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I think you would be surprised by the treatment endured by even the most well-off people of color. I know a guy who's very financially successful, lives in an expensive neighborhood, drives a luxury car, wears expensive "professional" clothes, and so on. He still talks about repeatedly getting pulled over either for a clearly made up reason (e.g tail light being out when it's clearly not) or for no stated reason at all.

> How shitty would you feel if you've worked your whole life at a very high level, and then the president announces that you're chosen not because you're the best of the candidates, but because you're a black candidate.

This is an interesting point. One of the things that's been pointed out to me by women in my life is the psychological toll of repeatedly being in situations where you feel like you've been discriminated against but there's just enough ambiguity that you're not comfortable speaking up about it. E.g. being passed up for promotion in favor of someone who isn't blatantly less qualified, but is less qualified nonetheless, or being unsure if someone speaks to everyone in a condescending tone or just to women.

The case of the justice seems like the inverse of that. Do publicly advertised affirmative action or DEI programs have the side effect of causing qualified people to second guess whether their success was earned?

I do think there's a lot of value in such programs (that most likely outweighs the negatives, to the extent that they even exist), but I haven't heard anyone talking about whether such effects exist and if so how to handle them. Maybe it's not a factor at all, I certainly am not in a position to say.

I have no idea whether advertising works or not, but I see this "successful businesses do it, therefore it it works" argument applied to so many different things and it always baffles me. Besides not having much substance beyond an appeal to authority, I don't think I've ever seen an example of a company that doesn't engage in some number of financially wasteful behaviors with dubious or at least unquantifiable value.

That's the strange part though. The streaming service and most of these new features are free. Most of the major features they charge for via Plex Pass are geared at people running their own servers. So they seem to be alienating the only people who have any reason to pay them in the first place.

I've been using Unraid for a few years now and while it's served me well I hesitate to recommend it. Were I to start over today I'd definitely be looking at TrueNAS Scale or rolling my own.

Unraid seems to be targeting a rather niche market of people who are used to building PCs for running Windows and would like to have a home server and self host some apps (usually Plex and the 'arr stack if we're being honest). It does a good job of making all this accessible via a nice web UI with basic hypervisor and container management features. The app store they have for Docker containers is great for exposing new users to what's out there.

The problem I've found is that while it does a good job of offering a low barrier to entry, the ceiling is quite low as well. It seems to me that the type of user they're trying to attract is also the type who would want to learn more and tinker, at which point Unraid's limitations will start to chafe.

If you've used other Linux distros you'll find the lack of a package manager and other atypical features frustrating. Once you want to go beyond their app store for containers the web UI becomes limiting. There's no first-party docker compose support. The hypervisor UI is quite limited as well, lacking even the ability to create and manage snapshots. Of course you can manage all this from the command line, but at that point you may as well use another OS with a more performant and reliable filesystem.

There are also some bizarre security choices that they've seemed to have had difficulty moving past. The web UI is only accessible as root, for example.

Building a new car doesn't tend to require scrapping an old one. Every car built increases the total supply of cars. Building new luxury housing often (not always) involves tearing down existing housing, leaving the total housing supply static.

The tech job market is favorable for workers for now. That will most likely not always be the case.

> Can we assume that anyone who has worked at any of those companies has at best dubious morals, or are they instead small players in a big machine?

Why not both? They certainly are small players in a big machine, but the reality is that any engineer capable of getting a job in FAANG has plenty of other options that are less morally dubious. If they chose FAANG in spite of this they either don't believe it's immoral or are willing to look the other way for money/prestige.

I certainly wouldn't advocate for writing people off entirely based on their work history (after all, it could be that they went in not realizing the extent of the harm and that's why they're leaving), but I do think it's a factor worth considering.

I get value out of the videos I watch on YouTube and would like to support the creators so that they can continue to produce them.

Donations to the Mozilla Foundation support the Foundation's outreach and education efforts, not Firefox development. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, which is a for-profit entity owned by the Foundation and is not donation-supported.

See the sections "How will my donation be used?" and "Don’t Mozilla products, like Firefox, earn income?" here: https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/faq/#item_8

It's not about singling out individuals, it's about Adafruit as a company taking responsibility for their mistakes. The phrasing in the post makes it sound like the breach was something that happened to them, vs being the direct result of the company's actions.

What's more, even in a perfect market as you describe, advertising will only ever represent the subset of the solution space for any given problem that involves spending money. With how powerful a voice advertising has, we end up training people to deal with problems by buying rather than doing/learning/making.

In a perfect market, the top ad would be for the best treadmill. You'd never see an ad for just going outside for a run.

I think that has more to do with 2020/2021 being unusually good years for the Mac in particular. Computers in general have been selling well due to the pandemic, and the hype surrounding the move to ARM generated a lot of sales. Anecdotally I know a number of people who upgraded laptops earlier than they otherwise would have due to rave reviews of the M1.

They already do, they just have to ask Visa/AmEx/Mastercard nicely.

> Please remember the people at the bottom of the chain here who have (and will continue to) seen a material impact on their business, income or employment due to these (and the inevitable further) changes.

We see this dynamic in so many industries and it's holding us back as a society. <Thing> is a net negative to society, but regulating/reducing/banning <thing> causes suffering for workers. If we want to advance as a society we'll need to be willing to support the people affected by changes like this.

If useful ads designed to genuinely inform consumers were the norm it'd be one thing, but I don't think that's the case. The norm is deception and manipulation.

The majority of advertising boils down to this fundamental assertion: your life isn't as good as it could be and the solution is to buy <product>. It's plainly manipulative, and the effect this mindset has on society is hard to understate. It fosters feelings of inadequacy and stokes the fire of consumerism that's destroying the environment.

I guess my point is more that I don't think it's actually that common for people to say they want to defund the police but not mean it.

I was thinking more of a case like this: If someone is already outraged about police brutality and they see that a "defund the police" rally is happening, there's a greater chance they'll go as it offers them an opportunity to express their general dissatisfaction with the police regardless of whether they agree 100% with the specific ideology of the organizer. When the headline the next day reads "10000 Attend Defund the Police Rally", this leads to the perception that 10000 people believe in defunding the police when the actual number is much smaller

I'll definitely agree that that motto and indeed the name of the sub itself are not at all representative of the current state of the sub. It didn't start out that way, but over time as it grew it attracted people who just enjoyed the "shit on your boss" aspect of it without understanding the original message.

In both of these cases "we" is a group of thousands of people with varying opinions. There are absolutely plenty of people who very much believe in defunding the police and ending work. As both movements have grown more popular we've naturally seen more people who agree with the general spirit of the movement but hold more moderate views.

I can understand why you'd get that impression by only looking at the top 40, there's a thriving middle ground of artists that are popular enough to do national/world tours but don't get radio play. Rock and folk are hugely popular (under the "indie" label). The metal scene is thriving. There are young musicians pushing the boundaries of jazz. Electronic music is huge and has more subgenres than anyone can count. The cost of creating and distributing music has fallen massively in the last two decades. More music is being made now than ever before, and small artists are able to reach audiences that would never have been possible just 10-15 years ago.

There's also the fact that it's a lot harder to identify what will be have long-term impact in the moment. To cherry pick a couple examples from those lists, nobody was talking about Nick Drake in 1969. I want to say he sold something like a total of <5000 albums by the time he died. Similarly, Green Day didn't really see widespread success until the 90's. I'm sure there are plenty of currently unknown artists who released their first albums last year who will go on to see mainstream success in the future.

I'd also add that the 2021 list doesn't even seem like a great representation of what was popular last year. It pretty much entirely ignores hip hop which has been one of the most commercially dominant genres behind pop the last few years and produces a huge number of hits.

Requiring facial recognition in the first place is uncomfortable, though the status quo of treating SSNs as adequate for auth is problematic. That said, requiring citizens to submit incredibly sensitive information to some arbitrary private company is abhorrent.

Especially concerning is that ID.me's site has a link at the bottom marked "Do Not Sell My Personal Information (CA Residents Only)". Sounds those of us outside of CA will have to consent to some private company profiting off our private data in order to interact with the IRS online in any meaningful way.

I'm running a bunch of old Mellanox ConnectX-3 cards, they've been plug and play in all of my Linux systems. Cheap too.

I've always wondered why worker co-ops aren't more common in software. It seems like the industry would be particularly well-suited for it.

Wow, had no idea they had an R&D page. There's some pretty cool stuff in there, thanks!

> NYTimes maintains a blender docker container

Interesting, anybody know what NYTimes uses it for? Can't find much information about it.

I don't think the person you're replying to is saying that the pursuit of knowledge has anything to do with any one identity, they're simply saying that the pursuit of knowledge inherently changes the way we conceive of ourselves, which seems pretty universal.

I have an instant on switch and quite like it. Worth noting however that the unifi-style all in one management interface requires using their cloud service, it can't be self-hosted like unifi. The switches can be configured locally (individually) but the access points can't.

Wish they would reevaluate that decision, as I've heard good things about their access points.

I have the 24 port poe model and swapped the fan for a noctua. The stock fan wasn't noisy by rackmount switch standards but it was more than I prefer to have audible in my living space.

If you ignore the historically loaded proper nouns in that piece, most of the values described are the sort of thing that's typically pretty popular around here. Decentralization, free software, information freedom, etc. It doesn't really have anything to do with the communist parties that come to mind when one hears the word "Communism".

> The aggregation of power into some kind of central authority system for the good of the people always ends up bad for the people.

You will find that this sentiment is quite popular among communists these days. The idea of achieving a classless, stateless society via the use of a central state is inherently contradictory. (Though that's not to say that the alternatives are necessarily more realistic)