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Didn't Wesley have at least the story line where they accidentally killed another student with a risky and banned manoeuvre? He didn't came up with the idea, but still he failed to stand up to the guy who had and became an accomplice.

Of course it doesn't work on ios. The issue you linked explains that a syncthing ios implementation would be useless because the background process can't run and the way filesystem access is managed makes the whole thing more or less pointless. It's available on all better operating systems though: Windows, macos, gnu/linux, android/linux, I think even chromebooks can run it?

> this seems really complex...

Like I said, it's probably not a solution for many. A second database with shared secret is very straightforward and transparent way that anyone can grasp I think. It would definitely pass the family test for me.

I have a bunch of ubuntu containers at work, none of them self update by default, I know that because I had to enable unattended upgrades manually in all of them. Maybe it's a lxc template thing?

Isn't it the world cup where both genders are allowed but women don't make it into the teams because their bodies aren't as performant when brought to the limit? I don't think there's a rule disallowing women, is there?

Apt updates itself if you instruct it to, the updates also won't restart anything by themselves. I don't think unattended upgrades are enabled on debian or on ubuntu.

> how do you sync passwords across my 3 laptops and 3 phones without a SaaS offering?

Syncthing. Set up once, runs reliably forever.

> How can I securely share credentials with family members?

I don't do this either (and don't know anyone who does) but I imagine it'd be easy to just create a different shared database for the family for that? With password store, it's also possible to set multiple different gpg keys for a specific directory. I don't think the last option is doable for most people though.

The EU is innocent, they didn't force anyone to create cookie modals. You need to forgive the digital stalking businesses instead.

We've experiments to run / there is research to be done / on the people who are still ali~ive!

It's almost as if those are multiple people with different tolerances for microsoft induced pain

I was hoping so much this would be about Ursula von der Leyen

Disneyland does this when they close a section of a park to rebuild it into something else, removing most of that sections staff from their company in the process, so... yeah, kind of?

Not in any repo, I'll pass, thanks

Interesting! I believe my English teacher in middle school always wrote it like this - but it's equally possible that I just memorized it wrong. I'll make sure to use it correctly from now on.

These are not "interface ideas", it's just a description of the telegram phone app.

Styrofoam has been classified as hazardous waste since 2016. Legally it's en par with throwing your old car battery into the biodegradable waste bin.

I've been packaging cat food when I was in high school and they do that because, when a single of those cat food packets rips open for whatever reason, the smell is pervasive and intensive. It spreads through the whole warehouse, from a single open bag, getting ever worse as it spoils. The plastic lining in the displays is to protect the shipment - think of an the oilsump the cellar which contains a houses oil tank is lined with. It's a way to contain the spread of a hazardous substance in case the probably containment unit fails.

> Marketing wants to track all clicks and user inputs and get heat maps to improve the conversion based on their findings. They want to know where their users come from, where they go to see if their campaigns work. They also want google maps integration to find retail stores. They want users who come back 2 days later to retain their shopping cart and their preferences even without a login in case they checkout without an account. They want dynamic A/B testing based on user behaviour and they don’t want to/can’t reinvent all these solutions so they go buy them and the devs get to integrate them - whether they like it or not and some things simply make it so that you need to store some data on the client and communicate it on the client in some way while not being completely anonymous.

Speaking a as user, I don't want your company to know or do any of those things. I'm very glad these practices are getting outlawed and I'd like your marketing team to know they can get hit by a bus for all I care, the world would be a better place without their cancerous doings. Psychological warfare against the general public is despicable.

> I wonder how many Billions or Trillions environmental protection costs companies.

> Pretty much every company has to fight with it. Hire lawyers, change machines, implement "dangerous waste disposal" etc.

> The craziest part is that environmental protection has a competitive disadvantage for companies built in: Companies have to demonstrate their pollution prevention even for users outside of the EU. While non-European companies only have to do so for users in the EU.

Analogy aside, no company has to show any banners, you just have to respect your users rights to privacy. All companies may use as many cookies as they want as long as they're strictly necessary for the sites operation.

And now we have gazillions of phones going into the trash, unusable because of closed drivers making continued usage unviable. Nice.

So you need to send two microsds, fine. You'll probably want to use something more trustworthy like luks with a detached header and a largeish offset. Finally, drive some tens of kilometres and throw it into a mailbox somewhere in the fields at 3 o'clock.

I don't know what address wikileaks has, but then again I never tried to contact them.

why would you upload it anywhere? Just send an encrypted micro sd card by mail.

"I think we should improve society somewhat"

"Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent"

https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

That's pretty much what epub files are. You can unzip them and then read the html they contain. You can also use something to strip the html tags and only plain text will remain.

If Netflix refuses to offer their services on a device that you own, you're always free not to pay netflix and instead take your money and attention elsewhere.

xmpp doesn't really have a core - even the messages are more or less an extension. The whole point of xmpp is "each to his own extend", so your "missing features" are in reality "nice addons that most clients have but if you'd like to bring your own homebrew that's fine too" which is how I think more networks should operate. Have the features, but gracefully fall back when the client's don't support them.

I disagree that those ventures, besides tesla, are things where humanity faces existential risks. We don't need commercial space travel to counteract asteroids. If there is an asteroid that will become a problem for humanity, the whole world will scramble to address it. Those things don't appear out of thin air.

I have yet to see someone successfully explain how neuralink will protect anyone from "AI".

Electric cars may have some success shifting our oil based man-transports to electric, but the world fails to use the advantages that brings and just burns more coal.

Hyperloop doesn't address any urgent problem, it's a moonshot with potential to earn absurd amounts from public contracts.

Twitter is actively harmful for humanity.

So, besides tesla, for which there was probably the best monetary incentive, none of those companies achieve any higher function you advertise then to have.

I don't know enough about the statistics to really give an opinion on that, but I'm usually in the "progress in technology is good fit humanity" camp, so I think I'll agree here until proven otherwise.

> then why was Tesla the only successful electric car manufacturer for literally years

Because every other car manufacturer had no incentives to invest in that space when their ICE technology was working well for them. Musk made the bet that he could go big and make lots of money with that missed opportunity, and he arguably did.

Other electric car companies weren't competing because it takes absurd amounts of money or people willing to give you that money, which Musk has.

> Do you disagree that the roadster made electric cars cool, and changed public perception on electric vehicles

I don't live in the US and honestly, while I saw some tesla cars rolling around here, their popularity correlated very strong with the rise of other brands. It's almost like consumers aren't opposed to the idea of electric vehicles, it's just that until that point all options where shit and tesla finally put some pressure on that market, so the other companies reacted.

> Musk created the first commercially successful private launch company. Do you agree or disagree?

He did, and I argue that it's just like the first point, it was inevitable and Musk made the right call to invest his money in commercial launch operations because there where tons of money to be made.

This wasn't about if he started those companies, it's about the why. And the why is: There's tons of money to be made.

> He arguably created that market.

He didn't, he started the company at a time where governments all over the word started to really (depending on the country, obviously) kick companies butts for not innovating. There where electric cars before he started his company. Now, you could argue that he made it popular with the people, but I argue that the market penetration, especially during the early years, hasn't been sufficient for that.

Musk also didn't invent space travel. You may have a point with neuralink, but I have yet to see a successful product come from that so if he is to create that market I'll give him that.

He's really good at making his opinions heard though. Other companies don't have a relatively unfiltered channel like this, so it's easy to see how his viewpoints stick out.

You're a bit off on your points, but that's okay. He really talks a lot, doesn't he?

> Musk created Tesla to counteract the existential risk of climate change,

He created Tesla for the money that's in the growing electric car market

> Neuralink to counteract the existential risk of AI,

Neuralink exists for the possible future where neural computer interfaces are successful and popular so he can make lots of money

> and SpaceX to counteract the existential risk of asteroids and other planet-killing catastrophes.

Actually, SpaceX exists because there's tons of money to be made with government and commercial contracts.

> Maybe that's why the people at his companies stay despite being pushed so hard?

It's probably more because they like getting paid so they can afford nice things while they're not working. It might also be because Musk enterprises are in "interesting" areas of the job spectrum and thus workers might be more tolerant to bullshit because they get to tell themselves they launched a rocket into space.