Sure, you’d have to not lay em off, but only the people who are actually making use of their services are paying for them. So users get the “censored” or “non-censored” option.
So, I don’t use Twitter. But as I can tell, here are some of the the sources of friction:
The rebranding to X threw out brand value.
Policy shifts didn’t make some people – who wanted the other policies, which I understand to generally be more-content-restrictive – happy.
Twitter laid off a bunch of expensive human moderators who were censoring content.
So, speaking personally, I’m pretty hard in favor of speech being permissive. I don’t want someone preventing me from seeing someone’s speech. I want to make those decisions myself.
However, there are people who don’t agree; they’d prefer to have their environment have content moderation.
What the changes did was basically force people into a more-permissive environment, which some did not like.
With the benefit of hindsight, what I think Twitter should have done is the following:
Keep Twitter active.
Start charging for or otherwise monetizing Twitter sufficiently to cover human moderator costs.
Start up X.com. Provide a seamless migration path to X.
Gateway all Twitter content to X.com. Don’t do the reverse (or maybe do so on a limited basis, like having particularly popular content flow back, but filtered or human-curated). Maybe have some mechanism for Twitter users to request that X feeds be gatewayed back to Twitter.
That solves a number of problems:
People who want a place that have censored content have that option. The default is for the environment to remain the same.
People who don’t want heavy moderation can have that, and aren’t having to pay for someone else’s moderation.
If a country wants to ban X (like, most of the regulatory yelling I hear about X seems to be coming from the EU) they can do that. People in the EU can still use Twitter.
It’d even be possible to make other content-filtering variants attached to X, because I guarantee that some countries have different ideas of what they think should be permitted in public discourse.
The brand value doesn’t go away; I’ve seen many people point out that Twitter is a very-recognizable brand.
I suggested that something vaguely similar might be a good idea, back when the EU started passing some of their content restrictions. Didn’t involve the X.com stuff, though; that came later.
Like, the problem here is basically that there are different social norms and regulatory regimes around the world. Trying to create one global identical set of policies is invariably going to make some users and some countries annoyed. But…that’s not really necessary to have at least some level of global intercommunication.
I searched for the thing using Kagi, a search engine. Like “googling” to search with Google. I’m indicating that I didn’t know the fact or specific quote in advance, was looking it up.
Yeah, you can see in the image where one of those was a hit below the waterline there in the Salton Sink:
The lowest point of the sink is 269 ft (82 m) below sea level
I’m afraid that this is probably it for the United States.
It was a brave experiment in democracy and republicanism that was influential on much of the world, though; its cultural and technological contributions will be missed.
On the silver lining side, it looks like the long-sought-after more-direct Northwest Passage between Europe and East Asia will be practical.
For centuries, European explorers, beginning with Christopher Columbus in 1492, sought a navigable passage as a possible trade route to Asia, but were blocked by North, Central, and South America, by ice, or by rough waters (e.g. Tierra del Fuego).
No doubt this will have significant effects on the transit-related economy in Panama.
The Intel MacBook waking up from hibernation is about 30 seconds to get to the login prompt, 30 seconds for the login prompt to actually work, then 10-15 seconds after entering the password to get to a usable desktop environment with the wifi generally connecting within that window.
Hmm. Yeah, okay, I can see about a minute-and-a-half being obnoxious.
So, the login prompt can probably be dealt with by just having some way to treat the login process specially and paging it in sooner. Like, I can’t believe that it uses all that much memory. If it isn’t an isolated process, make it one.
But that’s with only 8 gigs of ram on this MacBook, the more ram the longer it takes. The 32 gigs of ram in my actual work laptop (ThinkPad P1 11th gen i9) takes about a minute to wake from hibernation, and like 2 minutes for it to fully get situated.
I’m using a 32 gig laptop. But most of that doesn’t get used other than as disk cache, and I believe that normally, Linux isn’t gonna restore the disk cache; it’ll just drop the cache contents. Right now, I’m using 2.3G for actual application usage.
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I figure that maybe the desktop shell or whatever Apple calls it these days – going back to classic MacOS, the Finder – probably is more-heavyweight than what I’m using, but I figure that they could maybe do something like temporarily twiddle I/O priority on processes during the de-hibernation process. Like, okay, anything other than the foreground process gets an I/O priority penalty for a period of time. Like, maybe your music player or something is choppy for a few seconds, but whatever you’re directly interacting with should be active more-quickly.
If this is SSD, that seems kinda long, still. Like, it shouldn’t take 2 minutes to move 32GB to SSD.
It looks like I get about 3GBps reading from SSD:
<span style="color:#323232;">$ dd bs=100M iflag=direct if='setup_act_of_war_direct_action_1.06.3_(24183)-1.bin' of=/dev/null
</span><span style="color:#323232;">40+1 records in
</span><span style="color:#323232;">40+1 records out
</span><span style="color:#323232;">4294098942 bytes (4.3 GB, 4.0 GiB) copied, 1.28615 s, 3.3 GB/s
</span><span style="color:#323232;">$
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And that’s doing I/O going through the filesystem layer; I dunno if Macs use a swap file or swap partition these days, but if they have a dedicated partition, they might pull a bit more throughput). So if you figure that in terms of raw I/O performance, it shouldn’t take more than about 10 seconds to fully restore memory contents on a 32GB laptop with comparable SSD performance, even if the OS has to fully-restore the entire contents of the memory. There’s some hardware state restoration that has to happen prior to starting to pull stuff back into memory, but for the memory restoration, that’s the floor. If it’s more than that, then presumably it’s possible to optimize by reprioritizing reads.
So, I guess that there are maybe a couple areas for potential improvement:
If the thing is locked and requires a password or something, you know that the user is gonna have to use the login process before anything else. Get that paged back in as soon as possible. Ditto for the graphics layer, Quartz or whatever Apple has these days. Strip that login process down; maybe separate it from whatever is showing blingy stuff on the login screen. Can have the OS treat it specially so that it’s first in line to come up.
The next goal is to get the stuff that the user needs to be immediately interacting with back into memory. My guess is that that’s probably the launcher and/or task switcher and the foreground process. Might have a limited amount that can be done to strip the launcher/task switcher down. Have all processes other than those few favored processes get a temporary I/O priority penalty.
One wants to keep the I/O system saturated until the system is to a fully-restored state, so that we don’t have to have the latency of waiting for a process to request something to bring it back into memory. So have some process that gets started, runs with I/O priority below all other processes, and just does bulk reads of valid pages from the pagefile (or wherever MacOS stores the hibernation state). Once that thing has completed, the system should be fully-warmed back to pre-hibernation state. That eliminates idle gaps when maybe there’s no reads happening. Maybe restore the disk cache state after that, if that doesn’t happen now, if the reason the system is sluggish is because it’s having to re-warm the cache bit by bit. On my Linux box, it looks like post-restoration, the disk cache is empty, so it’s probably just dropping the disk cache contents (which probably speeds up hibernation, but is gonna mean that the post-hibernation system is gonna have to figure out what it’s sensible to cache).
EDIT: Also, relevant Steve Jobs quote that comes to mind:
Larry Kenyon was the engineer working on the disk driver and file system. Steve came into his cubicle and started to exhort him. “The Macintosh boots too slowly. You’ve got to make it faster!”
Larry started to explain about some of the places where he thought that he could improve things, but Steve wasn’t interested. He continued, “You know, I’ve been thinking about it. How many people are going to be using the Macintosh? A million? No, more than that. In a few years, I bet five million people will be booting up their Macintoshes at least once a day.”
“Well, let’s say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that’s probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you’ve saved a dozen lives. That’s really worth it, don’t you think?”
We were pretty motivated to make the software go as fast as we could anyway, so I’m not sure if this pitch had much effect, but we thought it was pretty humorous, and we did manage to shave more than ten seconds off the boot time over the next couple of months.
I have my Linux Thinkpad set up to just go directly to hibernation. If I flip the lid open, by the time I’ve closed up my laptop backpack, stashed it, pulled my seat out, sat down, and scootched up, it’s pretty much up. And if it’s hibernated, then you don’t wind up with a case where you leave it in your bag for a long time, it draws down a bunch of a battery, and next time you open the thing up, maybe away from a plug, you don’t have a big chunk of your battery slorped up.
does some timing
Booting up and responding after a hibernation is a little under 30 seconds.
Doing so after an S3 sleep is a little under 5 seconds.
Now, okay, that’s just the system being back up, and it’s gonna have to broadcast a query, wait for responses from WAPs, associate with a wireless access point and get a DHCP lease before the network’s up, so maybe there’s a little extra time until the thing is fully usable, but still.
I guess…hmm. I guess I can see doing a sleep-with-delayed hibernation for something like the case where someone’s moving between an office and a conference room. Like, wait 5 or 10 minutes, and if it’s still sleeping, then hibernate. What are the defaults?
goes looking
Hmm. Okay, so looks like on Debian, the default is to sleep (suspend) until the battery is down to 5%, then do a hibernate if it hits that critical level. Yeah, I never want to wait that long.
Aight, I’m gonna move from directly hibernating to a 5 minute sleep or 5% battery, whichever first, then hibernate. I guess that’s maybe a good tradeoff for a scenario where a laptop is being frequently closed and opened, but it still shouldn’t result in much extra power consumption.
Hmm. Do you allow people to VPN in from non-company-controlled laptops? Because I figure that anyone doing work at home is going to be maybe unwittingly having local copies made of data that they’re working with.
I imagine that most distros probably have a liveboot image, though I haven’t gone looking.
USB drives are maybe slower than your internal SSD drive, but for rescue work or just seeing whether your hardware works, should be fine.
I would expect everything that you listed there to work. The only thing I haven’t heard of on there is that dygma keyboard, and looking at their website, if this is the keyboard in question:
Yes, our configurator software is compatible with macOS, Linux and even Windows.
I mean, I dunno if Logitech puts out trackball software for Linux, but if what you want is macro software or configurable acceleration curves or something, there’s open-source stuff not tied to that particular piece of hardware. And the Steam Deck is running Linux itself.
There’s gonna be a familiarization cost associated with changing an OS. Like, your workflow is gonna change, and there are gonna be things that you know how to do now that you aren’t gonna know how to do in a new environment. But I think that that’s likely going to be the larger impact, rather than “can I use hardware?”
EDIT: Oh, it sounds like the reason that they call it “live install” rather than “liveboot” is because you can use the same image to both just use Linux directly, and can run the installer off the image too.
Do you remember when you could put your Mac to sleep, and when you woke it up a few days later, the battery would barely have dropped? Not now, because your computer never really sleeps anymore.
I assume that the Mac has some kind of hibernation function, and that that will reduce the battery drop to effectively zero.
Russia’s attempts to conclude a major gas pipeline deal with China have run aground over what Moscow sees as Beijing’s unreasonable demands on price and supply levels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing three people familiar with the matter....
I mean, Russia doesn’t have a whole lot by way of alternative markets for pipeline natural gas, due to the invasion.
And Russia didn’t negotiate the deal prior to kicking off the war, when they had more leverage.
They kind of set themselves up for not getting very favorable terms.
EDIT: Not to mention drawing down the storage of their last customer and then cutting them off as leverage. That’s gonna impact the expected risks attached to Russian gas.
Ellis and the victims didn’t know each other, North Olmsted police Det. Sgt. Matt Beck said at a news conference Tuesday, calling it a “random act of violence.”
Well, if you don’t live in the EU, it doesn’t directly matter, other than in your ability to communicate with people in the EU.
If you live in the EU, then I suspect that talking to European political entities like the various Pirate parties, or to EDRi to try and get it legislatively-reverted is probably a step to take a little before killing and dying.
If you live in the EU and it doesn’t get legislatively-reverted and you consider it to be totally unacceptable, well, there are a number of countries in the area that I imagine people can migrate to, like the UK or Switzerland or Norway. I’d probably look into that before the whole killing thing.
We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...
Spain has consistently been a major proponent of mandating this stuff, from what I’ve read in the past. I assume that this relates to wanting to deal with their secessionist movements.
For much of the last four years, automakers and their dealers had so few cars to sell — and demand was so strong — that they could command high prices. Those days are over, and hefty discounts are starting a comeback....
Personally, I’m partial to a thin crust cheese pizza folded and dipped into either hot sauce or ranch. But I also enjoy modest amounts of meat, greens and pineapple.
I don’t really have one specific type of pizza, bounce around a bit.
When I was growing up, the norm for my family was thick crust, pepperoni, black olive. I like that, but I tend to feel that it’s nice to have a bit more going on. That plus onion or chicken or hot sausage can be nice.
I do like Hawaiian, though that does tend to have more moisture than would be my ideal.
However, if either party nominee dropped out or passed away after ballots were printed, then it would be too late to officially replace them on the ballot. In that scenario, millions of Americans would cast ballots for the inactive candidate with the understanding that their Electoral College votes would really go to someone else — probably someone designated by the DNC or RNC.
“The reality is, when you vote for president, you’re never voting for that person. You’re voting for the elector to cast a ballot for that person at the Electoral College meeting in December,” Brown said. “I would imagine what would happen is that parties would indicate to the electors who they should vote for.”
From Election Day to Dec. 17
Next, let’s say we make it to Election Day without incident and voters choose a new president — but then the president-elect passes away or becomes incapacitated before the Electoral College votes on Dec. 17 to make their win official. This could be a messy political situation as well.
According to the National Archives, there is no prescribed process for what to do if the president-elect dies between Election Day and the meeting of the Electoral College. (It would not automatically be the vice president-elect, as, legally, the presidential line of succession would not have kicked in yet.) So the (ex-)president-elect’s electors would essentially get to pick the president. “A whole bunch of Americans don’t realize that the electors are actual, real live people,” Kamarck said, who could theoretically choose for themselves whom to vote for.
There is historical precedent for this: After the 1872 election, which was won by Republican Ulysses S. Grant, Democratic nominee Horace Greeley died on Nov. 29, and his electors’ votes went to various other people. According to Pildes, whether this could happen again depends on the state, as some state laws address this possibility while others do not.
There have also historically been “faithless electors” who have not voted for the candidate who won their state. Some states have laws prohibiting this, but in an emergency situation, state legislatures could change the rules to allow them to do so.
It’s possible that the party would coalesce around a new candidate (for example, the vice president-elect would be a logical choice) and its electors would vote en masse for that person. Brown said the DNC or RNC would likely signal to electors whom they should vote for. That could be Harris on the Democratic side or Trump’s still-unannounced running mate on the Republican side. But Brown emphasized that some states would need to adjust their faithless electors laws to allow for this.
If the electors cannot agree on a single alternative and no candidate gets a majority of electoral votes, the election would fall to the House of Representatives — a procedure known as a contingent election. The Constitution stipulates that each state’s House delegation would cast a single vote for president, with a majority of states required for a candidate to win, and the Senate would elect a vice president based on a majority vote of its members individually. But Brown said that this is a highly unlikely scenario, as the electors would most likely listen to guidance from their party.
From Dec. 17 to Jan. 20
If the president-elect dies or is incapacitated after the Electoral College votes but before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, 2025, the law is clear: the vice president-elect would be inaugurated instead. The 20th Amendment to the Constitution says, in part, “If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President.”
The national conventions are a key turning point in our hypothetical calendar. Before them, primary voters, or delegates selected through the primary process, would still have the ability to choose their party’s nominee. After the conventions, though, the Democratic and Republican national committees would inherit that power.
Both the DNC and the RNC have enshrined in their rules a process for how to fill a vacancy on the party’s ticket after the formal nomination has already taken place. For Democrats, there is only one option: Chairman Jamie Harrison would confer with Democratic leadership in Congress and the Democratic Governors Association and would then take the decision to the DNC, according to the party’s call to convention.
The 483 members of the DNC — who comprise the chairs and vice chairs of each state Democratic Party committee as well as members elected from all 56 states and territories, plus Democrats Abroad — would vote on a new nominee. There are no rules governing who the nominee has to be; the nomination would not, for instance, just go to the former nominee’s running mate or the person who won the second-most delegates in the primaries. They just need to get a majority of party members to vote for them.
Experts say that could be a political mess, with various factions of the party pressuring members to choose one nominee or another. “They would have all sorts of internal politicking. There would be competition between various factions within the party,” Richard Pildes, a professor of constitutional law at New York University Law School, told 538.
For their part, Republicans have two options for filling a vacancy, according to the party’s rules. Like the Democrats, they could choose to have their committee members vote. There are three RNC members per state and territory, but they get to cast the same number of votes their state or territory’s delegation was entitled to cast during the Republican National Convention. If members of a delegation aren’t in agreement on who to support, their state or territory’s votes would be divided equally among them. In order to become the nominee, a candidate must secure a majority of votes.
But the RNC is also “authorized and empowered to fill any and all vacancies” by reconvening the national convention.
In either case, the results of all of the primaries and caucuses would no longer formally matter. While the primary results would be one source of information for the members (if they vote) or delegates (if they reconvene the convention), they wouldn’t be bound to choose the person who came in second in the primaries. They don’t even have to choose somebody who ran in the primary.
Beyond their distinct rules, Pildes did not think there would be much difference between how Democrats and Republicans would deal with a candidate’s death. The RNC is much smaller than the DNC, which could have an impact. “It’s always easier to reach decisions in a smaller body than a larger body, and so that might be a significant difference in the way the two parties are governed,” Pildes said. “But other than that, I don’t think there’s a dramatic difference.”
Now the Lord was with Judah, and they took possession of the hill country; but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had iron chariots.
Dealing with vehicles has never really been a terribly strong point for God.
I am running a NAS that needs to connect to a server (the NAS isn’t powerful enough). I also need to connect my NAS to a Windows, Mac, and Linux device (Linux being the most important, then Mac, then Windows). Out of SMB, FTP, and NFS, which one would be the best, quickest, and most secure for my situation? My NAS supports...
FTP, unless you are using it over TLS (FTPS) transfers authentication information in the clear and transfers files in the clear.
SMB and NFS both can, depending upon implementation and configuration, be set up to do encrypted transport. Note that it is possible to have either doing secure authentication but not secure transport of data.
From a quick search, it looks like at least some Synology NASes can do secure NFS:
you have to start by creating a witcher 1 before you can dream
I mean, there are good Russian games out there (at least in my opinion).
Off-the-cuff, Il-2 Sturmovik is one of the better flight sims, though the 1946 game, while greatly-extended and possessing a real dynamic campaign, is elderly. I brought it up a while back, because I was concerned about the fact that if someone has the game installed and Steam can push out updates to the thing, then it’s basically a non-isolated binary blob that can execute with user permission on many people’s computers; if the Russian government requires the publisher to push out updates to people in the West, that’s a computer security hole via which one can get access to people’s computers.
Digression:
I remember, at one point, playing through a bunch of good war sims, and realizing that almost all of them were out of the Warsaw Pact, and being a little discouraged by that, like…can’t we create any solid war sims in the US?
I didn’t understand why until I watched a video by the Military History Visualized guy, an Austrian guy who does military history content. He went and interviewed some people…I think it was mostly talking about the Ukrainian defense industry. It was actually kinda sad, I guess. Turns out that what happened is that after the Soviet Union broke up, a lot of people in the defense industry were out of a job. What do you do if you have a background in military industry and suddenly demand falls off a cliff? Well, not a lot of options out there…but one thing that did exist was being a consultant on military sim video games. That meant that for a window in time, it was possible for video game developers to get really knowledgeable people to consult with them on military simulations, so they had the best military sims.
checks YouTube
Yeah, here’s the bit I was thinking of. It’s even specifically talking about Il-2 Sturmovik having a bunch of high-level engineers from aircraft design firms in their credits.
But, getting back to the discussion here, normally if you’re creating a game, you’re trying to make a lot of money. The Russian government doesn’t care about that on subsidized cultural works. They’re trying to exert soft power, to insert desired narratives into cultural content that people are consuming. I’m not sure that the most-effective-way to do that is to try to make a new game in the AAA class. They don’t need to make money on the vehicle; they want to get content in front of people’s eyeballs. If I were in the Kremlin and assigned to do that, I’d take popular stuff, buy the rights, make it free, and then stick free DLC with the political narratives that they want to promote on the game.
It sounds like this thing is aimed at domestic audiences, but especially if they wanted to aim at foreign audiences, hell, doesn’t even need to be a Russian-developed game. It’s not illegal for a game publisher in the US to accept subsidized content from the Russian government. I’m sure that some publisher would accept.
Been finding some good deals on 2.5 disks lately, but have never bought one before. Have a couple of 3.5 disks on the other hand in my Unraid server. Wondering how much it matters wether I get a 2.5 or not? What form factor do you prefer/usually go for?
Butts, breasts, and genitals now explicitly allowed on Elon Musk’s X (arstechnica.com)
North Korea floats more rubbish-filled balloons to South Korea (www.bbc.com)
North Korea is sending more balloons carrying rubbish across the heavily fortified southern border, South Korea’s military has said....
yesterday, I dreamed you were so beautiful... (lemmy.world)
generated with stablediffusionXL. the title is a reference to a song by a certain russian band
Hearing reports from multiple sources the United States has been sunk by direct hit from multiple Houthi ballistic missiles (sh.itjust.works)
Predictably the mainstream media, in concert with the CIA, is suppressing this story.
Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare (www.lifewire.com)
Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over Beijing's price demands, Financial Times reports (www.reuters.com)
Russia’s attempts to conclude a major gas pipeline deal with China have run aground over what Moscow sees as Beijing’s unreasonable demands on price and supply levels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing three people familiar with the matter....
Woman Allegedly Stabs 3-year-old Boy to Death in Random Attack at Grocery Store Parking Lot (abcnews.go.com)
“allegedly”
France considers approval of European chat control plan (stackdiary.com)
The latest proposal mandates user consent for monitoring messages on all communication apps, including those with end-to-end encryption.
EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)
We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...
Global navigation jamming will only get worse. The U.S. needs to move fast - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)
Interesting implications, perhaps the global positioning system is not as infallible as we thought
Car Deals Vanished During the Pandemic. They’re Coming Back. (www.nytimes.com)
For much of the last four years, automakers and their dealers had so few cars to sell — and demand was so strong — that they could command high prices. Those days are over, and hefty discounts are starting a comeback....
What is your favourite type of pizza? 🍕
Personally, I’m partial to a thin crust cheese pizza folded and dipped into either hot sauce or ranch. But I also enjoy modest amounts of meat, greens and pineapple.
49% of independents, 15% of Republicans think Trump should end campaign: poll (www.independent.co.uk)
The year is 2050 [Shen Comix] (lemmy.world)
www.instagram.com/shencomix/?hl=en
Pro-Palestinian encampment established outside Los Angeles City Hall (www.nbclosangeles.com)
‘Trust Jesus’ MAGA Bus Crashes Into Pole Ahead of Staten Island Pro-Trump Rally (www.thedailybeast.com)
SMB, FTP, or NFS for NAS + server?
I am running a NAS that needs to connect to a server (the NAS isn’t powerful enough). I also need to connect my NAS to a Windows, Mac, and Linux device (Linux being the most important, then Mac, then Windows). Out of SMB, FTP, and NFS, which one would be the best, quickest, and most secure for my situation? My NAS supports...
[Warlockracy] The Russian state spends $10,000,000 to make the worst RPG of 2024 (www.youtube.com)
Does the form factor between 3.5" and 2.5" matter in a NAS server? (slrpnk.net)
Been finding some good deals on 2.5 disks lately, but have never bought one before. Have a couple of 3.5 disks on the other hand in my Unraid server. Wondering how much it matters wether I get a 2.5 or not? What form factor do you prefer/usually go for?