"Is this just a case of ‘Nobody ever got fired for choosing Blackboard’?"
Sadly I believe it is. My school recently moved off Blackboard for Canvas after at least ten years. While some teachers were relieved to move to a more modern system that supposedly offers them a better experience (it certainly offers students a better experience), many teachers rejected it as they did not want to learn a new system. My older instructors hardly ever post to Canvas besides updating grades saying they just don't want to learn it.
Luckily for whoever setup Canvas at our school I don't think they will get fired over it, but the resistance from staff makes me understand why other schools would feel hesitant to switch off Blackboard.
Bleeding edge has never been the point of Debian, it's one of the most stable and well tested distros out there. Things are upgraded only when necessary for the most part.
I believe vanity of some sort is an innately human trait, I doubt societal changes will eliminate it. Rather I see a future that the reporter was alluding to, where our bodies are just as customizable as a digital filter like the streamer used. Who knows, as crazy as it may sound, perhaps in a few hundred years most social interaction will be "assisted" by VR, AR, or some other reality changing technology where we do present ourselves as digital avatars.
Not FOSS, but I can highly recommend Davinci Resolve. I actually have come to prefer it over Premiere and Vegas which have been my favorites for over a decade now. Compared to those two, it just feels like a much more modern, well polished product. The stability is what has really sold me after having to save Premiere and Vegas projects after nearly every edit because I never knew when they would randomly crash. Its free license gives you just about everything you will need and the multiplatform support is great. I really recommend you give it a try and see how it suits you.
Honestly, unless you absolutely need Windows for critical programs/drivers, I would look into switching to Linux. While there are super hardened distros such as Qubes, even something more user friendly such as Debian and Fedora would be much more trustworthy than Windows 7. Ubuntu would likely be a good place to start if you are completely new as well. They've had their scandals, and the kernel is very large and much harder to audit than the other two, but I would still feel better using it than Windows 7 privacy wise.
You're correct, it's not a donation. However Purism right now is important in a way Comcast is not. Their work on the software side is making the GNU/Linux phone a reality and it will help both vendors and makers a like in the future. Supporting the company is indirectly supporting the GNU/Linux phone ecosystem and may be one of the best things to throw your money at right now to push development forward.
On the Comcast side, they can get fucked. My whole city pays them a crazy high fee for internet and more a month with very little improvements being made in infrastructure. Sure they now a have a remote with voice commands, but I and most people I know are almost never near the advertised speeds. At least the latency is good.
What Thiel wants investigated and what the general HN user wants are very different things I would imagine. Personally I'm more concerned with what Google is doing with my data, and how much they are sharing with a PRISM like program than anything involving China. Thiel's basis for this is also rather weak. A censored search engine and sharing AI with the military are two entirely different things. I oppose both for the record, but just because they are both bad does not equate them.
Honestly I think this is a ridiculous take. Google's military contracts have been extremely controversial both publicly and inside Google. The thing is, if Google wants to exist in China, they must follow some orders. The US government agencies do not force that kind of control (that we know of) so they are more easily rejected. Project Butterfly and Project Maven are not even directly comparable projects also, they have very different goals and implications.
All that said I do believe Google and others need to face some sort of regulations and audits. But hunting for Chinese intelligence officers seems like a waste of time with little evidence to actually warrant such an investigation.
Apologies if this is written weirdly, I desperately need sleep.
Not only is this nothing new as other commenters have observed, these tags have been used by screen readers and other accessibility services for awhile. While we can talk all we want about Facebook using their all seeing eyes for evil (which I agree they overstep a lot of boundaries), these tags are very useful for people who may require them and should not be scrutinized as an invasion of privacy.
God, it seems like all of the recent times an auto manufacturer deviates from an accepted gearshift design it goes horribly. The Jeep gearshift that killed Anton Yelchin comes to mind, but honestly the one you posted seems even worse from a design standpoint. I completely fail to understand what the hell auto designers are doing with UX nowadays.
Growing up I had a family friend who was a park ranger in a popular hunting area (not California fwiw). The laws protecting wildlife from poachers are really strong and rangers take them very seriously. As a result, catching a poacher can often be a messy scenario. If it doesn't turn violent, you can bet the poachers will try everything to get out of catching the case. I don't think it's unreasonable that poachers would try to protect themselves with this defense.
That said, I don't think that potential wiggle room poachers may try to exploit should be reason to keep salvaging illegal. The only time I have ever heard of a poacher making that excuse was in an askreddit thread (yeah I know take it with a grain of salt) about LEOs getting guns pulled on them. In that story the ranger could clearly tell the animal had been shot, not hit with a vehicle, and I would imagine in many other cases a ranger would be able to tell the difference too.
I wouldn't be surprised if Mint and Ubuntu are both in a better state in that regard since I last used them. Last time I used Mint on my gaming rig, the bundled Mint drivers had something funky with them. I don't remember what it was but I do remember I had to reinstall them. This was around Ubuntu's 15.04 I believe?
Reddit's /r/datahoarder is full of people archiving all sorts of things that I wouldn't expect to be archived. Recently there was a community effort to archive YouTube's annotations before they were removed.
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For gaming purposes, I also have to recommend Manjaro purely from how great it handles installing graphics drivers. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for someone's first Linux install, but once you know the basics in case something breaks it provides a better gaming experience out of the box.
It seems much more likely that these assumed acts of God were a misunderstood natural phenomenon rather than extraterrestrial beings who we have yet to capture on camera. Considering how closely the depictions of the event match pictures of sun dogs leaves it as the most reasonable solution.
> I wouldn't be able to go back to a dynamic language after using Rust for so long, I'd be in constant panic about changing the smallest thing.
As someone who has been working mainly in Rust for about a year and is now starting to pick up Python, this is huge! I pretty much never write Python that isn't explicitly typed thanks to how Rust changed me as a programmer.
Wikileaks has been criticized for primarily leaking information from NATO aligned governments with a noticeable lack of Russian leaks. On top of that, during the 2016 election he supposedly had access to both the DNC emails and a set of RNC emails. Yet only the DNC emails were published.
I don't know if either view is completely correct, it really is a manner of optics. If it is true that Assange has held back information on the Russian government or the RNC, this flaw would make sense from a survival standpoint for him. And even if he was doing it purely out of a survival strategy, would it not make him some sort of Russian asset in a bit of an abstract way?
Thank you so much! I'll definitely be looking into courses in these subjects. I can learn a language on my own, but theory is something that I personally need someone to help walk me through.
I'm making my way through uni currently. I've taken a few CS classes that have touched briefly on O notation and I am currently in Calc 2. I understand bits and pieces of this but I am lost in most of the paper. What courses should I be taking to better my understanding of papers of this sort? Or alternatively, are there any online resources that could help me work my way through research papers like these?
How likely is it that the Key 2 will receive security patches past two years? That's the main reason I stick with Samsung or would suggest a Pixel (or an iPhone) right now.
I know right? ssloy is on fire, one of the few non-organizations I follow on Github. Does anyone else know some similar users that should get some more love?