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> I don’t think you understand the time and effort that finding a new maintainer takes. It is far from “minimal” and this mindset that it is somehow expected and/or required to leave a project is exactly my point.

If a community of users exists, it takes no effort to communicate your desire to depart the project.

If there are active contributors besides the lead maintainer (Neofetch had 206, most of them, granted, with minor contributions), starting a discussion to consider one or several people who could take over takes _minimal_ effort. Many projects do this all the time. It also takes minimal effort to mention the project in one of several maintainers-wanted lists/sites.

The difficult thing, as pointed out by a comment in an adjacent thread, is to handover the trust in the project that existing users had to someone you presumably don't trust. As the xz situation showed, this can easily be exploited.

Ultimately, if no suitable replacement can be found, then sure, shut the project down. My point is that it's not unreasonable to expect some effort before making this decision.

> You literally just placed expectations and demands onto someone.

I'm sleepy and sedated, so might not be fully congruent. :S I probably should've prefaced that first line with "unreasonable expectations".

But to save us both some time, all I'm saying is that project maintenance involves more than just releasing code as open source. It's fine for a user, paying or not, to have some basic expectations of how the project is maintained, beyond the freedoms they have from the software license. I consider communication as one of those basic expectations, and in my opinion, the author of Neofetch failed to meet them. I am allowed to judge them for it, and you are allowed to disagree.
the .0 releases can have their problems, but a canonical engineer also did literally submit a kernel patch to fix a bug that prevented my machine from booting with any new enough kernel in response to a bug report.
I'm here just to remind everybody that the Debian Stable release cadence is about the same as Ubuntu LTS. Plus Debian doesn't have snaps, Unity and the other Ubuntu-specific "value-adds".

(on the other hand, Debian's bug report is stuck in the 1920's, still being completely based on e-mail)

Edit: also, if you use new hardware, just install Debian Testing, configure /etc/apt/sources.list to say "trixie" instead of "testing", which will ensure that next year you'll be using Debian Stable then Trixie becomes Stable.
Sure, that makes more sense than the fact that most people who are at the age where one would normally conduct criminal mischief are now glued to their phones. Murder and violent crimes are both dropping year over year, too. Not sure how you wave away murder rates because people have given up on police.
I was linked an article [0] claiming that "the federal government has two ways of measuring crime, the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. The former asks around 240,000 Americans if they’ve been the victim of a crime in the last year whereas the latter relies on crimes reported to police in a given year and shared with the bureau.

A gap has emerged between the two measures. More people are telling the Bureau of Justice Statistics that they’ve been victimized, but the FBI is reporting fewer crimes."

The article goes on to say that "the UCR reported that violent crime fell by 2% between 2021 and 2022" and yet "the NCVS found that the number of people saying they were the victims of violent crimes increased by 42.4% between 2021 and 2022, rising from 16.5 victimizations per 1000 people to 23.5 victimizations per 1000."

Does anyone have more information on the accuracy of that claim?

As a personal anecdote, my car was broken into last year and I did not bother filing a police report.

[0] https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/25/media-outlets-misrepresen...
I love the landing page! Did you design it yourself?
Or you can just add some randomness to the prompt by adding “Your random seed is mciifjrbdifnf.”

I just tested that and got 4 left and 2 right so it works pretty well.
This is basically a blank page.. is the URL correct?
The article takes the data as gospel but the sources are not disinterested. There are significant trends in both the probability of crime and of a crime being reported. And there have been recent significant changes to how those stats are collected. If you see a clear signal in the data it may be because you haven't had a chance to spelunk into the details.

https://www.city-journal.org/article/urban-crime-wave
This is really insightful, I often write little bash scripts to solve annoyances on my system. But I never realize that those bash scripts could be the seed to plant something larger, like an actual full featured tool that solves the original problem and also grabs other related problems as well. And I would love to chat! It would be really helpful to back-and-forth with someone and gain new insights. Please email me at eminent_went_0d@icloud.com!
Don't forget Defender for Cloudapps which is a CASB
I guess you didn't read the link?

>Donn was making good progress and looked to be on track to ship in early 1985; we were excited to show the world what Basic should really look like on the Macintosh.

>He knew that Donn's Basic was way ahead of Microsoft's, so, as a condition for agreeing to renew Applesoft, he demanded that Apple abandon MacBasic, buying it from Apple for the price of $1, and then burying it.

I bought Microsoft's BASIC for the Mac, and it was a waste of money, and I'd've much rather had Apple's based on my reading of the books which were published about it despite it not having been released save as a beta:

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/MacBASIC#Books
Yea, that's why we also added in an grammar checker, even if they dont care about facts, they can get something better than gram marly that checks for way more for way less.
JustWatch already has all that.
Java had nothing to do with coffee; nor Python snakes; nor Rust oxidation. The computing/IT industry just picks names for stuff that doesn't have much to do with anything.
I am very curious how this is built, I would like to build similar SSH interactive experiences. Any resources and how to get started would be really appreciated. (I know how to setup a basic TCP server that listens on SSH port, but I really don't know how to implement navigation etc for the SSH experience)
You don't.

Pick one and only one. It's like asking "how do I make money with acts of kindness".
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ECMO is short term, and you're talking long term. We're not going to cure aging in 10 years. We probably could have an ECMO in every home in 10 years. Of course senescence research must be a part of it. And that research will benefit tremendously if cheap ECMO keeps a few veteran senescence researchers alive who otherwise would have died of heart attacks.
that's really great!
The blurb on his background:

> Matthew Bromberg is currently a Senior Advisor to Blackstone (NYSE: BX), a global alternative asset manager. He also sits on the board of directors of Bumble (NASDAQ: BMBL), where he has been a member of the audit committee; Monzo, a privately held, U.K.-chartered bank; and Blast, a privately held esports company. From 2018 to 2021, he was on the board of directors of Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) where he was a member of both the compensation and nominating and governance committees. Between August 2016 to November 2021, Mr. Bromberg served as Chief Operating Officer at Zynga. Prior to Zynga, he held various leadership roles at Electronic Arts including Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operations of the company’s mobile division and Group General Manager for all BioWare studios worldwide. Earlier in his career, he pioneered the esports revolution as the President and CEO of Major League Gaming. Mr. Bromberg holds a B.A. in English from Cornell University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
> What is that based on? (Also, why those particular schools?)

I don't have any hard data, but I've worked with a ton of people who have been to a bunch of different schools, including Ivy League and they weren't appreciably better engineers than the people who went to decent state schools.

I mentioned those particular schools because the parent comment mentioned them.

> It's a chance to work with (and build relationships with) the very best minds in the world, some of the best in human history.
> Think of that kid in your high school who just blew away every class, even the hardest ones; who found other things outside school or at nearby colleges to challenge them. That kid wants to be around other kids like them, who challenge them, and around professors who can make the most out of their potential and passions.

Ok, no, I call bullshit, that's a common thing I hear about expensive yuppie schools but I don't buy it. The really hard decent students can easily be priced out because they don't want $300,000 of student loan debt. Not everyone can get scholarships.

And "best minds in the world"? "best in human history"? Really? Think of nearly any politician that you think is a moron (I won't name names), and they probably went to an Ivy League school. I think it's utterly ridiculous to assume that only rich yuppies with rich yuppie parents are the "best minds in the world".

This is elitist horseshit, and frankly I think it's harmful. It's an absurdly reductive and honestly naive view of the world, that really only exists to have some feeling of smug superiority about how smart you are because you went to a school that was paid for by your multimillionaire parents or you got into $300,000 of debt to learn the same shit you could learn at a decent state school.

ETA:

Sorry, I was wrong, people that are going to college aren't "yuppies" because they're not professional yet. Their parents might be yuppies, or just rich.
I've been running the 23.10 Desktop version on a Pi 5 for the last few months for a project and it was working reasonably fine. Tried the 24.04 release the past few days and it's genuinely unusably laggy and unresponsive. I suppose it'll be sorted out eventually, maybe they forgot to add Vulkan support or something haha. 24.04 Server works fine it seems at least, might be worth trying to install KDE on it, GNOME delenda est.
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The part where I think there is some flexibility is about the difference between "bytes attempted to transfer" and "bytes actually transferred". I think it is pretty fair to bill for the former, as long as you abort requests in a reasonable way. So I don't expect it to be billed exactly by the transferred byte, but I do expect it to not go above that higher than whatever the chunk size for transferring is.
Mint :|
As a person responsible for endpoints in my company, I was awaiting 24.04 with impatience, because of how they promised TPM-based LUKS encryption. Finally, no telling users why they need TWO passphrases on their machines!

Well, yes. You bet the encryption works. Even an advanced hacker will have a hard time unlocking the hard drive... if after the install the TPM refuses to escrow the key, and you can only see your recovery seed AFTER a successful installation!
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The media has always greatly amplified perception of crime.

In the 80s and 90s for instance daytime TV convinced parents that pedophile abductors were stealing kids everywhere when in reality these crimes were and are statistically extremely rare.
It's a flotilla of product ships sailing in the same general direction (hopefully)
>Which would use that money to invest in things, like always.

No, people only invest if they see a return. If the return is too low they will simply hold onto the money since interest rates can't go negative too deeply. Your idea only works in a fantasy land with mandated equilibrium. In the real world people don't care if there is an equilibrium or not.
What is the engine we are missing?
Impressive Sora Demo Wasn't Made with Sora
I can assure you this was not AI-generated, apart from the 'symbolic image' (which should be fairly obvious :).

Maybe that's just our non-native English shining through. In any case, as a small European company in the healthcare space, we are quite used to having to explain "the cloud" (with all potential and pitfalls) to our customers. They are also (part of) the target audience for this post, hence the additional explanations.

(Not OP and not author of the article, but was involved in the write-up.)
When I was at Jet.com, there was a somewhat controversial decision made by the CEO that the new "category specialists" they were hiring had to be from a "Top 20 school". They of course didn't define what that meant, but it did a good job pissing off pretty much everyone.

I agree it's primarily finance and law, but I don't think they have a monopoly on elitist snobbery.
Agreed tons of potential here, however we may need to get our own geo data for this: Google was very clear during the API quota approval process that 3d tiles cannot be used for ML training or generation of derivative assets like Gaussian splats, at least with this specific product offering.
My grip has always been the dynamic tripod. Never helped.
One thing they are good at is consistency... https://techrights.org/n/2024/01/30/Microsoft_is_Making_Even...
A TfL AI experiment reveals how Tube station capacity could be increased
Less kids playing outside.
It's not a fault. They needed xz for some functionality and didn't want to split that library into multiple pieces. That's just a choice.

But either way, you could always do notification in a few lines yourself (probably as many as you needed to link that library in the first place). I've done multiple 3-line "implementations" in Python and Ruby in the past and never linked it for example.
I guess it's a matter of students don't have money to spend and bad optics, while a company might be cowed into paying the bill.
Windows is quite secure these days. Arguably more secure than Linux.
>Nobody feels like they "have to" come in on Saturdays

Then why list it? I regularly work on Saturdays because I have an interesting problem I want to solve, but i'd never apply to a listing like this because it reads like the company is cosplaying as a high performing startup.

I peeked at your resume, and it doesn't seem like you've worked with top tier software teams previously. You may want to hire some outside help to cultivate an actual high performance culture.

Notice OpenAI and Anthropic aren't making statements like "six days a week in office"...
Normally I wouldn't complain about downvotes, but telling me I've got uglier is a bit cruel. I'll get over it...
McDonald's and other big brands warn that low-income consumers starting to crack
That's my point. Everyone and their dog has a ring doorbell now. Property crime was definitely worse in the 80s and 90s, but you'd only hear about it through the grapevine.
If you're seeking therapy you probably already have the idea that something is out of order and that you don't have the tools to put it back into order.

But it is easy to assume the issue is external only to suddenly realize it's internal, like a sex addict thinking that the reason they were constantly sleeping around and doing risky sex things was that they hadn't met the right person only to discover that they were trying to fill a deep emotional black hole in their soul.

Then they get to deal with the psychic whiplash of that AND the original issue which isn't magically resolved by a glimmer of awareness.

I would think the smarter thing would be for hallucinogenic treatments to be overseen by 3rd party groups, with people who work and train for just such emergencies and have tools on hand from guidance, kind words, emotional support, and if need be powerful sedatives to help seekers process any sudden psychic landmines they trip on, and then a full report returned to their primary therapist to help them integrate any new understandings.
Read the NYT's subtitle:

> In many students’ eyes, the war in Gaza is linked to other issues, such as policing, mistreatment of Indigenous people, racism and the impact of climate change.

I think your reading of the NYT's intentions is rather far off. Especially since the part of Ari's quote that you cut off is "...closely , but said there was considerable overlap between the movement for greater justice in policing and pro-Palestinian sentiment. They were moved to join the demonstrations on campus after seeing their friend pushed to the ground by the police."
Totally agree, I still have no idea why Frank Herbert named his novels after a hill of sand? /s
Did he leverage any of his Tesla stock to buy Twitter?
Canonical made an announcement some time ago when Flutter started supporting desktop usecases that they were all in on Flutter: https://snapcraft.io/blog/canonical-enables-linux-desktop-ap...

This is them actually discussing the installer: https://ubuntu.com/blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far
> The videos aren't designed to promote the product.

That's my point, really. Nobody's looking at influencer videos explicitly to learn what to buy or how to behave. The whole idea is to piggyback on whatever influence the influencer may have in their niche to sell to that niche. Like concentrated peer pressure, I guess.

At least that's what I've seen - it's entirely possible there are insecure people seeking out influencer videos with no useful content other than telling them what to buy, and I just never see those videos. There's something unsettling about that idea, though.
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Sure, but the same is true for angels. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/nearly-7-in-10-u-s-adult...
Scaling hierarchical agglomerative clustering to trillion-edge graphs
Even when I worked at Canonical I never installed the latest LTS until at least its first point release in the summer. Maybe I'm part of the problem: if more people followed my lead, the initial release would get buggier and buggier.
Are you using the GUI or are you using it headless? Just to pile on anecdotal evidence, the oldest ubuntu server I have running has been going for 11 years now with no issues. I have around 4 others also running with no issues. These are all headless though.
I ran Fedora for a very long and pleasant time until one day an OS update completely and (at least within the bounds of my patience) permanently broke all wireless networking on my Dell laptop. Ubuntu LTS has worked ok enough since then, probably because Dell ships Ubuntu on some laptops. I will absolutely not be upgrading to this LTS until 24.04.1 has proven itself for a while.

I realize it's my own damn fault for owning a Dell instead of a Thinkpad, but afaict my ruggedized Dell is the only semi-affordable way to get a sunlight readable display in a laptop. I'd kill for a sunlight readable Framework >_>
Except several decades ago we shifted normal people's retirement accounts from pensions to stock market casino accounts.
Is that the one that bought us various fad service oriented technologies, even more broken DCOM and Code Access Security in the .Net Framework, topped with a peppering of Vista, UAC and shovelling the lumpy turds that remained into virtualization (LSASS etc) yet still somehow managing to run their entire AV software as SYSTEM resulting in a zero touch complete system remote compromise?

Trust is of course earned. Bill's words were lost unfortunately under the next year's priority, the one after that and the one after that.

Today it's AI. Tomorrow it's whatever Satya says that pumps the stock. I've worked with their tech for 30 years and customer requirements, safety and security is somewhere down the priority list. That is the only truth.
My rule of thumb is to take every single LLM prompt and just imagine that it's prefixed with:

"Computer, focus on generating output that resembles the words people in the past used after they were given the following words..."
I'm the cheapest of the cheap.

I use project genesis because they were giving away 21 months of service for free if you did some basic tasks for a couple weeks. I'm on month 6 or so of completely free, unlimited data/talk/text.

I hope they last long enough for me to see it through.

Edit:

What I would use without PG, which is what my wife is on, is US Mobile. 10GB/mo for $15.
Thank you sir! Just me - yep - I do everything from the initial mockups to the front end code, back end code, dev ops, QA.

The caveat is that I can only do about 2 of these at the same time.
It's top-down engineering. Mark commanded the desktop team to go all-in on Flutter. This is how Canonical functions.
The us is huge
Wow. Okay. New horrors brought to us by the modern world we've created.

Thankfully, it does look like AWS is appropriately embarrassed over this, and is going to maybe do something.

https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/1785386554372042890
So his girlfriend said it therefore he would even though there's no evidence to show he ever did?

Have you used WikiLeaks? When was the last time it was consequencial or noteworthy?

Here's a recent article with Julian assange. https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/julian-assange-wi...

> He regrets that WikiLeaks is no longer able to expose war crimes and corruption as in the past. His imprisonment and US government surveillance and restrictions on WikiLeaks’ funding wards off potential whistleblowers. He fears that other media outlets are not filling the vacuum.
> Regrettably, the marketplace is far from healthy

The unhealthy thing here isn't the marketplace, it's government policy. If you eschew popular open-source tools for closed/proprietary alternatives, this will happen. Linux will always have several orders of magnitude more experts banging on it than Windows ever will. Vendors pontificating about security will not change this fundamental asymmetry. Also, don't want product lock-in? Don't choose vendors with a significant risk or history of lock-in. Don't endorse face-eating leopards and then blame others when they eat your face.
An interesting analysis, but do you have links to the primary sources or to a more credible source than the Daily Caller?

> As a personal anecdote, my car was broken into last year and I did not bother filing a police report.

What does that represent? Not only are you just one person, people have been behaving like that for generations, not just the last 4 years.
That's insane as well. They already built the system, but you just can't use it because we want the option for you to screw up and pad our billing. There are many projects I've worked on where a service not being available until the 1st of the next month would not be anything more than a minor annoyance, and would much rather that happen than an unexpected bill. This is also something that I think would be a nice CYA tool when developing something in the cloud for the first time. It's easy to make a mistake when learning cloud services that could be expensive like TFA shows.