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I am going to disagree with almost all of the advice about studying abroad or joining a club. Those are well-intended, but they are addressing the symptoms, not the cause. Judging …

> life-changing generational wealth By that measure, the people who had their life savings in FTX (and Celsius and Luna before that) have certainly succeeded. Investing in total-ma…

Recently I've been reading Vasily Grossman's A Writer At War , which is a collection of his journals from the Eastern Front, and the depths of Stalin's brutality are staggering. In…

I understand and perhaps admire the GNU project's insistence on being blob-free, but that also means Guix won't run out of the box on 99% of all people's computers. The options are…

Apple only cares about privacy insomuch as it makes them money. In the West privacy is marketable, and in China it's not. It's as simple as that.

The Turris Omnia and soon-to-be Turris Mox are the only ones that I'm aware of. I know Linksys has a special line of WRT "open source ready" routers that are supposedly OpenWRT com…

> From a public relations standpoint, Apple had always been on the side of privacy advocates and civil libertarians. Oh give me a break. Apple only cares about American user privac…

... because doing so will hurt their competitors and not them. I'm glad for Apple's focus on privacy these days, but let's not chalk it up to altruism.

Even with secure boot disabled you can't install Linux on the internal SSD. Installing Linux on a Mac has already been very flaky for the last few years, but now is impossible. htt…

I am deeply disturbed by what we are seeing in China. The Great Firewall, massive concentration camps in Xinjiang, a new "social credit" system - I think the dystopia of 1984 is be…

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

What liars. Apple has done this before as well, when they said they had "never heard" of PRISM, despite a Snowden leak showing the exact opposite. https://www.theguardian.com/world…

This sounds a bit like the No True Scotsman fallacy. There is no official definition of "open source", so taking what the words literally mean, "open" and "source", ie the source c…

That is incorrect. There is no trademark on "open source", and the OSI has no monopoly on what it is supposed to mean. https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p.…

> However, today’s cloud providers have repeatedly violated this ethos by taking advantage of successful open source projects and repackaging them into competitive, proprietary ser…

> This approval means patients living with severe allergies who require constant access to lifesaving epinephrine should have a lower-cost option, as well as another approved produ…

> I’ll predict the inevitable downvotes, which really only proves the point: debating human causes of climate change is akin to debating the existence of Jesus Christ. Which is som…

> The allostatic load hypothesis posits that SIDS is the result of perinatal cumulative painful, stressful, or traumatic exposures that tax neonatal regulatory systems. If true, th…

> They excuse this nonsense by saying that it's necessary for encryption, which is blatantly false. I don't see how this is false. Protonmail encrypts all user emails on the server…

I absolutely agree. Adding an array type to C that knows its own length would solve so many headaches, fix so many bugs, and prevent so many security vulnerabilities it's not even …

The problem with the first example is that `int` and `unsigned` are not the correct types to be using for array indexing. As we saw, they were 32 bits wide on a 64 bit platform, wh…

Good. It's quite clear that WikiLeaks is in cahoots with the Russians after the DNC hack, and their collusion with the Trump campaign to try to show their "impartiality" is despica…

> effective vim users ^z out of vim and use Unix as their IDE. As someone who used to do this, I can tell you it's not very effective. For example, build systems. I work with a lot…

That's a good point. For copyleft licenses, reciprocation does not occur through payment, but by users open-sourcing their code. In that case it's fair not to expect reimbursement.…