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> Absorption and "Rebranding and Repositioning" of CentOS both done after IBM acquisition. RedHat is not a company anymore. It's a department under IBM.

You're wrong. CentOS Stream was announced September/October 2019, too close to the IBM announcement to be an IBM decision; it had been in the works for quite some time before, and in fact this all started in 2014 when Red Hat acquihired CentOS.

From 2014 to ~2020 you were under the impression that nothing had changed, but Red Hat had never cared about CentOS-the-free-RHEL. All that Red Hat cared about was CentOS as the basis for developing their other products (e.g. OpenStack and OpenShift), and when Red Hat came up with CentOS Stream as a better way to do that, Red Hat did not need CentOS Linux anymore.

Anyhow, I've been through that and other stuff as an employee, and I'm pretty sure Red Hat is more than able to occasionally fuck up on its own, without any need for interference from IBM.
That's the problem for me too. Either too big or too small.

Need to buy 3rd party silicone inserts.
We have to agree that Elon Musk is the ideological leader of the party now. He has arranged explanations for his own extreme and unambiguous statements. It’s noble to hold strangers on the Internet to a higher bar. But no idea in the party isn’t touched by Elon Musk.

So when he says “dead — killed by the woke mind virus” he might be trying to garner figurative sympathy as if he lost a child. It certainly coincides with a call to criminalize any facet of trans health care for trans youth.

And when he says “America will go bankrupt” without him, he might be issuing a threat or maybe just a warning. Donald Trump is no stranger to bankruptcy and certainly must see that politicians only mention debt rhetorically. His administration added more than $8T, or $5900 per capita per year.

So if we must accept only extreme solutions to things that were never problems, maybe their intention really was those urges?
Unless "purchasing" and "paying for" are no longer forms of "social interaction" (i.e. interacting with society), I'm not sure how this differentiates it from literally any financial instrument, fiat included. This is an ambiguous and poorly divided line with loopholes you can drive a burning cybertruck through.
Microsoft is built on completely different ethos and evolved from there.

(I think it was Paul Allen is who said it) "Microsoft is a corporation built upon the idea of intellectual property". So being closed source, aggressive safeguarding of IP and locking users in is the DNA of Microsoft.

Yes, company is made of people, but there's also a foundational DNA. When you keep that DNA alive, the company changes and eats the people fed into it, without evolving (See Apple, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, OpenAI, etc.). Google's DNA has been changed from the top from a powerful but gentle giant to subtle but very evil giant.
Hey Terin! Nice post!

I also netboot Windows this way! To run a 20 machines in my house off the same base disk image, which we use for LAN parties. I have code and an extensive guide on GitHub:

https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty

It looks like you actually figured out something I failed at, though: installing Windows directly over iSCSI from the start. I instead installed to a local device, and then transferred the disk image to the server. I knew that building a WinPE environment with the right network drivers would probably help here, but I got frustrated trying to use the WinPE tools, which seemed to require learning a lot of obscure CLI commands (ironically, being Windows...).

You observed some slowness using Windows over the network. I did too, when I was doing it with 1G LAN, but I've found on 10G it pretty much feels the same as local.

BTW, a frustrating thing: The Windows 10->11 updater also seemingly fails to include network drivers and so you can't just upgrade over iSCSI. I'm still stuck on Windows 10 so I'm going to have to reinstall everything from scratch sometime this year. Maybe I'll follow your guide to use WinPE this time.
TBH, pay to browse will not work. Look at Netflix/Spotify. Yes, it's a good revenue stream for them, but the incentives are plain wrong:

1) Consume more content -> More revenue -> Means more bloated content, esp. with LLM

2) They will simply re-introduce ads even though you're paying

I really don't mind ads, and I don't really mind ad-targeting, except for 'sensitive' topics.

But I despise animated ads, big walls of ads, interstitial ads, popovers, etc, etc, etc. Just be like google in the early '00s: I want content, and I'd be very happy to have non obtrusive relevant-to-the-current-topic ads on the side.
The corruption of the SEC has begun in earnest now.
It may not be clear who holds the rights to the source code.

The developer may not have the source code anymore.

Even if they do, they may not have the rights on third party libraries, third party source code, or digital assets.

Releasing source code has risks. Source code can include profanities or use terms that nowadays are considered inappropriate, or patent holder may inspect it to find patent infringements, and sue.

Most of the time, there’s very very little benefit, if anything at all, to the developers in releasing the source code.
Quantum Computing Companies Focus on Modular Set Ups
Up and to the Right
How is this the “first experimental cancer treatment” ?

It’s not. Of course.

It may be the first triple immunotherapy (3 checkpoint inhibitors), given in a neo-adjuvant setting, in glioblastoma.

Still cool, less catchy

(Or maybe I don’t understand “world-first” ?)
I mean I guess that depends on what you mean by fork? Most of the above projects follow upstream Firefox/Chromium (Pale Moon, for example, doesn't -- but that also means less support for recent web standards) but they are forks in the sense that they maintain the codebase/patchset themselves. How much they actually diverge from upstream varies by project.

So you're right that they are dependent on Mozilla for now. With Mozilla circling the drain lately, maybe that could change. But right now, for the purposes of removing privacy-unfriendly antifeatures, I find them sufficiently independent for my purposes. Most Firefox code isn't evil.

If you want something like Firefox but you're adamant that Mozilla can exercise no control over it, Pale Moon is probably the one you want to look at.
It's not a boolean value, I don't get the irony.

If China and Russia can somehow solve the issue and manage their infra, I don't see why EU, for example, can't.

It's better to have at least partially protected your whole government and citizens data than having it handed directly to the foreign intelligence in bulk. That's the question about political will, we don't talk about average Joe here.
it really is astonishing how good the RoI on corruption in the US is. the crypto industry donated a few hundred million dollars to Trump and now they get to pump and dump and steal from civilians at an unlimited scale, with the President himself encouraging it.

it's just astonishingly good value if you have no morals at all.
Unfortunately I'm in the middle of moving, but once I'm done with that, I'll give this a try :)
trump sets the direction of SEC enforcement and he's made it clear that he thinks he (and everyone else) should be able to rob normal people via cryptocurrency.
You know that the "Twitter Files" were carefully curated to to craft a certain narrative, right?
Thorium is regularly 3 months behind on updates

Unfortunate, I suppose, but this is the kind of tradeoff that is to be expected when switching to something maintained by one guy in their bedroom instead of a megacorp.
This sums up the history of Western countries.
It's not the math that's the problem. It's the words.

The one you're looking for is plurality.
A nice little Guardian story, about a tiny Canadian pizzeria which made a sounds-savvy marketing move.

Bigger picture - outside of food & beverages, most supply chains are d*mn complicated. There is no mention of any systematic efforts to de-Americanize Canada's. And they may really need to get working on the harder stuff.
What does this do - what is the benefit over DuckDB, Polers etc?
Don't forget you can drag the proxy-icon from any open document or folder. Handy for the open/save-dialog
Wouldn’t it still be better to use more efficient engines? could they not just have more of them?
Getting rid of Brendan Eich was a bad idea in hindsight. Yes he supported Prop 8 and people didn't like his political views but given the current US climate that seems all very tame in comparison and I'm not sure exactly how that conflicts with running a Web Browser development agency.
Very nice but I keep losing my progress on a game with swipe gestures on android accidentally triggering back functionality when I pull a card from right to left, even with installed PWA version
Wow, you weren't kidding: same phone and it feels like I'm using a 15-year-old Android. That's rough.
I still use Skype to do international calls to my bank/tax office/government agencies when I am overseas. It's been indispensable, though their new model of buying a subscription rather than just having phone credits sucks
What about an "AI" browser? You put in a URL, it fetches the page, re-renders the page without ads, cleans up any mess as much as possible, and passes the result to your screen? Could that work?
So do we blame Biden or Trump for delisting XRP, or is SEC respectably independent?

What about CFTC and FTC and the CAT Consolidated Audit Trail; are collectibles over 10K exempt from KYC and AML there too?

(By comparison, banks put days-long holds on large checks.)
> That's pretty much the equivalent.

No, it isn't. Your example is not analogous at all.

No one wanting to sideload is talking about blaming Apple for anything, this is purely an invented argument because your excuse of vulnerable family members doesn't hold up.

> You hackers already have hundreds of Linux distros that are destroyed-on-deilvery because of the endless tinkering and programmer-first mindset. There's Android, Windows, and a plethora of other systems for you.

Irrelevant.

An iPhone is a computer, a far more general purpose computer as opposed to something like a playstation (although I believe that should be open enough that people can put Linux on it as with the PS3).

It's simply unacceptable that a manufacturer dictates the code we can run on hardware we paid for. That's it.

> Why can't we have at least one computer (Mac) and one phone (iPhone) that is not destroyed by FOSS and corporate people

Giving people extra freedom isn't 'destroying' anything. Your concerns are incredibly misplaced.

> and is actually useful for normal people who want to get things done?

Your iPhone won't be any less useful if people can sideload apps on it. Your concerns are incredibly misplaced.

> I don't get it. Why don't you direct your efforts into fixing Linux or Android? Then you wouldn't have to think about Apple and their devices.

People are not just randomly wanting to tinker, they want to get full functionality out of the hardware they already paid for.
> I've embraced overlapping windows.

Same. My eyesight getting worse has been a big factor for me. The days of having all my active tools neatly organized and visible simultaneously is over, even with multiple large monitors.
NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus
Been arguing for this for years now
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33415400

The main argument against it seems to be that a browser forces standards - while really the the strength of this approach is that standards will naturally evolve, rather than forced by 2-3 companies
I just use git (manually committing) with GitLab, their web previews of org files are mostly good enough.

I also have another set of notes that I sync with my phone and laptop via Syncthing, but that stuff isn't really using the more interesting org features, just quick and dirty notes. For anything serious it's just git.
I couldn't agree more with this sentiment
For me it sounds similar to Google‘s phrasing that they use to make people activate personalized ads:
„used to deliver better, more helpful experiences“
I hope they chose a multiple of 4096 for the alignment to minimize flash read amplification. QLC drives even use 16kib pages.
That's the surest way to kill it, and that is before taking their recent anti-privacy policies into consideration.
>The company also basically doubled in size from 2019 to 2023. It's very hard to grow like that and experience zero changes.

Longtime Red Hatter here. Most of any challenges I see at Red Hat around culture I attribute to this rapid growth. In some ways it's surprising how well so many relatively new hires seem to internalize the company's traditional values.
Just a point here, "good code" is sometimes subjective, and depends on understanding the context of what the code is doing. What you think is good code might be overly verbose to another person, or overly terse, or have poorly named variables, or not have sufficiently conservative guard clauses, or throw insufficiently-granular exceptions. What you think is confusing code might lack context for where it is in the stack and what problems it needs to solve at that layer of the stack.

You can also read critical reviews of someone else's work, compare them with the work in question, and see if the critic's punches land or if they look like misses.

https://qntm.org/clean

^ This, I thought, was a good takedown of Clean Code, highlighting some cases where Bob Martin made too many overly thin functions that lacked meat and made it hard for the reader to gain context for what the function was trying to do. [1]

I would also say, reading "the same code" in different programming languages might get you a feel for if you prefer code to be more verbose or more terse, more explicit or more implicit. e.g. https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Globally_replace_text_in_severa...

[1] sometimes derisively referred to as "lasagna code" or "baklava code" -- https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/07/27/baklav-code/
What I’ve heard is that hosting in Switzerland concerns right-leaning people.
Your complaint doesn't make sense to me because `use` is essentially the same thing as `await` in JS. It hoists the rest of the function body into a callback so that the logic can be flat. In fact, `use` is an improvement on `await` because it is more generic and avoids the issue of function coloring. Promises also don't make as much sense in BEAM languages where callback based asynchronous code is not all that common or encouraged.
This is timely! I have an assignment on these coming up soon. Can anyone with knowledge about this explain something. From what I can tell, many matrix multiplications move vectors so they are more inline with eigenvectors if they exist. So Markov Chains are just a continual movement in this direction. Some examples that don't do this that I can think of are the Identity matrix and rotations.. Is there a way to test if a matrix will have this effect? Is it just testing for existence of eigenvectors?
Ah, the good old Internet Libertarian.

If only free and enlightened individuals could, through their choices in a market in which everything is allowed, spawn such a diverse set of solutions, or allow true self-help, that every need is met...

...rather than everything consolidating under a few big players who leave few realistic alternatives, who confront users and customers with conflicting and hard to identify or quantify problems. There might just be 3 unreconcilable goals like:

- not allowing Google/Chrome to own the internet outright
- have privacy for oneself and others who don't "opt out"
- have a browser that is established enough to work on most websites

and you can't tell me what browser to use.

The same issue is present almost everywhere you look: All products have such massive permutations of health, energy, waste, sustainability, ethicical and economical parameters that making a decision is almost impossible for any well-informed individual, let alone for enough people to steer change in any meaningful way.

If you maintaing this sort of "Libertarian" view, make sure you're not inadvertendly serve the interest of corporations that would like to not be criticized nor regulated.
Ah, thanks for letting me know!

I may have found a fix. I previously applied CSS `overscroll-behavior: contain` on <body>, it seems it also needs to be set on <html> (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overscroll-... and https://stackoverflow.com/a/60565197).

I pushed that (supposed) fix, please let me know if that solves the issue for you (you may need to “refresh” by launching-quitting-relaunching the app.)

If not, please tell me what Android version and browser you are using, so that I can investigate more.
It's not just about incentives. It's about selecting for the kind of people who succeed under those incentive structures.

Even if you're hiring a cross section of the population or a cross section of software developers or management professionals only a slice of it is gonna stick around long enough to influence the organization.

For example, you don't find a lot of Ron Swanson types working for insurance, the court system, or health and safety. Those personality types are either gonna find a new job, turn into a bitter shell of a person counting the days to retirement or go postal and finding a new job is obviously the superior option.

The comparison between Google and Microsoft (or whatever) is gonna be similar though the differences will be more nuanced. Same thing for big banks. Same for big oil. Same for big anything. You've got these differing corporate cultures and incentive sets and they select for different people.
Have you ever used YouTube?
been using mozilla since i was a teenager and now i'm an old family man...

this whole thing and recent change goes contrary to what i thought they were about.

i'm done with them at this point.

the migration will be painful...
Bug for bug is a sham and always was. It's a disservice to users to only clone something.

Underneath it all, compatibility is what matters. At AlmaLinux we still target RHEL minor versions and will continue to do so. We're a clone in the sense of full compatibility but a derivative in the sense that we can do some extra things now. This is far, far better for users and also let's us actually contribute upstream and have more of a mutually beneficial relationship with RH versus just taking.
Is there such a right hosting, with noscript and basic html?
I don't think they kept any BAT in that situation.
There are people even today who want Lotus Notes back, still mourn its loss.
Stuff that makes you feel bad; about the state of the world or just life. Helpless, powerless. A story about how orphans died because a billionaire bought the building and kicked then out. Somebody's pet dying. A big corporation steam rolling little people. A friend getting cancer. War.
Money Is the Map
If that is the case, I wish they would just say that. Currently, it is written as a Rorschach test where each person sees the good or evil they want to in the changes.

Just say why and be done with it.
Michael Lewis' (author of Moneyball, The Big Short) podcast Against the Rules had an episode about why we question experts, this was during the tail end of COVID. He asked, I'm paraphrasing from memory here, why is it we don't have people who argue that you could jump off bridges and tall buildings and lived, but so many people arguing that you don't need the vaccine. Perhaps because no one had jumped off tall structures and lived, but there are lots of stories about how someone who got the vaccine died anyway, or didn't get the vaccine, got COVID, and is still alive and thriving. There's also a lot of "Dad was a pack-a-day smoker and lived to be 95", "Every year that I got the flu shot, I got the flu, this year I said the hell with it and skipped the shot, no flu." Every time I hear that I desperately want to correct the person, but nobody wants to hear the "akshually ... there's no correlation" bit. I don't want to be "that guy". But the more these pithy sophism are said and heard, the more it becomes ingrained in the aggregate of common beliefs. There's not even a scientific nuance there, it's utterly wrong. To erase those beliefs one has to wipe away years of repeated exposure and reinforcement to this casual sort of ignorance. No one has the time to do that. In this story, the son also exposed the father to ChatGPT hoping it can overcome his father's beliefs with an overwhelming amount of facts, and it didn't work.

Sometimes a hot stove must be touched. If I were the son, I would ask the father to double down for another $10K, or even $20K. I believe that somewhere deep inside the father, there is a ghost of an understanding where the line of reality exists. He's just so deep into his world that he can't see where he mixes up the hope that these things will happen, vs the belief that these things will happen. But if you ask him to put real stakes on the line, say, even $100K if he has it, he will not be so unwavering in his belief.
“process user data locally”

Ha! As if slowing down browsing and your computer would have a good result.
Rob Trump or a crony and I bet the rules of the game change fast.

These people do not have principles.
A precursor to electric scooters ?
What other tools are you using instead of Firefox and/or a browser?

How does discovery work with tools like yt-dlp?
What is the difference between a memecoin and crypto currency?
Post author here... My dream: a grammar or specification for org text. So that someone can make a self-contained parser library (I'm not smart enough). So that others can embed it in all their tools, and so that someone can make an LSP for org text.

IMHO, the integration of org-mode into Emacs is a double-edged sword. Great for me, because I get batteries-included writing support. /However/ terrible for distribution. The source code of the canonical implementation is the specification. Unfortunately, it is hardwired to the Emacs binary. That fact alone makes org text verboten to most of the known universe. Even if that weren't true, the absence of a standard makes it incredibly difficult for outsiders to maintain feature-parity of their own implementations with the canon, and with each other.
> The repos aren't themselves doing harm,

Yes they are. They are being used as delivery mechanism for malware.
This is of course very subjective.

With fork I mean, taking the code, forking it, and developing it on your own.

If someone would take the Redis-C lib and the Redis CLI and change it, but keeping Redis unchanged, I would not call that a "Redis fork".

Valkey who is forking Redis and everything, does not depend on Redis (at most cross patching exploits). I would call that a fork.

"Most Firefox code isn't evil."

You are successful, they will change the license, and you're dead - most current fork will not keep up the work because it is too much compared to changing the UI.

"recent web standards" The only reason for these is the cartel of web browser vendors (Google,Apple,Microsoft,Mozilla) to keep out competition. Worked for 10+ years, until Ladybird showed the strategy is flawed.
I naively think that the best doctors (that he has access too) would do what's best for the patient and would push back unreasonable requests.
As always, it's the users who are at fault. Nevermind the thousands of kids and teens who are exposed to this shit day in and day out.
At some point you have to stop exploring and actually consume what you've collected. I think that's one psychological trick of infinite scroll feeds... our minds naturally want to see what's next. Personally, I spend more time searching and saving things to my various lists instead of actually watching or reading what I've saved.
Teams is used quite a bit.