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ensignavenger··on ReiserFS and the Art and Artist Problem
If financially supporting said murderer allows them to continue to possibly murder more, then I would say there is a moral dilemma. Less so when the murderer is in jail and unlikely to ever really benefit from your using said solution.
ensignavenger··on ReiserFS and the Art and Artist Problem
So once a jerk artist is dead and can no longer benefit from their work, it becomes easier to consume their art without moral concern?
ensignavenger··on XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging
Based on my research, but no deep implementation experience with either:

XMPP continues to advance, so could be considered modern if you use the latest versions.

Matrix is more of an event sync protocol, consisting of a server to server sync protocol and a client to server protocol (sort of like email). It is mostly used for chat, but appears to be more flexible. Matrix uses JSON and HTTP.

XMPP is focused on chatmessages. In many ways XMPP and Matrix are similar. XMPP is based on XML and originally used TCP as the transport protocol, but has been extended to use HTTP now as well.

EDIT: I think a clearer way to describe the basic difference is that Matrix syncs Matrix Events across servers, whereas XMPP facilitates exchanging messages with clients. Most folks use the protocols to exchange chat messages. It is the way this is accomplished by the corresponding servers that differs significantly.

ensignavenger··on Meta does a U-turn, will share its technology with Five Eyes members
It may come down more to how one defines "enemy" and measures size. Romney was famously ridiculed for calling Russia out as the US's "number one geopolitical foe", rather than China. Many commentators changed their tune and decided he was right after Russia invaded Ukraine. Yet, Russia isn't as large as China, either by population, economy, or militarily.

Is China really an "enemy" and if so, to what degree compared to other nations?

ensignavenger··on Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
Missouri's law was "reinterpreted" to allow broadband networks. The article even mentions KCFiber, a wholly owned fiber network (owned by the city of North Kansas City) which provides free services ($300 one time activation fee) to the entire city! Another one is Springfield, which built a fiber network which it owns but leases to ISPs (currently only one offers service, but in theory others could participate as well).
ensignavenger··on Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network?
Are you able to share photos with others who don't have iCloud accounts, or do you only associate with fellow Apple users?
ensignavenger··on FDIC accidentally reveals the Silicon Valley Bank depositors it bailed out (2023)
If you want the details, it is laid out here- https://www.fdic.gov/news/speeches/2023/spmar2723.html

Skimming that and other sources, I could not confirm the assertion that no net money was spent bailing out depositors. If that was the case, then the FDIC wouldn't need to replenish their insurance fund.

ensignavenger··on We're Leaving Kubernetes
Awesome, looking forward to hearing more. I only recently began testing out Theia and OpenVSCodeServer, I really appreciate Gitpod's contributions to open source!
ensignavenger··on We're Leaving Kubernetes
The article does a great job of explaining the challenges they ran into with Kubernetes, and some of the things they tried... but I feel like it drops the ball at the end by not telling us at least a little what they chose instead. The article mentions they call their new solution "Gitpod Flex" but there is nothing about what Gitpod Flex is. They said they tried microVMs and decided against them, and of course Kubernetes, the focus of the article. So is GitpodFlex based on full VM's? Docker? Some other container runtime??

Perhaps a followup article will go into detail about their replacement.

ensignavenger··on A 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage: nothing crazy
It does not seem like the study took into account inflation, though? If workers overall monthly wages went up 5%, was that offset by inflation in the price of things those workers buy?
ensignavenger··on Google employees pressure execs at all-hands meeting for clarity on cost cuts
May well be outside the GP's living memory, though. Further, they weren't really making any money at that point.
ensignavenger··on Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
That is Code OSS, MS official binary builds of Visual Studio Code, as explained at the top of the Readme, include proprietary code. MS also has several very popular proprietary extensions. Some of those extensions, older cersions were open source.
ensignavenger··on Buy payphones and retire
The problem for some of those banks wasn't the 30 year treasuries, it was that they bought those treasuries with other peoples money, and other people did not commit to 30 years, so now when the other people come to get their money, the bank doesn't have it.

The 30 year treasuries are still doing just fine, in accordance to the terms of the treasury when it was bought.

ensignavenger··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
I meant to add that of course there will always be those who prefer small rural communities, and that I think we we build more densely ( in an intelligent, thoughtful way) in the urban areas, we can easily meet the demand for housing while continuing to preserve plenty of small towns for those who prefer that. Of course, I can't say what the situation is for sure in the UK exactly, but here in the US, there are plenty of small towns that are slowly shrinking and disappearing. Many of these communities had much higher populations 50 or 100 years ago, and in another 50 or 100 years may not even exist as a community anymore.
ensignavenger··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
I haven't yet been to the UK, so I can't comment directly on the state of things there. But I grew up in a rural town in USA, and I have traveled to communities large and small across the USA and other countries, including one of my favorites to visit- Japan. In my experience, dense cities don't have to be miserable to the majority of people. I still live in what would be considered a small city, though not nearly as small as the one I grew up in. The city I live in could definitely see significant growth and increased density while maintaining the qualities that make it unique and special. But it would take a lot more planning and vision than what I have seen from current political leaders.
ensignavenger··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
Making public transit clean, reliable, and safe are important goals, and very achievable goals too. There are many examples around the world.

But few transit advocates are saying that we have to 100% eliminate all personal vehicles. They will remain an important part of the overall transportation infrastructure for the foreseeable future.

It would also be folly to advocate for eliminating all rural living. There are many necessary activities that take place in rural communities, such as agricultural production, that will remain critical to society.

The thing that I see most transit advocates targeting is excessive suburban sprawl, communities that aren't really countryside, but also aren't dense enough to be urban. They sprawl on and on for miles, with nothing to distinguish them, often simply the same tract home design repeated with only minor differences over and over and over. I am sure there are some folks that prefer these communities, but I also think that many residents would prefer wither moving into a less dense rural setting or a more dense urban setting, and many of those left that like the density would still prefer that the way these communities are structured be changed.

ensignavenger··on The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops
In fact, PeerTube provides RSS and Atom feeds, no account needed.
ensignavenger··on The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops
I don't think you have to signup just to get an ActivityPub feed, but if you want to use a third parties services you may need an account with that third party.
ensignavenger··on Crossing the USA by Train
I don't know if it qualifies as long distance, but I have traveled across Japan a couple of times on train, from Sapporo to Fukuoka. Not in one day, I stopped for a few days in between, but I have done Sapporo to Nara and Kyoto to Sapporo in a day.

I loved all of them, worst train journey I had was Tokyo to Osaka... landed in Japan, slept overnight at an Airbnb and got up to get on the train to Osaka, but we missed our first train... was not a problem catching the next one, but we decided to eat lunch first. Got on the next train and got about 1/3 of the way to Osaka when the train had to stop due to a typhoon. We were stuck in the train for hours, by the time they let us off (we were stopped at a station, but not at the platform) it was too late to book any lodgeing anywhere near the station, and all the food was sold out everywhere nearby. We ate snacks we brought with us and slept on the train station floor! It was an adventure for sure. But things like that can happen when flying too and are quite rare on Japanese trains.

Don't have any experience with cross country train travel anywhere else, but I love doing it in Japan!

ensignavenger··on Teens Want Less Sex in Movies and TV Shows, Study Finds
What about it sounds like that?
ensignavenger··on Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source
The GPL qualifies as Open Source, it meets all the requirements of the OSD and is on the OSI list of open source licenses.
ensignavenger··on Open washing – why companies pretend to be open source
Non-copyleft licenses can also qualify as Free Software under the FSF definition.
ensignavenger··on Boeing CEO says the company must fundamentally change
A move which was partly financed by Microsoft. I don't know that Airbus would finance such a move by Boeing (but perhaps the US Gov will?) or who will "come back" to save the company.
ensignavenger··on Show HN: Rust Web Framework
Are there not any Laravel shops that would take your money so you can "pay" for it?
ensignavenger··on Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)
Are you wanting to be around other people, or specifically your team? You might try working from a co-working space if you want to be around other people.
ensignavenger··on SEC charges four companies with misleading cyber disclosures
Unisys and Avaya are both reporting losses. This fine makes it even more of a loss. Further, if they don't mend their ways, the SEC will give them an even bigger fine.
ensignavenger··on Syncthing Android App Discontinued
There is a fork mentioned above.
ensignavenger··on FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions
Your credit card company gave it to them. See https://www.creditcards.com/education/recurring-charges-upda...
ensignavenger··on FIDO Alliance publishes new spec to let users move passkeys across providers
I have over 500 logins in my Bitwarden account right now. Many of those are not important in the least, but hundreds of them are.
ensignavenger··on Court tells EPA to consider fluoride risk
Chevron Deference was about courts reviewing statutory meanings, not about courts reviewing scientific research/evidence.
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