celeduc

I'll make a concerted effort not to feed the trolls, but categorically false statements must be either confronted or removed.

Cool, I must be writing from Uranus then.

"mistakes were made"

"rest of the world" being you, apparently.

Timing a market that's absolutely sure to collapse is notoriously difficult.

No need, Bayer AG has been poisoning and murdering humans for 158 years and has developed complete resistance to being held accountable.

Build times matter a lot. I've spent a lot of my career working to reduce build and test cycles to improve productivity. Rust is the one environment where no matter how much time we threw at the problem it never got better.

System programming isn't a dark art, it's just programming with programmers as an audience. Application programming focuses on end-users who may not be programmers. I've done both.

I've used and developed on X11 since 1990. I'm well aware of its numerous limitations and I'm glad new technology such as Wayland is being developed to replace it. But it wasn't "a mistake".

Firstly, yes, Grindr is mostly men looking for sex, but they're not all homosexuals and they're not all looking for sex; many are just there to flirt, others to troll. But Grindr is definitely gathering and selling lists: it's what they do.

Secondly, with the word "services" you're implying that the users are whores.

Thirdly, there are an infinite number of ways that Grindr could protect its users through the design of their app: from purely technical measures such as end-to-end encryption, or through careful informed consent about shared data and protection of people who are legally or functionally incapable of such consent.

But from your statements you just want to blame the users because you disapprove of them. I'm sure you can do better than that.

> "the big mistakes from Unix, besides the X Window System"

The entire X11 system was "a mistake". Got it, we should have stuck to 7-bit text on a VT-100 because that was utter perfection.

With that compelling intro I lost any interest in any other arguments the author presented.

"Intent monitoring" is a euphemism for detecting the presence of the "wrong kind of people". It's not fictional at all.

Genocidal policies are usually quite popular with the local majority.

Slave labour.

Slave labor is super profitable.

*Unlimited resources