I'm happy for Snowden, he seems like a decent person willing to take a stand for what is right and face all the negative outcomes from exposing crimes within an organisation.
If you were an "isolationist" with prepping tendencies would you prefer your car to run on oil that needs to be highly refined or electricity, potentially generated in a thousand different ways?
It's a bit scary how many people here are taking Vitamin D supplements. Unless you live in high latitudes just a bit of direct sunlight daily is more than enough, supplementation for the average person is rarely ever needed barring some genetic disorders or lifestyle factors.
Plus you get all the additional benefits of the great outdoors!
You pull the tails usb out and it does a far better job, this is shit software aimed at people with shit practices and there's simply no nice or pleasant way to say it.
Just fucking use tails if you are a terrorist intent on murdering billions of people.
This is unjustly harsh. At least it's got tangible benefits and customers without harming a soul. GPT-3 can be and is likely already weaponised, it's nice to see anyone out there using it for humble things rather than straight-up digital warfare.
I'm hoping we can finish some of Tolkien's unpublished books (Please give me beta access OpenAI heh)
My issue is mainly with the unintended consequences, the notifications and such rather than actually respecting reasonable privacy
I run a bunch of websites with none of this nonsense and as such don't need to bother inserting an annoying interstitial for millions of hits telling people about laws in a world far removed from my own or theirs.
Agree with everything you've said here except for:
> I personally don't see how allowing users to manually disable automatic updates makes a product any more secure
There's tangible security benefits allowing users to update at will, not everyone lives in the same world or faces the same threats, a gay peace activist in Azerbaijan doesn't live the same life as a software developer in Atherton, CA.
A simple notification of security updates is sufficient for the most part to ride ahead of the never-ending wave of vulnerabilities.
Having the simple choice to do so is quite desirable for many people.
> devolved into a sea of posturing and marketing oneself
Don't think it's devolved at all this has been the norm from the 80's onwards (perhaps earlier).
Look at how fractured open source is today and the sort of egos that come with it everywhere you look. While the points made in this article are valid, it's great that someone is incentivising people to interact with various projects rather than do their own thing rather than climb blindly up the same treacherous mountains others have done long ago.
Hey, also why not rewrite it in rust :)
Being a contrarian is easy, fixing these well acknowledged problems is hard.
Australian defamation laws are horrendously bad, it needs to be in "public interest", doesn't matter in the slightest if it's the truth. Say a fact in public, and then you go bankrupt in court arguing over the semantics of whether it's in "public interest" for it to be said.
At least local journalists are waking up to how bad it is with the wealthy suddenly throwing their weight around and taking every paper in the nation to court over a few words.
A terrible import from the UK. Despite all the nastiness and bad words, protected free speech is what the US really did get right.
All laws can be used in a multitude of unintended ways, something lawmakers never really consider.
> there is no real formal verification process for smart contracts
Not following here, instead of process you mean no requirement to do so? The process is pretty clear and simple, there's a few different frameworks being built for smart contract formal verification along with the traditional methods working fine.
What was the last bit of code you wrote or used that was formally verified?
Alexandre Cazes is an interesting case that basically never gets mentioned in these threads.
It's questionable whether he was doing it alone or even the head operator. But apparently it's all case closed now with no Dread Pirate Roberts type sensational court cases or extradition trial.
Also which country had him executed? I'm very certain it wasn't Thailand.