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Reproducible builds are pretty standard in Debian.

No an immutable OS does not help, also flatpak is necessary and selinux not powerful enough. You just need sandboxing.

The cynicism in the other answers is appalling. Treating people like investments...

american society.

It's not groundbreaking: it happened again and again.

Not at all, it was focused on implementing backdoors and surveillance for decades before that.

> Rape used to mean only the last thing and it was regarded as basically the worst form of assault

No, it did not. That's why you find courts always charged offenders for multiple different crimes when they are carried out together: rape, assault, kidnapping, life threats...

I wouldn't call the images depressing, but certainly soul crushing.

How about no.

False. In many teams half of the engineers are randomly put on pip and cannot switch team.

This is exactly how manipulation is done and the reason for companies to do the funding.

You can trust a Linux distribution to provide reasonably secure software out of the box, like Debian / Freedombox

Quite the opposite.

Dumping VM memory contents is pretty trivial.

Not at all. Did you read the article?

More nuance is the opposite of a problem.

EE here. In electronics there are hardly liabilities but still the design work is way more based on evidence and understanding rather than fads, hype and opinions.

...and my axe!

Sorry.

In most countries Uber has been a disaster for drivers, to the point of outllawing it.

You have the same issue with MIT because it requires attribution

On various occasions I've been asked by native speakers to use shorter sentences and simpler words. Sigh.

Spot on. Most bounties are tiny and, as a FOSS developer myself, look discouraging or even a little bit insulting.

A death threat against a whole ethnicity is illegal and in no way considered protected speech, and same goes for libel and threats to individuals.

And this is by design.