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No thanks, just give me the physical menu. If the staff refuses to provide with such "ancient" method, it's probably a shit restaurant anyways.

The "it's not implemented correctly" argument is irrelevant. I won't take convenience over the risk of being phished, data-mined or straight out surveilled(see china & not only). I'm there to eat, not to discover the 'amazing' power of their technical staff when it comes to software development.

This is not luddism or being anti-tech, it's being anti-stupid-tech. I have no problem ordering food from a tablet or another revolutionary piece of technology that I don't have to carry with me back home or invade my personal space after leaving.

Textbook clickbait article, though I don't expect (nor want) the title to be changed or the link to be removed because it shows how desperate CNN is for coming back into the mainstream.

The prices are not "zero" or "below zero". Maybe for the companies that buy gas in order to resell it to the average consumer, but the normal consumer does not get it for free or gets paid to burn gas randomly.This is what a layman understands when s/he reads the title, which is factually incorrect as per others have already explained in this thread.

On another note, I'm even skeptical to believe the gas storage across Europe is full. Because if that was the case, the prices should have began to plateau sooner up until now, instead of staying the same/relatively decreasing.

Shouldn't most mammals, or even vertebrates do this? I would go one step further and say that probably most animals or living beings do this (the social ones anyways) after a while, and the one thing I'm remembering is the syncing clocks experiment. I would assume physically it's easier for a being to 'sync up' with it's environment (in this case other peers), since that would probably give the feeling of more control, stability & familiarity.

Imo the problem is not quantity but quality. And even then, the most important characteristic of that quality is the known transparency behind the platform itself, which affects the mentioned quality of behavior & content.

I personally don't think this will rise that quickly(for many reasons, the main 2 being the focus on web3 and the second being jack's past), but the fact remains that the market for a non-censorable or at least trustworthy social media platform exists.

22.04 LTS is probably gonna be my last go-to linux distro release for workstations and all-around. Going back to fedora after this goes EOL since the "snappy" shit, pro advertisements, and other things haven't stopped. I'm not mad or even annoyed because it fully expected it, but still somewhat disappointed.

Most people talk about the printing money aspect, and while that's definitely true, it needs to be bought into the context of the covid19 policies that exacerbated the downfall of the economy. Printing money is one thing, but doing that to "cover costs" while also de facto slowing down to the point of stopping the economy is on another level. Add to this the fact that the white collar jobs that "seamlessly" moved to remote positions for people to work from home were kind of a bubble that kept of inflating with no corrections (especially crypto pyramids with no added value in the economy), you end up with this. From there to this day it was basically a matter of inflation spiraling out of control, because the reality is that a lot of green policies, monetary decisions, >new< regulations in the west make it really hard to do anything that's not part of the mentioned bubble.(Which hasn't fully bursted in my opinion, hoping i'm wrong)

And yes, let's also mention the stimulus checks that had more of a bad psychological impact on the working middle class. The total number wasn't that big though, compared to other gov. expenses. Let's not forget, US & Western european countries still have the "luxury" that their economies is more largely composed of industries that functioned during the lockdowns(IT, Entertainment,etc). With the exception of eastern asia, the rest of the world [where most of manufacturing & shipment takes place] did not.

I recently discovered Zettlr and frankly I'm pleased enough with it: cross-platform, does the job well-enough. You can always use an extension for VSC or emacs,etc. but when simply wanting to read a markdown file I use this one. Previously I tried Typora and others but I'm not willing to pay for a markdown reader. Maybe for an editor, whenever I'll decide writing (though I'd use emacs 9/10 times)

Snap is garbage for being the default option for software. It's good at some things, but this is not one of those.

Can't say that Google does not deserve "this" defeat (out of many). Google slowly stopped caring about Android: the vision and the concept of a "community-driven" OS but instead went back in the "defensive" mode of caring more about Google: ads, profits, government contracts & "obeying" (without actual motive) draconian surveillance laws, etc. Yes "organizing world's data" was always a core mission of Google, but the fact is that you cannot do that by also fighting over the smallest edges when it comes to competition, not if you want to keep scaling.

Most people have seen this coming as soon as Google fought the concept of letting people switch the search engine, the browser, core defaults on Android. I would say "I can't blame them" but seeing that they want both eating the cake & keeping it, I won't.

> allowing human editors

Ah, the renowned human editors/fact-checkers/moderators that Facebook employs, great.

Vivaldi with defaults, maybe not the most optimal solution imo. But vivaldi tweaked (including no sync, etc.), sure. I probably share your surprise when I see people not aware of Vivaldi, and I'm not sure if it's due to their historical links with Opera(which by the way it's awful privacy-wise, but that's my opinion at least). Vivaldi is a good browser regarding mouse-focused browsing (or even touch I guess): their gesture system is definitely one of the best though I haven't tried Safari. I however stopped using Vivaldi a long time ago due to the fact that their Linux builds had horrendous hardware acceleration performance. Maybe I'll revisit it.

Kind of funny that they included Pale Moon, IceCat, and SeaMonkey but not ungoogled-chromium, which imo is effectively the best compromise between privacy & a modern usable browser -- the only downside is the hardship of installing extensions manually.

> Alcohol, in any amount, is a poison

That's a big of a stretch. The DNA is "damaged", or better said changed, by everything. And not all alcohol beverages are equivalent. I'm all up for raising awareness at alcoholism especially due to experience in my family in the past, but this is a piss-poor job of doing so. Being alarmist about things has often the opposite effect, especially today.

How does "more original content" doesn't sound like potential shitty results for a given query? We've already seen tailoring doesn't work universally and people often times want concrete results.

Wow, thanks a lot. I'm kind of surprised I didn't knew this because I recall searching quite a bit for such a tool/script. In my defense it was around when 1.6 got released ... if anything this shows how fast the julia community grows(or how slow I keep up).

Wish julia would get some decent packages on main distros at least for the latest stable release. The tooling is slowly but surely improving, but that's hard to do when you're always 1/2 versions behind the latest release.

I don't think this will ever happen. In my opinion the general cold / flu are just "normal" diseases indicative of low immunity. They're not so specific like covid, pox, etc. Though I'm not saying there won't exist medication with immediate effect (because common cold is fairly decent understood), but that there won't be a "one time" medication that will proof our entire lives from such things.

In this regard, electric cars are worse even than 'normal' cars. They're too quiet. If recently one of the car brands did not introduce a (very too quiet) beep on one of their EVs when reversing, I would have been ran over in a parking lot. And my hearing is more than fine (to the point that I have to disconnect electronics when sleeping because I hear them).

EVs are not completely silent, but often times the sounds of the environment are louder, thus making EVs harder to notice through hearing.

Don't worry, the people who scream "fascism" won't bat an eye at this obvious collusion between corporations & government.It wouldn't be 'okay' even if the Biden admin. was right in their assumption that his tweets 'murdered people'.

The author should lower his expectations at fair discussions, speech, and what constitutes the search for truth. But seeing he worked at NYT in the past it might be harder to adjust since he's no longer in a position of power as an authoritative voice.

I assume this does not support AMD? Or even a broader & better question: does AMD even have such undocumented instructions that allow the 'takeover' of the CPU?

Talking with real people is underrated, especially in-person. It can also help you think when you're alone.(Because you'll often think twice and put more effort into thoughts for the upcoming talk, given that the discussion is of interest, of course)

Of course, also Germany. I was gonna ask if NetzDG was the means through which you could have been arrested for speech(i.e opinions for example, not "spreading fake news") on social media. After a quick search I've seen that it passed after 2017, which is chronologically after the cases I remember that happened in UK&DE. In any case, not exactly an ideal law for western values.

No sh*t... UK, Canada & Australia really disappoint when it comes to civil liberties, rights & online privacy. Especially since the start of Covid(not to say the unlawful imprisonment of Assange or even sooner).

But then again, it's the place that solves everything with "banning"(see knives).

Even so, they'd still be better off because at least the option would be there. It's no surprise Apple and other corporations still decide the "best way" for the consumer is to remove options, not keep/add to them.

For people (semi-rightfully) complaining about the feasibility of FreeBSD as a desktop OS (or a workstation purposed OS), the fact that it isn't easy to install through the graphical interface is both a blessing in disguise and a legitimate point for slow install + config times. To that end I say to the less keyboard/terminal focused (which should be a paradox when it comes to developers but whatever) : try some of the general-purposed graphical "flavors" of FreeBSD: MidnightBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD. MacOS users who want to seek the same experience but on a less closed unix(Still FreeBSD): helloSystem(from an ex-Apple if I recall correctly) & ravynOS (previously 'airyx').

Of course there is also netbsd + openbsd, but imo those are really far behind FBSD when it comes to being mainstream and usable as daily drivers. One of the main reasons I personally can't daily drive FBSD on my laptop is the lack of proper drivers (I know about 'running' the linux ones). Still a more than decent choice for any desktop unless running very obscure hardware or needing specific requirements (think cuda,cudnn,rt and similar proprietary software/libs)

I assume he mostly means SMS. And I fully agree, ever since I've got my security key I've stopped using SMS (though I never really had problems with people trying to social engineer my telecom provider). It's way more secure and it's somewhat permanent compared to a phone number, especially if left at home(since realistically unless you're commuting a lot you don't need it). The biggest perceived risk imo is when travelling(especially since changing countries will most likely trip any account session). Even authenticator apps are better than 2FA through SMS.

Is any western economy really not already in a recession? We already know certain economies(think Germany, US,UK,etc) have their symptoms(or trends) shown faster than the ones pegged to them. The question people should have is how we bounce back from it. Germany for example has been de facto in a recession since 2018( 0.2% See Forbes), US managed to climb until Trump's late moments.

I find it very funny when the media(not to say the establishment at large) either tries to hide the economic situation or blame it on their political opponents. Blaming Russia is not the entire issue, i'd say locking down the globe for 2 years for essentially no reason is a bigger problem, but then again people who were saying there would be repercussions for lockdowns were quickly shunned. After Russia the next boogeyman will be climate change, after that: who knows, maybe WW3 or China. All of them are real concerns on their own but none pinpoint the actual issue: western leadership that promotes policies that facilitate the very top of the "economic iceberg" instead of the vast majority of the people(think increasing the middle class).Most of the people represent the economy, so even if you have record-setting profits for corporations, the economy still performs poorly.

> how about the US government put a firm privacy policy that forbids TikTok, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter and co from collecting excessive data on users? That would be a better solution, IMHO.

Something that frankly won't happen since that would put those companies out of business. Not to mention actual collusion between US gov and some of those corporations (all of them depending on the subject: from military to political data mining). Collectively they have more influence than the US government,so even assuming that the politicians would correctly try to protect the citizens from what are de facto surveillance machines it would be a big stretch. Again, that would actually go against their interests, so let's not hold our breaths on this.

Hate to dig up old skeletons, but if most of the tech consumers (not even all the knowledgeable and principled individuals, let alone the mass of users) stood by Snowden & Assange, what kind of chance do we stand now? Some of the criticisms of Snowden(undermining US influence thus helping China) let's say was "half-tolerable", but with TikTok (which is de facto China's spying & "hypnotizing" tool in the west) we have no excuse of tolerating that here. People brushed it off when Trump said it, but he was right.You need to clean house with external players(Tiktok) before you move on towards harder, "more legitimate" opponents(FB,etc), which were dying anyways.

I also recently closed ~8k.(Yes, mostly HN/lobsters/news and usually things I found interesting in the past ~6 months) For firefox users: there's a nice little addon called LoadTabOnSelect3. Without it firefox crashes to the point where you can't recover a session if firefox tries to impossibly load thousands of tabs on a machine(ram amount is irrelevant). The feature you're talking about is found in many addons, I believe also in the one i mentioned. Don't hold your breath waiting for Mozilla to implement good things quickly (though they're much better in that regard than Google: which removes features and makes the web experience worse)

Sweet tool, though i'm more of a terminal-focused guy (for which i definitely recommend croc)