And it was a huge step back from GTK2 at the time, taking ages to mature. Yes, the GNOME project is stagnating rather badly. Compare that with Qt, which is much better by comparison.
This is something I was actively resisting. It turns out that for me, I find GTK3 to be less aesthetically pleasing than GTK2. There are far fewer themes for GTK3, and they aren't as nice as the GTK2 ones either. Sad to see a step back in user interface design, in my opinion at least.
It won't be long before all the distributions catch up and start removing the GTK2 builds, which are likely to be deprecated.
They were warning of this for a long time, due to modern cars being so much heavier than in the 1970s and 1980s, when these garages were built. And this is especially so for electric cars due to the battery pack.
I think the pendulum will swing towards that way eventually. It's cyclical. Once the novelty of social media wears away, as it has done already, and the harms start being worse than the benefits.
However not being on social media can have real-world consequences in the classroom, the child could be treated as an outcast and mocked or bullied for it.
There is a middle ground, which is to use a pseudonym and ensure anonymity. You can then selectively disclose this pseudonym to people you trust. It might be safer for the children that way and also make it more difficult for adult authority figures to interfere with their lives.
It's the same intuition that tells me something's wrong when I read things that end up being conspiracy theories or pseudoscience.
I trust it, because for me, it seems to have a track record of being correct in the end.
Well everyone has the right to their own opinions, and I might be completely wrong.
And I have every right to be a heretic, and not subscribe to things I think might be orthodoxies. That might be arising from bandwagon effects and social conformity. Which is what I suspect when it comes to climate change doomsaying.
And that's strictly my own opinion only, which can be simply disregarded by other people. But it still adds to the discussion. And such things can be proven wrong too, which might strengthen the case for catastrophic climate change actually happening?
But I think it's the primary way the state finds out what we are doing, so it then can exercise it's violence, if it finds us doing something that it doesn't like.
The first thing police do nowadays is check social media accounts when there's a crime, whether it's a thought crime or not? So by reducing our reliance on online services, we can diminish the ability of the state to police our lives?
Or maybe I'm wrong here (tired, and need a rest, so I don't end up spamming HN)?
I used to play around with these (ST20 core) when I was younger, they were embedded into the STMicroelectronics STi5518 set top box chips, which I happened to have the full datasheet to. A weird stack based architecture, each instruction was a single byte if I remember correctly. And it had a hardware scheduler. Because of the stack based architecture, the task switch was very fast indeed.
There also was an ANSI C compiler (from the 1980s) with source code available, and I managed somehow to get this to build on a Linux machine at the time.
I got most of the peripheral hardware working, could even display MPEG-2 still images and play MP3 files streamed over the JTAG interface. But I never got full video decode working. You could also overclock it to 180MHz, which is much faster than it's specified 81MHz clock rate.
The last chip that STMicroelectronics manufactured which featured a transputer core is STi5119ALC. It runs at over 200MHz and supports VGA RGB progressive scan output. You can get it from AliExpress, so it shouldn't be too hard to get a board made with the chip and a DDR SDRAM for experiments. I think the STLink (which is a modified transputer link) even works, so you can chain the chips together.
It might actually get better over hundreds of years, the current problems are decline over a couple of decades, which will likely result in a backlash eventually.
We abolished slavery, torture, blasphemy, heresy, witch hunting, etc. over the centuries. And made huge roads into tackling racism and the persecution of homosexuals, etc. So no reason to think it will get worse over the very long term, I think?
Unrelatedly one pressing issue we haven't yet fixed is the systematic cruelty and mistreatment of children by parents, which probably has religious origins in prior generations. And instead the government focuses on sexual abuse, which is a drop in the ocean by comparison.
We are also in the midst of a revolution - AI might shift power back to the individual - because it can be run locally, and the government has a much harder time monitoring that. And it can reduce our dependence on online services which are the primary means for state control over our lives?
A totalitarian police state in the making there. Yes, with ChatGPT (and its successors) they will be targeting politically subversive conversations that threaten state power, in 20+ years time.
It's happened before and we are already showing all the signs of early stage fascism[1], and there is no reason that it won't happen again.
1. Yes I am using the word fascism, instead of authoritarianism, because that is what I think it is, it is that severe, when you consider what is happening already (mass Internet surveillance, protesters being criminalized).
It's quite shocking when you think about it, that your "friends" here are in effect not allowing you to be yourself. And will potentially socially ostracize you (i.e. punish you) if you do something, that is harmless, but is not accepted by the group for some reason. Dystopian stuff indeed.
What about spoofing IP addresses (bittorrent DHT / IPFS / deliberately faked Tor IP leaks / etc.) or a combined technique, so that the police think illegal material was shared from that IP, and when they come to investigate they find large quantities of random data, which they think is encrypted?
It appears to me that fears over catastrophic climate change are yet another moral panic. Amplified by social media this time.
As with other moral panics (e.g. child abductions, pedophilia), the problem exists, but is blown way out of proportion by the media.
In reality, I believe there of course will be changes in the weather patterns due to a relatively small increase in temperature, but it's not going to be the end of the world and there certainly won't be any mass drought or famine from the change.
I kind of intuitively know this, and mostly disregard the opinions of those saying that there is impending doom. As I have likely seen this type of hysteria play out before in my life many times already.
It will be interesting to see if I'm right about it or not, over the coming decades...
And in order to compete with the other channels, news started becoming more and more sensationalist. Those channels contributed to the moral panics behind "Stranger Danger" and "Satanic Ritual Abuse", which resulted in parents becoming overprotective towards their children, stunting their development. When these children grew up into adults, they carried this "safetyist" worldview with them, where freedom is traded for security. And we know from history where that path leads to in the end, if it's not stopped somehow.
Likely because that generation was raised to believe everything they were told, starting from an early age with school, religion, then with television and newspapers, etc.
The younger generation were raised with media that spread obvious untruths such as conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, etc. and they learned to think more critically about what they are reading.
I think it's the total visibility that's causing mental illness. There is no space where you can be with your friends, screw up, and not have it become known to everyone in your peer group. There's little space to make mistakes. No space to be yourself. You are under the watchful gaze of your friends, i.e. peer surveillance, nearly all of the time. Which induces stifling conformity.
Everything's under constant scrutiny. And your friends end up exerting social control over your life through social media.
So your "friends" in essence, force you to use these platforms. If you don't you will be treated as a social outcast, a pariah. It makes you wonder what these "friends" really are in the first place.
On top of that, parents are on there too, and can more easily find out what their children are up to, thus allowing them to be helicoptered and coddled even more than ever before, thus stifling childrens' development, because in order to learn responsibility, they need the freedom to be able to make mistakes, and be exposed to the natural consequences of those mistakes.
Yes, the Scottish Hate Crime bill. And as expected, they are trying to expand it to cover misogyny. So someone's going to end up serving time for a silly joke they made in a pub.
Yes, if used as a root filesystem. My computer is setup to have immutable read-only root filesystem, any changes go to RAM. Except for the home directory. There is no swap either.
It shouldn't be a problem if you use it to store infrequently accessed material, e.g. the entire copy of Library Genesis (2.5 million ebooks). The double encryption will make sure absolutely that you cannot be prosecuted for possessing forbidden books (in countries where there is no mandatory key disclosure law). That way your reading habits are none of the government's business, period. As it should be.
And they'll just infiltrate your open source project, in the name of preventing petty "harassment" of developers. That way they will allow weaknesses in the protocol to arise, due to attrition of the best developers. And there you go, everything has been handed over to intelligence agencies, who can now easily break its security.