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I assume not, but I figure someone does payment processing for them that an upset crowd could apply pressure to?

I guess I was generally curious if people thought there'd be any sort of similar repercussion(s) toward Twitter though. I finally got off Twitter a couple months ago and can still imagine a likely "outrage bubble" yesterday about their handling of that account, but with little actual impactful change in user usage of the service, etc. (In fact, if anything, "major" events like this likely drive a lot of traffic, even if there's criticisms.) (Please note, I'm explicitly not commenting on whether or not I think the criticism/handling/etc is appropriate or justified.)

I am sort of assuming this is related to this article? https://www.businessinsider.com/pittsburgh-synagogue-shootin...

Is Twitter, who also gave him a forum and declined to censor or punish him for threatening tweets, being similarly affected?

Wow, so after it took them years to get U2F, you can only enroll one device? Is it still setup to require that you activate SMS 2FA too (thereby backdooring your entire 2FA process). I swear, I don't understand how Twitter is so utterly useless at things like this.

The irony being that remembering that is almost guaranteedly easier than acquiring and installing mole on every machine where you may need to Port forward.

I don't know a single service worker or single former service worker that doesn't tip 15 or 20% as a minimum. Everywhere. The pay disparity between tech workers and service workers is so severe, it really pains and confuses me to see so much hand wringing about it.

And if you're protesting the tipping process by not tipping workers who make less than minimum wage, please don't go around acting like you're noble or better than those who tip (as has happened multiple times in this thread) That attitude serves nothing but to soothe your conscience.

I mean this with love, but the project would possibly get more attention if there were regular, automated releases. The 0.10.x release is not really rebuiladble without patching cargo files which has made it hard for me to package it for nixpkgs/nixos.

MS doesn't really have a role that focuses on the things you're talking about (though I'd really hoped the big DevAdvocate push would include "advocating on behlaf of devs" but doesn't seem that way) and they pretty much implicitly don't care about rewarding or even thanking the people that go out of their way to try to address those things or bring attention to them.

I'll just say it hurts, personally hurts, to be in Azure, bring up feedback, passionately advcate for it for the users sake, be ignored, and watch as the product is shipped ("we have as schedule!"). In at least one instance, they went so far as to basically discourage public use of the feature until theyd redone it exactly the way I'd suggested 18 months earlier. So much of it was just a result of having no idea what users wanted, where cloud computing was headed in terms of containerization and automation, and fundamental open ignorance of how and why GCE/AWS had designed similar features.

Wow, (regarding that video you reference) this is the first time I've seen someone use an obvious mentally ill person to push their strawman representation of a perceived ideological opponent.

>Sorry, I am not yet convinced. And the women I see around me don't seem that stressed out. I'd expect them to be nervous wrecks who never leave the house if everything was as horrible as feminists claim.

"Never mind the cacophony of stories being told elsewhere, nobody has told me directly so they must all be lying!"

Gee, I wonder why no women have talked to you about their experiences with men. Can't say I'd ever be having that sort of conversation with someone that spends their time doubting the experiences of women for no reason, with no justification.

>I also know women who are unhappy if they don't receive any attention anymore.

"I know women that want attention so women must not have it bad or experience casual, common harassment.". How is any of this real?

>I'd expect them to be nervous wrecks who never leave the house if everything was as horrible as feminists claim.

What does this mean? "As feminists claim". What feminist literature are you reading and referencing? How are you measuring the pulse of feminism right now? Could you please clarify if you are simply stating that you don't believe the number of women that have discussed their own personal experiences with harassment? They're all in on some ploy to punk men? I really am curious what the thought is here.

Government, military, and corporations. Exactly the people I want pushing critical data (or my data) over insecure channels. /s

Besides, we all know there will be plenty of organizations that issue convoluted instructions that are the equivalent of "reset your clock to before the cert expiration".

As someone who had to deal with fallout from Equifax, I'm all in favor of smarter, yes smarter, parties acting in the collective security benefit of us all. As you point out, some will drag their feet otherwise.

I had unlinked my account using the officially supported method. It appeared to work. Months later, I noticed they were still updating my profile picture. I contacted them via Twitter. Four repeated explanations and screenshots later, they confirmed the accounts were silently still linked (despite no actual app authorization existing for Spotify in my Facebook account.)

Took them two weeks to manually unlink it (as in, they had to contact engineering and have them look at it). No explanation of how it happened. No explanation for how they were still accessing the data at all. I have no doubt others are affected.

Spotify Connect is brilliant, every single other thing about the Spotify experience is shoddy. (Like that song that just finished playing? Too bad, you can't see the playlist history without manually skipping back many tracks, etc)

I like being on the bleeding edge. My only Windows PC is a gaming machine, so I don't mind it updating frequently and/or needing babysitting (for example, the very latest flight added a HyperV adapter and broke my internet, despite having HyperV disabled).

That, and honestly, they're pretty rock-solid. Other than this net adapter this thing past week, I've never had anything truly disruptive. OTOH, there've been a time or two that I was glad to be an insider because of a bugfix or feature that wasn't likely to be backported to stable.

And some misplaced desire to help? I can rationalize it with OSS, I can't really tell you why I feel some sort of responsibility to do it for Windows too.

I'll chime in here with +1. It's why I refuse to mess with KFR anymore. Wound up in a situation with multiple directories with the same name appearing, with different file contents, with different behavior depending on how you accessed it. Kept coming back despite not being how I'd configured KFR. It was a fucking nightmare. Nothing like staring at what is supposed to be a filesystem view and seeing things that make no sense.

You're not alone. It's been a bit reassuring that others run into these things. I figured maybe I was just "holding it wrong".

It's basically the only reason I didn't lose a bunch of data from this bug as an Insider - the "Libraries" and special "My Documents" folders are so damn messy and have caused me data loss at other times, that I stopped using it and manage things myself.

Another lovely one, for ages (probably still) OneDrive would purge it's local copy whenever you turned it off or uninstalled it. That was probably one of the most frustrating things that Windows has ever done to me.

Edit: Lord, can we please talk about "3D Objects" too? Who the hell got promoted for shoving that down everyone's throat in half a dozen places? Every week I get an update I have to run a regedit script to remove all the bullshit they've shoved into Explorer for absolutely no reason.

Why do we need more of them when we already have a number that are capable of deploying into a home directory? As someone who has worked on software that has needed packaging, and someone who tries to help out with packaging for a distribution, I can't imagine why we need more for the sake of having more.

Per my original comment, nix can do this, for example and already has an enormous number of packages packed, pre-built/cached, ready to go.

As my comment implies, nix and nixpkgs can do what `linuxkit` does (in terms of image building, at least) but better and in a more powerful manner.

I can create nix derivations that look like a linuxkit yaml, but instead of having a bunch of opaque sha256 hashes to some container in them, it has symbolic references to packages that are defined in my nixpkgs repository. This nixpkgs repository includes package definitions for basically everything in a distribution. From it, out of the box, you can issue single commands to build: VM images, container images, images ready to deploy on GCE/AWS/Azure, all from a single set of package definitions.

This means I can issue a single command that will output a VM image (or a container) that includes the exact revisions of all of my software, down to the kernel options and compiler flags. It makes it trivial to take in patches for critical components and rebuild a base image. No cloning extra repos. No build, container build, push, grab sha256, copy sha256 into a yaml file. Just specify the patch, hit rebuild, done.

You can do this for VM images, specifying the total system configuration - how you want etcd/kubelet/etc running, for example. One command and you have a bootable Azure VHD. You can then use the same tree, or maybe a different branch, and declaratively(!), very minimally [1] build the most optimal container images that you then have deployed to Kubernetes or wherever.

And you can be sure that you can build this exact configuration in 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, etc, due to how Nix works.

I hope I've done a somewhat okay job of explaining this. I'm trying to take some time and write a "container oriented look at why Nix is cool" guide soon too.

[1]: https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images

The best part is that some people think 'brew' is a solid package manager and then show up in Linux and try to make 'linuxbrew' happen (no really, it is a thing).

I just wish everyone would take a day and read an intro to nix/nixpkgs and the world would really be a better place. There are so many "popular" hyped tools these days that can barely do a fraction of what is going on in the Nix ecosystem, but it doesn't seem to get the hype that brew, buildkit, linuxkit, etc all seem to get.

Uh, good publicity? A cheap way to wash off his name? (the attitudes I see about him in Seattle are surprising, even to me, even after being here a while). A great way to buy good publicity before steadily reducing your workforce through automation over the next decades as is surely the plan?

Bezos has shown few, if any, signs of altruism and the one instance I can think of would be roughly the monetary equivalent of me giving a homeless person a penny.

Do you know if they're collaborating with the Sway folks? The Sway folks, via wlroots, seem to have their own protocol for surface capturing. It sounds like there is a potential for an adapter that speaks Sway on one side and Pipewire on the other side, and I'm out of my depth here, but I'm also interested in the Wayland + "screen capture/sharing" story becoming more solid, even for those of us that aren't in GNOME.

I'm not sure if `rpm-ostree` can (yet?), but NixOS can do the pivot with a live running system. It's a similar pivot/symlink-farm strategy.

Is it safe to assume that this is being done for Intel before AMD/Nvidia due to the more open nature of Intel's drivers? (I had thought AMDGPU was supposed to be better?)

I'm just wondering if features like this can be used as a carrot/stick for AMD/NVIDIA -- "Hey, look what we can build and provide for Intel customers because their driver devs are at the table."

On a separate note, insert here unending words of praise for the money and effort that Red Hat puts into Linux, and specifically technologies related to Linux on the desktop. systemd/logind, pulseaudio, pipewire, gnome, wayland (including porting various other projects)... all critical stuff that I see go unappreciated sometimes.

Painfully slow. If you load the interface, it becomes "mostly" functional, but if you start trying to say, search your email:

1. The page will reset and reload, or,

2. Your keys will trigger a keyboard shortcut and then truly, good god damn luck because who knows how many pages of emails you'll archive with no way to undo (the toast that appears for 3 seconds is NOT sufficient, especially if you keep typing.)

Hangouts, YouTube, and Gmail are embarrassing to use. And that's not even discussing what happens in Firefox where everything is somehow nearly twice as slow.

edit: Oh, let me say, it's bad enough that if I'm on a laptop where I don't want to keep the bloated Gmail tab around in mem/cpu, I have reverted back to using the Web 1.0 / mobile-esque version of Gmail. (Which has it's own problems, attachments are broken, etc).

Just a mess. I am actively trying to move away from Google. Unfortunately, I can't find anything that is half-as-good as Google Photos.

I can't tell if people defending Linus's behavior are unaware of how overly abusive it was (not "to the point"), or are intentionally misportraying it in this thread.

The things Linus has said on LKML would be fireable offenses at most companies and I'm having a mini anxiety thing at the number of people here who desperately want an excuse to be unrepentant assholes.

And maybe if that functionality were in an optional extension it would be easier to add features to it for the users that want it. It's not as if it being an add-on has, in any way, hampered your ability to use it in Chrome.

It's great that you like Pocket. I think it's a bit rude to act like it's unreasonable to have qualms about how it was added (certainly pre-Mozilla owning them) or to be confused about it's inclusion while things like RSS reading/folders, (a not-uncommon browser feature) are removed.

This entire conversation wouldn't need to happen. There wouldn't be unhappy users. There wouldn't be "another side" calling criticism "bitching". They'd get active, enthusiastic user feedback, etc, etc.

I'm a huge fan too but it seems like Mozilla keeps dropping the ball on specific odd, "easy" things. The built-in screenshot tool makes it really easy to accidentally upload private information to a public inage sharing site and the Issue tracking a simple button relabeling has been open for months. They refuse to back down on Pocket integration that still leaves an awful taste in my mouth. The Library/Downloads windows have weird UX behaviors, should probably just be regular tabs, etc.

Maybe they've revised the flag, but the flag did not disable the feature as much as the text might lead you to believe. My comment from a couple weeks ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17943524

I don't see how it stands to reason that this is a function of large corporations. Rust has been further along this path given their relative ages and Mozilla is no where near the size or scope of Google. Likewise with a number of other languages that have official or otherwise LSs. Same story with Cargo out of the gate, vs Go modules after nearly 5 years of pain without them, etc.

Edit: I sound more negative than I meant. I am excited about this. It was cool that Sourcegraph and the VS Code extension pioneered here, but it's exciting to have official support and a place for everyone to rally for improvements. I look forward to seeing this used in things like Theia, VS Code, etc.

Sounds like Windows 10's "Fresh Start" feature. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10s...

I could easily imagine someone stumbling onto this and running it. (Windows Security -> Device perf & health -> Fresh Start).

This is soon to be solvable by mounting the cache directory during the build, thankfully: https://github.com/moby/buildkit/pull/442 ("dockerfile: add run --mount support #442 ")

Hyperlinks work just fine though. Who saves an image of code? For what?

>It would be cool if there was a way to copy paste the text easier.

Like, just using text? Maybe even send it through a syntax highlighter first?

I can't be the only one that was irked at Amazon for spending years making their product promo pages or prominent buttons as hard-coded images instead of text. Horribly inaccessible, over the top, looks terrible on HiDPI devices, looks terrible on a non-Mac because it was clear that their designers were using OS X font rendering, so it looked totally inconsistent.

My favorite part is being on mobile and having to scroll left and right to see the image, or the image has been fit-to-scale is flatly impossibly too small to read.

I feel stodgy, but this entire effort is annoying. Just like the stupid GIFs on project READMEs that play too slow or too fast and have to be watched 50 times to grasp what's going on. Meanwhile asciinema exists and is superior in every way (seekable, pausable, text-selectable, etc).