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Well, in my country the citizens managed to push back on broad logging of all internet traffic. It went to court and the logging was deemed illegal. Appealed to supreme court - deemed illegal again. Entered EU court, deemed illegal again.

That was 3 years ago I believe. The logging never stopped and continues to this day. The courts are a lie. Democracy is a lie. Pushing back doesn't matter. The only solution is some sort of technology similar to encryption, Tor, freenet etc.

I Am Leaving 3 years ago

Self hosting is not sufficient. We saw that with the kiwi farms website. I didn't follow their story too close but it's wild how not just Cloudflare dropped them but also how big ISPs were willing to drop routing to them.

You can self host. It helps. Won't help you if major ISPs decide your self hosted ip shouldn't exist online.

Android does provide this. Your app can send out a message on the system: "i need a picture" and usually the built-in camera-app will accept the request, and send a picture back to the requesting app (which then does not need camera permissions since it, itself, never accesses the hardware).

This feature is actually quite foundational to the Android architecture, where the vision was a bunch of small apps working together in this manner.

Unfortunately it's a slightly more clunky user experience than what users these days have gotten used to: big monolithic apps that handle everything themselves.

They should be paying developers, yes, but not for the pain of going through review but instead for the simple fact that an iphone without any app developers is almost completely worthless. Apps make their platform more valuable.

You have to fight to produce quality and you have to do it continuously. You cannot just merge in "working(tm) but not using best practices" and then turn on the quality-switch months or years later.

Your attitude is creating a culture where nobody cares and it's why many good engineers end up hating their job.

ChatGPT Plus 3 years ago

Agreed and it's a very strange activism. You can get it to tell a joke about men, but you cannot get it to tell a joke about women. Go figure that one out

Blocking Kiwifarms 4 years ago

How can you be against harassment campaigns while at the same time inciting harassment campaigns? Do you ever notice your hypocrisy and just ignore it or?

I would recommend you do bother. Having a social life very enjoyable, even if we sometimes think it's not needed. Besides, you're not the only guy your wife is taking to, stop kidding yourself