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Ask HN: Why are captive portals such a pain with Linux?
I’ve been running some flavor of Linux for the last 5-6 years. Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu and currently Pop_OS. On every one of them, captive portals on hotel or public WiFi will randomly turn into a nightmare.

Sometimes the page will be detected immediately. Other times, no amount of finagling will make it appear. There doesn’t seem to be any simple command line way to force the discovery and authentication process either.

I normally get around this by just using my phone as a hotspot so it’s not a huge issue, but other times when I travel that’s not a good solution (especially internationally).

Is there somebody out there who has figured this out? Starbucks never works for me. Chick-fil-A is always reliable. Most hotels give me issues. My local university, totally fine.

There has to be some solution, doesn’t there?
Somehow I completely missed linking the article

https://hbr.org/2014/01/how-netflix-reinvented-hr
I hope they'll bring back sideloading too. It's really annoying that's not available anymore.
They definitely will be, now that google is looking to more proactively enforce ads.

But the biggest danger is that videos and channels can get removed by any, all, or no reason.

-Copyright middlemen/parasites

-Trolls

-Shifts in what’s politically or advertiser acceptable (see: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/14ddlng/unalived/)

-Massive data loss (see myspace)

-And especially the capricious whims of the channel owner.

A few years ago I realized an old playlist of mine was basically swiss cheese due to how many videos had been removed.

If you value it, save it now, because it will be gone sooner than you are prepared for.

There are many ways to handle automated saving of channels, including some gui frontends, but offhand the one I use and modify is: https://github.com/TheFrenchGhosty/TheFrenchGhostys-Ultimate...
China has fallen into a psycho-political funk
Logic for azure chatgpt's "infinite context" summarisation is in https://github.com/microsoft/azurechatgpt/blob/main/src/feat...

*Edit Azure chatgpt, would be amazed/disappointed if chatgpt used langchain.
It's not exactly safe in Ukraine either. American blogger Gonzalo Lira is under arrest for essentially an identical crime, dubbed "infoterrorism".
Tungsten rings are a bad idea if your ring needs to be cut off. If you ever injure your hand/fingers wearing one, remove all rings immediately, but especially a tungsten or other hard metal ring.
I’m on 11 Insider Preview on my work machine and about once a week I get a notification that says something to the effect of Defender not finding anything after scanning five times.
Right. If I was an European company worried about, say, industrial espionage, this wouldn't be nearly enough to reassure me.
That’s not remotely worth the hassle of a colour inkjet. Just decide on the photos together and upload them to a proper photo print service for delivery to her home.
It would be a fun exercise to implement something like TPC-C for learndb and see how this done.
https://archive.ph/q0Oxk
https://archive.ph/vCg6z
It seems lame that UEFI firmware needs to 'mount' a filesystem to load a bootloader.

That bootloader needs to mount a filesystem to find the kernel.

The kernel needs to mount the filesystem to run the system.

Each of those mount operations is done with different code, and normally each involves some config or search process to find the right disk/partition. If any of the searches finds the wrong partition or is misconfigured, you get a boot failure.

It really feels like the boot process is more complex than it needs to be, with more opportunities for failure than necessary.
Call me cynical, but does anything stop companies from using one drop of real vanilla extract, a couple of gallons of artificial vanilla flavor, and then stick it in the ingredients as “natural and artificial flavors” and put a big “MADE WITH REAL VANILLA” badge on the front?
In approximately the same sense that reporting about Abu Ghraib could be considered to impact American "national security", or sharing videos of abuses by Israeli soldiers in Gaza could be considered to impact Israeli "national security".
I wouldn’t reply otherwise
Not enough beavers. But we make red food coloring out of ground up bugs so maybe.
Because it is a team in the sense that it made no difference (or little difference) who on the team picked up a specific work item off the kanban board. Theoretically, we should all be able to fill in for each other if we’re absent. But most of the time we’re all present and working on our individual tasks that don’t rely on other individual tasks. It might be hard to imagine if you’ve never been in devops or a traditional operations role, I suppose.

And exactly, ask that to our managers.
Can you define significance for me? Because the way you're using it is not the same as the way your evidence uses it.

You're either being ignorant or dishonest, and I'd hate to assume whichever one you find more objectionable.
Don’t have to say anything. Sadly no one is interested in experience with Netware in the nineties.
Okay. And do you think that's a good thing?
I guess you are early in your journey but there is no pricing
If it’s class action, then you have to not have participated.

If you didn’t, then you can bring your own suit. But in order to bring a suit you’d have to show you’ve been harmed, so you’d have to have been a customer of one of these printers.
In the way that it's an embedded RDBMS.
It's got to be the hardware. Most people don't have two or three hours fixing their desktop after an update. I use Debian Testing, and I can't remember the last time an update went bad; it's been years.

If you use bleeding-edge hardware with an OS that vendors aren't specifically targeting, expect problems. I gave up trying to put Linux on random new laptops, so I've researched compatibility ahead of every purchase I've made in the last 10 years. Also, if you buy from a vendor that specializes in Linux, there will be a markup, but you will also get assurances and support.

We can pretend like that's a failure on the part of Linux, but Apple only gives you like five choices of machine, while Linux runs at least somewhat on every random computer-like object.
Thank you for this incredibly informative and detailed answer! It's going to take a few passes (and following some links) to put everything together.

>Do you have any particular weirdness and/or contradiction in mind?

Not in particular or specifically. I was just imagining that if there were such a thing possible, it surely would create some weird anomalies in our measurements.

The idea that something could warp our spacetime so dramatically that we would perceive it as being the normal state of things, even though the "warp" is ultimately temporary, is for some reason incredibly interesting to me.
Mark Zuckerberg hits out at Elon Musk for wasting time over cage fight
That's what constitutions are for.
To the point of running it smoothly at scale in prod with backup?

Nope. Hence you learn the RDS api and use it.
And Krita. Great software.
Sounds like a spin-off of the phonebooth social engineering village challenges. Time and luck can be overwhelming factors, just like in the real world.

Appreciate your insight, hope you did well!
Success is to blame. Success is a deviation from a billion years of carefully crafted method for getting by in the universe. The greater the success, the greater the deviation.

And like a new chemical in the water, or a novel way for your blood to flow, or an extra hole in your head, that deviation is probably bad.
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are."

https://infosec.exchange/@itisiboller/109472911587284824
> It was kinda crazy because "all" he said was that didn't care about a teen who died in police custody, specifically that this teen was a, "good for nothing, spice smoking, Toxteth monkey"

"

Rowan O’Connell, 23, was hit with a fine by magistrates today over the sick outbust following the death of Mzee, 18.

The teenager, described by his mother as a “gentle giant”, died after becoming unwell while detained by police officers at Liverpool ONE in July.

O’Connell took to social media website Reddit, where he made baseless allegations, labelling Mzee a “good for nothing, spice smoking, Toxteth monkey”.

He added: “As I say, who gives a f**.”

"

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/watch-mo...

So, Not quite what you said.

> or just saying something mildly offensive will often lead to prosecution

That's not mild, and you either know it or should know it.

> I mean just this week an autistic child got arrested for calling a lesbian police officer a lesbian here in the UK.

No link eh? What a surprise.

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edit: this isn't about the rights/wrongs of what was said in this case but your (deliberately?) incomplete description of them. I actually share your concern about freedom of speech but twisting facts doesn't build your case well.
I assume you're referring to Vicellinus.

There's a big difference here, that he was given a trial and executed within the bounds of the system, as corrupt as that system may have been.

The extra-legal violence with Gracchus was quite new, and much more likely to spiral out of control.
This is the part I’m missing. The players who own space are either corporations or landlords who rent to corporations.

Corporations have an incentive to not lose money on real estate that they’ve already purchased, whether or not they have employees warming that space.

Landlords have an incentive to make money through rent, but they can’t really exert pressure on corporations to rent the space landlords own.

Where is the chain of incentives?
I selectively rewatched B5 this summer with one of my kids, who had never seen it before.

It holds up very well, actually, once he got past the blocky CGI. The characterization is wonderful, the plotting ridiculously tight -- episodes that look like they are just Monster of the Week filler are not; a few episodes are clearly setting up something Big and then just barely get referenced.

The growth in G'Kar and Vir is amazing; the relationship between G'Kar and Londo legendary.
According to that article, the tracking dots only apply for color printers/printouts, so they wouldn’t apply in GP’s scenario (out of color ink).
These systems do not have periodic orbits they have symmetric strange attractors.

So tracing a particle thru these systems will not result in periodicity but will trace out these symmetric structures. It is unclear from the website if these are proven symmetries or observed.

A good book that is a bit more technical than Gleick (which I found not wrong in the details it does have) is “Introduction to Applied Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Chaos” by Stephen Wiggins. It requires basic under grad maths but is a graduate text in that very close reading is needed to follow. The first 17 chapters are intended as a semester class.
And that makes what difference exactly...?
When it first aired, it was the only show us in the Computer Room ever talked about, before or since, it was amazing. I remember every one outside of the room talking about some crazy things people were doing. I finally asked one of them, "who did that ?". I was told it was on a show called Seinfeld, which most of us in the room never heard about :)

I re-watched it last year, time for another spin with B5.
Or more correctly.

Congratulations on the mark. I'm sorry we subjected you to such an inhuman peer ranking activity. Society has become so psychotic that it's impossible for us to understand anything unless we quantify it and this is your initiation.
Yeah it also reminds me a bit of PC Tools back in the day. Just like Norton Commander and PC Tools both had their share of fans. I was more of a PC Tools fan in the PC days but I am more into mc these days.

Xtree on DOS I never knew at all.
I guess the question would be whether banning opposition is the best way to quell opposition.

One of the core tenets of democracy is that the people get a choice in their government. If the current government is able to rip that choice away if it's unpalatable, then that's anti-democratic in and of itself.
When I installed FreeBSD on my Hetzner servers, I did so by booting the servers into the Linux based rescue mode and then I think I used dd to write the mfsBSD media onto one of the hard drives.

This way I didn’t have to request KVM access for my servers.

Perhaps a similar method can be used in order to install ZFSBootMenu
Moving from IC to Engineering Manager
>Socialism is where the workers own the means of production.

Clearly that is not the case in any European country.

>Dassault

Literally family owned.

I don't think you realize just how capitalist European countries really are. State owned corporations are usually quite rare and generally known for being run extremely badly. On the other hand many of the largest corporations are still controlled by the families of their founders.
I’m just confused about causal chain that would lead to this happening…perhaps it’s a lack of imagination. Like, do we think that landlords are bribing corporations to lease their properties?
What does that have to do with allowing casual lies about history to go unchallenged? Let's say they do have a place - does that mean we have to whitewash the history of Muslim conquest? In other cases of descendants of invasions, they're made to call themselves 'settlers' and give land acknowledgments. The least we can do here is not tell lies.
Parsinator.js – a JavaScript parser combinator library with state
Yet another parser combinator library with a couple unique features:

* State, which helps for contextful languages of any reasonable amount of complexity (like ones that have LR conflicts or whitespace delimiting).

* Supports parameterized parsers and recursive parsers.

* Powerful debug recording and displaying. This can be enormously helpful figuring out why your parser isn't working as you expect.
The sort of have other revenue generating products. From top of my head, they have firefox relay, vpn, a cooperation with pocket(getpocket_com) and I see some more test products. They are trying but once you offer people something for free, trying to side/up-sell your monetized products feel sleezy and a lot of reputation hit(see pocket integration causing outrage, or brave promoting their crypto bundle thing which you can entirely hide and never use).
You can always bring your own case as long as you were not a party to the settlement. Though for it to be successful you’re probably going to have to show you suffered more than the average class member.

For instance you buy a dishwasher that is faulty. There’s a class action settlement, but for you, the dishwasher ruined your apartment and the neighbors downstairs. You can opt out and sue directly even if there’s been a class settlement.
> This is why Section 1201(a)(2) needs to be struct from the law

Perhaps it is becoming clearer that the law is an ass, written to serve special interests, and nothing to do with some sort of expression of morality or right and wrong. And that is all it has ever been.

For myself, I cannot conceive of the hybris required in writing down a set of words that I would then expect others to follow. Imagine doing this at a family gathering! (I'm not talking about writing a guide or means to help others learn/improve themselves by their own choice.)

The very idea of law is a false one, imo. Who has the moral high ground, who can relay that in writing to others? Is it not actually a subterfuge to allow others to do harm and yet call it good?

Basically, one needs to find one's heart, and follow that. The law is a merely another control structure.
Nothing new but that they are popular on instagram and toktok now. Drop-in autosears have been around as long as automatic weapons have. You can make your own with a bent wire, there is no putting basic mechanical physics back in the box. Perhaps education and social outreach might be effective, because control is not.
I was always a bit confused about where Bruce disappeared to after Scarecrow and Mrs King. I came to the show late, everyone was telling me to watch it, but I mostly watched a few episodes as a nod to Bruce Boxleitner.
Not really. I use it as a static site generator. You also can have it generate client-side JS. Look at what the sibling commenters are saying about island architecture.
Thanks all for your engagement and comments. I have updated the article to address many of these points.
3% is probably twice as many as 10 years ago. Pretty good for people who aren't selling you anything and aren't asking you to use Linux.
That fits with my hypothesis, which is that programmers tend to find that the way Nix flakes lay out a common interface and convention for certain things helpful, but people who are more IT-oriented and are used to relatively incapable conflangs are overwhelmed by the surface level verbosity of flakes, and hesitant to use libraries to deal with it because they take a bit longer getting their heads around the language.

FWIW I like Nixlang, but I agree that static typing would improve it. Maybe Nickel some day, blah blah blah :)
AfD is garbage, but banning it might be counter-productive.

A democracy should have institutions that would ensure it's survival even if the biggest idiots take over - because one day they will.
I totally agree with that. I loved the ugit [1] build Git from scratch in Python series for that.

[1] https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/
>taxation is Socialism

Nonsensical strawman. Socialism has a real meaning and "taxation" isn't it.
A simple point that might clear up the confusion is: note that the electromagnetic field warps in the presence of charge, yet no charge is transmitted in an electromagnetic wave either.

Explanation: the wave is the warping itself. If a charge or mass exists, the field is (permanently) warped to contain it, in a way that doesn't propagate (although it can be mathematically described as an exchange of particles). But if the charge or mass accelerates, then the warping changes, and the information about that acceleration propagates away. Basically the wave is other charges/masses 'finding out' about a distant change in the velocity of a charge.
> under arrest for essentially an identical crime

or very far from that
Most interesting thing about this I remember reading is when a history professor assigned a chatgpt essay to his students and asked them to find flaws in it.
Oh, we get lists, but they are much shorter.

For example, I want to show them where a button needs to go, I simply hold up the phone, and point. With Zoom, we have a wrestling match over screen share.
My oldest son was born with a similar condition. First murmurs at birth, then aortic stenosis diagnosis at 1 month, severity still unknown due to the heart immaturity, and the urgent operation at 2 months old to try fix it. A balloon was inserted into his aortic valve by a catheter from his groin and expanded to dilate the valve. It was a terrifying experience, but one that worked great for us. He may have to have a replacement one day, but for now he is healthy and off any medication. We have yearly checkups.

I am told replacement surgeries can be done via catheter, sparing the much larger risk in have the chest cracked open.

A huge thank you to SNS, the portuguese NHS. All this was done free of charges. It gets a bad rep from some things that don’t work well, but I only have good things to say.

A year later I was preparing our 1 year old party and had a call from a friend which had a baby born with a much severe heart condition. He didn’t survive the required operation and I really felt for him. It messed me up. We had been in the same spot but I had been very lucky. Still am.
The person you replied to did not say that Mozilla is _not_ investing in Firefox. I too am worried that Mozilla was cutting Servo development, in a time where Firefox already has a problem keeping up with new web features.
> For those unaware, Linux has a very explicit policy of never breaking userspace

But has no qualm with constantly refactoring the kernel side of the coin for the most minor of reasons, which causes endless trouble when it comes to supporting out of tree drivers and is the true reason why Android will never be able to provide long term support. SOC manufacturers are not interested in the churn involved in updating their drivers to support the newer kernels that come with new android versions. Most often, it's because they want to keep their driver proprietary, but it is not the only reason, there is a cold hard truth about the nature of the market: new phones are released at a high cadence, while the process of mainlining a driver into upstream linux kernel is arduous, depending on the attitudes of kernel maintainers, truly painful, and no company out there could see any value in waiting for this process to end before releasing their hardware onto the market. Since they're already going to make it out of tree and release it as is, why would they bother? a year later, they'll repeat this process again, and again. Then Android updates, and the devices are obsoleted.

On the other hand, you can install the latest GPU driver on Windows 10 just fine, and it is the same driver as the one on 11. Windows doesn't constantly break your not-maintained-by-microsoft drivers with newer versions of their kernel.
So how is it any different
The Germans did not elect the Nazis into power. They lost in the 1932 elections by no small margin. Hindenburg got 53% of the vote, Hitler less than 37%. The Nazis would later cement their power after the Reichstag fire decree, banning most attempts at opposition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_German_presidential_ele...
> What is your alternative strategy for telling these tens of millions of people that you have a new article on topic X?

None. I don't know tens of millions of people.

Why do you think that CNET - a relatively small group of people - should have the power to reach an influence tens of millions of people, even if only in a small way per person? I don't think that's healthy for anyone involved.
Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand
>you're seeing people use democracy to force industry to adopt green policies

No, you are seeing governments force green policies against the will of the majority.
I did a full rewatch this year. Including some of the obscure feature films.

The series is incredible. I agree with all your comments, but will also add that B5 is probably the best well told time travel story I've ever seen.
It’s definitely pushed me to buy basics (eg produce, pasta, protein) from Costco and cook at home more. So the silver lining is that I eat healthier, and have discovered that I enjoy cooking.
I fully hated Robert Carlyle's character in Stargate Universe, and still was sad that the show got cancelled so quick.
People here have talked about Mozilla's financial issues, but so far nobody has posted the donation link. If you use Firefox or Thunderbird and wish to continue doing so, here's the link: https://donate.mozilla.org/
Investment directly implies private ownership of the means of production.
The Netherlands as well. Dutch census religious affiliation data were used by the imposed regime 1940--45.

Several Dutch officials enacted wholesale destruction of those records as the occupation became obviously imminent, which saved many, though the Jewish population of the Netherlands fell from 154,887 in 1941 to 14,346 in 1947.

The point being it's not necessarily your own government you need be worried about.

In another variant on this, surveillance records kept by the East German Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, a/k/a the Stasi) and Soviet KGB were acquired by successor governments (unified German and post-Soviet states including Ukraine). See: <https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/unearthing-soviet-sec...>

(I'm trying without success to find a reference to the destruction of Dutch census records, though I'm pretty certain this did actually happen.)