skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mastodon Mafia? Please enlighten us.
And a makeshift audio digitizer!
That's cool but everyone in my family that I convinced to use Signal just stopped using it because it was their default SMS app. Now it's not.
Technically, India did not do this. The people lifted themselves out of poverty because, finally, India‘s government had granted them enough freedom to pursue their happiness.
I don't think it's a false dichotomy because based on the statements of 85% of the people on hacker news, you would think that they have all the right answers for running twitter, and Elon is simply not following their advice. So if he fails, even if it is well intentioned, it is only because he is boneheaded enough to not listen to the geniuses on hacker news and reddit.

Elon has successfully run more than just a car business in a wide variety of fields.

There are free apps that let you archive your Twitter feed, and there are free apps that let you find messed it on users from their Twitter account. I'm sure those tools would get even better and easier to use if the writing was on the wall that Twitter is going down.

What you say about personal investment is true, but it is true about literally everything. If you personally invest in Macedon, I messed it on fails, then you have wasted your time and all of your work is worthless.
For a long time on UNIX it definitely was, until it got its sibling CFront in the package.
And the USA is doing the same to other countries. It is a given that this happens, and will continue to happen. You measure how strong a democracy is by how well they can resist such campaigns. If some random Russian bots can trigger a coup in the strongest and richest country in the world then, well, that's on us.
> I've been in IRC channels now for... phew... 25 years, on Undernet of all places.

List all the channels you're in.
> Malinformation isn't information that is incorrect, but correct information used in a way to create a misleading context.

Good, now we finally have an accurate, single-word description of all non-tabloid journalism.

> It muddles the conversation with more noise.

I agree with GP and I believe that this whole conversation is noise. The biggest red herring there ever was (no pun intended). Yes, Russia is interfering with US elections. So does US with Russia's. I can point at any news article and claim foreign interference and, unless you're literally NSA and can map-reduce the entire Internet in an afternoon, there's no way for you to conclusively prove me wrong. And whether a given article is a result of foreign interference or not, it's creating a misleading context anyway.

The right answer is to understand that the news articles, particularly on hot topics, are always manipulated by some combination of: {your party, other party, foreign influence, The Elites, advertising money} - and to treat it accordingly. That is, don't update your views on the world based on second-hand recycled soundbites. Either try to dig in and understand an issue, or accept the fact that you don't know enough to have an opinion. Yes, it's OK for an adult to not have a strong opinion on a topic. And be very careful about any argument that lets you preferentially dismiss things you don't like as malicious interference by third parties.
The Russian annexation of Crimea had at least some ambiguity. Yes, it was illegal, but Crimea used to belong to Russia, it had majority Russian-speakers, and there was no violence on any significant scale during takeover. The question was, if they are taking over your territory, why don't you fight back? The answer is obviously complicated (and for the record I fully support Ukraine, and I think Crimea and all other occupied territories must be returned to Ukraine). Russia has succeeded, to some extent, making it a "one-of" issue. Now, of course, they've completely destroyed their previous position, it turns out Crimea is not special, they basically try to annex any territory they have any sort of control over.
Very possibly both.
For curious buyers, this is already more or less built in:

- Philips Hue + Hue Hub : the default Hue app can do this, leveraging Hue Labs "Feel better with light" that runs from the hub so you don't need a laptop or other device after the formula is installed.

- Apple HomeKit Adaptive Lighting + Hue or Eve -- I'm a big fan of Eve light strips. See more accessories here: https://www.imore.com/best-accessories-with-homekit-adaptive...

Beyond those, there are other options w/o getting too tricky:

- Hue + Hue Automations + LivingScenes (or similar) + shift at sundown/sunrise

- Hue Labs (various other options)

- Third party apps like HueDynamics, and f.lux itself

- IFTTT: https://ifttt.com/connect/weather/hue

For what it's worth, the Philips Hue white bulbs that vary the white temperature are great, with a better fuller white than the full color bulbs.
No smart phone means no Whatsapp/Discord/Telegram/etc.
When you are not at home, then back to good old phone call/SMS, I assume?
I post a lot about being trans and about trans issues. Trans people like to stick together because there is a part of society that doesn’t understand issues relevant to us, and that can feel alienating. So by being in community with other trans people we feel better. I want trans people to follow me and other trans people are much more likely to follow someone if they’re trans.

But also because I’m trans, and that’s going to upset a small number of bigoted people who will refuse to follow me, and that’s how I’d like it. And since I post about being trans they’re going to find out eventually, and be a problem on my feed.
But that loses the table-like structure and makes it harder to read.
Not sure how knowing I get overcharged by 50X is gonna help me? It is not like I have a choice in the matter anyway (when it comes to healthcare).
I can probably chime in here. I have used Rust professionally for 2 years but I've been working with it as a hobby for 3. Experience predominantly in C/C++ embedded and systems environments.

I've used Rust for *nix based IOT programs to ingest data from different sources (network I/O, serial, CAN, files, etc), as well as for bare-metal embedded development. I've also made some dinky webservers as an exercise and various random tooling.

It's a very, very flexible language, once you get over its quirks. I found myself using it to make tools that I would usually turn to Python for. I'm quite impressed with how "high level" the language feels despite being able to work with low-level concepts. Simple stuff like mapping iterators and the Option<T> type while working without an OS is a fantastic feeling.

As most people will likely say, take Rust for a test drive with a basic project to decide for yourself. I would say to keep it simple and not go down the async route as your first foray, though.
I can imagine it would be a useful alternative to having a bunch of group-chats for people who want to share baby/cat/travel photos. And I can disable it. Win-win.
> Salvador Allende was nearly 50 years ago. I think the US does a lot less of this now.

Sorry, a guy who reminded me of you called from 1973 and says that there's no evidence that the US was involved in the Allende coup.
The chat/stories menu bar takes too much screen real estate. So I've disabled it.
I did want to say Rust was complicated, I meant to say it was complicated to learn. You never need to learn the Java syntax finalize, it is invisible until you have a problem where that is the solution. Similar to Java templates or overloading they dont exist until they are the solution to a problem you are having.

My critique is that Rust appears (and I am probably wrong) to have a problem where syntax for complicated language features appear in the simplest code that even a day 1 grade 8 student needs to memorize, even if they wont understand it until the second year of university.
Sorry for the confusion, I was referring to a movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redline_(2009_film)
I lost the link. And it was on her now-suspended Twitter, so I can't go get it, unfortunately. However, I would not be surprised if helpful people popped up in your notifications if you asked questions on Mastodon (assuming you have an account).
But what about step 0: have a working Linux installation with root privileges, and understand all the security implications of operating said installation.
Look into jetboil campstove/pot. It's got a heat exchanger fin stack on the bottom of the pot to improve boil time.
> On the other hand, going with Phillips Hue or similar will lock me into that ecosystem - which also dictates which lights and switches I could use.

Good news, there's no lock in with Hue. I have about 20 of those bulbs around my house and they all work great with the generic Zigbee coordinator attached to my Home Assistant box. I don't use the Hue Hub, nor do I use the app.

Alongside those bulbs I have another 15-ish Sengled bulbs that also speak Zigbee. They're cheaper and similar in quality, but the color temps don't get as low as Hue. (2700K vs. 2200K on the Hue)

Only caveat with the Hue bulbs is that if you need to reset them for any reason, you'll need either a Hue Hub or one of their dimmers to do that. So I guess there's a little lock-in on that front, but it's not an ecosystem thing where you're stuck.
No. Liberalization of the economy is either what made all of this possible or in any case is what preceded this. An anti-capitalist viewpoint is associated with kids of rich parents who study what are generally viewed as non-productive subjects. The general view is that winning means getting your kids on the next step of the ladder in a profession that will move them upward in socioeconomic status.
the least they could do to end WFH is monitor and manage indoor air quality. 500ppm CO2 OR 222nm UVC so it's at least safer to go back in the office. right now it's a plumes of covid indoor and it's just matter of when for repeat infections; who'd want that.
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Thanks for posting this. Everything old is new again. With buzz about moving to Mastodon, I was just thinking about why usenet couldn't be a viable social media platform as it represents so much of what people like about the fediverse, and then some. It would be fascinating to see the usenet protocol repurposed and new clients and newsgroups built upon lessons from the past decade.
None of the various Europeans I met at a hostel last year use it. So that’s a random sample of people from a dozen or so countries.
Was it? I don't think it was.
I remember back in 2010 when I did my ERASMUS stay in Prague, and mapy.cz and their startpage (can't remember the URL or name) was leagues ahead of anything I had seen up until them. Way ahead of Google.

And, at the same time, the interface was straightforward, clear and concise. It felt effortless, in no insecure need to "feel cool". Its only preoccupation was being extremely useful in the most honest way.

I felt enamoured with it. And it even had great naps for my own country, which isn't exactly close by.
Am I overthinking this or can I just use the Lifx bulbs an the sunset lights routine in the Alexa app?
> So did Moxie leave because Signal got overtaken by Feds?

No, he worked on Signal for so long that he probably just wanted to take a break to work on other passions too - he's still on the Signal Foundation board (https://signalfoundation.org/)

> Why is a secure messenger adopting the appearance of social media?

I'd argue that Stories (or equivalent) is nowadays a standard feature in many messengers.
To more directly answer your question no - Signal is missing a key aspect of Social Media: discovery. Stories is pretty much equivalent to share a picture to a group of people.
You can also easily disable the feature in settings.

> Doesn't this work explicitly against the entire claimed reason for not having an account system?

I'm not sure specifically to what you refer to but in general: phone numbers is still the primary way to find new folks, but they're working on a username feature. They will still use phone numbers for simplicity as "account" but again, Stories is simply a new interface to share pictures with your contacts.
The way out of this mess is services. You don't call the open function through some ABI, instead you send a message to a file system service through a mediator and get a file handle back. On Linux, that mediator would be D-Bus, developed by the GNOME people who relatively early recognized the need for it. Possibly because everything in GNOME is written in C so they were familiar with how painful it is to interact with C libraries.

Of course, services aren't panacea and they incur large performance penalties due to the context switching. However, for non-performance critical tasks services are the future.
It's tiring to hear people in government say all their problems can be solved with more people and more money.
Isn't that like saying people are in favour of free speech. Until someone starts inciting violence.

It's still in favour of free speech, just with limits.

The same applies to free markets. If they work as promised great. If not someone needs to step in and fix it.
In all honesty, I’ve found it healthier to have fixed color temperature in different rooms, and change what room I’m in throughout the day. I’m only in my bedroom when warm lighting makes sense, I’m only in my office when cool lighting makes sense. That helps establish other healthy habits than just sleep, and keeping the bedroom dedicated to sex and sleep is a good practice anyway to combat insomnia.
I prefer light themes, but usually have to roll my own that follows the WCAG specification (contrast ratio of 7:1 for normal text).

My color palette for syntax highlighting:

- Green (#006600): strings

- Blue (#2e2eff): types

- Red (#b30000): keywords

- Gray (#595959): comments, constants

For editor UI:

- White: editor background

- Gray5 (#f7f7f7): ruler

- Gray10 (#f2f2f2): statusline and menu background

- Gray15 (#d1d1d1): selected menu item background

- Red15 (#ffd1d1): error background

- Yellow15 (#ffffd1): warning background
If you're interested in HomeAssistant to solve this problem, I wrote a simpler implementation, [1] of using the sunrise/sun position sensor to change scenes for a room's lights. This didn't involve having a Zigbee hub like this post suggests, mostly because all my lights were Hue, or Zigbee-compatible (IKEA-branded Tradfri lights) that were already on my Hue bridge.

I found this worked for me, since I only needed to create four automations:

- What happens if the lights are turned on after/before sunset (2)

- What happens if if the lights are already on after/before sunset when it changes (2)

This implementation seems more around more fine adjustments to brightness/colour/colour temp, but mine's more geared towards "Is the sun down? Change the scene."

[1] https://mattdemers.com/sun-specific-light-automations-with-h...
I have a few qualms with this "twitter" app:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting a mastodon account, joining an instance of your choosing with your acccount, and then using other things on the fediverse to have the same feed. From mobile, this Mastodon account could be accessed through built-in software.

2. It doesn't actually replace a social network. Most people I know talk among themselves or host their thoughts online somewhere, but they still talk to each other on the phone or go outside in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.

3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?
So, subliminal messaging?
For a person who claims to be a "free speech absolutionist" he sure does do a lot of censoring of free speech, especially when it's critical of him.

Say what you will of the ACLU, but the defend the free speech rights of pornographers and klansmen alike.
... on RHEL/CentOS/Alma/Rocky Linux which use SELinux instead? :)
Sounds like it was just stored on a Trezor or Ledger hardware wallet.
Internet standards like IRC or XMPP? Investing in those instead of walled gardens was the right choice to begin with.
But that's also why it is so important that we fight back. That we don't let these bad faith "discussions" propagate. We push back. We provide the complexity and nuance to slow it all down.
The Battle of the Pass: An Umayyad Military Disaster
The thing you call someone when it becomes clear that the thing that he actually calls himself is a lie.
Another comment says this is based on the donor. So, if you can self donate, or find one matching donor, you should be able to get a match every time.

Obviously, custom tailored stuff is likely to take longer to develop, but it seems feasible.
Anyone know of a fork of signal that disables this keeps the SMS feature?
> In what ways?

Twitter's product has been static for years, barring perhaps the introduction of Twitter Spaces, which has barely made a dent in usage (as far as I can see, anyway). I personally regard this as a negative: I think that they should have been innovating more. But if I were a major brand looking at my advertising commitments I'd probably be fine with it.

> And in what ways do you think federated servers that don't agree on what rules to apply and lack any sort of mechanism for global, centralized control will make Mastodon reliable, predictable or even somewhat boring?!?

I don't personally think Mastodon is the answer so I'm probably not well positioned to answer this. But if my organization sets up its own Mastodon instance I'm free to ignore what the larger Mastodon ecosystem is doing, if I want to. It is under my control and can't be bought out by a memelord playing a prank gone wrong.
Perfect may be the enemy of good, but thankfully the US' ability to construct in a reasonably fast and affordable way isn't good.
Which is all the ones that matter the most for this discussion due to market share / mindshare.
> The point is to ... create in-fighting so that no united formation can stand against them.

I haven't seen a newspaper in 8 months. How is that working out for them?
Typography for Lawyers, 2nd Edition (2018)
> directors got personal liability waivers

Their personal liability stems from their Board seats. That’s squarely in the purview of most D&O policies.
I don't know if abolishing patents altogether would improve innovation. But I'm pretty sure that patents on obvious things hinder innovation, rather than help it.

I'm not familiar with the invention of flash freezing. Did the inventor just patent the idea of freezing food fast? That sounds like a pretty obvious idea that should not be patentable. Why give someone a monopoly on quick freezing?

Or did the inventor patent a non-obvious mechanical device that is capable of quickly freezing food? Giving the inventor a short term monopoly on that device in exchange for publishing the blueprints sounds like a reasonable deal.
An ecosystem's tooling makes a huge difference apart from the first order properties of a programming language.

To mention here are:

* (sampling) profilers that work with unmodified applications

* stack traces

* easy to use heap/core-dumps

* a good debugger

* reliable refactoring

* code navigation

It is something that makes me very reluctant to adopt "cool new tech".
"Give the people what they want"

At least they realize we want a way to avoid stories.
this is a tech website so I'm sure you can appreciate the need for urgent migrations given the sudden changes in userbase
Taiwan Prepares to Be Invaded
That's the irony/tragedy of this, isn't it. The misallocation of funds is staggering.

I'll give you another example. There's a stop sign not far from my home that gets knocked down with such alarming frequency that the neighborhood knows it at "Kenny" (the South Park character that always got killed). I would say it lasts two to six weeks. I would not be surprised if, in the last ten years, Kenny was replaced 100 to 200 times. I lost count.

The reason this happens is that semi trucks exiting the freeway at night can't see it, make a tighter than usual turn and run it over. There really isn't anything wrong with the turn, they have plenty of room. The sign is simply in the wrong place.

Guess what they do? Every time the sign is taken down they return and install a new sign in exactly the same spot. Brand new sign. I would not be surprised if the aggregate cost of replacing this sign, between hardware, labor and organizational costs is in the order of $10K to $20K. Which means we have likely spent between a million and four million dollars, if not more, replacing this sign.

It's Einstein's definition of madness: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And we pay for the madness.
That's still way too complex for something that wants to be widely used. It should just be an app on your phone or PC.
Ahh OK, that makes sense, thanks. So it's for filtering as well.
In fact, you cannot trust an OS you DIDN'T build yourself

... with a compiler you wrote yourself. In assem-- uh, in hexade... no. With toggle switches.
> I assume one too many of the songs he'd played must have had been too recent, and got copystriked.

I bet whatever songs got him banned were in the public domain, but ContentID thought it sounded too much like a copyrighted recording of the same song. This sort of thing happens all the time to musicians who upload themselves playing classical songs. It's infuriating.
If you're making a single cup (~250mL) why do you need to heat 1000mL of water?
Q: How does SPN differ from a VPN, in detail? In other comments you said that it's similar to Tor, but what does that actually mean?

If you haven't read these post [0][1] already, please do so and come back with any remaining questions!

[0] https://safing.io/blog/2022/09/06/spn-vs-vpns/

[1] https://safing.io/blog/2020/01/22/how-the-spn-compares-to-to...

Q: Does traffic get routed through multiple nodes before being routed to the destination? If not, what sets it apart from a VPN - apart from being able to choose different servers for every program on your PC?

Yes. And you can configure how much of that you want - per App: https://docs.safing.io/portmaster/settings#spn/routingAlgori...

Q: Is SPN intended to provide privacy against nation-state actors where simply masking your exit node is not sufficient, similar to what Tor claims to do?

"Nation-state actor" is a bit vague, assuming the most common meaning (IMO): a global passive adversary.

Quoting from the Tor design document: A global passive adversary is the most commonly assumed threat when analyzing theoretical anonymity designs. But like all practical low-latency systems, Tor does not protect against such a strong adversary.

Neither Tor, or the SPN (or anything else) will protect you from this. If they can really see everything, they will find you - sooner or later.

What we aim for is to stop exposing you to the data sources of the mass surveillance dragnet: Online tracking and the Internet-network itself.

Q: Who operates exit nodes (and any intermediary nodes in the SPN network), are they owned or rented dedicated servers, and does it include residential connections - to provide unblocking for streaming services?

Currently we rent servers, but will start adding our own dedicated ones once the scale is there. Nodes are also hosted by the community to diversify the node ownership in order to strengthen the privacy protection. Currently not using residential connections.

Q: Is traffic routed through other Portmaster users' internet connections?

No.
The proportions are weird, which is what made me wonder. But sure.
Are you targeting only Windows PCs? Then go with Godot.

Do you have a AA or AAA budget? Go with Unreal.

Otherwise, go with Unity.
I'm a native English speaker and I have the same thing, where someone will say something I don't understand, and then in the middle of asking what they mean, I realise what they were trying to say (The processing just took longer than I expected)