I think the SourceForge acquisition was the closest riff to an IPO ever had. The numbers were never high enough or compelling enough for Slashdot to IPO. The D ice, B IZ X, and Stac k Exch a nge acquisitions seem to be the only financial action Slashdot will ever see.

Edit: The correct spellings of one or more of the entities above triggered the lameness filter -- I guess some topics shall not be discussed on /. Wondering how long this post will be up after I press Submit...

It'll be interesting to witness what happens to Reddit after IPO. I suspect this might be an IPO engineered for the investors to cash out as much as possible, and we'll see a return to private ownership and all outstanding shares bought by some entity within 3-5 years. Maybe as part of Springer or some other media conglomerate.

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It's been a while. I wonder what the criteria will be. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth VA Linux went public, Slashdot was part of the IPO frenzy, and some of us got the equivalent to ~$12k worth of VA Linux shares, free to trade after 6 months. The criteria back then was that our email had to appear on a Linux kernel or widely used tool commit for the distribution VA Linux used in their systems. It wasn't life changing money, but I remember it fondly because up until then all the payment or bonuses I ever received were for closed source, commercial or enterprise software development.

It'd be interesting to see what criteria Reddit uses for their IPO shares recipients. If they go by karma alone there'll be quite a few OnlyFans content creators who'll see the green. Hopefully it's some combination of karma, actual participation, account age, etc. in addition to whatever securities laws restrictions are in place (e.g. for VA Linux all recipients had to be US-based).

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FBP is the way to go -- I've used it for year. It blocks all sorts of Facebook intrusions while on the site. It also supports modifying the UI behavior (e.g. time line chronological or whatever), filtering posts by keywords, all kinds of bells and whistles. It's open source, the author accepts donations.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fbpurity.com%2F

Not affiliated with them in any way (in fact, I think Steeeve is a bit of a jerk some times). Only a happy user.

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Extrapolating from the announcements, and knowing Anaconda is involved, they are locking a given tool set (package versions) that are known to work well together, much like Jupyter works. This guarantees that, for the versions available, everything will work well together. It may also hinder the ability to add new or updated packages (e.g. SARIMAX if it's not available in the standard distribution). The user may have little to no control over adding packages and importing them to Excel/Python code.

As for running in the cloud -- this is a very elegant solution to very large data problems. Excel has significant limitations re: data volume. It's fantastic at handle a few thousands of data rows, but there are Python-based tools that allow full parallelization and partitioning very large data sets for processing (e.g. Dask) that scale up and out. Large Python loads are often run in the cloud like this (or with Spark, or with...).

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Multipass!

No idea how other carriers do it. T-Mobile and two of my international carriers have you set up a PIN alongside your account. You can't perform certain account changes, including reassigning an eSIM, without it.

Moving the eSIM to a new device is trivial if you have all the right validation answers, and a royal pain if you don't. It's no different from some banking services, with the added advantage that none of the information you must provide is personal.

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No charges. My iPhone was upgraded before November, but my girl's was upgraded in late December, when she got a new iPhone for Christmas. I have everyone at home on a business plan with 4 lines. There were no issues and no additional fees for moving her eSIM from the old to the new iPhone.

T-Mobile does try hard to get me to buy the devices from them - screw them, it ain't happening. It's a lot cheaper to put some money aside every month in the "smartphone upgrade ETF" and upgrade to a new, top of the line model every 3-4 years. I wait until a given feature is available before I upgrade (e.g. 5G on the device).

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Thanks for the heads up on Airalo -- I will give them a whirl next week during a day-long layover/explore the city somewhere. The service looks nice. I wouldn't use it for stays over 3 days -- their prices are too high. But for a tactical layovers it looks like a good option.

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Ah, understood your use case. Yes, makes sense. In the case of T-Mobile (my US carrier) you're right: you have to spend 5-10 min on the phone with them switching the eSIM from one device to another. I had to do that when I moved from my 3+ year-old iPhone to the new one last year. Very smooth on a regular day, yet I can see it becoming a chore on a busy day for iPhone support.

There's a resurgence of regular, retro mobile phones in Asia these days. I'm tempted to get a Nokia look-alike and go back to simpler times. Might try that to see if/how it plays with eSIM-to-SIM / device migration.

Take care and cheers!

This is inaccurate, at least for Apple devices. I have had up to 5 different eSIMs defined at any one time (I travel a lot), out of 8 possible slots. Any two can be active at any time. Right now I have the ones for my US and Thai lines active, other countries are dormant until I want/need them. eSIMs also give you flexibility to buy decent service before you arrive at the destination country (e.g. I'll stop in Taiwan in a few ways, can buy and keep a SIM ready until I land, then activate it).

There's a slight chance that your comment applies =IF your device is on a deferred payment plan/mobile operator locked. I always buy my mobile devices outright, unlocked, so that I can put whatever SIM I want without dealing with 90-day carrier restrictions or similar. I never understood why Americans (yes, I'm American) love getting phones locked to operators. It's an expensive and limiting proposition.

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Indeed -- people writing non-trivial geographical applications use ArcGIS to identify things like flood zones or other purpose-specific locations beyond pure navigation. The ArdGIS geolocation data is expensive and leads to various commercial data providers within that ecosystem, navigation is more commoditized.

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Throwing support behind OpenStreetMap would be the logical, moral, and smart business move but they won't do it because of short-term greed. They want control over the content as much as over the end-user experience. Tom Tom being in the mix guarantees that they won't pursue OpenStreetMap because it hurts their interests.

ArcGIS and others thrive on adding value to the maps, not only focusing on streets and navigation. This effort is bound to fail and maintain the Apple/Google duopoly because, from the description, it brings no added value or innovation to the space. Smart folks and startups will gravitate toward OpenStreetMap, commercial applications toward ArcGIS and similar, and this abortive effort will remain in Limbo.

Thoughts?

Easy - buy land around Modesto or somewhere further east, send them there.

Many of us are tired of dealing with the drugs, mentally ill, and homeless problems through half-assed solutions. When interviewed, many homeless folk say they're in SF because the City makes it easy to be homeless. Let's cut the oxygen supply, not only eliminate the incentives but also create a hostile environment by enforcing loitering laws. That'd lead to a dramatic reduction or even elimination of the problem.

Greetings!

Mine would've been lower but I didn't register to /. until about 3 months after finding out about it... Have an awesome day!

I've followed the Z-Library saga over various Telegram channels since the original domains were seized. The personalized domains have been under development and testing for several weeks.

The weak link here is the domain registration. The custom domains are really subdomains of a domain in an obscure, but still public registry. It's a matter of time before these are seized or curtailed, if the registrars come under legal pressure to shut them down. The general advise for users is to stick to Tor or to the "personalized bot" on Telegram. The Tor service has been available without disruption since before legal action against the open Internet domains, and the personalized bots are harder to track and have no central point of failure. If Telegram cracked down on them under pressure from copyright holders (looking at you, S. Chand) it's super easy to move the bot service to a different server, reissue the personalized bot, and regain access to the service.

Anyone requiring access to the library will be smarter using Tor Browser, I2P + dedicated browser, or the personalized bot. The email as user name is the same, so use something like 10minemail.com to generate the new account and avoid providing an actual, traceable email. $0.02, your mileage may vary.