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There are aspects about cultures which can be fascinating, not (only) because they are foreign and new, but because dedicated and intelligent people have been improving them for generations, centuries even. I have a friend who is from Korea and who is a wood worker, and we have compared the different approaches to what, in the end, solves the same problems. Not everything can be incorporated into the other way of doing things, but I have found it eye-opening. My brain still tries to find ways, comparing, like a constant ping. Maybe one needs to dedicate 100% to the new way for a while to understand it fully before a genius brain would be able to find the spark how to meld both methods into a single improved Way of Doing Things (tm).

The Android build is a re-branded (and some might say, crippled) K-9 Mail, which AFAIR did not support NNTP. Adding it might be more work than they are willing to do.

Nothing against that per se, false alarms should be kept in check.

If you have a system where, as I understand it, the main point is to check who is standing in front of your door, and that system now is one automatic update away from dipping into your bank account... How long until the police departments figure out that donations to a specific company could be very profitable?

Slight tangent: on top of that, I just read an article yesterday (which of course I can't find again right now) about how false automatic alarms from such cameras will incur a fee from the owners when the Police comes to check it out. It was from somewhere in Texas.

And so, instead of having an open port for ssh, (ideally) with certificate-only authentication, optionally MFA, you trade it for an open port for tailscale/wireguard, handing over "all" your data to a company who is offering you a service for no monetary compensation.

Also, why do you think that it is better to not change the root password? It sounds like a very suspicious recommendation.

Swiss here, and I do not agree. We used to be able to trust our government, but more and more, as the years go by, tech-savvy people realize how laws have accumulated into surveillance.

Now there are much worse cases out there, sure. But most Swiss citizens are not even aware of those laws.

Nor are they aware of how much the Swiss government has been trying to hide its incompetence regarding anything IT-related. Like data leaks happening several times per year.

So yes, a big percentage of those almost 50% of "no we don't want this" responses were about lack of trust in the different branches of the government.

Looking at the examples on the website, I can see the appeal regarding the input. The output makes my head slightly dizzy - not sure why, but like the letters are all slightly off, in both dimensions. Is it just me, or the font/screen combination, or did it occur to anyone else also?

Yes, the change from not being pressed into your seat to being pressed into your seat is jerk. Basically the difference between two acceleration "levels".

Snap is how abrupt those changes between accelerations are. If you accelerate a bit, and then suddenly the light turns orange and you floor it, and the turbo kicks in, and your passengers go "woaaaaaah going to need a barf baaaaag" for example, it was probably not very smooth.

Sometimes instead of linear accelerations, those concepts can be easier to understand as changes in angular motions. You're on a curve of a certain radius, and suddenly the radius changes. The change is the jerk. How sudden the change happens is the snap.

Paranoia about this is silly.

Having had to deal with some clients with slightly sensitive data, I wish. Photocopies and printed screenshots lying around in the open, CC data copy-pasted manually to other fields or to generic excel sheets because otherwise "it disappears and we can't book late fees" etc. Not even only the "random third-party" companies vetted and specialised in ID verification, but then they get a new support contract down the road, and a fourth- or fifth-party agent who had the cheapest offer now has remote admin access to those desktops.

Probability is low, true. But all it takes is one compromised access.

We all choose our battles probably.

Maybe... Someone should teach kids about the pareto principle early on. Or is it about morality?

One might argue that a stone mason or a miner has less left of his body after 40 years of work.

Office work is slightly kinder to the body, although even here one reads worrying studies.

But when you're 12, nothing of that matters really.

To answer your question: I am insinuating nothing. There is a certain vibe to his comments which struck me from having noticed it in certain people, and the effects it has on their relationships with others. From his answer, I gather that he doesn't care. So, that's it for the free remote psychoanalysis by HN comments.

Eh... I'm not too sure about Thunderbird. For example on Android, they bought a very good product (K-9 Mail), rebranded it to Thunderbird and then proceeded to break every feature which made it stand apart.

Otherwise I 100% agree.

I feel like this is a common enough pattern with well-known translations from one form to the others, that a compiler might optimize it one way or the other. Or is it still too high-level for even modern awesome compilers/interpreters?