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As with other Apple products (hi AirPods Max) Lightning works fine and well until you take it anywhere the humidity is above 80% for extended periods of time.

I have more Lightning cables with pin 5 (Vcc) charred than I'd like to admit. At one point in my life it took about 2 weeks per side of the connector until they became unusable.

No, the "establishment at large" does not even agree I should exist. Many publications (and now some US states and both likely candidates for future prime minister of the UK) constantly opine people like me would just go away if we just got talked out of it hard enough. The "establishment at large" loves to debate about which rights I should have, opines on if I should be allowed to participate in sports without being informed on the mechanics or ever caring about "women's sports" before it turned into a culture war topic, if I should be able to use public toilets safely (trick question, it's never safe). Or, DeSantis special, if my mere existence being discussed in schools constitutes grooming... I could go on all day.

TikTok and YouTube both have a policy of limiting the spread of anything they can identify as LGBT. If I choose not to censor myself on these platforms my reach will be null. So I'm directly affected.

I just don't think it's somehow impossible to draw a line of acceptable behavior on that platform. A policy of no intervention just leaves you with whatever capitalism feels like that day - and while capitalism really loves to pretend to care about diversity, it really is more of a marketing gag than a anywhere close to a true belief. But Andrew Tate can be the embodiment of toxic masculinity / incel culture / misogyny as long as it pays and nobody complains?

You're conflating minorities simply existing in public with incredibly toxic assholes choosing to be incredibly toxic assholes in these platforms. That's not even remotely the same thing.

Deplatforming works. It worked when 8chan got kicked off Cloudflare and it worked when Alex Jones was kicked off YouTube.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/06/133861/cloudflar...

Sure, the likes of Gab, Odysee and BitChute see some traffic, but they will never ever have the same mainstream appeal again that they did before.

We can agree that inconsistency is bad, but Andrew Tate is most definitely in the banworthy category.

Instead of asking why someone was "immediately guilty as charged", one should maybe ask why it takes a coordinated effort to get social media giants to act on toxic people that are very clearly violating their terms of service. All while YouTube keeps banning LGBTQ creators from recommendations (not even just demonetization) for using words like "lesbian" in video titles. Why does HN rarely get upset about those cases?

> know's how to write

In fact Xe's personal writings[1] are quite regularly on the frontpage as well. I'd post an HN domain listing link, but the domain recently changed.

[1]: https://xeiaso.net

It's a thankless job, most of the value is extracted by the middle men (who realistically should be getting the least since they can scale to thousands of transactions like it per hour).

I'd happily pay a premium if it went to the people doing the actual ground work, but that doesn't exist.

It doesn't really need to be well hidden if you're not actively looking. A shell script and a crontab entry / bashrc exec / init system entry is very low tech.

Pair that with a slightly higher (but still low overall) tech LD_PRELOAD libc shim so it hides itself and you got something just stealthy enough that you wouldn't find it if you don't look for it.

Remember, the easiest privilege escalation is aliasing sudo and patience.

There really wasn't any other reason but marketing for buying out the Keybase team, was there?

I will never run an IPFS gateway as long as there are no robust legal protections against someone provoking a downloads (and with IPFS, subsequent uploads) of content that's illegal to have on your hard drive (a universal example is CSAM).

And believe it or not - occasionally such content is used as a weapon. A Twitch streamer with an open Dropbox learned the hard way. It's used regularly on _that_ kind of imageboard to derail threads. I know because a naive version of me briefly ran an archive of a supposedly worksafe board about video games a decade ago and had their door knocked down at gunpoint about a year later.

I don't know how the Fediverse still exists, considering that most implementations are very eager to mirror all media they encounter.

I know HTTP can provoke the same caching, but for that there's actually much more robust legal precedent.

Fedora has a vastly different feature set, despite being RHEL upstream.

For instance, btrfs is default in Fedora now. RHEL doesn't even ship it.

That's a bit reductive. I'd say that generally, autistic people have more of an issue getting implicit rules, expectations and social rituals, but that doesn't mean they're not self-aware. In fact I'd argue that they are painfully self-aware, especially when masking - that is actively emulating behaviors expected of them without them being intuitive. It can be pretty stressful to consider the impact of everything you do that other people trivially do automatically.

> I needed to understand why our checkout had to be improved; I explained that technology choices made no difference to the user. However, the manager interpreted my words as outright rejecting their idea.

Let's be honest, that's what happened here. There are many reasons to overhaul a frontend, and performance is just one of them. Maybe the existing checkout is a mess that only OP understands how to maintain. Maybe engineers and designers want to find better common ground to work together and this change could facilitate that. I'm sure you can think of other reasons.

The narrow thinking is on OPs side here. They straight up assumed that this change was just chasing shiny new things (and, well, React isn't that shiny anymore), that all changes had to serve the user and not also organizational goals and then shut it down with the nearest plausible excuse.

Some noisy services can cause bans.

I have quite a bit of rep with Hetzner, so they didn't outright nuke me, but I once got an abuse email because I was running an IPFS daemon, and the reference IPFS implementation allows RFC1918 IPs and GCNAT on discovery announcements... so dialing into nowhere a lot upset the router.

With the new no-ip-at-all option you can set up a Network and set up an extra instance as NAT as you would with a home network. That should cut down on issues like that.

AirPower is the example you're looking for. They decided to cancel it instead of shipping a product that'd not be up to their standards.

In some states of Germany they also lobbied for advanced high school courses to require a Voyage 200 (after you already shelled out for a TI-84+). This thing was pricy and the school ended up having a few units to lend out because not everyone could afford them.

Selling games directly on Stadia might just be the wrong business model.

Selling access to a machine on demand seems much more appealing.

GeForce NOW, despite initial problems with publishers, will always leave you with the option of moving to a different service or building your own machine to run the games you own.

Even with fiber (or hell, LAN), game streaming is still very much inferior to a local experience for many games. The only market they can capture is casual users that still want to play AAA console games, when most of the casual audience is on phones.

At $60-$80 dollar per game, it's not too far to just buy an Xbox Series S for $300. Plus Game Pass is a great way to find a game you enjoy without investing time into research or money into trying a bunch of games.

>Hello Microsoft programmers, a memory dump is not a file format

Wait until you see the Office formats without the extra x in the extension.

If your host has an NVIDIA GPU, Moonlight arguably performs better than Parsec on stable networks.

I very much disagree.

Any such bans will always take the path of least resistance to cover the largest possible population with the easiest means. Pareto Style. And I care much more about those 80% of people having access over maintaining my own. Because ultimately, those people will set cultural standards of the future, not some technologist with their fully libre laptop.

And those attacks are, as of now, not that sophisticated or blatantly censoring. An overwhelming majority already do their computing on locked down devices (running iOS, Android and ChromeOS) and the big censorship wave hasn't hit them. Every half decade or so Amazon removes a book from Kindle as a side effect of capitalism and copyright and there's a huge HN thread mistaking it for deliberate censorship, but overall it really doesn't matter.

Also, let's be completely clear that DeSantis didn't ban math books. This was an attack on ideologically inconvenient books, mostly queer literature. It's part of the push to label us as "groomers" for merely existing around underage people that has caused a spike in violence and mistrust directed towards trans people. Once our rights are sufficiently eroded, they'll go after the gays again, and after that, maybe, we'll have progressed on the fascist cataclysmic us versus them rhetoric to revive blatant antisemitism. Or racism. Who knows. But safeguarding the high end bit of tech that is not even mainstream anymore wouldn't help society out of this and being concerned for it is a very individualistic choice.

But I never said it's not a problem. I said the priorities are wrong.

Establishing technical means to do something (limiting access to files via DRM) is not as urgent as actually doing it (Florida carting books out of school libraries). And technology is not a monolith. Pluton specifically is far from being a universal requirement on Windows, and the entire PC platform is open enough to support alternatives for a very long time. It's possibly worrying (though it looks like Microsoft's intention is confidentiality management in enterprises for now), but far from "turnkey tyranny".

Technologists often have such tunnel vision that limits their concerns to tyranny driven by technology when there's plenty of low tech attacks on open society all the time.

It reminds me of the good old "my password takes 2 billion years to crack, but my kneecaps only take a few seconds" metaphor about people in tech forgetting that physical coercion is, in fact, a possible attack vector for your IT security.

That's the inversion of your prescription, not what anyone else is proposing. Nobody is telling anyone they will not regret an elective medical procedure. That's something you need to figure out. Stop being disingenuous.

Nowhere is this double standard more obvious than in trans healthcare. Everyone has horror stories, but someone else being gatekeepy because of your (supposed) loss of fertility and implied sexual availability as a woman is really common and honestly kind of disgusting.

You can see this with people posting pictures of pre-transition Elliot Page and captions like "remember what they took from us" all the time on social media.

Last I checked 26 was 8 years more than 18.

Thunderf00t covers interesting topics, but last I checked his editing style was extremely obnoxious with large segments - sometimes 80%-90% - of new videos being a retelling of other videos (and too often one about Anita Sarkeesian for no reason).

Did he improve at all?

That's the worst take I've read all month. Congrats!

No, the feminist work about a facist patriarchy is not actually secretly a fetish novel about the submission fetish all women supposedly share.

There hasn't been a single job where I didn't have to explain Git to someone. Or that Git is not GitHub.

Wherever I was somehow in charge of some authentication / account management (never been my primary responsibility, but "people who know cloud" teams often get that honor anyway) I have always had someone who didn't understand MFA. Either they assumed because MS Authenticator sends them a push, AWS should send them a push or they would have a clock desynced so hard that the most generous TOTP grace windows couldn't save them.

My partner is in a place right now that had to be introduced to python dependency management. Really. No containers or anything like that either. Just alternate runing the script and installing the latest of a package until the import errors disappear.

I really don't mind tutoring, but many of these people also would rather wait 20 minutes for you to respond than 5 minutes on Google. Or even your internal documentation. That's linked in the Slack channel they're asking. It drives me nuts people value their peers time so little.

If the false positive rate is low and human review is swift and not broken, I really wouldn't mind.

It's a force multiplier that every social media platform needs to not drown in costs for human moderation. Especially human moderation as described above.

Unless you get people to pay for social media. Good luck with that.