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We need a powerful non-profit / semi-governmental organisation that regularly tests all these things and tells it like it is. Something like Stiftung Warentest in Germany. People c…

It's not racism at all to be weary of (any) political system, its overreach and the incentives of the people living in it, be it China or America or Russia. The word racism is vast…

This. If any country won't treat you like a guest, avoid travelling to it. If it's your own, that's harder to do – time to fight and change the system before it gets worse and will…

I've been digitising my music collection since 2000 and still buy CDs or, if available, lossless FLACs. I really wonder how many people still bother "owning" the music they like in…

This. I generally much rather watch a live video of the band performing the song interspersed with some behind the scene footage than some random badly acted (non-AI) slop video on…

A lot of iconic scenes were at the discretion of the actors in those scenes. One wonders how much personality and complexity you can really get without the skills and idiosyncrasie…

Because the software industry doesn't pay anymore for constraints or doing things "the hard way". Everything is high-level language and by tomorrow. The day after it doesn't exist …

If the US would truly try to raze Iran, they would do so at immense cost, both financially and reputationally. I have to wonder what your definition of "winning" is.

> In this situation I just don’t understand what people expect Russia to do?? To stay within its borders. And that counts for the others on this planet, too.

Perhaps darker than the initial mild optimism of the early internet.

It would hurt, for a while. Then people would wake up and slowly better solutions would appear. Not unlike post-Trump NATO. But the US would have lost its leader position and a lar…

That's not how democracy works. You have responsibility and accountability. These people can and do real harm.

But do these intermediary commits run? I wouldn't mind making smaller commits, but usually wait until the changes result in a bunch of code that compiles and does what it should. I…

PGP had the right idea, but the system is too hard for the average person. With "system" I refer to building a web (or multiple!) of trust, based on parameters that you decide upon…

It is a slippery slope. I'm just hoping that a more surgical drone strike against a weapons factory will create less victims than the blunt force of a ballistic missile aimed "in t…

The moral question is if you've unknowingly contributed to war, death and destruction, or if you are actually helping drones to accurately find real targets – which hopefully are n…

I guess one can only optimise the system for the majority following the beaten path. Some folks just have to find a way both through the world and through their own head.

I'd say there's at least a third reason: intellectual (or rather technical) curiosity of photography itself. Often, when I take a picture, it is just to see how a particular shot t…

I've been telling less computer literate folks not to install random stuff since the nineties, and I can't understand how many devs are doing just that these days. I used to work i…

I've been playing guitar since I was a little kid. I wonder how learning "two-handed" skills such as playing music impacts how "handy" or "polydextrous" one is. There are left-hand…

The alternative is/was of course to be stuck in a small space for several days with smokers showing withdrawal symptoms. Not sure I'd want to experience that in something like a su…

I've never owned anything from Apple, but this model has me interested in having something that can run commercial software (I'm a long-time Linux user). But I really think 8GB is …

Sometimes you've got to protect people against themselves...

It used to be so local (regional) brands had sizes adapted to their demographics. There used to be a thing like Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, etc sizing. I guess for globa…

One could argue it was not given away for free, but with a silent expectation of reciprocity. Using open-source is a gentleman's agreement to be respectful towards the project, a g…