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I’ve just Googled SpiderFoot and gone to the top result (spiderfoot.org). I see four banners on-screen promoting VPNs and crypto and a pop-up that reappears every few seconds telling me that a VPN is mandatory to use the site. I’m guessing this is not the right site?


Their brochure Web site snapshot (this probably isn't the best snapshot, but maybe close):

https://web.archive.org/web/20230104231600/http://www.spider...


I have a Windows 11, macOS and Ubuntu Desktop VM that I alternate across throughout the week, I find I need to reset all three periodically to sort out random weirdness. It has more to do with which machine I've used most in the last few weeks not which OS is in-use in my experience.

I agree.

Mac OS used to be rock solid. We had machines at work that had uptime measured in years. My own machine would go months.

It doesn’t anymore. Restarted twice today.


I have the same setup, just Arch instead of ubuntu on my laptop and I very rarely have any issues (like maybe once per month) that require me to reboot.

Once every few weeks and once per month seem pretty much the exact same - and about in line with my own experience with Windows on my work machine.

Familiarity might be the biggest differentiator. I switch between windows on my work computer and fedora gnome on my personal computer (and only interact with Debian server over ssh) so I am more at ease on Windows than I am with something like cachy OS and KDE.

I have Win10, mac and Ubuntu, in 3 different machines I'm using constantly. None of them is perfect, but windows is just infuriating, macos in the middle, and I can more or less live with ubuntu...

And as always, I imagine Mac hardware with Ubuntu.

In my case I have 3 different computers. So no. The Ubuntu is a Z book

Kids is one big reason. You can have totally different experiences before you have kids, once they arrive your outlook on life changes, risk tolerance changes etc.

If you can retire at 40 having lived your 20s/30s to the fullest then game on, but it would be crazy to sacrifice that time when you are so free and full of energy otherwise IMHO.

FWIW I am fortunate enough to have really enjoyed by earlier years and be mostly retired in my early 40s.


I used them with MobileIron, that was it.


I know it’s in vogue to dump on Elon these days, and with good reason, but do I not recall him on a number of occasions quite emotionally describing our continued CO2 emissions as the dumbest experiment in human history?


Yeah, but he flip-flops on the daily. He used to post about how LGBT positive Tesla was and post pride flags on his feed and now he's trying to burn the planet to the ground every time he hears about anyone that isn't a straight white man.


> I've never seen something so egregious before

Streaming comments on YouTube give it a run for its money, what absolute garbage.


Do you mean the live chat? Those are, appropriately, for live streams. They do replay afterwards as depending on the type of stream the video may not make complete sense without them (and they're easy enough to fold if they don't have any value e.g. premieres).


Thankfully that can be collapsed.


When you use your phone to surf the Internet you’re often doing it to just fill time, rather than it being an activity you really want to do (like those things you list). You often tend to come out of a long phone reading session feeling a bit hungover and possibly guilty at the time you’ve spent, compared to say building a model boat where you’ll generally feel positive and refreshed afterward. Using your phone is also generally not one activity you’re paying close attention to, you’re hoping from one thing to the next never really getting a sense of flow.

To be clear I’m talking about the mindless scrolling many of us do, if you’re reading a dissertation on battery chemistry or something on your phone I find that’s a different story.


I think it is not really possible to fill all your time with "productive" activities, so to speak. I mean we are on HN, which is in general mostly a fun social network.

It is not a bad thing, just all about balance. If you are focused and consistently dedicate even little time to some activities you can achieve incredible results.


Most of the time you'd be better off sitting in silence for 10 min rather than reading the latest news cycle or doomscrolling on social media.

Sometimes doing nothing is more productive than attempting to fill the gaps with meaningless noise


But doing nothing doesn't fulfill the required function, which is distraction from existential dread.

Watching TV does. People do a lot of that too. Anything to save observing things as they are or reflecting on them.


This comment is so profound. Thanks for sharing this insight


It's been a long time since I dabbled, but from memory the likes of E85 is good for fixed load use (eg. drag racing) but not great for variable load (track racing cars, motocross etc) because petrol has a wide range of evaporation points compared to the much narrower range of E85.


It has an octane equivalent of 105-110, and an even stronger anti-knock index, you can add a ton of timing.

It also lets the engine run cooler despite burning hotter precisely because of those evap characterisics.

That's not to say there are no downsides. It's less energy dense so you need larger injectors or a higher duty cycle, you get less mileage, it's extremely hygroscopic, it has different corrosive properties, and a different stoich ratio so most vehicles need some amount of modifications and tuning to properly utilize it.

But all in all, it's wildly economical alternative to traditional high performance fuel.


If the AI summary was being posted as an article that sat and competed side-by-side with the content you wrote that might be one thing. What Google are doing is more like putting their article at the top of every search and yours and everybody else’s on the second page out of sight.


Highest income country would be a more accurate title here I think. My country (Ireland) has a high income now but has been poor for centuries, we lack many markers of wealthy countries like subways, extensive motorway networks etc. We are well on our way to being a rich country, but not there yet.


> We are well on our way to being a rich country, but not there yet.

Q: Why will Ireland eventually be the richest country in the world?

A: Because its capital is always Dublin.

(I'll see myself out.)


You must have been sitting on that one a long time :-)


Lots of US companies moved there because of favorable tax conditions, but now the US administration wants to revert that.

Can't say I blame them. The Irish and Dutch are the worst when it comes to tax evasion.


Is that true though, quick bit of Googling has Ireland and Netherlands in many but not all Top 10 lists and none at the top. When it comes to citizens using off-shoring to evade tax, the more literal reading of your point, neither Irish nor Dutch people appear in the top ten lists I’ve come across.


There's different taxes for individuals and for companies. Hence different countries are tax havens for individuals vs companies. Ireland is worse than UK for individuals' tax, but under the minimum tax for companies (despite signing more than one treaty (one at OECD, one at EU) to raise company taxes, then not doing it, in other words: the Irish government simply lied, with the net result that the EU is talking about reintroducing taxes when money crosses any border, including any EU border. It is, predictably, turning into a complicated disaster, like EU VAT tax. Thank you Ireland)

Companies evade EU taxes in Ireland, these days without Netherlands. Individuals evade EU taxes in London, Monaco or Luxembourg.


Regardless of their position on any list, the Irish/Dutch sandwich arrangement for tax purposes shouldn't go unmentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_as_a_tax_haven

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich


You misread. It's the Irish and Dutch who have favorable tax havens. Not necessarily citizens who evade taxes.


I didn’t, that’s what I responded to first - the Irish/Dutch didn’t appear in positions 1 or 2 (the worst) on any of the lists I found.


Ireland has been specifically called out and excluded in TFA due to its unique tax situation.


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