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The "forced to use systemd" meme is a weird inversion. No one complained about being "forced" to use sysvinit when their was no choice, but when distros started to use systemd, which still allows to use sysvinit style services, that's suddenly framed as an infringement of free choice.

But if I am the victim of a $5k or $50k robbery, I'm out of luck. Yay.

Not that novel. The first ergonomics studies on touchscreens were done in the seventies. In 2010, touchscreens were already sophisticated technology and well established in many settings.

I got my first laptop with a digital pen and touchscreen in 2008 or so. They were rare back then, but nothing groundbreaking new. The touchscreen did suck though.

"The purpose of a system is what it does" is the weirdest cliché I encountered here, and that's not just because it is horoscope nonsense dressed up as a fact, but because it brilliantly illustrates how many people here think they just know what a system does on a glance.

But if it was true: In the 90s, millions of small businesses around the world used FLOSS to host websites and offer services over the internet. That was decidedly not the route big enterprises wanted to go. They wanted to push through big standards through ITU et al, build giant, patented moats, and host it all on big mainframes with huge Oracle databases.

Even today, there exist small to medium businesses in the hosting and shopware space, and they can only do that because big tech could not push them out of that space because FLOSS protected them.

You might as well complain about that the basket contains tomatoes because you don't like tomatoes.

It's a statistical tool concerning populations, not a sampling of what hacker news user cicko in their wisdom thinks increases quality of life.

I'm not saying that big tech isn't hijacking open source software, but that does not mean that free or OSS was always "meant to devalue" devs or small companies.

Until very recently, big tech pumped untold millions of dollars into obliterating FLOSS altogether, calling it a cancer that will destroy any enterprise it touches.

Here a CA derived a secret key from the number 4.

If you think "that's weird to see such a small number in key generation" than you're one step ahead of whoever generated that key.

Unfortunately, unlike with RSA, small primes are not apparent in elliptic cryptography.

How is avoiding a single invocation of cat much more efficient?

I feel if anything needs calling out, it's mistaking opinions for universal laws.

Unless you are a world-class cryptographer, you have to trust someone that the algorithms are sound.

It's very very very very hard to forge money convincingly enough to fool central banks. It's basically impossible for anyone but nation-state actors, and the only known cases date back decades. Today, it's even harder, because even if central banks were unable to identify forgeries, duplicate serial numbers or ones that have never been issued would be detected very quickly.

Even making forgeries that can fool normal automated tests, like those done in an ATM, is incredibly hard. It's certainly possible, just way too expensive.

Berlin has a massive shortage. Vacancy rates are at about 1.5%. Functioning housing markets are at about 3%.

Sorry for the late answer: the benefit is that I don't have to enter my passphrase at boot.

I have FDE with keys in the TPM. It's pretty smooth bit required a one time additional step in Fedora. It's also probably not very secure, but my threat model is simple theft.

Did it? At that time, I felt like they were an expensive boutique manufacturer that basically catered to a niche audience of media professionals.

At the time, they weren't even among the biggest tech companies. Today, they are one of the largest companies in the world.

The high resolution video wall is quite simple. The hard part and why this has not been done earlier is that for filming, they had to synchronize the rendered background with the movement of the camera.

Well, the premise of the article is clearly stated. The headline is, of course, exaggerated, but why would you read the whole article when you disagree completely with the premise?

I also find "the volta" unrelatable. I don't feel that every novel is boring at the beginning, nor do I experience boredom between the "portal" and the "volta". Some novels have parts I find boring, of course, but they can appear at any part of a book for me.

I guess that this phenomenon is more rooted in the way the author and her peer group read. Reading dozens or hundreds of novels a year, often for a professional purpose, is wholly different from me reading my one or two books a month. I guess, if I had to read a whole bunch of novels for my PhD, I would be bored more during reading.

I also think this shows what the changed economics do: it allows anyone to fill the web with convincing looking nonsense.

The person who built this did not have to put in months to build a cool web app. But they also did not have to put in months of research, gathering representative pictures. And they didn't. Instead they let a software create a well presented nonsense story about a boy from Anatolia in 200 BCE called Mehmet wearing a parka.

If taken 100% seriously, the post is just bad mathematics and bad linguistics. But I don't think it's intended to be rigorous work of either discipline.

But I do share the frustration regarding pedantry in mathematics, and I hate it when people mistake dictionary entries for attempts at rigorous definition.

NoScript and uMatrix were a great help - for very advanced users. But the typical user was left behind.

It's only strange because you interpreted "Chrome made the web so much better for everyone" as "Chrome had a webRequest API", which is probably not what the original poster meant.

Isn't too early to see if the Gigadatacenters will really pay off? I'm not trying to be an AI doomer here, but I thought the new really large DCs are just not yet online.

Correction: in CSS1, from December 1996, a pixel was defined slightly differently, which works out to 1/90th of an inch.

No one decided to break it, it was 1/96th of an inch from the beginning.

The problem with different screens having different pixel densities was already present and obvious in 1996.

"Real" pixels are useless if you don't know anything about the screen you're going to render on.

Maybe.

But what does the "Access to photos" permission really do here? It's not like not having that permission would stop Apple from accessing them against your will, as they have access via the OS anyway. And it's clear, that when you open the Apple Photos app, that it will access your photos.

On the other hand, when you open a third party app, it may not have been clear to you that it wants to access your photos, and the company did not have prior access to them.

I still think apps should only be pre-blessed sparingly. For example, the camera app should not have GPS permission by default, as many people probably aren't aware that camera apps use that information.

There was also a lot of fraud and mismanagement. People's crypto vanished and no one at the exchange was able to reconstruct how because there was no sufficient security and no real bookkeeping.

There is a lot of regulatory capture in the financia sector, but that does not in imply that no regulation is necessary at all

Given the letter X it's probably Greek, so it would be Alexai. Which is coincidentally about pronounced the same.

The pandemic introduced so many weird shifts in demand for so many things, we're still not back at normal.

In this case, I think another factor is that the monastery decided to not ship to countries outside of Europe at all any more, and to reduce volume altogether. That introduced some shortage to panic buying alone, but it also meant that all American suppliers now had to import from EU resellers, which is not a big deal, but takes some time.

Except for PHP I don't think that's a very fitting list. C for example, is not really a concise language, not even for its time - APL is much more concise. C is rather verbose.

Likewise, Python is not the first language without braces - and it debuted before braces became the industry standard. I guess ISWIM or ABC are the first to have syntactic whitespace.

Really, you will always find an earlier example for a "killer feature", at least in an academic context - in the case of your list, usually in the 1960s, in the 1970s at the latest.

1/3, but under unreasonable time pressure, and with no prior vetting. For example, I played a few times, and I'm not a JS developer. I had to just suss out if npm whatever is dangerous or not. I'm very happy with my personal 25%.

The last time any company was interested to build a nuclear reactor in Germany was in the 1970s. About thirty years before the eventual (first) ban.

We can rant all day about how stupid it was of the conservatives to re-enact the ban on nuclear power without restarting the subsidies for renewables, and lament that they thus ensured that coal power would thus have to replace more of the lost load, but that's all in the past and we can't change that.

If you think we need more nuclear power to fight CO2 emissions, you're 50 years late. That ship has sailed before most of us here were born.