kataklasm

Well, after spending eight hours working demanding jobs, be it physical or mentally, everyday people usually like to spend their free time with something a little more relaxing, and for most people that isn't reading documentation or reading highky technical engineering papers but rather watching a highly enthusiastic guy try and share his joy of rocket science.

It's rare to find these thoughtful and sincerely kind threads on the internet these days, but this thread, the one you started, really touched me. HN is truly a wonderful and magnificent place in this wide cosmos of ones and zeroes. Thank you a lot, rubyist5eva, for being such a valuable member of the community and for starting this immensely valuable thread. What you did isn't easy, sharing one's own low points in life, but you did so anyway and made a lot of peoples day! Thank you for being you, keep at it and allow yourself a break now and then. You got this.

Very valuable insight, thank you a lot!

Provocation is not grounds for killing 290 civilians. If, and that's a big if, there really was intentional provocation from Iran that doesn't mean you can kill 290 civilians.

Those are correlated. If your military is killing civilians en masse and over half the country is still celebrating the military, putting up flags everywhere, shouting F YEAH MURICA at every turn, then those people are ignoring the truth. Here in Germany there really is a growing blanket hate of American military policy and by extension American mainstream populace.

I know I'm breaking HN rules here, but have you read the article? It literally is about the US Military not investigating its own war crimes.

cries in colemak

Citation needed.

To be honest, I don't believe we should adapt defaults to fit a single digit percentage population. I'm not dyslexic and the fonts suggested are horrible to read in my opinion. I'm totally for the option to set different fonts as default so dyslexic users have an easier life, but the global default should not be changed because of this.

Hey man, you alright? If you need to talk about stuff anonymously, confidentially and unjudged, feel free to reach out to me, you can find contact info in my profile. :)

That's the same as saying 'buy a new one :)'. The bets of Apple fixing anything and not just telling you to replace your 13 month old laptop are slim at best.

Do you really think the the large part of human population around the world living in extreme poverty (multiple billion people) are the problem? As one poster said, if they do transition to "middle class" (whatever that means to them) then they will become part of the climate problem. But right now, the problem lies with us, our hyper-capitalist and super corrupt western societies. Don't distract from that with whataboutism to Africa. Currently, we (meaning western countries, not just geographically, I would count China for example as a western country as well, since to me "western" is a financial/economic definition, not a geographical one) are the problem, not the people living in mud huts, drinking water that Nestlé seized and now sells to them.

non-walled mirror: https://archive.md/cSiKf

A good position to take from Patagonia, especially now after the rebrand to Meta and the change in direction they promised. If everything goes as Zuck is planning, we are in for a mighty bad rid; I hope something will be the stick in Meta's gears for the sake of humanity or that there's a way to stop Zuck's Metaverse phantasizing.

relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1732/

That's how it is in my local store, no shipping costs if you pick it up at their's.

Not the parent but since I get most of my academic literature for university from libgen I usually have .pdfs. Also, I export my university transcripts to .pdf so there's that, too. I read them using a customized Zathura but I really like the concept you put up. I can imagine using this tool for learning for exams, as an example. Have you thought about making a local, offline client? Looks very promising!

Fair point.

I am not a shill...

They advertised themselves with a 'no-log policy'. This policy however used the phrase "by default, [...]" and and said that they don't store IP data. This is true, that statement was never breached as far as we know. The court requested Proton to start logging data for this single account in question for the investigation, because the account owners had broken swiss national law.

"[Proton] could not appeal because a Swiss law had actually been broken and because "legal tools for serious crimes" were used. ProtonMail does not believe the tools were appropriate for the case at hand, but the company was legally responsible to comply with their use nonetheless." [0]

What would you want Proton to do in this case? Close down shop and not give out PII or rather comply and keep operating? You can't just discard an entire operation of this size bcause one of one account.

We are on the same side here, we both want Proton to do better and to have an email service that is actually secure. As long as any company or organization operating an email service is inside any jurisdiction it will face these issues. But the jurisdiction is also the enabler to these companies or organizations like this. I don't think we are ever going to get the perfectly secure mail service that protects our privacy, resists governments and threat actors to an absolute degree, and operates servers and services at the same time like Proton does. If anything, FOSS self-hosted options are probably the closest to the above we are going to get.

edit: If Proton designed their services to not collect data from the start, like a lot of commenters here are proposing, that could be a real opportunity. This strategy however only works in very stable democratic systems, as unstable ones are always at the mercy of their governments and as such are vulnerable to privacy intrusions.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/priva...

Calling that "caving in" is problematic, even defamation. They had a legal order from the court to log the IP next time that user logged in. If they hadn't complied who knows what the swiss government would've done to Proton. Proton is a company afterall and has to adhere to jts legal boundaries, if it doesnt it soon won't have legak boundaries because the government uses its tools to make sure there is no Proton anymore.

If your threat actor is the CIA, or any three-letter agency for that matter, you ought to be bright enough not to trust a company. Companies are inherently focused on profit and growth, nothing bad about that, that's what companies do. However, companies also still operate within political and legal environments which means they have to adhere to the laws of the jursidiction they reside in. A company won't risk going bankrupt or being shut down to save a customer's privacy and anonymity, which it would if it just denied the government its legal processes.

If your threat actor is a nation-state intelligence community you might want to consider using higher level security systems like PGP.

For ever other threat actor, this ruling is a great win for privacy. As long as your threat actor is your ISP, (anti-) social media as I've begun to call it, or your employer, ProtonMail (or Proton services) are really at the forefront of digital privacy.

Again, if you're up against the government, use PGP to communicate securely.

for some reason the Vice article links to the wrong paper? anyway, here's the link to the actual paper regarding the matter ;-)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.14720

Interestingly enough, the east is the most prolific voting area for both far right and the left. Both AfD and Die Linke had their best results in the eastern states. Might be connected to the horseshoe theory, I'm thinking. Where voters don't have a specific connection to any one political mindset so they choose the party that is the most extreme in their mind and won't hesitate to switch to another more extreme party, even if they switch from far left to far right because they aren't affiliated with a specific political mindset.

Totally, and this sentiment on HN scares me.

Yep, that's correct. If you're spending many hours a day in front of a phone or monitor for months or years you'll have accumulated a lot of very short focal length time, so to say.

You know, I'm always astonished to which length people go to defend Apple!

Apple makes a gadget that has an explicit mode for good samaritans to locate the original owner. This mode has a security flaw (lack of input validity checks, I thought we overcame this stuff last decade?) that opens up the good samaritan to abuse by means of phishing. And somehow you want to explain to me that that is not a problem? Just because I can take a random car and drive into people doesn't mean a self-driving car having a bug that drives into people isn't an issue, to give an example of why your logic doesn't pass.

Yep, I really regret spensing so much time of my youth indoors in front of a monitor... At age 19 I can experience the loss in sight quality already. It is recommended to spend AT LEAST 2 hours everyday outside in daylight to prevent myopia. I did not follow that recommendation and regret it sorely.

You think Apple cares about environmentalism? If anything, Apple is the king of green-washing and being anti-environment. Just take a peek at the gargantuan amount of e-waste Apple is producing year after year with their device-repair policies (= "buy a new one, we can't repair it, sorry. oh and third party repair are terrorists that steal your data and money. just buy a new one, willya?").

Apple cares about one thing only, and that is market capitalization and profits.

There is no sonic boom visible or audible in that video.

i have been using qutebrowser for quite some time now. it uses QtWebEngine based on chromium but it's a project entirely unique apart from that. vim-based comtrol scheme and relatively mininmal approach.

https://qutebrowser.org

and that's why we have this mess: because of people like you in the governments of this world only thinking about theur personal, short-term gain... it's fucking ridiculous. don't you care about future generations and the way they'll inhert your planet?

That resvolves a 404 for me.