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I don't necessarily
need macOS, though I do prefer it to just about everything else when it comes to getting work done. That said, I have plenty of experience with Linux and can easily go back without much friction if needed.
As long as they keep making desktop workstations, perhaps that's where macOS will fit into my stack in the future, if they haven't tanked the OS by then as well.
I'm glad I don't know what this is referring to and I think I'll be happier continuing to not know.
The M-series Macbooks have been some of the best machines I've ever used. Why do they seem so intent on ruining that streak?
I'm a big fan of Proton, and I couldn't imagine using anyone else's email services, but in the age of ID verification for porn and governments trying to ban VPNs, I just hope there aren't any bears that feel this poke is too hard.
This may sound misanthropic of me, but it has helped immensely for me to view all of humanity as insignificant. Maybe even an anomaly as far as the scale of the universe, or at least an extreme rarity, capable of building societies and machines with more power and influence than our brains and bodies ever evolved to handle.
Perhaps many of us are indifferent because that is our default, and there is no reason we were "meant to" survive this long. If the universe's age scaled down was the length of a human lifetime, we almost went extinct the day before yesterday[1].
Beyond at least that moment, we are very lucky to still be around. There is nothing about us that is special against the vast indifference of the universe. While we may feel special ourselves, against our own atomic understanding of our surroundings, we are not, and that gap could very well be a primary source of our suffering.
That said, it does not stop me from enjoying my time here in this beautiful place and, as Camus put it, raging against the absurdity.
1: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-ancestors-n...
Malicious actors are going to figure it out anyway. They already have. There are good guys who are hacking things to help (like me) and are having immense trouble leveraging models to that end because labs make it hard to prove you're not a criminal.
Do you expect to be insulated from the consequences of that?
I'm sure the Uyghers will find this reassuring.
No one will reply to you because it requires thinking through this problem with the same nuance they accuse DHH of not appreciating. I'm right there with you.
Care to elaborate on "fascist agitator" or are you just going to smear a person with a truly serious epithet without anything to back it up?
I don't care what they change, I want Flock gone. I will not accept that this is "just how things are now".
Wow! Can't believe I missed this. Thank you.
This is great. I would love a way to simulate something like possible tree placement and how much shade that may generate over the years. There are some parts of my area that are, despite being cut out of a forest, devoid of trees but are supposed to be "outdoor shared spaces".
Full sun all day at a dog park in August, for example, just isn't a place I want to be.
Probably a lot of both.
Writing is also a deeply personal exercise for many, and I can say from personal experience that the environment I write in, from the room/place I'm in to the color scheme of my editor, really matters sometimes.
I haven't found a need to build my own editor, but I can see how someone else would.
Red teamer here. We've been doing this for a long time for all kinds of evasion. Storing payloads in Azure blob storage, for example, is an amazingly effective way to deliver malware through network filtering controls.
You can look at more of the capabilities we like to use at the LOTS project: https://lots-project.com/
Classic mLmK0, I should have known
This was posted 38 minutes ago, and as of 20 minutes ago, several Anthropic services are now designated as having a "major outage".
Doubt these are related, but it made me laugh a little.
Agreed. I will certainly be keeping my current device around and will buy the newest one possible for longevity.
I, too, would prefer Google not have their hands in a lot of my stuff. That doesn't mean the federal government won't take it personally that I won't let them look at all of it and take action.
The DOJ is attempting to prosecute, so I suppose the success or failure of that will tell us what we need to know about bridges and slopes.
The track record for book-to-TV adaptations across Hollywood is pretty poor on average.
An adaptation can't always be 100% true to the source material, but the LOTR trilogy is a near-perfect example of how source material can be adapted well into a different medium without abandoning its spirit.
I will be waiting to see what the reviews say after a season before I give it my time. I've been burned by too many shallow adaptations by people who seem to lack appreciation for the stories they're strip mining.
On one hand, I love GrapheneOS and see it as a cornerstone of digital privacy software. I have supported the project financially for years.
On the other hand, I'm worried that the publicity will only make explicit targets out of GrapheneOS users, and that you would only be using it "if you have something to hide".
As long as the UI improves and I can ignore all the AI stuff they're starting to push through, that's fine with me, though like many longtime macOS users, I'm not holding my breath for a bug-free experience.
If you care about privacy, you simply cannot use Windows. Microsoft has made it clear over the last decade (if not longer) that they have a vested interest in compromising your ability to use software without exploiting and monetizing data about your usage.
Microsoft is a post-privacy corporation. Eventually, we really have to stop acting so shocked about this sort of thing from them.
Surely this won't have the opposite effect that they're looking for.
You're citing some of the results of a runaway healthcare industrial complex, such as drug prices, as reasons why the thing that would keep such a complex from emerging won't work.
Employers might be contributing more to healthcare costs, but that's because they have to in order to keep coverage for their employees at all as premiums increase, and individual out-of-pocket costs are still rising as a result of coverage denial and high deductibles.
There is more to a public web service's digital attack surface than what it looks like in a browser. Correlating and using breached passwords from someone's unrelated accounts to their self-hosted service login portals, for example.