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>I've noticed more girls are being named Parker these days. My 1yo son is named Parker. He's holding the line.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was related to the character[0] portrayed by Beth Riesgraf[2] on Leverage[1]

[0] https://leverage.fandom.com/wiki/Parker

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leverage_(American_TV_series)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Riesgraf

>Season 1 had a great premise with some missed expectations around the significance of some plot elements. Season 2 was exceedingly "meh", with an exception for the end of the last episode which made me tear up. Season 3 was pure memberberries, and if you accept that then it is fun.

Angela Collier did an extensive bit[0] on that. Although she left out several of the canon-breaking details in the series.

That said, Patrick Stewart nailed it. Every. Single. Time. Despite the awful plotting/writing of Star Trek: Picard.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdLHKdn0JTY

>Insane algorithm burying this highly commented and voted submission on the second page, far behind posts that have fewer comments and votes that are 3x as old.

That's one of the reasons I don't even look at the front page any more. Rather I look at the "Active"[0] and, less often, the "New"[1] pages.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/active

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

>FISA court is an insane post-9/11 secret tribunal,

Wow! It's amazing how the time travelers went back in time after 9/11 just for FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act). It was enacted, and FISA courts created in 1978[0].

All sorts of stupid stuff was done after (and in the name of "anti-terrorism") 9/11. FISA was not one of them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla...

>> I guess they could be gambling that she can't afford a good lawyer; many people can't.

>Then the government provides a lawyer; you can't be without counsel even if you can't afford them.

I'd note that many (most?) state jurisdictions (the Federal judiciary has the Federal Defender's Service[0]) require a defendant to be "indigent"[1] before a lawyer is appointed, rather than requiring the defendant to hire a lawyer.

Also, in many jurisdictions, private lawyers are appointed by judges to take on the cases of "indigent" defendants. Often there's little in the way of vetting such lawyers, and the fees paid generally aren't very high -- resulting in subpar lawyers and representation.

Even in places (like NYC[2]) with a more robust public defender system, these lawyers are generally handling dozens of cases at once and don't have the resources of the prosecutor's office (investigators, budgets for forensic testing/analysis, etc.), leaving the defendants' side at a considerable disadvantage.

As such, it's not just saying "I can't afford a lawyer," and Perry Mason rushes to your rescue.

[0] https://www.uscourts.gov/topics/defender-services

[1] Different jurisdictions have different standards for determining if a defendant is "indigent." But many of those won't appoint a lawyer unless you're flat broke. Own a home? Take out a second mortgage. Have a job? You're not indigent. Etc, etc, etc.

[2] https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2024/04/08/how-public-defend...

>What would burn in those manhattan buildings? Are the internal walls wood?

Me? I'd certainly prefer that didn't happen.

Which is why I'm glad I have a fire escape. Should there be a fire that either blocks access to the main stairwell and/or my front door, there's an additional egress point at the other end of my apartment.

I'd much prefer that there wasn't a fire at all, but I'd much rather have multiple egress points for me and my animals than having to sit and wait to die of smoke inhalation if a serious fire were to rip through my (more than a century old) apartment building.

cf. "Code Switching"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching

digital (adj)[0]

6 : done with a finger

a digital rectal examination

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/digital

>Right, so you assume (and conclude) the possibility and necessity of a perfect enforcement procedure which will never detain a US citizen.

No. Just follow the law[0]:

   (a) Issuance. If the complaint or one or more affidavits filed with the 
   complaint establish probable cause to believe that an offense has been 
   committed and that the defendant committed it, the judge must issue an arrest 
   warrant to an officer authorized to execute it.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_4

>Yes, this is the only evidence I can find of anything even tangentially claimed in this comment. "At least 36 citizens were held at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or family."

So, you assert that at least 36 American citizens (as well as many thousands of non-citizens who, despite the rhetoric of some, are afforded constitutional rights by their presence in the US, but I digress) have had their constitutional rights violated by government agencies.

>It seems this is an incredibly small number for such a large operation, ie., the worst case treatment of US citizens appears to be 36 held for a day.

That strongly implies that you believe that given the scope of "such a large operation" that number is acceptable. If 36 is acceptable, how about 50? 100? 19,000? Where do you draw the line at the number of violations of constitutional rights are acceptable? That's not a rhetorical question.

I say it should be zero, as all Federal agents are required to take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. How many Federal agents shredding the Constitution is acceptable to you? I again say zero, and criminal charges should be brought against any and all who break their oath.

What say you? Again, not a rhetorical question.

>They must still be chasing growth in the UK. It was once like that in the US as well

Where I live (in a large US city) many things are same day delivery, an enormous amount are next day delivery and, weirdly, except for four-serving Strawberry Jell-O (which ships from Texas), almost everything is two-day delivery.

Not sure where you live, but my experience is completely different from yours.

From the Freebsd fortune file:

   Mr. Jones related an incident from "some time back" when IBM Canada
   Ltd.  of Markham, Ont., ordered some parts from a new supplier in Japan.
   The company noted in its order that acceptable quality allowed for 1.5 
   percent defects (a fairly high standard in North America at the time).

   The Japanese sent the order, with a few parts packaged separately in
   plastic.  The accompanying letter said: "We don't know why you want 1.5
   percent defective parts, but for your convenience, we've packed them
   separately."
  -- Excerpted from an article in The (Toronto) Globe and Mail

>It’s wild that this got flagged. There are some really important points here that deserves a discussion.

Whoever flagged it got what they wanted. Flagging generally kicks a submission right off the front page and limits the post's visibility.

After posting, it received a bunch of upvotes and comments. Within an hour or so of flagging, both pretty much stopped -- which achieved the goal of whoever flagged it -- to limit the discussion of this topic. I'll leave identifying the flagger's motivation as an exercise for the reader.

>Unless there is some huge change, like moving from one CPU architecture to another, apps should not even have to be rebuilt, let alone modified, just to keep working year after year.

And, as history teaches us[0], not necessarily even then.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine

>From my understanding cities like NYC were actually in a really bad shape in 1950s and after compared to now, until around the 90s

>Edit: actually, from what I find in the 1950s there was even ongoing heroin epidemics, in addition to gang warfare, and of course racial inequality

I can confirm the gang warfare (at least in the 1970s and early 1980s) -- there were street gangs every few blocks and the police were (mostly) just considered the biggest and best armed gang -- and for good reason.

I didn't know Verdi Park[0] was called "Verdi Park" until the late 1990s. It was (but not any more) shaped like a triangle which is why I (incorrectly) thought it was actually named "Needle Park" But that was actually because of the heroin.

But all that's changed and has been for more than 20 years. NYC is the safest it's ever been.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdi_Square

>I mean Olsen was kind of right. Most VAX sold didn't run Unix and VMS and VAX were incredibly successful. Unix at that time was successful on workstations more then servers.

>DEC didn't fail because they supported VMS, in fact VMS was great costumer lock in for them and its still made money for HP despite being developed in the late 70s.

>And in terms of clustering, Unix has never matched VMS.

Absolutely. Even the filesystem was made for redundancy and, AFAIK, no one has implemented the automated file versioning available to VMS back in the 1970s.

I used VMS at several jobs and it was both rock solid and light years ahead of Unix back in the 80s and 90s.

It's only funny because of how things turned out -- with VMS falling by the wayside for a variety of reasons.

Most folks these days think UNIX is the dinosaur, ignoring the BSDs that are still used (not even including MacOS) for many purposes and while they never got the kind of reliability/redundancy that VMS (or AS/400, for that matter) enjoyed, Sun (SunOS/Solaris), HP (HP/UX) and DEC (Ultrix) did provide levels of reliability still unheard of in linux.

When I first saw that Olsen quote (early '90s) I thought it was funny because Unix had come pretty far since 1984 (when that quote was published).

I thought of it because the comment[0] to which I responded reminded me of Olsen's quote when they pointed a finger at Sun for taking the attitude that Linux was a hobbiest[sic] OS.

Which wasn't all that wrong either. Given that MINIX was the model for Linux and MINIX definitely was a hobbyist/proof-of-concept OS, not something that was actually useful.

My thought was mostly that "times change, people don't."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790242

>How do you take the phone from a child refusing to give it up? (It Needs parent buy-in, which is not guaranteed)

It's not just a good idea. It's the law[0].

[0] https://www.governor.ny.gov/eliminating-distractions-new-yor...

>Ok, that is funny! Though interesting to consider. Why did no-one go with a free OS that was VMS based in the same way?

>It's basically does Linux win or why not BSD? Never what about OpenVMS.

While my original reply was accurate, it could have, more concisely, read:

   Licensing[0][1][2][3][4][5]

>No, studies have been done, and routinely show that non-citizen voting in election accounts for a pittance of the vote (e.g., "A study of 2016 data by Brennan Center for Justice from 42 jurisdictions found an estimated 30 incidents of suspected noncitizen voting out of 23.5 million votes cast (or .0001% of votes)"); historical data of prosecution of non-citizen voters agrees with the studies, similarly showing it to be non-issue.

Forget about the Brennan Center's single year audit. The Heritage Foundation's Election Fraud Database[0] goes back 40+ years to 1982.

In those 40+ years, they have documented less than 2,000 cases of voter fraud, with more than 1,500,000,000 votes being cast within that time frame.

That's a voter fraud rate of 0.0001333%. And even if we (without evidence), claim that the amount of fraud is 10x (0.001333%) or even 100x (0.01333%)higher and just not detected, despite the presence of observers from all involved parties at all the polls/counting stations in all of the 3500+ separate elections[1] that take place in the US yearly.

The rate of fraudulent votes isn't high enough to impact the outcome of elections, even if we say that there's 100x more voter fraud than the folks who scream voter fraud is everywhere!!! have detected.

It's a complete non-issue that's used by cynical folks to make it harder for their political opponents to vote. Which is disgusting, IMNSHO.

[0] https://electionfraud.heritage.org/search?case_type=All

[1] Elections are managed at the county level (of which there are 3500+ in the US), although processes and procedures are often dictated by state governments.

Because history[0][1][2][3]. The timelines (and license, in the case of VMS/OpenVMS -- even to this day) didn't make it inevitable, but certainly paved the way for Linux (although one or more of the BSDs could have filled that niche instead, had a fully unencumbered[5][PDF] BSD become available sooner) to have the level of adoption it ended up having.

VMS has always been proprietary, despite the name, and is still an expensive[4] option for commercial use

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Softwa...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS

[4] https://vmssoftware.com/products/licenses/

[5] https://dn721902.ca.archive.org/0/items/att_unix_licenses_19...

>Dismissing Linux as a hobbiest OS definitely turned out badly.

That actually made me laugh. Not because it's untrue, but because it reminded me of this:

   One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How 
   enthusiastic is our support for UNIX?

   Unix was written on our machines and for our machines 
   many years ago. Today, much of UNIX being done is done on 
   our machines. Ten percent of our VAXs are going for UNIX 
   use. UNIX is a simple language, easy to understand, easy 
   to get started with. It’s great for students, great for 
   somewhat casual users, and it’s great for interchanging 
   programs between different machines. And so, because of 
   its popularity in these markets, we support it. We have 
   good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s.

   It is our belief, however, that serious professional 
   users will run out of things they can do with UNIX. 
   They’ll want a real system and will end up doing VMS when 
   they get to be serious about programming.

   With UNIX, if you’re looking for something, you can 
   easily and quickly check that small manual and find out 
   that it’s not there. With VMS, no matter what you look 
   for — it’s literally a five-foot shelf of documentation — 
   if you look long enough it’s there. That’s the difference 
   — the beauty of UNIX is it’s simple; and the beauty of 
   VMS is that it’s all there.

   — Ken Olsen, president of DEC, DECWORLD Vol. 8 No. 5, 1984

>Unaligned bombs didn't break out of their confines on their own.

You really buy that ridiculous argument that "the AI broke out of its sandbox! We had no idea! It's dangerous I tell you, dangerous! Unless you make us the sole gatekeepers of this incredibly dangerous 'intelligence', everybody gonna die!"

Please.

Bring the CFAA[0] hammer down on these guys and watch how fast those "uncontrollable" LLMs get controlled. "Oh, gee! Prison? We can't control this stuff...but it'll never happen again!"

That whole thing was, and is, a bunch of hooey. Those running the LLMs are entirely responsible for them, there is no such thing as agency for algorithms. Full stop.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

What's wrong with the Fediverse[0]? Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc?

It's (relatively) simple to run your own instance and/or connect to other instances as well. It's still pretty small and has no profit motive.

I get that Meta and X leave a really bad taste in your mouth, but that's because they want to use you to make money.

Not telling you what to do, just suggesting an alternative.

[0] https://fediverse.party/

Edit: Fixed formatting.

>Elsewhere in the thread people are talking about ways of convincing drunk people to get their cars to drive them, and don't seem to realize the fact that people drive to go drink is terrifying! At this point it's deeply set in US "common sense" (to the point where in many places, bars have mandatory parking minimums!) and will take a lot of work to unwind.

A former member of the Pinellas County[0] Sheriff's Department related a relevant story to me many years ago. It was the practice of sheriff's deputies to park near bars around closing time and wait for drunk folks to leave the bar, get into their cars and drive away. And these folks were almost always intoxicated.

One night, they waited outside the bar and a patron exited, stumbled a bit, dropped their car keys a few times, then got in their car and drove away.

Cue the lights and sirens and the deputy pulled the driver over and prepared to arrest them for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI). However, a field sobriety test[1] and a breathalyzer[2] showed the driver to be stone cold sober. When the deputy returned to the bar, all the other patrons had made their exits.

So, rather than having a designated driver, they had a designated decoy!!!

Good luck fixing that sort of attitude.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinellas_County,_Florida

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_sobriety_testing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathalyzer

>view -> message body as -> plain text :)

In v153.2.0ESR, it's More --> message body as --> plain text

and it absolutely does work.

>I don't believe in Jellyfin being secure enough to put on the public Internet. In my case, Jellyfin is on my home network, and the box has access to a lot of files and devices.

Fair enough. IME, Jellyfin and (just as importantly -- at least for me) the distribution (Fedora) I use have been very good at patching/releasing updates to both the clients and servers when vulnerabilities are found.

Initially, I stuffed jellyfin (and a bunch of other stuff) behind HAProxy[0], which was fine. Now I don't even bother.

It's been at least three years since I put up my jellyfin server and haven't had any issues at all.

All that said, I understand your trepidation and am glad you found something that works for you!

[0] https://www.haproxy.org/