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Meanwhile, enjoying my Ryzen, largely unaffected by Meltdown or Spectre in spite of some well meaning or self-serving FUD to the the contrary. Yes, I got an early part with the segfault bug, but AMD RMAed without fuss when presented with appropriate https://github.com/suaefar/ryz...>test data to eliminate the possibility of bad motherboard, memory or overclocking. Quite different attitude compared to Intel! And the Ryzen is sweet - 16 high performing CPU threads, tiny power consumption at idle and respectable under full load. Integer performance, iow, compiling is stellar and floating point is not shabby. Basically, Ryzen out-cores Intel's competing i7 parts by a wide margin, acquits itself well in single-core too and draws so little power that the CPU fan is off or barely turning for most normal desktop usage. And when all 16 threads are going full blast, iow doing real work, total system power is around 120 watts, the system still runs nearly silent. Can't say enough good things about it.

If you do step up to Ryzen, be aware of two things: 1) Check the production week stamped on the CPU, it has the form 17xx where xx is the week... make sure this is higher than week 25, otherwise run kill-ryzen.sh to verify the segfault bug and get an RMA promptly from AMD's only support site, if you see it. Windows users need to boot Linux to do this, get a live iso on a usb stick to do this in maximum comfort, and preferably, just overwrite Windows when done :-) Most of that early production is sold out already, so the chance of getting a bad part is slim, but be aware. Windows users for the most part don't seem to see any issue even with the early parts. Good for them, but it goes along with significantly lower performance without the upgrade to LInux :-) 2) Be aware that Ryzen has no on-board GPU, in spite of the fact that your Ryzen motherboard has video connectors... these are for AMD's APUs, which use the same socket. Respectable chips in their own right especially in terms of value for money, but when you run Ryzen you need to run a discrete GPU too. This is what you want anyway, because what is the point of crippling your high end desktop processor with a mickey mouse embedded GPU? To be specific: AMD's fattest APU has eight compute units (512 stream processors) vs 64 in the current Vega part, plus uses processor memory instead of higher bandwidth dedicated graphics memory.

Of course, what I really want is a threadripper... that's next.

I got to thinking about Google's clever Retpoline from the other day.
Google Says CPU Patches Cause 'Negligible Impact On Performance' With New 'Retpoline' Technique

The problem is, this is not invariant under peephole optimization. These instruction sequences need to be handled by the compiler through a very literal minded end-game code generation pass.

Which got me to thinking about RETGUARD gadgets.

RETGUARD, the OpenBSD next level in exploit mitigation, is about to debut
Retguard: OpenBSD/Clang

I know, both of those sites are horrible, but Google fails me here.

Are speculative gadgets a problem here? If so, Google's clever patch is going to need a sump pump bolted on the side.

And then you get into the whole problem of deterministic compilation in order to be certain that the executable you build contains the necessary mitigations (or some tricky post-compile analysis I sure don't wish to develop myself).

What a giant mess.

You are getting downvoted but you're absolutely correct. There is a serious plague of identity politics bullshit permeating large open source projects. Sarah Sharp and Matthew J. Garrett (mjg in particular is a really shitty person) being total cunts within the Linux kernel dev community made it loud and clear that "show me the code" has eroded in favor of "behave as I dictate" as the primary decision-making tool. Drupal ousted Larry Garfield for having an autistic roommate-slash-sex partner that doesn't talk to other people by choice, citing their bullshit Code of Conduct which was derived from tranny feminazi shitcunt Coraline Ada Ehmke's tainted codes of conduct (Contributor Covenant and TODO Group Code of Conduct, both of which were smeared around by Coraline's greasy fingers and SJW crybully policing).

Hell, Github almost adopted one of those Codes of Conduct WITH THIS LANGUAGE IN IT:

"Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort." and will not act on "reverse" racism, sexism, etc."

That Reddit thread has links to a bunch of other SJW toxicity issues in open source, particularly related to Github's highly unethical conduct towards certain developers based on those developers' political beliefs or lack of linguistic hypersensitivity.

To bring this full circle, from that same Reddit thread and dealing directly with Rust: "When someone says "your code sucks" it's obviously racism/misogyny and/or trans/homophobia. Because there's no chance in the world that the code actually does suck. Also remember back in the days when you had IDE drives and the HDD was the master and the CDROM was the slave? Yeah, that master/slave metaphor obviously is racist too: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-buildbot/issues/2

Now, cue the logic-free virtue signaling responses to me by PopeRatzo, serviscope_minor, AmiMoJo, GameboyRMH, Rei, turkeyfish, et al. who will be sorely butthurt by this fresh hot dose of reality.

You are getting downvoted but you're absolutely correct. There is a serious plague of identity politics bullshit permeating large open source projects. Sarah Sharp and Matthew J. Garrett (mjg in particular is a really shitty person) being total cunts within the Linux kernel dev community made it loud and clear that "show me the code" has eroded in favor of "behave as I dictate" as the primary decision-making tool. Drupal ousted Larry Garfield for having an autistic roommate-slash-sex partner that doesn't talk to other people by choice, citing their bullshit Code of Conduct which was derived from tranny feminazi shitcunt Coraline Ada Ehmke's tainted codes of conduct (Contributor Covenant and TODO Group Code of Conduct, both of which were smeared around by Coraline's greasy fingers and SJW crybully policing).

Hell, Github almost adopted one of those Codes of Conduct WITH THIS LANGUAGE IN IT:

"Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort." and will not act on "reverse" racism, sexism, etc."

That Reddit thread has links to a bunch of other SJW toxicity issues in open source, particularly related to Github's highly unethical conduct towards certain developers based on those developers' political beliefs or lack of linguistic hypersensitivity.

To bring this full circle, from that same Reddit thread and dealing directly with Rust: "When someone says "your code sucks" it's obviously racism/misogyny and/or trans/homophobia. Because there's no chance in the world that the code actually does suck. Also remember back in the days when you had IDE drives and the HDD was the master and the CDROM was the slave? Yeah, that master/slave metaphor obviously is racist too: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-buildbot/issues/2

Now, cue the logic-free virtue signaling responses to me by PopeRatzo, serviscope_minor, AmiMoJo, GameboyRMH, Rei, turkeyfish, et al. who will be sorely butthurt by this fresh hot dose of reality.

>> This is like buying a car and the dealership says they are not going to fix your engine under warranty because you are using the car to...

Then don;t ever buy a Tesla.
http://mashable.com/2016/02/03...
https://www.reddit.com/r/tesla...

If you're so smart, you could go Google it yourself. Instead, I'll enlighten you. Does it really matter? Not really, because it outperformed that prediction anyways. But, here ya go, lazy: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitco...

1. Step 1: Repeal Net Neutrality, then offer new, unlimited data plans for mobile/home Internet. Convince people to buy into these "forever unlimited" data plans.
2. Step 2: Get all data usage (mobile and home) classified under a single umbrella.
3. Step 3: Quash ISP startups with new regulations making it infeasible for them to access utility poles, junctions, and network infrastructure.
4. Step 4: Implement data caps on all the "forever unlimited" data plans. ("Because we have to--don't let bandwidth abusers take your Internet!")
5. Step 5: Now you are forced to pay $100/month for up to 10-20 GB per month (hint: this translates to about 3 to 7 hours of HD Netflix per month). It will be very expensive to go over that, especially for non-preferred sites (think anything like Kodi, Tor, torrents, etc.).

Thoughts?

I haven't figured out if she's an ultimate fangirl or a freelance PR person working for a Musk publicist.

I'm going with ultimate fangirl. Also known as Karen Pease, the breadcrumbs suggest she fled the States to live in Iceland after her EV-related startup cratered, and is now relying on governmental largess to make ends meet. Debates with Elon about settling on Venus. They basically seem like two peas in a pod (except she's a bit rough around the edges and clearly hasn't mastered the charismatic personality that convinces people to shovel more and more billions into the latest and greatest soon-to-be-failed enterprise).

You have that backwards. Nvidia hardware and drivers always just work and are rock solid stable and fast. ATI/AMD hardware and drivers are unstable, bug filled crap.

The latest bonehead move done by AMD is killing DirectX 9 support in the latest driver with absolutely no care or intention of fixing it.

I found it from:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Block...

"For example in MultiChain, they introduce a permission based mining (not mandatory) and a round-robin style, where a certain miner can mine limited number of blocks. This means different miners will be mining the blocks. Additionally, most private blockchains do not use the concept of "mining" at all - they have KNOWN identities, who will create the block and KNOWN identities, who will confirm that the block is indeed valid."

So you can have known entities only on a round robin style system so no one would be able to mount an attack that way.

But I still dont see the point compared to a database.

Businessinsider can hardly be called "socialist America haters".

* fired Pax Dickinson for social justice
* diagnosed Linus Torvalds with a mental disorder
* promotes communist nutjob Zoe Quinn's fraudulent Crash Override Network
* deleted comments that did not fit their party line
* promotes/cites communist nutjob Brianna Wu
* promoted the #ThankYouEllenPao campaign as soon as it began
* promotes Github's communist nutjob Corey Ehmke (Coraline Ada)
* was part of a smear campaign against Palmer Luckey
* is run by a friend of the Lerer brothers, the same group that runs Huffington Post and Buzzfeed

Business Insider is almost a canonical example of a fake news site run by socialist America-haters.

Businessinsider can hardly be called "socialist America haters".

* fired Pax Dickinson for social justice
* diagnosed Linus Torvalds with a mental disorder
* promotes communist nutjob Zoe Quinn's fraudulent Crash Override Network
* deleted comments that did not fit their party line
* promotes/cites communist nutjob Brianna Wu
* promoted the #ThankYouEllenPao campaign as soon as it began
* promotes Github's communist nutjob Corey Ehmke (Coraline Ada)
* was part of a smear campaign against Palmer Luckey
* is run by a friend of the Lerer brothers, the same group that runs Huffington Post and Buzzfeed

Business Insider is almost a canonical example of a fake news site run by socialist America-haters.

https://www.reddit.com/r/econo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/uspol...

'The biggest "fuck you" would be if we made it so trump wins their election too.'
-/u/nuck_forte_dame

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Not the way Linux is going.

To wit: systemd.

Linux keeps adding Windows-like complexity and cruft without adding Windows- (or Apple-) like usability tools to manage that complexity. Say what you will about Microsoft - they produce an OS and interface that almost everyone can get working well enough to read emails, do spreadsheets, and surf the internet while not actively pissing off non-technical users.

Gnome is now straight from fuck-the-users-we're-UX-"engineers"-and-know-better utter hell of Linux "just-RTFM-you-noob" development arrogance. Just do a RH7 install and try to shrink the giant icons on the desktop.

True. On that note, this comment sort of echoes what you said.

Luckily, alternatives do exist. My preference is with Void Linux, a modern interpretation of the UNIX philosophy, along with i3. Void uses runit as pid1 and runsvdir (based on daemontools) as the service manager by default. Of course, this can be changed. OpenRC exists as well.

To be honest, in relation to the topic, I don't necessarily think Linux needs to win in the desktop space or anything. Desktop is becoming more of a niche market, and I think trying to cater to the majority of the population is a bad idea. I've seen it in MMORPGs. I've seen it with media (The Last Jedi is a shining example of this). Like, users are stupid. For example, my father has major problems using his Windows laptop, as in not knowing how to do stuff, like uninstalling a program.

Not the way Linux is going.

To wit: systemd.

Linux keeps adding Windows-like complexity and cruft without adding Windows- (or Apple-) like usability tools to manage that complexity. Say what you will about Microsoft - they produce an OS and interface that almost everyone can get working well enough to read emails, do spreadsheets, and surf the internet while not actively pissing off non-technical users.

Gnome is now straight from fuck-the-users-we're-UX-"engineers"-and-know-better utter hell of Linux "just-RTFM-you-noob" development arrogance. Just do a RH7 install and try to shrink the giant icons on the desktop.

True. On that note, this comment sort of echoes what you said.

Luckily, alternatives do exist. My preference is with Void Linux, a modern interpretation of the UNIX philosophy, along with i3. Void uses runit as pid1 and runsvdir (based on daemontools) as the service manager by default. Of course, this can be changed. OpenRC exists as well.

To be honest, in relation to the topic, I don't necessarily think Linux needs to win in the desktop space or anything. Desktop is becoming more of a niche market, and I think trying to cater to the majority of the population is a bad idea. I've seen it in MMORPGs. I've seen it with media (The Last Jedi is a shining example of this). Like, users are stupid. For example, my father has major problems using his Windows laptop, as in not knowing how to do stuff, like uninstalling a program.

Both parties are doing this, so this isn't a Republican or Democratic thing.

Here you have a list of how each party votes on different subjects

Both parties are not the same. There are only two reasons to claim that. Either you are too lazy to look at what the parties stand for before voting or you are ashamed of the party you vote for and tries to deflect rather than change your vote.

Shouldn't you be over here?

As much as Elon Musk likes to make big announcements with dubious time schedules, SpaceX has really delivered in 2017. Copying from FutureMartian97:

18 Falcon 9 launches
100% Primary mission success
100% First Stage landing success
The first reflight of a Falcon 9 first stage
The first reflight of a Dragon Capsule
Reflying 5 first stages
Reflying 2 Dragon Capsules

And Falcon Heavy is going to launch very soon, currently scheduled for January.

How an alt-coin called VeChain - It's a bonified Ponzi scheme.

VeChain Economic Masternodes and Nodes:

A VeChain Economic Masternode/Node offers stability to the ecosystem and acts as a distribution of power and privilege within the blockchain’s economy. VeChain Economic Masternodes/Nodes also have representation within the ecosystems voting periods. For an address with at least 10,000 VET/VEN held, a node represents one vote within the majority consensus. Unlike Authority Masternodes, Economic Masternodes/nodes do not produce blocks and ledger records.
Mjolnir Masternodes Second highest-incentive Nodes)

Token possession: 150,000 VET and above

Incentive received: receive the highest reward among VeChain Economic Nodes.

Cannot be upgraded More information on Mjolnir Masternodes soon
Thunder Nodes (Higher-incentive Nodes)

Token possession: 50,000 - 149,999 VET/VEN;

Incentive received: receive the higher Thor incentive;

Can be upgraded; More information on Thunder Nodes to come.
Strength Nodes (Medium-incentive Nodes)

Token possession: 10,000-49,999 VET/VEN;

Incentive received: receive the medium Thor incentive, however, still more than none-node holders;

Can be upgraded;

More information on Strength Nodes to come.
Holders with less than 10,000 VET tokens receive default incentive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crypt...

Yes, but does in run Linux?

Actually, the Falcon 9s apparently do run a version of Linux: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...

Yep. Check it out! https://www.reddit.com/r/space...

iTunes sucks: A GIF guide to why Apple’s desktop music app must be fixed

Why does iTunes suck so incredibly much?

iTunes sucks, we all know it. What are my options for music player (nonstreaming) on the iPhone 6s?

Why I Hate iTunes: Syncing Sucks And So Does Selecting Music

Can iTunes suck anymore than it already does?

iTunes Really Is That Bad

Apple’s iTunes Is Alienating Its Most Music-Obsessed Users

Eleven Reasons Why iTunes Sucks

Why does Itunes SUCK SO MUCH ???

Again: no, people are not happy using iTunes. People use iTunes because Apple requires it for their expensive iDevices. They hate it, but they want to sync music to their iPhones.

You're saying that my assertion about video players is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy? That's a laugh. You just didn't want to dig your hole deeper by responding to what I said. Video players are not designed to deal with large music libraries, nor should they be. A sports car can be used to take lots of cleaning supplies between cleaning jobs, but a utility van will be far better suited to the task. Your choice of VLC to support this notion is especially hilarious. The VLC media library is like only using the Winamp playlist for your entire music collection.

Or perhaps you meant that foobar2000 is not the true Scotsman. In that case, you missed my arguments about the interface being poorly designed.

Now here's a real laugh for you regarding your sneering at Winamp market share. While I don't have stats from anywhere today, Lifehacker did a survey in 2013 to find out what the readers thought was the best desktop music player and in the end Winamp was the winner. So at least in 2013, 16 years after Winamp was released, it was still the preferred player for everyone that read Lifehacker at the time. Unfortunately, most articles seem to omit or only "honorably mention" Winamp based on it no longer being developed which at this point is really only a problem for people who want double size mode to look better or want to sync a modern iPod with Winamp (yes, Winamp used to sync iPods.)

I'm sure iTunes can play music back on garbage hardware while multitasking. Maintaining a 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo audio stream while multitasking was easily done by Winamp in 1997 on an original Pentium, so why wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing today on a bargan-basement Celeron that's slow for browsing but still two orders of magnitude faster than an original Pentium? It's not hard to have a realtime-priority and heavily optimized thread that does nothing but decompress music file data and pass it to the sound system. Good luck switching between iTunes and other stuff in 2GB of RAM while trying to do some actual work.

One more thing was never addressed. You never elaborated on why "underlying frameworks" is some sort of selling point. Last I checked, no one went out looking for media players and said "I want one that has underlying frameworks."

iTunes sucks: A GIF guide to why Apple’s desktop music app must be fixed

Why does iTunes suck so incredibly much?

iTunes sucks, we all know it. What are my options for music player (nonstreaming) on the iPhone 6s?

Why I Hate iTunes: Syncing Sucks And So Does Selecting Music

Can iTunes suck anymore than it already does?

iTunes Really Is That Bad

Apple’s iTunes Is Alienating Its Most Music-Obsessed Users

Eleven Reasons Why iTunes Sucks

Why does Itunes SUCK SO MUCH ???

Again: no, people are not happy using iTunes. People use iTunes because Apple requires it for their expensive iDevices. They hate it, but they want to sync music to their iPhones.

You're saying that my assertion about video players is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy? That's a laugh. You just didn't want to dig your hole deeper by responding to what I said. Video players are not designed to deal with large music libraries, nor should they be. A sports car can be used to take lots of cleaning supplies between cleaning jobs, but a utility van will be far better suited to the task. Your choice of VLC to support this notion is especially hilarious. The VLC media library is like only using the Winamp playlist for your entire music collection.

Or perhaps you meant that foobar2000 is not the true Scotsman. In that case, you missed my arguments about the interface being poorly designed.

Now here's a real laugh for you regarding your sneering at Winamp market share. While I don't have stats from anywhere today, Lifehacker did a survey in 2013 to find out what the readers thought was the best desktop music player and in the end Winamp was the winner. So at least in 2013, 16 years after Winamp was released, it was still the preferred player for everyone that read Lifehacker at the time. Unfortunately, most articles seem to omit or only "honorably mention" Winamp based on it no longer being developed which at this point is really only a problem for people who want double size mode to look better or want to sync a modern iPod with Winamp (yes, Winamp used to sync iPods.)

I'm sure iTunes can play music back on garbage hardware while multitasking. Maintaining a 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo audio stream while multitasking was easily done by Winamp in 1997 on an original Pentium, so why wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing today on a bargan-basement Celeron that's slow for browsing but still two orders of magnitude faster than an original Pentium? It's not hard to have a realtime-priority and heavily optimized thread that does nothing but decompress music file data and pass it to the sound system. Good luck switching between iTunes and other stuff in 2GB of RAM while trying to do some actual work.

One more thing was never addressed. You never elaborated on why "underlying frameworks" is some sort of selling point. Last I checked, no one went out looking for media players and said "I want one that has underlying frameworks."

I mentioned the same planned obsolescence concern in my question to Jacob at Let's Encrypt in an AMA on reddit a year ago.

I have never understood why Apple imposed the arbitrary limitations on using an iPhone as mass storage. It's really stupid.

However, I'm sorry to be the one to warn you that while better on Android, it's not perfect. Instead of keeping the generic mass storage transfer mechanism, Android now only supports MTP. This is supposed to work like mass storage, but in practice it doesn't. It's a steaming pile of crap with limited abilities (no search, for example) that is also *dog slow*.

More info...

http://rinkworks.com/stupid/

Also worth perusing:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tales...

It decided to take its trust and waste it on a gimmick for a TV show causing malware alerts and even disrupting people’s exams. Thats on top of the XULocolypse and Pocket. Projects like Pale Moon and Waterfox are minor patches to the Mozilla problem we need a big fork that gets rid of the gimmick developers just like Xfree86 to X.org and EGCS to GCC.

Mozilla suffers from SHWUM (Superfluous Humans With Ulterior Motives) syndrome.

It decided to take its trust and waste it on a gimmick for a TV show causing malware alerts and even disrupting people’s exams. Thats on top of the XULocolypse and Pocket. Projects like Pale Moon and Waterfox are minor patches to the Mozilla problem we need a big fork that gets rid of the gimmick developers just like Xfree86 to X.org and EGCS to GCC.

State of the art machine intelligence is "machine intuition". Bots copy and remix the corpus matched to context, but we're still miles away from an observable thread of thought. It will just mimic and more or less randomly remix the corpus - basically replay thoughts of somebody else. In a crude sense, it's just very sophisticated markov model, to the point it will reasonably past turing test on a youtube comment level

This is not limited to text, a fashion or food instagram is even more trivial with current tools. Good example of this is Spiderman Elsa (which I suspect is made with good old honest-to-god sweatshop labor, not a bot), but the model of social spam has shown an immense profitability potential already in a format far more sophisticated than appealing to lowest sexual urges.

The good thing about this is that this will spell an early end to shallow internet memetics once advertising world discovers chatbots and context-aware media remix bots. No more need to bribe lowkey ecelebs to astroturf your product, when you can just unleash fake users in number. Even if the quality on average will be sub-par, statistically some will always get a traction if you spawn population large enough.

It's a post-scarcity scenario for internet drivel in a cost model where people engaged in drivel for social bond and validation, both points being moot when it's a machine on the other end.

This can lead to two possible outcomes:

1. The cancer spreads, remember the south park episode about living ads? This is it. People will literally lose grasp on reality and will feel about adverts as if they were people..

2. It's a chemo which will bring us back to 1993. Folks will recognize low effort posts lost all of its shreds of utility for validation, pushing the bar for social network posts a lot higher (low effort posts being implicitly assumed a bot when it becomes a common case).

In either case, there will be constant market pressure for "better ads" as users adapt, there will be this arms race for ever better "living ad" until the bots start having so much grasp of context we'll enter a very weak GAI era.

It's not really that great at this point. Here is a link to the deepfakes submitted posts on reddit.

All bands are already allocated.

It probably looks a lot like the US allocation chart over there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HamRa...

So I see a lot of negativity about this, even though in the past with no NN rules almost nothing happened, and when it did was shut down quickly (like torrent throttling).

You are mistaken. There's a rich history of actual and intended net neutrality violations in the past before the regulations went into effect. Unfortunately the top link returned by a search on this currently offline, but here is some info pasted from this reddit thread:

There's nothing hypothetical about what ISPs will do when net neutrality is eliminated. I'm going to steal a comment previously posted by /u/Skrattybones and repost here:

2005 - Madison River Communications was blocking VOIP services. The FCC put a stop to it.

2005 - Comcast was denying access to p2p services without notifying customers.

2007-2009 - AT&T was having Skype and other VOIPs blocked because they didn't like there was competition for their cellphones. 2011 - MetroPCS tried to block all streaming except youtube. (edit: they actually sued the FCC over this)

2011-2013, AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon were blocking access to Google Wallet because it competed with their bullshit. edit: this one happened literally months after the trio were busted collaborating with Google to block apps from the android marketplace

2012, Verizon was demanding google block tethering apps on android because it let owners avoid their $20 tethering fee. This was despite guaranteeing they wouldn't do that as part of a winning bid on an airwaves auction. (edit: they were fined $1.25million over this)

2012, AT&T - tried to block access to FaceTime unless customers paid more money.

2013, Verizon literally stated that the only thing stopping them from favoring some content providers over other providers were the net neutrality rules in place.

And...

2005, AT&T suggested giving preferential treatment to some web giants in exchange for money, starting the whole thing.

2014, Verizon and Comcast throttled Netflix data and held those customers hostage to a huge bribe from Netflix.

Also, links for everything you just said.

Madison River Communications: https://www.cnet.com/news/telc...

Comcast hates pirates: https://www.lexology.com/libra... (article from '08)

AT&T VOIP hostage: https://www.wired.com/2009/10/...

Google wallet hostage: http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/0...

Verizon hates tethering apps: https://www.wired.com/2011/06/...

AT&T claimed blocking facetime wasn't a net neutrality issue: http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/2...

"Verizon lawyer Helgi Walker made the companyâ(TM)s intentions all too clear, saying the company wants to prioritize those websites and services that are willing to shell out for better access.": https://www.savetheinternet.co...

Also, the thing to realize is that violations of net neutrality are not likely to be reflected on a general speed test, or necessarily in the fees the ISPs charge. It's much more likely that they will violate it by charging the content providers, like they have already done with Netflix. It will be insidious, and most people will not notice unless they are watching very closely. The effects will like

https://www.reddit.com/r/pwned/comments/7hhqfo/combination_of_many_breaches/ Looks like this is the source, but 'some random person on reddit' isn't as headline grabbing as 'the dark web'

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/7g1ebj/cash_out_or_let_it_ride/

https://www.reddit.com/r/uspol...

You probably chose not to turn off your filter bubble on Google or ignored results biased against your shitty agenda, but let's pretend you're worth a little assumption of good faith for a second and explain why you'd be led to this conclusion even if you weren't a dumbass feminist.

Google biases search results in favor of SJW agendas because Google is run by SJWs.

See the Damore incident, the people invited to "Google Ideas" (featuring Randi Lee Harper and the ShirtStorm bitch), etc. Use a non-biased search engine and the truth comes out. Here's the first five result titles:

Don't Buy Into The Gender Pay Gap Myth - Forbes

The Gender Wage Gap Myth and 5 Other Feminist Fantasies | Time

Wage Gap Myth Exposed -- By Feminists | HuffPost

The Gender Pay Gap is a Complete Myth - CBS News

No, The Gender Pay Gap Isn't A Myth -- And Here's Why

It is especially hilarious that the only one contrary is a HuffPost article (two results down from a polar opposite HuffPost article!) that bullshits by pretending the consequences of female choices are them being "forced out:" "They’re forced out because they cannot afford child care, or find a full-time job that affords them any kind of flexibility. And, culturally, Americans remain ambivalent about women working outside of the home. A little more than 30 percent of Americans still believe women should stay home full-time to care for young children." Yeah, except the first is the result of a choice and the second is a pure opinion that does nothing at all to stop women today from making the same career choices as men.

This is why I use Void Linux and runit/runsvdir. What you get with Void Linux is the "Unix Philosophy" except a modern interpretation thereof.

Ah yes, a big ol' ball of gaffer tape and bash scripts. The cure to complexity.

systemd-initd vs sysvrc (not sysvinit because that's a different thing from sysvrc) is a completely meaningless false dichotomy. You have other choices...

It's all about "Power and Frequency" my fellow non-cucked nerds, and so what do you know of these things?

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_D...

Wow. This is my first lead to figuring out something that "bothered" me since I was a kid -- long ago I learned to produce a sort of "rumbling" sound inside my head, by intentionally tensing some muscles. It is really hard to explain as I can't even identify those muscles myself, but I first noticed it when I was doing some silly things with my eyes, like trying to "shake the picture really fast".

I could not search for something I could not describe and I eventually forgot about it. Until I saw this GIF. At first I did not really hear anything, but I definitely felt something like a sound. And then it hit me -- it was a very short burst of the same "rumbling" sound I knew so well.

I took to Google again and found a perfect explanation within like 30 seconds.

So, as far as I can tell, the sound people are hearing is definitely not a "filler" produced by the brain. It's the sound of the tensor timpani muscle contracting in anticipation of a loud sound (that never comes).

Anyone tried this recipe?

This process has been in place for over a month. You needn't take my word for it. You'll find a lot of other discussion of it on the web. Take this one, for example; this is the game and the scenario I described here, with accounts of the issue from people other than me:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FFBra...

They truly DON'T CARE one way or the other, the crapware generates income for them, hence why.
Solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/TronS...

Actually no. It literally did come up as "s*x" as this Reddit post notices.

You can squeeze Windows 10 onto a 16 GB SSD, although it will basically require "wipe and start over" with each major update because there won't be enough room to download, unpack, and patch. It's a maintenance nightmare, but it can be done. 32 GB works fine, even when provisioning for a page file. Beyond that, storage needs to match what you intend to install and store. It's not Windows taking it all.

Don't believe me? You don't have to.

What I find amazing (though a little disappointing, like a Wizard of Oz moment) is that these huge batteries are made of thousands and thousands of cells, in this case 6 million (by my calculation) of Tesla's 2170 cells. The clever bit is the monitoring and control and presumably the design and manufacture as a series of repeatable modules.

I am glad to see comments about the Milky Way's beauty, which I only experienced once on an country road trip in college.

For slashdotters who haven't had the chance of running into it, here are a few minutes of timelapse clips of the Milky Way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Astrophotography posts on reddit may have more info if you're curious about implementation, and in my limited knowledge you'd need good DSLR lenses, software post-processing and rotation mounts to follow stars and planets well enough, capturing several seconds per "frame."

Anyway, parts of the video prior to that 3 minute timestamp aren't immune from a bit of obvious light pollution. Even that kind of star visibility would be desirable and impossible anywhere I have lived.

My neighborhood is in a major city and seems better than most nearby ones. That still amounts to very bright *gray* night sky backgrounds that obscure almost all the stars. There's virtually no visibility except for some tree-dominated spots like the front of my own block, and sometimes I need to look out of my peripheral vision to see any stars. It's worse after snow accumulates and the bright gray sky becomes an odd shade of pink for some reason.

Living here for 10 years, I had noticed for the latter half that I can barely follow the stars that used to be somewhat more visible, like the constellation of Orion. Now in my mid-thirties I have wondered whether the problem is my night vision degrading "naturally" (as happens with hearing) or of the pollution problem was supposed to be noticeable over one's lifetime (2% a year doesn't seem to matter).

One of my dreams is being in an area that is dark enough to watch the Milky Way with friends again. I don't own a car nor have any business near towns 2 hours away that would offer that chance. Here is a dynamic light pollution map that I found with a quick search - https://www.lightpollutionmap....

I somewhat satiate the physical problems for filling that thirst for astro-philia by using software. Before I knew of open source, I started with a demo of Starry Night (just found the current pro version is $150).

Now I use free multi-OS options like Stellarium for Windows and Linux. It is a looking glass to the sky, sensitive to your local latitude where you can remove the atmosphere or accelerate time or zoom into stars and planets).

Celestia allows traveling in space and time with nice planet models of the solar system and beyond. It was handy for roughly tracking the eclipse "shadow" above North America in real time at work. It can also show let you track the ISS. I have a blast when fixing perspectives to watch Earth from the ISS (I recall an earlier version back when MIR had stopped floating around), or using it to better understand retrograde loops in planet motions (http://www.nakedeyeplanets.com)/movements.htm) and syncing up with the pole and letting earth spin a time lapse to watch the polar shadow to grok the seasons without thinking of flashlights shining on basketballs.

Have fun!

From /r/askaconservative:

"Net neutrality" became impossible when we made a military/educational network into a commercial one; what is needed is more competition, which is always thwarted by government regulation. The proposed "net neutrality" regulation merely helps the big guys, while giving government a means to make an accusation that will shut down a business, which allows them backdoor censorship;