I first discovered Arena through their Twitter profile. They post so much interesting stuff. It's what Tumblr should have been from the start. I just hope it is sustainable well into the future. There's too many important ideas that could be wiped out if this gets shut down.
One of Tor's weaknesses has always been the exit node problem, where things can be seen in the clear unless encryption is used. And sometimes it's not used, so personal data can be gleaned through exits.
Another weakness is the Tor Browser Bundle itself. I'm not certain if it's 'compromised' but we'll never know, due to the secret nature of 0-days. People don't take extra caution and connect to Tor with a specialized Tor router with a kill-switch / fail-closed system, thereby mitigating real IP leaks.
There's also a more academic in nature problem of a 'bird's eye view' of the Tor network, whereby if you control and have insight into all the hops a Tor user makes, you can do correlation attacks, but I'm less concerned about that than the other two weaknesses I mentioned.
> Gmail have turned off the basic HTML view. The new interface is unpleasant.
It's not the UI that bothers me (it's actually quite nice and modern) it's that it loads like treacle, when in the past I exclusively used the basic HTML interface as it was more snappier & performant.
Good. Means it's more lean. And nothing's stopping someone installing NTFS functionality with apt. I once had to add exFAT[0] compatibility to Ubuntu because I had a thumb-drive flashed in that format.
>This would be wildly slow (if it runs in userspace using FUSE)
NTFS-3G through FUSE is what most people are using. It's slower, but not that slow.
ntfs3 hasn't seen that much large-scale deployment, and you don't have to look very far to find people complaining about ending up with a messed up filesystem from it. I'd put a very modest level of trust in it not eating your data.
FUSE drivers are slow, but "wildly slow" is an overstatement.
Anyway, between FUSE, epoll, DMA, and userspace networking Linux is already enough of a microkernel to benefit from it; so when do our CPU oligopolists plan to turn their shared memory hardware into a useful message passing mechanism?
> FUSE drivers are slow, but "wildly slow" is an overstatement.
I can confirm this, I've played RPGMaker M{V,Z} games natively by swapping out the copy of NWJS¹ it shipped with and running it through a CIOPFS² mount.
You can install kernel modules with APT - You can even install source code for kernel modules that live outside-of-tree that are recompiled for your system with APT[1]
Leaner on the source code side. The developer wrote that nobody is building it. If it were in obvious use, they could not even propose removal, Linux promises not to break existing systems by upgrading to a newer kernel.
> Are you really trying root as exfat? Will never work. A linux filesystem must support file ownership and access rights per file, which exfat doesn’t. Linux runs only from ext4, btrfs, xfs or such.
As someone who abhors subscriptions, I think it's a bad idea. This is why I love pay-as-you go electricity meters and pay-as-you-go phone plans, and sometimes lifetime purchases of software licenses. I also detest 'bills' which force you to cough up money and get disconnected from the service if you don't.
With pay-as-you-go if you don't have the funds, you simply bear with the circumstances until you can afford it. For example, if my electricity is cut, I am forced to use a duvet with two blankets on top to stay warm when if I had the funds, I don't need to, since the heat is paid for.
Same with Internet. I sometimes have no Internet for the day, but when funds arrive I can get back online. But those moments are teachable: I simply read a book, or clean the house when there's no Internet. Subscriptions are a marketer's dream. They want you hooked. Fuck that.
Escalate the issue and @mention Twitter employees. Hopefully someone will listen. You will have to create a new account to do this. Sometimes Twitter over-moderates and something triggered a false positive. Twitter has re-instated many old suspended accounts already, and hopefully they'll do that for you too.
> Consultant engineer Joseph Bazalgette, who was already working as a surveyor for the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, was employed to mastermind a plan for sewers, pumping stations and the redevelopment of the embankments of London. The results of his remarkable efforts are still maintaining London’s health today. The Great Stink may not have the historic cachet of the Great Fire or the Plague of London, but its influence was ultimately to the good of the city.
Now the UK still has to deal with smog. Cars might be all electric in my lifetime, but smog is still a persistent problem and causes respiratory problems.
a descendent of Bazalgette invented the Big Brother reality TV show. I always think they reversed the process established by their ancestor and started pumping shit back into our homes.
At least one book I have read about the rise of plastics said that during the worst years of rubber shortages in WW2 there were serious proposals to scrape roads and recover tire materials in the USA. I believe the discovery of stable artificial rubber materials, capable of being produced in volume in time for the D Day landings helped with the supply chain crisis as the armed forces moved forward (the rate of supply became a major issue and logistics demands were high)
> Until not long ago, plenty of places in the world wanted to model themselves after America. But after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade almost two years ago, America has, for some nations, become a model … of what not to do.
What specific things apart from US abortion laws are 'American' in nature? If it means McDonalds outlets then fair game, but I can't think of anything else, apart from maybe the US 'hustle culture' that is always admirable.
> ... I can't think of anything else, apart from maybe the US 'hustle culture' that is always admirable.
Is it?
When I moved to the US, I was surprised that working multiple jobs, or working seemingly physical jobs after 65 or even injured, e.g. as your typical Home Depot associate, were quite common.
Aren't there many things which, while not unique to the US, came to be perceived as American? Or pioneered here then imitated elsewhere? or exported as a strength or "leading example" of the US? - And do you mean positives or negatives?
And it has always surprised me how much French TV news for example love to report on what happens in the US. To a large extent, it may be just a historical bad habit or quirk (I mean as opposed to reporting on what happens in the rest of the EU or in China for example) but it's still there. So it's not exactly what americans think of as their strengths that makes it through.
