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Anonymity is a many-faceted issue. I have various personas on the Internet, but the truth is that any serious research can probably link them together.

Why do most people want anonymity (or pseudonymity)? Most of us are not in any sort of actual danger. If someone links my identities together, nothing horrible is going to happen. At worst, my employer will get some nasty email by someone I offended with an uncareful remark, which would have no consequences beyond a confused question.

Is it just a matter of comfort? Is it not wanting to have to be so careful what we say? Is it because we actually have different facets to our personalities, and want to give each of those facets expression?

Anyway: My open source projects are linked to my real identity. That's not an aspect of my identity I have any reason to hide. I don't see why anyone should. Heck, if you're young, your contributions may be important to your career: "Look what I did, you should hire me!"
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> but specifically of the group that's also good at programming. That conditional probability is much higher.

That's the group I was discussing. Higher for sure, but still not high. (Remember we're talking about Chinese nationals, not Chinese ethnicity.)

> so something rare in that group is true for many people still

Yes but we're talking probabilities so the total population size is irrelevant. You're the one making the statistical mistake here.

> It's not like everyone in the US has great English either. (Though open source maintainers are again probably more likely to.)

Answered your own question there.
Nice one, Germany!

Is there anything blocking the rest of EU from legalizing cannabis in this manner, aside from internal (national) politics? Whenever this topic comes up in our country, it's always met with opposition claiming that it would be against the EU regulations, or international treaties, or some other external blocker that we can't control.

These reasons sound like a stall tactic given that a few EU countries have managed legalization thus far, but I'm not familiar with the relevant laws. Do they have any legitimacy to them?
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By design, OpenSSH will start an interactive shell with either the capabilities to escalate to root or direct root permissions. I don't think pledge/unveil will work any better than seccomp already does.

I do like the pledge/unveil API, but I don't think it would've made much of a difference.
Well, another one bites the dust. Time to add a new entry to the list I guess: https://pomf2.lain.la/f/l1hez9p.png
What does that prove? They might well both be right.
This tiny detail makes the difference why employer-mandated drug tests are not a thing in Germany like it is in the US.
>OpenSSH runs...

Not every OpenSSH build it's linked against xz. OpenBSD's one isn't.
Unfamiliar with 'switch'; i do 'git checkout -' all the time to toggle back and forth
That seems really significant, email fowarding won't work anymore?
There is this idea that there is money to be made in publishing, but the old models are failing. Find the right model (ie. market fit) and you could reap respectable profits, e.g. The Economist Group. This sounds a lot like VC territory, but like anything worth doing it is going to be hard.
Seems like a purely legal problem to have some form of real world handle. For such problems, I'd also expect a legal solution.

For example, the license could include something like: if we cannot identify and contact you in a reasonable amount of time, you have no say. Or: contributions from a certain amount of lines of code require a stable contact etc.

I don't see a problem of liability in general. And for special cases, one can still require verification.
I can very well imagine that people develop critical software open source. For example, a governmental app, or a software for a nuclear power plant. Then, the public can also have a look and see how things are operating. However, open source doesn't mean that anybody is invited to contribute IMHO.
I don't know how I can be more clear about how much this sounds like the exact opposite of a problem, about how this completely fails to elucidate why silicon is being singled out and demonised — especially as you're now putting steel (which one of the things the other commenter was preferring) into the same bucket as silicon.
The point about owing Andres unlimited beer is a good one. He should get something good out of this!
I think most of these claims are BS, but I've met several people who have claimed to heal their own inflammatory diseases through non-medical practice to help regulate their vagus nerve. I know for me, these types of practices seem to help manage my symptoms. So maybe there is some connection.
UpScayl is great, I use it a lot for work. Upscaling low-res graphics and illustrations for use in graphics in a pinch, upscaling portrait photos of people for print and photoshop… upscaling old copies of things for editing purposes, you name it.

It’s not perfect but no alternative is. Bloody useful though.
Or, like most people, they don't work with JS outside of the frontend where fetching multiple things in parallel is rarely needed.
> I guess yesterday's science fiction is now our reality.

That's actually what's written on https://upscayl.org, "From Science Fiction to Reality" haha
> cultivate up to three marijuana plants at home

I give it 3 microseconds until every single new rental contract / landlord prohibits this (and consumption).

Also, here’s an article with slightly more info on limits and prohibited places: https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-celebrates-legal-cannabis-posse...
You're probably right that it's the case in most countries, but an interesting counterexample is Sweden, where testing positive on a drug test is a criminal offence. Police can arrest you for appearing to be under the influence of drugs, and if they find any traces in a urine test, they'll fine you for it.

I hope that legalization in Germany will lead to more sane laws in Sweden, but honestly, I'm not holding my breath for it
Making the link clickable: https://www.modular.com/blog/the-next-big-step-in-mojo-open-...
And I think people should now look at all oddities with Valgrind. Since that is how the issue got discovered. And then look at the problematic library and look for similar outliers of fake personas taking over a project.

It seems it is common practice for people to ignore these errors.
A lot of things could be done, most projects don't do much that is extra work. In practice most projects do something that is within what is socially acceptable, what people do and what does not require extra effort. The fact that even large projects like the Linux kernel are much more relaxed about pseudonymous contributions today to me is at least an indication that this is where things are going.
Which validates my point: OpenSSL is not “C”, it’s not even “Perl”, it’s targeting a bespoke framework and build platform that just so happens to be written in Perl.
I think sun position at noon/during the day would trip up any person from north if someone would ask them "point to south" while being in Australia or south hemisphere. I can imagine because of that the effect of wrong side sun coming up can be rather strong.
> It does not exist.

The MRI scanner near you is potentially using AI to increase image signal, then to increase pixel count 4x (well, 2x in X direction, 2x in Y direction. Potentially also generating a slice between each slice in 3D datasets).

If you turn off the AI and actually acquire the information, the scan is long, the patient moves and it is blurry. However if the patient is still, the non AI images look like the AI images.

Disagreeing with it is sort of moot now - it’s in the machines and is running. It works well, I’ve been using it daily for a few years.

All vendors have it - I use the Siemens product ‘Deep Resolve’ [1]. Their PR department undersells it, in my view this is a bigger change than the 1.5T to 3T transition.

[1] https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/magnetic-resonance-imag...
I can confirm the statement about the security industry. I just opened LinkedIn and my feed, along with two spam dms, are companies trying to imply their product had always detected this.
That sounds comparatively fine, breaking a rental contract seems not as bad as breaking possession laws.
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> I make a new GitHub account for any new job I start

Beware of GitHub's terms of service, then: "you may not have more than one free Account" <https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...>
Are we talking about different things here? Of course the plane is cheaper for heavily competed trunk routes like Tokyo to Fukuoka or Sapporo, but I'm referring to all the random small airports that are lucky to get a single daily flight to Tokyo: Noto, Aomori, Yamagata, Kushiro, etc.
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Not sure if a landlord is able to dissalow this, as it does not damage the rental property i would be surprised if he is allowed to forbid it
> This tiny detail makes the difference why employer-mandated drug tests are not a thing in Germany like it is in the US.

It doesn't explain the difference, no, since the same is true about the US. In most states, consumption of most drugs is not a crime - possession, production, distribution, sale, and trafficking are the actual crimes prosecuted.
If companies insist on always taking the easy way out, they continue to introduce a significant amount of risk.

This, each company needs to take some amount of responsibility for the stack that they use. A company that I worked for, sponsored upstream maintainers, sometimes for implementing specific functionality, sometimes without any specific goal. If more companies did this for their open source stacks, open source development would be much better funded.

Of course, it will always be hard to detect very sophisticated attacks from actors that can play the long game. But if maintenance is not just a hobby, PRs can receive more attention, and if it's not an added workload besides a day job, there is less churn/burn-out which can be used for malicious actors to take over a project.
Let’s add a clause to all OSS licenses:

“…comes as-is, without warranties and without any commitment for future work. Complaints will get your feature request deprioritised, may get you banned, and will look silly to any potential employer googling your name”.

Also, let’s make it a meme to call out unreasonable behaviour: stop Jigar-Kumaring!
In my experience in Europe, the primary roadblock is the controlling moralistic conservatism exhibited by critics like those quoted in the article.
Technically, both compatibility with EU law and international law is yet to be decided, with the international law incompatibility already being pretty obvious. In Germany, the latter incompatibility is not immediately problematic. This may be different for other countries. The former may still manifest insofar as lawsuits will be brought forward.

However, we're already pretty sure that the current change in law will require further tuning as issues become apparent. Still, you need to start somewhere.
As renter protection in Germany is extremely high, and for example smoking or animals cannot be prohibited with a lot of difficulty, I don't see how that could be legal.
> is there something about a work created by human hand and derived from a human mind that can make them so?

Yes.
The case you shared in fact shows that the Proton's encryption ensures privacy by default and that it cannot be bypassed even when we're presented with a court request that we cannot legally contest. Namely, weren't able to share any of the user's email content due to zero-access encryption which makes it inaccessible to us: https://proton.me/blog/zero-access-encryption. All we could provide was the limited metadata we need to have access to anyway in order for the email service to work properly.
Additionally, the user's identity had already been known to the law enforcement. As any legally operating company, we need to comply to the local legislation.

There is also no comparison between Crypto AG and us. Our encryption occurs client-side, our cryptographic code is open source ( https://proton.me/community/open-source ), and our tech can and has been independently verified. More about this here: https://proton.me/blog/is-protonmail-trustworthy

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I can't think of a law that would allow landlords to enforce that in a rental contract. Renting is heavily regulated in Germany.

Consumption is different, but the new law is very specific in what is allowed and what isn't, and an unconditional ban is unlawful, as is already the case with cigarettes.
Do you have any experts on staff? Like actual, trained, board certified working psychiatrists?

This is going to tell someone to kill themselves eventually, what are the statistical guarantees that something like that isn't going to get you sued or worse, thrown in jail? Do you even know what the statistical chances are of it telling someone to engage in self harm? If so, how did you measure this? Do you even care? People are going to be sharing their most intimate secrets with this thing, what are your policies around data retention as it relates to the data that is sent to the AI provider, and how can you provide guarantees that data won't get exposed, either on your end, or the ai provider?

Tech masquerading as mental health should be illegal, particularly when it has a chat agent that will at some point hallucinate. Hope you can sleep well knowing any day you could wake up and see a message that your chat app drove someone to kill themselves or someone else.

This whole thing is irresponsible. I know you've put in a lot of work, but you did you stop to think about any of the rest of it?
Probably during inference, as well.
You’re not required to have a copy of annemployee’s ID on file?

Here (.nl) you need either a passport or an ID card and you are supposed to verify its authenticity.
I don't agree with you fully. Look at solarwinds for example,or many other supply chain attacks, they were discovered much later after succesful abuse.

The public availability of the software helped catch the attack much faster than commercial software. Even if there was intensive scrutiny of changes to the project, a person familiar with the process can still come up with hard to detect backdoors.

Future backdoors may be stealthier but what this case demonstrated is that even a database hacker who doesn't do security audits could catch it simply because it's opensource. The expectation should be, such backdoors would be detected many months or years after the fact if they were your typical closed source popular application.

This is a case for open source software usage and funding. The security industry can't do much in terms of prevention against a malicious insider that knows the codebase more than any outsider. And opensource or not, people can get paid or implanted to sabotage software.
Thankfully, gag orders are not permissible in Switzerland, so the scenario you are describing is impossible.
This is the case in the Netherlands, despite a better legalization status. I’ve never seen a rental allow growing cannabis. Some larger rental agencies even perform yearly inspections.
Lots of arch users sensed the unusual slowness of ssh, but less would have gone that far because of naive trust of the community.
Learning how to grow my indiehacker side gigs. Building is easy, getting a few users also works. But growing/maintaining revenue is really really hard for me :(
However, bear in mind that consumption is grounds for investigation because of the high probability of illegal acquisition or production.
I think it’s even more fundamental than culture, there are so many moving parts nowadays that the vast majority just aren’t smart enough to write high quality software within a normal 40 hour a week job.

e.g. The difficulty curve for writing apps went down a bit when iOS became popular, but nowadays iOS 17 is probably more complex than Snow leopard was in 2009 so there aren’t any low hanging fruit left for the median SWE.
This joke makes some good points.
So, why AMD acts like they don't care/can't care about this? Is this such a specialized area that the programmers are hard to find or fished away by Nvidia or something else is going on? If the latter, what?
How about the horrible smell produced by those who smoke? It's super reckless to expose others to negative side-effects by somebody who can't control themselves and must smoke.
Same here with 20+ years old mail service on the same domain that has never sent spam with correctly configured DNS SPF DKIM DMARC, getting gmail rejections. I noticed a significant improvement after linking the domain to my google account https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9981691
Not at the moment, but it's only a question of finding good dictionaries to expand the language support :)
Why is that, that AMD seemingly can't act like a sane individual would do?
The article even has quotes from moralistic conservatives who would love to add more special words to cover their long list of sins.
Sweden is (in)famous in Europe for taking probably the continent's hardest line on drugs. Cannabis is in the same category as heroin and treated accordingly, there's no tolerance for medical use etc.
1. There are further limits on the size of harvests, making growing at home pretty much infeasible.
2. German rental law is very restrictive. Essentially, for most purposes, you are the master of the place you inhabit. Such a restriction will probably not be legal and thus non-binding, even if stated in the contract.
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Part of me agrees that pop is ripe for that sort of upheavel but my arguments that it won't happen are:

1. Angst will probably always be the teenage condition but I don't think the distance between what's being recorded and what teens and young adults are feeling is as great as it was in the 90s.

2. Music listening is so much more fragmented now that even if some artist hooks into some underserved emotional need, it might just grab its group of followers and then sorta descend into its own little subculture, safely away from the mainstream. The third and fourth lines on any contemporary festival act list has a lot of acts that fall into this category.

3. Kurt Cobain was this unusual combination of wanting to be anti-authority, anti-establishment, alternative on one hand, but then very ambitious and seeking fame and record deals on the other. It's paradoxical but he was that and that combination of attributes is really good for changing the mainstream music scene but I don't think most people can live in that contradiction for that long and therefore people like that are rare.

In my view, we're in a sort of repeat of 00s R&B. Lot of substanceless tunes with honestly seriously vulgar lyrics but immensely catchy and fun. The main difference is this version is less danceable (but also more subject to dance routines on TikTok!). And I don't mean it in a pejorative way, not every good song need to be meaningful.
Nearly any amount of intoxication is vaguely illegal under disorderly conduct. It’s a catch all they can apply whenever. Fighting it and winning still costs time and money.

So sure, the act of consuming might be legal, but having consumed isn’t.
Landlords successfully get people to adhere to all kinds of technically illegal rules. If you need a space, you sign whatever they give you. Waiting times for a consultation with renters associations in Berlin are 3-4 weeks right now.

For example, they often prohibit plants of certain sizes on balconies, and entirely elsewhere.

Legal? Maybe not - but here in reality you have little recourse.
They're a 3 month old account.
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I think most people are moving to vaping, which produced much, much less smell. Plus, vapour doesn't "stick" to things and make them smell forever more like smoke does.

Also, edibles are really popular these days.
sshd in arch isn't built with the systemd patch, and thus experienced no slowdown. You can read about this on the arch linux blog: https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoore...
What did they legalize now, then?
Edibles don't smell.
Google's Fuchsia OS looks promising but it doesn't look like (or something like it) will go anywhere until the world accepts that you probably have to build security into the fabric of everything. You can't just patch it on.
I just found my copy of Planiverse, bought at the University bookshop - I was in my 3rd year of my engineering course when it was published. Just rereading the introduction when it covers the simulation program 2DWORLD I remember at the time thinking it would be cool to develop such a program. I'm quite surprised that one was hasn't really developed (of course lots of the 2d scrollers and roguelike games could be thought being in that vein, but I'm thinking of the more detailed physics and biology that A.K. explored in the book). Or is there something like it out there?
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The link seems broken, since it points back to the same article at https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/not-so-fast-mr-fourier
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Not even a quarter of Germans smoke cigarettes.

The assumption is also that legalizing cannabis will not lead to more consumption.