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Surprised to see few grappling with this reality. Twitter is like state affiliated social media now. What real barriers can remain between anyone's twitter data and a hostile state…

Honestly, I'd get the F off twitter, because it's now in control of a state actor. Any barriers, legal or otherwise, that existed between twitter and the state should be assumed go…

Even worse... X as the new state affiliated/controlled 4chan. A truly nightmare scenario.

They have shareable block lists - like starter packs, but for blocking accounts. We'll see how that works out as the network grows.

It's never been up in the first place, for those of us who are waiting for python package support. Poke, poke!

Here's my little folk "wisdom" addendum to your great point: * Try to replace any judginess you feel, with curiosity (Easier said than done - but a little humility is a great first…

He tried to back out of the deal, but his hand was forced. , wasn’t it? He basically bought it by accident. Maybe he thought he could really do something to improve and then sell f…

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/externality.asp Some basic economics 101 reading can set you straight here. It's a legitimate function of government to craft regulation when t…

> Those who have banked a lot on talking up globalization for the past 20-30 years will get there too. It will just be a slow process of very gradually tweaking their position a li…

I think the timing was the most important factor. Perl was everywhere (on Linux/Unix). Then Python came along an offered enough net benefit over Perl that it really started to disp…

One possible reaction to a moral panic is another moral panic and that's exactly where I think we are here. Cancel-culture panic is a largely anecdote and feelings-driven. There's …

It's a media-driven moral panic, more or less. There's a whole cottage industry of media orgs and personalities making lucrative livings by selling cancel-culture moral-panic conte…

Yea, generally when people feed animals it is harmful to the animal or potentially dangerous for humans in a variety of ways or you turn the animals into pests. Is there something …

That kind of cynicism is also a seedbed of authoritarianism, ironically. It's rocket fuel for demagogues, who swoop in and exploit it and turbocharge it even more (see Trump). They…

What does "not covered in media" mean to you? While this topic doesn't dominate the news cycle, I've seen plenty of reporting on it.

A lot depends what the business costs are of that wrong %5. If the actual business costs are less than the price of a team of developers... welp, it was fun while it lasted.

The Witcher 3 story was one of the best game stories out there IMHO, but it gets off to a slow start. That slow start can be VERY slow, if you are doing lots of the side quests to …

This is a rational reaction. It's also a great example of the chilling effect on speech, that cancelling can have. And when the chilling effect is strong enough, it atomizes and is…

Forget grayscale, E-ink is going color. Early color devices are on the market already. And there are displays in the works that are fast enough to render video. I'm really looking …

One would hope not, but it makes connecting to less trusted networks much more risky than it needs to be. And I'm sure that's something users will regularly do. Software updates ar…

Wow, I didn't realize it exposes root ssh over it's wifi interface. I just tested it and it works. I don't like that at all. The documentation makes it sound like it only exposes s…

It's not for every use case, but Big Query is often a very stupidly cheap datastore. Query results get cached, and repeats don't incur a charge unless the data has changed. It's no…

I generally reach for pip-tools, when I need to pin versions in a requirements for a deployable app, like an api. It's by far the simplest option I've found. If your project is a l…

It's actually one of the least locked down devices out there. It's proprietary apps aren't open source, but otherwise you have free reign over the device. All it takes to side-load…