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I can accept the other issues, but archivebox needs be private and secure by default.

Sending everything to archive.org is bad default value and it erodes a certain level of trust in the project. Requiring "several important changes and security considerations" just makes a non-starter. The default settings should be "safe" for the default user, because as you mentioned in that post, 90% of users are never going to change them. Users should be able to run it locally and archive data without worrying about security issues, unless you only want experts to be able to use your software.

Also a contradiction between your statement and your blogpost, someone saving their photos isn't going to be want to worry about whether they configured your tool correctly or leaking all the group logs or grandma's photos.

It's prominently mentioned many times (at least 4) on our homepage that this is the default, and archiving public-only sites (which are already fair game for Archive.org) is a default for good reason. Archiving private content requires several important changes and security considerations. More context

Who cares about saving stuff?

All of us have content that we care about, that we want to see preserved, but privately:

families might want to preserve their photo albums off Facebook, Flickr, Instagram

individuals might want to save their bookmarks, social feeds, or chats from Signal/Discord

companies might want to save their internal documents, old sites, competitor analyses, etc.

I want the project to do well but it really needs to be secure by default.

I don't know how anyone manages to use archivebox. I've tried it twice in the last 3 years and its site compatibility is bad, it quietly leaks everything you archive to archive.org by default, and whenever it fails on a download it stops archiving anything even after deleting and resubmitting all the jobs.

I'm sure it works for some people, but not me.

Gyms are notorious shysters who made it difficult to cancel your membership, even when you have the right. Don't blame the consumers for this bullshit. Do as many chargebacks as you can.

The statement is still wrong. Awnings and local architects are both extinct so clearly the architects didn't kill the awnings.

This was written in a very confident way, but I can say with at least as much confidence that my house was mass produced in a factory and assembled locally in the middle of nowhere without any regard for local architecture.

If shaming did work, then it would have been implemented widely and obesity is solved. But it's not. We don't have anything that works as well as ozempic.

What kind of reasoning is this? This is only true if you believe good policies always get implemented. You'll notice other countries like Japan don't require every man and child to be drugged to stop eating food, and they have a much stronger sense of shame for being an undue burden on society.

Why not both? Nobody wanted seatbelts until they were forced to use them, maybe we could try forcing people to eat safer food.

If it does turn out that the government has been poisoning Americans for decades, I'd like to see some heads roll.

Unfortunately being good at chess doesn't make you smart. It just makes you good at chess.

Apparently discovering new islands isn't what it used to be.

It's true. Smart people tend to have a lot of novel ideas, most of which are going to be retarded. Most people just have no ideas.

pathetic patches of land

It's always funny seeing people pretend they live in a world where small issues like land or food don't affect them, even though they only have that privilege because a larger military says they should.

Are you against subsidies in general? Or just against someone you don't like getting them to actually develop new technology?

It's pretty accurate. Most videos exist just to be passively consumed, like the person you're responding to who listens to it while doing chores.

I'm going to find out a way to automatically hide comments referencing "musk". You can't even read about a 3Blue1Brown video without people somehow making it about him. Every thread, every day, it's just people talking about Elon Musk.

Framed differently

Framed in an insane way by someone looking to denigrate someone they don't like. I have no idea who you're targeting but you obviously have a chip on your shoulder.

As an outside observer, I have to notice that doctors and "the system" have lost such trust that people prefer self-medicating with illegal drugs.

In the near future, electric vehicles will be obsolete and we'll be running off rainwater and people will be parking their cars outside to harvest it. California will be mostly unlivable.

How does this relate at all to what you're responding to?

That's an odd complaint.

No it's not. I'll make it simpler. If you know the material really well but haven't memorized the problems, you will test poorly. If you memorize the problems and have no real understanding of the material, you will test well. This is obviously the opposite of what you want to test.

Growing up I was fed a false idealistic version of college by every college-educated teacher and adult, and it cost me $40000, so the betrayal in academia was felt much more strongly than work.

Chrome won because it was more performant (read: only point of interest for Joe Average)

It's hard to argue chrome won on merit here when they were using their monopoly to actively sabotage users running firefox on the most popular sites.

YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome

This was basically my experience in college too. There was no time to understand something, and tests didn't test your understanding. If you tried to solve a proof for the first time you'd run out of time and fail. You just had to grind homework and book questions until you could shit them out in 5 minutes each.

I agree with that, and it's possible that half of what people buy and want to repair aren't going to be repairable under market conditions. Probably more; most of these cases it's just economically infeasible to repair anything that isn't new or produced recently, with supply lines still active, and it's fine when nobody wants to pay for it.

So for my definition, what makes this an edge case is specifically it's expensive medical equipment that a disabled user can't pay to acquire a part for, and companies aren't willing to produce anyway because it's so niche. 99% of equipment probably falls under "I want to repair it and someone (myself or a repair company) wants to fix it" or "I don't want to repair it because it's so expensive". The rest would be the edge case where you want to repair it and you literally can't afford to - even if you could produce the parts.

By the way, I hate this article, I just want the information and not have to parse an entire goddamn magazine to get to it.

I guess I'll be seeing you in court.

It's an edge case because the supply is so small and the hardware is so specialized. If this were an iPhone screen there's be a dozen companies in china capable of producing and selling them near cost if apple didn't interfere, and we'd have plenty of people willing to repair and resell the screens if apple would stop abusing US customs to seize repaired screens as they've done in the past.

He just needs a part.

Right to repair, in a broad sense, also covers access to parts. This is definitely an edge case and we might want to just consider that if we're going to do experiments on disabled with the aim of helping them, and they want to continue using the tools, we might have to subsidize access to the parts until they die.

It's not that the consumers weren't aware of the distinction between buy and rent, just that companies outright started to lie about the meaning of "purchase".

I'm not saying they pirate it, I'm saying they don't believe in making money off software through selling products, but instead through beggary. They're such a small market share (2-3% on most games) that it's just not worth the effort.

Linux compatibility layers are actually getting pretty good anyway, and it's easier to get your game to run that way than to actually properly port it to linux.

All anyone ever talks about is "blindly throwing money". That's what the original complaint I responded to was; This is because we didn't sacrifice enough money to the altar of public schools! If it was just about classroom size, it wouldn't have warranted a response.