BearhatBeer

There's still time to switch your career path. You don't have to do this.

How come a file format has a .cargo directory in the project tree?

Looks like Musk might be cutting the data brokers out entirely. Normally social media companies and ad networks have to share their data with data brokers who then use this information to track you across the Internet and assign a (likely or certain) name, face, SSN, credit card number, IP address history, medical-related search engine history, grocery store club saver purchase history, news article view history, Amazon and eBay histories, Netflix and Youtube streaming view history, and so on to the data, which the data brokers then sell on and share back to the companies they got it from, thus protecting them when they say they only collect anonymous data.

Must might just decide to keep all the data and stop giving the users the placebo-lie treatment and saying they don't collect personally identifiable data. His data becomes more valuable and the users actually benefit from fewer entities having access to this data too. Apple has promoted this exact model to their users as privacy-enhancing, in fact.

GP of the reply chain was referring to how at a point in the past Usenet was allegedly more difficult to access. That's why some of my responses were in the past tense - I was disagreeing about how, back then, it was more difficult to access. Hence the use of the past tense. All in perfectly proper English.

Welcome to City 17 whrrrrrr SNAP

It never died, it reach a low point of participation about a decade ago, and has slowly been gaining steam again ever since. Some portions of Usenet have always stayed active even through the tough times. As social media dies due to various reasons, people are coming back. Have been for years.

HN has promoted stories just like all other big corporate media sites. You can usually see them languishing in the list with very few comments, people are great at identifying and skipping inline ads disguised as legitimate content. Every single day there are at least a dozen of these stories here.

National Geographic is owned by Disney, news-tainment with a social mission.

That’s another reason why Usenet was better. There was an IQ test to see if you were above 90 just to get going with it.

Even easier, no web search needed. All you needed to do was search the group list for relevant terms. All the Usenet clients supported searching the group list. Then you just tick the checkbox and the articles were downloaded.

Much much easier than using a search engine, scrolling through the results which were half ads even in those days, and trying out the 12 different forums you finally found which were even active...

Usenet doesn't have a UX by itself, it's a protocol. The user experience is entirely dictated by the software used to access it. And Outlook supported Usenet all the way from the word go. Macs didn't even come with any email clients back in those times, but popular ones supported Usenet and there were also Usenet-exclusive programs available.

Usenet faded because ISPs all conspired to drop it, en masse, in the early 2000's. Used to be every ISP from Comcast down to the mom and pops had Usenet. Now it's not just uncommon, it's nearly impossible to find any ISP that has their own Usenet feed. And yes the excuse given to drop it was piracy.

This will force the development of a sort of new cockney rhyming slang designed to fool the AI, which may include the use of allegory and symbolism which AI is pretty terrible at, especially in any real time task, at this time. A sort of leetspeak for the new generation of AI nannies.

I simply use calc in emacs, it has arbitrary precision (really bound by process memory limit on modern systems).

Something like Silverblue will only ever work with a rigid set in stone ROM-friendly base. You can't even do fixes with that, so Linux is right out.

Lisp on bare metal, FORTH, anything. BASIC. It has to be small.

I feel like a computer running ZFS and serving files, is fine. And it should itself be treated as a strage device with a full parallel backup even though this has cost.

But your computer shouldn't run ZFS, that's for the big boys upstairs. Code's too big, it's too hungry.

>right

Government spying isn't a "right," the government doesn't have rights. Just a fine point but important.

Firejail proves you can sandbox most anything, OpenBSD has their pledge and unveil too. I guess there's a gradient there but each program should be written or constrained to only being able to access what it needs ideally. Per-task groups could go a long way toward solving this, they researched it in the '80s even. Just create and destroy groups on the fly to enable processes to access only what they need. Unix is flexible enough to permit experimenting here.

I think some day rather than the current paradigm, even including declarative package managers and environments and distros, the future will be per-user and even per-app chrooting or jails, or something similar. Apple already uses something like this today. Many people who are smart about information security have one login for shopping and banking and bill pay, one for their business, and one for cruising the web or gaming or whatever. That way a breach of one doesn't necessarily end up pwning the whole system.

I only have two accounts, one "serious" and one "off hours" but I still feel better protected than most people.

Early on, Unix was in use across the phone company and normal people used it for their every day tasks. All Unix users read the manual. Otherwise you're not really a Unix user.

I'm looking to see if there is a table for power consumption with the thing all "lit up" and operating at various speeds but it doesn't have it in the datasheet.

Get rid of golf couses first. Synthetic might not play as well but it's already been tested around the world.

Classic MS community engagement post right here.

Isn't it amazing how many celebrities have parents who were in military intelligence or NASA or other government jobs? What are the odds?

If they're wrong, they've lost whatever credibility remains. That's the problem with these huge bet propaganda pieces. If you fail in your prognostications, the reader will disregard what you have to say in the future.

CIA would be wise to learn this once and for all, most of their popular public-interfacing pundits and talking heads have zero credibility left.

Just proves anonymous expose and investigation is superior to attaching your name and identity to your muck raking. People will kill you for uncovering their secrets.

I never got into Blu-Ray because I can do math and they never settled on an HDR format which was universal. In fact I still prefer Laserdisc, the colors were better, no re-grading ruining my favorite flics.