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I don't understand how OP could take that seriously. I can't think of anyone who has built a successful business and can trace their origins back to "I was very inspired by people on Twitter". I thought it would have been obvious that real success takes real work. "Digital influencers" are nothing more than sad people craving for attention online. Their success relies on idiots trying to mimic their "success". It's an emotional Ponzi scheme. Don't get stuck swimming in their vomit.

I like meself a well-written and formatted article. Thank you.

Did you mean 'hear, hear', or is 'here, here' something I missed?

Of course they will. What they are less likely to do is to rewrite it in a completely different language (e.g. Rust.) C++ became popular in the first place because it could easily go along with C. No need to rewrite in bulk.

"Building something from scratch is rarely a good idea."

Except when you actually want to learn something. Worst possible advice to give someone and I haven't even read the second sentence of this blog post.

I see, so it seems to be taking off then.

Rust doesn't even have a formal specification at this time. Technically speaking, everything in Rust is undefined behaviour. That's a hard sell for, e.g., people writing safety-critical systems.

Another problem recently was that compiling Rust required downloading a binary blob from Mozilla. That's a no-go for many projects.

I see, I imagine the server you put on is by default public and joinable by anyone. This kind of stuff typically has some form of whitelisting or password protection to keep the server semi-private.

Why is this downvoted? This is literally the TOS of much proprietary software out there. People don't read the TOS?

> I guess I don't understand - the troll will report your 6 year old for dropping f-bombs?

They'll report for no reason, that's the point of trolling.

> And the chat logs (which MS will now have) will back then up?

I have not played Minecraft, but I'd be surprised if the server admins of any game of such scale acted on logs.

Also, I wouldn't want my kids to be logged on a corporate server.

> And why are you inviting trolls to play with your 6 year old?

Are the rooms invite only? Then what's the point of Microsoft's draconian measures here? I thought the point was to censor public servers, but again, I haven't played this much.

In any case, this situation already looks like defeat for an online community.

Regulate them.

'Fog Reveal'. I'm sure there's a secret tool out there called 'map hack'.

You wouldn't use Teams if you cared about privacy. It's not the other people on the call you need the blur the background from.

Does Australia have no property tax? In what Earth do you sink a one-time $10.5m payment into a house you can't maintain? Perhaps I am missing something very fundamental here. I can think of much better uses for those funds anyway.

My first bet would be the GSL library: https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/html/

It's so bad, that even the NSA and CIA recommend an ad blocker.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypke/the-nsa-and-cia-use-a...

Like Facebook?

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

Just install Ublock Origin or Noscript. At least it's not Cloudflare.

GPT3 was written by GPT2.

The first review on the Microsoft Store should be featured on the home page:

"Found this during a search for the word "clip." The app's description is dishonest, to say the least. This is not an app. It's a wrapper for an unidentified website. As soon as I opened the "app", it asked for personally identifiable information. The wrapper makes impossible to verify the site's digital certificate. It was suspicious, to say the least. The description says it is a Microsoft product, but don't fall for it. In the past, malicious apps under false identity has slipped into the Store. Either it is not a Microsoft app or Microsoft has fallen shockingly low."

Not to mention all of the surveillance/targeted advertising that happens on these platforms while the "influencers" are busy influencing each other.

Hey guys, make sure to check out my Youtube channel and smash that Like & Subscribe button.

I like how the company is called Autonomy.

Subscription handcuffs are the opposite of autonomy.

How is this different from leasing a car?

Many have commented on correlation-vs-causation. We get it, there is lag in the economics and the profits have partly been boosted by COVID. However, there has also been inflation-riding on behalf of these companies, and the same argument can be made in reverse: what evidence have they presented that WFH is causing a drop in productivity? None whatsoever. This move is simply to get employees back on the chairs so that the corporations may exert the same level of control they had in the past. On the other hand, those that are doing just fine and aren't cynical about their work practices are embracing WFH.

This is great, thanks for sharing. Let's submit comments. Doesn't have to be an essay, you can comment on the individual items listed there. If we all here tackle one or two items, we should be able to make a sufficient impression.

He should have run for president.

You get on a call periodically.

> and the companies I’ve worked for have only seen record profits

This cannot be sufficiently overstated.

How much did Apple pay for the vuln report?