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L5 autonomy is a absolutely a long way off (if ever practially acheivable) and Elon is a bullshit artist, but I don't understand your comparison to the halting problem. Could you elaborate?

I interperate your comparison to the halting problem to mean that even if we ignore the feasability of a particular solution, it is literally an impossible problem to solve.

My understanding of L5 is driving without external human intervention. In one sense we already have the technology to do that - our brians. It would never be feasible (or ethical), but if we could put a human brain inside every tesla, wouldn't that achieve L5?

We're not in the eve subreddit, we're on hacker news.

I dont think it makes it immune, but it shifts the balance of action. If you're rich being "Immune from the law" is not a binary thing (and we've already seen Elon treat the law in this way), and owning Twitter could make Elon immune from the law for longer.

If the SEC got an injuction against Elon tweeting, how it would manifest and play out would be very different depending on whether Elon owns twitter or not.

Currently, twitter have no interest in defending Elon and would fully comply with any injuction, ban Elon, and let him fight it out with the SEC and jsut go along with it. Whether Elon wins or not, he'd be banned from twitter for weeks/months until it was settled.

If Elon owns Twitter then they are not going to remove him until every legal avenue has been exhausted. Both Twitter and Elon personally would be fighting the injunction. They would fight every point and, even if they knew they'd lose, throw up any delaying action they could just to keep Elon on Twitter for longer.

Basically: Independant Twitter: Elon is silenced for months while the courts thrash it out Elon Twitter: Elon is very vocal for months while the courts thrash it out

And that is ignoring the possibilty of Elon manipulating the world and using twitter to manipulate the court case (which we've already seen him try to do). Imagine if he threatened to let Trump back on twitter and whip up anti-biden sentiment in the run up to an election? The SEC/Courts are meant to be politically independant, but in reality he might even get the SEC to back down completely. Something that would never be possible if he didn't own twitter and wasn't allowed to tweet.

If you're in a marginalised community then the objectional content comes to you and can't be avoided. We simply aren't provided with the tools to block this.

There is a fundamental asymmetry in harassment.

My account is important to me; I don't want to abandon it or give it up. If my account is under attack I cannot continue to use the site as I would like.

The accounts used for harassment are either disposable and it doesn't matter to the harasser whether they get blocked or banned. And non-disposable harassing accounts that get blocked can either just move onto the next target or continue to direct the harassment through screenshots etc which encourage the disposable accounts to do the dirty work.

The cost to the victim can be meaningful, but the cost to the harasser is non-existant.

And this isn't just applicable to concerted harassment campaigns. There is also a lot of "drive-by" harassment from accounts who will just reply to any black/trans/queer/woman who posts online.

What is this startegy of monetising upstream contributions that you mention redhat having done?

This isn't something I've heard of before.

I think thats a bit dismissive. All of Elons's ventures are linked back to his dreams of Mars and he's been pretty open about this.

The Boring company is about subsurface construction on Mars.

Fully automated factories are about manufacturing on mars (and in orbit).

Electric cars, self-driving technolgy and hyperloop are about transportation on mars.

Solar City and batteries are about the power grid on mars.

SpaceX is about getting to mars.

The music probably isn't dictating the release date, but able to be completed alongside the critical path. I doubt that getting the music done will take much time from the devs who are focusing on the important things (I know its mostly just Tarn, but I beleive that there is actually a team working on the steam release, but may be wrong about that).

I feel like I'm missing something.

If they introduced blanket MitM, it would only take one person to verify fingerprints for it to become public. You mention that people who verify fingerprints would be excluded, but I've no idea how you'd achieve that. My understanding is that proper fingerprint confirmation has to, by definition, be conducted out of band.

With any FLOSS everyone is trusting that another geek somewhere is paying attention to a particular piece of software and will raise the alarm if there is something wrong. And I do mean everyone. I don't think its conceivable that even the most paranoid, technically proficient user could verify the integrity of their entire technology stack.

> I can understand using a few resources in the background to serve some of that data, but it must never get in the way of actual work getting done.

Which is exactly how the code was intended to work. Firefox did not design their software to hang in the event of telementry losing internet access.

I don't know firefox's internal architecture or its development, what follows is pure conjecture.

Their intention seems to be to slowly migrate the codebase from C++ to Rust. That telemetry is the only function to so far rely on their new rust networking library viaduct (and thus trigger the bug) could be because they wanted use their least important fucntionality as a test bed. In which case, if there wasn't any telemetry, a different piece of code would have been migrated to rust first and triggered this same bug. Without the telemtry, it would have presumably taken them longer to realise that things had broken, let alone resolve it.

From my comment: "Any other google services which aren't core apps will also work as normal."

Reference: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1257646?product_name=Unu...

Yes, I had this confirmed by support. This is the most frustrating (and ridiculous) aspect. People will no longer be able to share things with your main email address.

You can sign up for a google account with any email address, so if you'd never used GFYD you'd be able to do this no problem.

Yes, you would upgrade and then immediately cancel. I've had this confirmed by google workspace support.

I agree with you on losing access to sharing to your primary email address.

The situation has been officially confirmed on their support pages [https://support.google.com/a/answer/1257646]:

" Impact to services after you cancel Google Workspace You lose access to core Google Workspace services, such as Gmail, Calendar, Meet, and more. You still have access to Additional Google services, such as YouTube, Google Photos, and Google Ads. "

I've posted this comment a few times in these threads. I'm in a same boat and did some digging with support and through the docs.

When you cancel workspace, the accounts remain active but lose access to just the workspace features (gmail, drive, docs, calendar etc). The accounts will remain the same for things like google play, youtube etc and you won't lose access to any purchases.

The biggest impact I can see, other than the headache of migration, is that former GFYD email address can NEVER be used for docs, drive etc, even on the same terms as a free personal account.

I dug into this with support and the docs.

When you cancel workspace, the accounts remain active but lose access to just the workspace features (gmail, drive, docs, calendar etc). The accounts will remain the same for things like google play, youtube etc and you won't lose access to any purchases.

The biggest impact I can see, other than the headache of migration, is that former GFYD email address can NEVER be used for docs, drive etc, even on the same terms as a free personal account.

I've dug into this through the documentation and in discussions with workspace support and its not as bad as we fear, at least in terms of purchases.

If you cancel your workspace account, then the individual user accounts will still have access to non-workspace services [0], which importantly includes Google Play and all access to your purchases will be retained. Any other google services which aren't core apps will also work as normal.

Any former GFYD account becomes a semi-account with access to a subset of google services but not all. Since the account exists, it cannot be used to sign up for a free personal account, and you can never use google docs or have google docs shared with any former GFYD account.

Overall, this is a better resolution than I'd feared, but it seems ridiculous that being a loyal google customer for over 15 years leaves you disadvantaged.

[0] Core workspace apps: Calendar, Currently, Drive & Docs, Gmail, Chat, Meet, Groups for business, Jamboard, Keep, Sites, Tasks

What is the relevence of WebOS?

I thought that came from Palm OS, and I wasn't aware of any link to BeOS.

This article from December 2020 exactly supports what OP is saying- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/10/pornhub-mast...

Just like you, I hadn't read the exact same articles as GP. But I was able to find this article in seconds on google as GP suggested.

I assume you'd also be against teaching children about the existence of things like marriage prior to starting sex-ed as teenagers.

The author blogged about it in 2009 [1]

TL;DR They used a MIT licence and other people were selling broken, rebranded cashgrab copies without changing things like the installer or crash logs being sent to the author etc

[1] https://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paint...

Trademark law is less about these sorts of technicalities and more about the general impression in the mind of the consumer. Would someone confuse the two logos?

When seeing just the "A" as used in Apse.io's favicon, I wouldnt be able to tell if it was Ansible or Apse without double checking which way round each was, and which font each was.

Most of the "Kelvin Clein" fakes that you see are not actually skirting around the trademark, and rely on never actually being tested in court. At most it pushes enforcement from the front lines of "this is a fake" to the courts with "prove this is a fake".

For instance, in the UK, an off brand clone of Hendricks Gin has been sued for trademark infringement and this article gives a good breakdown of the legal issues[0]. Examples of the different designs here[1].

Its not a given that Apse is infringing, or that Red Hat would sue over it. But given how much easier it is to change these things when the project is young, I'd suggest the author change the logo. Apart from anything else, the similarity to Ansible works against Apse's own notability.

[0] https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=dcae4558-12e3... [1] https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/1580C/productio...

Methane from sewage was used in London gas lamps since the 1890s when the Webb Sewer gas lamp was invented. [https://nikmorton.webs.com/webbgaslamps.htm]

The most famous surviving example is next to The Savoy hotel on The Strand [https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/F...]

I think that the "tight cubbyholes" is a bit of a strawman (in general, not that you're using it as such. Its absolutely how these ideas are often presented in the mainstream).

I know a lot of feminist/anti-racist/queer activists. None of them are trying to put people into tight cubbyholes. They are actually all pushing for greater awareness of how people don't fit into these cubbyholes. The whole idea of intersectionality* (which is foundational in modern "woke" politics) is based on this.

The tight cubbyholes aspect is often either a strawman presented by people who are against making changes (at the softest end, or actively hateful at the hardest).

Or is something that the powers that be (managers, politicians, whatever) insist on when they implement any changes. Often these are either against what activists are calling for or a begrudged concession to bureaucracy and data collection.

The data analysis aspect is unfortunately important. In an ideal world it wouldn't be, but thats not where we are. It doesn't just highlight outright bigotry, but inadvertant discrimination (eg only holding interviews at times which inadvertantly don't work for people (often women) with child care responsibilities), or even problems beyond an organisation (eg the pipeline issue).

*Intersectionality is about recognising all the different aspects of a person's identity and the different ways that they priviledge/disadvantage them in different circumstances. It was explicitly developed by black women who were being let down by both black support systems which all targeted at black men, and women's support networks which targeted white women. They recognised that just adding a "black women" box only addressed the immediate issue so built a framework to analyse the Intersection of identities more generally.

"Sex worker" is the correct term for both contact and non-contact erotic services and is absolutley the appropriate term to use in this context.

The term was developed by sex workers explicitly for two purposes

1) To move away from the stigma of the term "prostitute"

2) To specifically include sex workers beyond escorts, including porn performers, camgirls, strippers etc

In the real world energy isn’t always fungible. The location of the energy can be an important factor in something’s overall efficiency.

If you need the end product at a particular location, the transport costs can overwhelm any differences in efficiency.

The same also applies if you have excess energy in a particular location that you want to use.

In either case, the transport costs can make using the less efficient process, the more energy efficient choice overall.

A slight aside, but are you aware of openbenches.org ?

It is a user generated database of memorial benches. It doesn't seem to include the bench you're after. If you happened to take a photo of the inscription you could add it yourself.

Quite extensive research actually. The overwhelming medical consensus is that puberty blockers are safe, and this is backed up by over three decades of their use in treating trans youth and even longer in treating precocious puberty.

I leave it to the reader to determine whether they think having to take vitamin supplement counts as a significant side-effects. I would note, however, that it is also important to put these side effects in context. The contraceptive pill, for instance, also has reduced bone density as a possible side-effect.

My reading of the research also does not indicate that it is majorly lacking. Medical research is written in a very conservative manner. Researchers avoid making claims beyond the limits of their research. This can look like doubt or uncertainty when it is not.

All the research I’ve seen shows no significant consequences to taking puberty blockers. Puberty proceeds as normal once the puberty blockers have been stopped. Puberty has quite a wide range of onset ages and this is not taking the range that far beyond the historical range.

This description is the opposite of my experience of the trans community. In my experience of trans people they are welcoming of any combination of gender expression and identity and are universally supportive of gender exploration and non-traditional gender expression for trans and cis people alike.

Related to this.

We are basing what we consider natural phenomena on our observations of the galaxy.

If we were to flip the assumption from life being rare to life being pervasive, what assumed natural phenomena could in fact be evidence of life?

There is precedent for this on Earth. We are just startign to discover how much The Amazon rainforest is actually a human creation and basically a massive multi-generational bioengineering project.

This is not a serious position fo mine, btw, I know that we can track most astronomical phenomena back to fundamental laws of nature.

But equally there are some massive astronomical myseteries (dark matter/energy, certain stars being more/less common than expected etc) and I can't quite dismiss the wonder that our baseline assumptions have been tainted by this assumption.