I remember another hacker news commentator describing these orbital data centers as a obviously bad idea to the point where any investments into that technology are incomprehensible. I share that sentiment, is there something I'm missing?

The point is to take the money, you see. It's the idiots who give it (which will involve looting the federal government for years to come) who will be screwed, not the guys running the scam. This should be evident after AI now. The entire industry is a narrative manufacturing machine aimed at separating investors from their money. That's all there is to it.

Some investments seem to be specifically crafted to attract people who do not understand X, where X is physics, or economics, biology, math, etc. And then giving in to greed and gambling is more fun than consulting an expert.

I wonder how many of these apparent start-up scams turned out to have genuine value.

It is all marketing stunts now. Make yourself look innovative to pump up the valuation that you can then dump.

nope, tis ordinary goldrush hijinx

Even after a global disaster, it's still there.

No idea how it could help, but.. it's a reason

> Even after a global disaster, it's still there.

> No idea how it could help, but.. it's a reason

With AI, the reason only needs to look as good as a six-fingered hand.

> Even after a global disaster, it's still there.

Ever heard of anti satellite weapons ? /s

I mean sure why not?

As long as contributions happen in good faith and not just for the sake of contributing, but I'm assuming there's already a system in place to ensure that for other civic services.

As someone who has worked for the government, I think you at least mistaken or very naive if you think that.

I wish I had known that there are no private github gists. Wish this was made more clear...

Agreed. Calling them "secret" seems ambiguous at best, outright misleading at worst, and definitely worth an added warning.

They have never offered them. I would assume the lack of them ever having existed would indicate they do not exist.

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Why?

My guess would be they're using some 3rd party library of "fake user agent detection", and this library just has a whitelist of what's "acceptable".

Given that the "fix" involves making the string reported "Possibly Apple, Possibly M1", I am going to say it's a blacklist.

There are two ways in which that could happen. Someone entered that combination into the list without thinking it though. Or more likely, they use a self-learning or heuristic filter that finds the combination 'Linux' and 'Apple M1' unusual because of how rare it is. Either way, it's easier to assume a mistake here because such a dark pattern doesn't make any business sense - notwithstanding their ethical reputation.

Sure, I doubt it's anything other than someone eagerly grabbing a list of long tail things and blacklisting them.

This is just a guess, but maybe "inconsistent" identifiers are a good signal of being an attack bot instead of a user.

Not defending that btw. Auto-generated signals are likely a problem for any desktop Linux user, not just Asahi, since most bots will run on Linux VPSs.

I remember a few open source projects struggling with hundreds of merge request of people simply adding their name to the README because they want to add "open-source" contributor to their resume as part of some bootcamp.

Any mandatory service will result in at worst malicious compliance and at best in low quality work. And I'd rather take quality over quantity.

I use it and love it. Worth the money!

... on which platform are you using it? It keeps crashing for me

I have not had a single crash on linux, but I did compile it myself. If you did compile it, did you do the release or just clone the repo? it says in the readme that the repo tends to be very unstable and you should always build from the latest release.

... source available? I was not even aware of that. I only used the prebuilt binaries on Windows (as was recommended). I am checking out the source as we speak!

On linux it's very stable, on windows slightly less, but only in edge cases when stacking a big number of effects. Haven't used it on mac though, I think it either was or still is in beta on that platform. I was also unhappy about instability in the beginning, but it magically became better after regularly using it.

Traffic isn't the right place to be if you demand not to be seen. If you do not want your data to be stored that's a different matter, but I'm still gonna look at you while driving to not crash, I have to.

You have to be trolling, it's obviously a reference to how you would arrange those elements on a page in real life, then fix the objects with a hot glue gun.

The same company reports multiple times on a finding they've made through multiple social media channels? Shocking. /s