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> We can’t avoid that any more than the government can avoid criminals having unbreakable encryption. I mean, we can; we just don't. It's not like there's something baked into the …

Corporate sponsorship of open source is entirely dependent on top talent caring about open source and thus being more willing to tolerate working for EvilMegacorp if major pieces o…

Moderation is when pornography is banned from r/programming. Censorship is when pornography is banned from r/pornography. Most pro-censorship voices motte-and-bailey the latter by …

Yeah I just tried downloading the latest version and it looks much better now. I remember I tried ~3 years ago or so and it was horribly inefficient, so I deleted it, then gave it …

Seconding this. Unless something's changed, my experience with the default Go daemon they provide was shock at how much resources it consumed in the background. It was something li…

Did you bother actually looking up the data? Because intentional homicide in the US is indeed more than 6x greater than it is in places like Austria and Switzerland. There is no co…

Do you want the actual answer or are you trying to make a point with a rhetorical question you assume you know the answer to?

This is just hand-waving and misdirection. Even China and Russia, who couldn't give a rat's ass about human rights, do not have anywhere near the mass incarceration problem that th…

> I mean Greenwald has also asserted that no Parler user was involved in the insurrection, which is a straight-up lie. Actually, what is written is, and I quote, "a Parler executiv…

"Prison industrial complex" is verbal sleight of hand to blame a system rather than people, but in reality these market forces are merely the revealed preference of what people wan…

Industry has nothing to do with it. Every country has industry. The reason the US has so many in prison is because its people are the more hair-on-fire moralistic crusaders in the …

So maybe they just made the same mistake I did?

The overwhelming majority don't have any epistemic basis for what they believe and are just saying what they think is socially-acceptable to say.

If it was indeed a backdoor, sure, but that's a judgment call, not something anyone knows. As others have noted, e2e was a novelty at the time, not a norm, and the platform itself …

Agree with this. Everyone who was never dependent on FAANG in the first place because of tinfoil Stallmanism is now sitting back roasting their marshmellows as the rest of society …

That's kinda the point - the healthcare bureaucracy is up to its ears in precisely this kind of bullshit. The "studies" demonstrating the beneficial properties of circumcision are …

> Presumably the governments who purchased systems from Crypto AG had people educated in security do some due diligence on Crypto AG's products before purchasing them. Presumably t…

FPC is not that crazy of an organization. Yes, I know in the past there's been drama between its members and other haskellers over stack/cabal etc., but I'd feel more comfortable i…

Not blaming anyone or pretending to be familiar with what transpired, but that is not encouraging to hear.

We have learned this and we are better. Engineers are not responsible for this nonsense. It's the other half of the Randian universe that does this stuff.

I somewhat agree with the premise, but the real kicker is the opportunity cost: there is so much Europe could be doing with this money that would have actual, real-world impact. Th…

IMO one of the most prominent reasons - and one that I never see mentioned - that learning a language as an adult is more difficult is that the older you are, the more socially-una…

> The main revenue source (in this case licensing money from Google) isn't cutting it/drying up If Firefox weren't bleeding market share this wouldn't be a problem in the first pla…

Internal metrics, yes. If another reviewer finds an issue in an app that you reviewed, then you get your score docked, so reviewers have an incentive to whine about everything, sin…

It's cognitive dissonance. America is supposed to be the good guys, but on American social media everyone is toxic and hates each other and it's all full of political and corporate…