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I think the elephant in the room is that many tech nerds are just famously terrible at working with others and social skills in general, even if they have a long history of excelle…

> You don’t have to read or agree with his drivel to use his software. No, but a lot of people choose to, and I don't claim to know if one way or the other is more right or righteo…

The irony of leftists trying to kick people out for having opinions they don't like always makes me sad. And before someone mentions the paradox of tolerance: The paradox clears it…

I wonder how many billions it would take every year for this to not just be considered "cost of doing business"?

> More than half of all psychology studies are not reproducible. Do you have a source for this?

source:

Why is it always a Lord of the Rings-named company that has some seemingly-evil authoritarian agenda? I've seen Palantir, Anduril, Rivendell, Durin, Sauron, Valar, Lembas, Ereborn,…

> sidestep any unpleasantness when they get a subpoena I'm curious as to how well (legally) this "we could modify the app to do it, but nah" approach actually works, and for how lo…

Right... it's one thing to for example, use a third-party MEGA client to upload files so that there's no chance of the company ever being able to see your key (unlike random javasc…

In the US at least, companies can and do receive secret demands from the government to add whatever kind of backdoor they want, and you're not allowed to disclose it in any way, th…

Most Americans have been ignoring it and doing nothing. All the protests to date are still quite far away from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule

Then in that case I think the previous statement of "end to end encryption means no CSAM scanning" would be false.

Children cannot legally consent to most things in most places, especially until near the end of their teen years.

> As sad as this is, end to end encryption means no CSAM scanning. I think it depends on your definition of e2ee and where the "end"s are. If the locally running application can de…

IMO "end-to-end encryption" simply isn't possible when the application is run by the same company as the servers the data sits on, is closed source, and can at any time, see the de…

There are boatloads of gaps.

> the Rust is confirmed safe keep in mind that rust: - does not prevent logic errors - does not prevent stack overflows - does not prevent out of memory errors - does not prevent b…

So if reddit just didn't have a frontpage, and you had to navigate to each subreddit manually, that would be enough somehow?

This has got to be hands down the wildest take I've ever seen on this site.

I can honestly say I have never heard of this hobby being a thing in all my long years.

The title of the article is misleading, there will still be booms: > Several U.S. companies are working on a new generation of luxurious supersonic passenger aircraft with much qui…

For me the incentive is being able to own an identity that nobody can take away from me. And the assumption is that services will support this type of identity, so I don't have to …