In modern societies:
top 1% of earners pay roughly 30% of taxes
top 5% pay 65% of taxes
top 10% pay 80% of taxes
while bottom 50% usually barely make 2% of taxes.
Heavy redistribution of wealth is already in place and it's not making things better.
Forcing Apple to implement interop and such extra features requires a non-trivial amount of labour. That trickles down to the customer in many subtle and not so subtle ways that the parent comment mentioned (more resources and higher inter-dept. coordination ceiling for a streamlined UX, etc.)
Comparing it to opinions about gay marriage makes you look dishonest, "None of this is about you, at all" makes you look plain silly
I think it's meant as an add-on to stand out when applying to a job.
I'm quite Junior so I don't know if this applies to more senior positions, but in my experience when applying to jobs my Github page was always a point of discussion when I got an interview.
That's disingenuous of you. This article sparks conversations about workplace boundaries and corpo vs personal ethics and rights, as can be clearly seen by the other comments.
Use common sense. "[..] blood on your hands [..]" implies he's indirectly a murderer at least. Calling someone a murderer is in the best case defamation or an insult.
Not quite reading material, but look up George Hotz's videos about it. I think there's one Twitter Space he hosted / recorded where Musk was also in there.
Hotz is very vocal and blunt about the messy codebase situation at Twitter.
But they were. Weavers improved on their processes for a long time before the engineers swooped in and put that accumulated knowledge into an automated form.
The suspects were not anarchists ... they were allegedly connected to a Kurdish militant group (so more like nationalists).
I hate gov.s as much as the next guy, but the rant is off-topic here.
The main problem is that they try to formulate simple encryption in a criminalizing way, which can lead to bigger problems if it becomes a widely accepted view.
e.g. iirc. Rust has multiple ways of handling Strings while Go has (to a big extent) only one (thanks to the GC)