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How to get a private car

Hello internet users. Someone in my family is looking to buy a car and wanted some recommendations for a private one. They are looking to buy new, and need Android Auto and CarPlay. I know all new cars suck for privacy by default, but I was hoping someone here could offer some insight as to which cars can be made better and what...

huginn,

Not a home assistant. Home Assistant™, the open source privacy focused home automation system.

huginn, (edited )

As a mobile app developer I promise that you want to have push notifications that are capable of doing meaningful work on your phone. Apps are often entirely dead but a push notification from a central server will still get you X/Y/Z functionality.

Companies abuse this to then track you, and harvest endless amounts of information but the alternative is your phone no longer notified you of anything and the majority of background functionality for your apps dies entirely.

What I wish would happen is that mobile OSes have another set of location/network permissions for push notifications.

huginn,

The more money I make the sooner I can stop working.

So bigger salary = bigger happy. Always. There’s no number that is “enough”.

I enjoy my job, so working 20 more years isn’t that onerous.

But I’d rather retire tomorrow than work for anyone else.

huginn,

See that means I would instantly retire, so I wouldn’t be working.

huginn,

That’s fair, and also true for me.

I enjoy laboring. I do not enjoy working for others.

I’ve got endless amounts of side projects that I never have enough mental energy for because the job saps it all.

When I got laid off last year I had about a month between jobs where I got to just do whatever I wanted. After about a week of decompressing I started working 5ish hours a day on side projects, because I wanted something that was more mentally stimulating.

huginn,

… Which makes it even less credible legally.

Unless you’re getting C-suite level emails saying they’re not going to do it, don’t trust them.

And even then you should be ready to sue.

huginn,

spending time in most of the world’s prisons still break your mental health in ways that will only make reintegration back into society harder in the end.

True only in specific cases: mostly your statement is bullshit.

There are far, far too many innocent people in prison: far too many who never deserve to be there. Many who fit the description of harder to reintegrate after the experience.

But prison absolutely can be the right thing for some. There are criminals who will not reintegrate without reform, and the prison system serves that purpose in more enlightened countries. Look at recidivism rates outside of the US to see how some people can reform with time away from society.

We need prisons. I expect 90% of people in prison are worse off from the experience but that 10% is important to society.

huginn,

Prisons are a nuanced topic that cannot be boiled down to categorical statements, but I’ll do my best here to clarify.

You have 2 different cases for prisons: prisons as a concept and prisons in reality.

Conceptually prisons serve 2 important roles: separation and rehabilitation. Both roles are important for the continued functioning of society. You cannot have a functioning society with no separation of criminals from the population. Similarly without rehabilitation the separation needs to be permanent. In some cases there is no rehabilitating someone, so life sentences exist.

In reality: only a very small subset of prisons match the conceptual purpose because there is still a strong group of voters who think a prison should be a punishment.

To consider a specific case, let’s take the infamous US prison system. In the United States rehabilitation is the exception, not the norm. Beyond that the carceral system has perverse incentives to perform that role of societal separation on the maximum number of humans possible without concern for innocence. It’s not an accountable system and it is not democratic.

Even with those perverse incentives: you still have prisoners in prison who would need to be there even in the most perfect system. Plenty of people in prison need to be there. The system fails to rehabilitate them and only serves to separate them from society, but that role of separation is an important one.

I’d argue that the US prison system is overwhelmingly negative for the society but it still performs a core societal role. Despite that: I personally know excons who have had dramatic changes from time served and are better people for the experience. Some percentage of the population benefits.

I don’t buy into anarchist utopian handwaving that states that prisons aren’t necessary: people suck and would suck regardless of governmental style.

Does that help clarify?

huginn,

Not XML. JSX. It’s javascript’s answer to markup.

huginn,

If you put it into an XML parser it will throw an error, so it’s no longer XML.

Sure it was based on it, but it’s not xml.

huginn,

In my experience DDG and Google are pretty close to the same quality. IE neither is good.

huginn,

It’s a standard casement window, just with a weird aspect ratio. If you twisted the handle a different way it would only crack open from the top, letting you vent the room.

huginn, (edited )

Not to mention the major hurdle for Linux gaming is anti cheat software being brought over. Too many games are 100% unplayable because the devs don’t allow their anticheat to be installed on Linux systems

huginn, (edited )

Sure but gaming is predominantly a social pastime. Meaning that most gamers will make the trade off between installing anticheat and not playing the game their friends are all playing, much like the overwhelming majority of people will trade privacy in favor of being able to send a message to friends on Facebook.

It doesn’t matter how much you value your privacy: most people don’t care and never will. So without the option to give away privacy to play the latest Ubisoft game they won’t be using Linux. Full stop.

huginn,

Doesn’t matter if it’s a prerequisite

huginn,

Someone hasn’t watched the latest hbomberguy video

huginn,

Not just a lot of it: basically the entire thing was word for word lifted, followed by some really lazy find & replace

huginn,

Yeah

He only talks about 3 youtubers in that video, no less.

huginn,

It creates a new process that spins up 2 new instances of itself recursively.

itsfoss.com/fork-bomb/

here’s a good explanation pulled from itsfoss.com

huginn,

Not mine, grabbed it from the link, but it’s a great explanation!

huginn,

GameSpy was such dog shit tho

huginn,

You got some hella rose tinted glasses on my guy.

GameSpy was a bloated piece of garbage that is only fondly remembered because the other options were worse. It crashed constantly which ripped you out of your game and it performed this trick especially often right when the game launched.

Ping was always wrong, lobbies displayed as full when they weren’t, server filtering was non-existent, required login every time you disconnected…

I was thrilled to move off of it to basically anything else

huginn,

hey I know you’re working 40 hours a week but how about you work 40 more hours a week but for free?

Hell I firmly believe that there are no developers who write their best code at the end of the week. 30 hours of coding a week should be a hard limit at companies.

huginn,

I only have about 8 hours of meetings a week and that’s as a staff eng. Sounds like your place needs to drop a buncha meetings. Lemme guess: your managers have never been engineers before?

huginn,

Not really.

Android apps can declare which urls they accept as deep links. Once that is registered with the system (ie after install) then links of that type can be opened by the app. It doesn’t have to match the package name.

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