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Allowing old devices without those TPM requirements to work would not limit security of the devices that can work with it.

Sooner or later, these non windows 11 compliant machines will mostly disappear from most households and offices and will only attract retro computing and linux users when they will not match the usual memory requirements of the day. These are usually the kind of computers that came with 8GB or less of memory out of the box and they could quietly drop support for them somewhere later within the next 10 years when everybody is running 128GB of ram or so and only a handful of people care about it.
Marvel Comics Prints Fantastic Four Poster Using AI
Yeah I wonder if his experience is mostly using JavaScript, which is absolutely impossible to maintain at scale. Most of my team comes from primarily backend-dev roles and they've all grown to love TypeScript over Python.
The Treasury Payment System Elon Musk Now Has Access To
Is the dismantling of CIA a bad thing?
Did you ask the Italians before putting them behind an API?
Personally, I fixed the problem by not bothering with "staying informed" at all. I ditched media outside of local news entirely, and just don't engage with things that I can't do anything about. It would boil down to "focus on things you can control." Sure, it's fun to be outraged together with your friends about "X leader in Y country does Z crazy thing" but.. can you do anything about it? Does your opinion matter? Is there value in engaging with it? Turns out the answer is almost always no (unless you're suffering from main-character-syndrome, of course), so what's the point?

Focus on you. What are you doing today? What do you need to reflect on from yesterday? What do you need to plan for tomorrow? Don't waste cycles on things that are out of your scope.
>> It's been like what, only two weeks? This shit is exhausting already.

> It's meant to exhaust you.

* https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1886247034664964548

Ezra Klein:

> That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him. […]

> What Trump wants you to see in all this activity is command. What is really in all this activity is chaos. They do not have some secret reservoir of focus and attention the rest of us do not. They have convinced themselves that speed and force is a strategy unto itself — that it is, in a sense, a replacement for a real strategy. Don’t believe them.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
No, not “plot twist”. A meme does not validate an argument. I don’t want anyone to be discriminated against, though it’s telling that’s what you took from it.

The point of the comment is not to argue for discrimination, but to point out there is more to merit than what’s immediately in front of your face.
> Hope the US gets bad enough that people in the EU notice and decide they don't want to go down the same route?

I really hope so too. My pessimist side fears that the powerful are observing the US, seeing that it works there and will do the same thing here.
Haha is this the start of holistic non-pasteurized free range zero update computing

Exploits are a liberal myth! Jesus didn't need no patches!!
I use multiple OS's throughout the day. Firefox works on all OS's smoothly. Safari doesn't let you set a custom search engine. Firefox has some great extensions.
Deleted from the documentation (and I'm sure the archive remembers), not the codebase. As anyone who has been in the Windows world long enough knows, there are plenty of such "unofficially documented" features.
I'm slowly getting there as well.

The push for the horrible little thing that is snap via systematic dark patterns (eg. force snap down user's throat via firefox only available thru snap) is the last straw AFAIC.
The British Empire was not inflitrated and was not pursuing policies that prioritized another entity's interests.

> powers because of gender neutral toilets and the price of eggs. A rather pathetic country and people, sadly.

What is sad imo is thinking that the above the actual reason for the shenanigans. US has been unlike itself since 9/11. Everything changed.
Is "Here's a thought: commit crimes" really the thing you're trying to say here? What exactly does "nullified" mean in this context?
West Point Disbands Cadet Clubs Following Trump's Anti-DEI Order
For reference, the clubs that were disbanded as a result:

* Asian Pacific Forum Club

* Contemporary Cultural Affairs Club

* Corbin Forum

* Japanese Forum Club

* Korean-American Relations Seminar

* Latin Cultural Club

* National Society of Black Engineers Club

* Native American Heritage Club

* Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers

* Society of Woman Engineers Club

* Spectrum

* Vietnamese-American Cadet Associations
On the issue of whether Musk is allowed to review functions that he has a conflict with, he has only stated that Musk is not allowed to do so.
What is your take on Cruikshank and the Slaughterhouse cases?
> > I was looking for a replacement for C, but Rust is actually a replacement for C++. Totally different beast - powerful but complex.

> The difference between Rust and basically any other popular language is that the former has memory safety without GC†. The difference between C++ and C is that the former is a large multi-paradigm language, while the latter is a minimalist language. These are completely different axes.

Indeed. Let one axis be the simple/multi paradigm. Let the other axis be no memory management / automatic memory management without GC / GC. This divides the plane into 6. In the simple + no memory management sits C and Zig, and in the multiparadigm + memory safe without GC segment sits C++ and Rust.

> There is no corresponding popular replacement for C that's more minimalist than Rust and memory safe.

Those are some weird requirements for "being a replacement", but it is obviously true, as you picked them such.
> There are plenty of jobs that you can't pay people enough money to want to do.

If you think that, you aren't considering paying them enough money.

> Given the people in question have good other options, why would they do this, even if you paid more?

You ain't thinking about offering them enough money. Enough money means as much as it takes to make your offer better than any other option they have.

> In fact - plenty of smart people will take pay cuts for better qualify of life.

True, but also the same people will take quality of life cuts if you offer enough money.

Also, in general, the best way to improve one's quality of life is... through more money.

> Example: Plenty of folks take pay cuts to work remotely from places they like more, and because they find it a better quality of life.

Counterexample: add four zeros to the salary offered, and watch how many of them won't be happy to uproot and move with their whole family to your location within 24 hours.

> Not everyone is money driven, and the assumption that here is that the intersection of "money driven, capable of doing this job, etc" is large enough that increasing the amount of money will make the result larger.

This assumption is sound in theory and almost always true in practice, it's just rarely attempted, because you need to spend money, which people absolutely hate.

Almost all cases of skilled staff shortage can be solved with multiplying the payment by 2-10x (and convincing people you mean it - at the 10x end, people may start having doubts, precisely because it's so uncommon to see). Do that, and you'll have your competitors' staff jumping ship, and a wave of skilled applicants from abroad, committed to relocate if you let them. If the market for the skill is growing and you're able to sustain the pay bump, people will retrain and entrepreneurs will start schools for future candidates.

And yes, with that much extra money available, other entrepreneurs will try and pitch all kinds of software and hardware that will reduce your need for skilled labor, hoping you pay them instead.

Of course, 2-10x bump might make the whole endeavor stop making business sense on your end. It's often the case. But in this situation, saying there's shortage of labor is a lie. It's only a shortage at the price you're willing to pay.

This all just follows the same dynamics everything else in the economy does. If you believe employment is a special case where this doesn't apply, you're still not imagining paying enough money :).
They are fundamentally totalitarian. Orders come from the top, and are taken from below.

Seems fundamentally evil.
Here's Webkit's tracking issue https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281223

No movement since its creation on October 10, 2024
Sure, but increasing that sample size would require doing more than just paying them more.

IE it's not particularly useful to say "we will pay 1 million billion dollars to anyone in the united states who wishes to be an air traffic controller" if you want good air traffic controllers.

It is more useful, for example, to take the people who wanted to do this, and you stopped from doing this before for dumb reasons, and offer them more money to go back to doing this.
whatshisface uses whataboutism! it was not very effective.

Illegal acts TO CONSOLIDATE POWER. You're missing/ignoring a key phrase in your defense of fascist takeovers. This, right now, is still a coup. What about another time? I don't care. This time is happening now. We have a coup now.
Literally you could fire ever single federal employee and you'd still have a deficit (3,000,000 * $106,382 = 319 billion [1]).

It's not even really close, 319 billion is ~1/6 of the deficit [2].

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/01/07/what-the-...

[2]: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-25-107714
I had this exact same thought yesterday.

I’d go so far as to add one more layer to monitor this one and stop adding layers. My thinking is that this meta awareness is all you need.

No data to back my hypothesis up. So take it for what it’s worth.
We could see it the other way around : what we call "reasoning" may actually be some kind of multipass rendering, whatever it is performed by computers or human brains.
By doing that you lose all the benefits of checked exceptions. If you have checked exceptions everywhere the compiler will tell you when an exception is not handled and in turn you can ensure you handle it.

Of course in general the manual effort to do that in a large code base ends up too hard and so in the real world nobody does that. Still the ideal is good, just the implementation is flawed.
They have a fairly limited lifetime even if progress stands still.
Yeah, Snaps are crap. I can't seem to get 24.04 to stop replacing .deb Firefox with the snap which breaks things like viewing plotly plots because the snap doesn't have access to the right folder. This one thing has me tempted to ditch Ubuntu. At least in earlier versions you could get the snap to stop auto-installing.
Uhm.. Kagi has plenty of AI features. :) To be fair, you can turn them off if you wish.
So, "No one was ever fired for ... buying more server infrastructure."
it only seems right to mention them, after all they did have the most used JS implementation back in the day, even if it is barely used nowadays.
There's a comment down there which I explain why I support this claim, without any attacks, but with citations from experience.

Why not give that one a read, then come again?

Maybe we can discuss, and we can both learn something from it?
Literally any remote storage you can imagine works. I've personally used Hetzner storage boxes and they work fine, and their price is very good (though still not as good as Backblaze Backup if you have double digit TBs like me)
"There has been a government-wide purge going on of references to any sorts of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) criteria, and indeed, various elected and unelected officials have for some time now been using "DEI" as a scapegoat term and apparently a shorter way of casting suspicion on anything that is not being run by some white guy. As a white guy myself, I find this phenomenally offensive, and I can't even imagine how I'd be feeling about it as a direct target of this garbage"

This is the kind of comment that caused all the public backlash against DEI. Completely out of touch. If you talk this way, don't expect the public to believe your claims about defunding.
My favorite example of this: Elementary OS.

Looks gorgeous. It's so simple, it's even got "elementary" in the name. Very simple experience for people who want something macOS-like.

However... they never figured out how to get distribution upgrades working. So, they never did it. Whenever a new version comes out, reinstall the OS is the official guidance. The most elementary task in the world, even for technically minded people.

Ironically, that Linux distribution is the ultimate example of form over function, more than any other OS.
Corporations are totalitarian systems. Just because the dictatorship has people, doesn't indicate anything about it.
Kinda sad to read this.

The future of search is search. The future of summaries is summaries. This should be a "youve lost your way" moment. And quite frankly, search already broke the directory, which needs a comeback as its own product. You should be able to search the web without needing to know to ask for what you dont know to ask for. Dont let summary break search the way search broke directory.

If I want an LLM in my search, its because I want to have a conversation with the search engine about how it got the wrong results, and explain WHY and have it use the conversation to build new filters to block the wrong results and surface the correct results. I then want to read the source.

Right now if you ask google if Anora has a post credits scene, it says yes, because somebody tweeted a joke answer. A good product would let me reply to it and tell it its mistake.

The reason summaries are even attractive in the first place is because search itself is returning such garbage. The answer should be fixing search not abandoning it. The "summary" should be below the heaader of the result. (You should also rewrite page titles, a la Techmeme.)
What a boondoggle. If a company says they are agile or scrum I've resolved to pretend like a don't know what either of them are and for them to just tell me what it is they actually do. Surely its stupid. But maybe someday they'll say actually we don't really do agile or scrum but we just tell upper management its what we do and actually we do kanban with a spartan real backlog and a backup backlog with all the retard ideas that we will at least give the respect of maintaining indefinitely just not on the board we actually use.

agile people really fucked up by saying:

this over that

instead of something like:

often times we notice that this and that exist in tension with one another and its important to strike the right balance. You know what, I've been caught in the trap again. Just fucking describe what you actually do and goddamnit if you are fucking lying to me and don't even do what you just told me fuckface.
Yeah, I think that was the GP's point: Then it either isn't "a national treasure", or it needs to be bought by the state.
I use a Mac as my primary computer but I run a Linux VM on Unraid just for gaming or other odd tasks I want a VM for. The setup and out of the box support for gaming was actually easier than Windows 10, which was what I tried first.
So, to confuse the issue, the country is officially called Ireland (it's in the constitution!), and that is the name normally used in Ireland and in Europe. The UK government officially referred to Ireland as the Republic of Ireland until 1998 (it now calls it Ireland) and as a result people in the UK often call it the Republic of Ireland.

People calling it the Irish Republic usually have an agenda in doing so, yeah.

ED:
> Not to politicise this discussion

I mean, this is on a thread about the Nazis; I think you don't need to worry too much about further politicising it :)
Is there a standard for plastic spoons?
Never have that problem with Archlinux, 'pacman -Syu' to update everything almost never gives problems (it's actually over 5 years ago it gave a real problem for me). You can control yourself when you run it too, no forced updates.

> get frustrated with lack of compatible games

I have no issue playing whichever modern game I want in Linux on Steam (I don't play competitive games with anticheat features though, but things like Cyberpunk 2077, Satisfactory, Age of Mythology, ... all work. Haven't tried Starfield yet but it's 'gold' on protondb)
> There are plenty of jobs that you can't pay people enough money to want to do.

Would you mind listing 2 or 3 examples?
All the jobs that I do not want to do that I can think of, are actually poorly compensated.
Chaos is exhausting. This also shows the risks of moving fast, the USA is so big that any small change is going to have huge unforeseen consequences. We've seen several examples of this in the last few weeks already.
Smugness usually turns people off. It doesn’t matter how smart you are. No one likes people who act superior to them. Hilary lost over her “deplorables” comment. It makes me sad that the left is not taking the right lesson from this election.
I am a heavy linux user (it is my work machine os), forget games on linux, it is still crap. For gaming i still use Windows.
What about rolling releases?

I've been using Manjaro for almost a decade, of course it's not perfect but at least the rolling release model makes it suited for being upgraded instead of reinstalled.

If you install Manjaro using BtrFS + timeshift + timeshift autosnap it creates snapshots after every system upgrade that can be quickly rollbacked if something goes wrong
Don't use Fedora if you have a nvidia gpu, or if you have ample of free time.
This is literally Manchurian Candidate as a Service...

Let it be known that I predicted this exact product would eventually come out, where it would be pushed mass market in the name of optimisation, but it will also be used on targets to slowly over time push their opinions or move their personal Overton Window.

Let's say this becomes ubiquitus as Google Adsense etc and > 50% of websites are using it. You're telling me it won't be used by Three Letter Agencies to "target dangerous terrorists to slowly change their thinking towards topics" or even "radicalise someone close to a foreign country's politician to Manchurian Candidate them".
I started with Ubuntu, but got turned off my lack of stability, Snaps, old kernels, and obnoxious marketing. I switched to Debian, which fixes most of these issues (but not the old kernels). I like that Debian still uses apt-get and has a huge repository. The smaller repo is what keeps me off Fedora. If you're an Ubuntu refugee looking for a compatible distro, give Debian a try.
Thanks for sharing, worth having the full quote I think:

> I'm generally sympathetic to what you're doing. But I hope you will take your time and do it carefully. This isn't just a company. Companies are born and die within the system, and it's ok. But this is the system itself we're talking about here.

PG sounds nervous. I have to imagine there are a lot of nervous conservatives who didn't think it would go this far and are now too scared to stand in the way.
SCOTUS overturned Biden's loan forgiveness on the basis that the "general delegation of authority and budgeting power" given to him by statute wasn't sufficiently clear to let him do so, and so the Major Questions doctrine kicks in.

And the stuff being paused that's statutorily authorized is USAID--Trump is attempting to unilaterally dismantle an executive agency.
Please don't lump accessibility in with DEI. Accessibility is a noble goal that most everybody agrees with. DEI is, at best, an extremely divisive thing that millions of people disagree with and voted against.

Lumping them together is an attempt to save DEI by attaching it to A when they have nothing to do with each other. DEI is very new and A has been around for quite a long time at this point.
> I'm afraid I can't observe any of that. All I can see is superficial appearances

This sounds like you are observing much of that, and then dismissing the results as superficial appearances.

Dismissing regulation here would be like dismissing a comparison of a correlation between laws against murder and a low murder rate and a correlation between no laws against murder and a high murder rate.
> If make supplied it's own shell language, a simplified one, then everything would be fantastic.

We did exactly that in build2, a modern make re-thought. And we provide a bunch of standard utilities like sed, find, etc., that work the same everywhere, including Windows. Here is an example of a non-trivial recipe: https://github.com/build2/libbuild2-autoconf/blob/17f637c1ca...
I agree on all points. I have used Python for 15 years, Julia for 3 and reach for Julia most of the time for personal projects. I was really stoked when at work the only FOSS solver for our problem was in Julia so we wrote the rest in it for easy integration. The only thing I dread is having to look for a new package since the ecosystem can be quite fragmented.
Oh my goodness, this is a huge treat. His class networking programming guide sits at one of my top books of all time. Well written, informative, concise, and legitimately get you to chuckle out loud at points.

Edit: Does anyone know a good way to convert one of the HTML pages into an epub for reading on an ereader? The PDFs will definitely work, but wanted to see if anyone knew of any tools for HTML -> EPUB conversion.
On any OS, I prefer to install a clean system rather than upgrade. It's always a mess. Windows, MacOS, android, whatever. If you're going to do a major version upgrade, so a clean install.
It's not. Stop being in an echo chamber. Refer to this post for more valid criticism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653176
USAid has been abolished
Office is moving web based. OWA is first class now, with Outlook New being a thin wrapper around it with some natives. Also their mockups all use macs primarily so “go figure”
Oh my god yes. Fedora was the first distro (tried cinnamon, mint, manjaro and pop_os and arch) that actually feels like it was supposed to be a release-ready distro.

Their community is also great, I'm still subscribed to the welcome newsletter and never felt like unsubscribing. Its fun reading about people's lives
A lot of times it’s made up because security teams don’t have resources to actually risk assess vulnerabilities especially in upstream sources. They’ll just take the CVE at face value which we know is wrong and sometimes not even reachable. But a lot of times there’s legit problems and a lot of times newer code is safer anyways. You just can’t know unless you spend a lot of time and money. It’s best just to patch and toss stuff that is on the network that isn’t supported anymore.
Long-time Windows user here that made the jump from Windows 11+WSL to Linux a few months ago. After test driving a few distros, I settled on CachyOS (an Arch-based distro)[1].

Performance wise it's smooth as heck, and Geekbench scores show it performing better than Win11 across the board. The default install uses KDE Plasma for its desktop, which is a perfect fit for Windows users like myself in terms of UX/UI.

For an alternative to MS Office, I've been using OnlyOffice[2] with no compatibility issues yet (though I am only a casual user and not a hardcore Word/Excel user).

I reinstalled Win11 last week to confirm whether or not I was experiencing bias, and there was noticeable feeling of "lag" when using Win11 compared to CachyOS (this test was with the latest Win drivers and patches on relatively recent Thinkpad hardware). I went back to Cachy with no hesitation after that.

[1] https://cachyos.org/

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