AndrewUnmuted

I am running 108.0.1 on nixOS and it played great.

Nix and NixOS have had a similar sort of effect on me as Gentoo and FreeBSD have in the past. They have helped to expand my consciousness in the realm of systems administration and have helped me achieve new heights with my low latency audio configuration. For this reason, Nix and NixOS have become indispensable to my workflow.

NixOS introduces a new form of declarative configuration, fusing Gentoo's highly configurable nature with BSD's unified configuration file approach. For me, it's absolutely perfect until my own laziness bites me in the butt. If you want to do a gentle dive into Nix, resist the temptation to go full "NixOS" and learn the Nix build/environment system first. It will make things a lot easier for you in the long run.

Nashville's parking situation went from "annoying" to "impossible" thanks to this garbage.

I do media engineering related stuff, things related to media codecs, DSP, and p2p networking. The work I do during my day job is often somehow relevant to my music work.

For example, I used to work in VR, which enabled me to begin exploring ambisonics in my music.

there's a never-ending stream of passionate people happy to produce said content altruistically out there

This is the concept that is most frequently left out of otherwise thoughtful analyses on the topic at hand.

Although I would not label the motivation as purely altruistic, what many people fail to realize is that people who create art of any kind, and have honest motivations for doing so, are going to be doing it no matter the profit potential. Personally, I am a music composer [0] and I must make music. I am so unconcerned by profit that I have given all of my work away for free for more than a decade. I do all of my album releases on a podcast feed so that people never have to pay money, accept the terms of service of Spotify, or be raped by ad tech just to hear my work.

To me, payment is the fact that people heard my work. On that metric alone, SoundCloud has given me a lot more "payment" than any other online service out there, since it was so apparent when people did engage with my work, and those engagements were very meaningful to me on the whole.

[0] https://multipli.city

I'm worried about how this reality is leading to the formation of a modern slavery system. That might seem hyperbolic but I can assure all who read this, it is not.

In the US especially, it cannot be forgotten why people from Central and South America are flooding the southern border. It's because of the US's meddling in the affairs of other nations, particularly via the War on Drugs.

So if the immigrants are supposed to take these public sector jobs because the current citizens refuse to do them, it would be considerably more ideal if they were to not take them under duress, which the US actively caused.

This was a great read. Thanks for posting it here!

I found this line to be especially intriguing:

Hellbanning everybody except for other big email providers is lazy and conveniently dishonest. It uses spam as a scapegoat to nerf deliverability and stifle competition.

The big tech firms criticized in this article are guilty of these sorts of transgressions in other arenas, as well. It's always been my contention that the "hellbanning" of user-generated content by big media and big tech alike comes from the same motivations. YouTube and CBS alike want to make niche content difficult to consume in order to stifle any competition that might get vaulted up as a result of that niche audience finding the new distribution endpoints. This comes with the added bonus of reducing cost of goods sold, by reducing the firehose of new content to process. Or, as the article puts it:

Unfortunately, the computing power required to filter millions of emails per minute is huge. That's why the email industry has chosen a shortcut to reduce that cost. The shortcut is to avoid processing some email altogether. Selected email does not either get bounced nor go to spam. That would need processing, which costs money.

I would be very curious to learn if there are any proposed explanation as to why this phenomenon is so commonly spread throughout the big tech space. Do we get the same kind of behavior out of other enormous multi-national firms like oil producers, ocean freight companies, defense contractors, and chemical suppliers?

Your low-effort posts can barely even be called legible sentences, let alone all the misspellings. I'll stop criticizing your posts if you stop criticizing mine. You are obviously following me around the site, there's no other way to explain the creepy behavior you're engaging in.

By the way, the users on this site are almost entirely losers. There are a cabal of perhaps 12 impressive people on here, the majority of you have no real connection to the big tech capital funds YC ingratiates itself with. I could care less what you fuckheads think about me or my comments. If I reach even one of you retards in a meaningful way, it's a victory to me.

It's easier to talk somebody down from an insane point of view that is meaningless, than one that fits within the index card of allowable opinion yet is nonetheless very dangerous.

Hello there. I just want you to know, I have upvoted every comment I've read from you so far.

Keep up the good work, you're doing the reading, thinking for yourself, and questioning the lies so many people here spew uncontrollably.

It feels many people responding to you are misunderstanding your point - and it's a very good one.

The medium is the message. Everybody should read McLuhan if they work in the technology space. [0]

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

I was with you until the very end. Democracy as a whole is a poor system for doing just about anything. For example, free & open source software is not a democracy and it would never work if it was. We got here today explicitly via hierarchies, and with some participants being a lot more productive and "correct," than others. That's not an issue of economics or even politics; democracy as defined & even practiced today goes against the way human beings make progress.

The problem with the primary system is that it imposes significant guardrails upon intellectual debate, by making the partisans who coddle large vocal minorities appear to be the furthest you can go while still being successful. In fact, we have needed to think well outside even those boxes for many decades.

We need the citizenry to hold more radical political views. Radical politics indicates an understanding of political concepts, things which today very few people with a voice actually have. I don't care if you want to be a communist, a libertarian, or even a fascist authoritarian. As long as we stop having dull, ridiculous conversations comfortably within the tiny ring of globalist technocracy. That is what's literally killing the civilized world.

You began your engagement with me by saying that if I resigned from my current position, it would be best for the company and for the team of direct reports I manage. Is this a good example to follow if I want to be civil on Hacker News?

Or perhaps, are you suggesting you're actually the one at fault here? Would it be fair to say that given your advice, I should not have said anything back to you in the first place?

I cackle at the notion that "uncivility" (sic) is not welcome, and that one should not engage with it. You just got done telling me that the extreme incivility forced upon workplaces all over the globe by horrible companies that force their engineers to utilize horseshit like Dropbox, Slack, and Microsoft was desirable. In fact, you claimed it was more worthwhile than retaining a competent manager who cares deeply about the happiness of his direct reports and in so doing, eschews such needless garbage with extremely positive results.

That's how Apple's encryption in iCloud works. There are plenty of modern encryption standards that are not broken by a random user merely entering a random passphrase string.

If the backup password to these encrypted files is known, it can be rather trivial to access the data within.

Recently, a certain head of state's son had 100s of GB of iCloud backups thrown onto a torrent, and within a day rogue manchildren living in their parents' basements cracked most, if not all of it open.

With the backup password in hand, all one needs is this README.md file [0] to be off to the races.

[0] https://github.com/avibrazil/iOSbackup/blob/master/README.md

It's fascinating how whenever I bring up how actually terrible for the world this SaaS shit is, people get very defensive about it and end up resorting to personal attacks.

It's as if people had never before considered that what they are doing is actually very toxic for the world and our planet. It's as if you hate being reminded that people that support Slack and Microsoft are basically the devil incarnate.

There are annoying things about all aspects to life.

Your solution is to add more and more annoying things unnecessarily in an effort to side-step the problem.

I think there should be an examination of the root causes and more post-mortems to actually understand what went wrong and why the solution didn't work either.

You want to keep piling on in a rather psychopathic manner:

Phone tag --> SMS --> Email --> AIM --> MySpace --> Facebook --> Twitter --> Instagram --> Snapchat --> TikTok --> ???????

You even do this in other posts, defending the idea of the suicide prevention hotline before even discussing wtf might be causing people to be suicidal. [0] People like you are why we are rapidly shedding any semblance of progress in the Western world.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121231

Please, if you are going to reply to people here, please do so thoughtfully. Phones have had ring mute features on them since they went cordless back in the 1980s.

False.

- Italy [0] - Germany [1] - Ireland [2] - Spain [3]

I could go on and on but everyone who managed to travel globally during 2021 knows this is completely untrue.

[0] https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-unveils-covid-green-...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-angela-merkel-coronavir...

[2] https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/movie-review/movie-review-...

[3] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/01/21/spai-j21.html

If I had to use either of these things as part of running my team of 12 engineers, I'd resign immediately.

I feel so sorry for those who continue operating in such soulless, life-sucking work environments that they're down to choosing which horrible attention-grabbing SaaS product they'd rather use.

Have you not considered simply using neither? What is wrong with email? Hell, what's wrong with a phone call?

I disagree with this basic premise. Privacy is not a baseline philosophical module that gives way to two separate concepts; privacy is simply a thing that can be achieved upon exercising one's property rights.

We want privacy because we desire control over the dissemination of our secrets. We desire this because our secrets are derived from activities to which you do not want the public privy. The reason one does not want their activity public is because it ultimately threatens the foundation upon which our lives are built. We use our right to property to protect ourselves against this outcome. We buy homes to say "this land is mine, please do not come onto it." We buy cars to say "this is my wheel machine, please do not use it." We buy computers to say, "these are my thoughts and productive activities - not yours."

We do not mind when our privacy is violated when it is perceived to have no material impact on us for that information to be out there.

This article is not really about privacy, but rather different ways by which to go about privacy _protections_. It is an insightful article when tuned to this context, and without doing that, it can be a little misleading.

Yes, let's just pretend these things are not intrinsically linked by the hip. I suppose it's helpful to know how easy it is to run away from your assailant isn't it? In a less walkable neighborhood that attacker might be able to get more than just a few punches on you.

Go look up the walkability score for any crime-heavy Brooklyn neighborhood [0] and you will see quite plainly that you are wrong. You are a lot more likely to be sucker-punched by a homeless psychopath on that block than you are to have any issues with walking.

Clearly, there is no linkage between walkability scores and crime.

[0] https://www.walkscore.com/score/1405-pacific-st-brooklyn-ny-...

Whether or not a city is "walkable," is not necessarily an improvement upon livability.

In areas of Chicago and Baltimore, for example, the streets are "walkable," however the frequent violent & property crimes that take place in these areas make a casual stroll down the block an unsafe proposition.

I grew up in Harlem during the time it was emerging out of the 1980s crack epidemic. As a child, the streets were easy to walk on and crime did not impact this for me in any real way. Just a few years prior, though, this was definitely not the case. And even today, as "walkability" improvements have been made in Harlem, the streets are quite obviously less walker-friendly, since walking down the street exposes you to a non-insignificant risk of being a random psychopath's next unwitting victim.

My suspicion here is that you have some sort of binary thought process surrounding cars in cities. The fact is that cities are not as livable in general. Any solution involving more or better walking capacity is a temporary fix at best. In actuality, what you need is a very solid city planner who is able to anticipate and respond to cultural trends adequately. Cities need to be able to balance the needs of various transit options, such that they don't compound peoples' other problems that come from living in cities: crime, cleanliness, affordability, etc.

What is long covid, then?

If you had no chronic illness symptoms you were aware of, and then get covid, and then have chronic illness symptoms - that's long covid.

Why even have a study if you refuse to be more scientific than this?

You're a loser.

What is "Long COVID" and how was it proved that all participants in the study "have" it?

Television has gone through something of a redefinition in recent decades. Today, TV can be seen as more of an atmospheric decoration - it's "always on" in the same sense as when broadband internet was introduced to the public: TVs can always be used for something, because there is always something available to watch.

Modern consumers tend to use some other screen at least part of the time they're watching television.

Before, TV used to be dependent on the content being broadcast, and so there was something of a hard constraint upon the amount of TV time - especially for children. This has gone completely out the window in recent years.

We are also hard-wired to seek out salt, not to mention the energy boost and the hand occupation offered by cigarettes.