I had to go to the project's GitHub repo for a semblance of a description. For the uninitiated:
> Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. It provides the latest Wayland features, is highly customizable, has all the eyecandy, the most powerful plugins, easy IPC, much more QoL stuff than other compositors and more...
I tried the website’s logo/“home” button in the top-left and did go to the homepage, but also got an autoplay video - yikes! On mobile it’s a very jarring experience to have the whole screen start playing a video demo
Thanks for this guidance. In times like these, I find sunlight is always the best disinfectant.
The yt-dlp application functions better alongside ffmpeg, so I recommend installing that too. If on Linux, whatever is available via one's package manager /should/ do the trick.
Note, the project does make mention there are issues [1] with "standard ffmpeg", and is therefore minting custom builds [2][3] of ffmpeg, with additional patches applied.
Things are indeed heating up when a saga that's been unfolding for over four years begins to attract attention on HN.
A user or two have characterized Gill's activity as a pump-and-dump. From the article:
> A common form of this fraud is a pump-and-dump scheme, where fraudsters "make false and misleading statements to create a buying frenzy, and then sell shares at the pumped-up price."
Gill took a significant position in Gamestop beginning in June 2019 [1], and has been steadily increasing his position over the years (AFAICT without selling).
How is the belief in the long-term recovery and turn around of what was then, a dysfunctional (and unprofitable) American retailer, anything but rather prescient and patriotic?
Even if we were to concede that Gill is now in a position of influence, the suggestion that enforcement agencies should suddenly jump in and that litigation should /begin/ with him, rather than TV personalities and elected officials, strikes me as laughable.
Notwithstanding the ethical and security implications of a brokerage publicly broadcasting that a customer has an account on their platform (I would be livid if this happened to me), if E-Trade were to close Gill's account, would that not be a concrete admission that his position has them vulnerable, thereby strengthening and supporting the underlying thesis?
Quite interesting indeed. From Gamestop's recent Form 10-K (Q4 2023) SEC filing:
> "As of March 20, 2024 [...] approximately 75.3 million shares of our Class A common stock were held by registered holders with our transfer agent (or approximately 25% of our outstanding shares)."
I've never seen anything like this. It seems absolutely unprecedented.
Recently Ian Carroll posted an overview [2] on X where he attempts to untangle the mess of the chaos surrounding Gamestop and its stock. I'm not going to pretend to understand the (dys?)function of our financial markets or everything that he shared, but my eyes are peeled.
> Recently Ian Carroll posted an overview [2] on X where he attempts to untangle the mess of the chaos surrounding Gamestop and its stock. I'm not going to pretend to understand the (dys?)function of our financial markets or everything that he shared, but my eyes are peeled.
So just so you're aware... this is not a good source for financial understanding. This is the financial equivalent of someone who struggled with high school physics going to the Wikipedia article on quantum chromodynamics to then turn around and explain it to you.
Like, the explanation of derivatives is wrong. Leverage has nothing to do with derivatives; derivatives are essentially trades that are trading on the value of another asset rather than the asset itself.
The short answer as to what has happened is GameStop is a video game retailer that hasn't been managing the trend to digital distribution. For $REASONS, the stock experienced a massive bump in 2021. The rapid inflation caused Robinhood (among a few other apps, but mostly Robinhood) to suspend the ability to buy shares, for reasons beyond proponents' ken [1]... which caused it to be interpreted as some financial conspiracy to keep the hedge funds alive at the expense of regular people. When the resulting short squeeze proved less calamitous than expected [2], the people who bought high have turned to increasing amounts of copium to motivate why the short squeeze hasn't happened yet, and turned to anything they can find that might enable them to trigger the "real" short squeeze (which at this point is no longer a mere short squeeze but a total financial apocalypse).
[1] The simplest explanation (though not entirely accurate, it is sufficient to get the reasons why across) is that Robinhood was borrowing money to buy the stocks on users' behalf, and the counterparties effectively did a margin call on Robinhood.
Short answer: the people doing this think it's going to fuck short sellers over.
The longer answer involves trying to make a coherent story by people who are financially illiterate trying to read moderately advanced modern finance textbooks to explain why they were unsuccessful in fleecing Big Bad Finance™ by somehow finding a way to trigger financial apocalypse. The more you try to understand it, the less sense it is going to make.
I'd rather say they are trying to prove some things to the general public.
People new to the stock market assume that when they buy shares through their broker, they own the share. They also often buy shares in hopes that the stock price will go up.
However, more often than not, a broker will hand out an IOU when you "buy" a share, and then proceed to rent out the share to short sellers. You buy a share in hopes that the price will go up, but that share is then used for the opposite.
Buying a share through the company's registered custodian prevents this.
They also want to show the general public that even when 100% of a company's shares are bought, owned and locked down - short sellers are still able to generate phantom shares to move the stock price down.
> However, more often than not, a broker will hand out an IOU when you "buy" a share, and then proceed to rent out the share to short sellers
There are specific stock lending programs, but can you back up the claim that brokers are silently lending shares from the portfolio of people who did not opt in to such a program?
Good question. What that quote from the recent filing is describing is the result of investors using the "Direct Registration System" (DRS), which is a system for book-entry ownership [1][2].
Given the example of risk HN user /deified/ shared regarding suspicions of brokers clandestinely distributing IOUs without investor knowledge where they should, in fact, be purchasing real shares, DRS offers the ability to move shares from one's broker to the company's transfer agent.
In effect, what DRS seemingly provides is a far more robust chain of trust and custody, as well as a more concrete level of assurance that shares in one's account are, in fact, real (and not IOUs).
In this case, the 10-K filing provides direct evidence that investors are consistently moving their Gamestop shares out of their respective brokers, to Gamestop's transfer agent, a company called Computershare (or purchasing shares directly via Computershare).
A conclusion one could possibly draw from this is that hundreds of thousands of Gamestop investors have collectively agreed that they can no longer trust their brokers, they are fed up with the true reality [and limitations] of "beneficial ownership", and are instead registering their Gamestop shares with the transfer agent (Computershare). All to the tune now of 25% of the total outstanding shares. As far as I'm aware, behavior of this magnitude has never before occurred.
Should that percentage continue to climb, it will be interesting to see what effect (if any) it will have on Gamestop's share price, assuming true supply and demand and real price discovery is still a fundamental part of how our markets function.
Ian released a video [3] this past December 2023, related to this topic.
This is an overreaction, almost to the point of absurdity.
Risks inherent to pipe installers are well understood by many. Using your logic, we should abandon Homebrew [1] (>38k stars on GitHub), PiHole [2] (>46k stars on GitHub), Chef [3], RVM [4], and countless other open source projects that use one-step automated installers (by piping to bash).
A more reasonable response would be to coordinate with the developers to update the docs to provide alternative installation methods (or better detail risks), rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
FWIW, Homebrew (no longer) deserves quite such ire as you will note that it explicitly does NOT pipe the result to a copy of bash: by downloading it first it and quoting it using a subshell it prevents the web server from being able to get interactive access.
You seem quite knowledgeable in this domain. Have you authored any blog posts to expand on this topic? I would welcome the chance to learn more from you.
The New Yorker has a short overview[1]. The ACLU has a more complete list[2]. The American Prospect and Cato Institute have some articles if you search around, but I'm not a huge fan of their work.
The top hits for 'Obama whistleblowers' for me are from Time, Politico, The New Yorker and The Nation. I don't see a conservative-leaning site (Cato) until the middle of the third page of results...
it's really interesting where this comes from, and why this seems to some such an easy "gotcha".
first off, that these come up doesn't mean they're wrong, though it does likely mean they're shallow.
more deeply, this is an old, well-known dynamic often decried by the left. the left will dig deeper into often pretty obvious social dysfunctions and pioneer a social critique, analyzing the political and economic structures and systems that underpin it, and turn it into a challenge to existing authorities. This challenge is complicated, it hinges on teaching you political economy first, before it can even start to tell you what the systemic problem actually is. but it touches on real problems people feel every day.
The conservatives make a media thing out of it. Now, mass media, forever, has made their money by selling your prejudices back to you; from entertainment to news, they all basically work this way. Conservatives work this way as well (making for that sweet synergy between the two): it takes a run-down, stripped-down, dumbed-down version of the criticism, strips all political economy analysis from it (can't have them blame capitalism!), frinds some easy scarecrow figures - Gates, Soros, whoever (not that they're not horrible people, but that's not the point really), ascribes "debauchery and corruption" to them (because then the SYSTEM is fine).
In the end, when people then google the problems, they find these easy stories, which makes them associate the identification of the problem with these dumbed-down assaults. Then even mentioning the problem becomes that.
I agree that the "Obama war on whistleblowers" is shallow, and that is a more accurate statement of what I was trying to convey. A "red-meat" "feels good to hate" story than any actual news.
Conservatives will document how a lack of principles means that a mechanism in society will converge to something damaging, to have Progressives shout about how they’re “istaphobes” without that even being a relevant complaint.
They’re particularly vicious about that when conservatives point out that the proposed systemic solution converges to a breakdown in society or worsening of the situation — eg, trying to use systemic bigotry to “solve” systemic bigotry.
These shallow bullying articles get spread around a network of blogs, small media outlets, YouTube channels, etc. and then dominate search results.
I'm curious, what would be some examples where conservatives warned that some "lack of principles" would lead to a "breakdown of society," and were actually correct? Certainly not same sex marriage, abortion, or any thing that conservatives have fought against during my lifetime.
It sounds, to me, a lot like the "degenerate" label that the Nazis loved to throw around.
I gave one in my post — using systemic racism to “fix” historic damage from racism hasn’t worked and has worsened the problem over the past few decades: the failure to follow principles (ie, equality) has resulted in bad outcomes. We see the same problem with systemic misandry in education: sexism in schools is now worse than when Title IX was enacted.
They were also correct about the problems with social welfare destroying families and lax enforcement leading to a breakdown of cities, eg Seattle and San Francisco downtowns.
> It sounds, to me, a lot like the "degenerate" label that the Nazis loved to throw around.
Implying that I’m a Nazi while failing to address the specific example in my original post is exactly the bad faith responses we’re discussing in this thread. That kind of shallow ad hominem is corrosive to meaningful dialog.
> Hyprland is an independent, highly customizable, dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. It provides the latest Wayland features, is highly customizable, has all the eyecandy, the most powerful plugins, easy IPC, much more QoL stuff than other compositors and more...