...like "Tell me about Tiananmen Square" or "Tell me about Xinjiang".

Is this what you want for the future?

My thoughts back when R1 came out:

https://www.afcea.org/signal-m...

...an article worth considering from Princeton University's Zeynep Tufekci:

We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives

Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian flu, was almost certainly sparked by a research mishap. Some Western scientists quickly suspected the odd virus had resided in a lab freezer for a couple of decades, but they kept mostly quiet for fear of ruffling feathers.

Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks. Many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a conspiracy theory, insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in Wuhan, China. And when a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat viruses with the Wuhan Institute of Virology â" research that, if conducted with lax safety standards, could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world â" no fewer than 77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization.

So the Wuhan research was totally safe, and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission â" it certainly seemed like consensus.

We have since learned, however, that to promote the appearance of consensus, some officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story. And as for that Wuhan laboratoryâ(TM)s research, the details that have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been terrifyingly lax.

Full article

And the likeliest explanation is things connected with the GDPR "right to be forgotten":

https://mashable.com/article/c...

IPv6, IPv7, and IPv9 (not the April Fool's variant) were competing post-IPv4 standards. Something like this suggestion here was considered for IPv7.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/d...

That's not was certified software means.

You know hw software is issued "without warranty for any fitness or purpose, whether stated or implied" (or something like that)? Thats the key differentiator. There are OS's certified to that level. You know that line from Fight Club about when a recall is / isn't issued? that holds the same for OS develpers that provide a product warranted for fitness and purpose. These OS's do exist, for those situations that require it.

You see them in car computers, for example, and I'm confident the Falcon9 OS is certified to that level. It's not that it's bug free - it's that the developer has done a higher level of regression testing, and continues to evaluate the OS to identify problems that could (or did) arise, and with that agree to share in the risk. (Here, "risk" is defined as effects that happen to the company when the product causes a kick in the teeth... like killing a person.)

Certifying anything as 100% bug-free is a waste of time, since it's nearly impossible. TeX isn't even there, despite 40yr of offering bug bounties. Noone claims 100% bug-free, but there are OS vendors that accept a certain level of risk.

weylin

What is .xyz?

Hype.

"So why this hype? Because the cryptocurrency space, at heart, is simply a giant ponzi scheme where the only way early participants make money is if there are further suckers entering the space. The only âoeutilityâ for a cryptocurrency (outside criminal transactions and financial frauds) is what someone else will pay for it and anything to pretend a possible real-word utility exists to help find new suckers."

https://www.usenix.org/publica...

Ah yes, the disgusting and false refuge of Chinese (and Russian) apologists and propagandists to the worst abuses of authoritarians: âoethe US does it too.â

These abuses are not âoeallegedâ; they are happening, and they are not based on dubious âoeresearchesâ [sic]:

https://www.propublica.org/art...

There is a genocide happening in Xinjiang; one that is erasing an entire culture, language, religion, and history of a people.

https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

https://www.nytimes.com/intera...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

I'm not sure it's "only symlinks." I have a complete local copy of everything in GDrive. I regularly demonstrate it's actually a local copy, as I travel a lot for work through areas that have no cell coverage, and I can still open, edit, and save changes.
weylin

Use https://feedly.com/

When Google killed Reader, I did, and never looked back.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

I wish I had moderator points to give you "+1 insightful." The passing of someone with a degree of importance to millions, is absolutely "stuff that matters."
weylin

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