Slackware was my first (of many) attempts at using Linux, and it was less than successful. I love the fact that it's still going after such a (relatively) long time, compared to other OSS projects that often don't last very long. My question is: Is it usable yet? Is it worth trying again? Or, is it still only for super hardcore Unix people, only?
I don't think you need to be super hardcore since I certainly am not and used it since 1998ish and had nothing but success with it. These days especially you have a lot of help resources and I doubt you'd struggle with it given another go. As well as the obvious man pages for the thing you're configuring you have various forums for discussion, printed/online literature and guides too so it is easier than ever. Plus things like Alienbob or slackbuild scripts you don't even need to do as much at all now.
Despite trying various other distros over the years always stuck with it for my main box because it was so straight forward and just worked with the minimal setup needed (I found it needs even less on current incarnations) and configured who knows how many machines for various purposes both for self and others and they've always been rock solid without issue with only a little learning required on my part for the first time I'd setup somethign new. Basically only issue you may have is the lack of automation which isn't as heavy as it used to be and a fair bit is done for you these days out the box (I think it auto mounts drives for you even now) but like I say if you take it slow and be patient you'll learn quickly what is going on and after that initial learnign bit you'll know much more about what is actually happening and it is only hard if you try to do too much at once. Desktop for average user prob doesn't require much learning at all these days. For more niche uses you'll still need manually setup more stuff but it is straight forward and you'll learn a minimal level needed for such things quicker that way anyway. Plus when issues did arise I've found I knew exactly what was running and what settings stuff was using because lack of automation didn't complicate matters by having a predetermined recipe attempting a best guess what I wanted and causing more issues, thus it was a dream to troubleshoot my issues. Certainly give it another go and hit forums etc if you run into problems.
I record 4K video and I can't see any of those examples you come up with justifying the need for more than 2TB of data on a single SD card. Obviously that doesn't mean that uses for that amount of data won't come along though. Having said that, one of the biggest issue with SD for video recording and photography isn't storage (A 2TB card could hold 60-100k raw images) but IO. This standard looks like it could be useful in the near future for use cases where the write speeds of U3, V60, and V90 cards are problematic.
Having said that the 128TB limit does seem rather pointless (but I suppose there's no harm). I doubt we'll see 10TB+ cards before 2030 which means it may have been better to wait to create a standard nearer to when it is useful. An obvious issue would be that even at the 985 megabyte transfer speed isn't going to be viable even at 16TB (where it would take 4.5 hours to fully read/write) let alone 128TB.
Consumer type 4K wont need that extra space, pro implimentation tends to several times the size of equivalent files from a consumer unit. Compare your average consumer device "4k" to higher settings UHD from a pro device such as prores 4444xq 12bit and you'll find it will chew through space much faster. Industry oft need raw UHD for post processing reasons but they wont ever be recording to SD so you're right, the only folks who'd possibly use it wont need any such size and the ones who would use the size are tethering to external storage or using different internal cards.
Think pro-photographers in multi-hour photo sessions with high res cameras.
Think people recording 4K video.
Those pros will be using CFast setup or tethering to external storage not a solo SD card setup for that. Plus for multi hour sessions not just pros but serious hobbyists/amateurs like myself wont put all eggs in one basket and use several cards plus tether (or use external storage made for hooking up to cam). Pro cameras tend to be multi card and SD storage is not the primary choice in those and if present is the backup slot, most pros I know who'd use one storage source on extended shoot (eg. not your average wedding tog) use external storage or laptop tethering and card as backup anyway and spread the cards out as extra precaution rather than using the absolute biggest. Despite being amateur I do own stills and vid gear and run home studio complete with long shoots and very extensive big lighting setups, admittedly have friends/family involved between hobby to pro level (the pros are mostly film industry rather than still guys fwiw so maybe still pros would feel different just not the ones I know).
Don't get me wrong cards of that size would have their use but the"it is pros who need this" that is often heard over such things isn't true. It is mainly a marketing thing were most who buy it have no real need of it and will be average consumers with a few pro folks who NEED but are a niche within a niche and most who will buy it is more for convenience than a need. I have seen a fair few less serious amateurs or normal folk use the biggest card they can and never remove it from the camera nor clear off their pics after shooting so it'd be more appreciated by them. They shoot jpeg and have photos on there from holidays from close to a year ago for instance.
stabbed to death minutes after giving a seminar on how to resolve personal disputes on the internet.
Not to be snarky here, but my first thought after reading this was "So I guess that's exactly NOT what you should do, huh?" (Sorry to be morbid.)
At least the guy turned himself in soon afterwards. But he bothered the guy online, even kept making new IDs to hassle the guy after the previous one was disabled.
What the hell is wrong with people? "Someone's wrong on the internet / in life and it's my duty / job / addiction to permanently correct them? Get over yourself and come up with a better argument. Make them come over to your side instead.
Hell, maybe you'll even learn something yourself.
Winston Churchill: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
I wonder if this is anything to do with internet argument/need to correct thing and is more a mental health thing oft not seen outside Japan, we look for more motive/reasons in other cultures because we haven't come across this trend. Purely annecdotal but I am in touch with friends on regular basis there, mainly Nagoya and Saitama, and they've mentioned events like this a few times in past several years and it seems more poorly understood mental health issue and how it manifests in a given culture. There has been a strange trend of events like this that seems to be increasing, but it could be it has always been there and just lid was kept on it better in past for multiple reasons so folks didn't hear of it as much. In most the cases friends heard of local attack that seems disturbingly similar in that someone gets stabbed over very minor/nothing at all trigger then perpetrator turns themselves in. They mentioned one guy had allegedly admitted they were just looking for someone to stab and anyone would do.
Of course maybe it is a need to correct thing but the similarity makes me wonder. Thing that makes it so bizarre is as a whole most Japanese friends of mine seem to agree with the stereotype of their "don't cause a scene over any event" culture and agree it is generally like that. Even the more westernised and slightly more fiery tempered ones who studied and worked in EU and Canada for a long time are hard pushed to make a scene publicly, they prefer to bitch to me in private about stuff. Seems they'll go out their way to avoid public dispute even when they know everyone around them agrees and privately backs them up, which makes such escalations to violence (in the general culture at least) all the more odd.
"the world view that's killed over a hundred million people and counting"
You mean capitalism? Yeah, still a major problem.
urm you do realise it is communism/socialist regimes that killed more than any capatalist system. The NK, Russian genocides, GDR, Cambodia, NV, PRC, SEA and South American red regimes have wiped out more than any other system. Sure capitalism has its downsides but there hasn't been any better system that works as well for the masses in real world conditions in modern world. Go read Solzhenitsyn works on the subject, Kang Chol-Hwan "Aquariums of pyongyang", Funder "Stasiland" and so on and tell me how bad capitalism is again. Those useful idiots Yuri Bezmenov spoke at length about are mostly innocent folks who mean well but got manipulated by the propaganda thus this anticapitalism rhetoric may be well intentioned but is misguided.
Before someone gives microsystem examples of red systems that work they often are for exclusive niche and wont work as part of large system, also they only work because they exist within a capitalist macro system. For overly simplistic example someone in a blue house has the freedom to paint the interior red if they so wish in that system unlike one with no such freedoms and only a small group get to have a house even, so they develop a "hey blue interiors suck, red is the best so I'm decorating my interior red like in those red countries, oh how much better it'd be to live in a red house in one of those" failing to understand if they were in red house territory they wouldn't even have a house as that luxury was afforded the those folks due to the capitalist system, under another regime they'd exist in the gutter and any step outa line and straight to the gulag with you matey.
In the first half of the 20th century people were plain ignorant.
In the first half of the 21st century they all have a box in the corner of the room throwing out disinformation 24/7 as if it were God's Own Truth. I'm not just talking about Fox News, I include all the crap on the History Channel, the evangelical channels, etc.
The problem ain't what you don't know, the problem's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
(eg. that's not a Mark Twain quote...)
You may have a point but for more than initial reason.Effect of misinformation is compounded by the fact those things fill vacant time. Less time thinking for themselves with higher exposure to what to think/what the group considers norm leads to idiocy because less is questioned and thought about. Some newish research seems to suggest filling all the gaps in life with technological distractions leads to less innovation and genuine focused thinking. Most "breakthrough" thinking and creative expressions of our intelligence comes in the gaps of life not mid task. Eg. It isn't in the lab at work mid task that some novel approach hits me but rather sitting in the break room with coffee staring into space.
I think so much cultural baggage gets mixed up with theology, and the end result is that people will mistake casual feel-good statements as religious dogma. Ie, "it was God's will" gets used a lot, but it also flies in the face of other religious beliefs
If everything that happens is purely God's will, then there's no free-will because God would therefore be a micro-manager of all events. So many people use such trite comforting statements that they start to believe them. Ask them to back this up with scriptures and they often fail, or cite scriptures that don't really have that meaning. Others seem to have totally inconsistent views here - it's God's will if a child dies from disease, but not God's will if a shooter did this. But anyone claiming to know God's will probably needs to get a bit more humility.
Too much religion these days is more about belonging to the right club, separating us from them, as opposed to a spiritual seeking of truth.
Mod parent up, can't believe this isn't 5 insightful already because is better quality comment than the 4 and 5's preceeding it..
A program that presents on/off toggles for turning off dozens of the various Windows 10 "features" such as forced updates, "telemetry", etc.
It doesn't install anything, it just serves as a map to and simple control for a bunch of the settings you would otherwise have to hunt for in various Windows 10 settings menus, the registry, powershell, etc. It also has a recommendation for whether or not something is safe to turn off, or whether it can impact things you might use.
problem is MS ignores some settings regardless of value set and leaks the info anyway. May wanna look it up and makes sure it honours the setting for the things you want or find another way to block it.
Majority want Gay and Lesbian rights as well as allowing Marijuana and few are fighting against that.
Yes -- now.
As recently as a few years ago, this was not the case; a majority were against those things.
So, are gay rights and marijuana decriminalization right because the majority wants them -- or were they always right, even when the majority didn't want them?
I don't believe that many folks core beliefs changed that much if at all personally, however admit I may be way out here as based mainly on personal observation and annecdotal evidence is not reliable but it does fit human psychology and bigger picture at a glance. Most folks have very little beliefs on a given issue with very shallow understandings and core belief and they change what they answer based on what is percieved as the accepted societal norm. Even those who have a deeper opposing view will often virtue signal to distance themselves from the less popular view they hold. Very few seem to have the spine to go against the group expectation regardless of reputation and social life cost for what they believe in so they tend to get grouped in with the easy to discredit extreme or unbalanced with agenda types. For instance in this case I know of several who are not homophobic but disagree privately but openly claim support for gay marriage. They do not wish to be grouped with homophobic types and have no actual issue with gay people, they just don't believe in the precedent set by devaluing traditional marriage, the weaking of family unit and so on all of which requires deeper understanding and debate so to most colleagues, friends, family and so on they go with the crowd to the point some even act like standard bearers of the opponents against anti gay marriage types.
Much like Vanilla Extract or the variety of other extracts. A Ghost Pepper can be used to give heat to a dish, but its small size will not bring pepper flavor to it. Eating raw Ghost peppers, is like eating baking chocolate, or drinking a shot of Vanilla Extract or Vinegar. Unpleasant by itself but used in the right amounts it adds flavor and/or changes the chemical composition of the food to make it palatable.
if they are grown right they will give flavour to it I found especially fresh. Both my home grown ones and decent growers with just 1 in a dish that serves 5 imparts a VERY strong flavour as well as moderately high heat. I'd say it adds more flavour than heat tbh thus I use particular superhots depending on flavour needed not just heat strength. Fresh Dorset nagas in particular are very strong in flavour if grown right (if not they lack heat and flavour). The more raisinlike strains tend to be weak flavoured but the hard to describe pungent ones and the fruity varieties should be addign more flavour than heat, if not I'd try getting from another source as I found a few supermarket or massmarket distributed ones have medium heat of what they should and no flavour, I presume they do somethign to make them reach weight quicker that robs them of flavour.
I am partial to that grand-daddy of hot pepper cuisines - the Tabasco pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum frutescens. Most hot peppers are a different species, Capsicum annuum. The Tabasco pepper, like Tabasco Sauce (the first hot sauce ever marketed), has a nice sharp clean bite, then a quick fade - no lingering burning.
the store stuff is too vinegary for me since started DIY, worth trying if you haven't already. Just chilli and salt mash (2% to 3% salt per chilli weight), I throw in some wine making oak chips in medium and heavy toast to give it oak barrel aged tang. Leave it covered but so gas can escape and minimum 6 months later it is good to go. I tend to ferment it 12months and have all year round as always have batch on the go now oft with kimchi and gochujang. Some add vinegar at the end stage to store but I prefer without and really you only need a lot for extreme shelflife considerations (few years is fine on just salt) thus the store brands have a fair bit. Fwiw I use both fresh and dry superhots but struggle finding a flavour profile I like with them in fermented sauces.
It is entirely possible to produce explosive compounds recreationally, without making them into anything that could be considered a bomb.
A lot of people make fireworks, not always professionally, and fireworks both require explosives and a reasonable level of competence in chemistry. They are also typically not considered bombs, and the same goes for any chemically-powered model rockets even though the chemicals involved are most definitely explosives.
The part that should be questioned is how anybody with a college degree in chemistry did not get taught better than to experiment with explosive chemicals in their own living space. This falls pretty firmly under the heading of things you do in a purpose-built building.
don't confuse wisdom with knowledge, I've met some highly competent from knowledge pov folks in my time but wouldn't trust them not to do borderline retarded things like this. FWIW everyone I know with strong enough chemistry background (much higher than avergae in my circlke of friends and family) simply wouldn't even consider it with compounds with risk factor present; it is predictable or go home kind of thing for those with sense. That is coming from someone who has made stuff with their kids, knows friends who've done similar, and has a father who did the same when I was a young child. There are only two reasons I can see where someone without malice would make this mistake, either ignorance in the field so they didn't know enough to understand risks, or high competence but suffer from severe stupidity being the second.
It is entirely possible to produce explosive compounds recreationally, without making them into anything that could be considered a bomb. The best candidate I know of is a highly-unstable compound that used to be often used in basic chemistry classes. Immediately after production, it is a wet paste, and can easily be spread in a very thin layer, preferably no more than a few grams covering a 2cm radius circle. Once it dries, that circle will make a lovely pop if disturbed, making it great fun to put on desk surfaces.
Of course, people are dumb. This particular compound grows in destruction exponentially as its quantity increases. A few grams is fun. A few dozen grams is dangerous. A few hundred is lethal. A kilogram in one location is probably a good reason to evacuate the building.
what you say is generally true but there are other mitigating factors, even small amounts are destructive in the right containment (or wrong in this case) . Most compounds conflagrate rather than true explode with the associated shockwave when in open air and not contained. The high brisance stuff used in industry and military applications are similar in that they wont always detonate in that fashion, depending on various factors and oft require containment, shape, particular det caps and so on to do that or they'll just burn very fast instead. Think oil well perforator charges, those are tiny shaped charges but inside that housing in that shape etc there is some SERIOUS power. Remove the contents and spread it out like you say and it'd be rather pedestrian. Plus most the high relative effectiveness explosives are either hard to synth at home small scale or require specialist detonation. My guess is he was packing an organic peroxide like TATP, despite lab access and making fireworks in past for the kids I've never even considered using it due to how unstable it can be. I've handled it in other situations where it is relatively inert but high enough purity and dried out you're somewhat of a fool no matter what your background to start packing that into or whatever housing, especially since it has a tendency to go off spontaneously when tamping gently even and it is goodbye fingers.
The study was pretty bad. It was GTA5 vs Sims 3. Not exactly violent games. They should be studying modern, violent & hyper competitive games. You know; the ones where abuse is rampant & swatting occurs at the extremes.
swatting doesn't necessarily occur in violent games at all. It occurs in competitive niches regardless of genre (runescape for instance, LoL, Dota) and in most popular streamers with large viewing figure; both stream and game primarily composed of younger audiences and player base. There is a ton of hyper competitive violent stuff that attracts more mature audiences and I'm yet to see abuse in any of those streams or within game comms, never heard of swatting in them as it seems limited to immature player/viewer games with very large numbers with possible extra factors such as high monetisation or low barrier to entry. Thus you see the attitudes in communities of COD or CS are quite different to something like EfT, Onward, Arma, Squad and so on.
Over here, the law forbids one to discriminate against minorities only. It's perfectly fine to state "if equally qualified, we will give preference to minorities X, Y, or Z". But if for instance you run a supermarket in an immigrant neighborhood, your work force would be predominantly from Turkish or north African descent, with very few whites. In this case you are not allowed to say "if equally qualified, we prefer white applicants in order to increase diversity in the workplace". That's discrimination against minorities even if your particular business is staffed to the gills with them already.
problem is it is creeping in here too, not just a state side thing. In fairness it isn't the companies themselves but pressure groups who strong-arm them [companies] into hitting diversity quotas or else they'll tar and feather the company as racist/sexist/etc. One of the reasons Damore when he was fired stated he doesn't actually blame google. They're simply just trying to appease the mob; they are who we need to be standing up to since equality isn't actually what they desire.
As soon as the token group they are so called acting in favour or on behalf of become of no use to them they will throw that groups needs/rights under the bus too and latch onto another target group to further their agendas. Such groups use identity politics to further their own agenda but don't actually care for the token group. Don't get me wrong there IS race issues, sexism issues and so on in many areas from macro culture of national societal norms to micro culture of specific industry niche. Sadly these real issues will never be addressed with this current approach because they are FAR too complex for a tickbox diversity quota exercise to fix. It requires a much deeper understanding and no easy fix approach and wont necessarily be addressed by equality of outcome, or a 1 of each approach which can make it much much worse in fact.
Best one I ever saw was on Operation Flashpoint. In network play, if it saw another player with the same serial number, it would work fine for an hour or so, then start randomly crashing, slowly getting worse. A reinstall would fix it. It was kind of cool that you could get a quick 2 player game up, but then you were stuck with a reinstall.
But once it saw the other player with the same serial number, you were going to have to reinstall even if it never saw that player again.
I played a lot of flashpoint on legit copy (and still do the arma series). Don't meant to be a dick as you may have indeed heard that but it isn't true. FADE protection did in flashpoint nor how it worked, at the time there was a lot of talk about black screens and eventually only playable as a seagul spectator. It was triggered from known CD bad sectors iirc and that meta was missing in digital distribution/iso images.
if I don't burn up coming back through the atmosphere.
Something tells me this guy may not be true believer.
joking aside I doubt he was ever a believer. He is such a relatively new convert I think he did it for funding from the morons and to garner much more publicity for other reasons and this isn't his end game (no pun intended). In some ways he is probably smart to play that game to reach his goal as it seems to be working. He'd have much less exposure as just another amateur rocket guy which there are plenty of, especially since he's not really both feet in that camp and rocket building is just a means to an end not his field of expertise nor passion. Iirc a while back someone said he was talking aobut having a reality tv show or something like that, whatever he is up to I don't swallow his bait but I think it has great amusement value and the is he isn't he trolling of media, flat earthers and science folks all at once is pretty funny you've got to admit.
I wondered that because it is weird I didn't get it in either blue nor standard orange versions I use. FWIW I am a fan of the show, in a big way to the point I've often been one of the first to decypher and share the more difficult easter eggs on the two main reddit groups and the like which I couldn't be arsed with for most shows. Despite that I'd still have been pissed if this auto installed on me. The eastereggs are quality as is attention to detail, wont go into them for skae of spoilers but never seen another show have such niche and high quality eastereggs like that.
I think it is all in the implimentation. I could be good but knowing how MS often impliment these things it wont be I'm guessing. I do have some KDE workspaces set out in a way similar to how this could be used albeit not tabbed per se. With multiple virtual desktops with the panes oganised as task orientated workspaces, session history and so on I can work on multiple tasks which each require several applications open without clutter or confusion and switch between them and pick up where I left off regardless of whether the machine was in sleep or shutdown cold state.
If they did this right it would enable me to use my windows boxes in the same way so I wouldn't write it off until I've seen it. Still on Win7 myself though since it works for what I need it for and I use arch or slackware boxes for stuff where I dislike win7.
That's been going on since the earliest days of typography. But all those hours are split up into deciding how each individual character should appear.
Should the Q have a straight line going across, diagonally to the right or straight down. Should a 1 have a straight line or a bit concave. Should the G be like a devils tail or just a simple right angle. Should a 0 have a dot in the middle, a diagonal line or none at all. They'll have all sorts of user surveys, and requirements that characters are the same height in places.
as true as that is there is even more to it as I suspect you know. I've worked with deadlines where a certain standard is demanded and many fonts just don't work well enough as there is a LOT more than folks think to them when you're typesetting books/publications properly in setting where low quality isn't tolerated. Most lay people think font creation is form over function style choices and overpriced bs when the reality is man hours behind them are more than fashion choices and are indeed functional not just aesthetics.
It is hard bloody work making a font for pro use since they also agonise over things like increasing/decreasing thickness of parts of each glyph in all the weights (25Ultralight to 95Black for instance) keeping the visual thicker/thinner overall look but maximising readability still since simple fattening will oft make fonts less legible. This is done for multiple sizes at multiple viewing distances. Then they have to auto track and kern nicely with no issues, many cheap or free fonts cause typesetting artifacts or issues such as have obvious domino effects in justified text at standard settings and are pita to work with or are not legible or track/kern badly so you end up with weird spacings. Then this is done for the condensed, semi con, regular, semi extended and extended variants which are different glyph shapes not just squiched/stretched. The sans stuff needs to have max impact and legibility at wide range of sizes and not flow visually into next word, the serif stuff needs to flow words in all appropriate languages so as not to break reading flow in body copy.
Language independent not just word independent is one hell of a feat alone! The serifs need to work at wide range of sizes too without affecting legibilty as before so the copy flows to the right and isn't jarring. All things everyone is affected by even if they are not conscious of why prone to misreading info or needs to be read slower than their average speed. Also for some sans stuff like univers it needs to be readable at a glance in much quicker than average and at distance because of what it was designed for (oft used in stuff from hospital signs to airport signs so needs to convey info as efficiently and quickly as possible). Lastly on top of all this plus what you listed it needs to look unique compared to other options (like the diagonal slashed T's in univers for instance). Easy to shrug it all off as "load of form over function bs" if you're ignorant thus wish had mod points to mod you up.
The nonprofit I volunteer for uses FB to communicate to volunteers. I have a fake account but everyone on the closed FB page knows it's me.
I use a disposable email and a fake name/photo. Due to the intrusiveness of Facebook, they won't get my real information. Also I will not download the app on my phone.
the real devil is in the meta and not the content you provide them with. Unless you use santised seperate machine for every interactions, NEVER contaminate your regular persona machine/connection, go to above average measures to break as much as their harvesting as you can (not just on facebook website itself) etc then they will indeed know exactly who you are. Generally the real info they want isn't the content of your fb posts but your circles of interaction and ASL, pay bracket, marketing related info that advertisers are interested in. They'll tie that in with coworkers you confirmed use it and fingerprint to tie you to that. Just using a fake name and only accessing from hotels say is not enough alone. You NEED to santise your pseudonym and seperate those identities from reality in every way possible and never cross contaminate them ever so they generate a unique print that is not tied to your real one.
It is not so much whether to connect your tv or not. Sooner or later the answer to that is likely yes, as features get added, though if you don't need those features now, I'd temporarily connect via a wire during the initial setup for updates, that way it never had your wifi password.
Long term I'd like to see consumer level gigabit switches/wifi with these options or similar.
1. Is device an IoT device? (As opposed to a general purpose pc/tablet)
2. Select device type from drop down. Allowed connections will be limited based on device types.
3. Is device allowed to communicate with other devices on your network?
4. Alert me when traffic exceeds X bytes per day.
5. Alert me of suspicious usage patterns.
6. Is the device connected to a compatible power monitoring outlet? Data will be used to analyze usage patterns.
7. Are there any times when you expect the device to actually be fully powered down?
Again, most of these you want auto selected from a device type. The idea is you have a hopefully trusted switch that helps to spy on your own devices to see if they are being bad...
Of course you have to trust your switch, but at least it is one device rather than the whole set of them.
I've had a few already that have most of that functionality. I do all this already on a small home (sort of) network (about 20 laptops and desktops and up to 60 IoT devices, phones, tablets and so on). If you understand all the settings and give a little thought to the rule creation you can impliment things in such a way to get the extra functions even if it isn't designed with that in mind or is designed to do that but implemented differently to your ideas. The auto creation by device type is poor solution compared to other methods, however I have device type dropdowns possible on several devices for device management and custom manual rules.
I need DHCP on because I have a lot of visitors connectiong and high turnover of some devices but either assign reservations for devices with elevated permissions like the desktops which are permanent on the network and some only I have access to and have a blanket restrictive rule that applies to everything else that connects OR I add reservation for certain devices that are permanent but don't need high level of access and hobble those devices more than the usual, smart tv's fit in here. This is in a place where I have to maintain it but cannot police people all the time of what they'll do and want my actions to be transparent to them and not need me to whitelist to make stuff "just work". If you have smaller network and personally own everything on it and no visitor access needed etc you can do it even easier.
You can get all but 5 and 6 through tweaking rules, setting block times etc so it can only accept income/outgoing on given ports at blah blah times on whatever days so it can get firmware updates during certain times of the month but check for them once weekly and so on. Set up an admin and have it notify you if given conditions are met could cover 5 but depending on what you're monitoring you may need extra hardware as most cheaper consumer hardware only supports things like total sum of all throughput for bandwidth exceeding given figure yet there are a few ways I can think of messing with rules to get the same functionality. Most devices support sending admin notification email but I have IFTTT link the email to tablet notifications and actions with a couple of scripts that took a few min at most to sort and do a few things automatically for me which makes it even easier again. As for 5 and 6 you can use extra affordable hardware to do that, or you could go about it in a different manner for the same goal such as not allowing actions you consider to be suspicious (eg. no traffic over such and such ports, no access at all during none business times and so on).
while I agree there is no safe use as such as all the strong opiates have long term damage associated with them I'd argue harm reduction maintenance programme if done right is better than punitive system and prohibition since we've proven with war on drugs it doesn't work. Portugal is not a perfect model but closer to working than here (UK) and most of Europe, USA and so on to dropping numbers of addicts, number of hep and HIV new transmissions because needle exchange etc can be run more efficiently and are not half supported half suppressed because it "encourages or condones". Fentanyl spiked gear is one of the worst because naloxone treatment is complicated in that case.
Naloxone is still an effective antagonist because fentanyl is pure mu opiod agonist where some opiods are complex because they act slightly different BUT it works scary fast and the effective treatment envolope is significantly smaller. You can get up to two hours window with heroin or morphine IV overdose depending upon dose of course. Problem is you'll no doubt know you titrate the dose and you have the time to safely (sort of) do that generally. With fentanyl it depresses the system so quickly, like other opiates it works on breathing centre in the brain stem as well as direct effects on lungs to some degree but it is MUCH faster rather than a slow depression curve to moment of cessation of breathing, also it seems more efficient than related compounds at that as has higher breathing depression efficiency it seems. Although I've had one close friend OD and a few develop heroin problems I've thankfully never seen it first hand nor had to administer reversal treatment. Because of this you have much less time to titrate and flooding someone with too much naloxone is just as bad as it'll just make them go into full blown seizures, cause cadiac problems and so on. Also it is so strong it is easy to massivelt overdose do you need multiple naloxone doses and in a tighter time frame thus most who drop out on it have higher chance of dying.
yeah there is a large movement toward disadvantage for the succesful and harder working to make it equal for the less capable
In some alternate universe where this was a meritocracy, instead of a place where the #1 factor in how far you go in life is how much money your daddy has. Not how hard one works - else every elementary schoolteacher would be worth millions, while investment bankers would be cramming four bankers into an efficiency.
that is apples to oranges and the fallacy of only high paid positions are filled by the rich who come from money and their competence has naught to do with it. I know plenty with working class / blue collar backgrounds who got prestigeous educations, high company positions, even one who became a ceo before she was 30 all on the basis of competence. Plenty of those of average competence with money backgrounds compared to similar ability folks with less resources may have increased chances of sucess in some sectors and semi get handed stuff on a plate sure. They have to have some level of competence too though, and others CAN work their way up by putting the work in. In fact I've personally seen a few with such backgrounds and slightly below average competence go nowhere when it came to industry and get surpassed by poor background people who put the hours in. I studied at prestigeous university that has higher entrance grades than most and is known to have classist reputation of taking in more "rich" kids but of those I met who were incompetent went on to mediocrity and failure and the ones who did succeed their success was due to the work they put in. I'm not saying money isn't a factor and life is a pure meritocracy, and I understand nepotism is rampant in some industries. On the latter note I do know 3 in higher banking positions and 1 of those is due to who they know purely; funny enough all three are lower middle class backgrounds and 2 got there through hard work.
Where is everybody working with born rich management? I've been an engineer (space physics engineering) for thirty years and can't recall a single person, management or coworker who comes from wealth. In fact it has been my experience to be the opposite. Most everyone is way over the top competitive and does end up well off.
yeah there is a large movement toward disadvantage for the succesful and harder working to make it equal for the less capable or the not as harder working folks by pulling the others down. It is considered that ALL discrimination = bad, yet it is only negative in some instances. Just like the women in tech thing, I personally know some who are VERY capable but they would have been hired regardless of pushing for "quality" by bar lowering. In fact they resent it more, my wife in particular is quite vocal about the issue and cannot argue with her they should be empolyed for their job competence NOT because they have a vagina, it is hard to argue with her. However we SHOULD be discriminating on the basis of competence, every social experiment to raise people up because their environment was keeping they down has failed. Seriously I've looked but cannot find one where it worked as the success stories are those who had the drive and ability to reach escape velocities in those situations anyway. Only time these things go unchallenged is when people do not challenge feelings and emotive thinking with rational thought and logic.
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Slackware was my first (of many) attempts at using Linux, and it was less than successful. I love the fact that it's still going after such a (relatively) long time, compared to other OSS projects that often don't last very long. My question is: Is it usable yet? Is it worth trying again? Or, is it still only for super hardcore Unix people, only?
I don't think you need to be super hardcore since I certainly am not and used it since 1998ish and had nothing but success with it. These days especially you have a lot of help resources and I doubt you'd struggle with it given another go. As well as the obvious man pages for the thing you're configuring you have various forums for discussion, printed/online literature and guides too so it is easier than ever. Plus things like Alienbob or slackbuild scripts you don't even need to do as much at all now.
Despite trying various other distros over the years always stuck with it for my main box because it was so straight forward and just worked with the minimal setup needed (I found it needs even less on current incarnations) and configured who knows how many machines for various purposes both for self and others and they've always been rock solid without issue with only a little learning required on my part for the first time I'd setup somethign new. Basically only issue you may have is the lack of automation which isn't as heavy as it used to be and a fair bit is done for you these days out the box (I think it auto mounts drives for you even now) but like I say if you take it slow and be patient you'll learn quickly what is going on and after that initial learnign bit you'll know much more about what is actually happening and it is only hard if you try to do too much at once. Desktop for average user prob doesn't require much learning at all these days. For more niche uses you'll still need manually setup more stuff but it is straight forward and you'll learn a minimal level needed for such things quicker that way anyway. Plus when issues did arise I've found I knew exactly what was running and what settings stuff was using because lack of automation didn't complicate matters by having a predetermined recipe attempting a best guess what I wanted and causing more issues, thus it was a dream to troubleshoot my issues. Certainly give it another go and hit forums etc if you run into problems.
I record 4K video and I can't see any of those examples you come up with justifying the need for more than 2TB of data on a single SD card. Obviously that doesn't mean that uses for that amount of data won't come along though. Having said that, one of the biggest issue with SD for video recording and photography isn't storage (A 2TB card could hold 60-100k raw images) but IO. This standard looks like it could be useful in the near future for use cases where the write speeds of U3, V60, and V90 cards are problematic. Having said that the 128TB limit does seem rather pointless (but I suppose there's no harm). I doubt we'll see 10TB+ cards before 2030 which means it may have been better to wait to create a standard nearer to when it is useful. An obvious issue would be that even at the 985 megabyte transfer speed isn't going to be viable even at 16TB (where it would take 4.5 hours to fully read/write) let alone 128TB.
Consumer type 4K wont need that extra space, pro implimentation tends to several times the size of equivalent files from a consumer unit. Compare your average consumer device "4k" to higher settings UHD from a pro device such as prores 4444xq 12bit and you'll find it will chew through space much faster. Industry oft need raw UHD for post processing reasons but they wont ever be recording to SD so you're right, the only folks who'd possibly use it wont need any such size and the ones who would use the size are tethering to external storage or using different internal cards.
Think pro-photographers in multi-hour photo sessions with high res cameras.
Think people recording 4K video.
Those pros will be using CFast setup or tethering to external storage not a solo SD card setup for that. Plus for multi hour sessions not just pros but serious hobbyists/amateurs like myself wont put all eggs in one basket and use several cards plus tether (or use external storage made for hooking up to cam). Pro cameras tend to be multi card and SD storage is not the primary choice in those and if present is the backup slot, most pros I know who'd use one storage source on extended shoot (eg. not your average wedding tog) use external storage or laptop tethering and card as backup anyway and spread the cards out as extra precaution rather than using the absolute biggest. Despite being amateur I do own stills and vid gear and run home studio complete with long shoots and very extensive big lighting setups, admittedly have friends/family involved between hobby to pro level (the pros are mostly film industry rather than still guys fwiw so maybe still pros would feel different just not the ones I know).
Don't get me wrong cards of that size would have their use but the"it is pros who need this" that is often heard over such things isn't true. It is mainly a marketing thing were most who buy it have no real need of it and will be average consumers with a few pro folks who NEED but are a niche within a niche and most who will buy it is more for convenience than a need. I have seen a fair few less serious amateurs or normal folk use the biggest card they can and never remove it from the camera nor clear off their pics after shooting so it'd be more appreciated by them. They shoot jpeg and have photos on there from holidays from close to a year ago for instance.
stabbed to death minutes after giving a seminar on how to resolve personal disputes on the internet.
Not to be snarky here, but my first thought after reading this was "So I guess that's exactly NOT what you should do, huh?" (Sorry to be morbid.) At least the guy turned himself in soon afterwards. But he bothered the guy online, even kept making new IDs to hassle the guy after the previous one was disabled. What the hell is wrong with people? "Someone's wrong on the internet / in life and it's my duty / job / addiction to permanently correct them? Get over yourself and come up with a better argument. Make them come over to your side instead. Hell, maybe you'll even learn something yourself. Winston Churchill: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
I wonder if this is anything to do with internet argument/need to correct thing and is more a mental health thing oft not seen outside Japan, we look for more motive/reasons in other cultures because we haven't come across this trend. Purely annecdotal but I am in touch with friends on regular basis there, mainly Nagoya and Saitama, and they've mentioned events like this a few times in past several years and it seems more poorly understood mental health issue and how it manifests in a given culture. There has been a strange trend of events like this that seems to be increasing, but it could be it has always been there and just lid was kept on it better in past for multiple reasons so folks didn't hear of it as much. In most the cases friends heard of local attack that seems disturbingly similar in that someone gets stabbed over very minor/nothing at all trigger then perpetrator turns themselves in. They mentioned one guy had allegedly admitted they were just looking for someone to stab and anyone would do.
Of course maybe it is a need to correct thing but the similarity makes me wonder. Thing that makes it so bizarre is as a whole most Japanese friends of mine seem to agree with the stereotype of their "don't cause a scene over any event" culture and agree it is generally like that. Even the more westernised and slightly more fiery tempered ones who studied and worked in EU and Canada for a long time are hard pushed to make a scene publicly, they prefer to bitch to me in private about stuff. Seems they'll go out their way to avoid public dispute even when they know everyone around them agrees and privately backs them up, which makes such escalations to violence (in the general culture at least) all the more odd.
"the world view that's killed over a hundred million people and counting"
You mean capitalism? Yeah, still a major problem.
urm you do realise it is communism/socialist regimes that killed more than any capatalist system. The NK, Russian genocides, GDR, Cambodia, NV, PRC, SEA and South American red regimes have wiped out more than any other system. Sure capitalism has its downsides but there hasn't been any better system that works as well for the masses in real world conditions in modern world. Go read Solzhenitsyn works on the subject, Kang Chol-Hwan "Aquariums of pyongyang", Funder "Stasiland" and so on and tell me how bad capitalism is again. Those useful idiots Yuri Bezmenov spoke at length about are mostly innocent folks who mean well but got manipulated by the propaganda thus this anticapitalism rhetoric may be well intentioned but is misguided.
Before someone gives microsystem examples of red systems that work they often are for exclusive niche and wont work as part of large system, also they only work because they exist within a capitalist macro system. For overly simplistic example someone in a blue house has the freedom to paint the interior red if they so wish in that system unlike one with no such freedoms and only a small group get to have a house even, so they develop a "hey blue interiors suck, red is the best so I'm decorating my interior red like in those red countries, oh how much better it'd be to live in a red house in one of those" failing to understand if they were in red house territory they wouldn't even have a house as that luxury was afforded the those folks due to the capitalist system, under another regime they'd exist in the gutter and any step outa line and straight to the gulag with you matey.
I think there might be a grain of truth to it.
In the first half of the 20th century people were plain ignorant.
In the first half of the 21st century they all have a box in the corner of the room throwing out disinformation 24/7 as if it were God's Own Truth. I'm not just talking about Fox News, I include all the crap on the History Channel, the evangelical channels, etc.
The problem ain't what you don't know, the problem's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
(eg. that's not a Mark Twain quote...)
You may have a point but for more than initial reason.Effect of misinformation is compounded by the fact those things fill vacant time. Less time thinking for themselves with higher exposure to what to think/what the group considers norm leads to idiocy because less is questioned and thought about. Some newish research seems to suggest filling all the gaps in life with technological distractions leads to less innovation and genuine focused thinking. Most "breakthrough" thinking and creative expressions of our intelligence comes in the gaps of life not mid task. Eg. It isn't in the lab at work mid task that some novel approach hits me but rather sitting in the break room with coffee staring into space.
I think so much cultural baggage gets mixed up with theology, and the end result is that people will mistake casual feel-good statements as religious dogma. Ie, "it was God's will" gets used a lot, but it also flies in the face of other religious beliefs
If everything that happens is purely God's will, then there's no free-will because God would therefore be a micro-manager of all events. So many people use such trite comforting statements that they start to believe them. Ask them to back this up with scriptures and they often fail, or cite scriptures that don't really have that meaning. Others seem to have totally inconsistent views here - it's God's will if a child dies from disease, but not God's will if a shooter did this. But anyone claiming to know God's will probably needs to get a bit more humility.
Too much religion these days is more about belonging to the right club, separating us from them, as opposed to a spiritual seeking of truth.
Mod parent up, can't believe this isn't 5 insightful already because is better quality comment than the 4 and 5's preceeding it..
A program that presents on/off toggles for turning off dozens of the various Windows 10 "features" such as forced updates, "telemetry", etc.
It doesn't install anything, it just serves as a map to and simple control for a bunch of the settings you would otherwise have to hunt for in various Windows 10 settings menus, the registry, powershell, etc. It also has a recommendation for whether or not something is safe to turn off, or whether it can impact things you might use.
problem is MS ignores some settings regardless of value set and leaks the info anyway. May wanna look it up and makes sure it honours the setting for the things you want or find another way to block it.
Yes -- now.
As recently as a few years ago, this was not the case; a majority were against those things.
So, are gay rights and marijuana decriminalization right because the majority wants them -- or were they always right, even when the majority didn't want them?
I don't believe that many folks core beliefs changed that much if at all personally, however admit I may be way out here as based mainly on personal observation and annecdotal evidence is not reliable but it does fit human psychology and bigger picture at a glance. Most folks have very little beliefs on a given issue with very shallow understandings and core belief and they change what they answer based on what is percieved as the accepted societal norm. Even those who have a deeper opposing view will often virtue signal to distance themselves from the less popular view they hold. Very few seem to have the spine to go against the group expectation regardless of reputation and social life cost for what they believe in so they tend to get grouped in with the easy to discredit extreme or unbalanced with agenda types. For instance in this case I know of several who are not homophobic but disagree privately but openly claim support for gay marriage. They do not wish to be grouped with homophobic types and have no actual issue with gay people, they just don't believe in the precedent set by devaluing traditional marriage, the weaking of family unit and so on all of which requires deeper understanding and debate so to most colleagues, friends, family and so on they go with the crowd to the point some even act like standard bearers of the opponents against anti gay marriage types.
Much like Vanilla Extract or the variety of other extracts. A Ghost Pepper can be used to give heat to a dish, but its small size will not bring pepper flavor to it. Eating raw Ghost peppers, is like eating baking chocolate, or drinking a shot of Vanilla Extract or Vinegar. Unpleasant by itself but used in the right amounts it adds flavor and/or changes the chemical composition of the food to make it palatable.
if they are grown right they will give flavour to it I found especially fresh. Both my home grown ones and decent growers with just 1 in a dish that serves 5 imparts a VERY strong flavour as well as moderately high heat. I'd say it adds more flavour than heat tbh thus I use particular superhots depending on flavour needed not just heat strength. Fresh Dorset nagas in particular are very strong in flavour if grown right (if not they lack heat and flavour). The more raisinlike strains tend to be weak flavoured but the hard to describe pungent ones and the fruity varieties should be addign more flavour than heat, if not I'd try getting from another source as I found a few supermarket or massmarket distributed ones have medium heat of what they should and no flavour, I presume they do somethign to make them reach weight quicker that robs them of flavour.
I am partial to that grand-daddy of hot pepper cuisines - the Tabasco pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum frutescens. Most hot peppers are a different species, Capsicum annuum. The Tabasco pepper, like Tabasco Sauce (the first hot sauce ever marketed), has a nice sharp clean bite, then a quick fade - no lingering burning.
the store stuff is too vinegary for me since started DIY, worth trying if you haven't already. Just chilli and salt mash (2% to 3% salt per chilli weight), I throw in some wine making oak chips in medium and heavy toast to give it oak barrel aged tang. Leave it covered but so gas can escape and minimum 6 months later it is good to go. I tend to ferment it 12months and have all year round as always have batch on the go now oft with kimchi and gochujang. Some add vinegar at the end stage to store but I prefer without and really you only need a lot for extreme shelflife considerations (few years is fine on just salt) thus the store brands have a fair bit. Fwiw I use both fresh and dry superhots but struggle finding a flavour profile I like with them in fermented sauces.
It is entirely possible to produce explosive compounds recreationally, without making them into anything that could be considered a bomb.
A lot of people make fireworks, not always professionally, and fireworks both require explosives and a reasonable level of competence in chemistry. They are also typically not considered bombs, and the same goes for any chemically-powered model rockets even though the chemicals involved are most definitely explosives.
Oh, and then there's dust. That explodes too...
The part that should be questioned is how anybody with a college degree in chemistry did not get taught better than to experiment with explosive chemicals in their own living space. This falls pretty firmly under the heading of things you do in a purpose-built building.
don't confuse wisdom with knowledge, I've met some highly competent from knowledge pov folks in my time but wouldn't trust them not to do borderline retarded things like this. FWIW everyone I know with strong enough chemistry background (much higher than avergae in my circlke of friends and family) simply wouldn't even consider it with compounds with risk factor present; it is predictable or go home kind of thing for those with sense. That is coming from someone who has made stuff with their kids, knows friends who've done similar, and has a father who did the same when I was a young child. There are only two reasons I can see where someone without malice would make this mistake, either ignorance in the field so they didn't know enough to understand risks, or high competence but suffer from severe stupidity being the second.
It is entirely possible to produce explosive compounds recreationally, without making them into anything that could be considered a bomb. The best candidate I know of is a highly-unstable compound that used to be often used in basic chemistry classes. Immediately after production, it is a wet paste, and can easily be spread in a very thin layer, preferably no more than a few grams covering a 2cm radius circle. Once it dries, that circle will make a lovely pop if disturbed, making it great fun to put on desk surfaces.
Of course, people are dumb. This particular compound grows in destruction exponentially as its quantity increases. A few grams is fun. A few dozen grams is dangerous. A few hundred is lethal. A kilogram in one location is probably a good reason to evacuate the building.
what you say is generally true but there are other mitigating factors, even small amounts are destructive in the right containment (or wrong in this case) . Most compounds conflagrate rather than true explode with the associated shockwave when in open air and not contained. The high brisance stuff used in industry and military applications are similar in that they wont always detonate in that fashion, depending on various factors and oft require containment, shape, particular det caps and so on to do that or they'll just burn very fast instead. Think oil well perforator charges, those are tiny shaped charges but inside that housing in that shape etc there is some SERIOUS power. Remove the contents and spread it out like you say and it'd be rather pedestrian. Plus most the high relative effectiveness explosives are either hard to synth at home small scale or require specialist detonation. My guess is he was packing an organic peroxide like TATP, despite lab access and making fireworks in past for the kids I've never even considered using it due to how unstable it can be. I've handled it in other situations where it is relatively inert but high enough purity and dried out you're somewhat of a fool no matter what your background to start packing that into or whatever housing, especially since it has a tendency to go off spontaneously when tamping gently even and it is goodbye fingers.
The study was pretty bad. It was GTA5 vs Sims 3. Not exactly violent games. They should be studying modern, violent & hyper competitive games. You know; the ones where abuse is rampant & swatting occurs at the extremes.
swatting doesn't necessarily occur in violent games at all. It occurs in competitive niches regardless of genre (runescape for instance, LoL, Dota) and in most popular streamers with large viewing figure; both stream and game primarily composed of younger audiences and player base. There is a ton of hyper competitive violent stuff that attracts more mature audiences and I'm yet to see abuse in any of those streams or within game comms, never heard of swatting in them as it seems limited to immature player/viewer games with very large numbers with possible extra factors such as high monetisation or low barrier to entry. Thus you see the attitudes in communities of COD or CS are quite different to something like EfT, Onward, Arma, Squad and so on.
Over here, the law forbids one to discriminate against minorities only. It's perfectly fine to state "if equally qualified, we will give preference to minorities X, Y, or Z". But if for instance you run a supermarket in an immigrant neighborhood, your work force would be predominantly from Turkish or north African descent, with very few whites. In this case you are not allowed to say "if equally qualified, we prefer white applicants in order to increase diversity in the workplace". That's discrimination against minorities even if your particular business is staffed to the gills with them already.
problem is it is creeping in here too, not just a state side thing. In fairness it isn't the companies themselves but pressure groups who strong-arm them [companies] into hitting diversity quotas or else they'll tar and feather the company as racist/sexist/etc. One of the reasons Damore when he was fired stated he doesn't actually blame google. They're simply just trying to appease the mob; they are who we need to be standing up to since equality isn't actually what they desire.
As soon as the token group they are so called acting in favour or on behalf of become of no use to them they will throw that groups needs/rights under the bus too and latch onto another target group to further their agendas. Such groups use identity politics to further their own agenda but don't actually care for the token group. Don't get me wrong there IS race issues, sexism issues and so on in many areas from macro culture of national societal norms to micro culture of specific industry niche. Sadly these real issues will never be addressed with this current approach because they are FAR too complex for a tickbox diversity quota exercise to fix. It requires a much deeper understanding and no easy fix approach and wont necessarily be addressed by equality of outcome, or a 1 of each approach which can make it much much worse in fact.
Best one I ever saw was on Operation Flashpoint. In network play, if it saw another player with the same serial number, it would work fine for an hour or so, then start randomly crashing, slowly getting worse. A reinstall would fix it. It was kind of cool that you could get a quick 2 player game up, but then you were stuck with a reinstall. But once it saw the other player with the same serial number, you were going to have to reinstall even if it never saw that player again.
I played a lot of flashpoint on legit copy (and still do the arma series). Don't meant to be a dick as you may have indeed heard that but it isn't true. FADE protection did in flashpoint nor how it worked, at the time there was a lot of talk about black screens and eventually only playable as a seagul spectator. It was triggered from known CD bad sectors iirc and that meta was missing in digital distribution/iso images.
Something tells me this guy may not be true believer.
joking aside I doubt he was ever a believer. He is such a relatively new convert I think he did it for funding from the morons and to garner much more publicity for other reasons and this isn't his end game (no pun intended). In some ways he is probably smart to play that game to reach his goal as it seems to be working. He'd have much less exposure as just another amateur rocket guy which there are plenty of, especially since he's not really both feet in that camp and rocket building is just a means to an end not his field of expertise nor passion. Iirc a while back someone said he was talking aobut having a reality tv show or something like that, whatever he is up to I don't swallow his bait but I think it has great amusement value and the is he isn't he trolling of media, flat earthers and science folks all at once is pretty funny you've got to admit.
It's not US-only.
I wondered that because it is weird I didn't get it in either blue nor standard orange versions I use. FWIW I am a fan of the show, in a big way to the point I've often been one of the first to decypher and share the more difficult easter eggs on the two main reddit groups and the like which I couldn't be arsed with for most shows. Despite that I'd still have been pissed if this auto installed on me. The eastereggs are quality as is attention to detail, wont go into them for skae of spoilers but never seen another show have such niche and high quality eastereggs like that.
Hmm..sounds like the new "ribbons".....bleh!!!
I think it is all in the implimentation. I could be good but knowing how MS often impliment these things it wont be I'm guessing. I do have some KDE workspaces set out in a way similar to how this could be used albeit not tabbed per se. With multiple virtual desktops with the panes oganised as task orientated workspaces, session history and so on I can work on multiple tasks which each require several applications open without clutter or confusion and switch between them and pick up where I left off regardless of whether the machine was in sleep or shutdown cold state.
If they did this right it would enable me to use my windows boxes in the same way so I wouldn't write it off until I've seen it. Still on Win7 myself though since it works for what I need it for and I use arch or slackware boxes for stuff where I dislike win7.
That's been going on since the earliest days of typography. But all those hours are split up into deciding how each individual character should appear.
Should the Q have a straight line going across, diagonally to the right or straight down. Should a 1 have a straight line or a bit concave. Should the G be like a devils tail or just a simple right angle. Should a 0 have a dot in the middle, a diagonal line or none at all. They'll have all sorts of user surveys, and requirements that characters are the same height in places.
as true as that is there is even more to it as I suspect you know. I've worked with deadlines where a certain standard is demanded and many fonts just don't work well enough as there is a LOT more than folks think to them when you're typesetting books/publications properly in setting where low quality isn't tolerated. Most lay people think font creation is form over function style choices and overpriced bs when the reality is man hours behind them are more than fashion choices and are indeed functional not just aesthetics.
It is hard bloody work making a font for pro use since they also agonise over things like increasing/decreasing thickness of parts of each glyph in all the weights (25Ultralight to 95Black for instance) keeping the visual thicker/thinner overall look but maximising readability still since simple fattening will oft make fonts less legible. This is done for multiple sizes at multiple viewing distances. Then they have to auto track and kern nicely with no issues, many cheap or free fonts cause typesetting artifacts or issues such as have obvious domino effects in justified text at standard settings and are pita to work with or are not legible or track/kern badly so you end up with weird spacings. Then this is done for the condensed, semi con, regular, semi extended and extended variants which are different glyph shapes not just squiched/stretched. The sans stuff needs to have max impact and legibility at wide range of sizes and not flow visually into next word, the serif stuff needs to flow words in all appropriate languages so as not to break reading flow in body copy.
Language independent not just word independent is one hell of a feat alone! The serifs need to work at wide range of sizes too without affecting legibilty as before so the copy flows to the right and isn't jarring. All things everyone is affected by even if they are not conscious of why prone to misreading info or needs to be read slower than their average speed. Also for some sans stuff like univers it needs to be readable at a glance in much quicker than average and at distance because of what it was designed for (oft used in stuff from hospital signs to airport signs so needs to convey info as efficiently and quickly as possible). Lastly on top of all this plus what you listed it needs to look unique compared to other options (like the diagonal slashed T's in univers for instance). Easy to shrug it all off as "load of form over function bs" if you're ignorant thus wish had mod points to mod you up.
The nonprofit I volunteer for uses FB to communicate to volunteers. I have a fake account but everyone on the closed FB page knows it's me.
I use a disposable email and a fake name/photo. Due to the intrusiveness of Facebook, they won't get my real information. Also I will not download the app on my phone.
the real devil is in the meta and not the content you provide them with. Unless you use santised seperate machine for every interactions, NEVER contaminate your regular persona machine/connection, go to above average measures to break as much as their harvesting as you can (not just on facebook website itself) etc then they will indeed know exactly who you are. Generally the real info they want isn't the content of your fb posts but your circles of interaction and ASL, pay bracket, marketing related info that advertisers are interested in. They'll tie that in with coworkers you confirmed use it and fingerprint to tie you to that. Just using a fake name and only accessing from hotels say is not enough alone. You NEED to santise your pseudonym and seperate those identities from reality in every way possible and never cross contaminate them ever so they generate a unique print that is not tied to your real one.
It is not so much whether to connect your tv or not. Sooner or later the answer to that is likely yes, as features get added, though if you don't need those features now, I'd temporarily connect via a wire during the initial setup for updates, that way it never had your wifi password.
Long term I'd like to see consumer level gigabit switches/wifi with these options or similar.
1. Is device an IoT device? (As opposed to a general purpose pc/tablet) 2. Select device type from drop down. Allowed connections will be limited based on device types. 3. Is device allowed to communicate with other devices on your network? 4. Alert me when traffic exceeds X bytes per day. 5. Alert me of suspicious usage patterns. 6. Is the device connected to a compatible power monitoring outlet? Data will be used to analyze usage patterns. 7. Are there any times when you expect the device to actually be fully powered down?
Again, most of these you want auto selected from a device type. The idea is you have a hopefully trusted switch that helps to spy on your own devices to see if they are being bad...
Of course you have to trust your switch, but at least it is one device rather than the whole set of them.
I've had a few already that have most of that functionality. I do all this already on a small home (sort of) network (about 20 laptops and desktops and up to 60 IoT devices, phones, tablets and so on). If you understand all the settings and give a little thought to the rule creation you can impliment things in such a way to get the extra functions even if it isn't designed with that in mind or is designed to do that but implemented differently to your ideas. The auto creation by device type is poor solution compared to other methods, however I have device type dropdowns possible on several devices for device management and custom manual rules.
I need DHCP on because I have a lot of visitors connectiong and high turnover of some devices but either assign reservations for devices with elevated permissions like the desktops which are permanent on the network and some only I have access to and have a blanket restrictive rule that applies to everything else that connects OR I add reservation for certain devices that are permanent but don't need high level of access and hobble those devices more than the usual, smart tv's fit in here. This is in a place where I have to maintain it but cannot police people all the time of what they'll do and want my actions to be transparent to them and not need me to whitelist to make stuff "just work". If you have smaller network and personally own everything on it and no visitor access needed etc you can do it even easier.
You can get all but 5 and 6 through tweaking rules, setting block times etc so it can only accept income/outgoing on given ports at blah blah times on whatever days so it can get firmware updates during certain times of the month but check for them once weekly and so on. Set up an admin and have it notify you if given conditions are met could cover 5 but depending on what you're monitoring you may need extra hardware as most cheaper consumer hardware only supports things like total sum of all throughput for bandwidth exceeding given figure yet there are a few ways I can think of messing with rules to get the same functionality. Most devices support sending admin notification email but I have IFTTT link the email to tablet notifications and actions with a couple of scripts that took a few min at most to sort and do a few things automatically for me which makes it even easier again. As for 5 and 6 you can use extra affordable hardware to do that, or you could go about it in a different manner for the same goal such as not allowing actions you consider to be suspicious (eg. no traffic over such and such ports, no access at all during none business times and so on).
while I agree there is no safe use as such as all the strong opiates have long term damage associated with them I'd argue harm reduction maintenance programme if done right is better than punitive system and prohibition since we've proven with war on drugs it doesn't work. Portugal is not a perfect model but closer to working than here (UK) and most of Europe, USA and so on to dropping numbers of addicts, number of hep and HIV new transmissions because needle exchange etc can be run more efficiently and are not half supported half suppressed because it "encourages or condones". Fentanyl spiked gear is one of the worst because naloxone treatment is complicated in that case.
Naloxone is still an effective antagonist because fentanyl is pure mu opiod agonist where some opiods are complex because they act slightly different BUT it works scary fast and the effective treatment envolope is significantly smaller. You can get up to two hours window with heroin or morphine IV overdose depending upon dose of course. Problem is you'll no doubt know you titrate the dose and you have the time to safely (sort of) do that generally. With fentanyl it depresses the system so quickly, like other opiates it works on breathing centre in the brain stem as well as direct effects on lungs to some degree but it is MUCH faster rather than a slow depression curve to moment of cessation of breathing, also it seems more efficient than related compounds at that as has higher breathing depression efficiency it seems. Although I've had one close friend OD and a few develop heroin problems I've thankfully never seen it first hand nor had to administer reversal treatment. Because of this you have much less time to titrate and flooding someone with too much naloxone is just as bad as it'll just make them go into full blown seizures, cause cadiac problems and so on. Also it is so strong it is easy to massivelt overdose do you need multiple naloxone doses and in a tighter time frame thus most who drop out on it have higher chance of dying.
In some alternate universe where this was a meritocracy, instead of a place where the #1 factor in how far you go in life is how much money your daddy has. Not how hard one works - else every elementary schoolteacher would be worth millions, while investment bankers would be cramming four bankers into an efficiency.
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that is apples to oranges and the fallacy of only high paid positions are filled by the rich who come from money and their competence has naught to do with it. I know plenty with working class / blue collar backgrounds who got prestigeous educations, high company positions, even one who became a ceo before she was 30 all on the basis of competence. Plenty of those of average competence with money backgrounds compared to similar ability folks with less resources may have increased chances of sucess in some sectors and semi get handed stuff on a plate sure. They have to have some level of competence too though, and others CAN work their way up by putting the work in. In fact I've personally seen a few with such backgrounds and slightly below average competence go nowhere when it came to industry and get surpassed by poor background people who put the hours in. I studied at prestigeous university that has higher entrance grades than most and is known to have classist reputation of taking in more "rich" kids but of those I met who were incompetent went on to mediocrity and failure and the ones who did succeed their success was due to the work they put in. I'm not saying money isn't a factor and life is a pure meritocracy, and I understand nepotism is rampant in some industries. On the latter note I do know 3 in higher banking positions and 1 of those is due to who they know purely; funny enough all three are lower middle class backgrounds and 2 got there through hard work.
Where is everybody working with born rich management? I've been an engineer (space physics engineering) for thirty years and can't recall a single person, management or coworker who comes from wealth. In fact it has been my experience to be the opposite. Most everyone is way over the top competitive and does end up well off.
yeah there is a large movement toward disadvantage for the succesful and harder working to make it equal for the less capable or the not as harder working folks by pulling the others down. It is considered that ALL discrimination = bad, yet it is only negative in some instances. Just like the women in tech thing, I personally know some who are VERY capable but they would have been hired regardless of pushing for "quality" by bar lowering. In fact they resent it more, my wife in particular is quite vocal about the issue and cannot argue with her they should be empolyed for their job competence NOT because they have a vagina, it is hard to argue with her. However we SHOULD be discriminating on the basis of competence, every social experiment to raise people up because their environment was keeping they down has failed. Seriously I've looked but cannot find one where it worked as the success stories are those who had the drive and ability to reach escape velocities in those situations anyway. Only time these things go unchallenged is when people do not challenge feelings and emotive thinking with rational thought and logic.