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That's what Linus has to say about Nvidia and Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g

SCNR

> "what can I as a man in the tech industry do about this -- aside from not harassing people, which seems like a bare minimum."

Those may be obvious basics, but starting at ones own (work) environment seems like a good idea:

Deliberate about the own behaviour and thinking. Acknowledge the existence of sexism. Speak out against sexist behaviour (starting with things like sexist jokes), even if it costs you your manhood in front of your (sexist) male co-workers. Don't think that it's only the job of your female co-workers to point out sexism and harassment.[0] Keep in mind that you can always decide just to go back to business and try to ignore the sexism around you - your female co-workers can not so easy.[1]

Oh, and when I look through the comments below the article at TC one more thing: Don't play the white knight or expect a medal for not being sexist - not being sexist should be a matter of course.

[0] Like "My female coworkers never complaint, so I thougt it's okay to just ignore or even enjoy sexist jokes and other innuendos."

[1] Disclaimer: Since I'm part of the rethorical "you" I have to admit that I caught my self just choosing the "easy way" more often than I wished.

Almost all numbers from free "burner apps"[0] I came across are already burned for all major Social Networks (probably because someone else already used those numbers for registration).

I don't know if it works with paid services, but then you have the problem of paying for it anonymously.

[0] I guess you mean those services which offers some mobile numbers for receiving SMS to anyone without registering.

> "which fails with the burner phone number used to create the account."

Maybe I expressed that a bit unclear: I didn't mean it fails because you have no longer access to the number (= you burned the burner). It fails because Twitter don't accept this same number which worked while sign-up anymore for re-verfification.

To be honest: I'm not sure if Twitter accepts any other number in that case or if the prompt for phone number re-verification is just an obscure way of saying "Your account is permanently locked for any reason."

> "And finally, keep in mind that after all this, Twitter can always kick you off for their own reasons."

The problem with

anonymous e-mail address + burner phone + always use TOR to access the account

is that this doesn't play out well in the medium term. This triggers various automatic "anti-abuse" measures on Twitters side. Those measures include: random prompt for re-verification of the phone number, which fails with the burner phone number used to create the account.

It's hard (if not impossible) to maintain such an account in the long run while protecting ones identity.

> "The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing."

I felt that way since I know the word "procrastination". When I talk about "procrastiantion" with other people I propose exactly this definition: Procrastination is a way to get stuff done, only that it's not the stuff with the closest deadline.

> Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done.

This is why I felt the idea of the "instant gratification monkey"[0] doesn't fit my definition of procrastination so well. It's not just a pet in my head, but also friends, flatmates and co-workers whom I doing favors while I'm procrastinating.

Anecdotal example: When somethings broken in our flat, my flatmates asking me when I have much work to do, because then will be the time when I will fix the broken stuff instead of doing the actual (paid) work. There's also the joke about me that when I stop doing (paid) work the whole house will go down because I will have less motivations to fix things.

But there's also a dark side of this kind of behaviour: When I call it a day and review the things I have achieved that day, all the things I got done can easily drown in the sea of things which I have not but were on the top of the ToDo list. Sometimes this is the moment where "panic monster"[0] is seeing its chance.

And yes, even reading article about procrastination is still procrastination in the sense of my proposed definition.

[0] http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...

I don't want to blame any parents for the desire of knowing where their kids are and that they're save. But at the same time I'm very glad that I was born two decades before parents started to think that making their kids carying a GPS tracker is the prequisite for "more freedom".

I'm sure my parents were better off many times with not knowing where I was. So I think the psychological part isn't going to play out well - at least for the kids.

That may or may not be true, but unfortunately many people think Telegram uses end-to-end encryption by default. This is why I keep posting the link to the FAQ ;).

I couldn't agree more with your comment. If you found your favorite framework, which is still maintained and gets the job done, then stick with it unless you have very good reasons not to (and "it's uncool to use this long established framework" isn't one of those reasons).

I saw so much flawed frontend code which wasn't written by bad coders but by people which try to use always the fanciest and newest thing out there. Even if the docs written in marketing language claim otherwise, there's always a learning curve and it doesn't make any sense to switch the framework as soon as the learning curve getting flat.

> most secured [...] messenger in the world

That's indeed a very dubious claim, only the opt-in "Secret Chats" use end-to-end encryption. [0]

[0] https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data

Unfortunately I didn't find more actual stats, but there is a report from Deutsche Bundesbank (German Federal Bank) from 2014 which states that in 2014 the share of cash payments in Germany was 79.1% and only 1.3% credit card transactions.[0, page 27] If I remember correctly, there is no other European country with such a low percentage of credit card transactions.

[0] https://www.bundesbank.de/Redaktion/EN/Downloads/Publication... [PDF]

I must admit that I first started reading about the details from the Apollo 1 disaster after hearing the Public Service Broadcasting[0] song "Fire In The Cockpit" from their "Race for Space" album. The album is a concept album about the American and Soviet space race using samples from various speeches, news shows and NASA public relation stuff.

The band says about the song (which they never play at their live shows):

> "The fire on Apollo 1 was such an important and terrible chapter in the program that it felt wrong to leave it out of our version of the story. [...] We wanted to treat it with respect and not come up with some trite or overly emotional song, so we just kept it very, very simple and tried to pay a quiet, but terrifying tribute to those three men."[0]

There is so much historic stuff in this album that I can highly recommend it to anyone interested in the history of space missions.

[0] http://publicservicebroadcasting.net/ [1] http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=37821

I told you I'm a sarcastic person ;). I confess using the rutabaga example knowing its bad reputation for the sake of aggravation. Although I grew up in that region with food-conservative parents,[0] I'm still fan of occasional rutabaga mash or rutabaga gratinée - withstanding the lack of understanding from my flatmates.

[0] Means: regional/seasonal food not as ideology, but because it's the food one has eaten since childhood; or in other words: "What the farmer doesn't know he doesn't eat."

Besides some flimsy claims about who consumes the most staples the article just basically says:

- buy local

- eat with the seasons

- many small local farms are better than few big (remote)

- there's need for a better market for those small farms

Is it just me not getting what this has to do with the cons of "vegetarian diets"? At least where I live eating meat isn't a sign for any of those points.

Although I'm a sarcastic person myself, this anti-hippie rhetoric is completely self-defeating. While I get the environmental and economic benefits of the "eat local" ideology, the consequences for our menu appear (at least to me) more hippie-like than not eating meat. But maybe this is just my opinion living in the North German Plain not wanting to eat rutabaga the whole winter.

This was the API Ben Cox used to gather more than a million of public keys from (active) Github users to analyze their strength or weakness, which finally led GitHub to revoke the vulnerable/weak keys and notify the users.[0]

Edit: Better source.

[0] https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/auditing-github-users-keys

> "I noticed it doesn't know about phones that have USB-C chargers."

Allthough I find the base concept of the side promising (not only for older relatives), it would be much more helpful if you add more connection types. Some examples:

- "Computer --> TV" only knows HDMI and VGA (E.g. what about [mini] Display Port?) - "Computer --> Printer" only knows USB A to USB B

I would start with the most common possibility and go down to the more exotic ones, to not clutter the expirience for most people. Then you could even add more special connections where you need adapters for.

Comment by the reporter of that issue (ro31337):

> "Dropping a table is like checking a gun without bullets. It should not work, but just don't put it against your head while testing."

While this is basically true, there is also the difficulty to teach less tech-savvy where it's save to experiment and where not. (And this is where things like "The Line of Death" come into play.)

Anectdotal example: On one hand I sometimes get almost mad when I try to help my parents with computer problems (especially via phone) because they didn't even bothered with randomly trying somewhat problem-related buttons or options.[0] They just get paralyzed (by the fear they could break something) because something happens what isn't routine, even if the solution could be found within minutes even by non tech people.

On the other hand I'm glad about the same behaviour when they call me to ask if some mail or website is legitimate or not. About half of the calls are false positive scam suspicions, but I'm happy looking into them, as long it helps them not getting scammed.

[0] https://xkcd.com/627/

> "[...] whose duty is it to volunteer to clean it up?"

While this isn't applicable in all areas, a rule of thumb could be "those who making money with the people which have to use toilets".

Anecdotal example: I'm living in an amusement district of a big German City. There are very few public toilets and most of the few are paid ones. So every weekend the whole district is smelling like a big bowl of piss, except in winter when the frozen pee of multiple weekends accumulate until there is the big pee-melt.

Why not making all those bars, clubs and liqor stores pay for the maintanance of free public toilets?

That's what StartCom might thought when they announced their new service "Start Encrypt" around the same time when Comodo tried to get hold of the "Let's Encrypt" trademark which Let's Encrypt successfully fought back.[0] Then some more deserved buckets of shit hit their fan. I can't bring myself to call StartCom a competitor of Let's Encrypt.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961034

There are various (english) news articles (for example [0][1]) and also a paper for the European commision [2] (so called ESPN Flash Report) claiming that.

But besides those sources there is also the fact that the child-raising benefits are only unconditional from the second child on, for the first child there is a maximum monthly income to get it.[2] If the main goal was the well being part, then this would not make much sense.

[0] http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/250612,Poland-pays-out-mil...

[1] http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/02/11/poland...

[2] http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16077&langId=en [PDF]

While I second mrottenkolber that your guess is highly stereotypical, the intention of the polish state introducing their "500+" program seems to be exactly that: increasing the birth rate.

> "which means that every family in the country receives 500PLN per month, per child"

Looks like this isn't quite correct:

"The new, universal child-raising benefit of PLN 500 (EUR 114) monthly is granted for every second child under 18, and for the first child if the family income is below PLN 800 (EUR 182) per capita per month (PLN 1,200/EUR 273 in the case of child disability)."[0]

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=16077&langId=en [PDF]

Original HN discussion from three years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6936539

> The group of individuals handling this data are more than likely to be bureaucratically appointed rather than democratically elected.

Exactly what I was going to reply. There is no need for any conspiracy theories to acknowledge that in almost any democratic states of these days "states within a state" exist when it comes to surveilance and intelligence services. While political function owners come and go with each election, those organisations seem to be more structural conservative following agendas which reach beyond any legislative period.

This is only partly true for telegram and the fact that people repeatedly get it wrong is more harmful than if Telegram wasn't encrypted at all and everybody would know it.

Telegram use end-to-end encryption only on so called "Secret Chats".[0] And in my experience very few people use "Secret Chats". This is the main reason I don't use it anymore and recommend against using it to others.

[0]https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data

[little spoiler warning]

I wouldn't call it "this exact topic", since the primary attack vector in the story are smart meters, but still can second your recommendation. The book is highly based on a study founded by the german government[0], analyzing the outcome of a great scale blackout. The study is also worth reading, unfortunately only a german version is available.

[0] http://www.tab-beim-bundestag.de/de/untersuchungen/u137.html

Leaving the crypto protocol aside, it's also important to know that only "Secret Chats" using End-to-End encryption.[0]

[0] https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data

Can't second that ;). While my Freerunner was indeed able to do phone calls on day zero, it also turned in hands-free talking automagically without any possibility to turn it off. This was a lot "fun" especially in public places. So maybe we are talking about the definition of "making phone calls" here.

I then flashed a fully featured Debian on it which was able to do everything except making phone calls. I was so excited about that while all my non-techie friends were like "Well, lucky you but now you have a so called Smartphone which isn't even a phone."

Dropped it as a daily driver after two weeks or so to leave it on my desk for a long time until someone on the Freerunner mailing list asked if someone is willing to sell theirs. 20 people offered theirs for free so I couldn't get rid of mine. Gave it to an Open Device Lab then, they still own it but never listed it in their device list.

But somehow I don't regret buying it in the first place.

> "but I haven't found anything better than IRC for chat"

If IRC was your best bet so far, you might want to have a look at good ol' XMPP aka Jabber. If you're into Android, with Conversations [0] there's a suitable client which supports end-to-end encryption. For other OS there are many other choices with different encryption options. While OTR (Off-The-Record Messaging) might be the most popular one, it unfortunately makes multi-device-support kind of a bumpy experience.

[0] https://conversations.im/