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/g/ has it's pulse on the happenings in the tech world just as much as hn. I'm sure they knew about the Audacity situation because it's interesting stuff. From my PoV the "4chan raided a naming poll and then got mad when their polling was overridden" story checks out 100%.

These are all features and should be accelerated. There shouldn't be a possibility to renew.

I guess even if I believe everything here and we overstate a bit and say normal cell phone use increases your risk of developing brain cancer by 2x. That's about half the extra mortality you get from driving a car. I'm glad this reasearch is being done but it seem that even if this overstate case is true it's well within the levels of risk people take on every day without second thought. I'm skeptical but curious to see how this bears out over the coming decades.

That's a gross oversimplification of the problem. I'm sure you wouldn't have to look far to find something you disagree with and work to prevent in order to better our society.

The damage to society from users ceding power over technology to companies cannot be underestimated.

I understand that literally I am being a self righteous asshole, and I'll own that. If I could hack wifis across the world to broadcast this SSID I would. This is a far far more serious problem than people think.

The problem is people accepting not having root on things they own. It's absolutely absurd that someone would accept having mission-critical devices without root access.

The problem is fake, it shouldn't exist. I don't feel bad because the choice to be in the situation where your phone can be messed in a serious way without an easy way out is 100% self inflicted. Allowing the proliferation of devices that you don't control is FAR FAR FAR worse for society than me bricking some iPhones. If even one person thinks critically about the situation they've allowed themselves to exist in as a result of having their phone bricked by something so silly I consider myself to be doing a moral good.

This is hacker news after all.

I have renamed my wifi, thanks for the tip! Might have to take a trip to starbucks for some mischief tomorrow.

EDIT: awww, it looks like you actually have to attempt to connect to it, much less fun

Well, it's not strictly regulated and it's a monopoly so...

I don't believe men dominate women in ultra-endurance racing. IIRC though the sample size is quite small it may be that extremely long distance racing actually favors women.

I feel like he uses the exact words needed to get his point across clearly and concisely. Using expletives effectively is part of being eloquent.

The truth of the matter is that I've never seen anywhere where this isn't the case to some degree. Long term thinking is rare.

I think it's very safe to assume the level of technical rigor in a given undertaking just falls to the minimum required unless there's a very strong force keeping it in a higher state. Maybe places like NASA JPL or Apple manage to float above the minimum because of a really unified and powerful culture, but outside of that I'm thinking it's more or less universal. e.g. the 737 MAX debacle illustrates Boeing's stochastic search for the lower bound of technical rigor when it comes to flight control software quality.

I've had a 13" ultrabook w/ cellular for a couple years now and it's the best thing ever.

Can we talk for a second how absurdly good a user experience the text site is? It's 9kb over the wire, the whole thing is one request, it does everything it needs to do to get me the article and it happens instantly and without waste.

The full site is 88 requests, takes 5 seconds to complete, transfers over 300x more data and brings me no additional value. The article doesn't even begin on the first screen, I have to scroll to start reading! The text version gives me the first 7 paragraphs without any user input.

My only phone is a Pinephone. I don't "daily" drive it because I'm not really much of a phone user but it's still loads better than the experience I had with Android/iOS.

I feel like the phone respects me. It's a computer and when I decide that I want to do [X thing a computer can do] it lets me do that. It feels much better to struggle against real problems I can solve than it does to struggle against fake problems inflicted upon me by other people in order to extract value from me.

I would seriously much rather deal with "Which file do I pipe `1` into using a shell on a phone screen in order to turn on the flashlight LED?" than having to deny Google location tracking privileges for the millionth time because they will just keep asking me until I accidentally hit yes instead of no one day.

Anyone someone defends nfts/bitcoin/crypto in general I can't help but think of the classic.

> "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Though in these cases it's not salary but rather a man's imagined future millions from his buy in to pyramid schemes.

Right but we have `let` now which solves that problem.

I believe that's not "non chinese/taiwanese"?

Absolutely agree with this, I'm not saying we shouldn't have a right to be forgotten, it seems like an easy kludge to implement right now. I'm just musing.

I wonder in the discussions surrounding these sorts of things (Right to be Forgotten, etc) if the issue isn't that there should be a right to be forgotten but rather that culturally we should be far far more tolerant of people fucking up. It feels like the perception of how much the average member of society transgresses its rules is totally out of sync with reality, though this may be by design to create space for exploitation.

I live almost entirely off grid. I do my absolute best not to participate, I'm out here using FOSS sw/hw when I can and rolling my own when I can't because I don't want to give power and money to people who even tacitly support this garbage system. I have a god damn linux phone. It's not enough and it feels selfish. Not everyone can live the life I am and I am not comfortable with it. I feel a moral responsibility to do more.

I'm a US national these days, but I'm speaking more generally here. I donate to the EFF and I've donated to OpenMedia.ca as well in response to the other comment and while I'm aware that every bit helps help I'm concerned it's not enough, and that these organizations aren't focused enough on fighting the evils of IP law.

I guess I'm saying I'm increasingly sure that this is the hill I want to die on. I want to do more than just donate. I want to get something done. I am ready to let this issue live constantly in my head as more than something that makes me mad. I want to fix it. This needs to change. The narrative needs to change.

P.S. Louis Rossman's campaign for the Right to Repair is probably a good place to toss some money.

P.P.S. To be clear I don't think we should abolish IP law entirely, just turn down the volume like 70%.

As an individual what can I do to most effectively stop this bullshit? The constant overreach and expansion of IP law disastrous for humans. I want it to stop. Who do I donate to? Where do I march? I want to effect real change.

I'm increasingly uncomfortable keeping my head down about this. It needs to be addressed, this concern needs to be signal-boosted somehow among the majority of people who just don't fucking give a shit. People shouldn't be okay with this. Most people are completely oblivious to the second and third order effects that are hurting them as a result of the INSANE IP laws that are on the books now. Is there any hope for real change? I'm ready to start donating some double digit percentage of my income for a start. My time too.

ＹＥＳ I love the vibe of that show so so much.

Vanilla DOM manipulation on the front-end, template strings and a markdown renderer in Node on the back-end, flat-files for storage until I end up needing SQLite or sometimes NeDB. If something ends up being too slow I break it out and rewrite it in C and ship it as WASM.

It isn't my favorite aesthetically but as much as I like the various LISPs, Rust and Haskell/Purescript I use the above nine times out of ten.

Don't be sorry friend. You are correct and I hear your frustration, and while we're at it most SaaS is just as vile as advertising. I fear that this is the inevitable conclusion of unfettered capitalism and perhaps individual refusal to participate is one of the few ways we can begin to turn the helm on a world that worships unfettered greed.

It's absolutely wild, I have Chrome Canary installed w/o any addons because of some bleeding edge WebBluetooth stuff I'm working on and occasionally I'll forget which browser I'm using and visit a site with it. The web without adblock is basically unusable, it's legitimately completely insane that people will put up with it.

I genuinely laughed out loud reading this comment. Much love.

Holy shit. I don't think I've ever seen someone say so little with so many words. Is this some sort of a meta-art piece? It feels like it was written by a high schooler with a thesaurus. I think I can convey the entirety of the essay in one sentence.

You have plenty of attention, just decide to stop wasting it on dumb shit.

Except that might actually be giving the author too much credit, I'm not sure there's actually as salient a point as that buried in there.

That's how I play this too! I've found it's very very bad at dealing with rotations. Carrot right side up? No problem, carrot at a 230° angle? It'll never figure it out.

I'm glad to see this here. I think people in general do not pay much attention to externalities. I wish to see people take a more holistic/deontological view of the fight for equality across all mankind (shit, is that a microaggression? personkind?). I'm not convinced that this over-correction ISN'T net positive either, but there is an ingrained assumption in the zeitgeist that it is a pure fight for a better world for those trodden upon. I don't think the case is so clear cut and I worry about the deafening silence when I look for introspection among those riding this wave of power. People who do not question the righteousness of their cause are frightening, whatever the cause may be. Nothing is righteous, everything is complex, I wish this was something that we could hold tightly in our collective consciousness. Subtlety and nuance is never as easy or attractive as brashness. I guess that's the nature of the beast, who would willingly attack themselves to prevent their own abuse of the power they've newly gained? Only a rare few, I doubt that will change.

"You must beware of shadows."

page 109 of The Little Schemer

I only allow notifications from people I truly love and absolutely nothing else. If I don't remember to check something it's because it doesn't bring me joy, it's because I don't care about it. I would never want to give anyone or anything the power to interrupt me except for those who value my time nearly as much as I value it myself. It's one of the most baffling things about today's world that people will accept, or even seek such interruption.

I honestly believe the underlying concept here is slightly immoral, moreso because it's an attempt to SAASify something that cleary doesn't need a server, and steal your info while they're at it. Hmmm, now that I've written it out like that I guess I'll bump it up to clearly immoral.