Similar to how CIA has a technology fund that gave money to Signal; because they use it?
> because they use it?
My hunch is because they have a backdoor in it.
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> almost anything now can be interpreted as 'offensive' or 'hate speech'
I only know about the UK, but this is not really true there.
Your speech has to be obviously threatening or abusive, and obviously motivated by prejudice towards one of a few categories (disability, race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation are the main ones).
If you don't make threatening or abusive remarks towards these groups, you aren't breaking the law.
"Abusive" and "threatening" is "in the eye of the beholder".
Being the weirdo frees you from a great many time consuming pleasantries. Making friends might secure a permanent place but it also means a few minutes from every break will be lost to small talk and sometimes the entire break; you see a self serving lone wolf casting himself as the hero, I see someone just trying to find a way to do what is important to him. I am fairly certain that much of the eccentric artist image is just frustration over small talk.
a great many time consuming pleasantries
Oh the horror!
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The EU is a big place, run by a lot of different people, with true separation of powers. They don't have a president-king who can just ignore court decisions.
So we're gonna get access to Von Der Layen Pfizer sms right?
Were you offered to vote for Von Der Layen by the way?
Wouldn't it be a total mindfuck if it turns out that Graphene is less secure[1] than stock Pixel, and this is all part of an ANOM-style honeypot operation that has Feds hyping it up, to trick interesting targets into adopting a less-effective security posture.
1. Such as via slower 0-day responses, for instance. This is a thought experiment, I'm nor alleging that this is what it is.
I use graphene not for security but because it doesn't come with any Google surveillance stuff.
Let's be realistic if some 3 letters agency really want some data about me, there's not much I can do to counter that unless I'm ready to go to extreme lengths.
This is exactly why I am a huge fan of ember.js
Unfortunatelly it fell behind in popularity mostly due to some unimportant reasons (eg not being able to render 1M rows faster than react) and some important ones (load times), but boy did they build a stable ecosystem! I haven't seen such a commitment to stability and guardrail upgrades to this day on any other piece of front end library.
I'm thinking of building a long term living app (say an app that I will use the next 30 years).
It has to be a web app so I was thinking of going pure JS. With that requirements in mind would you recommend ember.js?
Meh. I don't get the love Lua gets on HN.
At least version 5.1, I didn't try the others.
No first class support for OOP, you got to use tables instead.
No "continue" keyword to go to the next iteration of a loop. So you have to use some ugly elseif.
No try catch!
It's a dynamic language so everything goes. A function will return nil or a number or whatever you wish. A function can also returns any number of variables, so obviously some moron will abuse it: looking at you Blizzard intern (you must have been an intern right?) that thought returning 20 variables on the combat event log was a good idea. Ever heard of tables???
The LSP can't do miracles when there are almost no rules so auto-completion is more miss than hit, which is quite shocking in 2024. The IA is helpful sometimes but create subtle bugs some other times. A simple uncaught typo will create a hard to find bug (yesterday copilot auto-completed myObject.Id instead of myObject.id, there went 20 minutes of my life trying to find why some code that was running solidly for weeks was now failing silently).
So all in all, Lua is fine to write small imperative scripts of a few hundred loc. Anything bigger and more complex you should run away IMHO.
I never realized C# was such a well designed language until I tried Lua.
As a long time FF user (from v1) I just migrated to Brave for 2 reasons:
- I'm tired of FF sneakily pushing some telemetry / studies / "anonymous ads" whatever even though they already get bilions from Google
- Brave is better at dealing with gdpr popups and ads than FF + ublock
On the other hand, Brave is a joke at managing bookmarks.
I tried Librewolf last year but I had some problems with it (not sure what it was).
Not sure when it happened but there used to be a time when computer companies would continue to release new versions as faster products for the same price of the previous year (or cheaper!). Now it seems like they (Apple, Nvidia, etc) release new stuff at a slightly higher price and continue to sell the older stuff in tandem( and only sometimes at a lower price).
It is my hope that Apple doesn't continue selling the older (current) MacMini at a slight discount and then sell the new M4 at a slight increase.
Just. Sell. The. New. One. And. Don't. Increase. The. Price. You. Were. Already. Profiting. With. The. Previous. Iteration.
You're all going to buy it anyway, so why would they do anything differently?
The only successful revolutions are piloted by a small elite with further interests that may not coincide with the people.