lazyier's comments

In a sane country you are innocent until proven guilty. That fact you exist as a human being is all the evidence you need to prove you are innocent.

If you have to "prove you are innocent" the government is the one violating the law, not you.

Seizing your family's wealth and denying you ability to make a living is punishment for a crime you are not convicted of. That itself alone is beyond violation of justice.

And yes it is "standard" for the government to leverage administrative law to seize assets before a court case. The true purpose of this is to deny a person ability to defend themselves against the government. This is the very definition of evil and tyranny. There is no excuse.

> Third, it seems entirely fair and reasonable for Amazon to have pressured the DOJ to seize/freeze assets. Isn't that very standard in any case of fraud (or whatever this is ultimately prosecuted as)?

Well just wait until somebody decides to seize everything you own with no explanation, no crime, no evidence, and no ability to appeal and see how you "fair and reasonable" it feels after that.

patents are government granted monopolies on algorithms. "Algorithm" defined as "a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations"

It's just series of steps, a recipe. You do "A", then "B", then "C" as outlined in a patent then you violate a patent and the person has the right to sue you. Whether the steps are outlined involve math or not isn't really relevant.

What is covered and not covered by a patent is very arbitrary and based on court precedent. Any sort of sanctions against "pure math functions" are usually easily worked around by including "as done in a computer" or similar language.

Patents are a very good way for governments to retard progress while rewarding large companies for investing in large numbers of lawyers.

I estimate about 75% chance it's a configuration problem on his end.

The "I hate Pulse Audio and especially Lennart" crowd tends to want to either go back to "Alsa" or tried at some point to install the old OSS drivers and then gave up.

This means trying to configure dmix to work properly, trying to configure your audio outputs with tools like 'alsamixer' and things of that nature.

This is about a 100% guaranteed approach to screwing up audio in Linux. For years it is what unsuspecting newbies were told by "really smart people" on the internet when faced when any sort of audio issue and all it really does is ensure that their OS audio is going to turn into a dumpster fire.

The only way to fix it is to aggressively find your "custom" audio settings for every application, find all the alsa configuration files and delete them. And then find out where your distribution saves your alsa mixer settings between reboots and link them to /dev/null and reboot.

Audio settings of this nature are very persistent and nothing Pulseaudio or Pipewire can do to help you fix it.

WSL2 is better. I'll take correctness over a slight loss in performance.

Also Linux is very fast. So it's not like there is a huge performance loss in most cases, I am guessing.

It is an improvement. Having documentation include with source code means that they can updated together and is less likely to be out of date.

Provided, of course, they don't use the github wiki stuff or use separate repos for documentation.

Yeah, but that defeats the purpose of creating the state in the first place.

The entire point is being able to tell people what to do for your own profit.

It's a lot easier if you pretend you are doing it for the subject's benefit as it reduces the resistance to rule immensely. But you don't want to let that go too far or they start getting a big head and start thinking that paying you billions of dollars is optional.

> Waah the big bad EU forced companies to disclose how they are using my data!

The people that should be mocked are the EU bureaucrats that thought this was a good idea and the people that defend it.

It's a idiotic legislation that does NOTHING to protect your data. It's feel-good nonsense that EU can occasionally use as a club to extort business corporations that they want something from.

The only thing that it accomplished is to create a false sense of security in the public.

These companies are not trustworthy and neither is the EU government.

The correct solution to this problem is at the browser level and at the human level. Don't disclose information to the internet you don't want to show up on the internet.

I donno. Seems like white blood cells are kinda important.

We have a huge number of interactions with bacteria and viruses and all sorts of microorganisms. Hundreds? Thousands times a day? Scratches in the kitchen while preparing food, for example, floods our body with stuff that white blood cells are required to deal with.

Giving up some of the ability to deal with those for a small reduction in the symptoms associated with a specific disease doesn't seem like a useful trade off.

> Is a terrifying admission about the gamble that was taken.

Right, but according to Reddit, the Australian/New Zealand governments and other places people who didn't want to expose themselves to this stuff where all ignorant selfish assholes.

If you are buying a Cisco router you are buying a closed source product. Why would you expect them to open source anything when you are happy to give them money for closed source firmware?

You are literally paying them for being closed source.

Stop rewarding these corporations for screwing you over and they will cease to screw you over. Either they will change their ways or go out of business if enough people feel the way you do. And, regardless, you would have solved these sorts of problems for yourself long before that happens.

It's been a very long time since Cisco was the only game in town for enterprise networking. Companies like Broadcom have released powerful ASICs that allows practically anybody to build a high performance routers and switches.

Advertising is a type of propaganda. One of a myriad of different forms of propaganda.

One leads to the other easily. For example taking advertising money for television commercials or magazine adds leads to "Native Ads". Native ads are sort of like product placement except that it's pretending to be a news story or whatever.

Like when people on CNBC or CNN start talking about Taco Bell menu items or new type of drug that might fight cholesterol. That's paid-for propaganda that is pretending to be television news.

Pretty soon you have a entire industry based on not telling the truth about drugs or food or other products they buy because that will piss off their advertisers.

This is the basis of the modern web. It's not a good thing even though it makes a lot of people a lot of money.

Trying to point out single factor is a exercise in stupidity.

Time matters, places matter, culture matters, food, existing technology, technological connections with other regions, math, scientific progress, etc etc.

For example you need to be able to make blueprints. To make blueprints you need the math technology, the printing technology, and drafting technology, and the language necessary to all be developed first.

There are hundreds of thousands of different variables. Probably millions. More probably trillions.

None of them aligned for the Romans. All of them aligned for coal mining industry in Britain.

It's normal in any open source project to keep security mailing lists and things of that nature private. And for good reasons.

One of the reasons is they are dealing with security related bug reports. Public disclosure before having a fix in place puts users at risk.

Besides that 'security' is a process that all groups are responsible for. So it can't help being _developed_ in the open if the project is open. Which Brave is.

Sounds more like these companies are using bounty programs to get researchers to sign NDAs so that they can control public perception of their products.

Effectively paying people (and heaping ego gratification on top of that) to be silent about found vulnerabilities.

> Does the Ryzen system come with a full aluminum enclosure?

If you really want one you can get one.

But if you are buying a laptop on the basis of how shiny it is does the CPU performance really matter?

When I bought a car for my wife she picked it out on the basis of how cute it is. She isn't going to run around being upset that it doesn't have 0-60 time of a Subaru WRX. To her the Subaru is ugly.

It's a Linux website. They are not interested in the performance of the CPU with Windows or Mac OS.

As far as the mismatched CPU and whatnot... These are the same sort of CPUs that you can get in the same form factor at around the same price.

So the comparison is valid.

The only thing suspect is the 8 vs 16GB of RAM. But since these are CPU-bound benchmarks I don't know how much of a actual difference that will make.

I don't know how much it matters, either. Nor why I should care that much.

Pine64 wants to ship working products. It can't do that if it wants to support 30 different Linux distributions or phone products simultaneously. Most of which don't even have extremely basic features working, like cameras or the ability to make phone calls.

Maybe Manjaro isn't the most ideal choice in the world, but it's a hell of a lot better than not making one.

This post is stupid beyond all measure.

One of the principal reasons Manhattan rent is so ridiculous is because of state intervention. More intervention, the worse it is going to get.

> Rent is the main detractor of disposable income which hurts the rest of the economy,

This is a silly statement. Rent is part of the economy. Paying rent doesn't damage the economy anymore then paying for food or paying your electrical bill.

> and property owners provide almost no value,

They provide and maintain their property.

> but to provide access to housing for people who has no capital for it,

And for a wide variety of other reasons. Not everybody wants or is a place in their life were massive permanent investment makes sense.

> which is service that could be perfectly provided by a state entity.

Absolutely not.

The OP is right.

If you are off-grid and adapt everything to using solar and battery then you can get "free operating cost" with enormous costs and loss of reliability.

However if you are grid-tied then the power company is going to regulate the power output of your solar panels in order to avoid the "duck curve" problem. Meaning that during times of peak potential output the panels are effectively going to be turned off.

Also don't try to get fancy with copex versus opex stuff. It's nonsense for anything other than company valuation and depreciation, especially when it comes to taxes. It's meaningless for home owners. Costs is costs. Money is fungible.

While laudable that you want to get energy independence, if that is your actual goal... the chances of you ever recouping your costs over just using the power grid is extremely small.

And those expenses are real. That is in terms of real resources... raw material, manufacturing, and labor. Unless you can get those costs inversed then chances are extremely likely that you are consuming far more actual resources and creating greater "carbon footprint" than if you just stuck with grid power.

That is... if everybody did what you did then there would be significantly higher ecological impact than the current status quo.

> Will desktop Linux ever solve these basic usability problems?

If the Windows downloaded contained nothing but a zip file with a binary then you'd have the same issue on Windows.

> Will desktop Linux ever solve these basic usability problems?

No, because it would require everybody to agree to use Flatpak to distribute working desktop applications.