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Yep. The worse circumstance is when a lunatic champions a legitimate cause be it technological authoritarianism, the absurd concentration of corporate power, or income inequality.

It's worth remembering that "libertarian writers" advanced deregulation and climate change denial tropes for decades, and "libertarianism" is itself a billionaire-manufactured and -evangelized sock puppet ideological religion concocted with the help and credibility of Laissez-faire, pro-corporate economists and riding the coattails of a philosophically-bankrupt fiction writer who makes the irrational leap that reality (to a human observer) can ever be a known, unbiased, and concrete certainty.

https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Virtue-of-Stupidity-A-C...

The lack of nuance to consider exceptions appears to have been the problem.

Perhaps a lot of products needed bug fix campaigns because most corporations tend to reward SWE productivity based on so-called "evidence" like:

- KLoC

- # of commits

- adding features

- so-called "impact"

, rather than:

- reducing the cost to maintain code

- making code more robust

- making features actually work as users expect

- rip-replacing what shouldn't be salvaged because it's too expensive

So instead of adopting a funny mustache and making inflexible commandments, it would be less disruptive to have targeted bug fix campaigns where needed to boost nonfunctional requirements like quality, reducing support costs, and improving user satisfaction to their desired target levels.

Just run hbbs and hbbr locally. The paid features aren't all that useful for the risks they introduce.

Yep. I use the FOSS version of RD (firewall locked-down processes on clients and servers) and it's much faster and better than TigerVNC and RealVNC. I don't trust third-party, cloud-based remote access management because it's giving away too much access prone to massive failures like 1Password, Okta, and AnyDesk.

Run 2 instances of the Docker container rustdesk/rustdesk-server with hhbr and hhbs and it will work locally. It can also work in a single container with the s6 overlay variant.

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk-server

Too big to jail.*

* Unless you ripoff rich or powerful people like Madoff or SBF. If your quant shops causes global financial chaos on a diffuse and global level, it's okay to use financialization trickery like LTCM.

The dumping of energy into noise in bands variants tend to be very short ranged because of physics.

Malicious clients/APs need much less energy to DoS a network Wi-Fi network. WPA3 adds optional PMF (802.11w) to protect against rogue deauth over WPA2. Also, not deploying 802.11r but deploying WPA-3 only mode and device/user cert-based 802.1x auth also help.

Heck, even the cameras I bought my mom were PoE with in-situ SD cards for self-contained recording and NVR, with a cloud option. An armored car company holding zillions of dollars can't bother to secure itself with even 2009-level residential technology or wall/ceiling penetration sensors is an absolute case study in security theater.

Autotools is slow, ugly, and horrible. There are many better and simpler alternatives that exist now.

Source releases shouldn't be pre-processed in any way. They should build whatever they need to on-the-fly as part of the build.

Other project anti-patterns:

0. Maintaining creaky, fragile, old forks of other projects as dependencies.

1. Git submodules.

2. Too many dependencies.

3. Extremely large code bases that don't prune poor patterns, over-engineering, and dead features.

4. Lots of features. OpenSSL, I'm looking at you.

5. Not signing releases with a passphrase split between multiple developers to requires 2-person keying.

Package management/distro/builder/packager anti-patterns:

6. Patching the hell out of a project without pushing fixes upstream.

7. Inability or failure to source upstream from multiple independent sources, compare them, and verify chain/web of trust using cryptographic signatures.

8. Not following reproducible build guidelines.

9. Not using build caching like sccache.

10. Not building from reproducible sources periodically on the client-side to verify binaries are identical to those built by others.

11. Dependency hell of traditional (non-nix) packages importing zillions of packages.

Airbnb should've stayed a tiny startup geared to finding YC applicants temporary housing in the Bay Area. Some things just don't scale or remain cool, especially with they facilitate gentrification and harm locals.

News reporters are known for their extreme accuracy and precision, and their in-depth knowledge of subject matter. Maybe the MIC is still trying to convince US taxpayers to throw more countless trillions at nonfunctional pork projects for the benefit of Lockheed-Martin and uncountable layers of subcontractors? You know the A-10 just isn't whiz-bang enough for CAS roles because it can't run 13 nested levels of hypervisors and K8s.

Nation states, human/narco traffickers, or criminal-acting crazy people. 0.001% it was a stupid amateur. Either way, the source wasn't good. The prescription isn't more regulation but better defenses and integration of on-the-ground civ&mil police work.

The absurdity extends to keyboards as well. To get a moderately priced clicky keyboard with the type of switches and layout I was looking for, the damn thing has absurd levels of animated RGB ground effects that make it look like a party bus by default. (Patriot V765 with Kailh Box switches) I regret spending good money on a Mechanical V3 ASDF keyboard because it doesn't work very well, isn't comfortable, the quality is low, and after-sales support was nonexistent. I'm tempted to drag a Northgate keyboard with ALPS switches out of storage and adapt it to USB.

Once upon a time, ran scaled, HA Zimbra instances as a commercial service.

Is there anything approaching "Microsoft Exchange" today without the Microsoft or commercial pseudo-FOSS?

Some forms of reversible birth control exist, but not all of them are.

Also, I don't think people who are torn between affording food and fuel can afford to thinking about, much less afford, permanent birth control.

Might be worth mentioning my grandmother was intentionally, involuntarily sterilized by a US Navy surgeon in the late 1950's without informed consent during a "routine" hernia repair operation.

I think it's a personal choice. I like kids so I'm on the side of more reproduction by people who can afford them and who would be good parents. The net fertility rate is cratering in most countries in the global north.

Maybe we need an international NGO/co-op to provide essential services for small, essential FOSS projects such as security comms, security audits, build infrastructure, testing, best practices, background investigations, and so forth.

The "one guy's little piece of code holding up the world" is a SPOF and much easier to attack than if they had some help and automation.

For the security of all and analogous to the Chaos Monkey principle, there ought to be a covert merry band of coders whose goal is to try to slip obsfucated benign commits into important FOSS projects under pseudonyms to maintain vigilance and offer teachable moments as a public service.

Tamiya model building manuals are the gold standard of accessibility and have been so for 30+ years. They don't even require spoken or written language to understand.

Examples:

- https://www.rcscrapyard.net/manuals/tamiya/ta01/ta01-08.jpg

- https://randrhotels.com/images/198187.jpg

Good find. Thanks much.

Edit: This Czech site has 128C backorder offers for about the same price. I wished I had still access to enterprise pricing. ): https://anafrashop.com

> Again, there isn't sufficient evidence to support this ideological viewpoint.

People dying and suffering is evidence enough.

Disingenuous analysis paralysis to impose an authoritarian worldview on others.

Nice try, but you're not fooling anyone.

Good luck to you.

I hate to say it, but the most successful strategy now is to avoid raising alarms and wait until the powers encounter truly terrible events that they can't escape to Mars or hide in their apocalypse bunkers. Both Hummer-drivers and Wendy's slurping carnivores must feel the pain. Reactionary impulses and big money override science, logic, and prevention. This is even too big for the insurance industry and re-insurers to address on the edges with financial incentives.

Outright selective censorship and arbitrary anti "porn" filters. Now playing in the US! Because, you know, net neutrality and too much freedom are bad for corporations.

"Key escrow" by encrypting secrets yourself with trusted tools and storing the result in various object stores. Problem solved.

Also solved by on-prem secrets and password managers without cloud features or dial-home.

Trusting a new third-party with their new and likely unproven construction is a recipe that has failed spectacularly over and over again.

It's possible, but it's very, very difficult and, like email or DNS, becomes a kind of commoditized utility that rarely/never changes.

Creating an impossible barrier by vague demands of evidence for when someone knows they don't want to be their assigned/apparent gender. I don't see how you can argue with someone after they've passed the hurdle of it not being a phase throw extensive counseling and parental interviews, but that they truly would be more comfortable living as another biological variant. It's unlikely to be strictly healthier long term because of the vast differences in X and Y chromosomes, epigenetic interactions, and drastic shifts in hormones, but that's better than someone killing themselves or suffering without the quality of life they could have if they weren't denied.

Reminds me of a plot element of the difficult-to-find movie called Shooting Fish (1997) where 2 guys squat inside a giant water tower and turn it into their secret lair. (Yes, it's fiction.)

Meanwhile, mere mortals can't afford Bay Area rent and either commute insane distances, live in their cars, or leave.

In other news, people do sometimes live in surreptitiously in storage units. And if you're really very poor, squatting in property that is unused and locked up for investment purposes seems a moral duty.

Woah, neat. (Florida, in this example.) I had no idea.

I'll have to think about it in the future because I'm currently caring for elderly parents.

Many thanks to opening my eyes to new ways to volunteer.

Residential solar in the US is largely a greenwashing, financialization to exploit homeowners. 99.9% of the time, there is no battery or inverter in these systems and they lack 2/3-way ATCs and instead fail completely without grid power "for safety".

Commercial-scale solar is an entirely different beast, and Texas is crushing it post-snowpocalypse, without much thanks to ERCOT. [0]

0. Similarly-timed press-release with a picture of a large deployment: https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/utility-scale/tex...

> I used to volunteer as a guardian ad litem; you are an independent party who advocates for a child’s interests in family court (I had one during my parent’s divorce, and I wanted to pay it forward).

Woah, nice. I wouldn't know where to start without going to law school first.

I surmise the invention of cheap transportation combined with successive generations of mass communication like the internet demolished the central fixtures of local community and togetherness in the lives of most people. So not only do people move frequently, but they don't engage with people around them. This can't be healthy for individuals or families. Without the moderating and supportive forces local communities apply and provide on their members, people can gravitate towards hyper-individualism, odd beliefs, extremism, antisocial behaviors, isolation, and loneliness. As such, it becomes more difficult to socialize children properly, a society becomes paranoid with low trust, and it motives lashing out via crimes of desperation, despair, and malice. Healthy societies don't have rampant drug overdoses, mass shootings, droves of unhoused people, favelas, armored middle-class housing, $100M+ homes, or plunging net fertility rates overall.

That's the problem with increasing fragmentation as an n+1 of the same thing and trying to do everything yourself rather than delegating and scaling effort and expertise via crowdsourcing and outsourcing through plugin maintainers.

An "opposite" of the Atom approach appears to be an extreme overreaction (rather than a sensible middle way) and fails to solve the problems it brought: a slow, wasteful platform and a tradition of abandoned, fragmented plugins (also a problem with Vim/neovim, emacs, VSCode, and JetBrains).

A balance would be a curated plugin marketplace requiring quality, continuing maintenance, and support. Atom, VSCode, and JetBrains have some curation, but not enough. I don't know how to solve this other than to charge end users subscription fees and pay people for their efforts.

Also, that brings up the problem of monetization. A number of plugin authors insist on trial, freemium, or paid-only plugins because it's not a spare time hobby for them. Lacking monetization, some plugins won't ever be created.

So I don't see how zed will solve any problem other that being art as wonderful technology applied to a tough, busy, competitive category without enough unique, competitive advantages to self-reinforce increased adoption. As such, it seems unlikely to ever morph into a complete and useful IDE to uniformly support every development niche. Even now, I have difficulty finding a usable Haskell IDE with commercial providers such as VSCode or JetBrains to wonder if zed will somehow manage to be better than any of them and/or vim.

TL;DR: I think Zed project leaders were overly ambitious, unrealistic, and failed to anticipate the endgame.

Very sensible. While libertarian and anarcho-capitalist outfits like Reason and Freakonomics may have strange views (and sometimes held climate denial views), they do also sometimes offer uncomfortable, factual truths.

Unfortunately though, the US lacks a fair and equitable universal healthcare system and doesn't really care about imposing absurd externalities on individuals who lack health insurance or the means to side-step the narrowing separation between church and state. Birth control access isn't free or universal in the US. And, it would be unsurprising that a considerable fraction of lower-income women in physical relationships are less able to insist on using birth control at all times. It could also be that higher-income women worry more and have the means and assertiveness to make different choices.

Perhaps the root cause is when kids are born, regardless of public policies or personal choices, that aren't wanted, aren't loved, and lack sensible parental role models, they end up in worse circumstances and have more problems in life.