ShorsHammer

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?

And yet some people are pulling in $30k a month selling photos of themselves in bikinis on OnlyFans.

I try to be an optimist but sometimes it's hard to picture a bright future.

This was an interesting read, I like exact reals and all the trade-offs involved, paper does a good job working through that.

Not sure if you are the author but there's a typo in the Introduction:

> The mathematical real numbers clearly play play a central role

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!

This site is basically just a mashed potato of content without js.

Anyone care to do a summary? It seems quite interesting.

> targeted 0-day exploits

"this app wants access to your microphone: YES/NO"

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I'm hoping we can finish some of Tolkien's unpublished books (Please give me beta access OpenAI heh)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.

Honestly just block all EU traffic with iptables and the geoip module.

Life doesn't need to be like this if you have no business there.

> To see the randomart of the host you're connecting to

put it in a ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh_config

why type this stuff over and over?

> 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.