The BBC is a public service. Saudi Arabia is a country with a LONG list of RECENT human rights abuses, migrant abuses and exploitation, human trafficking, child sex trafficking, and shamelessly slaughtering journalists on foreign soil.
The comment adjacent to mine links to several findings, including from the EFF, demonstrating doubt on your assertions here. Specifically the case of Texas using Flock data outside of their jurisdiction (on a national level even) to use against abortion seekers. You have no substantial comments to make on those or any of the other active discussions that have spawned on this platform over the past year? You're obviously reading them, yet you only remain "consistent" on a technicality.
What steps is Flock taking to address the privacy overreach? Do you have data sharing agreements with Palantir? If so, do they respect the same geofencing properties that your clients supposedly have full control over?
Why are we using "arabnews.com" as a source? It's owned by the Saudi government isn't it? This topic is hitting the front-page of more reputable news sources.
As the CEO of Flock, don't you feel you have more information to offer this community outside of the "we do not sell data" statement you've made over and over? The fact that you do not engage here in the ethical aspects of your product doesn't look good for you and only deepens suspicion that something darker is going on behind your doors.
The "solutions" provided to me so far for my primary issue (using Ableton Suite DAW) has not worked. There is no practical solution that allows this software to function in a Linux environment successfully. I can open the app, but that's the extent of it. It's not usable.
> I so badly want to jump ship entirely, but there's several things holding me back. I do music production as a hobby and Ableton Live doesn't play nice with Linux. In fact it seems anything that is resource intensive without native linux support has some issues. I'm also an MS stack developer, so things like Visual Studio Pro aren't available (although I've been using Cursor IDE more and more these days). Lastly I have some games acquired through "the high seas" in which a work-around doesn't exist for compatibility.
> The responses I got were to switch to different software. No, no, and no. I paid a lot of money for Ableton Suite and poured many many hours into learning how to use it; it's the DAW I prefer to use, I don't want to switch.
> Having said this, I did try to dual boot recently with Linux Mint, and once again ran into headaches getting my Logitech mouse buttons to work.
Thanks for making this a safe place to modify Windows in a community-driven fashion. I mentioned it in a comment below, but I use the "Multirow taskbar for Windows 11" mod and it's been a godsend for keeping things more organized as before. I appreciate you and the mod community.
It's not just for "nerds" if that's what you're implying. I use the "Multirow taskbar for Windows 11" Windhawk mod because I recently upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11, which removed the ability to have more than one row on the taskbar.
There's a malware risk in literally every piece of software. Windows itself behaves as malware with all the telemetry it gathers.
I've used Firefox as my daily driver for years on a high end gaming laptop and have the same gripe. The dev tools are truly bad. Even outside of dev work, there's sites where I want to hide paywall or login banners by simply setting a container to "display: none;", but opening up the inspector (slow) and doing so causes the browser to freeze.
I exclusively use private browsing, but I know that doesn't do much in preventing tracking, so it's nice to see this finally starting to roll out.
The fact that I have to go to great lengths to browse anonymously - and companies desperately try to circumvent my genuine decision to opt out of their tracking - tells me everything I need to know about those companies. Words like sleezy, shady, and predatory come to mind.
I would love to see this taken one step further and have states/countries prevent companies from tracking me altogether if I reject their cookies, but I fear it's more likely those companies will lobby to prevent Firefox from protecting us.
> I so badly want to jump ship entirely, but there's several things holding me back. I do music production as a hobby and Ableton Live doesn't play nice with Linux. In fact it seems anything that is resource intensive without native linux support has some issues. I'm also an MS stack developer, so things like Visual Studio Pro aren't available (although I've been using Cursor IDE more and more these days). Lastly I have some games acquired through "the high seas" in which a work-around doesn't exist for compatibility.
The responses I got were to switch to different software. No, no, and no. I paid a lot of money for Ableton Suite and poured many many hours into learning how to use it; it's the DAW I prefer to use, I don't want to switch.
Having said this, I did try to dual boot recently with Linux Mint, and once again ran into headaches getting my Logitech mouse buttons to work.
I'm also introverted and haven't been to clubs in over 10 years, so can't speak for today's crowd. Despite being an introvert, I pushed myself to socialize. Primary motivation was just being somewhere fun with friends or work colleagues where I can dance/listen to music I like, people watch, or the one thing most people don't readily admit to: meet potential partners for sex. What actually happened was a lot more of the first thing and A LOT less of the last thing though lol. You're around a bunch of drunk people, something funny is bound to happen and those hilarious moments really made it memorable.
Would be cool to see cybersecurity covered here as well. I find it interesting how the machine learning engineer is exploding, but every engineer I talk to about it suggests these positions are mostly doing non-productive "bullshit" work and not really contributing much (arguably this applies to many tech jobs). Obviously that's anecdotal and probably not the real story, but it does seem like "machine learning engineer" is a broad term and probably doesn't tell the full story in itself.
Do you mean a life-time $50k? Otherwise an annual deductible of $50k sounds ludicrous. Maybe if they tied it to yearly income, it would make more sense.
> I could see this doing the same for older runners if the tech gets good enough.
I have degenerative disc disease that's severe enough to prevent me from running without causing neurological problems or pain. I miss being able to run (I'm in my early 40s), I haven't done it in 8 years. If something like this could lead to treating my problem, it would open up new worlds for me.
I don't understand the goal of your post. What is the solution you're proposing for those things? That they don't use anonymization techniques? They kick out the other people from their home?
The OP is saying they don't watch that kind of content and they mark the videos as "not interested" and Youtube is still pushing the content. The onus is on Youtube to stop. Presumably OP is logged in, or if they're not, then Youtube still uses browser fingerprinting techniques. It seems simple on Youtube's side to fix the problem. Blaming the OP here doesn't make sense.
Hmm not sure I agree. I think we tend to be the centrist group in this duality. We give some flexibility in allowing people to "be themselves" while still holding them accountable to professionalism. I've held many different jobs in the past 20+ years, and that seems to be true anywhere I go. This makes sense because we were of working age before professional work culture changed to what we see today. We may have broken some of the older traditions and paved the way, but I don't think we're responsible for what you see today
I was on one of the core AWS teams. I lasted 3 years and 1 month, to your point hah. I left about a year ago. My stress levels were through the roof during the time I was there. It truly was one of the most toxic stressful places I've ever worked, second only to Intel.
The largest contributor of stress being on-call rotations where getting paged between 12am-6am each night was basically a guarantee. God help you if it was a holiday and you got a high sev page, where the people that you really need are all out of pocket. The many many many instances of their security "regime" relentlessly paging us in the middle of the night for things like having an S3 bucket for static website assets; despite numerous exceptions given by L7+ leadership.
I disagree with the notion around "short documents", not only were they quite lengthy at times, but they actually made the process of "busywork" worse by adding more overhead to trivial matters.
Add on the layoffs and "return to office" horse-shit excuses and it's no wonder nobody wants to go back.
This is pretty cool, but unfortunately I have somatic tinnitus, so this doesn't work as well. The frequency/tone is very dynamic with my version of tinnitus and I can even change it by moving or massaging my neck (especially at the base of my skull) in certain ways. The good news is that also means there are brief windows of time where I have zero tinnitus because my neck and muscles are in a position to temporarily fix whatever underlying issue is causing it.
I'm on a project now that requires using Svelte in an enterprise setting. I've used all the big 3 (Angular, React, Vue) and then some (Ember, AngularJS) and I can say without a doubt, Svelte is my least favorite of them all by far. To say it has encouraged designing an unreadable mess in the code-base is an understatement. It seems to have taken the worst aspects of the big 3 and ran with it. I'm utterly confused why people enjoy this wild west hodgepodge of framework mistakes. I'd argue the improved speed is not worth sacrificing readability and lower cognitive load. This is designed for tinkerers and hobbyists. I say this with confidence of nearly 20 years experience building enterprise web applications (including in FAANG): Svelte is another fad library that has no place in a professional setting.
I so badly want to jump ship entirely, but there's several things holding me back. I do music production as a hobby and Ableton Live doesn't play nice with Linux. In fact it seems anything that is resource intensive without native linux support has some issues. I'm also an MS stack developer, so things like Visual Studio Pro aren't available (although I've been using Cursor IDE more and more these days). Lastly I have some games acquired through "the high seas" in which a work-around doesn't exist for compatibility.
I think the chances of a vulnerability being leveraged in your scenario is extremely low. For a machine connected to the network, the longer it goes without patching, the higher the chances of a security incident
If you don't care that a random person can get remote access to it, then no, I don't think you're "losing" anything. The biggest issue is no protection from 0-day security vulnerabilities, which Microsoft patched a lot of in 2025.
That's actually interesting. My yearly Proton subscription ended several months ago and I tried both NordVPN and ExpressVPN before switching back to Proton. The other two options had limited server locations and I wasn't a fan of the software/setup. There's also a weird shady vibe with how they do their advertising compared to Proton, can't quite put my finger on it though. Proton's software also seems to be more intuitive (although a bit clunky).
I am also a relatively happy proton user (now, but wasn't always this way). I second this. Based off the site, it looks like Mullvad passed a real world test too, Proton has not. I haven't tried Mullvad in a couple of years, but they were always reliable and fast. The only issue I had with Mullvad was getting connected to enough peers when torrenting, especially on older torrents where the pool of users is small. Proton's port forwarding feature did noticeably help with that. I do enjoy being able to pay a discounted yearly subscription price with Proton and their user interface is nice. There are some minor problems with split-tunneling in Proton though, sometimes it doesn't work and I haven't figured out why.
Ugh, I hear this from people in Canada too. I'm in the US, and given the decades long experiences with shoulder shrugs from medical experts around chronic health issues for myself and others, this comment really frustrates me. It is absolutely not superior. In fact I would argue that if the person in the article approached the same thing here, they'd never get the treatment they got through the NHS.
It took 5 years for my wife to get tested for rheumatoid arthritis (which she was finally diagnosed with after tests and exams proved it), and that's only because I kept insisting. The doctors here will easily hand wave any sort of complicated chronic illness. Mayo clinic - one of the top medical institutions in America - gave up on my dad's neurological illness. He was very active 3 years ago, today he is in a wheelchair. Diagnosis? Who knows, it's too complicated, they're not interested anymore.
Well you got another good laugh out of it from me LOL
As an Iranian-American, I've made similar blunders in trying to communicate with my Mexican friends and colleagues. "Hey amigo, do you need a chauqeta?" I would ask to the eruption of laughter. If you look up "Chaqueta", translation services will happily tell you it means "Jacket". Don't trust it. Apparently to some Mexicans it also means jerking off.
Your post is actually very helpful, but comes across as harsh and condescending. I think you should reconsider how you approach this.
EDIT: to be more specific, language like "You complain" and "You also didn't understand" can appear abrasive and scornful. Removing them would probably make the effect you're hoping for (proper learning techniques for the language) more meaningful.
Seems to be one of those issues like NSA mass surveillance, which transcends party lines and remains supported by most politicians. Kudos to my senator Ron Wyden though, he's been a true champion of opposing both of those things.
Yep, this fact eluded me earlier in the year. I was supposed to map out all ZIP codes in the US and color their boundaries based on certain stats we had. We were surprised to find many areas in the US were empty because they didn't have ZIP codes. I did a quick search and found out ZIP codes are driven by mail routes, and that instantly made sense to me, but the product stakeholders were very surprised to learn it.
I believe in Thiel's eyes, MAGA and "the left" are equally inferior groups of society. He's simply using MAGA as a vehicle to implement his plan and convince other like-minded elites to support him. If you listen to some of his interviews in podcasts, you can actually hear a bit of surprise and excitement in his voice in how rapidly he's making movements on the back of the current political environment.