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Donations, it seems http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21294015...

Check out the documentary From Bedrooms To Billions - it goes into good detail about the early home computer game development scene, well worth a watch.

"Our US congress had the chance to fix this back in 1990s and they screwed up with enforcing it properly. We could've had a better pure fiber-based national build out but it didn't work out."

Sounds a little similar to what happened in the UK, iirc. British Telecom wanted to do a full fibre deployment but the government upheld complaints of it being anti competitive, and now we have to endure copper *DSL being the default national broadband option and all the pitfalls that entails.

Article suggests the Chan Zuckerberg initiative is non-profit, but I'm reading from multiple other sources that is definitely not the case.

Not sure who's right, but if it's not WaPo, then that's some terrible fact checking and kinda invalidates the whole article.

Edit - Chan Zuckerberg is a for profit, that will fund non profits, so WaPo is actually incorrect.

Udemy always seemed questionable with some of their course titles. Lots of 'How to make money easily doing X' and other extremely clickbait-y names.

Now it's actually proven they don't give a shit what's happening on their 'platform' and have a frankly absurd response to copyright claims. Given how quickly Youtube will block a video given a content claim, it seems any sort of legal action against Udemy will bring their house of cards down extremely quickly.

Delete your account, create one with a different email address, and enjoy the reset.

Did it a while ago on Facebook, and although I've re-added a good 75% of people on the new profile because I still like to socialise with them, having a few weeks break in between was quite pleasant.

Are any particular irc networks recommended for FOSS collaboration? I'm guessing channel and Nick services should probably be a prerequisite but other than that, where do people prefer to congregate?

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With the the exception of autopilot steering towards an oncoming car, this is a terribly subjective argument. People need to understand that driving a car is a highly responsible activity. When the car systems explicitly tell you to be attentive even if the car is driving, there is a reason for it. I believe a crash with autopilot enabled puts the responsibility on the driver, as it should.

Tesla are not saying their car will now take you from A to B with no intervention. Like GPS navigation, they are right now attempting to take some effort out of driving to make it less stressful.

Thanks! How does this get past the paywall, exactly? Is it passing a user auth through ?

Misleading title. YouTube will flag videos as private. They won't remove or delete them.

"I can’t sell access to my Mac via any kind of screen sharing."

This one was interesting to me. I thought maybe macminicolo.net might fall foul of this, if they rented out a mac mini to you, but it looks like they instead make you straight-up purchase a mac mini. http://www.macminicolo.net/jvmx_secure_signup.html

I wonder if this term/condition was in previous OSX releases and that's why they went this way, or whether it was a happy accident that they went with users purchasing a mac rather than renting one.

Well gosh what a negative nancy you are, summarising things up like that!

Umair has, I feel, a completely valid point. Twitter is a big open service for snippets of comments. Anonymity is pretty good (excluding privileged access, e.g. law enforcement requests) so it positively encourages any and all participation, even absolute shit talking.

And sadly that kind of thing happens again and again, and twitter took so long to publically appear to address it that it certainly gives the impression it wasn't something they were either anticipating or didn't have a way to easily deal with.

I think his argument is fairly compelling. Unrestrained abuse of a social service will drive people away. The daily vitriol generated by gamergate (on both sides of the argument) is a pretty obvious point of reference. There are a lot of people out there that have zero interest in any sort of meaningful dialogue and why would anyone want to have to sit on the receiving end of that should they find themselves unlucky enough to be caught in those crosshairs?

Good to see the legacy of Google Wave lives on

Oh believe me, I'm plenty mad at UK politicians :) But since our current government gained a majority while only actually taking around 37% of the vote, I'm pretty sure we're stuck between a rock and a hard place in actually getting the system changed.

Gonna quote a post from reddit:

"Facebook does do things honestly & by the book. It just so happens that they have a presence in multiple countries around the world. Due to this Facebook Uk® must pay massive amounts to lease the licenses for software & intellectual property from Facebooks conveniently placed HQ in the lowest tax capitals in the world. Doing so at a price Facebook themselves chooses perhaps based on quarterly earning estimates runs at an amazing cost almost siphoning off all profit. So the resulting entity which owns all the IP / leasing then pays tax in the country it is in on its earnings. Now they may be incorperated in a place with minimal corporation tax & simply keep a post office box there, but I assure you that's entirely the focus of their operations & is absolutely not just in place as a tax avoidance tactic. Now if you dislike this you can absolutely tell them it's unacceptable. I'm sure politicians will be telling them off and using them to get press for .. oh 7-14 days until people move on & forget about it. At which point those same politicians won't change anything which impacts the practices at all."

Shameful. Just shameful. I don't care how it gets sugar coated, if you claim to be working for the good of humanity (in facebooks case by connecting people together) and then you loophole yourself out of paying taxes, you are morally bankrupt.

Does reddit have funding issues currently? I ask because subjectively I've started getting more and more "too busy" HTTP 503's while browsing, which hints at a lack of capacity but surely that could be scaled out fairly easily if financies permit?

Not San Francisco not San Francisco not San Francisco ;)

Terrific little app. Very configurable targets for uploads, and remappable hotkeys. OSX has a bunch of good apps already out there, but this is probably one of the nicer ones for Windows.

All that talent at Facebook, and they use it to come up with creepier and more invasive ways of ad targeting. I could not help laughing at the quote about it being for "the greater good". Hot Fuzz flashbacks ahoy.

Google cached link in case you also get 502: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

I also like how their possible suggestions for why theories might not be panning out points to not enough understanding about something. So now we have a new scientific understanding to pursue. And on the way to figuring out /that/ new thing, we'll probably run into even more questions that need answering!

In some ways, this is exciting - deepening mysteries always provoking further study. But on the flip side, it also makes me ponder the thought that maybe we will never gain true knowledge of the universe. At least, probably not before a very long time passes.

Where is this focus about Angular 2 sucking? The author is in fact happy about Angular 2 being a re-write. Read the section under Problem 6, where he calls the proposed complete re-write of Angular courageous and laudable.

Now he says this is a problem for Angular 1.x because there's no carry-over of knowledge into 2.x, but that's in no-one saying Angular 2 sucks like you are suggesting.

Pleasantly surprised to see something requiring Python 3!

It's not like this is a 'win' for Apple - the news app isn't globally available (I think it's just US?) so this sure doesn't do wonders for my opinion of them. Oh well guess I'll just wait a day and see if I even remember to go check back. (I probably won't, I have a bad memory)

If you have 7z, do you need most of the others? 7z seems like it might process all of the others listed here.

Very interesting article. Clears up the preconceptions I had about using /dev/random over /dev/urandom ("it's more secure!") and explains why in very straightforward language.

Due to line contention / crosstalk, my 4G connection is now faster than my continuously degrading home VDSL2 connection (BT's "super fast broadband" fibre-to-the-cabinet offering).

However, it still doesn't mean a huge amount because data caps here in the UK seem pretty restrictive. It costs a small fortune to get a data package that might start to give you a landline-replacement service: A 20GB package is probably going to be £40 a month or more.

YouTube-dl and livestreamer are probably my personal favourite examples of open source code. Almost invaluable in getting around the flash-based monopoly of online video, they are both still highly useful in simply watching video in a preferred/favourite media player rather than some browser player UI.

There's a wealth of options to control this. I prefer going with MP4 for various reasons except if the source is available as a 1440p 60fps file, which I think is Webm only right now. Mix and match to your hearts content!