skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Broad appeal to a casual technical audience is why you see the same type of sponsorships. VPNs are very high margin and easy to convert. You’ll see the same in across other types of content, e.g: recipe boxes (Hello Fresh) are very common for lifestyle channels, grooming (Manscaped) is very common for male audience channels and language learning apps are very common in educational circles.

A platform like PostHog would struggle to find the right audience on YouTube because it’s such a niche product.
It is hard to argue against your position. TFA expounds that storing data required to prosecute a crime is proportionate. That sounds reasonable and hard to argue. In my eyes there are two points, however, that could be argued.

1) The data retention duration. France is holding some data sets for 13 years now without a charge forthcoming. I'm no expert on French law (or law in general) but it being a full-fledged liberal democracy with the rule-of-law, I guess there is some kind of a statute of limitation with regards to copyright infringement and I would find it hard to argue to keep the data beyond this point. Mind, the statute of limitations could be long-running (in Germany it usually is 30 years, unless the law says otherwise)

2) Seriousness of the crime. Under EU law data retention in the first place is only allowed in case of serious crimes. What is a serious crime? I think it arguable that copyright infringement is not a serious crime. To be not a serious crime it must fail to be a crime or to be serious. I think both positions can be argued, albeit being serious seems to be easier to unhinge.

But I'm not going to argue any of these ;)
There was a more recent Bond movie whose evil plot was about water rights... which had happened, legally, while the movie came out, I think.
> Actually freezing or potentially freezing?

Either. I don't really understand that anyone would think that a government being able to freeze someone's assets for protesting that government is a good thing.

This isn't the potential for abuse, in a sort of "price of freedom" way. This is an abusive power that, at best, was not used.
It's possible that your subjective opinion of what makes a good UI differs from the subjective opinion of the people doing the work on Gnome.

I'd need some strong evidence that they are selling you to some other party in order to enrich their investors. Who are these investors? How do they even get profits from Gnome? What choices have been made that let 3rd party companies get better access to you/your data from Gnome itself?

Differences of opinion aren't evidence of intentionally screwing over users in order to get more money for investors.
> But without someone as strong-headed as him we will have a hard time defending freedom of software.

Anyone who is not as strong-headed as he is will have no hope of defending software freedom. The only thing I wish is that he would learn how to be more persuasive, i.e. improve his rhetoric skills. His reasoning and logical skills are exceptional, but winning over the public is not always about being right.
I worked with data acquisition systems around 1998. RS-232 was still king (though USB was quickly displacing it), using DB-9 connectors... I always assumed DB-25 had always been for printer's parallel connectors :D would be really confusing to get RS-232 with one of those for me.

I think the author doesn't mention there were other protocols as well, like RS-485 which had a much greater range in terms of distance (and I think it also used DB-9 though if you connected it to the wrong protocol, one of the sides would definitely go up in smoke :D ).

Anyway, very interesting post!
We can probably thank Senator Bob Menendez for this. After getting indicted (again!) for taking bribes, his defense is that owning physical gold bars is a great idea.

As an aside, unfortunately for Bob they have him dead to rights this time, there's not gonna be a hung jury.
We’ve had localized collapse due to hurricanes and other disasters in the USA and it didn’t go mad max and in fact people helped each other.

There’s always a few bad apples but there’s always some counter pressure, too. The story of the deuce and half owner who drove into a hurricane comes to mind.
Visual Node Graph with ImGui
Proton is Wine with some extra patches; the main project has some pretty hefty requirements in terms of coding standards to reduce possible regressions, which means that on the whole it can be pretty slow to get compatibility.

Gaming is just one subsection of the Win32 API that doesn't touch on all parts of said API. Proton basically has a bunch of extra patches that might introduce a regression in upstream Wine but won't in the context of videogames.

Proton patches also usually get upstreamed when they reach "proper" maturity/are fully tested if I'm not mistaken so long-term, Proton benefits the rest of the wine ecosystem too. As for the open source contributors - Valve iirc just hired some of the previously self-employed wine developers and the guy who got I think it was a Vulkan compat layer working on Linux.

I'm pretty sure Codeweavers has the same model although I don't think they upstream patches nearly as much? They're also very much more targeting business customers on Apple devices who need to run some obscure (usually old) Windows program rather than the entire scope of Win32 software.

Basically it's best to look at proton the way you sometimes get a "next generation" fork of a popular piece of FOSS - higher dev speed and more features, however more focused into keeping a single area working than on the overall health of the upstream (which does get contributed back to for the features that help the upstream).
I had to connect to a cisco router with a serial dongle (window->usb->serial->cisco) not that long ago. After successfully configuring, I could change configuration in the same exact way going over network (window->encryption->tcp->ethernet->decryption->cisco), but underneath, it's all teletypes talking to each other[0].

[0] https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
That's impressive! Thanks for introducing me to this term/idea.
He was right.

Stallman had to fight people comparing free software to communism, and left wing people didn’t help at all in that sense.
Sponsorships rarely go 100% into the pockets of creators. The share varies but it can be anywhere from 25% to 75% because these sponsorships typically come through agencies and management takes a cut too.
Friends and allies are no longer sold in the USA, but guns still are.
Didn't they bust the US president with boxes of top secret documents lying around ?

People are much lazier than you think, especially when they think they're better than others and/or above the law.

One quick glance at wikileaks will tell you people don't think much when creating/storing/sharing files
For easy of copy-pasting, the FEN for the puzzle with the abundance of knights is

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I guessed the first move right, but calculating the continuation was too messy for me.
Yeah, this has nothing to do with antitrust.

Just because a company is offering services enough that a plurality of users accept, doesn't warrant government interception or action.
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I think there are two different things:

- the MIT mailing list discussion of a few years ago where he got a lot of flakes for what I indeed believe was a lot of misunderstanding. He seemed reasonable to me, but you really need subtle and careful reading to notice this. It was easy to misread and understand the contrary of was he thinks. I think he should have refrained from participating in this discussion though. While I don't know if it was intentionally driven by opponents, I do think he was defamed a lot, regardless one's opinion on this story.

- his inappropriate behavior with women, who mostly had to (find tricks to) avoid him, from was I read there and there. I don't think he is misogynistic (many examples on stallman.org supports the opposite) but I believe there's no excuse for this inappropriate behavior if true. He should have shown more respect and learned to avoid making people and women in particular uncomfortable. He is incredibly clever, I can't imagine he would be unable to learn what patterns to avoid, he should have bothered more. I know it's difficult in particular for some autistic people (which he might be) to take hints, but I also know some who became incredibly good at it after learning (better than non-autistic people even, precisely because it was a conscious process - not saying it's easy; it is exhausting for some people). And it does not require being able to take subtle hints to avoid obvious sexist behavior. I was thinking of this and the many times he was mean to someone when I mentioned "unacceptable" in my first comment.
What's interesting about this is just how bad it is at tying this to the modern world. For instance, just after discussing how the "AT" Hayes command prefix has useful properties for automatic synchronisation of line speed:

"That property is still useful, and thus in 2017 the AT convention has survived in some interesting places. AT commands have been found to perform control functions on 3G and 4G cellular modems used in smartphones."

But modern modems aren't connected over serial. There's no concept of line speed. This property is entirely irrelevant to modern hardware. A much more plausible explanation is simply that extending the interface made it easier to extend existing codebases to new contexts.

"IoT devices still speak RS-232"

This is actually dangerously untrue! RS-232 used positive voltages for 0 and negative voltages for 1, between 3 and 15 volts each. Attaching RS-232 to a modern IoT device's serial interface is likely to kill the device. What is common between old-school serial and the serial ports on modern devices is stuff that's out of the scope of RS-232 (eg, the 8N1 framing isn't defined by RS-232), and using the RS-232 terminology to describe it is about as accurate as calling it RS-422.

"If you know what UTF-8 is (and you should) every ASCII file is correct UTF-8 as well."

I mean kind of? ASCII is a character set, it doesn't define the on-disk representation. An ASCII file saved with each character packed into 7 bits isn't going to be valid UTF-8 without some manipulation. This is just an odd claim to make given the earlier discussion of varied word lengths and transfer formats that weren't 8-bit clean.

"But in 2005 Linus Torvalds invented git, which would fairly rapidly obsolesce all previous version-control systems"

(cries in Perforce)

Git was a huge improvement over CVS and SVN. Claiming that it rendered everything that came before it obsolescent just suggests massive ignorance of chunks of the software industry.

And yes this is all ridiculously pedantic, but given the entire tone of the article is smugly pedantic it doesn't seem unfair to criticise it on that basis.
“system as a hole” is my new band name.
I posted elsewhere in the thread he came to my university for a talk, and spent the time staring at women's chests.
>I am not misusing the word

Yes you are, see:

>they are just progressively making things worse

That's things going "shit". That's been around for as long as software has been around (e.g. Borland). Enshitification is a very specific thing: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

To quote it:

I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market," where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

>shift the Overton window

You're all over the place. This has nothing to do with enshitification.
I'm a terrible chess player, which I don't mind. But a side effect of this is that I cannot find decent chess problems. Forget a mate three, I'm at the level where I miss obvious forks. Problem is, there doesn't seem to be a decent size collection of such problems. You'd expect there to be quite some demand for it. Maybe I should try to create a few with this system.
Yeah, but was there a campaign against products that were assembled with robots?

Like there are anti AI art campaigns on Artstation and elsewhere.
On the other hand, if I wanted some scientific NumPy code to run on the GPU, I think rewriting it in JAX would probably be a better choice than PyTorch.
Thanks for sharing as it might be helpful to people struggling w/ the same problem.

But obviously my point is that if I'm officially stuck to your client, maybe give me a working version when Ubuntu is updated, instead of me getting warnings about "no matching release candidate" (or whatever the exact wording) and me being vpn-less for weeks. If I pay I shouldn't have to rely on hacky stuff to just use your service. Also maybe react to an E-Mail I send to support? Also I personally am not using mozilla vpn anymore, but as said: maybe someone else can profit from your link.
stallman and jon voight both well known assholes!
>They mention immigration towards the end - it's pretty impressive the speed and scale at which the population is changing towards much more asian.

When watching reaction videos to the country's first Costco, I was amazed at how many Asians a) appeared in the videos, and b) created the videos.
My dog definitely teases me. She’ll grab one of my socks and sit in front of me with the sock laying on the floor. As soon as I go to pick it up, she’ll snatch it and run away.
Blame the gorilla using the tool, not the tool itself. Internalize the fact you suck first, and find enlightenment.
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Can someone help what those statics in general mean and what should be the optimal values for these, I know it can be your Application specific but assuming I have a fairly medium complexity App with 1 Page and 2 tabs making around 10 API calls. What does these numbers tell me about my App performance?
If Sheffield City Council were at war with England, that might make sense. Are you suggesting that is the case?

Or, if not, and destroying the spirit of the country is the tactic, what is the goal they are trying to accomplish with it?
Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted
Cancelled is probably the wrong word. I think what the other commenter meant was that the moral reputation of individuals tends to decline with time since what is considered moral is relative to a given society and a given period of time.

It's very hard to name a historical figure who lived prior to the 1900s who didn't express something racist, sexist or homophobic for example. Similarly, even people who were in the public spotlight 4-5 decades ago have often said things considered morally objectionable today. Even people who are obviously anti-racist like Justin Trudeau used to believe black face was acceptable until very recently, for example.

I don't know if Stallman has been "cancelled". I'm not even sure what that means. But his reputation has been harmed like almost anyone who's been in the public spotlight for long enough.
Fuck, I was hoping this moment wouldn't come
Not willingly? Too many, I unfortunately have to work with Meta's horrifically terrible APIs and every time an issue crops up related to their APIs (nearly daily) I say a silent prayer for that company to disintegrate into nothingness.

Willingly, basically none, or as few as I can realistically manage. I don't have a smartphone other than a burner one with GrapheneOS for my bank app, run linux on everything else and my work MacBook sits idly in the corner somewhere with 0 battery in it despite protesting from my manager.
They have actually contributed a bunch of code upstream to mastodon
Yes, whoops.
> It's not legal

I said de facto legal. Emphasis on the de facto.

It differs in EU countries though, and I recall reading at least some explicitly won't take action against consumers downloading on a home internet connection.
Sad news, even sadder that his critics just can't help themselves. He is greater than most, even if flawed.
Also games like Dune and it's successors of the real time strategy genre changed up - it was faster to play and pretty looking and being mission based there was plot/story and battles were resolved in 20 minutes.
It's funny, I work in embedded systems and much of this is still relevant to me. RS-232 itself (as in the specification for the physical layer) isn't used as much, but the underlying UART comms protocol is still alive and well. A Beaglebone dev board, for example, can be booted by uploading the bootloader over XModem.
Sure.

High Fidelity, sort of. Failed commercial project to develop a sort of VR world from the same guy that made Second Life. Their advertising honestly cheesed me off and seemed to reek of desperation. Their adoption of cryptocurrency didn't help either. What did was that despite that they had promising technology people I knew talked about, so I did check it out despite all my initial misgivings, and it was good enough for me to stick around there for a good while. When they gave up, I was part of the group of people that tried to keep things going, which eventually became a non-profit I'm now a member of, https://overte.org/

Resonite. The new version of NeosVR, still in development. Happened after an ideological split. I heard of NeosVR mostly from Reddit discussion and friends who love the system.

Linux Weekly News. Only news site I pay for, they post interesting highly technical information. Pretty sure I heard them mentioned in Linux discussion spaces.

Linode -- Same deal, Linux users that use their services. Now it's much bigger, I signed up back in the early days, back when they used User-mode Linux, and had no SSDs.
Does it matter? His message isn't for non-programmers.

What is plato known for among people who don't give a shit about philosophy?
It was the seeming unstoppable force of the nazis and total war that led the development of those nuclear weapons. Most of the biggest names in science came together to make sure the nazis lost and the total war ceased.
User Products would I'm pretty sure still target things like pacemakers and other daily technological appliances some people need to get around and I'm fairly sure those require the same FDA approval process.

Therefore; I'm not wrong.
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> Nobody is perfect.

Perhaps, but we all know not to make other people uncomfortable by staring at their secondary sex characterists. RMS is an adult, he should know better than to treat women like objects like I saw him do at my university.
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Data connection retention is 1 year in France, not 13. This sounds like something related to taxes (eg. Invoices).

(Also, this law was ruled unconstitutional but shenanigans ensued.)
When the url says discord.com, it makes me feel like there's an official statement from discord. Clicked into, just a homepage.
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I replaced the battery of my Samsung A40. A video for your S22 is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrZx0DXoyEU

It's the same level of skill required to open a laptop to replace components.

Of course replacing an old style battery was 1000 times easier and everybody could do it.
The idealists had it right about global warming too. It's our own incapability to be idealists that will inevitably and ultimately bring about the worst case scenario for global warming.
Avoid meat. It will protect against many other bad things, too(1). You can also delve into the world of longevity...

(1) https://veganhealth.org/chronic-disease-and-vegetarian-diets...
Context:

At amazon in 2010, it started with a meeting invite that was accidentally sent to everyone. The meeting was for the Amazon Wallet team for whatever work they were doing at the time. A reply-all storm ensued, and despite several people asking to stop hitting the reply-all button, it continued for several days.
The management had to chime in and sometimes threatened people with punishment if they continued participating to the reply-all storm.

If you ignored the conversation you may not have seen it, but most reply-all storm ended up with someone saying something the line of "we don't care about your wallet".

Anyway, asking people to stop hitting the reply-all button is far from being the latest reply-all on these kind of things...
The flip side here: the ads I get on Quora are just terrible -- about 1/3 of it is some "stud briefs" underwear and about 1/3 is promoted CCP propaganda.

These are the ads of "they can't come up with enough ads to show me because not enough people are advertising on this platform".
Obvious answer: because it is too expensive to offer it for "free".

Even if you had the GPUs, compute and electricity cost money:

https://medium.com/@zodhyatech/how-much-energy-does-chatgpt-...
In Switzerland it's pretty legal :) Okay, they're not in the EU, but I guess it's still an example.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/intellectual-property_...
Except that was an academic discussion and eventually there were no problems between people of English and French descent, whereas what we're dealing with now is a very real issue and I don't think the so-called cultural differences are the main problem here.
Google fixed the fifth Chrome zero-day of 2023
Dogs react strongly when people start jumping or running around or taking their stuff. That is the teasing, and then wagging the tail and other playful signals makes it playful teasing rather than aggressive. I don't see how this is any more standard protocol than humans teasing each other. They do something to trigger the other person and then signal "just kidding!".
As always, it is the people who go on a lot about sensitive snowflakes who are the most sensitive of snowflakes.
It is enshittification because they are making the software worse in opposition to the users. They don't care that the users hate the changes, they still do it anyway, deliberately.
When society gets to that point looters and robbers get bullet.

There’s a class of crime that can only really exist in a rule-of-law situation, without that people just get summarily executed.
> JSON.parse('[null,null,null]')
> (3) [null, null, null]
> JSON.parse('[,,,]')
Uncaught SyntaxError...

Maybe eventually someone realized this was horribly inefficient and added an extra step but a series of commas in an array with nothing in between them isn't valid JSON.
> But few focus on what the world is really telling them.

I would say it's more like: "I see, therefore I am aware."

The world isn't telling us anything. It doesn't speak, visually or otherwise. It just is. True, there are cycles and rhythms but that's not the universe telling anyone anything. That's the universe doing it's thing(s). We can join its chorus, or struggle to sing our own tune.

That said, what does happen is, we filter and interpret. For the creative (per Rick Rubin), the key is not to filter too much, as well as always challenge the filters you do have.

You can't *know* the universe. The best you can do is relentlessly try to understand it.

It's not about knowledge because...Understanding in power.