exfascist

Open source and large dependency trees are orthogonal. You can depend on closed modules in compiled languages, many people do. You can write open source software and only depend on the standard library, many people do.

I don't run nigtly browser builds because that's too much to keep up with. I have actually read quite a bit of the code for the browser I use. I read almost everything I deploy because I'm responsible for it. Using other people's code absolves you from maintenance but not responsibility, that's something people need to start understanding. It's a very reasonable expectation that you read through your dependencies, if it's too much then it's time to trim some fat.

If empathy isn't your thing then consider the secondary consequences of this. Many of those people the "pendulum" is swinging away from already feel pretty excluded by society and have little reason to participate. It's driving a mass movement, it's likely what got Trump elected, and it's likely to swing the pendulum back very hard in the direction you don't want it to go.

You need to make sure you're not pushing people too hard.

I never interact with cookie banners at all as some sites interpret that as consent (despite what the law says.) If it's in the way I delete it with the web inspector.

Mobile OS dev makes Windows look nice. At least windows has some cross platform toolkits (TCL/TK, Wx etc.)

One nice thing about recent versions of SSH is that they include support for signing arbitrary messages with your ssh key. I know you're not supposed to re-use keys but there have been situations where I needed to prove my identity to people who only had my ssh public key. This would have been super useful in the past.

>6th most dense city in America

Then both in terms of any arbitrary area in the US or any arbitrary city in the US, it's unusually dense (much more dense than the mean density.)

>Park and ride

Many places in the US have these and both DC and the suburbs around it are full of them.

In reality X (who are actually citizens, part of the issue with statistics is that people have been playing games with the border and 1/10 X are not from here now which actually does disproportionately affect X but no one wants to talk about it since it's not popular (or part of the common PR.)) tends to have an ID and the suggestion that it's difficult for them is a little condescending.

I'm still not convinced it isn't partially related to the word "base" as in "bad" or "cool" which has been used for a pretty long time.

If they had simply removed the default password entirely without removing the default user both groups would be satisfied. It's not clear to me why they removed both.

There's a very simple argument for hygiene and convention: The halting problem should make code unreadable, it doesn't largely because of hygiene and the shared knowledge formed by programmer culture. These things restrict the language to something that's just Turing complete and much easier to read.

There is a such thing as legitimately unreadable code, I've had to deal with it. Usually it's abusing things like the blurry line between objects and hashmaps in languages like js and Ruby.

Comcast in the US does (if you use your own router and configure it correctly.)

There's this goofy band of people that know just enough to bring their own router but don't understand why a misconfigured AAAA record can mess up the happy eyeballs algorithm and are convinced Comcast is "censoring" small business. It's funny and kind of sad to read comments from people who are certain their misconfigured networks are the result of some "international conspiracy" against them. That's probably why Comcast has it turned off on the routers they loan to customers.

Windows 9x couldn't even run on ~2007 era Intel Macbooks because of the A20 gate.

I'm not convinced the physical size is the problem.

Without that kind of protection usually some group gains power and becomes the only protected group. Neo-Nazis are an indication that even the most socially unacceptable groups still have a voice. They should be considered a canary and a good thing to see occasionally. I wouldn't want to live in a country where they were censored and if you feel so strongly about it I would suggest moving somewhere else (Germany censors Nazis pretty aggressively for example.)

For example: You're upset that Nazis marched through a Jewish neighborhood. Are you upset about the violent BLM protestors marching through White neighborhoods? I would guess not but there's little difference between the two.

I've moved to places to see if I thought the changes improved things, you learn a lot about yourself and the world by doing that.