idunnoman

I find the ethics of farming to be very difficult to live with.

I've been vegetarian now for long enough that I don't have any desire to eat meat and I am fairly grossed out by it. I am working towards vegan (again, the ethics), but it is proving to be more difficult. Perhaps my convictions aren't as strong?

My journey had several stops and starts. The best "trick" I have is to not stop eating meat, just start removing it from more and more meals. You just wake up one day and realize you haven't had meat in a year.

In my day to day, I don't really think about it anymore. I am always caught off guard when I realize other people are eating meat. It just isn't something that I consider now.

As developers, I've come to believe that complexity is the worst sin we commit. Everything we talk about can be traced back to this issue.

This is largely due to paying attention to Rich Hickey and learning Clojure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4

I believe that in the past you could move residences for free, but there was a time delay. Isn't this so you can move frequently/often? Eg. On a boat or in an RV?

This is awesome. I've been waiting for this.

I've been waiting to experiment with doing the Camper-RV nomad life while working / travelling and climbing.

Am Canadian. This isn't something I've ever heard and smells like FUD by people who have never been through the Canadian healthcare system.

The system has room for improvement, but is not broken in the way the IS system is.

I feel like this is the opposite of what you are claiming you want.

The common git workflow would be the thing you expect people to know off the top of their head. The uncommon less frequent ideas may need documentation.

Having team members memorize esoteric commands isn't the signal you're looking for. You want people who can read documentation and execute.

Tooling requirements change all the time. Knowing one tool really well doesn't mean anything. I care that you can pick up any tool, at any time and have a path forward to productivity.

To be fair and to agree with your original point, memorization isn't that path forward.

"Hey Siri, accuse me of something that will ruin my life and reputation even if I'm not guilty".

The easiest example I've heard is kinda gross and rude, but effective.

"You take a crap with the door closed, not because I don't know what you're doing in there, but because you don't want to share the experience with me."

That pretty much sums up everything you need to know about privacy. You don't have to hide anything in order for it to be important.

Agreed.

I bought a pine phone when they announced it. Looking forward to leaning into it when it arrives.

I know there will be some pain, but I'm getting off the ride here.

Would you take the 10 year version of that bet?

I'm less interested in the actual bet. I'm more interested in trying to understand if we both think this system will eventually be abused.

If you WOULD take the 10 year version, would you take an open ended "some point in the future, this will be abused" bet?

Yeah - fair point. I've over stated my position.

I'll re-commit to "most" people criticizing.

I will restate that regardless of the poor taste, it doesn't change the points validity.

But you are correct. I did miss their minimization of the issue. Obviously due to my own bias.

It's not telling at all.

Not a single person arguing against this idea is being obtuse or insensitive to the very real problem of CSAM.

This is why you are getting the eye roll induced "think of the children" arguments. Yes, we get it. We agree. It's bad. We don't like it either.

But this isn't going to solve anything and IS going to break security and privacy.

It's a bad trade.

But it doesn't happen over night. The cracks are forming though.

Duckduckgo.com is now at 93,533,476 searches daily.

My non-technical brother just purchased a 3 year Fastmail account and switched from Chrome to Firefox. For added effect, he bought a subscription to Bitwarden. I didn't push him to do any of this, I just told him what I'm using.

His wife refused to put an internet enabled webcam in their new babies room, citing security concerns.

It's happening. But Rome wasn't built in a day.

I dunno. Isn't this how Chrome became so popular, and Firefox before that?

"We" are the people that support, recommend and install this stuff. Hardware just has longer life cycles.

I think the main issue is just that Pandora's box is now open. Once you make this move, you can't go backwards.

If you'll indulge me, would you bet $1000 that this style of scanning isn't expanded in the next 3 years to include non-CSAM content?

I don't see it. Clearly our motivations are misaligned. I'm not confident you can sell me on the idea that this will get people to trust them more, and therefore buy more apple stuff.

They previously said they couldn't comply. Now they will have to say they won't comply.

I dunno man.

I think I can see the issue pretty clearly here.

- Real harm is enabled with encryption. I get it.

- Back doors break encryption for everyone and don't stop encryption for bad guys.

Am I missing something?

This is a good point.

I do believe we should be skeptical of these companies stated positions unless we can see a profit motive. The previous stance that Apple said they had was "we value your privacy and you should pay us for that".

They also demonstrated in the case in 2016 with terrorists and the FBI that they meant it.

In this case, they have flipped entirely, and are now adding features without being compelled that subvert that stated goal.

Apple will scan your phone/data without a warrant AND report to the government now. This is their public opinion now. Forget their compelled and forced actions. Now they are proud to be the bad guys.

It is remarkable that Tim so clearly understood the problem in 2016.

With that one post, Apple and Tim earned trust from a group of people that trust very few. And in an instance, both Apple and Tim have now burned all of it.

I mean this genuinely. Didn't we learn with Snowden why this argument isn't valid?

The government does break these laws to get what they want AND they silence the people that they force to break the laws.

Why are we pretending that anything has changed?

I linked this in another parent:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

In March health workers administered the vaccine in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Abbottabad called Nawa Sher. The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived.

I don't know if that changes anything. It does appear that they didn't "effectively" vaccinate people when it was convenient.

From a different article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

In March health workers administered the vaccine in a poor neighbourhood on the edge of Abbottabad called Nawa Sher. The hepatitis B vaccine is usually given in three doses, the second a month after the first. But in April, instead of administering the second dose in Nawa Sher, the doctor returned to Abbottabad and moved the nurses on to Bilal Town, the suburb where Bin Laden lived.

I don't know if this changes anything. It feels closer to fake from where I'm standing.

I'm pro vax. Playing fast and loose with public health makes me feel fairly odd.