greymeister

Haha, nuke and pave as a first resort rather than a last resort.

Sounds straight from a 90's Microsoft marketing department, I'm glad not everyone listened back then.

More users is definitely a feature though.

Did you have the information necessary to make the correct decision? Most problems or failures I've encountered in software come to missing information much more often than any other reason. Having justifications for the decisions you reach given the information you had available should lead you to feeling confident in the actions you take. No one has all the pertinent information available at all times, and anyone who acts that way is disingenuous.

I believe it is human nature to put more emphasis on failure than success, but I also believe that people set themselves up for failure by assuming that their decisions are somehow flawed compared to others. Most decisions we make are based on incomplete information, so the only recourse is to build stating your justifications with your decisions so that others's may review them in the light of the information you had available.

God creates dinosaurs, god destroys dinosaurs, god creates man, man destroys god, man creates dinosaurs.

Embrace, extend, and extinguish.

E-mail remains one of the last decentralized communication mediums. If Google can make it a walled garden, they will.

Good point, I remember the game storefront being announced but had not heard about their subscriptions.

I still wouldn't recommend using it for anything because of the potential gold mine they have with the user data. I can imagine Tencent or someone similar coming in for the data alone.

I refuse to use Discord because I don't know how or to whom they are going to sell my data yet. It's possible they go to a subscription model but I doubt it, it seems more likely they'll be acquired by one of the big data brokers at some point.

I would say the modern state of surveillance capitalism is in a large part what rms warned about with proprietary systems being used against the user.

Just like rms, PETA and the ACLU do things I don't agree with, but philosophically, especially with FSF, EFF, and the ACLU, I think that their overall goal is one I agree with.

No one has the time and attention to address everything, and so I am glad there are those that focus on each of these individual issues.

The only disagreement I have with his statements is that I think the Itanic and blind vendor buy-in is what sunk non-x86 processors. amd64 is what actually brought x86 ubiquity while ia64 never reached any relative market share.

Stop. Using. Chrome.

I would argue that e-mail has been used via phishing and other (419 scam) tricks to swindle more people out of their money than other technologies.

Clearly it is a dangerous tool that must be restricted to select users.