jimlongton

I love Jitsi Meet. My friends and I started using it during COVID and it's constantly improved. I host my own instance using docker and it's a breeze.

One issue that really prevents us replacing Mumble with it completely is lack of Push-to-talk [1], which is necessary for gaming etc. Do you know of anyone working on a native desktop app (open source or otherwise)?

[1] https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/210

> Regulators aren't going to save consumers if consumers refuse to get educated or practice restraint

That's literally the job of regulators, see asbestos or cancer causing pesticides that have been banned or severely restricted. Do you expect all consumers to have degrees in chemistry and read papers to make risk assessments about the 10,000s of chemicals they come into contact daily?

Giving all my passwords, bookmarks and possibly browser history and credit card information to a closed source browser from an unknown company sounds too risky for me. How do they even plan to make money?

> Safer alternatives exist.

Sure, but do they have certified compilers for Functional Safety (ISO26262) development for Automotive or Medical applications? Rust does not, although there's a company working on it.

> Finasteride gave me severe depression.

This happened to a friend of mine. Another is taking it for years and is fine. I honestly think people aren't warned enough about that side effect. I was more worried about possible sexual dysfunction.

Have any other HN readers gone through all the standard hair loss prevention treatments and just given up?

I was obsessed with saving my hair in my late 20s. In my 30s I just accepted it and moved on. Treatments can be expensive with dubious results (Minoxidil, different shampoos) or have possible serious side effects (Finasteride). This can be really disheartening if you are single though.

Also psychologically experimenting on their users intentionally making them unhappy [1], knowingly facilitating terrorism [2] and enabling race based advertising which blocked black people accessing housing [3].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/07/10/facebook...

[2] https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/a-look-at-bo...

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-racial-ad-targeting-multic...

I think most Europeans would be shocked by the cost of having a baby in the US. See 'A typical American birth costs as much as delivering a (UK) royal baby' [1]

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/23/a-typica...

> towards something in which everything was codified, safetyism became rampant

Those "gentleman's agreements" were not that great if you happened to be a woman, gay or any other minority. The upsides to HR, employment regulation and so on has been making the office a far better place to work for a lot of people.

While I agree that there are rampant problems in a lot of sectors, from low skilled to medical, there have been some wins. My team went fully remote for 2 years and now most people still work 3 days a week from home. We were able to build up a large and talented team during the lockdowns with most of my co-workers and those I manage 3 timezones away. We adopted more flexible working hours and we've never been happier. My manager can take time in the morning to get his kids to creche and I can take a longer lunch to check in on elderly relatives. I no longer spend 2 hours a day stuck in traffic. Our productivity has skyrocketed. We may be privileged tech workers, but the change in work styles has definitely boosted our company as a whole.

I recently learned what a DAO is and I simply don't understand what purpose a "decentralized autonomous organization" could serve here. What am I missing? Python, FreeBSD, Debian etc etc have foundations/boards, hold elections and make decisions without anything so complex.

"Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Brexit has been absolute poison for the automotive industry in the UK, as expected. I would not expect much innovation or investment when there is so much uncertainty on trade and regulations. Politically it seems there is no appetite to face that reality though.

This analysis [1] and the linked FT article is eye-opening for many people. I can't say I am surprised though. I've traveled across the UK and the level of poverty in some areas is really shocking.

[1] https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1570832839318605824#...

He is so out of touch he doesn't understand how petrol stations or contactless credit cards work. [1]

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/rishi-sunak-contactles...

Yes, look up the Bhima Koregaon case in India. Indian police used Israeli spyware to hack the phones of lawyers, human rights activists and critics of Modi. They also used phishing and other malware to plant terrorist material and then imprisoned them.

> In Wilson’s case, a piece of malware known as NetWire had added 32 files to a folder of the computer’s hard drive, including a letter in which Wilson appeared to be conspiring with a banned Maoist group to assassinate Indian prime minister Narendra Modi.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/20/indian-activ...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/modified-elephant-planted-eviden...

> „If Japan can’t control the technology nobody can“

Nuclear technology is risky but Fukushima isn't a good reflection of what modern nuclear power plants can accomplish. The reactors at Fukushima were designed half a century ago and were known to be flawed 35 years before the accident happened [1]. It's ironic that the plant was running longer than was originally planned in part because of Green opposition to newer power plants.

[1] https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/16/fukushima-reactor-flaws...

It was clearly an extra-judicial execution, just like Christopher Dorner. They cornered someone they really wanted dead and ignored every convention and law to kill them. In the case of Dorner their thirst for vengeance led them to shoot and murder multiple unrelated people. [1]

In a democracy with rule of law, the police have to be held to a higher standard. If not, they are just an armed gang with a licence to kill. It also undermines any concept of negotiation or surrender. The next person will go out guns blazing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_a...

They already did in 2016. [1]

They lied to the shooter, who they had cornered, and told him the robot was delivering a phone. In fact it was a bomb.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bo...

Police have already used a bomb disposal robot to kill a person [1] in the US.

The conversation they had shows slippery slope in action:

> After a brief silence, Commissioner Jesse Hsieh asked the next question: “Does the department plan on using a live round in the robot PAN disruptor?”

> The answer was immediately provocative. “No,” Daza-Quiroz said, before quickly pivoting to hypothetical scenarios in which, yes, just such a shotgun-armed robot might be useful to police.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bo...

>If it was emitting an entire meaningful product, that would be something else. But it’s emitting nuts and bolts.

Take a single C file or even a long function from the leaked Windows NT codebase and include it in your code. See how happy Microsoft will be with it. They spent millions of dollars on their legal teams. Eroding copyright protections will harm the weakest most. How many open source contributors can afford copyright lawyers?

> rampant fascism

Honest question - do Americans really believe fascism is increasing? By most (all?) metrics Western societies are radically more tolerant on racial, LGBT and religious issues than even 2 decades ago.

> It's similar with the low quality "drone" footage from the Uyghurs "camps

Multiple news organizations have published high quality satellite photos of the Chinese concentration camps for ethnic minorities and Muslims, published the tenders for their construction and interviewed both victims and former jailers who have fled the country. Chinese officials on record boast about the 100s of thousands they have imprisoned or send to prison like factories across the country and the children they have separated from their parents for "re-education". Would you have us all believe this is an elaborate "MI6" conspiracy?

Facebook is happy to host peoples entire online social life to profit from (and experiment on, sell dangerous/discriminatory ads to etc) but not take the least care to ensure they keep access to all their photos, contacts etc. Banning people for one infraction after nearly 2 decades is entirely unreasonable given the amount of data the service holes.

I've been seeing more posts like this lately. Does anyone know why?

What is the purpose of this 'hacking'? Is it trolling competitors in the gaming community? Failed extortion?

The greatest trick the elites ever pulled was getting the media to convince the general public that violence somehow invalidates the legitimacy of a movement or cause.

People are fools if think there isn't a Room 641A in Cloudflare, except it's a lot better since web service operators willingly handed over all their private keys and therefore user data.