Via PlatformIO you can develop Arduino code in different IDEs. Either with their specific PlatformIO IDE (MIT licensed, based on Atom and Visual Studio Code), or with a number of supported desktop IDEs. I have developed various Arduino projects with CLion. Works nicely, has all the functionality I quite like in JetBrains' IDEs, and PlatformIO also has a very useful library manager.
While some additional solutions are offered for a price under "PIO Plus", all "standard" PlatformIO offerings are free and open source.
So everyone chillaxe, take a deep breath. Let's go get a beer.
Hah! Inviting me for a beer when you know that for "reasons" I am not allow to drink! I shall let you know that I will report you to this fine site's editors for harassment! </s>
My use case: I don't care about LE nor intelligence agencies; I just need a reliable VPN for those times when I have to connect via an "insecure network" (as in hotel Wifi), and for that I simply installed OpenVPN on a VPS, created some certificates and installed them on my devices. Works like a charm, and if needed I can spin up a new VPS and install everything within minutes using a script like openvpn-install. And if one prefers to run an IPsec VPN server there's Algo VPN, a set of Ansible scripts that helps with the setup.
When we wanted a short song we'd sit back and listen to Napalm Death's You Suffer (2 seconds), or S.O.D.'s Diamonds and Rust -- full 6 seconds of acoustic glory.
I have done something very similar during the past two decades. I have one main email address on my primary domain that I only hand out to my customers (few), close friends, and family members, and this address has never been used to sign up anywhere; and I have created virtual aliases for about anything else (currently 118).
Interestingly, in all this time, only one or two of the aliases that I had used to sign up for services, online shops or websites have been spammed. Nearly all of the spam that arrives is directed at the alias I use for the WHOIS records of my domains, followed by spam directed to my main email address. Based on the timing and the pattern of the initial spam, I think that the main address must have been sucked up by a virus on one of my contacts' devices in the early 2000s.
I first installed Linux in 1994 (Slackware), and soon began to use it professionally. Over the following years I tried various distributions, Red Hat, SUSE, Mandrake, until settling for Debian around 2001, for my workstation, laptop, and servers. In 2011 I noticed that I was spending way too much time tinkering around to keep my laptop in a stable state (wouldn't resume from sleep, audio was hit-and-miss, wifi worked under one kernel but not the next one). I bought a MacBook Pro and haven't looked back ever since.
On the server side, over the past few years I have replaced all Debian installations with FreeBSD. Not "because systemd", but things were heading in a direction I didn't much care about. So if I have to re-learn a bunch of ingrained things I might as well take the plunge already. And I found out that I love FreeBSD; and the way things are done and worked with seems to be more natural to me. To list just a few:
- pf firewall - package versions do not depend on OS release - I can have the latest packages running on an older release, and I can upgrade releases without upgrading all your userland binaries - I can run the current (or a recent) version of the packages I need without having to resort to an unstable OS branch (see above) -/etc and/usr/local/etc are separated for a reason - jails
So to answer your question: (Free)BSD definitely better serves my needs.
I'm not writing this to disparage Debian or any other Linux distribution. I appreciate the work so many people have put into this (and have donated over the years). With FreeBDS I just found a system that I am more productive and feel more at home with.
The GP is correct. You cannot turn off bluetooth with the latest versions of iOS. Even if you turn it off, the bluetooth radio remains powered to work with the pencil and certain other devices. Go ahead. Give it a try. It’ll turn itself back on after 24 hours too. Same with WiFI, though I think WiFI radios actually do power off for 24 hours.
This is only partially correct - the described behaviour applies only when Bluetooth (or Wifi) is turned off from Control Center - if it is turned off from within Settings it will stay off, and as far as I can tell it is powered off (no connection with other devices possible).
They may not be able (and neither want) to rescind their contributions, but some people might decide to walk away from the project. Depending on the person this could be a setback for any project, even one as big as the Linux kernel. The fact that Linus himself is "taking a break to fix his behavioural issues" could be a sign of the things to come.
Personally, I don't think foul language is required to tell someone that their contribution is not up to par. Be respectful of others, but also be honest to them. At the same time I also don't believe people need to think of my "feelings" when telling me that I did something stupid. I'd take a good bollocking any day over that wishy-washy we-are-all-equal-unicorns nonsense.
My insurance company used Comic Sans for all of their written communications for the better part of two decades. Made it hard to take them seriously. I guess their head secretary must have retired now because the latest documents arrived in a more "standard" font.
One example is from about six years ago when Linus reminded everyone very crisply that one doesn't change userspace APIs willy nilly and then blame the applications that were broken by the change.
I agree, and if we read Mauro's response we see a person that tries to explain why they made a (wrong) choice, apologize for their mistake, and presumably move on with their life. No tears shed, no tantrum thrown, no touchy-feely-police called.
Some friendly banter (which I believe your link can be read as, too) is just the salt in our daily soup. As long as the person dishing out the compliments is willing to accept a same-level response I don't have a problem with it.
Unfortunately, nobody is going to prison in Italy for a sentence under 4 years.
A couple of years ago, a man in my town was approached by a young immigrant he did not know and beaten half to death for no reason at all; he was in a coma for over half a year, to wake up to life-changing injuries. The person who did this to him was caught but did not spend a day in jail. The judge had to go public on the local newspapers because citizens did not take lightly to this, and he explained that his hands were tied: for this specific crime current Italian law does not allow a sentence of more than 3 years, and this means no prison. Had he ordered the perpetrator even only into custody, that peace of scum would have had the legal right to sue the judge.
How does it stop someone from taking a photo of your displayed e-mail with another device?
Google seems to have missed the opportunity to make this system really secure: format the text of a confidential message like a damn captcha. Take as many pictures of the screen as you like, the whole thing is still unreadable.
John Niven's "Kill Your Friends" is a funny, satirical novel about an A&R agent. I have no idea how close it is to the situation in the "real" record business, but if you like an entertaining read about a bunch of backstabbing bastards you might want to give it a try - I read it years ago and enjoyed it a lot.
Hate to victim blame, but anyone who buys an IoT thingy and actually plugs it in to the internet is all but asking for it.
Not all victims bought or installed the IoT devices in the first place. This is often a case of an abusive person that installs an IoT device in their (ex) home to keep their (ex) partner under surveillance or to harass them.
FTA:
Usually, one person in a relationship takes charge of putting in the technology, knows how it works and has all the passwords. This gives that person the power to turn the technology against the other person.
Even if you can upload the image to them to "fingerprint" images are often cropped and converted to other image formats and recompressd which fucks that up. So unless they have some super AI that can detect that from a 2nd generation repost this wont work.
Images can be fingerprinted or hashed with the help of perceptual hashing (alternative article). These hashes will match even if the original image has been cropped, resized, changed in color or rotated (to a certain extent).
Image perceptual hashing has been proposed to identify or authenticate image contents in a robust way against distortions caused by compression, noise, common signal processing and geometrical modifications, while still holding a good discriminability for different ones in sense of human perception.
The difference would seem to be that the "load it up with propellant at super-cold temperatures to shrink its size" step is required to take place with the crew already on board. Which I am sure has a different risk level than "load it up with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and if the whole thing hasn't exploded proceed with getting the crew aboard."
They had to be dragged kicking and screaming into this. Until it sunk in that they couldn't charge people only once for their music, but monthly. I don't use any music streaming service - I prefer to pay for an album (CD or mp3) and then listen to it and keep it for as long as I please - but apparently these services appeal to a lot of people. And that is fine - I can see the convenience of having access to a large music library.
Zuckerberg has probably more data about most members of congress and their particular habits (that the general public might not necessarily be aware of) than congress has about him. Remember that you don't have to be on Facebook to be tracked by Facebook. All the websites that very helpfully add "Like" buttons to their articles and pages leave a solid trail, too.
Maybe the questions will not be "hitting too hard", lest some politician's browsing habits might find their way to the press. My guess is that there will be some questions that can be handled, some concessions, and after a little while all will be forgotten.
Call me old-fashioned, but instead of a fridge with a display that I'll never be looking at I actually wouldn't mind a decent fridge with a Modbus RTU (or TCP) interface that lets me read a few coils (door closed? alarm buzzer on?) and registers (current temperature top shelve, bottom shelve, humidity) and maybe write a few registers (target temperature, buzzer activation threshold temperature). This way it could easily be hooked up to an existing home automation system - which then can be configured to present this information and to send a notification when necessary.
I live in a country where it is quite normal to send "un abbraccio" - a hug - at the end of a message to friends, same sex or otherwise - there is no sexual connotation. But this is not used in formal messages or when writing in a public space like project's mailing list or forum. I have never heard of sending someone a backrub, though...
Personally, I'm no fan of codes of conduct. If someone acts inappropriately, is abusive or generally a nuisance, kick them out (after a first warning, depending on the context) and don't hide behind a piece of text. I understand there's a certain number of jerks that don't know how to behave, and maybe such a code is a way to filter out at least some of them. I share your view that it is doubtful that someone "encouraging a person to commit suicide" will care about a code of conduct. Besides that, most of what I read in TFS would seem to be common sense and could be abbreviated with "don't be a dick".
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Via PlatformIO you can develop Arduino code in different IDEs. Either with their specific PlatformIO IDE (MIT licensed, based on Atom and Visual Studio Code), or with a number of supported desktop IDEs. I have developed various Arduino projects with CLion. Works nicely, has all the functionality I quite like in JetBrains' IDEs, and PlatformIO also has a very useful library manager.
While some additional solutions are offered for a price under "PIO Plus", all "standard" PlatformIO offerings are free and open source.
So everyone chillaxe, take a deep breath. Let's go get a beer.
Hah! Inviting me for a beer when you know that for "reasons" I am not allow to drink! I shall let you know that I will report you to this fine site's editors for harassment! </s>
I've found the VPN section on That One Privacy Site to be quite an informative resource. There's a lot of information from Choosing A VPN up to a detailed comparison chart.
My use case: I don't care about LE nor intelligence agencies; I just need a reliable VPN for those times when I have to connect via an "insecure network" (as in hotel Wifi), and for that I simply installed OpenVPN on a VPS, created some certificates and installed them on my devices. Works like a charm, and if needed I can spin up a new VPS and install everything within minutes using a script like openvpn-install. And if one prefers to run an IPsec VPN server there's Algo VPN, a set of Ansible scripts that helps with the setup.
Kids these days...
When we wanted a short song we'd sit back and listen to Napalm Death's You Suffer (2 seconds), or S.O.D.'s Diamonds and Rust -- full 6 seconds of acoustic glory.
I have done something very similar during the past two decades. I have one main email address on my primary domain that I only hand out to my customers (few), close friends, and family members, and this address has never been used to sign up anywhere; and I have created virtual aliases for about anything else (currently 118).
Interestingly, in all this time, only one or two of the aliases that I had used to sign up for services, online shops or websites have been spammed. Nearly all of the spam that arrives is directed at the alias I use for the WHOIS records of my domains, followed by spam directed to my main email address. Based on the timing and the pattern of the initial spam, I think that the main address must have been sucked up by a virus on one of my contacts' devices in the early 2000s.
You have posted this exact troll numerous times before.
I can't remember having posted this before - in fact I only wrote it today. Sure you haven't mixed it up with somebody else's post?
We professionals will stick with Linux thank you very much.
We professionals stick with what works best for us. For some it is Linux, and for others it's something else (or a mixture of systems).
With FreeBDS
Now that's a bit embarrassing... Mental note to self: next time proofread text before hitting Submit.
I first installed Linux in 1994 (Slackware), and soon began to use it professionally. Over the following years I tried various distributions, Red Hat, SUSE, Mandrake, until settling for Debian around 2001, for my workstation, laptop, and servers. In 2011 I noticed that I was spending way too much time tinkering around to keep my laptop in a stable state (wouldn't resume from sleep, audio was hit-and-miss, wifi worked under one kernel but not the next one). I bought a MacBook Pro and haven't looked back ever since.
On the server side, over the past few years I have replaced all Debian installations with FreeBSD. Not "because systemd", but things were heading in a direction I didn't much care about. So if I have to re-learn a bunch of ingrained things I might as well take the plunge already. And I found out that I love FreeBSD; and the way things are done and worked with seems to be more natural to me. To list just a few:
- pf firewall /etc and /usr/local/etc are separated for a reason
- package versions do not depend on OS release - I can have the latest packages running on an older release, and I can upgrade releases without upgrading all your userland binaries
- I can run the current (or a recent) version of the packages I need without having to resort to an unstable OS branch (see above)
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- jails
So to answer your question: (Free)BSD definitely better serves my needs.
I'm not writing this to disparage Debian or any other Linux distribution. I appreciate the work so many people have put into this (and have donated over the years). With FreeBDS I just found a system that I am more productive and feel more at home with.
The GP is correct. You cannot turn off bluetooth with the latest versions of iOS. Even if you turn it off, the bluetooth radio remains powered to work with the pencil and certain other devices. Go ahead. Give it a try. It’ll turn itself back on after 24 hours too. Same with WiFI, though I think WiFI radios actually do power off for 24 hours.
This is only partially correct - the described behaviour applies only when Bluetooth (or Wifi) is turned off from Control Center - if it is turned off from within Settings it will stay off, and as far as I can tell it is powered off (no connection with other devices possible).
Maybe GP meant people have to "opt out" from the dangers associated with standard swattting response by submitting their data to a 3rd party service.
They may not be able (and neither want) to rescind their contributions, but some people might decide to walk away from the project. Depending on the person this could be a setback for any project, even one as big as the Linux kernel. The fact that Linus himself is "taking a break to fix his behavioural issues" could be a sign of the things to come.
Personally, I don't think foul language is required to tell someone that their contribution is not up to par. Be respectful of others, but also be honest to them. At the same time I also don't believe people need to think of my "feelings" when telling me that I did something stupid. I'd take a good bollocking any day over that wishy-washy we-are-all-equal-unicorns nonsense.
My insurance company used Comic Sans for all of their written communications for the better part of two decades. Made it hard to take them seriously. I guess their head secretary must have retired now because the latest documents arrived in a more "standard" font.
One example is from about six years ago when Linus reminded everyone very crisply that one doesn't change userspace APIs willy nilly and then blame the applications that were broken by the change.
I agree, and if we read Mauro's response we see a person that tries to explain why they made a (wrong) choice, apologize for their mistake, and presumably move on with their life. No tears shed, no tantrum thrown, no touchy-feely-police called.
Some friendly banter (which I believe your link can be read as, too) is just the salt in our daily soup. As long as the person dishing out the compliments is willing to accept a same-level response I don't have a problem with it.
Unfortunately, nobody is going to prison in Italy for a sentence under 4 years.
A couple of years ago, a man in my town was approached by a young immigrant he did not know and beaten half to death for no reason at all; he was in a coma for over half a year, to wake up to life-changing injuries. The person who did this to him was caught but did not spend a day in jail. The judge had to go public on the local newspapers because citizens did not take lightly to this, and he explained that his hands were tied: for this specific crime current Italian law does not allow a sentence of more than 3 years, and this means no prison. Had he ordered the perpetrator even only into custody, that peace of scum would have had the legal right to sue the judge.
How does it stop someone from taking a photo of your displayed e-mail with another device?
Google seems to have missed the opportunity to make this system really secure: format the text of a confidential message like a damn captcha. Take as many pictures of the screen as you like, the whole thing is still unreadable.
John Niven's "Kill Your Friends" is a funny, satirical novel about an A&R agent. I have no idea how close it is to the situation in the "real" record business, but if you like an entertaining read about a bunch of backstabbing bastards you might want to give it a try - I read it years ago and enjoyed it a lot.
Hate to victim blame, but anyone who buys an IoT thingy and actually plugs it in to the internet is all but asking for it.
Not all victims bought or installed the IoT devices in the first place. This is often a case of an abusive person that installs an IoT device in their (ex) home to keep their (ex) partner under surveillance or to harass them.
FTA:
Even if you can upload the image to them to "fingerprint" images are often cropped and converted to other image formats and recompressd which fucks that up. So unless they have some super AI that can detect that from a 2nd generation repost this wont work.
Images can be fingerprinted or hashed with the help of perceptual hashing (alternative article). These hashes will match even if the original image has been cropped, resized, changed in color or rotated (to a certain extent).
See also Block Mean Value Based Image Perceptual Hashing (2006):
FFS, where did I put my popcorn!
2. More depersonalization of your interactions with other people.
3. More excuses to avoid interactions with other human beings.
"Have your digital assistant call my digital assistant to schedule an appointment."
The difference would seem to be that the "load it up with propellant at super-cold temperatures to shrink its size" step is required to take place with the crew already on board. Which I am sure has a different risk level than "load it up with liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and if the whole thing hasn't exploded proceed with getting the crew aboard."
I still agree that the title is pure clickbait.
They had to be dragged kicking and screaming into this. Until it sunk in that they couldn't charge people only once for their music, but monthly.
I don't use any music streaming service - I prefer to pay for an album (CD or mp3) and then listen to it and keep it for as long as I please - but apparently these services appeal to a lot of people. And that is fine - I can see the convenience of having access to a large music library.
Zuckerberg has probably more data about most members of congress and their particular habits (that the general public might not necessarily be aware of) than congress has about him. Remember that you don't have to be on Facebook to be tracked by Facebook. All the websites that very helpfully add "Like" buttons to their articles and pages leave a solid trail, too.
Maybe the questions will not be "hitting too hard", lest some politician's browsing habits might find their way to the press. My guess is that there will be some questions that can be handled, some concessions, and after a little while all will be forgotten.
Call me old-fashioned, but instead of a fridge with a display that I'll never be looking at I actually wouldn't mind a decent fridge with a Modbus RTU (or TCP) interface that lets me read a few coils (door closed? alarm buzzer on?) and registers (current temperature top shelve, bottom shelve, humidity) and maybe write a few registers (target temperature, buzzer activation threshold temperature). This way it could easily be hooked up to an existing home automation system - which then can be configured to present this information and to send a notification when necessary.
I live in a country where it is quite normal to send "un abbraccio" - a hug - at the end of a message to friends, same sex or otherwise - there is no sexual connotation. But this is not used in formal messages or when writing in a public space like project's mailing list or forum. I have never heard of sending someone a backrub, though...
Personally, I'm no fan of codes of conduct. If someone acts inappropriately, is abusive or generally a nuisance, kick them out (after a first warning, depending on the context) and don't hide behind a piece of text. I understand there's a certain number of jerks that don't know how to behave, and maybe such a code is a way to filter out at least some of them. I share your view that it is doubtful that someone "encouraging a person to commit suicide" will care about a code of conduct. Besides that, most of what I read in TFS would seem to be common sense and could be abbreviated with "don't be a dick".