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The point of SF's progressive movement is to fight back against conservative policies with an example of what progressive politics can accomplish. It's not exactly working out now is it? SF itself is the city where all of the beautiful progressive ideas come together in harmony and make a heavenly place. It is absolutely incorrect in that assessment of itself. Spend 5 minutes at a city council meeting and you will see exactly what I mean. Same thing happens in Oakland. The city spends an awful lot of time commenting on what's going on in conservative areas and passing rules and laws that seemingly address those things but are really just talk. And then they continue to ignore the real problems of crime and homelessness. Oakland and SF love passing support statements for people having issues in other states, but can't get their own Police Departments to even show up to do their jobs. Priorities are entirely wrong.

SF's favorite game is to send ambulances out to a guy sitting on the street, screaming insane things, covered in his own feces and trying to punch people. Ambulance shows, guy says "No!" and so everyone says "Oh, this person is doing just fine, leave them alone." And everyone leaves, and the guy goes back to covering himself in his own filth and shouting at people. Definitely a great outcome for all involved.

If the people advocating for the homeless and mentally ill have a better solution than leaving them on the streets to rot, then I would like ot hear it. Because 100% of the solutions proposed in SF amount to "Leave them alone, they are fine." So fucking sick of it. It is VERY clear when someone needs help, but our society would rather let them suffer in the streets than do anything. Anyone who tries to help or suggests getting them off the streets is a fascist.

Homeless advocacy in the Bay Area amounts to "Maintain the status quo, do nothing to help. Punish those who try to take back their own homes and streets from people covered in filth and perpetually addicted to drugs and violence." SFFD former captain who was beaten senseless this past week in SF is literally in the hospital while 2 of the 3 people who beat him with a crowbar remain on the streets. Even when these people are violent, we do nothing. KRON4 interviewed one of his attackers on TV! Guy's still in his camp on the streets, still angry and dangerous. Attack is even on camera!

We live in a society where those who follow the laws are constantly punished for minor infractions like parking tickets and zoning violations, while people who do not participate in society AND completely flout the laws in every way are not only allowed to do so, there is a huge section of our population that encourages and protects their right to do so.

It is supremely infuriating to watch the Bay Area be so completely backwards and so utterly dogmatic as to ignore problems and constantly attack people for not being progressive enough. We literally have conservatives disassembling democracy across this nation, and the Left's favorite game to play is "Can we castigate more progressives for not passing the acid test."

Happy? No. But if they do it before the verdict, it's all in the clear. Happens ALL the time. Businesses constantly sell their assets to other shell companies to avoid liability. Alex Jones is doing this right now AFTER the verdict.

Honest question: what is stopping Brewster from filing for bankruptcy and transferring all assets to another non-profit. CA law specifically states that dissolved non-profits have to donate everything to another non-profit. All the hardware and data would be considered their core product. They could donate all of that to a new non-profit, and leave some token staff and office equipment behind for the bankruptcy to chop up and distribute. Happens all the time with for profit businesses....

Also, thumbs fucking down for society punishing Archive for doing something to help Americans during an extreme time of crisis. I feel like if an apocalypse ever happens, 10 years later, everyone left alive will be in court being sued for helping each other. America is so stupid and short sighted about EVERYTHING.

Would you believe that SoulSeek is still a thing? It is. P2P 4evah.

The MADE needs volunteers! Email info@themade.org to find out how to volunteer and help us restore old systems, teach kids to code, or just help people play games!

If it bleeds, it leads.

This looks awesome! Get out from behind your computers, people, and go support some art in the Bay Area! It will inspire you.

$3 a month per person is not a business model...

OpenDNS built a business around this model: use our DNS servers and we sell the DNS hits to third parties looking to track traffic. I worked at a company that bought this data and resold it. Maybe the little VPN providers don't do this, but the big ones certainly do.

They, and ALL VPN PROVIDERS, sell your DNS data, as well. That's the real business model.

After Dark now works in the browser thanks to Archive.org. Here are some examples:

Disney After Dark: https://archive.org/details/after-dark-disney

After Dark 3.2 for Windows: https://archive.org/details/AFTERDARK32_WIN

After Dark Looney Toons: https://archive.org/details/LOONEY_WIN

After Dark for Macintosh 2.0: https://archive.org/details/AfterDark_mac

After Dark Simpsons: https://archive.org/details/SIMPSONS_WIN

The website has our hours and new location listed on the front page.

Because this stuff is an important part of our cultural, artistic and scientific heritage. We do not get to decide what the future finds interesting. Therefore, we must preserve as much as we possibly can so that those in the future have the ability to pick and choose. As it stands now, a lot of human history is just pieced together from trash and rubble.

You can go to Rembrandt's house in Amsterdam, visit where he painted, slept, ate, taught, and stored his junk. You can see how he worked, where he worked, what the lighting was like in his house, what the door looked like then and now.

Atari, on the other hand, is just gone. We cannot see their offices (they've been reoccupied a lot), and we have very little in the way of assets generated from the creation process back then. It is currently easier for us to see how Rembrandt worked 500 years ago than it is to see how Atari employees worked 40 years ago. That's not a good state of affairs, considering how influential Atari was on the evolution of home gaming.

The Living Computer Museum was an absolute treasure, but it shows one of the major hazards in the non-profit world. I founded the MADE, a non-profit videogame museum in Oakland. Just about 100% of my time when I was the director was spent raising money and soliciting partnerships so we could keep the doors open and the lights on. I would have killed to have someone like Paul Allen as a sponsor or involved in any way: we're a very poor museum compared to most, and money heals all wounds.

However, our little museum run with volunteers and pocket change managed to be more stable long term than the well-healed and well-funded Living Computer Museum. Why? Because having a single benefactor for a non-profit is almost a death sentence. It's super risky, and as we've seen here, when that single donor goes away, it's all over.

It's super sad the LCM is in the state it is in, but for non-profits this is a cautionary tale: you cannot build a long term non-profit on the support of a single person. The world is too chaotic for that. Even a non-profit with a billionaire behind it isn't safe. It is incredibly poor planning on humanity's part to rely on the rich to preserve our shared heritage out of some obligation or moral or ethical duty. We need to preserve this stuff on the order of the Smithsonian.

2600 Magazine on the East coast and Noisebridge on the West Coast are the only 2 registered distributors of Club Mate in the USA. If you are in SF, you can get one at Noisebridge for $5.

Guy gets a "job" as a software engineer with a WHOLE lot of work, onboarding, paperwork, etc. Then the first thing they ask him to do is deposit a check into his account and send them the Cash immediately, before the check clears. They had the check UPS'd to his house, too.

Depends on the team. Always worth applying and finding out. Generally, timezones matter more than borders, but sometimes that's not the case.

Red Hat is hiring on the OpenShift and OpenStack teams. All sorts of jobs, from marketing to engineering to test and development. Almost all jobs can be remote, and we're Red Hat, so you're going to be working with and on open source software. Always. Come help us continue to grow, all around the world:

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Bankman-Fried is in Argentina now. https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1591348369271971841

I doubt he's coming back.

Standards can fix this stuff: https://spritely.institute/

Spritely is an effort to fix the problems that remain with ActivityPub.

They also host the world's largest curated videogame collection. Henry is a treasure.

Uptown Oakland is where the Sneakers' headquarters was located. Second floor of the Fox Theater.

Last time I played Star Citizen, and granted, this was 1 year ago, it was so unoptimized and buggy that, when I went into an elevator in the star port, the floor I landed at hadn't loaded yet, and a fell through the geometry, into space, and asphyxiated. This was.... oh, about 5 minutes after starting play for the first time, on an i7 machine with a 2080 and 32 GB of RAM... Not a wimpy machine.

Star Citizen needs a release deadline, if for no other reason than it would force them to button up, fix bugs, and for godsake, optimize.

Anyone wondering why this is here should read or go see a performance of Arcadia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_(play)

Tom Stoppard is the greatest living American playwright. Some of his earlier stuff can be a tad impenetrable, but Arcadia is why this story is here on Hacker News. It's about a girl in the 1800's who discovers the fractal equation for trees, and in theory, reality itself.

It's marvelous.

I am told this is very specifically a default setting in the app that makes the minimum connections something like 100 or so. If you crank that down to 5 to 20 it goes much faster. YMMV.

While I completely agree that Pelosi does this with insider knowledge, she and her husband also seem to be investing based on the hype they hear from people around them. Why else would the Pelosi's have taken such a bath on Roblox?! They had to have known shit is going bad over there, but they lost a LOT of money on that one...

So yeah, they do insider trading, but they are sometimes also the dupes in these deals. Look at their history. They make money, yes, but they lose a lot to stupid investments too, ones they obviously made because some Steve-Jobs-wannabe got a meeting with them and fired their reality distortion ray.

Bio-organic solar cells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_solar_cell

These things, in theory, could be everywhere. You can bend some of them, so you could wrap lamp posts with them, cover cars in them, put them everywhere. I am confident that within 20 years, we will solve power problems with renewables like this, and we will have a major revolution in infinite-power designs, like illuminated clothing, power generating and emitting roadways, and servers embedded into everything, everywhere, for every reason.

They are 17% efficiency, and they don't yet last very long, but the work is moving at a steady pace.

Free hosting services very quickly fill up with bitcoin miners and Minecraft servers.

Funny, I am working on a non-profit for just this type of thing: https://spritely.institute/

We are building standards for open distributed social media systems, with identity and security built in, and absolutely no centralized management. Everyone can run their own communities, while still having managed identity, and without a single click sending content to everyone in the world.