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Enable read-only overlay for your rootfs and make your /boot readonly. Just use raspi-config, and go into performance options.

There are some gotchas - everything you write after that goes to a tmpfs. Meaning it starts cutting into your available RAM. So this overlay is only really useful if you are using the high-memory variants like the 4GB/8GB RPI4. With the 1GB Pi variants, this gets painful.

Alternatively, You could setup a cron job to reboot every night thus clearing the tmpfs.

Do remember to disable the overlay (and make /boot rw) every few weeks to apply updates.
It might be a case of the US and Australia being different, but here here $1 will get you 3 or 4 bananas at an independent fruit shop whereas even the shittiest cheeseburger on the Hungry Jack's Penny Pinchers menu costs $2.
Again, the snob and the gatekeeping.

> watched Spotify's editorial playlists ... leading to a slow homogenization of music culture

All based on the assumption that people only use editorial playlists and there's no other way.

> Spotify's recommendations are not the fair system that you think it is

I never wrote anything even remotely saying that I think their recommendations are 'fair'.

> worse than radio tastemakers of the past

Is it though? With radio, you had pretty much no choice. I can now pick from millions of playlists on a whim. If I find a new artist in some way, I can listen to all their music and I can instantly find artists with similar styles.

You assume that people only listen to curated playlists.

You gatekeep by implying that only genuine independent acts are worth listening to.

You imply that if Spotify wouldn't exist, people would have better ways to find music.

None of this is true. Most people would would just go back to listening to the same 10 songs being played on the radio over and over. Or they would venture to iTunes, Beatport or the likes, which are just as curated as Spotify.

For me, Spotfy is a nearly limitless collection of all the music I could want to listen to. Vacationing in Germany and hear a Polish song I like? Add it to Spotify and find more from the artist, while still on the highway. Feel nostalgic? Play Major Tom and some more Bowie on a whim while on the way to work. Want to discover music that sounds somewhat like another artist? Open Spotify Radio for the artist and let the Algo show me some other stuff. Suddenly have a craving for a genre I never listen to? Search for a playlist on the genre, which usually isn't curated by Spotify.

Through this process I recently found some songs by an artist who's most played song is at <3k plays. This is a musician who sings in an incredibly local dialect. I don't know how I would've found them otherwise. Especially since I found them while road tripping, not while reading some snobby music blog.

So please stop with the gatekeeping and just accept that people might actually like Spotify and use it in another way than just playing curated playlists. And even if they do just use it that way, accept it.
Actually you lose most of your mass through carbon dioxide, through breathing.
(And similarly, trees and plants get almost all their mass through carbon dioxide, not the soil.)
Taliban issues an edict banning all women from universities
Then haven’t seen some old .NET codebases. Both languages around the high of OOP-hype made similar monstrosities, but neither does it anymore.
He was talking about independent studios though.
No one I know had ever pronounced it Me. How did you come to the conclusion this non existent thing was an Americanism?
What kind of account was it that was dormant, was it a regular checking account?
If that's bothering you, you might consider configuring port-knocking[0], or setting up a VPN like tailscale instead of exposing an SSH port.

[0] https://goteleport.com/blog/ssh-port-knocking/
Makes me feel pretty privileged to follow the "Buy the cheap one, if it breaks buy the expensive one" mantra.
I guess it depends per country. In Germany it has become common that the landlord will require a credit score (called Schufa) plus the things you mentioned (3 months of pay slips, references of balances paid from past landlord).

Strong data protection rules have made it that there is now a credit score report which is only giving you a pass/fail so that landlords don't know too many details.
Well. I am often bored... so I avoid doing things. I have yet to encounter a job without boring stuff to do. Once in a while a nice challenge comes along and my motivation is through the roof again.

Also rebelliousness fits the bill very nicely for me. Combine that with boredom. Et voila.
Well, while maven be a bit bigger, gradle has plenty of users as well, which uses groovy or kotlin for configuration.
> Supreme Courts in Canada (unsure on the USA)

Washington State Supreme Court has ruled similarly.
Elon Musk is absolutely right when he proclaimed that the woke min virus needs to be eradicated and that nothing else matters.
Yea, seems like non-standard port is the way to go for now. Knocking protocol seems overkill. I'm security conscious, but I am lazy too.
Universe is a pretty big place, there's enough room for everyone. Virtual world is even bigger if you decide to move there, and I expect many people will.
Run Tailscale on your server, bind the ssh port to the Tailscale local address only, then you can just logon to Tailscale to access SSH, no longer publicly accessible.
Back in the 90s in L.A., I remember that that some grocery store chains were routinely more expensive than others (e.g., Vons always cost more than Lucky’s). I found it interesting while exploring some neighborhoods that in lower-income parts of the city, I was more likely to see the more expensive grocery chain than the less expensive one. And that’s putting aside the whole food desert issue with South Central where there weren’t any grocery stores at all. I’m not sure how the grocery situation looks now.
Hmm, probably not a good idea for my website, but blocking certain countries might be best.
I don't care about ETH but BTC will most definitely never be close to worthless, so your question is moot.
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There's a difference between increasing populations of endangered animals like wolves and doing it for the animals that humanity has increased in number and range, like dogs.

Not sure how chimps fit in though.
Love the map projections animation inside of the examples!
I would say 90% of the food in dollar stores is high in oil, salt, or sugar and most of the time all three. Most of it is cookies, crackers, potato chips, sauces, soda, etc.
I have seen a few with decent staples such as wheat bread, eggs, meat but that is small pct of all foods. Rarely vegetables (or ever). Would be hard to eat healthy if got most of your food there.

Regular supermarkets have plenty of bad food but still wide selection of nutritious food.
Wrong; vastly more people need to see that type of reply to a comment. If landlords don't like the idea that they're actively robbing working-class Americans to the extent that said working-class Americans are decreasingly hesitant to respond to that violence in kind, then said landlords are kindly encouraged to, you know, stop robbing working-class Americans. Nothing stopping them from working an honest living like the rest of us instead of existing on our teat against our will.
Dec 20 (Reuters) - U.S. industrial conglomerate 3M Co (MMM.N) on Tuesday set a 2025 deadline to stop producing PFAS, the "forever chemicals" used in anything from cell phones to semiconductors that have been linked to cancers, heart problems and low birth weights.

Perfluoralkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) do not break down quickly and have in recent years been found in dangerous concentrations in drinking water, soils and foods.
The importance of the study I linked is that it examined consumption in low-income populations, and not the broader public.

As my point was that sugary drinks are often a form of caloric replacement, and not preference, for low-income people – as was my lived experience – the study was relevant as it's the type of result you'd expect were that to be the case.

I was not arguing that sugary drinks don't contribute to obesity in the general public.
Use UFW with fail2ban and set a whitelist for IPs that can connect to ssh. Stopping connection attempts is like trying to stop a toddler from touching everything. IP and Portscans run continously day in day out. The servers I manage are scanned all day long and as safe as the security you set.
If you think housing is nuts, wait until you hear about childcare!

That said, you turned on the prior poster for basically saying “set a budget” — that’s not “glamorizing the hustle” that’s “live with intention”.

Sure, millennials and gen-z can’t afford housing in LA — but basically the only generation that widely owned property is the boomers, and that corresponded with insane labor scarcity (thanks, WW2) and the era before housing moratoriums.

Want more housing? Vote against laws restricting housing. Or, move to where housing isn’t restricted. There are tons of millennials and gen-z buying property, it’s just not in SF, LA, NYC, Seattle, or Portland — those metros have spoken, and they’re 100% invested in not letting newcomers in unless they’re very rich.
>Unfortunately we cannot raise the standard of living for everyone

The standard of living has been rising constantly throughout American history
Mapping/folding is possible with plain old java streams. So while scala can be smaller, the difference is not too significant in my opinion.
Or you can create a cryto scam and have the best of both worlds.
Just use hosts.allow for select IP addresses while banning all else via hosts.deny. This is a very low level blocking solution that is native to Linux, very simple, and very secure. I believe it also operates "closer to the metal" and under xinetd, but I could be wrong on this.
Bubble-hunting is marvelous.
> you built an absurd strawman argument, hung it around my neck

I never replied to you.

> please point where in my post I even came close to suggesting bitcoin should be banned.

please point to where in my post I even came close to suggesting Bitcoin should NOT be banned? Re-read my comment.

I'm not reading any more of your totally un-hinged reply. Get help.

EDIT: I couldn't resist skimming the most absurd comment I've ever seen on HN, and saw this:

"..maybe in the future before reread the post you’re replying to to make sure they actually said what you think they said"

lol take some of your own medicine.
Yeah agree 100%.

Unless you’re implementing a standard, software engineering is 50% communication with peers/clients/users, if not more..
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Thanks, I guess? FYI, I joined Picnic in 2019, long after this choice had been (independently) made.
some will continue to buy the old stuff elsewhere.

some, however few and small, will choose to buy the new, more expensive, less convenient, less performant stuff for a variety of reasons, once it exists at all.

And as time goes on, pressures and variables change.

Nothing happens without starting somewhere, and the first step of ecery change that ever happened can always be characterized as impractical, ineffective, irrational. And yet, countless such changes have happened anyway despite those perfectly reasonable sounding arguments.
Even very very small amounts of these pose a risk to our health. And because they never break down, they keep building up in the environment. They are everywhere, in your drinking water, in the soil where you plant your vegetables, …
We haven’t really moved the needle on anything in regards to lowering the COL (except, maybe and in only some circumstances, healthcare, but look at how far we have to go and how bad the political backlash was) in… at least two decades? Maybe three?

Federal minimum wage hasn’t even increased from $7.25 since 2009. In 1997 it was $5.15 (or $9.55 in 2022 dollars, so even 25 years ago we paid workers more than we do today)

Maybe it’s time to start putting those crazy ideas out there, because the status quo is proving more and more unsustainable
That's really insightful!
> It's psychotic how much psychological weight people put on homeownership.

When the options are "pay hundreds to a couple thousands of dollars per month for 30 years or less" v. "pay hundreds more than that per month in perpetuity", it should be entirely unsurprising that the former is vastly preferable.
I was just researching graph representations. I would have used dictionaries for edges and nodes indexed by their IDs.. because that representation is json-merge patchable, which is useful for specifying atomic bulk graph operations.
I think OP is right. Cryptocurrencies / distributed ledgers / merkle trees literally solve 0 problems of confirming things said in meat space were actually said or done. Additionally, a ledger of facts doesn’t give you the bigger picture of what’s happening. Eg if I’m saying as a CEO that our retention policy is now 3 months, how are you going to use facts to prove that I’m doing this for FOIA? Additionally, even if you think there’s some kind of path where recordings go into the ledge, with deep fakes, that’s a losing proposition.

How do you solve this problem? Checks and balances and strong institutions that actively work to remove moral hazards from society AND themselves. Sure, if you weaken institutions and then claim they’re ineffective, you’re just creating self-fulfilling prophecies. In a well-designed system, you don’t need to audit the auditors. Make sure that the auditors are secret and that randomly chosen (ie there’s no incentive to collude with the entity being audited). Provide strong incentives (training, compensatory, social, rewards) and protection (ie people with power going after them / their reputation) for both rooting out corruption/scams and that when they say a business isn’t a scam then it’s most likely not (eg clawbacks on money, prestige, recognition, etc).

Additionally, the FBI, IRS and other state and federal law enforcement agencies should be proactively auditing the largest businesses OR outsourcing to very trusted auditors (ie ones for whom the cancellation of the contract would be a death sentence which is easy to enforce by requiring that 100% of revenue for the outsourced agency comes from the federal government and there’s N such agencies that all split the pie so that if one fails and gets corrupt the others take over (the FBI is authorized to have wiretaps and secretly monitor the auditors to ensure there’s no kind of collusion communication happening between auditing agencies (ie we allow leadership in these trusted position to require that you give up more of your rights to be in it and we publish job-relevant details from ~5 years ago without any FOIA battles allowed - only personal details can be omitted and only on-the job details are revealed so no marital secrets). Additionally, anyone caught leaking or losing these records before they are released to the public is punished by getting fired and criminal charges being mandatory. If an audit of the FBI reveals the director is asleep / didn’t properly establish best practices to keep the data in control, the president fires them.

Anyway these are all obvious wildly radical ideas and not necessarily possible to implement due to various laws / there may be flaws in the specific details. My overall point still stands. It’s fraud because we let it exist, not because it’s impossible due to human nature / the way society works.
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> And raincoats were really really horrible before Gore-Tex.

Nope, they were fine. A bit heavier but far longer-lasting, including the waxed versions which can be re-waxed if needed to keep up waterproofing. I'm still using my army-issued raincoats from when I served in 1992, one of them has been with me on a number of expeditions (months of paddling the Yukon from Whitehorse to the Bering Strait, climbing several mountains, etc) where it doubled as a tent bottom, it is still perfectly serviceable. The lighter version I still use when cycling, it is still waterproof and the seams - which usually are the weak spot - still hold. I'm also using a 20yo wax coat which I re-waxed a few times (still using the original tin of wax), that one hardly contains any synthetics. Anything made of Gore-Tex would have delaminated after a few months of this type of use.
to me, the issues come from a couple places:

- who gets to judge what is or is not a social ill? For example cigarettes bad, marijuana good? these are merely the whims of a fickle mob mentality. witch trials and mass paranoia are now canonized

- bureaucratic inertial. governments are big. big and really inefficient. when you put so much of your existence in the hands of a government, you'll then demand so much more from it too. when it gets so big to be ungovernable, even if everyone agrees on what's right to do it becomes impossible. US VA administration and the tar pits of ancient la brea.

- the above two issues presume a vast majority involved are honest brokers. but that historically appears to be not at all the case. with such centralized power, the thirst of the dark personalities is inescapable. so the facade may be painted legitimate, but very quickly the actual power will become very, very dark.
It's only a matter of time before that miracle starts to wear off - assuming it hasn't already started to wear off.
This! Yes. Please
Yes, and I see this phenomenon everywhere now. They completely ignore the explicit instructions we are giving and prioritize their “suggestions” instead. Facebook, Twitter with their default timeline views. On Twitch’s TV app it used to be one click from the main page to continue watching a video now it’s 5 clicks because they replace with suggested channels, recommended blah blah.

One can go blue in the face “quoting” terms on Amazon search but they’ll just show whatever they want anyways completely ignoring the exact terms entered. I’d prefer them to say “we couldn’t find any results for you” than to give me pages of useless results instead.
Org-mode works well. It is essentially just a markup like Markdown.
I collected them from FTP sites and still keep them (later on vanbasco.com made hoarding MIDIs unnecessary)

One of my guilty pleasures is to get a well done MIDI file from that era and render it using my Kronos and Logic loaded with NI, Arturia stuff. It’s impressive how you can produce something that was basically inconceivable to the original MIDI author that was using perhaps a Gravis Ultrasound.
The cognitive energy is the least important point by a country mile. Again, you can’t optimize your way out of severe poverty. It is not a problem of mental fortitude, self induced or not. I feel like statements like the one I’m replying to miss the point entirely.

It’s a problem with not having enough time or money to eat well. That’s the take away. The cognitive stress is just a bonus.

Put another way, we totally could have eaten better if we had more time or money. It’s highly unlikely we could have eaten better if we had more mental fortitude.

To reinforce that point, my mom was a very fit person who prioritized eating well before becoming poor. Ran, mountain biked, ski-ed.

After I got money, pretty much all my disposable goes into health and food to fuel. Lift, cycle, surf, run. In high school, I wrestled explicitly because coach would buy me food. It wasn’t mental fortitude or will that was lacking.

It was just time and money.
I suppose if you're technically inclined (so you can install/run Wordpress – now easier with the new SQLite support!), this will become a very attractive way to participate in the Fediverse.

Much easier than a Mastodon instance, and if you don't aspire to have your own "community", but mostly yourself on the server, it sounds attractive.

And that's on top of everyone who already has a Wordpress blog and just by installing a plugin can dip their toes in it.

Have it available at the hosted services like wordpress.com and it could really take off.
You can blame satellite TV for the demise of numbers stations. Shortwave radios became less common with the uptake in broadcast television, so it in turn became more suspicious to be in possession of one.

I won't speak to the methods the US uses now, but Russians are fond of ad-hoc wireless networks in public places.
I find captions too distracting to have them constantly on but often have to turn them on for periods of time when I can't understand what actors are saying.

It's single words or phrases but I think it's happening more often now that actors don't care about proper diction, or for some reasons are no longer filmed until they they say their dialogues clearly.
Yup, works well enough in ST4
And it keeps getting worse!

No solutions, but I empathize and it drives me nuts too.
Funny you mention this because it reminds me of the time I pointed out that Chief Seattle owned slaves and committed a genocide against the Chimmicum people. I forgot the context in which I made this observation but the truth is that the overwhelming majority of people of historical significance would merit cancelling by today’s standards.

The road where on can’t lead anywhere but renaming anything just so a younger generation can claim superiority over older generations whom they are forcing to adopt their new vernacular at risk of cancellation.

“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.” —Philip K. Dick
I wonder if Mozilla needs to be given the Elon treatment too. Getting rid of everyone except those responsible for the core browser functionality might be a good start.
Face recognition was used to identify a lawyer who works for a company involved in actively suing MSG group. She was booted due to her being a lawyer at that company. Her identify was flagged. She was visually identified and then her id was checked.

IMHO, it’s a bullshit story because the issue is whether a lawyer working for a company suing MSG should be booted from other MSG venues.

Companies/venues had blacklists (deny lists) before face recognition became ubiquitous.
> The first few years of your mortgage, you aren't gaining much of any equity. It's nearly all interest payments.

It might not have to be that way.

Where I live we have the linear mortgage. Every month I pay a constant amount back on the principal, and a variable amount of interest on the remaining principal. At the end of the mortgage (30 years here) it is all paid off. With this type of mortgage we pay the lowest overall amount of interest.

Because the monthly payment goes down each month, the first payment is the highest. As a result some people choose to get a different type of mortgage instead, even though the linear type costs the least in the end.
Fine, the pursuit of profit over all else forces people to make decisions like screwing entire neighborhoods out of access to basic quality food and other goods.

Is that better?
Capitalism is a mere social structure, we live on an earth with limited agricultural output. Soil depletion has already made food less nutritious and the problem isn’t getting better.
> By being a land lord, you are preventing people from buying and building equity. Instead their hard earned money goes right into your pocket.

What? This is like arguing that someone who owns a car and is a taxi driver is “preventing people from buying” and “instead their hard earned money goes right into your pocket”.

One person being a landlord does nothing to prevent others from owning property. Housing is no more a scarce resource than cars are. Or, at least, that would be true if the US weren’t covered in laws preventing new housing. There’s your actual bogeyman.
So after trying REALLY HARD to get the audio in sync on the firestick, I played in the prime video android app and cast to Chromecast and the audio is now in sync.