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Is this a fair comparison? Why would we know about a cloud provider finding a vulnerability in their own product? Wouldn’t that be kept internal?

This is a great idea. I'll try it but I'm not sure it will work. I believe there is a time limit on the forwarding and it looks like not all mail is forwarded, including financial documents.

https://www.usps.com/manage/forward.htm

I own the duplex I live in. The actual property address is the rental unit. Every time the mortgage gets sold my tenant gets mail about it until I can change the mailing address back to my actual address (next door). It’s absolutely infuriating because the carelessness of my mortgage servicer who I don’t even choose makes me look bad.

Ultimately every outcome is the result of management decisions. The question you have shallowly dismissed is what decisions GitHub leadership has made to allow these frequent outages.

Do we know it’s demand? It at least seems plausible operations has been forced to adopt AI at the expense of stability.

But is the UI harder to use than building housing in San Francisco?

Seems more like a loyalty test to me.

Can you substantiate this? What charities? What’s “the bulk” mean to you?

Quick searches of tax filings and napkin math suggest the top 10 charities by donations in the US spend between <1% and <9% on fundraising with the exception of St. Jude which is still only 15%.

The engine cores alone expand 6” when they heat up.

> Random correct behaviour proves nothing.

The potential for random correct behavior proves that intelligence is not required for correct behavior.

No true Scotsman^W intelligence.

You claim intelligence leads to moral behavior because immoral behavior is insufficiently intelligent. That's circular reasoning.

It's possible to act morally without being intelligent and it's possible to be intelligent without acting morally. History is full of examples.

I described it as being lost in an ocean of white pixels. Then they added padding and broke hyperlinks. I know it was incompetence but it started to feel malicious.

Can you elaborate on this? Do you mean aligning moral values? Or aligning the system to some goal?

Bob's intelligence and Bob's morality are orthogonal. They're totally distinct concepts. One does not lead to the other.

Appropriateness is a moral question. Intelligence and morality are orthogonal. One intelligence's morality is another's atrocity.

I drive a 1994 Toyota Land Cruiser. Every control is a big tactile, stateful(!) button or a fucking LEVER with pictograms and/or text saying exactly what it does. The most complicated control is for the windshield wipers which can still be operated without looking. It's a big box with an engine and wheels. All the handles and levers are in obvious places with obvious behavior. You can just look at it and know what it does. I paid about as much as a new compact car. I regret nothing.

> But it’s not like the designers are unaware of more information dense alternatives.

Strong disagree. I have been in UX reviews for products like Bloomberg terminals as the intended user. I specifically asked for information density and the designer looked at me like I was from the moon. Their counter offer was a permanent floating chatbot that covered the small amount of information still on the page. No joke. Information density is something those web designers genuinely could not comprehend.

Package distribution is the best solution but why would you download the install script a second time?

It’s a shell script. You can download and read it before you run it. Piping it directly to the shell is reckless.

I’m not sure how your machine is configured but mine has permission boundaries and security policies that make sure programs are behaving properly. I don’t run everything with my personal user context.

Ooh! Are we talking about infrastructure projects in Washington State? This is a nerd-snipe headshot.

Washington State has four of the top five floating bridges in the world!

I-90 is actually two bridges, the second and fifth longest in the world.

SR-520 is the longest.

Hood Canal is third.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pontoon_bridges

Am I out of touch?

No, it is the children^W commenters who are wrong.

Maybe! We just don’t know and I don’t like to guess.

If you made that comment face to face I would assume you want me to ask what the company is. You could just not do that and talk about the signup flow instead. If you don’t want to talk about something don’t bring it up.

You could have just ended your comment at:

> side note: i really wish more companies did the no email + randomized account number flow.

Everything you said after that added confusion and this tangent instead of the conversation you wanted to have.

Because it creates confusion as proven by the responses mistakenly assuming that you were referring to proton.

Then why comment at all? This is the danger of speaking in riddles.

But if both services keep logs de-anonymization is a join.

> there is a certain popular "pro-privacy" product beloved by many here

Please don’t speak in riddles. Just say what you mean.

> AI gives the military a way to cover or deflect war crimes

Huh? Who is accepting “it was AI” as cover for war crimes?

> Does a horrific war crime like My Lai[0] get scrutinized and investigated in 2026 or do people just say "eh maybe AI gave them bad intel" and ignore it?

Of course it does. The girl’s school bombing and strikes on fishermen are scrutinized. Why wouldn’t any atrocity?

We do not suffer from a lack of scrutiny. We suffer from a lack of accountability. AI is only tangential.