Dude has an anti-China boner. Mind you, I agree that their gov spying on us through Tiktok is a problem. He'd still rather focus on an app. 150,000 dead Americans seems to have slipped his mind.
Please don't post generic political comments to HN. They lead to generic political discussion, which is repetitive (and therefore tedious), and usually turns into a nasty flamewar.
From other stuff I've read, it sounds like the objection is not just spying, but also that the owners can inject whatever content they want into any user's feed using the interest clustering they've doubtless built to feed the propaganda most effective for that person, and the potential that if they're at the mercy of the Chinese govt, that the government could control that injection. Unlike Facebook, etc, there's no expectation that what you're seeing is coming from people in your social circle.
That still isn't a reason to ban the app until there is evidence that such a thing has been done. In other words, punishing the crime before it is committed seems unjust.
My naive understanding is ARM devices traditionally use a static, unchanging "device tree" specification to bring up hardware on boot. There's a project for implementing UEFI firmware for the Raspberry Pi - as one ARM device - so that you can take any unmodified (ARM-built) Linux that would boot off of EFI and it will Just Work (tm).
Actually what I've been doing is using my wireless router (openwrt) to serve pxe images. So the rpi sits without an SD card. It's powered via Power over Ethernet (PoE), is advertised a pxe server, gets the initial uefi & ipxe binaries, then I can boot from an image off Github or one served locally. ipxe just adds another layer of indirection for expanded fun.
To me it seems like we're just trying to navigate a way to a post-scarcity society with the least amount of backlash/damage.
We could give people money, or we could say "up to so many kilowatt/hours this is free" or "you are entitled to this set-amount of groceries for free". Or to combat prices that inflate for UBI, the government could be reporting what is a reasonable price.
Man I wish I had taken economics. I truly don't know all the ways this could harm us.
> We could give people money, or we could say "up to so many kilowatt/hours this is free" or "you are entitled to this set-amount of groceries for free".
The point of the article, is that centralized planners are really bad at calculating these things, thus the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union and China moving to a much more market based economy.
> I don't like this but if a corporation is a person, they have the same right to it that the rest of the public has.
1. A corporation is not a person. Corporations don't have rights, except inasmuch as the people within the corporation have rights.
2. The problem isn't that Google has access to the data, it's that USGS and the rest of the world no longer have access to the data, except on Google's terms.
The supreme court also decided in Dred Scott v. Sandford that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves were not included under the constitution and could never be citizens.
The supreme court was wrong on racism, and it's wrong on corporate personhood.
What's right and wrong is a purely human construct and changes over time. The point was that, currently, in the eyes of the law, corporations hold many of the same rights as individuals. This could change, but would require special circumstances not considered previously or a change to the law by congress.
Corporations aren't people. I can't get married to Google. If you can point to specific precedence of corporations being given access to certain data on grounds of their personhood then your argument makes sense but just because corporations are considered like people in the context of speech doesn't mean that applies literally everywhere else.
Corporations aren’t people, but from a legal perspective, they have some rights in common with persons, which is why you often hear statements saying they are.
Checking weight makes sense, maybe that’s why more than one person received an emergency blanket in an ssd box. Someone discovered it weighed about the same as the ssd.
You feel the bar is being set very low. The hard part of your job is working within the established environment (the technical debt?). You're choosing to put the effort in 1 day a week because you're comparing your contributions to your coworkers.
If you're unhappy in this dev environment that's one thing, and if you're unhappy with your contributions that's another.
I would try setting expectations for yourself if it's easy to impress the company. You could be a huge asset even assisting your team. It's concerning that you aren't aware of why their progress is slower and that no one has spotted your complacency. Perhaps you have something to offer as a mentor and maybe that will give your work more meaning/value (something to consider).
As the guy above me said, a lot of people are facing crisis right now. I honestly don't blame you for having an easier time of it if most of the week you're just collecting money.
PS: I learn best by teaching others. I think you should get more involved with your team to help them :-)
PPS: I have grown SO MUCH as a developer by forcing myself to "do as the Roman's do". Watch your mental health. If you feel like you're losing your identity you should walk, but otherwise try immersing yourself in understanding your companys' stack and design decisions. Make your contributions indistinguishable from all that code that together makes something amazing. It's bad to measure progress by SLOC. You can always switch to Sprite if you don't like the Koolaid.
PPPS: You may be able to be honest with your supervisor and ask for time at work to work on passion projects. They care about your meaningful contributions and would likely do whatever you need to keep those rolling in. A FAANG company would accomodate this.
If it has any chance of passing, it could very much cripple the tech sector in the US and make us less competitive.
On the other side of the coin, this is not going to stop individuals from using encryption that isn't broken. It would be ugly to see what it does in commercial spaces, and to your average citizen whose data is less protected. I think it would force a knowledgeable subcommunity further into the shadows while everything else burns.
You replied to my comment but you didn’t even read the bill.
Read the amendments, they specifically outline that the scope of this bill will not impact encryption laws (which they added specifically because of all the fear-mongering brought by the companies that stand to lose from this bill).
The amendment looks legitimately good, unless they're hustling it to an inappropriately small scope or intend to drop it at the lest second. Both are time honored legislative traditions, of course.
“(7) CYBERSECURITY PROTECTIONS DO NOT GIVE RISE TO LIABILITY.—Notwithstanding
“(paragraph (6), a provider of an interactive computer service shall not be
“(deemed to be in violation of section 2252 or 2252A of title 18, United States
“(Code, for the purposes of subparagraph (A) of such paragraph (6), and shall
“(not otherwise be subject to any charge in a criminal prosecution under State
“(law under subparagraph (B) of such paragraph (6), or any claim in a civil
“(action under State law under subparagraph (C) of such paragraph (6), because
“(the provider—
“(A) utilizes full end-to-end encrypted messaging services, device encryption,
“(or other encryption services;
“(B) does not possess the information necessary to decrypt a communication; or
“(C) fails to take an action that would otherwise undermine the ability of the
“(provider to offer full end-to-end encrypted messaging services, device
“(encryption, or other encryption services.”.
The amendment, even assuming it ends up in the final bill, only limits one specific type of damage that doing this could cause. The bill as a whole is still malicious garbage with no redeeming value.
It's like having a bill giving the FBI regulatory authority over the public school curriculum and then people say that's a terrible idea because they could e.g. prohibit sex education. So then they modify the bill to carve that out in particular. But that was just one specific example. The overall premise of the bill is still inherently damage even if you take out one specific bad thing people were using as an example.
I have to admit, I like the look of that amendment.
That said, I also liked the look of the part in the ACA where Medicare Part D would be allowed to bargain for drug prices. Pity it wound up on the cutting room floor while I wasn't watching. I wonder how that happened?
I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts.
It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :(
I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and feed my input to this search engine.
”Bangs are shortcuts that quickly take you to search results on other sites. For example, when you know you want to search on another site like Wikipedia or Amazon, our bangs get you there fastest. A search for
!w filter bubble
will take you directly to Wikipedia... [DDG offers] 13,505 bangs and counting...”
Toshiba had potential.