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Could you elaborate on why this is dangerous and shouldn't be done?

What is the current state of the software on the Librem 5? I would be happy to replace my main phone if it ticks the following boxes:

- Can handle phone calls and texts

- Cellular data works most of the time

- Has the Signal app

- Has a working web browser

Looks like in the right location you could get it for around $1M: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Mile-156-State-Hwy-77-Win...

> > How is this software licensed?

> I don't know. Do what you want.

People tend to be afraid to use software without an explicit license do to the way copyright works (at least in the US). If you don't explicitly give people permission to use your software, you maintain the full copyright rights to the work. In other words, if I started using your software and you decide you want to charge for the software after all, you could go ahead and sue me.

If you want people to "do what they want" with your software, the MIT license or BSD license is probably the closest to this sentiment. Pick one and add it to your project, it will make it much more comfortable for other devs to pick up your code.

Any disc mirroring software should work. I would probably try using dd and fdisk, but if you want a graphical option clonezilla[0] might be what you want.

[0]: https://clonezilla.org/

> That problem could have been solved politically with regulation plus (in the countryside) ground based radio, or (in cities) with regulation of cable infrastructure such that it was separated from packet-routing and customer-service.

My hope is that these constellations put pressure on the ground based incumbents to fix their shit. The result might be that we get cheap enough internet on the ground that the constellations become unprofitable and shut down. Might be a win-win without politics and regulation.

Why? It seems like a decent way to measure how valuable something is. All of the money changing hands in a city for one year could buy you Tesla. $300 billion on its own has nothing I can relate the size to.

This sounds like a great way to reduce my Starcraft 2 ladder anxiety! I was thinking of giving up my 2 pylon before gateway build, but maybe with this I can push though.

Is fastmail the best email service provider these days? I switched my own domain to them a while ago, but then abandoned it when I heard about the new laws in Australia.

For me this depends on the context:

1. On the first message of a conversation I prefer a wall of text, because that lets me read all of the details really quickly.

2. If the conversation is likely to be short I prefer the one message after another since my attention is already on the chat, and I might as well be reading what they're typing rather than watching the "x is typing..." indicator.

3. If the conversation is going to be long I much prefer a call, I don't have the time to wait for someone to type all day. Context switches are expensive so I don't like reading occasional long messages while I'm trying to work.

Don't you have old phones laying around? Install the app on one of those and keep using your main phone.

> creating output images with file sizes up to 2500 times larger than the originals.

This is the perfect format for storing all of my family photos! I never thought I'd find a good use for the 8TB of storage I impulse bought last black Friday.

This is known as the sterile insect technique(SIT) and has proven effective in quite a few cases[0]. Looking at the list of times this has been attempted it doesn't look like there have ever been any adverse effects[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique#Succe...

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

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/244/

I played through a few of the scenarios, this is quite interesting.

The failure states seem quite harsh though when I'm trying to explore the paths. For example, while playing through the "How a Bill Becomes a Law" example, if I make the mistake of introducing the bill to the house before a committee, I get a warning "WHAT BILL ARE YOU INTRODUCING? What could you possibly be introducing?". The all caps part is a font choice, so it doesn't look like users could disable it which might scare some players. I would have expected a much calmer explanation of the problem.

The other thing I would have liked is an easy link to a study guide or external resources. I know the whole point is to learn by exploring the decision tree, but I would have liked to stop and read more about what a committee is, or to learn what a "rule" is that I'm assigning to a bill (I still don't know). It seems like it's easy to get a rough overview of a process, but not to dive deeper than that.

> An organization of people that seeks shared profit for all its members and does not exploit the labor of non-members

It doesn't make indication of the distribution of the profit. If I were a business owner couldn't I get around this by giving each employee $1 in stock options? If the value of the organization goes up there's still shared profit, no matter how minuscule it is.

> Jeff Bezos Ends Day with an All-Time High Net Worth of $X

Couldn't this be said any day Amazon stocks hit a new all-time high? What makes today special that a news article is written about it? I could imagine $200B being a significant milestone, but why not wait a few days and publish the article then?

This recent thread covers the same research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24172385

> Calculating the trajectory to account for gravity would be problematic.

Couldn't you just make every fuel pellet a powered spacecraft just a tiny engine? It could adjust its velocity when it drifts off course. That would add some weight, but a small ion engine might fit the bill. The engine could of course be disposed of to save weight once its captured by the larger ship.

The whole process could be safer if the rocket just keeps some extra fuel in case it doesn't manage to collect say every 10th pellet.

I wish we would switch to higher FPS video already. Youtube at least supports 60FPS which is watchable, but most feature films are stuck at 24. I remember a while The Hobbit[0] tried to move the bar to 48FPS but it didn't catch on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit:_An_Unexpected_Jour...

What sort of adversary do you imagine would carry out an attack like that?

If you're defending against your own government, they already control the network and could hold on to your S3 network traffic until they can decrypt it.

If you're defending against an individual how would they know where to download your file from? I assume the network doesn't broadcast a connection between real life identity and the data you're storing. And if the individual can monitor your physical network, then they can again decrypt the network traffic eventually.

If you're defending against the server hosting your content, they would have to host your old data for years past you stopping the service before they could decrypt the content, which would be a massive investment.

Finally, do you have reason to believe that our current encryption algorithms will be cracked anytime soon? The last big innovation I heard was SHA-1 generating a hash collision in 2017, but even that took thousands of dollars in compute resources, and SHA-1 was known to be defective for a long time before that. I imagine if we use our best algorithms they'll hold up for quite a while longer.

Reading through all of those signs makes it clear that most people who come to HN for civilized discussion also enjoy the opposite end of the spectrum in a different context.

> If I put private data on the Filecoin network, I would like to be able to largely prevent most people from even pulling down the encrypted files.

Why do you want this? The files are encrypted and thus illegible. To anyone without the key they look like random noise.

I hadn't heard of Plenny Active before, looks like you're right about the price. I'll have to give that a try, thanks for the suggestion!

I enjoy eating too, I don't think I would ever switch to meal replacements completely. But I would consider switching my default from my own terrible cooking to a meal replacement and eat out for my other meals.

> Society just wont change to support it.

Maybe this is just me, but I would happily change my diet to be around 50% Soylent or other meal replacement if the cost was cheaper. Currently I eat around 2400 calories a day, with Soylent that costs me $20 a day. I can get Chipotle for ~$15 per day, and between the two Chipotle clearly wins on taste.

From what I can tell meal replacements are often far more environmentally friendly, there might be an environmental win here if the price drops.

Are any of these projects ready for personal backup use, or still experimental?

Do you know what the half life of methane in the atmosphere is? I did a search for it but couldn't find it.

I think a more effective solution than a breakup would be requiring Facebook to interoperate with other social networks. We could force them to implement APIs which would let users from other platforms chat with and send posts to Facebook users. Imagine a tweet or a snap showing up in your Facebook feed, and vice versa. ActivityPub[0] is already a protocol which tries to solve this, but Facebook would never freely implement it because it would breach their walled garden. We might be able to regulate them into doing it.

[0]: https://activitypub.rocks/

I hacked together a quick bookmarklet, here's how to get it working in firefox:

1. Create a new bookmark to any page, name it whatever.

2. Right click the bookmark -> Properties

3. Replace the "Location" field with:

  javascript:stories=document.getElementsByClassName("storylink");for(idx=0;idx<stories.length;idx++){ window.open(stories[idx].href)}

While on HN if you click the bookmarklet, it will open all of the links in a new tab.