Thank you for sharing, it is inspiring to see other's ideas. I sometimes use it to create projects that would be a nice to have, my latest project was a go project called hookguard, a go binary that enforces deterministic safety rules for AI coding agents.
The issue is only an issue if your phone is physically taken, then unlocked and the message notifications extracted from a iOS cache database. Todays update by Apple fixes issue for every app, not just Signal.
I once changed a broken release bearing of a truck. It was a relatively simple repair but the very heavy gearbox has to be taken out to do this - which is problematic especially if done on a yard without proper equipment.
Since then I always pop into neutral when standing at a traffic light. It is interesting how many people in manual driving cultures think there would be no wear and tear if they press the pedal down completely.
Of course there is, as there has to be a force translating connection between rotating parts and parts of the release mechanism which cannot rotate. Only when the pedal is left alone, the release bearing disconnects from the rotating clutch.
Even this is being somewhat generous. I think Tolkien's fiction substantially aligns with the worldviews of these companies. Just look at some of the themes from his books:
- The Far West is a magical place, populated by tall blond people.
- Tall blond people are good in general.
- The East is generally bad. "Easterlings" are a threat to the Men of the West. They have war elephants.
- The palantiri aren't inherently dangerous, just need to be controlled by people with the appropriate power. Aragorn has the appropriate power and is able to control the palantir and use it for good.
- Hereditary kingship under a strong guy from the West who is married to his distant cousin is the Way Forward.
- Tall blond people and short ugly people can have separate but equal coexistence where they respect each other. Except in some rare cases where there can be a signature friendship that needs to be highlighted as special.
Am I reading too much between the lines, or am I...reading the lines?
> Palantir already has the blessings of the Tolkien estate.
Do you know a source that says that? I've wondered about it but never heard anything, and I just did a very quick look and found nothing that explains how and why that is handled.
Also, if the Tolkien estate is still in JRR's decendants' hands, I think it's the third generation at least (counting JRR as the first).
Doomed to obscurity. Look, I love Lisp like any other Lisper, but there is no proper Guile (let alone general Scheme) package manager, which means any Guile project will be be an uphill battle to maintain dependencies in. Oh well, at least it has a code of conduct, that has to count for something I guess?
The fact of the matter is that there is just too much good stuff for the frontend in the NPM ecosystem, so you are going to depend on it sooner or later anyway unless you have a really simple website. So you might as well depend on it fully. I'm in the process of migrating my website from my own home-made static site generator (written in Common Lisp) to Astro for that very reason. The NPM ecosystem is a leaning tower of hacks on top of hacks and adapters for adapters, but it gets the job done.
EDIT: I should also point out that on the frontend just making something work is not enough. There is all sorts of dark magic like bundling, minimizing and tree-shaking that you'll have to implement yourself. You can try if you want, but the tools in the NPM ecosystem already do all of that. Have fun re-inventing all of that, but I'm out.
Salutes on the post. After hearing the flavor tricks they have to jump through to make "never concentrate" I was sort of hoping the freezing process of FCO kept more of the original flavor. But it sounds like it does not.
The industrialization of food is really what enables our modern way of life. But it slightly horrifies me every time I learn more about it.
This is an interesting proxy for ... something, though I'm not quite sure what.
I would say a bigger issue here is more cultural around our aversion to risk. This impacts funding (Need $2m for a house? no worries. Need $50k for a startup? You better have that house as collateral), but also impacts people's acceptance of business failure.
Despite that we do well on a few fronts - our government tech is quite good (I have an app that I can self-serve for most things like licenses, our taxes are auto-filled etc), we've had some interesting tech (Sel4, google maps I believe?, Radiata, some wifi tech if the CSIRO is to be believed)
They charge for the diagnostic systems. Bigly. For example, Mercedes-Benz's Star Diagnostic System (SDS) is necessary for a variety of repairs and diagnostic procedures. There are varying degrees of workarounds and alternatives but none of them work quite right, or for every model/year/variant. It's not just the embedded system, it's also the interface to it. That's where the really ugly rent seeking crops up.
Oh please, Telegram being mentioned positively during a discussion of security, privacy or state surveillance? Telegram is a security nightmare, it’s not e2ee no mater what BS their very very untrustworthy founder keeps spouting, it’s not default and what they do offer is probably not secure. Servers owned by Russian oligarchs loyal to Putin. Durovs rebel persona, where he’s persona non grata in Russia is also BS. He was shown to be freely traveling in and out of Russia and having negotiations with the Russian government around censorship of Telegram all while Durov was telling us he couldn’t return. And the Russian FSB won’t use it because it’s known in their circles as being compromised.
> "That largely depends on what an officer does outside of work. If someone is involved in corrupt dealings, and in fact, I know very few who aren't, then they reason like this. Can this messenger be monitored by internal security officers? Previously, many used WhatsApp. Almost no one used telegram because there's a wellfounded belief that this messenger is to some extent controlled by the Russian authorities. People used signal. Some use three months, but all that has now been shut down again. Why is it monitored? I think they're worried about a possible coup and trying to limit the ability to coordinate mass actions via communication channels from abroad. Hence the Max messenger. So now most security officers have switched to Chatty. That's a Dubai based messenger, but it's definitely not a universal remedy. Some have moved to Zangi, which is [clears throat] an Armenian app that markets itself as American. When it comes to targeting the opposition, the state will always find the resources. It's one of the main priorities, more important than any financial or commercial issue, even more than counterterrorism."
> Output is too large: Disable unused breakpoints, variants, or colors in your build script.
So instead of using tailwind, which automatically strips unused CSS classes, here you're supposed to manually remove anything you think you might not need by editing lisp code?
Edit: I just took a look at one of the example projects listed, and sure enough it ships a 1 megabyte file called olive.min.css with every possible class:
That’s true, but it seems unlikely to me that they would partner with the company that helped the FBI unlock iPhones and is in general an adversary to Apple.
The Last Ringbearer is some more fan-fiction in the LOTR world that does this as well. I found it fairly entertaining, though I think LOTR as it stands is extraordinary, especially when told from the lens of not being the main story but a later side questy bit.
This doesn't make any sense at all. Many of the categories aren't even internally consistent, and the space->cloud->surface->energy->finance "stack" is incoherent.
I should like this, because one of my longstanding hangups is people hyperfixating on Palantir (the company), which is a database consultingware company and a JV version of Oracle in all the senses we care about --- civil tech punditry has an awful habit of focusing on these lurid instances when they're really just banal examples of something tech giant companies do generally, which has the effect of letting companies like Oracle and Cisco (both of whom have demons resumes) off the hook.
But if the author can't lay out a reasonable map of the industry and the forces acting on it, I have trouble taking the rest of it seriously.
