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Comment · 3 years ago
Yudkowsky

Man how the fuck does that guy keep popping up in the most random places starting fights?

Comment · 3 years ago
I mean, look at GRSec, if they can get away with it, anyone can.
Comment · 3 years ago
I mean... what tech do people interact with most? Consumer fucking tech.

Someone said it better below

"You know why people hate the tech industry? Because they've wedged themselves into everything, and made it suck more, in pursuit of glorious advertising profits."

Comment · 3 years ago
Right, but "It happened before us" isn't a valid defense if we keep enabling it. JFC.
Comment · 3 years ago
We've enabled authoritarian beliefs, fostered genocide, damaged the social fabric and that's just Facebook.

We've actively made the world worse.

Comment · 3 years ago
I mean, it's not like the last 10 years (2013+) have been a string of unwavering wins for the tech industry as a whole.

Facebook alone will damn us all.

Comment · 4 years ago
Sounds like a shit EDR that's constantly scanning every file
Comment · 4 years ago
Your infosec department doesn't know how to stage patches then and should be ashamed.
Comment · 4 years ago
The developer time is saved by not writing multiple apps, fuck the end user, who cares about their time?

Seriously, I have to really think about when was the last time there wasn't some degree of unnecessary friction in an application. It really feels like being an end user of modern tech is like being in an abusive relationship.

Comment · 4 years ago
Scott McCloud of Zot fame was an early adopter of the web, I attended a talk from him where he was talking about how frustrated he was that the 3 panel format had persisted to the web, when there were so many ways to use space creatively.

He later adapted that talk for his "understanding comics" Ted talk. Worth a watch if you love the medium

Comment · 4 years ago
And Cook mocked the US because we didn't have the right tooling to make screws for his Mac pro, he went all over the news and kept spewing how bad our industrial sector was.

One of the tooling engineers that had previously worked with Apple before they were offshored said, "Well, we couldn't wait around for him to come back to us, we have to eat too so we switched to making different things. He's welcome to invest in our production and we'll make whatever he wants"

Cook loves helping out China, not sure why. /s

Comment · 4 years ago
You go write your scripts, maintain them, etc since you feel that's a superior option

We'll keep using Calibre

Comment · 4 years ago
Oh come on, that was one incident and he did fix the main issue. For a dude who does this in his spare time, he deserves a lot of credit.
Comment · 4 years ago
If Russia cuts the undersea cables that's going to be even worse for them.

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