confounded

I also found it in slightly poor taste, though I don’t think there was negative intent behind it. I cringed a bit at similar gags I’ve attempted.

I think Rankin has a great point. When you use AWS, your OS is no longer really Linux, it’s the suite of AWS services. The assumption that you need to tear up and tear down EC2 means that it makes sense for S3 to become your file-system, Batch to be your CPU, use a managed database etc. etc.

Surely that depends what the thing is?

> We don't need new regulations. We need the web to be taken out of the hands of gov. and big corps.

Anything socially powerful is going to get governments and large corporations all over it, under our current system.

You can build a second ‘net/web, but if it got as big as the current one the same thing would happen.

I’m not exactly a big fan of regulating the Internet either, but I’m fine with regulating the governments and corporations with their claws in it.

Getting regulations right will require significant democratic effort from technogists (beyond just voting), but increasingly it seems like the only way to do it.

The good news is that the mainstream view is gradually coming around to ours (data collection/advertising can present real challenges for freedom, user control over software and devices, ownership and incentives, users should expect E2EE messaging, etc.).

Now is probably the best time in recent history for useful democratic regulation of the Internet (or rather, what you can do to people with it).

> Also, while FAANG occasionally do things I don’t approve of, they don’t actively lobby congress for things that will make my use of the internet objectively worse (NN, SOPA, etc...).

Is this true? It depends on your use of the internet and definitions of “worse”, but I know that both Google and Facebook have been strong opponents of state-level Internet privacy legislation. They also spend huge amounts on lobbying, SV outspending Wall Street about 2:1 for the last few years. Do telcos spend more?

Out of interest, why do developers use the SDK and send these events?

Is it just for ‘sign in with Facebook’? I’m surprised at the specificity of the event-data; do they offer an analytics interface like for GA?

Do they give you any cash or other benefits for all the data?

I’m very surprised that companies like banks are including it, when I’d assume they have their own analytics and identity systems.

There’s a very large difference between:

- Tracking the behavior of your own users on your own app, for product improvement purposes (which most users will expect)

- Sending the behavior of your own users on your app to an advertising surveillance company, with an ID that can be used to correlate that behavior with behavior elsewhere, without their knowledge, consent, or reasonable expectation

And before anyone says it, no, a generic line about third-party service partners in a sadistically long TOS/Privacy-policy does not count as meaningful consent. Even Supreme Court justices admit that they don’t read them.

Is Elixir/Erlang considered superior to Go for writing high concurrency web servers?

You probably want a code-formatter (perhaps on a git hook).

Trailing white space, fill-column width, and tabs vs. spaces are really all I’d expect from cross editor config.

>> ... join them in exploring general availability of these cloud-based machine learning strategies.

... is probably the operative part. Possibly uncharitable, but this appears to be ‘thought leadership’ marketing generally supporting the idea of GCP managed services.

The “firm” in this case is the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge, UK.

It didn’t come off as preachy to me. bronco21016 makes an excellent point (not made often) that you don’t need to spend all your waking hours focused on making your company successful in order to have a job which you find fulfilling and pays well.

At least the APIs mean it’s possible to have third-party open-source clients.

My sentiment will be considered very ‘n00b’ by StumpWM and EXWM connoisseurs, but give i3 a go and see if you like the general idea. It’s generally considered the most foolproof tiling WM. You’ll also need a menu bar and a lock screen which are likely separate i3-* packages. I think I was up and running over the course of a leisurely Sunday afternoon, including changing a few keybindings, and getting everything documented and reproducible in my dot files.

Google’s customers are advertisers, not app developers.

I don’t think we disagree much. If businesses want to do things where informed consent isn’t possible (e.g. because of the complexity of the bargain which they require users to accept), then they probably shouldn’t be doing them.

My point was not that advertising doesn’t need to be regulated (and that better protections for users/people obviate the need) but rather that advertising is not the only way to duplicitously exploit personal data to for profit.

The problem here is defining what is and is not an ad.

Do I want my communications, browsing, purchase and location history to be used to rank me for job applications? To be used to decide which news stories I see? Which products are the top when I search for something generic?

For some the answer is yes, for many it is no. The only way to square this is to restore consent and data decision-rights to users, and to dispel the fiction that continued use of a service represents informed consent to thousands of pages of non-negotiable legalese.

Wish there was something like this for magit!

> ... I'm just surprised at how bad Google can fail at something that seems so easy.

Sounds like you still make frequent use of it, and use it to decide which news to read, which is Google’s goal. In that sense it’s not a failure at all.

I wish you hadn’t, I thought the article was worthwhile, and very much at home on HN.

Apologies, my description was poor. I meant something that looks like a SIM card.

I put up the cash as soon as it was launched. As someone who has funded many “Linux on an X” projects over the years, my expectations on timelines and polish are very low.

I don’t expect this device to be good enough to replace my iPhone immediately, but I desperately want something running Free Software that can, in the medium-term. I’m very very happy to fund and hack on the project in the meantime.

It would likely be a literal smartcard reader. E.g. you put something in there that looks the chip in your debit card.

iMessage decryption keys on servers controlled by the Chinese government went ahead just fine.

Values are useful, but not as useful as an attractive stock-price.

I imagine this is going to be flatpak based

There was no informed consent; users were completely failed by both governments and journalists.

Governments didn’t think any of this was important until recently. By the time they did, Silicon Valley outspent wall street 2:1 on lobbying in the US.

Most journalists found understanding technology boring and difficult (beyond eagerly regurgitating spec sheets) and have little interest in understanding businesses beyond reporting a citable stock-price fluctuation. Most of the reporting during the ascent of surveillance capitalism has simply been “look at the boy genius nerds! A tshirt in the boardroom!”.

> Bloomsbury, Hyde Park, Soho, Notting Hill, and Mayfair...

The ‘10x’ meme needs to die.

The advice on this thread is generally great.

Without explaining my whole process, here are some general tips from trying to do this various ways over the last few years:

- Regularly review your TODOs, and keep them up-to-date. This is way more important than the tool you pick. Pick a slot in your calendar, fight to protect that time, and stick to it. Ultimately all these systems are just a UI veneer on you regularly deciding what’s important. It’s easy to focus on tools and not sticking to a regular process.

- Start small It’s very easy to barf everything you want to do into a system and then be completely overwhelmed by it. If this is a problem, use the review process so that you always have a list of what you actually expect to do in the next day, week, and month. Be realistic.

- Have goals at different time horizons, and have reviews for them. The GTD system of daily, weekly, monthly and annual reviews works well for me.

- Become comfortable with putting complex multidimensional things into coarse little buckets. E.g. this is a task, this is a goal; this is kinda for project A and B, but I’ll put it here; this deadline is self-imposed, this one is for a release, etc. etc. There’s no trick here apart from keep doing it, realize that these are only abstractions which are supposed to be useful to you. You’ll change them over time, but...

- Aggressively separate doing your review system, and improving it. It can be easy to sit down to review what you want to do in the next week/month/year, and end up fiddling around with how your system works. Both are neccessary, but the reviews must happen, and improving your system is a separate activity which you can schedule when appropriate!

Finally...

- Dont sweat it. It takes work, and everyone’s system is more of a mess when you look at it vs. hear them explain it. The most important thing is regularly dedicate time to thinking about how you want to spend time.

> Your ISP will still know what you are doing, and will have the ability to block you from doing it should the need arise.

Putting an automatically configured VPN on such a box would be extremely easy, no?