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> Dont tell people to change. Its a red flag of intellectual bankruptcy.

But people do have to change. The core problem is a transition from:

- sources being few and somewhat reliable (traditional media), and had reputations to uphold - normal people faced significant barriers to sharing information widely

to a world in which neither of those constraints still holds. And there's no going back, no putting the genie back in the bottle. It turns out that when you give everyone unlimited communication, it exposes weaknesses in how people and societies consume and manage information that were present before but didn't have the environment they needed to materialize. Well, they have that environment now.

There's no going back really unless you want to clamp down on free sharing of information and the "peer to peer internet" in general. People will just have to change their relationship to information. It will take time, but I'm sure we can manage.

Social media and ad tech certainly aren't helping but the root cause is basically technological change and unless you want to roll that back, targeting the companies won't fix it.

“This is the new balance of power, Randy."

"You can't seriously be telling me that governments are threatening to--"

"The Chinese have already done it. They cut an older cable--first-generation optical fiber--joining Korea to Nippon. The cable wasn't that important--they only did it as a warning shot. And what's the rule of thumb about governments cutting submarine cables?"

"That it's like nuclear war," Randy says. "Easy to start. Devastating in its results. So no one does it."

"But if the Chinese have cut a cable, then other governments with a vested interest in throttling information flow can say, 'Hey, the Chinese did it, we need to show that we can retaliate in kind.' "

"Is that actually happening?"

"No, no, no!" Avi says. They've stopped in front of the largest display of needlenose pliers Randy has ever seen. "It's all posturing. It's not aimed at other governments so much as at the entrepreneurs who own and operate the new cables.”

You should definitely work on the "what on earth is this" experience for first time users. I have no idea what I'm looking at. If I had to guess, I'd say someone's private Mastodon server.

I'm probably in the same category of old school internet vets with strong negative opinions about spam, but I think that well-targeted, high- or at least some-effort commercial outreach is OK if it's done well and isn't annoying. What turns email into spam isn't just what it is, it's how it's done.

I've hired people who cold emailed me - in the right way. I delete without reading cold emails that seem to be bulk sent. There is a difference.

I think James May made a great point when he said it's not about range, it's about quick and ubiquitous charging. I wouldn't mind if my vehicle could only travel 300km... if I could have the confidence I'd be able to stop and top it up in just a couple of minutes no matter where I was.

Faster charging would really make all the difference.

> extensions have to predefine the rules for blockin

And there's a limit of 5000 such rules.

Hopefully this is the inflection point for Chrome. Despite all their made-up "security" reasons, everyone knows this is solely about making adblock less effective. For many users, adblock is what makes chrome bearable - and if they make it unbearable, then those users will leave. Slowly but surely.

Google seems much too sure of itself making this change. I hope their arrogance pays off just the same as Microsoft's did with IE.

Yeah, I figured it out. Doesn't help that the author constantly refers to it as NotebookLLM.

The .net version is really poor quality by comparison

I am very confused. Is this talking about NotebookLM (https://notebooklm.google.com/) or NotebookLLM (https://notebookllm.net/) or both? Something else? The article appears to consistently use LLM but link to LM, but the LLM site I linked has a podcast generator?

One of these projects has to change their name!

I had a look at pale moon out of curiosity. Here's what a new install looks like: https://imgur.com/a/f5FqOsO

I am running a mac and find the interface to look crude and "cross platform", if that makes sense. Performance is very jerky, and font rendering isn't great - although that's perhaps subjective. Icons seem low resolution everywhere and in general it has the vibe of an outdated QT program. I was able to install a legacy version of ublock origin but it doesn't seem possible to use 1password, which is a dealbreaker for me.

I like the idea but I wouldn't be able to use pale moon day to day.

> Just use Whisky

You know, every 6 months or so I get a sudden hankering to play Portal or something and start down this rabbit hole. Based on your prompt, I had another look today.

So I went and downloaded this "whisky" thing. From their website: "Experience the latest titles effortlessly with Whisky!". OK. Installed.

I open it and I see a window with "bottle configuration" (wtf is a bottle?), an "open c: drive" button (???), "SteamCMD" whatever that is, "winetricks" (??) and a "run.." button which opens a file from finder (??). I have absolutely no idea what any of this is or how to proceed.

Confronted with this and the prospect of hours of research and messing around I decide I don't need to play anything all that much really.

UPDATE - ok, I decided to actually try and get it working and it's not that bad. Follow this video, basically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xowJ3b-pt-U

And protip, set your system audio to 44.1khz. Cool. Portal.

I maintain the user onboarding could be MUCH more friendly.

From the great presentation linked: http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...

> Amazingly, the graph diameter is often as high as 20: there are airports that can take 20 flights minimum to get between

I wonder if that's still true. It's hard to imagine. And just the thought of having to optimize that search function made my cortisol levels spike a bit.

Some more recent developments around browser support: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Interest-JPEG-XL-Rust

> not a company as reputable as Apple, yes?

Definitely not, in fact rather the opposite. I was just sharing the anecdote as a counter to the otherwise fairly blanket claims being made upstream.

That is probably the default message for anything that was flagged.

> I'm going to push back on, and forcefully, is the idea that bounty programs have an incentive to stiff researchers. They do not

I replied upstream as well, but let me push back here as well. They can actually, if the bounty program is being run for the wrong reasons, which can happen - I know anecdotes aren't data, but I've seen one case first-hand.

If a bounty program is treated as a marketing project and/or an "executive value" project then they can and will be managed as a cost center and those costs will be deliberately minimized. Bang for buck. Now obviously this is perverse but if making your manager happy isn't an incentive then I don't know what to tell you.

> the idea that companies ruthlessly avoid paying bounties, which is, on information and belief, flatly false

Eh, it's likely usually true, but I've worked for a company which was attracted to the bounty program idea mainly for the optics and very much did push back on/was very reluctant to pay out on bounties.

And when I say "for the optics" I mean not only for the company being able to boast about having a bounty program but also the executive in question having something for his quarterly report. Having it not be too expensive was definitely part of the deal.

Needless to say this was a terrible company with terrible leadership, but it's a data point...

It’s quite plausible to me that they simply never bothered to build something to handle this extreme edge case. And frankly, if I was in charge I would probably agree.

The billing being slightly early seems like the only thing vimeo have done wrong here. Everything else is on the OP trying to game their system and screwing up. I don’t have much sympathy, to be honest.

I think this is a little over-excited. Throwing around phrases like "false charge" and "holding your videos hostage" is a bit much. It sounds like their billing system is a bit clunky and you were probably hit by a timezone issue, which isn't great but hardly "predatory".

I have nothing to do with Vimeo and don't want to sound automatically on their side but it sounds like you're getting exactly what you wanted? You even talk about needing to change to monthly billing in a year - so you still expect to be using it - didn't you just save money? They billed you a few hours early, OK, not cool, but that doesn't rise to "predatory" in my book.

> Terrible people with zero real skills all backstabbing each other.

You know, without you saying another word, I feel like I know them, down to being able to describe their clothes, haircuts and of course powerpoint decks. It's like some bad business school archetype that just re-appears by itself in nature.

> Do you have any citation for those numbers?

You need to spend more time with the normies. 99.8% is probably an exaggeration, but if so, not by much. It's easy to forget just how little the average person knows, or wants to know, about how technology works, or their ability to change it to their advantage.

The vast majority of people not only do not understand DNS, they couldn't tell you with any specificity what a domain or IP address even are, and they're afraid of doing anything which might break their computer in a way they don't understand enough to fix.

Eh, I lived in Japan for 2 years, and I don't rate the curry there that highly. You can find good curry, sure, and I have my favourite places, but the baseline isn't that high. People forget Japan has basically been in a recession or depression for literally 30 years. When I think of mainstream food there, what I usually think of is "made down to a price".

I'm gonna stake a claim and say that if you go and buy a pack of golden curry medium, cut up a decent bit of rump steak, add a couple of carrots, potatoes and onions, boil the shit out of all that then mix in the curry, serve on fresh cooked rice with a handful of shredded cheddar - you're having a pretty damn good curry which will be hard to beat no matter where you go.

I'll also go out on a limb and claim that the baseline Japanese cuisine in cities with a decent size diaspora - think LA, Sydney, Bangkok - is better than in Tokyo. You have enough locals to support a lot of restaurants, and they enforce an authentic taste because they know what it should taste like, and they have more money. Your average plate will cost more, but everything in it, and the final result, is better quality.

> invite-only FTP servers

The PC plebs might have been, but us Mac people had the glorious hotline community..

I was lucky to have symmetric 512KB/sec from about 1997 on, but even before that the most dedicated sort of nerd could definitely download ~700MB movies over 56K with some effort..

From a practical perspective I feel like we are right back in the 1990s in terms of how easy it is for me to obtain access to movies I want to watch.

The big streaming players just seem to get worse every day - it's probably not an exaggeration that 80% of movies I search for simply aren't available, at all. Especially classics, double especially foreign. You just can't get them. But there's no video stores any more, and I'm not paying $30+ to order a physical disk from another country, wait a week, only to watch it once and put it in a pile to rot.

So I find myself, just like I did in the '90s, downloading and playing them off a computer. And saying the same things to anyone who'll listen - I'd pay to watch this, but no-one will sell it to me for a reasonable price, so I'll just pirate it and enjoy it with a clear conscience.

> I also literally see no other path for Boeing but failure.

This is, to put it mildly, premature. No-one expects Boeing to actually go under.

This discovery is a setback, and Emirates won't be happy (also to put it mildly), but it's hardly a company-killing event.

I'm long gone and never signed anything so have no problem mentioning that we were quoted USD$150/m per vCPU core with a 12-month commitment (from memory).

The project called for a minimum of 4 replicas and likely 8 vCPUs per, so right off the bat that's close to $60k/year before you even do anything. Plus the unwelcome addition of "license anxiety" to the whole development experience, and being forced to make a big decision up front.. it's not how I like to work or what a startup needs.

This reminds me of "aircraft wake snapping" or "vortex snapping", which is a very audible sound one can sometimes clearly hear shortly after a plane passes over you if it's low enough, such as on final landing approach. I seriously thought I was imagining it the first few times I experienced it - so weird to hear sound coming from apparently empty air.

edit to add an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA-NONhZIN8

All I can surmise from comments like this is that you must have invented some completely unreasonable bar for "evidence" that nothing can possibly pass. Either that, or you simply haven't looked at all.

It was a data domiciling project so just went with sharding in good old postgres. Cockroach would have been perfect but it was going to cost something like $5k/m just to turn it on..