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Mildly relevant - the Telmate Terraform provider for Proxmox [1], which now stopped working with latest Proxmox version due to seemingly being abandoned, was initially mostly developed by an engineer employed by a company of the same name. They've since rebranded [2].

I've used that provider for a while, and only recently started looking into the specifics. The repo is effectively owned by a company profiting off of incarcerated persons in the US. Pretty wild.

Mostly writing this since I've spent the last few days migrating my Terraform setup to a different, supported provider [3].

[1] https://github.com/Telmate/terraform-provider-proxmox

[2] https://www.gettingout.com/

[3] https://github.com/bpg/terraform-provider-proxmox
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How do they miss out on the benefits? This reads as if you still can sell plant-based food, just not name it with typical meat-names. And considering how strong the food-culture (& and industry) in Italy is today, this is kinda understandable. For the loud voices, this is part of their identity at the moment.

Also, isn't Italian food already very focused on plants? So the benefit are probably far less than in the more unhealthy country anyway.
a US frigate (uss stark) was severely damaged by a single Iraqi plane in the previous year. the captain did not expect an Iraqi attack, so he tried to warn the plane off multiple times, ultimately allowing it to fire two missiles which hit his ship. the missiles would likely have been shot down if the Stark's countermeasures were working correctly. but they weren't, and 37 Americans died.

given that context, it doesn't seem wild to take an Iranian plane as a serious threat.
That's not really a high bar, though; I've always thought that Chicken McNuggets taste like something you'd get out of a Star Trek-style food replicator programmed by an AI who has a lot of data on chicken meat but has never actually tasted chicken.

I still like them, don't get me wrong. Sometimes I want to eat a machine's dream of chicken. But they're somehow already pretty far from actual chicken, even though that's what they're mostly made of.
international waters near New York City, everyone would be totally chill with that right?

I don't know why you think this is a gotcha...The USN would probably sniff around but that's it..They're international waters
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I believe cultivated meat does come with the necessary risks (imagine the kind of hotbed of viruses and resistant bacteria a piece of living flesh with no immune system can become!) and caveats (spiritual and ethical considerations that haven't been pondered, like "is this meat connected to a living soul" or "is this meat kosher/halal"), but the "we have to protect the farmers" defence is plain idiotic. The profits of the meat industry should never be a reason to work towards ending animal suffering.

In fifty to a hundred years this guy could be a Disney villain.
Except element does choke my browser/system (32g ram, many cores) even with rooms that aren't all that big. Slack does the same, discord doesn't even with large rooms and 100+ rooms open.
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Not OP, but I think the effects of modern meat production are well known.

Especially when we apply higher standards on how to take care of farm animals, there's simply not enough room to fulfill "the meat needs" of an ever-growing population in the world.

On the other hand, plants are fine with being stacked and raised by artificial light sources and finely setup nutrient solutions and whatnot. So by changing our food (production) chains to more plant-based, industrialized systems we can reduce the space needed for food production and also the economical and ecological impact.
As for the same and less cruel, going by the marketing material on Upside Foods it looks like its probably about same and unless you consider growing cells in a vat torture its less cruel.

https://upsidefoods.com/food

Pricing and environmental impact at scale is definitely still yet to be proven.
VMTouch may be helpful. https://hoytech.com/vmtouch/

Just lock the file into memory using:

```vmtouch -l /path/to/binary```
How can they be disputed? It's a fact clear as a day that deforestation in many places is caused by people making room for farmland… that don't produce food for people but fodder for livestock. And livestock has a calorie conversion efficiency much lower than unity. So you need to cut more forest to feed the same number of people. It can also scarcely be disputed that cattle produce large amounts of methane, enough that it's a significant factor in total greenhouse emissions.

There's also no disputing the fact that turning uncultivated land into monocultural farmland is a great cause of biodiversity loss – it's essentially the definition of farmland!
Or they don’t want to be a Guinea pig for something that (currently) has higher environmental impact than conventional meat[0].

I’ve less concern for the naming bans, however as someone allergic to soy, like when it’s stated up front. I’m not sure how forcing packaging of plant based goods to not use meaty words affects anyone negatively.

0 - https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-foot...
If plant-based foods are so good then sell them as so. Don't sell them as $adjective meat. If your whole business idea is based on misleading customers, perhaps it's not that good.
> This seems like a trick question… just an add right?

This sort of thing is part of why you'd often like to target an intermediate vector representation and let the compiler figure out the details. E.g., on Haswell chips you had multiple floating point execution units per core, and the CPU could definitely execute more than one pipelined FP operation simultaneously, but only one of those could be an `add` instruction. If you had a bunch of additions to do which didn't rely on the previously computed results (avoiding stalls), you could double your addition throughput by also dispatching a fused-multiply-add instruction where the multiplicand was just one. That _could_ execute at the same time as a normal vector FP addition.
the same reason that coke is cheaper than water sometimes: Because in the long run it's better for a company to sell and addict you to cheaply made processed food
Non-substantiated cause-effect relation. Switzerland and Sweden are both ranked more innovative than the US, despite stronger legal restrictions (food-wise or otherwise).

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/09/worlds-most-innovativ...
> The Afghan government collapsed.

So'd the Palestinian one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007) No elections in seventeen years, now.

> The Afghan people, presumably, did not fear for their lives enough to stand up to the Taliban.

I would presume, as with Hamas, that it's the opposite; that fear for their lives is precisely why they do not stand up to violent extremist groups controlling their area.

> Again, would you sit and wait?

I'd start with fixing the intelligence failures that permitted the attack to proceed.

Ignored warnings: https://www.ft.com/content/277573ae-fbbc-4396-8faf-64b73ab8e...

Halted overnight/weekend operations: https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-israeli-intel-unit-wasnt-o...

I'd also be investing a lot in expanding things like Iron Dome and border surveillance.

There are actions available that are not "flatten entire blocks of Gaza and displace a million people, generating the next generation of pissed off extremists".
That seems like a rather one sided, rose-tinted glass view of American government.
They had reasons. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Choice_of_pure_oxygen...

Even after the fire, the Apollo spacecraft still used 100% oxygen when in space. The cabin was 60% oxygen / 40% nitrogen at 14.7 psi at launch, reducing to 5 psi on ascent by venting, with the nitrogen then being purged and replaced with 100% oxygen.

> See Murpheys Law...

Indeed. I hope that was a joke.
The logo is awesome. Has an artist been hired to create it?
That's actually why. Tl;dr the console owners want the system to be a little bit legally and technically complicated because they only want to developers that have legal and technical competency making product for their consoles.

The implosion of the home console ecosystem in the United States between Atari and Nintendo is widely understood to have been caused by Atari giving up or losing the capacity to regulate who made games for their console and the quality of those games. As a result, the need for consumers to exercise their own savviness in finding the good ones went up, but rather than rise to the challenge, consumers just threw up their hands and stopped buying Atari home consoles and the games that went with them.

The lesson the whole industry learned is that they're selling a luxury product and they need to control quality to keep it a luxury product. Development ecosystems where anybody can write games of whatever quality are relegated to the home computer space, where the console providers (as console providers) are content to compete minimally.
IMHO fake meat is less appealing than regular plant-based options.

But if you want people to eat less meat, people need to stop pushing for full-on veganism. Taking away cheese, milk, and eggs is just way too much for many people. Focus on 'less meat, more veg' and you may have a more palatable message.
> Im actually ok with this. Vegetarian food should stop pretending to be something its not and be willing to stand on its own feet as what it is.

I concur -- food labels should be accurate, not deceptive. Food industry does not have a lot of credibility at the moment, and deceptive labelling wont help with that.
A long time ago, I switched from emacs to vim, because I switched to a company that used Sun Solaris in production, and it didn't have emacs and ssh'ing into boxes was common need. They didn't have vim, either, just vi.
Also in your particular example, if you walking in a woods that is private or requires hiring people to maintain, you will likely need to pay it. You don’t need to pay it if you walk in the wilderness, but even that you still indirectly paying it via tax if there are any work needs to be done to keep the wilderness looks good to you.
A terrible theory. Business owners can increase profits by X% by polluting more, and they can just live in the clean air areas that have higher property values and make the poor live in the polluted areas. Weather patterns move pollution in specific directions.

Don't believe me? Look at industrial cities like Cleveland where the poor areas are concentrated phyiscally downwind of the factories, and the wealthy areas are either upstream on the West side or further away on the East side, where they built a private train for themselves that allowed them to be further from the city while keeping commuting distance. This line is now the RTA Blue/Green line, and if you do a street view of the line in Shaker Heights you'll see that it runs straight down a boulevard of period mansions.

The wealthy can avoid almost every negative externality they create:

Underfunded public transit in NYC? Just take a helicopter to work.

Too many people are poor and crime is high? Hire private security and live in a gated community.

The poor are mad at you every time you go out in public and have their pitchforks at the ready? Fly private, have your assistant pick up your coffee, dine out in a private room, spend time in places the poor can't afford to go like your yacht or Monaco.

In Science Fiction, they go as far as moving off-planet, like in Elysium.

If things that were good for society were profitable we'd be living in a Star Trek utopia by now.
I have been upgrading my then owncloud setup now nextcloud setup for the last 10 years or so almost without issue - most issues I had where back when it was still owncloud. I think I did a wipe back then once. Nowadays even if something goes wrong I know what i can do. For instance i upgraded PHP too soon once and had to manually patch it.

Anecdotal evidence tho. Results vary. I like nextcloud because worst case all a wipe would cost me is a re-upload of my local folders over a couple of hours.
I think there are two things to consider here. One is a question: is Italy a player in this field and do they have research companies that have a vested interest in this? I don't know the answer to that question, but if they don't have much to lose in the short term it probably doesn't represent much of a lost opportunity.

Besides, it's Italy. It is about as politically stable as a jenga tower where all the easy pieces have already been removed. I'm not sure how robust such a ban might be if economic interests were to change.

The other is an observation: Italy has a lot of high value PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) products. Compare countries like Italy and France, which have many PDO products, to, for instance, the US, which has extremely few.

Of course, I haven't made a systematic study to map out how many PDO products countries have and cross-referenced that to how skeptical they are towards cultivated meat products, but it would surprise me if there was no correlation. This represents a guess on my part.
That goes some way to explain how Peter Jackson can have such a significant WWI collection [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/7gmZ9X9Aplk
> That's the same argument religious people have against abortions

No, That's the same argument religious people have about dietary restrictions.

In Italy food is a religion.

If Jews can have Kashrut and Muslims can only eat halal food (basically everything, except pork and its by-products), we can say no to lab grown food.

Why not?

Is it really progress to blindly accept everything, even if it could mean to completely hijack your own cultural traditions, that are such an important part of everyone's daily life?

No Jew ever died by eating non-kosher food. It's just a cultural tradition. Nonetheless we respect them, at least I do.
kordlessagain, thanks for explaining the actual attack vector.

I think it's probably some kind of data scrubbing exercise to mitigate the attack. similar to a spam filter or something.
Good points; I am, however, also interested in how to work effectively with someone who doesn’t like me.
Like our current food supply isn't highly processed already [0]... This law has nothing to do with preserving tradition. It has to do with populist right wing politics that ban anything new. High level cuisine will always exist, even when affordable alternatives arise.

0: https://foodtank.com/news/2022/11/database-indicates-u-s-foo...
Well, they appear to actually be banning the products. I personally have zero problem if they don't want the products to be labeled similarly to the "real" versions. There are already a ton of regulations in Europe about how food products are labeled.
The answer is no, they don’t at all. They can’t even come in as refugees. All of this “pro palestine” stuff is a facade to openly hate Jews
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Still, the M3 is the first 3nm processor. It would be interesting to see it compared to the latest 5nm processor (the M2) to see the gain from die switch.

Perhaps not showing it means there is little benefit from going from 5nm to 3nm?
> Wasn't this in Iranian territorial waters.

In case anyone is curious, the topic of discussion appears to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Samuel_B._Roberts_(FFG-58)...

All sources appear to indicate that the mine was in international waters.
Can you find a “shouldn’t“ part in my response?
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Olfactory cues become very imortant during pregnancy, people may not ever realize it tho. I can think of 4 women I've known while pregnant. all of them had an "unwashed partner's shirt" they wore: only one of them realized that the scent was the reason they found it comforting.
Now I understand. "lucubration" was a bad offer made by the DeepL translator and I didn't notice it, what is embarrassing due the meaning is literally the opposite of my intended sense. In fact I used the translator for that part because I didn't know what English word could suit softly. The online dictionary I checked now it's also wrong.

I've replaced the word in the message, "Speculation" is a word that is perhaps better suited to warning the reader that it is a thought without much research.
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You guys have the gold medal in mental gymnastics. You really said that?
I would make the exact opposite case. "Weird EA" (the people worrying about paperclip generators and shrimp welfare) is a consequence of EA's roots in, and continued association with, academic philosophy.

The main, good part of EA is just about donating money in a way that does the most good possible. Which for most of us means organizations that stop people dying unnecessarily in poorer countries.
It's not the presence of a marketplace with rules that's the root problem it's the bundling of said marketplace which forces its dominance. It has nothing to do with whether these things are public utilities either, not sure why it would as that seems like an odd criteria for a business practice to be either insane or illegal. "Everyone just start using an alternative on March 3rd" is an unrealistic way to break the cycle that everyone already has Play as their main store when they get a phone and all the apps are already in Play so neither users nor developers can easily leave play (though it is possible to do successfully if you're larger, see Fortnite).

I.e. it's not that people are choosing only 2 app stores because they've got the best policies they are stuck with whatever policies the 2 app stores give them until some separation between device and marketplace is made. Going between Ebay and Etsy is easy, everyone has to go to the URL bar and choose to type "Ebay" or "Etsy". If every browser shipped with the starting page of Ebay, browser integrations into Ebay, and popup warnings about using Etsy then I'd bet the same problem would exist there.

The situation on consoles is no better but that's not reasoning the situation everywhere else should be like consoles it's a reason console rules probably need to be updated these days too.
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I've been running Nextcloud for family collaboration purposes since before the fork from Owncloud. I've been pretty happy with it overall.

My biggest gripe with it is the increasing schizophrenia of the UX devs. One thing I _loved_ about Nextcloud was that they paid a lot of attention to making it easy to navigate and use. The newer UX "enhancements" seem to be all about maximizing (useless) whitespace and making every widget as spherical as possible. The calendar UI used to be a joy to use, now it's the most frustrating calendar I have ever seen.

On the plus side, if you're using the docker image, upgrades are a breeze. Just bump the tag on the image, redeploy, and you're done. (It did take a _lot_ of effort to migrating my existing data to the docker container, though.)

I also use Roundcube as my main email client. I've looked at bunches of them, but Roundcube is the closest thing to a web-based Thunderbird that I have seen. Unfortunately, this had a UI "update" too and now practically nothing can be customized the way I prefer. If someone forks Roundcube and brings back the old theme, I will switch to it tomorrow.
It is rediculous and makes me ask the obvious:

- why has meta not asked before for consent?*

- how did they pay their business until now?

- why is it so expensive?

*Information privacy doesn't count obviously
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"Shockingly little revenue targeted ads generate per user" is also relative to the context. I bang on these numbers a lot on HN because for many of us here, the amount of damage Facebook does to our lives, the amount of ads it shoves in our face, and the way it has contorted an entire industry into surveillance capitalism, is way, way more than $20/month worth of damage to our lives, culture, and society. It is also a good way to counter the frequently-proposed "what if the companies share ad revenue with their users?", which along with being sort of a "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" problem if you really analyze what that entails, has the even more fatal problem that there really isn't any money to do that with. If we cut you in for 50% of the ads you see in a month, you might be looking at a whopping $15-20 a month, or, pretty close to a single hour at what is roughly the de facto minimum wage. Even if we ignore how that instantly pushes all these companies from megaprofitable behemoths to bleeding money out of every orifice, $15-20/month isn't enough to make a compelling story on that front.

I think a lot of people have a mental model based on the size of these companies that they must be making hundreds of dollars a month per user, and it's good to run the numbers to show they don't so society can make more reasonable plans.
Unless you made a back door deal like Spotify

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-...
Lets not pretend that McDonald's chicken nuggets are some natural unprocessed thing that humans have been eating for centuries. If I want a chicken mcnugget, I'm expecting a frankenfood. And if I can get them without needing to subject actual chickens to the horrors usually involved in factory farming, then so much the better.
Nothing is what it seems in this industry. If we had a free market system here in the US GM would of went out of business in 08 and the streets would be filled with cheap BYD imports from China. We have major domestic protectionism in place b/c in times of war the auto industry can and has been used to produce the machines of war. EVs produced in the US by domestic automakers are heavily subsidized
Well their policies just ape Apple with about a three month delay so not worse really.

Also App Store review is waaaaaay quicker than Play Store review. I often get apps reviewed in 24 hours on Apple but Google can be literally weeks.
Protect the local meat industry? Salami, Soppresata, Prosciutto, Pepperoni; damn left with their synthetic meat trying to poison us and destroy us economically
Given that roll your own is not an option for a lot of shops, what do you recommend?