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The question was > are you prepared to have these tools fall into the wrong hands? and the topmost comment IS just sophistry, e.g. "So yes, i support having moderation." and so on.…

> are you prepared to have these tools fall into the wrong hands? No, they aren't, and when that time comes around they won't own up to the sophistry they spout today. Nobody has t…

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> If I have to communicate to every bad actor how I identified them as a bad actor, that only helps them sidestep my prevention mechanisms. If you don't, you're the bad actor. If s…

I use FreeFileSync to synchronize my Thunderbird and Firefox Profiles, KeepassXC files, web server stuff etc. I also prefer portable applications that keep their preferences in the…

You haven't addressed a single point. Being an expert should help a person to make arguments, and sometimes does, but it's not an argument in and of itself.

"Making the world a better place" is terribly generic, and not impressive in context of stubbornly refusing to even acknowledge, much less warn users about, an issue that puts actu…

> By presenting the issue the way she did, people moved the conversation away from the issue By HER doing A, OTHERS did B? That doesn't even parse as English, and betrays doublethi…

If it's an issue in any app that can lead to privacy leaks, it's a showstopper issue for something like Signal. It being an issue with any app is even more reason to tell people ab…

> But if a person has something important to say, calling people that don't know about the issue assholes is not a great way to go about it. I don't mind it at all. If someone uses…

> calls them assholes that don’t care about what happens outside of western society That's hardly her main point: > For Chinese who are used to a specific IME- like Sogou, trying t…

I responded to someone who didn't even attempt to make the case how all users of Parler are "violent extremists", they just pulled out that broad brush to justify a transgression. …

Godwin's law just says that as the length of a discussion increases, the probability of a nazi comparison approaches 1. It says nothing about that even being a problem, much less l…

> I fail to see the importance of these people's privacy in the wake of recent events. I also fail to have sympathy for people who trusted this hacked-together Twitter clone with t…

I think one man's flaw might be another man's feature in this case: > The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed num…

It's amazing to see this downvoted within a minute of you posting it, probably by someone not even aware they are only underlining your point.

Of course it's concerning, but it's also concerning how quick people are to dehumanize and call for censorship, putting a lot of energy into discussing endlessly just how evil or s…

> Responsibility is not a chain No, but events are. The question of how to use a tool arises from the existence of the tool. > otherwise you could hold me responsible for looking a…

All links in the chain are responsible for what they do, there is no single packet of "blame" that gets to reside with any single party, and denying one's responsibility will not m…

> It is true that a computer, for example, can be used for good or evil. It is true that a helicopter can be used as a gunship and it can also be used to rescue people from a mount…

> War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is no…

Haters also downvote, making the upvotes effectively invisible.

> Well, I think here you point out to one, really, of the basic defects of our system: that the individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making h…

Well, the article speaks of "Deutsche Bank strategists" and "experts", and it is Deutsche Bank Research that made the suggestion. Digging further, the person who made the suggestio…