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if you compare the amount of money allegedly spent by "the russians" VS the amount of money spent by "the americans" themselves, talking about "the russian takeover" of Twitter or Facebook is pure hysteria.
Americans need to stop blaming the Russians for all their problems. Most Russians could not give a damn about US, most are way too busy making hands-meet right now.
The Russians didn't create or foster a divisive environment where everything is about insignificant petty differences. The Russians do not own CNN, ABC, MSNBC or Fox news who are making billions out of exploiting american divisions on every matter possible. The Russians didn't create that society of outrage and entertainment, the Russians didn't shape american society.
Because the creators are french and french grow up seeing a lot of anime? because your conception of sexism might be different than the french (I assume you're an american)? because different cultures have different morals? I mean there are naked statues of women everywhere in french cities.
Yes, but secure messaging is a well understood domain I suppose so it's the kind of app that is simple(not easy) to write and most tools compete on UX. A lot of tools on the list at the end have complex domains that are not that well understood by stock developers, or they might require a lot of R&D or actually talking to teams that have a problem to solve.
Furthermore it is extremely difficult to market a lot of these tools to corporations. IM? it's fairly easy.
The situation with secure messaging apps today isn't so different than social networks in the 2000's. It's a formula and it's easier to raise capital on that formula at the moment.
He might have apologized directly to his alleged victims we don't know that. I don't think he should admit anything to anyone else, but to his alleged victims on a personal level.
If I read this forum, it sounds like nobody has never done anything wrong, behaved inappropriately in anyway, ever. I don't believe it one second, harassment(or even assault) isn't just sexual, it can manifest through other sorts of psychological violence at work for instance, and nobody is ever called out for it.
I'm not talking about leniency or understanding, something despicable happened and anybody can judge, but it should not be about one name or one guy everybody can scapegoat to mask their own shortcomings and wrongdoings, in a way to expiate them, as it happens way too often when things like that get public.
> Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Liability Shield
https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/29/mr-obama-tear-down-this-li...
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1041610927/znaps-the-9-...
$ 2,438,203
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ritot-the-first-projectio...
$1,401,510
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/shiftwear-customize-your-...
$925,952
And you're not even obligated to fulfil anything, just demonstrate you've "tried" enough!
They got $50.000 from Mozilla, AKA free software foundations financing commercial software with grants, but what is your opinion on this Mr Burke?
Well, just ask $50.000 from Mozilla for an "open source project" grant "like" Caddy got and you're settled for at least a year.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...
Yep and Caddy was, $50.000 in 2016 from Mozilla
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...
This demo doesn't keep a straight 120 BPM on my machine, it's incapable of holding the rhythm after 10 seconds of playback ( I tried the first patch on the left , Edge browser).
You just can't do that with the same level of tightness of rhythm on low hardware with web techs today. Flash was bad yet Flash also opened up insane possibilities on the web when it comes to multimedia applications that just can't be matched with Webtechs. ASM.js might fill the gap, but i haven't seen any equivalent yet.
Mholt got $50.000 from Mozilla to maintain an open source project as well. It should factor into the discussion.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...
The only generous people here is Mozilla, especially when they financed a commercial project with open source grants.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...
Mozilla should have given the money to another project.
Is Mozilla OK with this? Maybe Mozilla should give money on free software projects that plan on remaining free instead next time...
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...
Just like "inclusiveness" or "safe space". They do not mean what most people unaware of the political use of these expressions mean. These expressions are politically loaded.
The confusion is orchestrated, on purpose, by the ideologues who redefined these words. Who can say he is against diversity? inclusiveness? safe-spaces, off course people want to be safe! these are positive words. Until you actually understand that a safe space isn't a physical safe space but a ideological safe space, where dissidence is prohibited.
For the "ignorant", they mean one thing, for the ideologues, they have a complete different meaning.
I too was completely fooled by the post-modernist double speak and engaged in the attack of the people who were against these "concepts", I too engaged in witch-hunts, before I truly understood how these words were politically loaded and didn't mean what I thought they meant. It is extremely subtle and cunning. Redefinition of words is an extremely effective and manipulative weapon.
People say, well, keep politics out of work and you'll be fine. But if the internal rules at work use expressions such as diversity, inclusiveness or safe-space, these are politically loaded at first place! your work environment IS adopting the intersectional ideological framework.
To me it's the embodiment of the hypocrisy of the west when it comes to the defense human rights. Let's be frank, we didn't abolish slavery, we just outsourced it to make it more acceptable. It's also a proof that capitalism doesn't need democracy or free-speech to function.