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This is so good and wholesome. Seeing it, it was immediately clear how needed a guide like this is, something future facing & robust, covering all the modern bases.

We haven't had stable bases of advocacy! Nothing so collected! Individual pieces crop up in submissions (inevitably to a fairly serious level of oHhhh nOO LennartOS, SysV ini-scriptd forever counter-commenting). This puts it all together, paints the vision out, makes an actionable way forward for those who are curious.

Specific & relatively accessible recommendations, a fair play by play on current state of affairs, advantages & weaknesses, a brief rundown on the situation... So so good. All the recommendations are practical & direct options. Admittedly I have yet to actually do secure boot, but I'm doing most of the rest! (Systemd-networkd is pretty manual but been fine, helpful so I can use the same tool at work. Still on iwd but yeah it periodically can hop when my router changes band too.)

I love this article. It makes it whole. This is modern, it works, it tracks with what the excited happy pro-adopters future-forward progressive folk are excited for, and is where folks are pouring their time & effort into improving today.
If the advice was a slam dunk they would just start the company. There are too many factors for it to be useful, and they know that. Theres too much nuance
Thankfully the number of windows users that need to use CAD/CNC milling software is not statistically significant. At this point almost nearly all Windows users could stop using Windows at least for their home/personal use. If the only windows machines being used were on corporate LANs and on factory floors the world would be a better place.
And an exceptionally well written documentation, too! One of the first big-ish projects of mine was a raytracer I wrote in C with SDL.
Why would you need to ask?.. you just submitted the same model https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242203
I'll follow your recommendation and try the simple stuff. Looks like OnShape is right up my alley. All very exciting feels like I'm "programming hardware" !
Blender maybe, but not CAD work unfortunately.
That certainly is gregarious!
Really doesn’t seem like Florida is that opposed to banning innovation for incumbents, not the kind of place I’d trust my startup to really given big restrictive state government over small gov https://x.com/andercot/status/1786169027007783227?s=46&t=3ZO...
Two assumptions I have, and I'd love for people to shoot me down on this:

1. Most applications will get "Passkey" support by dint of OIDC SSO support; OIDC IdPs are the things that will implement Passkeys (SIWA and SIWG for "retail" users).

2. Direct Passkey adoption in applications will round towards zero, maybe excepting huge applications like Insta; people will do Passkeys with their Google account, but not with (say) Doordash.

If those premises hold, I probably don't need to be sold (though this post is helpful and incredibly detailed) on why not to do my own direct implementation of Passkeys; it makes more sense for us to nail OIDC.
But the suggestion of foul play against boeing whistleblowers was made before the second boeing whistleblower died. The connection was pre-existing.

And that is quite irrelevant to the question of what are the odds either of them, in isolation, would die under suspicious circumstances.
Taxpayers need to know how heavy a toll they'll be paying for weight-loss drugs
CAD is common software now?
I've seen this 'Naval' on Twitter, or now X, but there's hundreds of accounts with that shtick, catering to various groups, so it seems doubtful.

Are you sure he was 'the flagship SV investor, widely regarded...' among serious SV folks?

Or just among the peanut gallery?
> Because you're got the overview right but your details are weird.

Having just booted up RedSquirrel, yes, I accept I'm slightly misremembering. Right-clicking doesn't open a menu, it is consistently middle-click.

However, it is still somewhat inconsistent. In several applications (for example, !Maestro or a filer icon), left and right click on the icon bar do the same thing, while in others (for example !Edit), only left click opens a new window and right click does nothing.

Playing around with RISC OS 3.10 again, I'm also reminded of the nonsense that is menu items with arrows on them (indicating sub-menus, or sub-windows like save boxes) require you to successfully slide the mouse through the arrow to open them. Almost all other menus I've seen will open sub-menus as soon as you land _anywhere_ on the menu item.

While drag-and-drop may be powerful, the ergonomics of the UI were atrocious. I don't think anyone at Acorn had heard of Fitts' Law. The tiny save box also required you had exactly the right filer window open, ready and waiting. You couldn't easily change your mind like you can with a file requester (and also with modern MacOS's spring-loaded folders).

I also think the OS was designed with the expectation that overlapping windows would be _normal_, and I don't think that's ever been the case, certainly not how I use computers. Most windows I have open are fullscreen, and I switch between them (most commonly with the alt-tab concept that Windows brought). I might have _internal_ windows inside one app's window (for example, multiple code editing windows and terminals in an IDE, or tools, palettes and layers in graphics editing), but only on special occasions do I have two separate _application_ windows visibly open on the same screen, and when I do, they're usually side by side, not overlapping.
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In many tiled video games, roads, tracks and other paths tend to be designed without the knowledge on 2nd derivative continuity (or ignoring it for aesthetic reasons). So it would consist of straight segments, and rounded segments (and maybe some intersections). The rounded segments will be simply quarters of a circle. The problem with this is that while the path is continuous (no teleportation), and the velocity is continuous (no sudden direction change), the acceleration isn't continuous - there's no acceleration on the straight segments, and then suddenly there is acceleration on the rounded segment, and that acceleration, for an arc, is constant. In real life there's an easing added to the paths of e.g. railways, so that the sudden acceleration doesn't surprise passengers. In tiles you could also design the turns to be C² continuous, but it might be aesthetically displeasing by looking like being handdrawn rather than mathematically constructed.

I'm saying all this, because it seems Hobby's algorithm is something designed precisely to construct splines that maximize this aesthetically pleasing C¹ continuity... However it tends to explode splines by favoring arc connections, so I think some optimization is needed to limit that behavior: https://i.imgur.com/W9ssWTu.png
You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank
(IANAL) Seems like the right response would be something like:

> We have no record of ever entering into any agreement or business relationship with Google. If our records are mistaken, please send us a copy of the contract you believe we signed.

Google are not the police and they shouldn't be able to enforce their arbitrary terms on other companies just because they exist on the same internet.
That reminds me of a book quote, about a semaphore transmission-line company as a kind of fantasy-version analogy for modern telecoms.

> "[My father] was chairman of the original Grand Trunk Company. The clacks was his vision. Hell, he designed half of the mechanisms in the towers. And he got together with a group of other engineers, all serious men with slide rules, and they borrowed money and mortgaged their houses and built a local system and poured the money back in and started building the Trunk. There was a lot of money coming in; every city wanted to be in on it, everyone was going to be rich. [...]

> Everything was going fine and suddenly he got this letter and there were meetings and they said he was lucky not to go to prison for, oh, I don't know, something complicated and legal. But the clacks was still making huge amounts. Can you understand that? Reacher Gilt and his gang acted friendly, oh yes, but they were buying up the mortgages and controlling banks and moving numbers around and they pulled the Grand Trunk out from under us like thieves. All they want to do is make money. They don't care about the Trunk. They'll run it into the ground and make more money by selling it."

-- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
That was the line they fed us. I'm old enough to remember a time when software that automatically phoned home just to check if an update was available would be considered spyware. It was none of their business knowing the dates and times that we used their product/connected to the internet or what our IP address was
I get the impression that some small liberal arts colleges have similar cultures; that's a major part of their appeal (though I say that without experience of Caltech or 99% of small liberal arts colleges). Now that I think of it, I wonder how much Caltech is inspired by a similar concept.

My theory-in-development about such environments is that they require three things: First, a mission or goal that is 'good' (in the perspective of the people there), that brings out the best in people. 'Make lots of money' or 'monopolize the book trade or 'squeeze $$$ out of nursing home patients' demand values that affect how personnel treat each other. Second, they need a sufficient proportion of personnel who have passion for the 'dream' or 'mission', and who also have a certain level of humanism - not as much philosophically as their norms for behavior, especially trust and compassion for each other. Third, they need a small enough group that it doesn't need to be administered by bureaucractic rules, which become necessary as groups grow too large to run on interpersonal relationships. Also, it is of course hard to change cultures in existing organizations.

Could all of Lockheed be run like the Skunkworks? The full company can't be as selective about personnel and it's very large. There are many people, of course, who couldn't care less about such culture and will destroy it offhand. When I've been lucky to be in such magical cultures, the proportion of a-holes was small enough that they complied with the norms of the group; on one team of about only 14, when two leading proponents of the culture left then the a-holes tore apart everything - they resented the culture.
A massive body of games works perfectly fine under Proton. Exceptions exists of course, but if you want games you don't switch to Mac, you switch to Linux.
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I don't use anything else, and people get tired of sending me emails rather quickly... Also after you have some number of people with XMPP addresses you actually start to feel some network effect! I suspect most people just use it with me, but I have seen some friends who didn't know each other before to use it. Since they were in the same group chat this likely was just the easiest option, instead of asking me for their telephone number.
Long-predicted consumer pullback hits restaurants like Starbucks and McDonald's
TL;DR: Rossmann's team is developing Grayjay, a 3rd party YouTube (and other sites) client. Like Vanced. This makes YouTube unhappy, because they don't want 3rd party players which often do things like disable ads and telemetry.
> I was too worried about what it would look like to leave a company so soon after joining.

You don’t have to put every job on your resume. :)
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Thank you so much for this; it's very nicely done. I'm finding exactly what I'm looking for on topics I'm eager to explore further through conversation. Bookmarked. Please let us know if and how we can help.
Indian politicians spend big on AI election content
> Given the remarkable discount, some will wonder why the City of San Francisco didn’t just scoop it up. But given that they buyer LNR Partners effectively auctioned it to themselves, it's not certain that low $6.5 million price would have been available to other buyers.
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Unfortunately this response (as well as the previous one) is quite childish and doesn't address any of the points Google is making.

I can only assume their legal team in the background advised them that they do not believe Google will take action (probably because of antitrust fears, etc) and thus no actual response is warranted.

If I was them I'd actually provide a constructive response arguing that their app is just like a browser (not too dissimilar to Google's own Chrome) and doesn't seek consent from the platform owner just like Chrome doesn't seek consent from the visited websites.
https://grayjay.app/

The name of the organization is FUTO. It's not just Rossman, it's also the rich guy that came up with the concept and hired Rossman and other people who are building multiple FUTOish software programs.

https://futo.org/
I guess the argument is that a $250k warrant sitting in bankruptcy court is a potential liability that would turn off other investors. It's not something I've personally seen, but it doesn't really seem insurmountable for a hot startup. Losing a cofounder is a much more common and potentially painful problem.

The CEO's post on LinkedIn made it seem like they found it tough to get funding in general.
You are ignoring literally every other variable, especially the ones that are likely common to whistleblowers in general, Boeing employees in general, and Boeing whistleblowers in particular.

Characteristics like having spent a career building airplanes surrounded by all kinds of mechanical and chemical hazards.

Whistleblowing itself is extremely stressful for the attention it draws, the personal and professional relationships it strains, the media attention and of course the rampant speculation of assassination.

Does personal health influence the psychology of a whistleblower? If you get a terminal diagnosis would you be more likely to spill the beans?
I honestly kinda hope Microsoft doubles from on the garbage. Forcing normal people to try to use Linux is the only way to force Linux to shape up and be usable for normal people.

It's gonna be an Eternal September 2.0, but Linux will be better because of it.
The site is full of gold, like https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2024/03/annual-manu...

> Splendor Solis, an alchemical treatise made in Germany in the 1580s: 3.067 kg, or a flamingo standing on one leg

> All measurements have been scrutinised by the Guinness Book of Records, who have kindly asked us never to bother them again.

This is what I miss from the modern internet.
Unfortunately a lot of proprietary software packages require either Windows or macOS, with no option for Linux users. Windows has its annoyances, but using macOS requires purchasing a Mac (I’m ignoring Hackintoshes). Since Apple is the only vendor of Macs, if Apple’s configurations don’t meet your needs or are too expensive, then tough luck. I was a long-time Mac user but I switched to PCs due to the proliferation of soldered RAM and storage plus the outrageously high prices for upgrades. I don’t like Windows but Macs require me to pay massive sums of money for future-proof configurations compared to PCs with user-upgradable components, and plus I need Microsoft Office and other proprietary tools, which prevents me from switching to Linux or the BSDs full time.
It's even worse that half the article is just massive, fullscreen pictures of this guy. I don't know how people "read" these rags.
As per your link it also allows downloading videos to watch offline, which almost certainly disabled ads.
Prices have gone up too fast. So much for the common excuse that eating healthy is too expensive compared to junk food. healthy food at the food store is way cheaper than eating out fast food junk.
Do you allow users to rename their passkeys in your user interface? I very much like how GitHub handles this, take a look in that view if you have a GitHub account. You also get nice info like "Seen from this browser" and "Synced" (non device bound passkeys) indicators if applicable.

https://github.com/settings/security (Passkeys section)

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/authenticating-wit...
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I’ve said these about other platforms as well, but we need to heavily regulate large social media and content platforms like YouTube. They should not be able to arbitrarily demonetize, censor, shadow ban, or ban any content or users, which is where they are going unless Louis Rossman bends the knee. They also should not be allowed to operate in anti competitive ways like we see here. These big tech companies and social media platforms are too big and play too important a role in our modern society to just do whatever they want, and we should be treating them more like a utility. Alternatively, let’s split up all these big companies like Google and heavily tax all businesses that earn more than $10B in annual profit. Or both.
By that logic all businesses are "making a donation". It's an absurd claim.

The Cybertruck charges faster on Electrify America that it does on Tesla's own chargers:

https://twitter.com/itskyleconner/status/1775014705222070331

https://teslanorth.com/2024/04/02/tesla-cybertruck-charging-...

So Electrify America must be "making a donation" to Tesla, right?
I uploaded a photo of a helicopter cockpit, flying up the Talkeetna River in alaska, which was very out of focus in the background. It knew exactly where I was, and even mentioned I was in a helicopter. And that it was fall!
This seems like a riff on How I got scammed[0](56 points, 86 days ago, 12 comments) - if it can happen to Cory Doctorow

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39269559
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ever since backblaze started doing these there has been a dedicated set of seagate fanboys (I know, it’s the oddest thing to fanboy over) who come up with literally any excuse to avoid acknowledging that seagate might have higher than normal failure rates, and that has included throwing shade at “well, you don’t know the failure rate of those Toshibas and WDs in home usage!!!”.
Indeed, the article is extremely confusing. The wave in wave-particle duality is not the wave (function), one that collapses. For instance, electromagnetic wave is not the same thing as the wave function of the photon.
Setting aside the subsidies part, if every grocery store decided to stock 9000 types of squash, this could totally work.
Not only are they remotely accessible. There publicly accessible (not all of them) https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/local-services/transit-transp...
Well, PostgreSQL has one of the best internals documentation, it is just that internals are complex, mostly by necessity.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/internals.html
"even the world’s most renowned universities can no longer be relied upon to stand by their commitment to defend freedom of thought and discussion."

He clearly has not been paying attention
> The steam deck proved that we don't need windows for gaming.

That's always been the case -- the question is which games, not gaming in general

If just being able to to load up a game was all that was needed, a TI-86 is sufficient

Most people use Windows because it's easy and runs everything they want to run without needing to install wine, compile from source, trust some library someone made, or use a VM.

The steam deck is fantastic and has done more for gaming on a Free OS than anyone else has in the last 20 years, but it can't run everything
> To different degrees, though.

There's quantifiable data on this and it's looking problematic as of now.
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Can we not make a reasonable assumption that whistleblowers against a powerful company have a much higher than average risk of dying? Knowing nothing about them personally we can reasonably conclude:

- They get regular death threats.

- The opposing law firms probably have PIs digging into their lives for dirt to discredit them.

- Their careers in their line of work are over and as far as I know, there's no whistle-blower retirement fund.

- Everyone they knew and worked with for many years and who still works there probably cut them off for fear of being associated with them.

- Because of all this their sleep is probably horrible, they're much more likely to have unhealthy alcohol habits, and to have financial problems.
> Does Tesla charge different rates to non-Tesla owners?

Yes.
Other people's porn gets old after a while.
Running a business is one of the most common things people do. The barrier of entry is lower than for most jobs. There are millions of entrepreneurs who are well below the average person in their ability to recognize and avoid scams, and scammers are well aware of that. And it doesn't help that businesses often don't have the same legal protections as employees and private individuals.
Yeah sometimes they eventually hire an editor but I think channels like Cutting Edge Engineering it's a fulltime job for one of the two people to do the filming and editing.
Why is the city buying up properties?

And this is a smart investment if you can afford to hold for a while. SF will come back eventually, it always does. The weather is too nice and the location too good not to.

This property will jump in value at some point.
In the absence of data everyone is apparently healthy. That’s the point. There are more mundane explanations than a Boeing assassination conspiracy.
Private industry can't directly send someone to prison.
Lots of discussion on this in 2016[1](535 points, 108 comments) and 2014[0](649 points, 141 comments), but also a similar project 16 days ago: Only <SPAN>s[2](135 points, 70 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8229072
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091173
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40049258
You don't understand "the average person" in anyway, shape or form if you think they would even know what an operating system is...

The average person will never use Linux. I prefer it as a dev, but windows and mac have won.

Until some big vendor just releases a specifically linux machine, which they won't.
Stop what? The very serious investigations that are happening?
> Watching the budget: Streamlining things cuts costs, which means we can spend more on improving OpenSSL and supporting you all.

This is the only thing that matters in that announcement, really.

Dropping duplication is fine, but I can’t help to wonder if OpenSSL is basically back to sorry state that lead to Heartbleed disaster…
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I think I'm done being a footstool for you to grandstand about what a great person you are from. You can find a different dance partner to virtue signal with.
> he uploaded even some incelesque videos where he was talking why small guys aren't "getting any women"

I'm not familiar enough with him to find this on his videos page. Can you link an example/
You can try!