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My credit score is 850. What now?

It's funny that every bit of that information is demanded by employers, and they usually don't reciprocate. It's only considered "sensitive" information because our society is incompetent and corrupt. The secrecy that protects the rich and powerful is an artifact of that corruption. In a just and competent society, none of that information could be used against us, because we wouldn't be using identifiers as secret keys, and harassers could be identified and punished.

If you have to hide to feel free, you're not actually free.

That's a meaningless question, because I would never be using software from people promoting the opposing view.

You're all free to stop using Python.

Don't worry, the cops are not going to take away your robe and wizard hat.

But if you're playing pretend with real weapons, you deserve scrutiny, regardless of your ideology.

It needs to go back further:

2002: Microsoft proposes Palladium, everyone loses their minds.

2007: Apple effectively implements Palladium, nobody panics, because it's all 'part of the plan'.

> I am down to zero third-party developers that can get compromised and silently push an update that compromises all my web sessions

Yeah, but is this really a risk for anyone who isn't the sort to have installed Bonzi Buddy back in the day?

That attack surface, compared to that of brew, npm, pip, gem, etc., is miniscule. And browser plugins don't yank in obscure dependencies at install time.

I only run uBlock, and I suspect I'm in the majority here, and my choice of browser is predicated on the availability of a non-crippled ad blocker, because malicious ads are the primary threat.

Slow down, pardner, you're the one conflating religious studies with actual, and sometimes useful, philosophy.

What your original comment said is that people are blindly deferring to the authority of scientists, when they should instead be blindly deferring to the authority of theologians and philosophers (and presumably only those of your preferred faction).

(In the spirit of the continental philosophers, I read between the text.)

> religion/philosophy is purely subjective, merely a word game, or not something "serious" people study

Innit, though? The people who whine about 'scientism' tend to be selling a religious or political ideology. They reject the need to measure things because they don't want their shit tested.

And that tracks perfectly with what he's doing, because he's betting on the fascists winning the next election cycle, so they can bail him out by making X-Twitter the official "free speech" platform of the new dictatorship.

My Treo didn't have shovelware, my Nokia didn't have shovelware, and my BlackBerry didn't have shovelware.

Yet, strangely enough, I can't uninstall Safari from any of my iPhones and replace it with Firefox.

It's very coercive, and therefore insincere.

> Firefox will continue to support V2, but that's not a solution

That is the solution, it's just not the solution we're allowed to have.

Yeah, it's not like wisdom of crowds or market efficiency are real phenomena.

The non-experts elected by non-experts know better than the non-experts.