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Did you not see all the surveillance capitalists at the inauguration?
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I don't think that repositories presented and named as Malware or Virus should be deleted - they're good for educational and research purposes I guess.
I specifically mean those that impersonate as legit programs (if you can call a "free download" or "mod" apps legit).
Mozilla became an ads company after acquiring ads tech startup Anonym. These changes follow that direction.
I use a template [1] that has the dates (including week numbers) there already. That way, I only need a text editor.

In my work, similar events happen on the same week numbers in different years. The importance of week numbers probably depends on your area of work.

For me, one thing is a day. That's also the context I need when reviewing and planning. But if I remember correctly, previous HN thread on calendar.txt had a suggestion where someone had an event-per-line format, if you prefer that.

[1] https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/calendar-txt-unti...
> without worrying about it being hacked

Are you implying that iPhone isn't "hackable"?
i don't think that matters. we are looking for firefox based alternatives to get away from stupid policy changes, not to find a browser that has a better chance of survival.

any alternatives will be good as long as firefox is alive. if firefox itself dies, then that's an entirely different matter.
My Word 95 never asked for this though? Clearly it’s not necessary to provide me a word processor.

My CS4, as far as I recall, has never asked for it either.

It seems a fairly recent thing that companies want to harvest your personal information.
This is why Firefox's changes are so frustrating[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096
Simpler and cheaper and much more visual, build yourself a cloud chamber [1] and actually see the particle zip through it. A transparent container, a flash light, some isopropanol, and some dry ice and you are good to go. Maybe one could even replace the dry ice with really cold ice cube, then many people would have everything required at home, but I have only done it with dry ice so far.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber
C&C Remastered

The 8-bit (armies/hordes/invaders) games play very much like a faster C&C. They had a sequel recently with 9-bit armies.

Starcraft 2 for ages was basically "the last RTS", and it does have some differences from how the C&C formula, but then I always felt Generals took liberal inspiration from Starcraft compared to classic C&C too.
> launching a terminal at a location

Right-click on directory > Services > New Terminal at Folder.

> viewing or copying a files path

Right-click on directory or file and press Option > Copy "<filename>" as path name.

> navigating a deep file system

Not sure what you mean.

> column width in the column view

Option + click & Drag. Or do you want them to adjust to files/folders name length?

> searching for files

What's wrong with Command + F?

> finding file info

Do you want more than what is shown by Command + I or in the "details" column?
I just checked Youtube Music and sure enough track 2 is still abruptly ended. I now own a physical copy of this album because I've been buying up all my childhood and teenage music, and my copy has the full song obviously.

It's so funny to me that a big "professional" service owned by Google is still 25 years later playing the same pirated music that I grew up pirating and listening to.

Of course this is a very low hanging example because it's such an esoteric artist but maybe there are more examples people haven't found yet.
> There must be a huge effective propaganda machine

I believe that a lot of it is just "culture". Many (most?) Americans grow up being told that the US are the best country in the world, everybody wants to live there, "the american dream", "the land of the free", "the only democracy", etc.

In most places in the world, people learn about the US at least through movies. Do Americans watch non-US movies?

It feels like most Americans genuinely believe in this "meritocracy" bullshit, and on top of that they believe that they themselves are worth more than the average American. Obviously "meritocracy" is bullshit (Trump inherited, he did not build anything), and obviously most Americans cannot be better than most Americans. But this is not enough to break a whole cultural background leading to those beliefs.

At least that's how I explain how they may have this completely skewed view of what "free speech" means, or why they truly believe that "government == always bad" or "regulations == always bad".
Good call, I've been meaning to try it for a while.

It feels a bit like ~25 years ago when Yahoo was this bloated do everything company with a bad search engine and someone showed me this simple website with just a search bar that was super quick with clean results...
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Under normal usage the answer is extremely rarely. I can't say the same for the myriad of various Windows and Android phones me and my family have had hacked over the years.

I can totally imagine "side loading" meaning, my mother gets scammed into installing some malware and losing her savings.
That is not a technical reason. And no. It doesn't work like that. UDP is quicker than TCP. It's not like 40 years of history will change that.
Ask HN: Are you familiar with reflected XSS for SEO?
I covered that topic here: https://olegzay.com/360xss/
However, I still haven't figured out how they made Google index those exploited URLs. Any ideas?
I imagine internally they have a hard time staffing the Teams project. Like VSCode is a WebView2 project but it is miles ahead of Teams in quality. At least on the client side features seems far more complex too.

Teams used to use Angular 1 and I think they are still migrating out of it. Microsoft would need to pay me a lot of money to want to dive into that mess. I imagine there are a lot of devs who would love to be VSCode core developers though.
Why old, retired but iconic software is almost never open sourced?
Why do people rarely open-source old and retired bit iconic software long ago?

For example, on top of my head, but there are lots others:

- Norton Commander
- Turbo C and Pascal (at least DOS versions)
- Lots of DOS early games
- Clipper
- Different FIDOnet and BBS related programs

Will these sources die somewhere and never be revealed? :-)
Jitsi and BBB were pretty popular across universities at the time, back when the German government were pivoting hard into Element/Matrix:

https://element.io/matrix-in-germany
I would not do it for $50 because it’s worth way more than that.

I’d also not do it because it’s just another dataset about my life that can be exploited to my detriment on a personal level.

However, I think there’s an ethical dilemma if you begin to sell health data. For example, the type of people who are going to be willing to sell their health data are probably going to be poor people who are desperate for money. They’re probably not going to be thinking about the wider implications of selling that data. Rather they will driven by trying to solve the immediate need in their life (the need for more money).

So monetising health data makes vulnerable people more vulnerable to exploitation as well. Corporations that would want access to health information are probably not as altruistic as you’d like to pretend. They are businesses who will look for opportunities to make money. The easiest people to exploit for the purposes of boosting profits are poor and low-middle class people. The same people who would sell their healthcare data in a moment if it solve an immediate need today.

Additionally, I think it puts people at risk of having their privacy breached with their sensitive information at a high risk. Say for example, you were a woman that had accidentally become pregnant at some stage and didn’t want the baby, so secretly had an abortion without your partners knowledge… if you sell your health data, in some cases you’re selling all your deepest darkest secrets.
It depended far more on what optical drive you had than on what software you used.
Fully agree, here is a context for those who missed it https://www.adexchanger.com/privacy/mozilla-acquires-anonym-...
So, where is the better Bill of browsers that Mozilla is preventing me learning about?
Joke's on us, the VC's are using LLM's to evaluate the pitch decks.
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No, we used o1.
As expected, comments on LLM threads are overwhelmingly negative.

Personally, I still feel excited to see boundaries being pushed, however incremental our anecdotal opinions make them seem.
I use (redacted).on Microsoft.com tenant which is free of cost to me as a sandbox to learn about office 365 admin stuff. I don't work on it every day but it is nice to have this sandbox. I don't send spam or phishing emails. I don't send emails from this tenant at all to others, only to my own email addresses or to people I know for testing purposes.
> The web had this before briefly. Back in the 90s and 00s, some people just wanted to use Flash.

WebAssembly is different. WebAssembly brings every language to the web. Flash didn't.

WebAssembly can render to canvas and enable applications that compile to desktop, mobile, and the web. UI libraries like Avalonia do this: https://avaloniaui.net/

For example, here's C# implementation of Visual Basic 6 compiled to WebAssembly https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ and source https://github.com/BAndysc/AvaloniaVisualBasic6

And a Solitaire demo https://solitaire.xaml.live/ and source https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Solitaire

But WebAssembly applications can also manipulate the DOM like JavaScript. Example frameworks that do this:

- https://www.leptos.dev/

- https://dioxuslabs.com/

- https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz...

DOM access goes via JavaScript glue code for now. Eventually WebAssembly will get direct DOM access.

You can decide if you're making more of an application or more of a webpage. If you're making more of an application then why not just render to canvas with WebAssembly? And if you're making more of a webpage then why not have WebAssembly manipulate the DOM instead of JavaScript?

And for non-web uses, WebAssembly can be used in a plugin framework such as Extism:

https://extism.org/
I love it but I believe I am deeper in that rabbit hole.

I just create files in a folder with the `yyyy-MM-dd-hh:mm` format. I use `XX` for recurring events.

I use `at` for reminders/notifications.
This is a dumb question from someone who just buys and holds, but if you have a strategy, why can't this be instantiated in code and then it just trades for you so you can spend your time doing something else?
I use Forklift instead : https://binarynights.com/

I can use it as an orthodox file manager (with the f keys I remember from Norton Commander). I also like using it to access remote filesystems over nfs and sftp, and also S3 buckets. It also works well with Dropbox and iCloud. There is a great sync feature to keep source and target directories synchronised. It's also good for diffing directories at a glance. It's good at managing archive files too. Plus the regex file rename feature is often handy for me - I have a few presets saved for various purposes. It's also my go-to MacOS uninstaller, as it gathers the related files.
The only thing they need to do to make Firefox commercially viable is to have me pay them for the browser.
That's only 7.34 posts per minute so someone with insomnia might be able to do it.

Dang could also filter for @dang and similar references since no matter how often people tell them to use email that's what many users will default to.
> The “AI” field as a whole has bought into racist ideas on intelligence born out of eugenics [...] Shane Legg, co-founder of DeepMind [...] cited [Linda Gottfredson's] definition of intelligence in the introduction to his 2008 PhD thesis

The definition in question is: "Intelligence is a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience."

While the source is problematic, the definition taken from it seems fairly standard and widely cited (and it's not even the one Legg goes with - it's just in a section called "More definitions of human intelligence").

> [Effective Altruism/etc. push for] an ideal future outcome for the selected inheritors of humanity by both making horrendous sacrifices in the present and by investing in those who are inherently superior and are destined to inherit. Coupled with the inherent white supremacy of the eugenics movement, it amounts to accepting mass death in the present to make a better world for white people.

Isn't effective altruism largely based on the idea that we should find the most effective ways to benefit others without bias towards our own ingroups? Charities I see them supporting[0] are along the lines of malaria prevention and deworming, almost all in third-world countries.

Not to say that it's without issue or beyond criticism, but it feels like a huge unevidenced leap to say it's about accepting mass death to the benefit of white people.

> [...] have Gnostic influences, which was popular in Esoteric Neo-Nazi movements. Specifically both build on the idea that the material world is an illusion (or simulation) [...] I believe that the current “AI” bubble is an outright Neo-Nazi project

Again this seems like a stretch; a strong conclusion from a chain of tenuous hand-wavy connections.

If you want to connect AI to fascism, I'd look more at its applications for surveillance, facial recongition[1], social scoring, etc.

[0]: https://airtable.com/appGuFtOIb1eodoBu/shr1EzngorAlEzziP/tbl...

[1]: https://restofworld.org/2024/facial-recognition-government-p...
It is weird to say, but I wish macOS had Windows 10 interface. It's incredible to me how backwards macOS is in comparison to W10, that is already deemed clunky. Finder is an abomination, window management seems like embodies ADHD, separate apps needed for basic things like direction of scrolling or switching windows...
Okay, what the actual fuck?
I don't really have time to discuss this in depth, but note that:

1) I still disagree somewhat on the finer points,

and

2) I've upvoted your post anyway because other than the finer points on which I disagree, you make good points anyway.

Cheers :-)
It's not a quarter of a million dollar part, it's used or rejected by QA and essentially worthless as anything but a collectors item. And its not unrelated to his career, because his career was being an aerospace engineer and it's an airplane part. Believe it or not, peoples interests in a field very frequently extend beyond the limited confines of their employer.

The number of Boeing engineers in that area greatly exceeds the number of people in that region with jobs involving airbus, so it was almost certainly owned by a Boeing engineer.

Anyway, you're an asshole.
First of all, thanks for the interesting read.

Secondly, your conclusion is a bit fast. Because it seems to be a cultural/language problem here.

Majority = Mehrheit
in German.

In my mother tongue it means something completely different and I wasn't aware of that.

According to our German rules of interpreting language

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duden

Majority is simply the most.

https://www.duden.de/node/95359/revision/1328484

Example:
The most votes cast went to Trump so the majority voted for him.

Super interesting that English and German speaking populations have such a different interpretation on such an important topic of our democracies, that this caused an argument between us, when it really shouldn't because I need to respect your interpretation because it's true and vice versa.

Had worse starts into my Friday. Thanks for taking time out of your day for this exchange.
It means that the state got a two-for-one deal.
Presumably you don't send out emails appearing to come from service@paypal.com saying things like "Reminder: You've still got a money request", with an HTML body that looks exactly like Paypal but contains a fraudulent link and phone number, so you should be fine.
I agree that those are good reasons. In my experience most people do not care about the simpler interface and feature set. They will put extra time into working with AWS or hiring an AWS expert rather than use something simpler. One reason is that non-technical management think something with a web UI is always simpler than doing things on the command line.

My favourite AWS service is Lightsail because it lets me ignore the rest of it and keep things simple.

People do care about the other two reasons, but only if there is an immediate risk. Most people only care about keeping sensitive data within their country if the law requires it, so that would only be a problem if you are in a country which has such laws, they apply to you with no loopholes, enforces them, and no AWS servers. Smaller companies will not plan for economic warfare unless it is an immediate risk - i.e. sanctions (there are only a few countries that are completely sanctioned).

The article is about Nigeria and AWS has no presence in Nigeria (and very little presence elsewhere in Africa) so there is probably more demand for alternatives there. In most of the world they do.
Fewer than 100 will massively pig out memory, on Android, Linux, and MacOS, for Chrome, IME.

My main FF instance has ~1,500 tabs FWIW, though I'll often bypass those for a given session by running incognito only. Even then I'll easily hit 100+ tabs in only a few minutes.
I am using Orion on iOS with uBO for two years and UBO works well enough for me. There is the odd website that won’t load in Orion so I switch to Safari, which I never use, and the amount of ads that are presented in Safari reassures me that uBO in Orion is working.
When I open Slack, to which servers am I explicitly requesting a connection?

I see your point, but my point is that implementing this is either impossible or would require changing how networks are used by programs at a fundamental level.

A middle ground might be to create a distro that uses something like SELinux to prevent all network access to non-system processes. Then each package would have to be audited to determine which addresses it can bind to, and/or which name lookups it can do, and how those capabilities are connected to actions performed by the user. Then there is still the question of what to do about software that accesses the network independent of the user, but maybe you can argue that shouldn't exist. How do updates work? Besides, if I allow Slack to connect to mychats.slack.com, nothing prevents the software from sending telemetry to that endpoint. You would need an army of manual enforcers, and that's not to mention non-free software.
Do the tech billionaire elite, like Sergey, actually believe that AGI is going to happen any time soon?

Firstly, I don't think it is, so I tend to assume that they're just being hype-guys for staff/investors, but assuming I'm wrong, it seems very weird to suggest that the difference between success or failure in bootstrapping AGI hinges on burning through a generation of AI hires, vs working them at a reasonable pace.
Apt being a bad package manager is not related to the selection of packages that Debian ships or doesn't.
I was referring to Mozilla's past investment into advertising:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...

To me that and the new ToS add up, why else would they remove the FAQ entry.