BearhatBeer

Can we just eliminate bad actor nation states like China and Israel from the Internet? Filter all packets coming from or going to there, have the backbone spyware sever proxy connections, etc? One year the first time, forever with repeat offenders.

It's all gotten too complicated, clearly the direction of Linux is controlled by big companies who are mainly interested in the datacenter. I used OpenBSD because it's still Unix, it's not trying to become something it's not, or change itself to suit whoever pumps in the money.

Communism was a project funded primarily by New York and London bankers, so this is hardly surprising.

I always run the water in the bathroom and kitchen until it's super cold, letting me know I've gotten to the stuff fresh out of the main. But I was trained to do this because when I was a kid we had some lead pipes in our home, heh.

I don’t like the idea of acidic coffee inside the aluminum, it seems like your average consumer just doesn’t know, or care, about exposure to aluminum through this vector though.

The long line support improvement could be a game changer. I’m less interested in tree sitter and pixel-scroll seems like a nightmare - emacs users know how screwed up scrolling is already especially in large buffers.

I’m just glad that you can still compile a minimal emacs without dbus.

Brave just shifts the spying from one company to another, it doesn't actually enhance your privacy.

Canon and Nikon both sell verification kits which can be used to cryptographically prove that a photo wasn't tampered with. Although these kits cost money, it seems it's just a flash drive with special software on it.

Tim Cook's 250 billion dollar China deal was never really scrutinized though it was reported in the press, briefly.

Nobody here had a Hero Jr. growing up in the 1980's?

I keep my passwords on an old HP-200LX.

Are they starving though? It's a question that seems impossible for anybody to verify independently. I'm not saying they aren't, but it's impossible to know that they are for sure, too. And we're not to worry about their nukes either, after all according to the official sources they've all merely fizzled.

I'm just not going to worry about North Korea either way. If they want to own suckers running Windows, well, I'm not impressed by that either. People do it all the time.

Most of us don't run Windows, this is HACKER News not PEBKAC News.

Tell the State Department to fix the propaganda we Americans are fed about the DPRK. It’s impossible for any American to believe they’re a threat, propaganda says they’re a clown country that’s starving which presents zero nuclear threat because of fizzles, and no conventional threat because, again, they’re all starving.

It’s the pap we’re fed upon and everybody WILL underestimate them because of it.

Careful, AI has been known to lie.

Nothing's worth saving any more, cinema died with LOTR, gaming died with Morrowind, honestly nobody's going to lose out if say, all culture post 2008 was simply deleted forever. Could, in fact, help us in the future.

It can be made with no moving parts from water. I would contend that petrol is hydrogen with massive amounts of extra steps.

I think you've misunderstood - the social contract is a fiction, that's why it's purposely undefined in my opinion. It's just something we're told exists so we can feel like the fox watching the henhouse is a good arrangement. I prefer not to believe in very many things simply because belief's the end of the logical process.

I always chuckle a bit when I hear the term social contract. It's not legally enforcable, isn't codified, people can't choose to partake in it, and has always been intentionally vague. Almost like a trick to convince the masses that they're owed something by the "leaders."

Nothing wrong with hating Microsoft, it's a multiple felon.

Hydrogen makes much more sense than battery powered cars. Japan's going for it in a real way, which means they will have a big head start in this field and dominate the next century. Battery cars are a dead end with insanely high environmental costs. Insanely high.

CRTs don't use tons of power, biggest draw is right when you turn it on. After that they sip.

The vocal part of the break is much more well known than the actual rhythm.

Learn emacs once and you're done - your customizations will stick around for years, decades. With the proprietary MS solution, you have no guarantee of this.

Le sigh, I guess some people want to be subject to the whims of Redmond for life.

I've noticed that Wayland advocacy (read: bot spam) has dropped off by quite a bit. Used to be you mention X.org or X11 and the bots would pour out of the woodwork to remind you it's "deprecated" or whatever - it's not - but I think the bot herders finally realized they were doing more harm than good. That bot spam left a bad taste in my mouth and I simply will never ever use Wayland because of it. I have no proof but it all seemed to be the same kind of spam that you'd encounter when discussing System D or pulse, so I suspect it was being organized from Red Hat itself. Evil company, that.

DVD's are like $1-2 each now used, what's the benefit of a subscription service?

How will you define the difference between IoT, embedded, and devices which just happen to be tucked away?

The average user can barely hit the space bar with their forehead. Creating programming tools designed for the average user will always be a study in mediocrity.