iamnotacrook

Forgive me for asking a sort-off-offtopic question, but what's the reason terminals - and therefore the programs which run within them - offer such limited scope for ctrl-key usage. A lot of characters are not available for remapping, such as ctrl-numeric-digit, or ctrl-shift-anything etc. What's the root cause of this? Is it telnet related? ssh? And, assuming there's a compromise somewhere, would it be possible for the problem to be lifted with a config option which says "I'm using this shell locally on my chromebook - please don't inflict this 40 year old restriction on me"?

Yes choose what you want.

It was investigated and there was no harm?

You missed out the step where the knowledgeable people who run and have to support most of the major distros adopted systemd. When's that going to backfire? Any day now, right?

I don't understand your last paragraph. Did the guy behind systemd use OSS or leave it?

They're free, billed quarterly. Got it.

The USA and the Chinese governments are not so different. All that ideology bollocks is window dressing; the API. The back end is the same.

Exactly. You look at this, remember that it'll be making its way around the world (slowly at first, admittedly) and it's impossible to ignore the little internal voice where your conscience used to be whispering "kill yourself".

"Oh wait"

Nobody needs to wait on the internet - you can just go right ahead and type!

"there's EBay..."

You're saying that for a business to be successful on the internet they need to get their money from buying and selling goods on eBay instead of running adverts? Or that they'll sell adverts on eBay? I'm puzzled.

Sadly, despite the downvoting and "I am! And so is my wife!" replies, you're essentially statistically correct. The number of "firefox for android" users (and I'm one of them) is just a yawn and an ironic smile between Google execs in any "shall we allow plugins on Chrome for Android to compete with Firefox" discussion if indeed it ever even gets mentioned.

You say that (and I agree - I use Firefox everywhere because there's no Chrome plugin support on Android) but I'm genuinely curious to see what happens if/when Chrome stops supporting ublock origin. I suspect - sadly - that there won't be the "flocking to firefox" we might be hoping for. Just enough ads will get blocked with a new, gimped ublock origin, or built-in ad blocking of some flavour, to prevent any meaningful exodus.

Did local newspapers have a problem "making deals with specific advertisers"? I mean, if that's the business you're in, better get on it, right?

I don't care. If the web becomes largely paywalled as a result I'll just stop visiting those sites and stick to the still free ones. Or there's other things to do with one's time, if you cast your mind back 10 or so years before everyone became glued to their phones.

Quite. It's like I've wondered into the Large Print section of the library. What's wrong with normal sized fonts, and letting the minority with impaired eyesight or curious hardware resize as desired? Or maybe browsers could expose some standard config info to sites saying "yeah, extra normal for me please"? I could use reader mode for everything, except it breaks some sites.

Do you mean you worked on the case, or just that you read about it on the internet?

"I cannot imagine how it can be a good idea to reject the internet. Avoid social media all you want, but choosing not to have a search engine, dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps and so on at your fingertips is just bonkers.

But we had all that growing up 40 years ago. The internet has made people stupider, as a culture. People learn less because you can just look it up. Yes, you can. It's much easier to look stuff up, but that means people are retaining less themselves.

> How many "error's"

It starts with grocer's apostrophes, but before long everyone's splitting infinitives.

No, reviews aren't important. Whether it's apps, books, movies or music, trusting a review only makes sense if you value the reviewer and I don't know if you've read reviews of Android apps but it's the same morons who are posting on YouTube, Reddit etc. Thanks but I'll decide what to install via other means.

"often aren't available at all"

It's in C11. Perhaps Red Hat use non-compliant compilers, or very, very old ones?

I'm a bit puzzled how you've ended up with a system where you can't access email remotely. That probably took a lot more time than just creating a gmail account or even using your own domain but hooking it up to google for all the boring stuff (like, uh, making it available remotely). Although you mention "private" email so perhaps you also have "public" email which you can access - i'm not sure how I'd configure mail servers to deal with that. Back when I wasn't confident accessing email via random internet cafes etc from my phone I created several accounts and have stuck to that system; some accounts i only access when i'm sure it's safe, and others - not used for banking etc - i couldn't care less about and use from anywhere.

It's quite clear Microsoft are only a couple of years from either an official linux distro or some halfway house of using a linux kernel internally for major os functionality, so it makes little sense learning some new(ish) shell when you could just use bash (via wsl or whatever).

I always laugh when I see people saying "we..". I always think "well, what are you doing on HN (or whatever) typing then? Get on with it! We don't want that!".

"I generally think of "int" as also an adjective, with both "const" and "int" describing the variable."

Eh? int is a noun, surely? How does int describe an int?

I can imagine cost and long being adjectives for the noun int.

You tend to get warnings to use the _s versions of some functions (strcpy_s in this case) these days.

Isn't that Windows only?

"Anyone here ever see something similar? "

Nobody who wasn't off their face on drugs or mentally ill probably, no.

"they were not weather balloons, satellites, planes, planets, stars, or meteors."

Other than little aliens in magic flying machines what do you think they could have been?

That's just the "literally" argument again. Literally doesn't mean literally, and UFO means flying saucer.

"If ads are too intrusive, I will 'vote with my clicks' and avoid that particular website in the future."

They'll never even notice, and in the meantime you're at risk of all sorts of trackers, malware etc. Plus...you're seeing adverts all the time. I used chrome on android the other day and I couldn't believe how many there were, or how annoying. If you're not clicking on them it means nothing anyway, as far as I can tell. I remember back in the day sites saying "click on the ads - it helps us" but I don't think that's a thing any more. Perhaps I should knock up a script to visit random sites with ads and maybe click on a few, in a container/vm. Would that help?

It was a bit like a Stack Exchange blog, wasn't it. They weren't keeping up with inflation. That's not even a price increase in real terms - they should probably do what (UK, at least) mobile networks do and just increase the prices by the official rate of inflation each April - that would let them defer actual price increases for longer.

"What if the answer is to kill social-media-as-we-know-it?"

I know someone who was fine until he had to help select/edit news footage (unfiltered audio/video footage of wars etc) for the BBC. After a few months he needed counseling for intrusive images, lack of sleep, depression. So, no news either?

You could say exactly the same about anti-vaxxer nonsense. The lack of statistics makes it something where you can only wring your hands and say "oh, how awful" and not "yes, but..." and consider meaningful alternatives.