classification system take work, so I only use them for things that are very important to me.

90% of files I only care about for a short amount of time. I use the file system to co-locate the files I'm currently working on (so a project) but then archive all of it when I move on to something else.

The trade-off is that I give up on sharing files between projects. I don't want to deal with references. I copy from the archive when I need to. On the rare occasion when I need to reconcile the same file between projects, I do it manually. What helps is working on only a few projects at the same time.

TL;DR: Archive more. Use high-investment techniques only for the small percentage of files that really matter.
How can you host your application for just US$8/month on AWS?
A few tricks to significantly reduce hosting costs. Sometimes up to 90%
i believe the orbit and mass requirement meant there was no fuel left for landing the center stage. I think the configuration where they can't re-use the booster is called "full thrust".
It has Push-Location and Pop-Location, which are aliased to pushd and popd. IDK about dirs -v.
The booster was doing 14,000km/h at MECO which is about 3.8km/s. Orbital velocity is 7-7.5km/s depending on altitude and escape velocity is even higher, so no, it was not at escape velocity or anywhere near it.
That's misinformation, it's an opinion based on nothing
I didn't say they skipped DD.
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And systemd proponents shouldn't go out of their way to try to prevent non systemd Linux from existing.

All the changes to gnome, which depended 100% upon systemd at the time, were pushed by redhat, gnome contributers.

This one of the biggest reasons given, for getting systemd into debian at the time.

When systemd was being pushed origionally, fast boot times, predictable names, and a few other things were big reasons. Yet debian already had parallel init booting, and already had predictable interface names.

Systemd has done almost nothing for debian, and has many drawbacks, as you say.

Systemd was a redhat solution, to redhat issues, and redhat used its power in the community to force it through.

There were a lot of outright lies, politics, and more at implementation time. And you're right, part of it was redhat wanting to force systemd, and no other.
No, because that would violate the laws of thermodynamics.
My understanding of tailscale is you give full access to the tailscale company to allow any public key to access any of your machines.

I think I'll stick with running my own wireguard thanks.
This is great! Mine is definitely more of a proof of concept that probably shouldn't be used outside of well-marked trails. This looks like the alternative I've been looking for. Do you know if it requires registering an account to use?
Its funny, I was at the TGIF where Hangouts was originally announced, by Chee Chew (who had run messaging at google for a while). Apparently Gchat was not growing while competitors with emojis and other features were. So gchat had to die to make room for hangouts. Many googlers explained taht gchat was not a competitor to those chat systems, but it still lead to the evisceration of classic gchat. Chew got his promo and continued to miss things up for years before finally leaving.

The leaders never realyl understood that gchat was for professionals working in gmail, not teenagers in japan.
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Have you tried similar apps like Backcountry Navigator or Avenza? (Just wondering how they compare)
> Case insensitive, weird parameter passing, no Posix-like interface

Parameters are passed like any other shell?

> Well, humans should not spend too much focus on verbosity, maybe I'm wrong, at least that's what I've learnt from a university HCI course.

While its by design everything comes aliased and arguments are fuzzy matched. As a human you don't need to spend time on verbosity if you don't want to.

For example:

Remove-Item $directory -Recurse -Force

rm $directory -r -fo
Probably an internal prototype that incorrectly stored PII in the repo (as a CSV, .sql, etc)
Doesn't that amount to the same thing? It's easier to "recharge" when you're among people you like and trust. And it's even possible to not like yourself.
1930s: going fast by leaning backward, banned

1990s: going fast by leaning forward, banned

I look forward to 2100 when they will simply ban going faster than a specific speed.
Discovering a simple Apple kernel bug
It means that marketing division has won against engineering division.
For better effect, put the easter egg in a file and directory starting with "z" so it appears last in the pull request.
How to hack GitHub Actions and obtain money + HackerOne t-shirt
You are right! I missed the part where it said this only applies to IP ARM offers as well.
I've been reading it's 10 to 20% of people who test positive have symptoms at least a month, and as much as 5 to 7% three to six months later. The US workforce is around 160 million people. About 60% of the population is estimated to have had SARS-Cov-2 at least once.

60% of 160 million is 96 million. So 5% of that is 4.6 million people or so with at least a solid portion of a year of symptoms.

There's mounting evidence that some of the damage could take years to recover or even be lifelong.

The current word from the Mayo Clinic is about 20% of folks have what they're calling Post-COVID Syndrome between one month and one year after an infection, with at least one symptom likely from the viral infection. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

If we look at 20% of 60% of the workforce that's around 19 million people symptomatic for over a month after the initial positive test. Twelve percent, almost one in eight people in the workplace.
To people claiming otherwise, I would recommend a quick search of deaths caused by FSD.
I think you'd be shocked how much of my NixOS system not only natively compiles for my Vision Five but also cross compiles to it... (and Nixpkgs cross compiling support has room to improve, so..)

Obviously a monorepo of largely FOSS is easier to deal with than random Android apps but I don't think it's that dire or insurmountable.
There are a lot of clerical jobs out there where the bulk of the work could be pretty easily automated by someone with moderate programming skills, thus potentially leaving you with many hours per week where you are expected to be working on a computer but don't have any urgent work tasks to accomplish.
Nice, ratatouille BTFO: https://www.alberta.ca/albertas-rat-control-program.aspx
I didn't assume, I asked if he'd read it.
So you're saying that the author of this article forged their credit card receipt and is lying through their teeth? Why would they do that? Is it possible your information is instead outdated?
>What is the issue? Now there’s a goddamn paper trail of who asked for it and then the entity performed it. Get that shit in discovery if there’s actual harm. Odds are it’s mostly pearl clutching about how somebody’s elephant ballet porn got kicked out or some other dumb stuff.

In the USA context, if the government has a portal to prevent your speech without regard to the courts. That's a tremendous violation of your rights and would be an actual harm.

The problem is the blame has been on twitter. As if twitter itself has been the one responsible for shutting down the speech. The harmed person can't do anything because twitter is protected by the government.

Fundamentally the anti-republican speech reality may or may not have been ordered by the government. Rather than just twitter itself.

The big "nightmare" of elon's twitter is the government may be revealed as the one who has been illegally curbing speech. This has been vaguely confirmed by Jack Dorsey.

What happens when elon simply reveals this reality? Afterall why continue damaging the reputation of twitter? The reality is that the US government will have a large quantity of 1984 lawsuits paying out to republicans.
> You could buy a Honda Civic new in 1980 for 5000$

Can confirm... because my parents bought me a new Honda Civic that year for college and that's what they paid.
It may show how much I've gone down the dark side in recent years, but it feels like the wrong question; unless and until the business case/plan, and functional requirements, are figured out, technology is immaterial and undefined.
There is also a constant named "DISALLOW_FUN" [1]. Probably intended for corporate devices.

[1] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/UserManag...
EU: Digital Markets Act
Right, thats what I assumed. TIL!
Meanwhile, of all the boards around meant to run Linux, and there's a boatload of them, I fail to see a single one that prevents to install Microsoft software on purpose.
> Brazil needs better candidates. A healthier political system where those better candidates rise to the top.

Yes. I think one of the causes of the problem is the fact all the top level positions are appointed by the winning politicians. I have no doubt they purchase support from each other that way.
Twitter is an internet megaphone. Plain and simple.

Some people use it like those assholes who drive around neighborhoods blaring something out of their portable car megaphones.

I heard them recently while traveling through small towns in Eastern Europe.

They usually blare political rhetoric or advertising.

Don't really see how you can stop them or their Twitter equivalents unless by using a point based reputation system.

Then however we won't be able to say we are different than China as far as the social credit thing goes.

Once the box is open, it's difficult to find all the pieces that wondered around the floor.
Let's take the US as example: you claim that news sources will not discredit the president or government?
I often hear/see it misused as a synonym for various other traits - being shy, or not being comfortable socialising or speaking publicly, for example.

I’ve also seen it used as a shield: e.g. someone believing they’re shy because they’re immutably introverted, and therefore believing that is how things will always be.
It feels like a problem of scale. One person shouting and getting carried away, whoever is right or wrong in that scenario, is still one person. Now extend that to everyone shouting at everyone in what has become the de facto public square and the stakes involved in deciding who to carry away feel existential in scale.
> there’s a goddamn paper trail of who asked for it and then the entity performed it

Wait, what? The government asked somebody to censor something and instead they made a copy of what was censored and made that available? If so, I'm totally fine with that and will make that my feed, but that's not how I read this - when the government asks for something to be censored, it's unavailable for anybody to see what it was or that it ever existed (that's the point of censorship after all).
> Even if theoretically those institutions should proactively search for deceased owners' heirs in some jurisdictions, I wouldn't trust this to happen.

It happens all the time.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/the-countrys-largest-re...

It took them years to find distant relatives; none knew about the guy or his money. Why didn't the state workers just do nothing and keep the money? Because they actually do their job, that's why.
Quadruple booms right?
SWE for a big, old non-tech company. My last job I was at a 140yo retailer in the UK and I basically did about 6 hours work a week
But instead of one ISA vendor who holds all the card, there will be dozens of them, lowering prices and probably with more freedom in modifying the designs.

Greed is good. Competition is better.
No, it was going 14,240km/hr according to the video, which is about 4km/sec. Not near escape velocity.
Hey! I'm glad you like it :)

I can't predict the future, but I can say that I'm a team of one who isn't looking for VC funding. Even if I was, I doubt they'd fund me.

I'm going to keep this platform alive for as long as I am alive, and if I can help it, even longer. You have my word.
>For example, Moses and the plagues of Egypt.

But you've only provided an old testament example. I explicitly called for new testament examples.

New testament is all about turning the other cheek, and not mass murdering a whole race of people. Are we supposed to look for a single set of footprints? "God told me to do it" new testament style would be to go out and feed the masses, or forgiving the guy that has been persecuting your people to become your most prolific evangelist. There was no sidekick or witness to new testament "miracles", just the word of the person. (It just so happens the feeding the masses and turning water into wine just so happened to be the god in person, so sidekick not required).
I have to assume by "hardware authentication key" they're referring to RSA SecurID. Yubikey would indeed prevent an attack like this from working.

Although I wouldn't expect a company like Dropbox to be using RSA SecurID.
The way the boosters land feels so alien and CGI-like. I'm curious how close you can get to viewing the landings in real life, would really love to take a trip to do that at some point.
I don't know, my house was built in 1920 and it's doing fine. Upgrades have been made- heat pumps, new wiring and so forth- but the overall design of the house isn't really that different from one built today. Except that in my house, the 2x4's are actually 2 inches by 4 inches.
+65535. For me, the killer use case for my Raspberry Pi (even the original one, or just any single-board computer to be honest) is always an emergency chip programmer. When working with embedded systems, from time to time you need to program firmware into a variety of chips - parallel EEPROMs, SPI EEPROMs, I2C EEPROMs, AVR microcontrollers, PIC microcontrollers, STM32 microcontrollers... Traditionally, many tasks require vendor-specific tools. It's incredible frustrating when you want a chip programmed today but don't have the right programmer at hand. Thanks to Raspberry Pi's GPIO, you can get bitbanging software programmers for a large number of chip protocols.

The parallel and serial ports on a PC used to serve the same purpose. But many modern systems don't have them. You can use USB converters, but latency is usually terrible due to USB overhead. The 3.3 V logic on the Raspberry Pi is also easier to use than 5 V TTL level or 12 V RS-232 logic level.
It's great, you can have it launch multiple processes on the same port using SO_REUSEPORT. Normally it'd be a bit of a pain to health check multiple processes running on the same port without some other machinery since it is possible to get into a state where all but one process is hung. Systemd watchdog will provide your service with a socket and expect updates on a regular interval or else it will consider your service dead. This socket is also very handy for service startup, to have your process just notify systemd it is ready rather than having to poll to see if your process is listening yet.
As far as I'm concerned, "the point is" that what we're describing here -- keeping track of the type of each piece of data -- is the best way to think about this class of problems (as opposed to talking about "sanitising" or "safe data", for example).

It's then up to us to decide how to best make use of the type system of whatever language we end up implementing it in (or, indeed, to treat the ability to deal with this well as a requirement when we're choosing a language).

For me, effects like "we can't ever concatenate this with any other string-like type" are desirable features, not problems with this approach: either it's possible to convert both strings to a common form, or I shouldn't be trying to combine them.