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Excellent work! I really like the UI. I've been using some iOS app for HN because the UI offers easy and quick swipe-based upvotes and bookmarking. But your UI is more reminiscent of a mail app and that's better suited for a desktop app. So kudos!

ACLU is still silent about the latest attack on free speech. They still haven't opposed the White House's plan to enforce speech. I've cancelled my monthly donations to them because of it. Please do the same if you give them money.

It's interesting that they submitted a paper for a talk at BLACK HAT USA 2021 but were rejected [0]. Looks like geopolitics (and politics) has permeated every aspect of technology.

[0] https://twitter.com/h0t_max/status/1397441062705057793

How many ICs are actually made in the US? They're pretty mum about it. My guess is that none of them are made in the US. So the phone was assembled in the US from all kinds of parts.

I never said it was. I'm saying that adding carbon nonoparticles will only make matters much worse.

> graphene

Graphene has its own set of problems. Namely, it can be toxic to humans. [1] And who knows what massive quantities of graphene in concrete will do to an environment 10-20 years after the building's construction. Even demolition with explosives will probably be problematic due to potentially massive clouds of nanoparticles it could create.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5039077/

> Have we seen this kind of scenario in economics before? Is this a known phenomenon?

Sure, Tulip mania. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

>and this an act of war

What an absurd statement. And what do you suggest we do? Attack them and hope they don't respond with nukes?

>It's only a matter of time

According to some sources, it's been done before:

>CIA plot led to huge blast in Siberian gas pipeline

>Thomas Reed, a former US Air Force secretary who was in Ronald Reagan's National Security Council, discloses what he called just one example of the CIA's "cold-eyed economic warfare" against Moscow in a memoir to be published next month.

>Leaked extracts in yesterday's Washington Post describe how the operation caused "the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from space" in the summer of 1982.

>Mr Reed writes that the software "was programmed to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far beyond those acceptable to pipeline joints and welds".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...

That sounds like "social credit score" to me.

>Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal. And this historian, Alexei Yurchak, coined the phrase “HyperNormalisation” to describe that feeling.

>I thought “that’s a brilliant title” because, although we are not in any way really like the Soviet Union, there is a similar feeling in our present day. Everyone in my country and in America and throughout Europe knows that the system that they are living under isn’t working as it is supposed to; that there is a lot of corruption at the top. But whenever the journalists point it out, everyone goes “Wow that’s terrible!” and then nothing happens and the system remains the same.

That's a brilliant description of our current system. I'm just worried that our hypernormalization won't last as long as the Soviet one.

What he doesn't mention is that an increase in corporate taxes will mostly impact SMBs and not giant "Big Tech" companies that have all kinds of ways of avoiding them and employ hundreds of people in their finance and accounting departments who are tasked with minimizing taxes. It's your ma&pop stores that will take the brunt of it.

In the same way that the new "Stimulus package" now requires that payment processors report any transaction over $600 on a 1099-K Tax Form, it's always the little guy that is mostly affected by the changes in tax law because little guys have no lobbyists and don't have an easy access to lawyers to fight the IRS.

In the past year, quite a few collections went online. I remember seeing that Van Gogh collection from Dutch museums was digitized and released recently. Does anyone know if there's a list of various online art collections? I'd really like to go through some.

Edit: Van Gogh collection: https://vangoghworldwide.org

Personally, I would never work for a manager that had no skills other than "management" skills. I've been in a few organizations where every manager is hired from the outside and installed and they have no expertise in the area or the product itself. I've quit those companies quickly.

Anyone have any opinions on the state of image search? What do you use?

I find Google Image search, which I used to love, filled with absolute garbage now. 90% of links are to Pinterest which greets you with usual overlays, signup modals etc. I use DDG's image search because I find Google's search unusable.

Also, Yandex image search is probably the best reverse image search on the market. It's crazy how much better it is than Google.

Excellent work! Now Atari 800XL joins a bunch of other retro PCB recreation projects:

Amiga 2000 PCB remake: https://github.com/Floppie209/Amiga2000-remake

Amiga 1200 remake: https://wordpress.hertell.nu/?p=587

Amiga 500+ remake: https://github.com/SukkoPera/Raemixx500

Amiga 3000 AGA *(AA3000+) remake: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=97670

Commodore 64C remake: https://github.com/KicadRetroArchive/Commodore64C

Commodore 128CE (work in progress): https://github.com/jolsson68/C128CE

I'm sure I'm missing a bunch so please leave links to other retro computer PCB projects.

Whenever I think about signing up because I came across some post and want to provide an answer, I remember that funny GIF that I've seen: "Are u ready to get insanely fucking mad" [1] and somehow hold myself back. I think I'll pass ever singing up for it.

[1] https://twitter.com/legaladvice_txt/status/11630943816389304...

>Is there a reason why uBlock Origin is still not included in the browser?

Once you look into where Mozilla gets their money from, you'll find millions of reasons.

And in the past, Mozilla has stated that bundling ad blocking with the browser would 'hurt the Internet'.

According to the original article [1] (The Drive one is just a poor rewrite), Hyundai is also affected.

>After the publishing of this story, numerous Hyundai and dealership employees contacted BleepingComputer to state that Hyundai was also affected by unexplained outages.

>In emails sent by Hyundai Motors America to Kia dealerships on Saturday and seen by BleepingComputer, Hyundai stated that multiple systems were down including their internal dealer site, hyundaidealer.com.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kia-motors-am...

Thank you for a book recommendation!

Other than allowing them to use iTunes, Apple had nothing to do with Rokr phone.

>He is writing a book about what it was like on the inside.

Any idea if he ever completed the book? I can't find anything about it. Would love to read it.

>I might add that while Nvidia is often reviled for its GPU drivers being proprietary, they are still excellent drivers nonetheless.

Couldn't disagree more. For the last 4 to 5 months or so, Nvidia's drivers have been horrendous. I've experienced numerous crashes with my GTX 2080 Super card. About once every two days I experience a kernel panic and the only solution is to reboot. There are multiple threads on this issue on Nvidia's official Linux forum and Nvidia's driver developers have stated they don't know what the cause is and cannot reproduce it. [1]

My HDMI also doesn't work well after the computer wakes-up from sleep. Sometimes the monitor does work, sometimes it doesn't. It's also a known issue.

I'll be looking at AMD and their graphics cards a lot more closely when I build my next computer later this year. I just can't deal with Nvidia's driver issues. It's extremely annoying and it has wasted a ton of my time.

I've been using Nvidia's HW with GNU/Linux for about a decade and have never had any major issues and have always been happy with the performance and reliability. However, this is not the case anymore.

I'm pretty sure all this mess started when Kernel devs started blocking Nvidia's "GPL condom" effort [2].

[1] https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-unix-graphics/linu...

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Ke...*

I hope this invigorates even more people to start their own sites and communities and free themselves from the tyranny of the Silicon Valley oligarchs.

That reminded me of the Linux GRUB2 bug where you could press Backspace key 28 times and bypass all security. [1]

>The source of the vulnerability is nothing but an integer underflow fault that was introduced with single commit in Grub version 1.98 (December 2009) – b391bdb2f2c5ccf29da66cecdbfb7566656a704d – affecting the grub_password_get() function.

[1] https://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.h...

>We have seen that this trademark issue drives confusion with users thinking Amazon Elasticsearch Service is actually a service provided jointly with Elastic, with our blessing and collaboration. This is just not true. NOT OK.

I do not understand why they're not suing Amazon for a trademark violation. Imagine if they called themselves Elastic Amazon Search... Amazon would send them a cease and desist within a week.

Also, if you don't protect your trademarks, you will lose them! They're playing with fire here by not taking action. [1]

Anyway, send them a cease & desist for misusing your trademarks, Elastic!

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliverherzfeld/2013/02/28/failu...

Title of this story is heavily editorialized. The article mentions nothing about the backdoor.

So, this was not a nation state hack?

After their new CEO came in, former president of YC, they closed off everything and took a lot of investment. Only thing that's open about them is the name.

At the very least, the manager who approved this hack should be charged with a criminal offence. This imbalance in the justice system is beyond disgusting. People need to protest this in front of DOJ offices. There are people in prison right now fur doing security research yet these criminals are off with a fine.