You think Europe is setup to handle this? Have you seen the electricity prices in Germany??? They are barely able to keep the street lights on, and struggling with the current EV usage. Not only that most Europeans are not rich and they would struggle with even more power being spent on EV charging.
but how will they deal with the additional surge on the already stressed grid and no water?
this is national virtue signaling and there's no way that ICE cars are going away. I know several people who sold their electric cars and are back to ICE because these electric cars struggle during cold weather, snow, and uphills. Not everybody lives in a flat terrain
ICE cars are not going away unless they are able to suddenly produce EV in such massive numbers that it will become cheaper than ICE AND handle the load on the grid.
EVs struggle in mountainous and cold weather regions which Japan and South Korea regularly go through. On top of that there is a growing water shortage which means the nuclear power plants being built will be capped.
All of this weird wokeness and virtue signaling is only making the world a worse place. The bulk of the co2 production comes from countries that make cheap goods for Californians and in wealthy nations. But you won't give up your goods now for a better world right? It has to be the talking points by ESG lobbyist and corporate interest.
What a sad pathetic world. At this rate MIT is dead on money about society collapsing.
> this is national virtue signaling and there's no way that ICE cars are going away.
Germany is planning to ban new ICE sales by 2030. Japan and South Korea, 2035. You can keep saying "they are not going away," but the truth is that they are going away, whether California bans them or not. Sooner or later, there will be no BMW, no Toyota, and no Hyundai that's running on gas. You may be able to buy a Ford a bit longer, but in a world where your potential ICE car market is dwindling year by year, production of an ICE vehicle will increasingly look like... "virtue signaling." Companies won't be able to make money from that, so they'll stop.
So, in the grand scheme of things, California is not in a position to make an independent decision anyway. But I'd say California is still right in making these decisions now, even from a purely economical point of view, because when the whole industry shifts you want your country to be on the right side of it.
Thermal power plants require water for cooling. We're probably going to need additional nuclear plants to meet base load demand since there's no realistic prospect of building enough grid storage capacity to fill that need with solar and wind power. If we can't rely on water flows in the major rivers then that limits our options for nuclear plant sites.
> rooted deGoogled phone with location defaulted to off and all apps
asking for a friend, she wants to know how to do this, she is very privacy conscious.
> I nearly forgot to mention the phone's VPN-type firewall.
also she wonders what vpn service you use here
> logcat log-displaying program on a rooted smartphone without additional privacy protection steps being taken is astounded
and one last thing she wants to know is how would you do this for a windows 10 laptop? can you hook it up to some raspberry pi device that can monitor outgoing and incoming packets? I suspect its rooted but people keep telling her how its impossible to trojan windows 10.
> one's privacy has considerably lessened in recent decades,
just to add my piece, people have been collectively brainwashed to place lot of value to essentially phantom points, be it instagram likes, followers on twitter, retweets and crypto. they are willing to go above and beyond to do the surveillance voluntarily.
I watched a piece on instagram thieves who chuckled how easy their victims make their job for them by showing off what they've got and when they are away from home. I imagine this is the same for people who believe they are building a startup legally.
Remember the quote from the biggest social media creator: "They trust me dumb **s"
Re rooted deGoogled phone. This is a huge topic and I cannot do it justice here. I suggest you look up the principles of phone rooting and or go to a repterable site on the subject such as XDA Developers.
Re: VPN, see my comment below to zen_1..
Re: Windows, yes, it's possible with routers and even a Raspberry Pi but it's equally complex and very different indeed to that of an Android phone.
Finally, I could have largey expanded my reasons for why I failed to fully understand the reasons why values within the population have changed in respect of privacy but I don't have the wherewithal to do it justice in the space available.
GrapheneOS on any pixel phone is my goto. It's way easier to install a custom ROM now than back in the day, anyone can do it if they can follow instructions (and reseat their phone cable if the process stalls after a phone reboot)
some banking apps don't work but apart from that it's 100% functional
> vpn
Mullvad (Sweden based) and Proton (Switzerland based) are two VPNs with a good reputation imo.
I'm sorry if I didn't explain the firewall VPN stuff well. Android lets one set up VPNs so firewalls exploit the concept to divert traffic from apps to a nul-VPN, apps think they've access to the internet but their traffic doesn't go anywhere.
This satisfies apps that demand such access, they'll still work on the premise that they have internet access, it's just that it's down all the time.
One such firewall app is Karma FW, it's available on Google's app store - and if you think you'd be violating your privacy even further by going there then use the Aurora Store app to spoof the download. As it violates Google's terms of service you have to get it from F-Droid's repository.
I haven't run into apps like that before. I've always just denied the network permission or used AFWall+ (when rooted) to block network access from apps I don't want phoning home
The trouble with that (even on a rooted phone) is that the Google Play Services app collects info on everything, it's the most pernicious of any app. You only have to do the slightest thing on your phone and you can watch the size of its data file grow, thus routing its internet access to a VPN firewall is essential.
Unfortunately, Play Services uses the internet for various necessary functions. The only truly satisfactory solution is to remove it altogether and replace it with GApps which is a sort of 'clone' with the anti-privacy stuff removed.
GrapheneOS supports installing Play services as a sandboxed unprivileged app [1] where you can revoke its network permissions and manually restore them if needed. I should know, it's what I do :).
If I could avoid using google software completely, I would, but this is the second best option IMO.
> is microG still a viable alternative to GApps or is there something else that’s taken its place?
microG is still viable afaik, but I prefer GrapheneOS's sandboxed google play approach since it's much more feature complete, and supports e.g. my 2fa hardware key, while that's currently missing from microG.
> The ROM community, especially those that cared about privacy, was quite small few years ago, especially for non-Pixel devices
Yeah Pixel devices are still the only ones you can expect to be supported by GrapheneOS and CalyxOS etc..., for anything else I think your best bet is to install LineageOS(formerly cyanogenmod) and microG if you can accept the current https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Implementation-Status
no worries think its pretty obvious what to do with here.
curious to know if some external firewall running on raspberry pi that sits between windows 10 desktop and the wifi exists. it would be ideal for inspecting network traffic
huge problem in Vancouver, a single bedroom/studio 500sqft in Vancouver is asking ~$3000 CAD / month or $2300 USD / month. 10 years ago I lived in a 600sq ft for half that rent including utilities and internet.
Wages has not changed here since the 80s and tech also underpays people for the same role. Meanwhile condo sales sees no sign of slowing down, everywhere real estate is on the decline, here it seems to continue.
I wonder if this is sustainable, there is a large number of multi bedroom condo units asking well above $5000 CAD / month
Canada has one of (if not the) lowest housing stocks per population in the developed world. BC and Ontario are on the lower end of all the provinces in this regard as well, which is a major problem when you count how much our population is growing and the fact that the majority of that growth ends up in the VAN/TOR greater metros.
Canada's biggest problem is that we didn't lock out immigration policies to our infrastructure and housing policies. Bringing up that fact though often spirals into someone trying to claim that being concerned about the policies makes you a racist or anti-immigration which is nonsense.
yet the people flipping homes and own multiple properties are local canadians, so are immigrants to be blamed for wanting to buy a home? why is there no focus on corporations purchasing multiple units in bulk to flip it? I feel like this blame the immigration policy is an old trope that I been hearing since the 80s.
and this just highlights the issue in Canada: we can't even agree as to what the underlying issues are, instead we scapegoat minority groups because it has worked since the 80s.
see you're doing exactly what I described.. you saw someone mention the word immigration and went off like a dog on a steak without reading.
I'm not "blaming immigrants" - I'm blaming immigration policies that have Canada leading most of the developed world in net immigration while also being in last place for it's housing stock.
That situation causes a supply and demand loop that makes it profitable for corporations to flip units (the corps doing this is a SYMPTOM not the CAUSE of the problem).
I have no issue with immigration and I'm not scapegoating minority groups (seriously read next time please), what I'm saying is the policy that allows one needs to be directly influenced by the policy of the other or you get knock on effects like we are seeing now.
You are correct that we can't agree on the underlying issue, but not because anyone is scapegoating but because so many people want to concern troll and try to avoid having a discussion for fear of being labeled as insensitive.
<monkeywork> we didn't lock out immigration policies to our infrastructure and housing policies
*lock out -> lock our(?)
<upupandup> but you are literally blaming immigration for the housing situation
No, monkeywork is saying that housing policy and immigration need to be tied together. If we have slow housing growth, immigration must be restricted. If we want high immigration, we must allow fast housing growth.
Well said this is a refreshing take. All these please for going back to the office or being present in person seems aimed entirely to placate the people who for decades have exploited such environment to their favour. Chatting, small talk, being seen, all of which on top of the horrendeous open desk trend, only adds to the overhead for the rest of us who thrive in remote environments.
Market has already listened and are going to favor the latter group and the remote environment is going to be here with us indefinitely. If for whatever reason you feel like going against this new market trend/correction, you stand to lose out.
Companies who are demanding hybrid or return to office are unironically putting themselves in walls that will limit their competitiveness in the long run. Again this is what the market tells us, many companies are realizing they can save on expensive commercial rent/logistic overhead and hire more remote workers.
In Vancouver I used to spend anywhere rom 80 to 120 minutes commuting one way to downtown core from the suburbs. It was brutal. You then get to the office, have to make quick small chat, settle down, get coffee, go to the bathroom, and another hour has passed before you are reading emails. meetings and then its lunch time. come back and you settle down again, go to the bathroom, meeting. 4 hours remain to get work done but you can't leave at 5 because of traffic. so you stay behind.
Those times I save I directly deliver in value working remote. I can work more hours and I can be more efficient since I'm not tired. not to mention the ridiculous tax and rent costs due to property prices that do not reflect local wages adding to the stress.
yeah, NO THANK YOU. I get local recruiters hitting me up and not only is the salary here ridiculously low, they are either hybrid or require showing up at the office. Vancouver recruiters are a special breed: they won't list salary ranges, and get angry when you ask for it, require 2~3x the work experience for the same position elsewhere, and 40~50% haircut when we have the highest living cost in the region. There's a reason why most of its workforce in tech do not speak English at the office, they rather have new immigrants who can put up with this toxicity, and the management exploits them. Modern day colonialism.
what I find peculiar about the kpop crowd is how they seemingly appear out of nowhere and on-demand on in political topics to drown out/cancel people who don't like them or share their values.
In Korea a blogger was able to see how BTS fans or "bots" were able to game the music ranking. What's interesting to me is how they seemingly correlate with wumaos as well.
I don't have solid evidence but it appears that much of the "stan" (kpop mob on social media) are very much politically aware and push a certain side of the spectrum.
All of this makes for some bizarre dynamics and I'm afraid that youngsters who are caught up in the craze don't know that they are being manipulated by very large crowd that behaves in bot like behavior or are herded into specific political flashpoints without understanding the underlying nuances.
I think youngsters are very nuanced, actually, but their political tactics are adapted to a full acknowledgement of an algorithm as a player in the political landscape game. Take the teenager who took being dunked on by a republican politician for being fat and used it to make herself viral in raising like 700k for abortion. That's not a kid who is caught up in a craze-- that's a kid who is fully aware of how social media functions and is using it to politically outmaneuver opponents. I think they look bizarre, but that's because the landscape they have to "win" in is bizarre. The incentives are twisted and the genz know it.
hmmm I don't know about those particular examples, seem pretty clear cut, and I recognize that they are aware of how to play the game. But what I mean is that certain special interest groups that overlaps with foreign interests seem to be able to continue the youngest and as you put it, the most "apt" userbase to proliferate messaging and goals of that collective.
For example, tiktok was recently outed to run keyloggers, and those genz who are "stanning" are also likely sending back all these crucial data points. This is not a conspiracy theory but the very reality that we are dealing with that those who do not share our values and way of life are able to not only cast a wide surveillance of its most vulnerable demographic but manipulate reality for them in all sorts of ways to identify "enemies of the movement" and overwhelm them.
What disturbs me most is that there is this disjointed, water-and-oil dynamism between the two political spectrums engaged in this toxic social media warfare aimed at sowing discord and turning its masses to feel ill, with society, stability and question everything we have.
It is this unwitting participation by the genz of the grander ulterior motives and agendas highlighted by special interest groups that have overlapping values with foreign states that know what strings to pull and the silence in response that worries me.
America's hostile nations know they cannot beat it militarily and they have developed very imaginative and creative asymmetric solutions to subvert and sabotage it from within, and the current state of this side vs that side makes it impossible to formulate a collective bipartisan response to steer the ship in the right direction.
We are not taking this issue of weaponized social media seriously and we see this first hand by how little enforcement/recourse there is for data privacy breach. We know that privacy of the individual is one of THE key pillars of open society and unfortunately the waters are murky and there is no guidance anymore.
In a few decades we will see what the result of this trojan horse experiment is but the current trajectory is not looking good. Gen Z suffer from the highest rate of mental health issues, have access to unprecedented amount of information and foreign subversion. When I realized your own flag is becoming a symbol of hatred, we reached a potentially irreversible stage of complexity and with that only increases risks.
Is this not a generic phenomenon though with no specific relation to Kpop? I was involved in campus recruiting a decade ago and remember distinctly all of the deep discussions the students were having about Kony2012 and what they should do about it during the recruiting dinners. How and why these political flash mobs form online doesn't seem well understood and will no doubt spawn dozens to hundreds of papers over the next few decades examining it.
People don't do that unless they are paid somehow. It's organized activity if you search properly under each time it trends... One or a few accounts will post a keyword or phrase, and then all the subsequent accounts will constantly post with the words spelled exactly the same. Twitter suppresses coordinated activity from many other accounts, and it's against their rules, but somehow they allow it to go on regularly for certain topics like KPOP and BTS, and it results in a lot of streams and album sales only for whoever is trending.
This is also likely why Twitter makes it very hard to scroll to tweets at the beginning of when a trend started, and why timestamps are not really shown for the beginning of a trend to the public.
BBB gets money from businesses who pay for their accreditation, similar to how Yelp magically helps remove bad reviews when you pay for their services. It's a total conflict of interest. They are technically a non-profit, but that doesn't mean there execs aren't getting paid handsomely.
(I worked for Yelp for over eight years, knew large parts of the codebase, and never once saw any evidence that it was possible to pay to remove bad reviews.)
I also worked for Yelp as an eng, and I used to say the same thing until I personally had my negative review removed from a business page for a paying advertiser by the User Ops team
Ever since patio11 pushed that dubious Stripe Atlas program that resulted in far more headache than worth (turns out Delaware is the crappiest state to incorporate) my trust in Stripe going downhill.
I think what really did it was that it took somebody a while back to post on HN about issues with Stripe regarding tax that jepordized his business to get the situation fixed.
I don't know but lately it seems like so much of YC's production is just pure garbage. From coinbase to ponzi metaverses to now Stripe screwing up like this.
If anybody has alternative to Stripe please reply here, been with Stripe for almost 7 years and looking to bounce.
> If anybody has alternative to Stripe please reply here, been with Stripe for almost 7 years and looking to bounce.
I still use what everyone used before Stripe: a "merchant account" from an ISO/MSP of a bank. Google "interchange plus merchant account" to find a hundred options. You pay some fixed markup over interchange rates set by the card networks, as low as 0.05% + $0.21 to charge a debit or check card for example. Quite a bit of savings over Stripe for most card mixes...
I used to recommend Spreedly to go with that, a payment gateway agnostic credit card vault so you can take your customers with you if you switch merchant accounts or payment gateways in the future, but they turned toxic over the years. Seemingly only care about enterprise customers, their sales/support team I've interacted with are useless, and they raised my subscription rate by over 30x without an ounce of empathy. I'm still trying to find time to replace them.
Look into Paddle. They handle payments, subscriptions, sales tax + invoicing and you can set your business up from virtually anywhere in the world. They act as a merchant of record, meaning they don't just calculate the tax owed they pay it on your behalf too. So even if there is a miscalculation, nobodys business is jeopardised and Paddle take full liability :)
Shoot me an email if you want to chat nick.read@ paddle.com
