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They work perfectly fine side-by-side, too.

Austria has 9 million people. Scaled up in proportion to US population, that's the equivalent of ~940 academics. Still not huge, but a somewhat bigger drop.

What if the bank abstained from evaluating your own stuff, and instead provided you with whatever they consider a 'good' device? Like a powered-up version of the TOTP hardware tokens they used to provide 15 years ago.

Instead of negotiating over what you do with your own devices, when you open a bank account they loan you a small, cheap, ultra-locked-down phone-like device that only runs the bank app and biometric verification. You may still use a web interface for online banking if you want a bigger screen and keyboard, but regardless all transactions need a confirmation through the bank's device.

This way you're free to do whatever you want with your hardware (including even not having one!), without requiring every bank to support every possible platform under the sun.

Umberto Eco once jokingly lamented the deprecation of the Index, writing that it was a "very handy canon of books one ought to read to call oneself an educated person".

I'm sure you just linked the first google result you found, and it's not like the internet wasn't full of crappy 'quote' websites in the halcyon days of 2021, but it's incredibly depressing to click that link and get drowned in paragraphs of worthless AI blathering.

After a quick search - and ignoring Google's helpful clanker who tries to point you to the _wrong_ Orwell text - it's not hard to find a clean source:

https://www.telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/prose/RoadToW...

> Work profiles are inferior to separate user profiles, which are built-in to GrapheneOS.

Different use cases. User profiles are only active when you manually switch to them, while work profiles are active _alongside_ your main profile.

So for untrusted apps that you only use occasionally and on-demand (like the myriads of travel / shopping / random services apps), user profiles are great. For apps that you want to keep in the background, such as the proprietary messaging apps that all your friends use, a work profile is much nicer.

Use the cross-eye trick to superimpose the two pictures, then it becomes quickly noticeable as it will appear to blink.

A public facing web server, I doubt it. But for a private one it can make a lot of sense - you are probably only using N services at a time, where N is the number of users.

As for what can be so resource intensive that it's worth to wait for startup time instead of running everything at the same time - a bunch of specialized LLMs is the obvious example. Or maybe you're a hobbyist cramming a hundred services into a tiny computer.

Good point!

On that note, trust-busting is also worth discussing as a counter to the modern concentration of wealth.

> But I don't think you can limit people's wealth and not call it communism.

Is that your actual objection? It sounds more like a smear by association.

Famously, the USA under Eisenhower had a top marginal tax rate of 90% on income over $200K - "merely" a few million dollars in modern-day money.

Was the Eisenhower administration Communist? If it wasn't, would it have become Communist if they had gone a bit further and added a marginal rate of 99% for income over oh, let's say $20M (a few hundred million dollars nowadays)?

I think if you traveled back in time and proposed such a bill, the reaction from folks like Senator McCarthy would not have been "that's Communism" but more likely "that's a ridiculous and useless bill, how could anyone ever accumulate that much personal wealth? It would be absurd".

From the first picture in the gallery:

> Club 33 is the name of a number of private dining clubs located within Disney Parks. The first opened inside Disneyland in 1967, and was modeled after sponsor lounges at the 1964 New York World's Fair. At the time it opened, Club 33 was the only location within Disneyland that offered alcoholic beverages.

> The initial cost of membership at Disneyland and Walt Disney World was previously reported to be $35,000, followed by an annual due of $15,000–16,000.[8] In 2012, the reported cost of membership increased to $50,000 initiation fee and $15,000 annually for individuals, more for corporations.[9][10]

Interesting, I would never have guessed that Disneyland had a luxury club hidden inside.

I wonder what the members are like, and how they may have evolved over the years. "Ordinary" (if extremely wealthy) visitors, who are accustomed to fine dining and don't want to lower their standards even during a family trip? Or is it an entirely separate crowd, that travels to Disneyland specifically to have dinner and smoke Cubans there?

The games themselves run perfectly fine in Wine (Proton), with or without mods. Unfortunately, the fan-made tools to support mods are less reliable.

The most notable example is probably Wabbajack, a tool that manages modpacks for many games but is best known for TES games, where modlists consist of hundreds of mods and are a pain to manually install. Ironically it is a WPF app written in modern C#, so in principle _could_ run under Wine just fine, and could even be ported to a native GUI app via Avalonia UI or similar.

Unfortunately, it is apparently quite fragile in its path management and relies on both Edge WebView to download mods and Windows Steam to install them, so the maintainers think it's not viable to make it run under Wine [0], although of course someone has bashed together a script to work around it [1]. That last one is quite recent so I just discovered it while writing this post!

[0] https://github.com/wabbajack-tools/wabbajack/issues/2521

[1] https://github.com/Omni-guides/Wabbajack-Modlist-Linux/blob/...

I certainly agree with the sentiment (I would trust-bust tech giants, and severely restrict advertising as a whole for being a negative-sum game).

Nevertheless, for living in this world while preserving your privacy, my advice stands. Separate the devices that you control, which you will use for personal and private purposes, from the devices that global corporations and institutions control, which you will use to access the services those institutions provide - services which, by definition, you would not control anyway.

It is far, far simpler than having to get proprietary, frequently-updated software to play nice inside a secure sandbox. If they do, great, but separate devices ensures it isn't a capital-P Problem for you if they stop.

(FWIW, I lived in three different European countries over the past decade and so far the governments all offered TOTP-based web alternatives to their apps. When it comes to private banking, only one (Lunar) was available only via app, but it was also the only one that ran without Play Services.)

Do you have the sandboxed Play Services installed? It works fine for me on Graphene (just checked).

That said, the recommendation I always give, and personally follow: keep a spare phone in a drawer somewhere, with official Android installed, a Google account, and use it exclusively for business purposes - banking, government services, and the email account you use for those (separate from the one you use for everything else). Nothing else, no messaging, socials, browsing, or games.

Then you're free to keep your personal phone FOSS and as private as you like, without fear of getting locked out of important stuff due to a crappy Google® SafetyNet® upgrade.

The 'drawback' could also be "unnecessarily extends the product's lifetime and hurts sales of next year's model".

Surprising! I would have expected that the Venn diagram of potential Mullvad customers and uBlock Origin users would be a circle.

Encrypted DNS is certainly an improvement, but it's only as anonymous as the IP address you are connecting to.

I am not aware of any firewalls that enforce the rule 'only attempt to connect to massively-shared cloud IPs that can't be easily subject to a reverse DNS lookup'.

Such as? They're cross-platform and MIT licensed.

Given that 'alias' is in POSIX, would a combination of

(a) the hypothetical non-argv0 busybox being discussed, and

(b) a POSIX shell of the maintainer's choice, with built-in aliases for 'ls=busybox ls'

be sufficient to make the system POSIX complaint?

See my reply to schiffern above.

Then the scenario becomes:

"Sir, the results are in: this weapon causes mild headaches and sleep difficulties lasting a few months."

"Excellent! Deploy it against American embassies immediately. Surely this will absolutely cripple their espionage efforts."

The idea that it's a side-effect of directed- energy _surveillance_ seems a vastly more sensible hypothesis in every way.

> Some kind of directed energy weapon from an enemy state.

Suppose you are a nation-state, hostile to the USA, that has developed a directed energy weapon. Do you test it:

A) on your own citizens (whether willing, deceived, or coerced),

B) on citizens of some remote, poor, and/or war-torn country that is unlikely to retaliate against you,

or C) on diplomatic personnel from the country with the greatest military and intelligence resources by far, and with a proven history of bombing or invading other countries on both true and false premises?

I had never heard of Havana syndrome before, and I have nothing to comment either way on whether the physical symptoms are real and/or have a common cause. But the idea that an enemy state is using a secret weapon prototype to... randomly give headaches to American diplomats? Is bizarre, to say the least.

> Most of the high paying customers would just kind of... take my work products, say "yup, this meets the requirements we agreed to", and run with it. The ones who were paying the least were the most likely to pull the classic "well... is what we agreed to but..."

Drawing on my experience: perhaps the high-paying customers are being represented by dedicated buyers/executives who do not actually use the product themselves day-to-day. So they're happy as long as it _can_ perform its tasks, even if it's slow or clunky to use - they're paying the workers for 40 hours/week regardless, after all.

Meanwhile, the more tight spenders are more likely to be small businesses where the person making the purchase is also a regular user, and any UX flaws will drive him mad every day.

I remember installing some VERY pretty but very complicated setups from deviantart, and then having to fix the inevitable bugs in the panel layout scripts, every one of which was just one right-click away which was extremely cool.

IIRC, they were in a sort of PHP-looking scripting language? I had very little coding experience before then, so it was kind of a trip trying to debug why the lyrics panel would freak out under certain scenarios :D

Developer setups are the foremost use case for toolbox (atomic Fedora) or distrobox [0].

Dev toolchains are infamous for pulling a ton of stuff into your system, and certain languages make switching versions a pain as well. So you install your IDE and whatever flavour of the month tools you need in a distrobox container, using regular dnf packages, and keep your base system clean. With distrobox you can give those tools a separate $HOME as well, in case they litter your main one with dotfiles and dotfolders.

If you work on a certain project long-term, you can then clone the distrobox and keep it around as-is, to ensure against breaking changes in some of your tools.

[0] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

> Were they designed intentionally as such or this that an outcome of history?

Oh, it's definitely intentional. Sure, pre-industrial cities had narrow streets that were poorly suited for car traffic, so you could say that walkable cities were technically the default.

But a lot of those European cities were intentionally changed towards car transportation in the middle of the 20th century, when cars became widespread and a symbol of post-WW2 wealth, widening street and turning historical squares into parking lots.

And most of those cities were turned back into walkable (or bikable) cities since the '80s onwards, by banning cars and reusing the parking lots for other purposes.

Here's [0] an article about the Netherlands's intentional policy in that regards, and here's [1] a more recent effort in Spain. A lot of Reddit's popular "then and now" posts show this off [2].

[0] https://www.distilled.earth/p/how-the-netherlands-built-a-bi...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/11/barcelona-laun...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1cv555r/my_hometown...

> But supposing that you are one of the lucky few, how would you propose to go about profiting from a bubble like this?

Buying put options on NVidia & co.

> cap the rents => landlords will take houses from the markets and sell them instead => there will be a shortage of properties for rent

Won't step 2 increase the supply of houses for sale, thus lowering the prices, thus decreasing the demand for rentals?

The quoted paragraph describes two distinct and _separate_ group: the "obvious and silly" ones, and the "others [which] implied that we returned dangerous results". Smoking while pregnant is listed among the latter.

I could have said the same after your comment. Unless the linked manifesto had a hidden paragraph where they recommended killing safety regulations and consumer rights, as opposed to harmonising the creation of legal entities.