Torifyme12

Yudkowsky

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

I mean, look at GRSec, if they can get away with it, anyone can.

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."

Right, but "It happened before us" isn't a valid defense if we keep enabling it. JFC.

We've enabled authoritarian beliefs, fostered genocide, damaged the social fabric and that's just Facebook.

We've actively made the world worse.

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.

Sounds like a shit EDR that's constantly scanning every file

Your infosec department doesn't know how to stage patches then and should be ashamed.

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.

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

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

You go write your scripts, maintain them, etc since you feel that's a superior option

We'll keep using Calibre

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.

If Russia cuts the undersea cables that's going to be even worse for them.

For all that the Linux community tried, and god did we try, we didn't make real gaming on Linux progress until Valve started throwing developers are the projects. You can easily attribute real gaming (I love free civ as much as the next person, but it's not the same) coming to Linux Desktops.

USB C is a case study in "There's no way that can be according to spec" and being disappointed every single time

Poor instruction comes in many forms. To give you an example, my brother was hated by a 3rd grade teacher. She would be just a bit harsher with him. Objectively she wasn't teaching him that 1+1 = 5 or something like that, but she was definitely destroying his motivation for school.

NSO is really working to make sure they have no advocates left aren't they.

Yeah, that's just what we need, Tech company's approach to defense.

"Hey the missile doesn't work in v1, but we still shipped it"

"Sorry, we just didn't see enough users of this product, so we remotely bricked it."

"We didn't QA this properly and now people are dead."

Move fast and break things is supposed to apply to the missile, not the process to write the guidance system.

Also for managing to be so dependent on Russian gas it torpedoes a lot of measures to contain them