> “Intentionally not making a statement is already political,” Dale wrote in the tweet
No it’s not. And this reminds me of the Dictatorship of the small minority [0] from NN Taleb. There are small intolerant minorities who are extremely vocal on certain matters to the point their opinions resemble a dictatorship
Assuming no mitigating circumstances for not speaking out, it literally is acceptance and tacit perpetuation of the status quo which is most certainly political.
I'm not saying there were no mitigating circumstances nor condoning the person's behavior but they are clearly correct on that specific point.
"It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mitigating circumstances are the un-nessicary stress and responsibilities of dealing with anyone who doesn't 100% agree with what you're saying. Unfortunately these are pervasive on pretty much any platform you are on, so there's no good way around it.
It's pretty necessary to deal with racism. It's life and death, in fact. The fewer who speak out, the more stress for everyone who abrogates their responsibility.
That's a baseless accusation. I specifically refuted what you said with an argument that even used the words of your own response. To be even more clear, there are no known mitigating circumstances here and your excuses are not mitigating circumstances. See previous comment for argument.
They are involed, specifically in presrving the status quo. There is unfortunately no abstaining in the same way you can't abstain when you know a child is being abused.
Thinking, saying and acting how one does does not exempt them from being the consequences of doing so, specifically, being judged for it.
HN is not a uniform group of people speaking with one voice. It's a group of different people with different opinions on different subjects who speak up at different times.
It's tempting to personify things that are too complex to grasp in detail, but this roads lead nowhere.
Connecting facial recognition software and racism seems to be earning you downvotes here.
While racism is the hot button topic right now, widespread governmental and corporate (or indeed, private) use of facial recognition software is problematic for many reasons. Erosion of privacy, sexual and non-sexual harassment and stalking, racial profiling, gender profiling, profiling for membership of any other kind of group, cute Facebook apps tied to shadowy political organizations, even crazy dystopian inventions like the Chinese social credit scheme. This tech needs to be very strongly regulated, and soon.
Anyone working in this field, and creating this type of software for companies with a historically weak moral compass, _should_ think deeply about their involvement.
Facial recognition may not work reliably if there is training data bias, which can be disadvantageous if you want it to work.
And as you note it can also be used for reducing privacy at scale in a way that humans can't normally do on their own, for example personally identifying thousands of people in a crowd at a sporting event or political rally.
Recoil isn't facial recognition software, it's a React state management library. That's why the employee's conduct was so toxic here; the project he demanded a statement from just has nothing to do with racism in the first place.
One theory behind ARM's power efficiency is that you don't have to waste power and area converting x86 into uops. But this is a constant overhead. It matters a lot on 5/10W TDP mobile processors, but matters much less on 45W TDP laptop processors.
No. They are different use cases. Personally I prefer the 45W chips with higher base clocks at the expense of battery life. 15W is unsuitable for some workloads, though the latest 15W "U" chips from AMD are making some waves there.
I spent a week recently working from a Pinebook Pro after spilling water on my primary laptop; my workflow was already fairly SSH-centric, but I had fairly few problems with software compatibility that weren't fixed by binfmt_misc + qemu. (That week was spent mostly developing in OCaml and Lisp; I suspect if I were doing C++ or Haskell, I would've had a harder time.)
The only purpose I could see raspberry pi in, is as a development env where you can ssh into and do work as a pure Linux kernel.
If I was to use an arm desktop full time it would be microsoft surface pro x (although with its quirks) having much more support and apps
Also Apple is planning to move MacBook line to arm although time will tell whether that will work out or not. In the meanwhile we might need to stick to x86 architectures for a while
linkedin has been an invaluable tool for me professionally. The day I'll be able to delete it is when I'll be retiring or not having to seek employment..
>The government of Taiwan banned official use of Zoom due to security concerns, as have New York State schools, the U.S. Senate, and the German ministry of foreign affairs.
This is good enough reason to not use it.
Also I stopped using zoom and trying to avoiding it as much as possible after the very first vulnerability scandal[0] came about
The NYC Department of Education (DOE), one of the largest in the nation, banned Zoom in April but "following several weeks of collaboration with the company, [NYC DOE is] now able to offer Zoom as a safe, secure platform for use across the DOE" as per a letter Chancellor Carranza wrote on May 6th, 2020.[1]
Public school teachers tried other video conferencing solutions but, for better or for worse, Zoom's UX was always easier to use or less janky than other paid or opensource offerings at scale -- and that's saying something because Zoom's UX isn't what any of us might call super smooth.
Funny and true but also because companies should really scrutinize this kind of software more carefully. Your meeting app "participates" in some of the most delicate conversations.
I used Zoom exactly once. I was invited, I installed the software and Chrome extension as a regular user. I had a mediocre experience in the meeting but didn't pay too much attention, and then proceeded to uninstall the software when I got a prompt that I need to do it as admin.
For me this was a clear warning signal that they want the software to be there especially in companies (that didn't block it) where many users may end up installing it but then aren't able to remove and just forget about it.
Then I started reading about their installer "mishap", their general encryption scheme weakness "mishap", their encryption key routing through China (!!!) "mishap", the redefining of E2EE "mishap", the default settings "mishap", and the mishaps just piled on to the point where I personally believe only a great deal of ignorance or blissfulness could allow a company to still use it.
I get schools and individuals do, it's "free", meaning they don't pay with money and they don't need to look any further than that. But I refuse to ever use it again and when I got Zoom invitations I politely declined, offered to host the meeting myself, or else just asked to be sent the meeting notes on mail. I have no reason to believe Zoom intends to fix their issues but rather to hide them better next time.
I'm not sure if you are kidding, but that's not the reason. It was a decision by the security team and a reaction to multiple security issues that were found in the Zoom client. Google employees can still use the Zoom web client on work computers.
China has been accused a number of times of engaging in industrial espionage. As a company developing a lot of high technology products, I think Google is entirely justified in keep Zoom out of its technology infrastructure.
If it wasn't clear, I was just being sarcastic about Google's huge number of messaging products... I fully agree with your statement, their move totally makes sense from an IP protection standpoint.
I'm not surprised. My company has also done this. Basically it's because we don't have an agreement with them about data protection, and we can't have company information going over 3rd party systems without a contract.
Is there a non-Zoom client that can connect to Zoom meetings? My company implemented RingCentral about a year ago, which appears to just use a rebranded Zoom architecture for the online meeting component. They're not going to get rid of it anytime soon.
Zoom does have a SIP/H.323 bridge https://zoom.us/roomconnector . I believe it's the decision of the meeting host's organization whether to enable it, and there may be an extra cost associated with it.
another one i'm using for my site [1] is tacit[2] it's pretty basic but it works well - although i've been trying to find a well structured, well designed css framework with no classes - I haven't found one of my liking, I think the best way would be to use something very minimal like tailwindcss [3] which i still have to try
Thank you! I was hunting down this link for a coworker a few months ago, but I forgot the keyword “taco bell”, and Google fu was failed me...
I love these kind of “counterculture” uses of UNIX tools to solve hard problems. The boundary of “where to stop using xargs, awk, and grep and start using Python” is pretty blurry for a surprising number of tasks, especially if you’re willing to invest in mastering those tools!
No it’s not. And this reminds me of the Dictatorship of the small minority [0] from NN Taleb. There are small intolerant minorities who are extremely vocal on certain matters to the point their opinions resemble a dictatorship
[0] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...