Readit NewsCabal commented on Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet updates.techforpalestine.... · Posted by u/ciconia
Agreed – and MeshCore follows a similar "security on the radio" design.
With the "cell phone + companion radio" setup which is currently very popular, it would seem the correct solution is to perform encryption on the phone – using the Signal protocol – and use the companion radio only to send/receive these blobs.
This has the added benefit that you can pair with _any_ arbitrary companion radio, rather than your identity being tied to one specific radio you own.
Many radios don't have "a phone".
Cabal commented on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ foxbusiness.com/politics/... · Posted by u/aspenmayer
I don't see the problem. It was an app specifically developed to help people evade American law and attack people who work for the government, how is it a shock that they took it down?
Same. This app was specifically used to incite violence against law enforcement.
Unfortunately the Economist has shifted from "center right" to "far right" over the past few years, along with a general decline in reporting quality.
Doesn't seem like it. From the Economist's front page as I type this:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/07/03/trumponomics-20...
Cabal commented on Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank techcrunch.com/2023/03/09... · Posted by u/albertut
I am in this process now. Only looking for companies without offices and who will put in my contract that I never have to come in even if they do buy one.
I am beyond sick of my current company pretending like everything is going to go back to normal one day. We have 75% of people working from home although not labeled remote and maybe 25% back in some offices. The CEO pushing that we are an office company has destroyed communication and meant that over the last two years instead of adjusting how we work just pretending like nothing every happened. So now we have terrible communication even within teams and no one who wants to fix it because that would be a waste of time since soon everyone will be in the office. This has been going on for over a year.
Maybe they will fix this but it’s completely destroyed my desire to work for what was once a great company. They have over 1k employees. It’s unbelievable how much time and energy have been wasted because management has refused to accept the current situation. If i had taken this same approach when things changed at this current job or others I would be fired. I need to switch to management.
> I am beyond sick of my current company pretending like everything is going to go back to normal one day.
> management has refused to accept the current situation
You don't state what country you're in, but in the US, the pandemic is effectively over. Everyone (that wants to be) is well-vaccinated, many 3 or 4x, Omicron blew through the country and left us mostly unscathed, and the news hasn't talked about daily numbers in at least two months. There is little reason to wear a mask indoors unless you want to lessen your chances of catching the flu - which is ticking up a bit.
We probably don't meet the scientific/medical definition of the end of a pandemic, but socially, we're there.
However, if you're in the US and still feeling this way, you may be suffering from some low-grade PTSD. Don't be afraid to reach out for help.
Cabal commented on Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech chrisseaton.com/army/... · Posted by u/chrisseaton
The most important thing to realize about military service is that you sign away all your citizenship rights (free speech, etc.) when you sign up for the service. Hopefully you won't be used in ridiculous debacles like the 2003 Iraq Invasion, based on lies about WMDs pushed by Washington (and see British role as well), but you'll have no say in the matter.
The other thing to realize is that, at least in the USA, they'll do everything they can to deny you medical benefits for injuries suffered in basic training, and this will persist after you get out, i.e. Veteran's Administration health care is pretty poor by all accounts. You can't just trust the system to look out for your interests in this area.
In addition, the 'educational assistance' is barely enough for a two-year vocational training program, certainly nowhere near enough for a full four-year college degree. It's better than nothing, certainly, but the advertising and the reality have a big disconnect.
If you're a teenage with zero alternative options and are completely desperate for a way out of an urban slum nightmare or a poverty-stricken rural life, the military is there as an option. I was once in a similar situation but I rejected military service because I'd heard too many Vietnam vets tell horror stories about how they'd been treated by the military. It wasn't much better for those who had to serve more recently in Afghanistan and Iraq, for equivalently dubious reasons.
None of this matches my experience serving, but it turns out this person didn't serve at all and is just trolling. Sad, man.
Flagged. From the article:
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Cabal commented on VSCode deprecates Enable Telemetry, auto-enrolls you in Telemetry? · Posted by u/tmpfile
some notes from a very brief look at the 1M demo:
- sampling has a risk of eliminating important peaks, uPlot does not do it, so for apples-to-apples perf comparison you have to turn that off. see https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot/pull/1025 for more details on the drawbacks of LTTB
- when doing nothing / idle, there is significant cpu being used, while canvas-based solutions will use zero cpu when the chart is not actively being updated (with new data or scale limits). i think this can probably be resolved in the WebGPU case with some additional code that pauses the updates.
- creating multiple charts on the same page with GL (e.g. dashboard) has historically been limited by the fact that Chrome is capped at 16 active GL contexts that can be acquired simultaneously. Plotly finally worked around this by using https://github.com/greggman/virtual-webgl
> data: [[0, 1], [1, 3], [2, 2]]
this data format, unfortunately, necessitates the allocation of millions of tiny arrays. i would suggest switching to a columnar data layout.
uPlot has a 2M datapoint demo here, if interested: https://leeoniya.github.io/uPlot/bench/uPlot-10M.html