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I have found a hack around facebook that partially works: remove yourself from all groups. So only friends are in your feed. Then every time a friend shares something from one of their group go hit "block all from [group]". Facebook now has less junk to show me as I've blocked most of it, and so I see my friends. I've also set a rule that when I block two groups I'm done for the session. Anytime I share something on Facebook I make sure the privacy settings is "friends of those tags only" - if I'd want more or less than that it is either too private to share at all, or it should be on a better public forum.

I hope more of you start doing the same. There is value in a Facebook type private place to communicate with friends and family (this need not be facebook, but that is where my friends are), and everything else clutters it. The more people who follow similar rules to me the more likely Facebook is to notice in their metrics that people only want Facebook for personal friends, hopefully they adjust to enable that better.
This is completely false.

The UK government privatised water companies in England. In Scotland the water remained nationalised.

In recent years, the UK government started measuring water quality, by installing measurement devices absolutely everywhere in England. The measurement devices then show that the rivers have lots of shit in them. But the point is, the shit is not a new development - they always had shit.

Meanwhile in Scotland, the rivers are not monitored, there's a pathetically small quantity of measurement devices installed. Hence there's no scandal in Scotland because ignorance is bliss I suppose, not because nationalised water is somehow amazingly better.

Somehow people with a narrative to push turn this into a tale of how privatisation is terrible despite there being no evidence to back this up whatsoever.
Good news! Per your second link, GPT-4 is a stunning improvement up to "borderline passes quality control"!
The privatization of infrastructure is basically theft. Take from the public, and gift to private corporations that the public has no power over. The privatization of the public's air or water supply should be criminal.
The answer is: it's complicated. Which is most of the time the answer in the WASI world.

For this case it's complicated because some runtime supports https://github.com/WebAssembly/threads which mostly contains things like the spec for atomic but not the actual "threads" specs and then some runtimes (i.e wasmtime) also supports https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-threads which is one version of the threads. But a new proposal came into play https://github.com/abrown/thread-spawn so ... it's complicated.
I was one of the early users of ok cupid, even before it was dating and more just a kind of social media for questions and tests. I met some amazing people on that site. At some point something changed though and the quality plummeted.
> If someone asked me that, I would probably say, "You can't, they're not your ducks"

Wow, I would never say that. Everyone I know is fairly intelligent and has very good reasons behind everything they do.

I'd ask questions like "How's the security?" and "Have you decided what we're gonna do with the ducks afterwards?". Then I'd help them with both the planning and execution to the best of my abilities

What's the probability that someone doesn't know that capturing wildlife is usually illegal vs the probability that they are, for example, rescuing the ducks from an environment where they are rapidly dying? In my life the odds would be 1:infinity. So assuming that the former scenario is true would be an incredibly uncharitable thing to do
Yes, that's very odd. Because without such corporate policy being allowed, competitors can easily bribe some employees to loudly speak it out and use it as evidence of bad acts/intention. It's almost impossible to counter it as long as they're careful enough to hide such collusion.
> See DOS.

> See DOS run.

> Run_DOS_Run!
I wonder if the creator of this device William Le [1] has managed to make this his full-time endeavor.

[1]: https://www.etsy.com/shop/backtonaturedecor
If you’ve got something to say and you’re not comfortable saying it publicly, there’s a very good chance you shouldn’t be saying what you’re saying.

Not a perfect chance, mind you… there’s certainly something to be said for anonymous whistleblowing, and also for a true vox populi (where you’re saying something that truly needs to be said and which people in power will kill to suppress). There’s also room for pushing entirely new ideas into the public domain specifically to disclaim intellectual property rights to those ideas.

But, overall, odds are pretty good you probably shouldn’t be saying it if all you’re trying to do is avoid being held responsible for saying what you said.
Has that belief led you to a lifestyle in which you are just barely happier than miserable so that you can lift as many others as you can out of misery?
It has its own, stricter rules and site section which some people also follow so in theory you get more shots at exposure. Also it's a signal the poster is the author of the thing being showhn and the purpose of the tag is feedback so you get more of that.

Downside is you have to have something to show.
There are a bunch of tiny hardware shops in the audio community that seem to be doing fine, for example https://neurochrome.com/

Of course, running a small business like this is not easy, but it's not impossible either.
Rightly so, but than the $3m game feels like every other $3m game. Without the risk, you don't get the whole innovated design of a new game.
What a lovely way of saying that everyone who doesn't leave the platform is about to become a Ubisoft tier Developer filled with spyware. Burning even their users that don't quit the platform. How absolute this decimation of their user base will be is almost impressive in how destructive this move has been. I almost have to commend it's comprehensiveness.
WiFi failure is common on laptops.

You can often easily replace the internal WiFi card - Intel cards were usually the best bet in my experience (especially on Linux - sometimes best to replace when you buy laptop if Linux is your main OS). I have done quite a few replacements for friends.

if just the Bluetooth craps out and you have a spare USB-A port then you can get cheap Bluetooth dongles.
I think it's probably because it's extremely hard to understand what *content* keeps users subscribing, and "hours spent watching this content" is maybe the lowest-hanging (or only?) "clean" metric you can use to determine what content to keep, how much to spend on content, etc. I watch a smattering of shows on netflix and so keep a subscription, but I don't watch very much. How the heck are they supposed to know whether a piece of content will keep me subscribing? And how much should they spend to produce/acquire that content? It's a very difficult supply-side question.
If you are saying things like "This would be a perfect murder weapon" and "I wish John Smith was dead" it will make you more likely to get convicted even if you are innocent.
I'm not a gamedev, but I am hoping one of the actionable things from this situation is a call to action from the gaming community to put together more open-source game engine platforms, and for them to be more easily sharable.

I am sure there are reasons this is difficult, but with so many industries built on open-source compliant tools, gamedev feels like a no-brainer for it as well.
This case seems like a joke. Seems very "damn if you do and damn if you dont" across the board. DOJ states that Google trains to not use monopolistic language for the very same reason as to what they are trying to be held liable of doing. Seems like it would be a recipe for disaster to save the chats between employees and execs. Holding people accountable word for word that they have in the midst of conversation seems unjust to begin with. . People say things without thinking entirely through- its chat!
And the huge bids to be the default browser on phone is the nature of business set forth by the likes of the phone manufactures to begin with. The idea of their being a default search to begin with is the problem. GOOGLE is just playing the game. It shoudl be required that the search engine should be picked at the time of the unboxing of the phone and this rule probably should have been made 15 years ago. The whole case seems like a huge waste of time to me and is another example of the government demonstrating their incompetence with regards to big tech.
I'm not an industry expert (mobile gaming) but currently (14/09/2023) App Lovin (NASDAQ:APP) is worth more than Unity (NYSE:U) and they make twice as much in revenue with a higher profit margin (less negative).

Its seems like advertising is where its at with mobile gaming and I don't why that will change anytime soon.
Right, there's nothing odd or unfair here unless you're an anticompetitive company trying to get away with anticompetitive practices.

It's like saying that it's odd or unfair for someone to have "how to hide a dead body" in their search history as evidence against them while they're on trial for murder. But your honor, if I'm being penalized for researching how to hide the body, it's unfair because it makes it more likely that my murder will be discovered! Think of the chilling effect this will have on murderers, and the devastating economic repurcussions on manufacturers of bone saws and rubber hose!
> you also can't tell employees not to say those things

You can, but only in an regularly scheduled unrecorded meeting that is described euphemistically as “compliance training”.
How could this be good business?
Those IPs are owned by Google and NTT, who both run large international networks and can redeploy their IPs around the world when they feel like it. So lookup based geolocation is going to be iffy, as you've seen.

Traceroute to those IPs certainly looks like the networking goes to London.

The google IP doesn't respond to ping, but the NTT/Verio ones do. I'd bet if you ping from London based hosting, you'll get single digit ms ping responses, which sets an upper bound on the distance from London. Ping from other hosting in the country and across the channel, and you can confirm the lowest ping you can get is from London hosting, and there you go. It could also be that its connectivity is through London, but it's elsewhere --- you can't really tell.

Check from other vantage points, just to make sure it's not anycast; if you ping 8.8.8.8 from most networks around the world, you'll get something nearby; but these IPs give traceroutes to london from the Seattle area, so probably not anycast (at least at the moment, things can change).

If you don't have hosting around the world, search for public looking glasses at well connected network that you can use for pings like this from time to time.
This case seems like a joke. Seems very "damn if you do and damn if you dont" across the board. DOJ states that Google trains to not use monopolistic language for the very same reason as to what they are trying to be held liable of doing. Seems like it would be a recipe for disaster to save the chats between employees and execs. Holding people accountable word for word that they have in the midst of conversation seems unjust to begin with. . People say things without thinking entirely through- its chat! And the huge bids to be the default browser on phone is the nature of business set forth by the likes of the phone manufactures to begin with. The idea of their being a default search to begin with is the problem. GOOGLE is just playing the game. It shoudl be required that the search engine should be picked at the time of the unboxing of the phone and this rule probably should have been made 15 years ago. The whole case seems like a huge waste of time to me and is another example of the government demonstrating their incompetence with regards to big tech.
The perception that women are harassed/threatened more is probably differentiated from your experience by a couple factors:

1. It includes people who are not broadcast figures, which is the vast majority of people. It's possible that, in public, in the workplace, and in school, a woman is more likely to be harassed than a man.

2. The nature of harassment/threats against women is probably biased towards the more emotion-provoking (sinister, intimidating, sexual, etc). I.e. the kinds of things that tend to engender more concern, in the sense of how bad it feels to imagine/witness, how likely it is to come to something more, the likelihood of a power imbalance (physical or otherwise), and its long-term effects on the recipient.
I think with teachers and professors it can be a case of "habit".

They're used to being the smartest person in the room and telling the people around them what's what. This can sometimes rub off on interactions outside work. Same kind of thing can happen with other professions, of course.
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Most drug addicts don't want to be addicted, they just want the high. Most video watchers want to continue their current shows, but if you make it easy they will get addicted to shows they didn't know they liked yet. People get on facebook for their friends, and then the infinite scrolling keeps them on long past when they have seen almost everything their friends have done.
i completely disagree. Mercury is extremely dense and small, Venus is almost exactly the same size as Earth and is in fact ... less dense than Earth. There are many many things that leads to a planets density, and they call fall into a very wide range. A planet 2x the size of Earth with mars density seems very reasonable to happen - even if unlikely. Kepler-22b is very close for example
Coding in C, eh? Replacing false with 0 should do the trick.
If there's any room for a new party it's probably white folks who want to identify as economically responsible but are embarrassed by the republican party's direction.
They're based on constant growth. I guess over a long enough time frame, constant growth is exponential, but not in the windows that an investor expects to be paid back.

Exponential growth is only expected in software because the development costs are so high and the marginal costs are so low. There's zero cost to growth, which makes it a winner-take-all market.
I know you're joking, but NIST no longer recommends password rotation as a policy. If you are somewhere that still requires that, send them https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/aligning-your...
Commenting for ideas.

What to do with that url?
This is also a joke in Futurama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4BOZcDMw_A
Your suggestion will result in a toxic workspace where anyone who does not like a product decision will simply say "Why do you want to hurt our users?", or even worse, "Why do you want to violate the law?"

Companies ask employees to refrain from discussing such stuff because most employees are not in a position to evaluate "Does this decision run afoul of antitrust laws?" (And maybe because they actually want to hide something, but in that case, we had better see actual evidences of the supposedly wrong behavior, instead of "Company X asked employees to avoid words that may cause expensive lawsuits.")
100% of large companies I’ve worked for. Any competitive lawsuit can trigger keyword-based e-discovery. The rationale is that nobody but lawyers even understands the full legal meaning and significance of those words so you shouldn’t use them except when consulting with lawyers. Similar arguments apply to IP (patent) discussions.
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I agree, I used a high end Chromebook/Chromebox for several years as my local dev machine (for corp work) and it worked flawlessly. It was one of the sleekest developer experiences I've ever had.

I use an obnoxiously custom Linux setup for my personal devices, but I still try to push anyone who will listen to try a Chromebook.
Training employees to avoid terms that legally insinuate “market dominance” (aka, monopolies) is the smoking gun of someone trying to hide a monopoly though. How is that in any way unfair?

Unfortunately that article is under lock and key login so forgive me if the comment is off point.
Good grief. This is like saying driving to work is a choice because it takes only 45 minutes, but you could opt for a three hour walk instead.

Because a potential solution exists in which people can have the optimal solution with no drawbacks— why not have it.

It isn’t “convenience” and other “first world problems” to realise that you need to use certain software to function in society with few trade offs.

The privacy-invading nature of many pieces of software isn’t innate. It’s a choice, and it could easily be regulated.

People shouldn’t have to pay with their data.
Apple has typically supported Mac hardware for about 7 years from introduction for a while now. That is provided you're updating to the last supported version of macOS for it and then all security updates. I'd be surprised if they changed this much either way for Apple Silicon.

One issue is that Apple never tells you when they end of life a given version of macOS officially, so you're left guessing a bit.
Just to expand a bit since I didn’t have the time when I posted, I’m looking for a new career and aircraft mechanics are moderately in demand in my area.

There are two Part 147 AMTS schools nearby, one is a program for high schoolers exclusively and the other plainly states the program is $35000 in total. For comparison. In state tuition costs for an Aerospace engineering degree at a nearby university are around $27000 for four years. You could learn to design aircraft cheaper than to repair them. Even worse is the mechanic jobs don’t pay so great. I see a lot starting around $18/h.
I would have expected the ratio of $ spent on new fossil fuels vs. new solar to be a lot higher than 4. My mind is quite boggled.
> if your technology is better than everyone else, you deserve to put them out of business.

The issue is that, once you reach Google scale, you have so many tools to put the competition out of business that are unrelated to product fit. And, in the case of Google, they've been known to do just that.

So yeah, you can't really compare an incumbent with monopoly power to an underdog, just like some sentences from young kids are hilarious, that would be chilling if adults said them.
in the late 90s my Mom (bilingual, having migrated to the US) did some work on the side for a translation agency (She worked doing internationalization for DataGeneral, parametrics and others) . She would evaluate translations for prospective translators. She got a batch that was terrible. Turns out they were machine translated. We have come a long way.
"You do not have access to this service" :(
I have never used Slack and don't know anything about it, so it is hard for me to say. Are Slack messages accessible by third parties? If so, that can break A/C privilege. That is probably the main way it happens.

You still need to be careful with email too. Just because you are emailing a lawyer doesn't make it automatically privileged, though there is a much stronger presumption and argument for privilege. But, like, your plans to go to the bar with your lawyer buddy after work are not privileged, even if they are also your corporate counsel. It still needs to be related to legal advice, or in anticipation of litigation (which itself is a very large umbrella that gets you a lot of privilege for otherwise mundane corporate communications).

At any rate, a good counsellor will tell you what is safe and not safe. Be sure to take it seriously.
> But after January 6, a new, more existential brand of cowardice had emerged. One Republican congressman confided to Romney that he wanted to vote for Trump’s second impeachment, but chose not to out of fear for his family’s safety.

Then, straightforwardly, America is no longer a democracy.
How delightful. I was 99% sure even before I clicked that it would be Steve Mould.

Loved his parody of the fixed grin of Technology Connections.
This doesn't make sense to me. Surely the average union member understands that if they don't let the company they work for innovate, even if it means fewer jobs, that their company won't remain competitive and they will be out of a job.
Yeah, but what's the point of hosting them? Like what do you sell on r/dragonsfuckingcars? (no, I'm not joking)

And what does the existence of such a place at all mean to a prospective advertiser? Imagine a viral picture of your ad next to one of those posts.

But okay, let's ignore porn. How about subreddits that deal with subjects like depression, gender issues, politics, etc? What do you sell to those? Maybe a book or two but probably not very much. And they're also ripe for "hilarious" ad/content mismatches.

It seems to me that from the advertising point of view, Reddit would be a lot more desirable to advertise on if it was nothing but endless cute cat pictures.
Sorry, I just checked the "Advanced Privacy" settings, but I see nothing about restricting network access for a particular app. I'd be very interested in that feature though - do you have more pointers how exactly to restrict a single app?
They'll just have someone do it for free in exchange for IP rights so that nobody can ever take a photo of it.
Yeah I think this is the missing part. Even if enshittification is more profitable, people should still be able to just change services to a better one.
What do you propose to use as an energy source?
Business is a great way to ruin a hobby.
Might also be a case of minimal RAM/SSD requirement and OS build using reasonable new compiler.

HW might also be more standarized today, e.g. using USB internally for webcam and keyboard.
My wife has raging ADHD, and even though medicated, I would expect to have to deal with empty battery family logistics pages continually were I to put her in an EV.

I'm none too fond of adding cognitive overhead to my life on top of that. I throw my bike/skis on the truck and drive out for fun times on a whim at least twice a week, and don't fancy adding a "charge the car" loop to my already burdensome family maintenance loops.

EVs and range are like someone sticking their nose into a well tuned software/laundry/dishes process, inventing a problem, and complicating things inordinately for everyone who has to deal with it.

I'll keep my 5-minute fillup for as long as I humanly can.
If they make it criminal to have one, then only the criminals will have them. Come the apocalypse, New Hampshire's gun robots will easily force Massachusetts' surrender.
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Nothing to see just more of the "Boom and Bust" lottery that is Investment Banking.
It’s much more insidious. It will necessitate a surveillance AI on all interactions to eliminate legal liability. That is absolutely inevitable.
How do you think people get on the boards of HOAs? They're elected by HOA members. Who are the members? The people who live in the HOA.

The people running the HOA almost always are accountable by polls, even more local polls than municipal elections.
This is something that always kind of gets me, because when I have something wrong with me I will do a deep dive on it and read whatever studies, publications, and fellow patient accounts I can find.

This often puts me in a position where I feel pretty confident that I have more fresh knowledge about it than the doctor before me. Someone who in all likely hood has a mild familiarity with it, and is filling in the blanks with rote medical intuition.

What I really wish is that I could get doctors to drop the veil, and just openly admit what there depth of knowledge on the illness is. I would love it if they googled stuff right in front of me. I absolutely do not expect them to have a full medical encyclopedia in their head, and I am smart enough to be able to not be put off by "I don't know/I'm not sure".