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Yes, I'll just backup our chat and send it over to the HK police.

At worst a backup from Signal should only be your messages and at best it should not exist. Signal is designed for secure communication not archiving communications you wish to be secure. If you want a texting app try Telegram or something more focused on user experience vs secure communication.

Not my field but: https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end

Telegram is really good for this, in my experience, and similar to Signal.

But you're right, Signal is designed for secure communication between parties. Allowing messages to be exported or archived should at worst leave only your own messages (and remove all others including media) and at best not exist at all.

Sure, let me just single handedly backup our conversation and send it to the HK police...

I figure as soon as criminal acts, threats, and outright insurrection get tossed in free speech becomes a tool of oppression instead of liberty.

These folks deny factual reporting and instead follow a guy who told them to go down to the capitol and be heard.

I understand the tech view, I'm coming from a US politics view. Those responsible must be identified and prosecuted. The tools that enabled this insurrection should be dismantled to serve as an example of what happens when conspiracy idiots try to overthrow the US government and will of the people.

To preserve liberty there must be no tolerance of intolerant behavior like terrorism, sedition and other criminal acts, and some might even say racism/sexism/etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

There's an inherent information and therefore power imbalance as well as general unethical nature of the interactions.

I understand this article. I still want to see a penny every time my data is used/accessed/sold/etc, if anything to drive up the cost of contracts around or servicing of my data. If my data is made functionally anonymous then make it a dime payment and then a penny every time that block of data is used sold. Send it as a check to my mailing address with a letter including the legal entities involved, initial source of the data, what type or category of data they have relating to me (like PII category ex address, name, purchase history, etc), their intended use for the data (research vs marketing), and how I can contact to have my data removed from the set. Also if my data is made anonymous, provide a 1 penny check and above information for any use or sale of the data set.

Yes this regulation would kill the industry in overhead costs aimed at making the information somewhat close to the 'informed consent' required for medical approvals and breaking down how the industry works. Maybe make it so on initial sale and usage you get a check then at the start of each following year that entity pays out for annual usage.

Our data is valuable collectively to identify trends, markets, and opportunity and I'd like to know how I'm manipulated into being a part of that as well as what entities I cannot trust with any personal data. And I think this should apply to Experian/etc too. Chase wants to find out my credit score to market CC reward offers to me? Make it known and pay me the same way farms are paid for the useful manure their animals produce.

And likely even a Pi4 couldn't take full advantage of an NVME drive except in specific workloads or setups. I'd use a SATA M.2 if needed to save 40% of the cost on the same size SSD. Or just a random thumb drive I have around.

The Pi4 compute unit has a PCIe x1 slot, I think, and that could better put an NVME drive to use. But at that cost, for the drive and Pi, I don't see it being widely used outside of hobby or home use.

I'm excited about this and how the official Pi4 firmware now supports USB boot. Maybe if you used the Pi to run a NAS and wanted the NVME drive as accelerated cache (it can do H.265, 4kp60 decode, and H.264)?

But can a Pi even process an NVME drives bandwidth via it's CPU/etc or Gigabit Ethernet/USB 3.0/GPIO add on?

Edit: This guide is basically 1. Put SSD in adapter and 2. Set up USB boot then clone SD card to SSD. How is this article not just a forum post like the dozens of others that provide the same information and process?

Would you be able to output audio or have a audio/headphone/headset jack via a monitor over HDMI? Bluetooth is also an option but would require a headset and setup to work well I think.

3B+ forward has support for USB boot, as of I think July this year it was built into the firmware for the 4b. I have a Zw with SD card as it requires more or less but everything lese is USB based with drives I swap around for raspbian, ubuntu, retropi/etc. But setting that up does require an SD card with respbian unless the pi shipped with the newest firmware.

I'm not against on board storage but I understand the tradeoff to allow user expandability and reduce production costs. I think they'd get heat on the eMMC size unless it was like 32gb and I don't think that cost increase would make it very far. But maybe with the push to the 400 they will start to go that route to create a self contained but expandable system that is plug and play raspbian by default.

All characters and events in this [media type], even those based on real people, are entirely fictional.

Pretty sure all voices are impersonated as we didn't have the same recording tech about 1000 years ago.

I think you have the right idea with this claim. It's a statement of the diversity of the development team not a promise the content is perfectly PC or historically accurate to the smallest detail.

I hear Floatplane is pretty good these days and really should check it out as the initial creators were more technical than average YouTube (Linus Media Group aka LTT). I have YT premium so won't see any changes but it's not something I'd advocate signing up for at this point. I'm locked into like 2013 pricing and am not touching YT Music.

This is definitely a Google push that will change the platform, I think. RoosterTeeth founders have pushed the whole "your content, your site, your store/etc" for a decade at least and though FloatPlane might be a capable rival as it builds more creators I think that is still true. You need to own your own distribution methods even if YT or another site is primarily where your views come from but that takes resources away from creating your primary content. Hard to do for a solo creator.

I though this was known as early as May?

https://medium.com/@acecilia/apple-is-sending-a-request-to-t...

I thought this was an old issue that was known or resolved months ago. Is this still an ongoing security practice that kills devs on MacOS?

This is about when I remember seeing it: https://medium.com/@acecilia/apple-is-sending-a-request-to-t...

I do understand this sentiment but I think it is waaaay over estimated by most people. I run a (mostly) full Windows environment and I've had to use a monitor/etc 2 times in the past 12 months, once after moving to a new apartment and standing things up and once after I replaced the boot drive in my NAS and moved to Server 2019 (ran the install and re-mounted disks with the PC on my desk). I've actually figured out that my old, PoS, Sentio SuperBook 'just works' with modern DisplayLink drivers on Linux or Windows so I have a tiny, battery powered screen/KB/mouse and USB port I can connect if needed.

I'm also not running any work or professional stuff, just Plex with array for storage, a Windows Domain (2x DCs), pihole in VM, and Ubuntu server for Unifi and stuff that works better on Linux. No websites or developer spaces though my uSFF hyperV box has free RAM if needed. Windows boxes prompt for updates once or twice a month as none of that is managed but reboots happen at 2am or so mid week and I don't have issues other than I overlaoded a J5005 ITX and it took maybe 20 minutes to reboot due to VMs taking forever to shut down. Now those are all on the uSFF box with a 6500T and it reboots in a few minutes even with updates.

Yeah but at what (power) cost? I'm sitting on a J5005 based home built NAS (ITX system with 6x 3.5" drive slots) and a 6500T uSFF PC as a hypervisor. I don't need the CPU core count of teh author, sure, but I'm running at maybe 150w under full load and about 50w idle between both systems.

My whole stack is, on average, less costly to run than 1x Xeon V3 CPU standalone. But power cost is also a priority for me vs more cores.

Mine is still working right now to stream music, not local or downloaded. Some day it won't and I'll need to jump services because YTM is still hot garbage compared to an app that did all the things I wanted and got my $10 a month since late 2013 or so.

I'm not defending the blockchain solution posted here but I do think the electronic voting aspect of the current system is at least as bad to lay people. Existing machines are often old, unpatched, and a big target that is mostly protected by people in the room looking for odd behavior or worse.

I think we need a more secure system to expand options for electronic voting and counting but it needs to have a paper backbone for true reliability.

Around here that is the Dutch Bros or general coffee drive up process already. It also lets the people in the shop just make drinks instead of stopping to use the cash register or back (including any hand sanitation in between). Though Dutch is usually well staffed and rarely not busy.

If a human is touching the process they are likely overworked, underpaid, and probably not in the US. If they are then they probably aren't paid enough to care as long as the check list their manager gave them is met.

Election fraud is right there, the elimination of drop boxes and other actions to limit turnout or the ability to vote. That's real un-American, taking the right to vote away from people. I've been told that the second amendment exists to prevent such gross abuse of our rights but I haven't seen the NRA or GOP get too mad about it lately.

And if you leverage that 100:1 (300bn:3bn) you vilate a metric ton of banking regulations and responsible practice. It's not an industry for fast change or pivot especially when you're looking at a company leveraging itself so far beyond the more average 1:1 or 50/50 for banks. \

100x typical risk is not something most investors recognize as real let alone a sane investment. A financial advisor would ask how the fund is making a 100x return and step faaaar back from that portfolio.

It's important as HP has done it before and will do it again. This is just a new variation of that same mentality.

Fool me twice, can't get fooled again except ink.

You can download owned music up to 3 times, maybe more now. When I stopped buying albums in GPM and subscribed I downloaded everything, including uploaded music, and saved off for Plex.

Different Unemployment Rates are defined and calculated differently because they are different. Simply listing a number called the unemployment rate is in itself disingenuous as the context of what type of rate is important. But it's easy for an article to list a number that fits their narrative and not explain what the number means. The context matters, per usual.

I picked up an older Brother printer, laser, on CL recenlty and connected it to a pi zero 2 with CUPS.

Then I had to find, download, compile an implement a third party driver (that doesn't have my exact model).

It works and it's mostly on Brother for not having easy ARM/Linux drivers but still a pain. I wish I'd looked before picking up this specific model printer as I could have gone fora used Dell laser too.

Collecting, storing, selling, or otherwise using any digital data in any way traceable to a person, entity including device or location, or other single identifying point of information should require informed consent and contract with minimum dollar value set by law to like $10. Add a bypass where entities do not have to sign to this contract to use the app or site, opting out of all tracking and data collection beyond those specified in ToS for subscribers or registered users of the service.

Now every service in the US that can identify any individual entity must agree to a contract with minimum monetary value for every entity or stop collecting data that has any use beyond generic trends, much like Google trends itself. Maybe eliminate third parties without their own user consent and contract so if I consent to the site having my data (for $10) then any deal with third parties must reflect a smaller amount (say $2) per third party data pull. Fold that cost into the cost of selling user data.

Add exceptions for good faith research, education, healthcare, and similar groups (not all nonprofits but select types or areas of work) so they do not have a minimum dollar amount but maintain a contract with informed consent by both parties. Force opt out by default behavior by making auto-check options to subscribe, agree to terms, etc all unchecked with disclaimer about what you are signing up for by checking including email volume or third parties. Add language for a simple overview of any contracts or ToS acknowledging the law and entity rights including ability to use the service without data collection.

Basically, F u Pay me but for digital data with further third party deals returning on the investment that is your site vising, sales, etc habits. Make it so companies either have to fork over real money (not pennies on their revenue) or stop collecting data.

Yeah, with Haswell you could get an i7-4770 for like $320 or a Xeon E3-1245v3 (includes an iGPU) that ran the same clock speed and spec, generally, but was about $270. If you went for the 1241v3 you lost the iGPU and 4 watts of power usage but gain +100mhz base clock.

And that gen of CPUS had low power T-series chips rated at 65w where today it's 35w. The power drop is part of why I'm happy with my SFF setup as the thermals are quite good on 14nm locked CPUs like my 7700.

The duty and role of government is to act in the interests of those with power and influence. If a vote has more power and influence than money or connections due to how the government is structured or elected then the government can represent the interests of the people.

However, even voters are not equal in the US with those in Wyoming holding almost 3x the voting power for president compared to California due to the electoral college. Senate votes are an entirely different ballgame where small population states are equal to large states in theory but the vote count behind the senator may be millions vs tens of thousands. Also, the less populated but more numerous red states have led to a tyranny of the minority in the US Senate since 2010. If you are curious about that look at the number of justices Trump has appointed vs Obama, and Obama had 2 full terms: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/07/15/how-trump-c...

The US is not really a functional democracy or represenatative republic at this point. Money and power run most policy: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/how-cor... (from 2015).

Lobbying dollars hugely outweigh voter preference in policy: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2014...

And if you are a company looking to make a profit lobbying may be the best investment to make over capital or other useful growth moves: https://medium.com/numbers-that-matter/return-on-investment-...

That's right, ROI on lobbying is about 200,000% though 10 years it ago it was closer to 20,000%: https://sunlightfoundation.com/2009/04/09/return-on-lobbying...

There's been an admin change in that time plus the Citizens United decision. Remember there are many questions around where PPP loans went, including millions to the newly appointed USPS leadership plus Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Majority leader, and his wife, Elaine Chao, Secretary of transportation: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lawmakers-and-transportati...

Trump himself won with a 2.8 million popular vote deficit, similar to Bush in 2000. There are 3 other examples in the mid 1800's. In 2016 the GOP won a minority of votes in the US house yet held a 10% seat majority alongside a lopsided Senate. These are not symbols of a functional republic or election process, or at lest one that reflects the will of the people. From the 2016 election results alone your first statement on the duty and role of government is failed by the US. We are at risk of becoming a failed democracy for similar reasons.

Lobbying and campaign finance operations are destroying the value of voter preference and need to be reigned in through massive overhaul of the campaign and election processes. I'm all for setting a window for campaigning like the UK, assigning a budget from public money that ALL donations go into to remove lobbying issues, as well as an overhaul of the actual voting mechanisms reverting to paper ballots handled entirely by mail and air gapped technology using a ranked choice or first alternative process to determine the popular vote like Maine implemented this year. Connect that to the bill going around for states to pass their electors to the popular vote winner directly and you have the start of a government serving at the will of the people, not lobbyists, a minority, the powerful.

I'm after an 8/16 chip myself so that would work for me but Intel chips are DOA at this point.

If it was train lines including rail ownership I can see why they would want to drop out. Logistically that's a nightmare unless it's totally private.

Then again around here the rail lines are mostly owned by grain/grass farmer groups who ship product by rail and can load from their farm directly. Passenger lines that share the rails wait for those trains.