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>first major monopoly case to make it to trial in decades

It's a decade late. At this pace, they should immediately start working on cases for Microsoft, MS Edge, Bing, OpenAI, etc.

I'm conflicted. The OTC phenylephrine hydrochloride pills from CVS always seemed to help me with my post-nasal drip, however, the advertised purpose of decongestion was never a use-case for me. Allergies are a huge problem for many people and I'm not surprised that these pills are ineffective for many. Still, I'll be disappointed to see these go, because they do what I need them to.

While weathering hurricanes in Florida, self-powered landlines were a reliable means of communication, even during a neighborhood power outage. It's sad to see these go.

Another anecdote: Here in Maryland, I have these flowers in the back yard that usually are in bloom by September (i.e., now). They normally attract a ton of bumblebees, but this year, I've only noticed a few... There are a lot more butterflies than bees this time. I've got wasps nesting in a hard to reach hole in the ground. I've seen some dead so-called "asian" hornets in my neighbor's yard. There's a huge basketball sized nest of something in my other neighbor's tree. Very few bumblebees, unfortunately...

I passed by this link so any times. My interest was piqued only after the fediverse-enabled part was added.

I was very fortunate to serve a servant leader at my previous job. It was a great finale to a decade-long streak of very good bosses through my career. I've now settled into a place where my supervisor is unstable, threatening, and scatterbrained. Obviously he has issues, and I hope those get resolved in a constructive way. Learning to survive under this type of leadership is my big challenge.

You've got a great point and analogy presented here. Your dumb empty box with one or two screens is indeed part of the problem, but it's also connected with what's being communicated by those screens. Our collective understanding of human of life is being reduced to measures of material wealth. Such ideology has contributed to the rise in suicide among young people in the US and other countries.

>Martians building a human zoo would give us room to walk and run and explore, materials to craft with, and other humans to connect to emotionally and physically.

Suppose the happiest humans in the zoo are the ones with an understanding of their relationship to the Martian zoo staff. The most content among them would know that appeasing the Martian zookeepers means more food, stuff to play with, and even more humans to enjoy. Those who try to oppose them or hide from them will have their efforts wasted - the Martian zookeepers effectively see and know all. Any human attempts at order will have to contend with the higher order of the Martian zookeepers. Being ignorant of the Martian zookeepers has it's own risks, as it would disconnect the captive humans from the true meaning of their own existence.

IMO a deeper source of depression among modern-day humans is linked to a similar existential crisis.

I agree with your theory that the brain works this way, however, I'd qualify that the method you identify is "great" insofar as it has an effect, rather than it being necessarily good or best practice.

The cause of depression must be rooted out. Blending it in together with other stimuli is just diluting the poison, and that poison will corrupt other facets of your life. Drowning out the source of your depression is effectively the same as running away from and burying it, which can lead to self-destructive impulses that permeate the positive signals. Those impulses will leave people confused as to why they're in emotional turmoil even when engaging in things that should feel good.

Sorry if I've rained on your parade. It is good to feel good, but it is best to feel whole. That's what I want for people who suffer from depression.

>Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Good! There are too many cool Raspberry Pi CM4 boards out there, but way too little CM4s to populate them.

I considered the price as well. I do love open source designs more than I love the design of the ZSA Voyager (it has too few thumb keys), but in terms of price, it might actually be fair. Milled steel cases for a Corne or Lily58 are only available via group buys that charge $300-400, and they don't come with either keycaps or switches. I believe it's realistic that you could pay the same amount or more for an alternative.

Fake scenes and misplaced cameras are old problems that we already have some solutions for. Since the idea here is to solve the separate and new problem of deepfakes, I don't think this criticism makes a strong case against digital signatures in photography.

An unfortunate situation for those in need of housing and those housed who are in need - such policy coverage is a requirement for mortgages (and reverse mortgages), at least in Florida.

>In other words, before his death in 2010, Salinger became the ghost in the machine of American literature, embodying the battle between preservation attempts of his exterior works, and therefore the maintenance of their immortality, and the need for self-preservation and an undisturbed, peaceful human existence.

Salinger's works are referenced frequently in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - I wonder if the word choice here is a reference to that series.

So instead of justifying your assertion that Trump voters want to make the USA exactly like Saudi Arabia, you changed the topic to a matter of election security. You haven't done much to assuage the parent comment's claim that these fears are delusional. Asking for an investigation to ensure the integrity of the election does not equal an overthrow of a democratically elected government.

Don't think that your careful wording around "people died defending" helps conceal the reach you're making. ONE "defending" police officer died of a heart attack - no court of law would hold someone responsible for a death like that. The three other deaths were pro-Trump protesters fighting for a fair election. I watched members of a certain political party mock the deaths of Trump supporters while they happened live on January 6th - who was it you were saying wanted the US to be more like Saudi Arabia?

Honestly, what is the best strategy to confront this? Speaking out and protesting about injustice works in the US because the Bill of Rights guarantees Freedom of Speech. In totalitarian regimes, there is no such right for the people. There are no means by which we can combat MBS. Imagining that westerners protesting MBS on the internet might lead to any real positive change is a pipe dream. It won't stop the US government from trading with Saudi Arabia. It's more likely MBS will have access to Twitter/X blocked. Such a protest may backfire in the same way that protesting Donald Trump gave him more attention, with the main difference being, there is absolutely no legal mechanism by which MBS could be taken down. Such protests may only strengthen the image of power he has. Additionally, if MBS wanted to, he could easily use Saudi Arabia's resources to build their own Arab-centric version of X/Twitter.

Maybe because the names both start with "Got" and both are related to Git.

I wonder if this is related to Game of Trees (Got), the Git-compatible VCS developed for OpenBSD developers: https://gameoftrees.org/

>Cross-cultural analyses showed that competent individuals held contingent attitudes and endorsed cynicism only if it was warranted in a given sociocultural environment. Less competent individuals embraced cynicism unconditionally, suggesting that—at low levels of competence—holding a cynical worldview might represent an adaptive default strategy to avoid the potential costs of falling prey to others’ cunning.

One might argue that incompetent people are cynical because, without the insulation and support structures that foster education, they are more attuned with the one true cynical reality of the world.

Another might argue that incompetent people are cynical because, without sufficient intellectual capacity, they are susceptible to false ideas concerning the one true non-cynical reality of the world.

The hopelessness and hopefulness of reality can be endlessly debated, but ultimately, it's up to the individual to choose which of these to put their faith in. I agree that that an overall cynical view could be an adaptation to defend against the threat of being taken advantage of. One should weigh this against whether or not such a worldview truly works in your favor. Amazing advances have been made in this world over the past few centuries, and I can't accept the notion that these come about through cynicism rather than hope for the future.

Holding a position that rejects human progress requires one to believe that good is ultimately insignificant. Judging by the increasing suicide rates of young people, this seems to be a modern problem, and so perhaps the solution can be found if we look towards the traditions that have unified humanity in the past.

There is a common etymological root shared by the English words work and worth which extends to the words worship and workmanship - The history of these words may support the title's assertion that "God likes it when you're focused on what you're doing." I wish I knew more about other languages to see if this meaning carries further outside Proto-European languages and Abrahamic religions.

Your link directed me to an AliExpress page with the words:

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Sad news.

I wish they had been more successful. Baikal was one of the few (the only?) CPU makers willing to put ECC RAM into Desktop-class hardware[0]. If only they had taken off... as a whole, this would have been a positive shift for the industry.

[0] https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/08/10/desktop-and-all-in-o...

What is wrong with Forbes?

>so I've been working on extending our support for hardware-backed SSH certificates to Windows

Interesting work & I wish him luck. The ability to use hardware SSH certs on Windows has been around for at least a decade now, but it hasn't been a seamless experience.

The other attempt I'm aware of is PuTTY-CAC[0]. It is recommended[1] for security-conscious organizations, and approved for use at places like the US Department of Veteran Affairs[2]. Vendors[3] of smart cards also show some limited support for it.

The issue with PuTTY-CAC is that the server still needs to be configured to check the certificate against CRLs & PKI infrastructure. Over the past decade, I believe Red Hat has made some significant progress towards a workable solution[4], however, I have no experience with it.

[0] https://github.com/NoMoreFood/putty-cac

[1] https://playbooks.idmanagement.gov/piv/engineer/ssh/

[2] https://www.oit.va.gov/Services/TRM/ToolPage.aspx?tid=8714#

[3] https://pivkey.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207698876-PIVKe...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeIPA

>more Teflon pan usage

Perhaps it is the use of teflon-coated rice cookers that is higher among Asians. Chinese/Korean grocery stores have high-end automatic rice cookers for sale, and all of them have layers of non-stick coating around the metal cooking insert that are much thicker than what you find on the average non-stick pan.

Other users have made good comments about performance limitations on the underlying filesystems themselves. Adding to this, I recently encountered the findlargedir tool, which aims to detect potentially problematic directories such as this: https://github.com/dkorunic/findlargedir/

>Findlargedir is a tool specifically written to help quickly identify "black hole" directories on an any filesystem having more than 100k entries in a single flat structure. When a directory has many entries (directories or files), getting directory listing gets slower and slower, impacting performance of all processes attempting to get a directory listing (for instance to delete some files and/or to find some specific files). Processes reading large directory inodes get frozen while doing so and end up in the uninterruptible sleep ("D" state) for longer and longer periods of time. Depending on the filesystem, this might start to become visible with 100k entries and starts being a very noticeable performance impact with 1M+ entries.

>Such directories mostly cannot shrink back even if content gets cleaned up due to the fact that most Linux and Un*x filesystems do not support directory inode shrinking (for instance very common ext3/ext4). This often happens with forgotten Web sessions directory (PHP sessions folder where GC interval was configured to several days), various cache folders (CMS compiled templates and caches), POSIX filesystem emulating object storage, etc.

Recently, an attempt has been made to perform a similar feat for the character Lara Croft of Tomb Raider. The conversational ability comes in addition to the ability to autonomously play the game. A detailed video on how it was done is here: https://youtu.be/0wTf_bbkW2U?si=EwB-NRvkj1zgEjVW

Additionally, an infinite conversation between AI generated Slavoj Zizek and Werner Herzog was posted here on HN ~10 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33437296

Using this CLI tool to simulate conversations between different historical philosophers might be insightful in addition to a amusing.

>But for the most part, it looks as if the “Barbie” movie’s celebration of diversity and the message of female empowerment will be overpowered by its association with the atomic bomb — and that the movie won’t have a positive, lasting impact in Japan. What a shame.

One possible angle was that Barbie's fantasy world is a product of a post-nuclear USA. I thought that maybe there was no Japanese love for this period in American history, but apparently, I was wrong:

https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/Johnson-Town...

https://www.heddels.com/2014/07/japan-love-mid-century-ameri...

Although I suppose it's possible that opinions have changed since those times. Personally I don't really have any direct exposure to Japan, but I see the anti-American sentiment in works by some of my favorite people in their animation industry (Shirow Masamune, Kenji Kamiyama, Hayao Miyazaki).

I hope there is a place for vehicles like this in our future. Alas, using more energy to transport fewer people somehow seems at odds with the future we're headed to.

Using this logic, how might it play out for Red Hat Enterprise Linux? They are now requiring payment in exchange for access to the source code.