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It’s likely that you do not have complete visibility over her role.

There is no new revelation here.

Oh please. Lots of people, myself included, take issue with having to answer your riddles three before I may cross the bridge that you value much more than I do.

There’s having patience and problem-solving ability, and there’s not seeing the value in jumping through the various hoops that comprise some ‘90s Internet fetishist’s playground.

This is all just code for “I’m old, set in my ways, and don’t appreciate the fact that the only reason I find my workflow easier is because I know it, not because it’s more intuitive than what people are doing these days”.

Yep. Accounting standards dictate that a cash equivalent should be essentially as liquid as cash from the perspective of the holder. It’s safe to lump it in here.

You have to be within several layers of bubbles to not see how small a percent of the general population are going to even understand any of this BS.

Things being this complicated makes them a non-starter. A nerd vanity project.

And this isn’t a knock on the “intelligence” of the general population. They quite rightfully won’t want to spend their limited time on God’s earth learning about all this.

Yep, and null-routing your IP is exactly what providers did in the days GP is longing for, and still do do, especially outside of big cloud providers.

Yes.

Hacker News nerds will argue all day long that the Internet is a utility when the argument happens to personally benefit them, then in the same breath say that a random network admin is justified in blocking a whole ISP subnet due to one “bad” actor. And of course by bad actor I mean person that almost certainly accidentally got themselves infected with malware by not understanding the completely Byzantine world of computers and the Internet.

You are quite obviously speaking from the perspective as someone that wouldn’t be in a position to be making these calls.

Personally I’m waiting for the 3 nano-tortilla process to hit. I think that that’ll push us over the hump.

This just flat-out isn’t representative of what I’d expect a home server workload to be.

Yes, different people have different desires when it comes to their living situation. Your comment does however come across as dismissive of living outside of a city. “Parks” for instance…from my experience, a city would not be where I’d first look for this.

I also live in a country without full-term fixed mortgages, however we also don’t have a secondary market for mortgages. AFAIK these two things are at the very least not entirely orthogonal, and to be blunt I don’t think anyone is looking to the US as a source of inspiration for that aspect of your mortgage system.

Seems like a false dichotomy to me.

I certainly don’t want to discount from the point this article is making, but as someone with a significant visual impairment, but that is not completely blind, I legitimately can’t imagine using anything that’s not macOS these days. This is coming from someone that grew up using Windows, and had an extensive Linux phase…including Gentoo.

Screen readers are a bit of a lightning rod for accessible technology interest, almost entirely because most people have some sort of sick curiosity. “How can someone use a computer so differently to the way that I do!?”. Of course, most of these people stop here, never bothering to try using a screen reader to navigate whatever they’re making. They might open VoiceOver, realise they don’t know how to intuitively use it, and fumble around with trying to close it again. This tends to have the effect of sucking any motivation out of the room. Most people won’t then go and meaningfully improve their screen reader experience, but they also won’t think to address any other accessibility shortcomings, especially visual ones, because “blind people use screen readers!” Is the pervasive meme.

This is part of why I am all in all so happy with how Apple has been going in this space lately. An obvious result of co-design / consultation, or dare I say it…hiring people with disabilities. Addressing accessibility concerns that the stereotypical SV techie has never even heard of.

Im going to pile on here and implore you as best I can to check your priors here. You are coming across as incredibly rude and unhinged. I’m sorry that a blind person…hurt you at some point? I don’t even know. But your behaviour is frankly unacceptable.

Startup culture ‘assembly line’ product development IMO.

I don’t see it as deceitful and I’d eat my hat if most other users didn’t agree with me. I expect that when I click a search result link, that Google will be tracking that I’ve done this. I also appreciate being able to search for something, right-click-copy a link, and send it to someone, without it being covered in tracking cruft.

How does the fact that most links aren’t phishing links play into anything? Maybe we don’t need AV because most files aren’t viruses? You had enough of a point without this.

As someone that’s done both, you are certainly overstating the suffering endured by not compiling your own Python. I very much believe that this is a consequence of your ideology rather than any indication of frequency.

This question is essentially thought-terminating in most contexts as most of not all people can’t answer it given how littler know about how humans work.

Nerds will also get hung up on this because they can’t stand the notion that any aspect of their job doesn’t require their immense intelligence.

For most contexts, “will this tool help me”’is a much more appropriate question. Anyone conflating the two is doing themselves a disservice.

The FSF and its leagues of fanboys should be thought about that decades ago instead of painting themselves into a corner by being utterly unapproachable by anyone that wasn’t using computers in 2004.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8&vl=en

I think that it’s useful to hear a balanced take on cancel culture from someone that’s not, frankly, some Hollywood figure making dumb “cancel culture” jokes because they’re secretly pooping their pants over when it’s going to happen to them.

100%. An interesting property of most online communication is that you can’t see all the people ‘scrolling by’ like you would in person. This IMO gives people an unfounded sense of RMS’s…legitimacy(?) in these circles.

IMHO RMS’s socially abrasive attitude and communication style, and the overall unapproachability of the FSF, goes a way toward ensuring that anyone that can stomach advocating for “the cause” is similarly abrasive. This is to the point where some people conflate being a jackass with supporting Free Software as a movement or even as a concept. Like, aspects of some dude called Richard’s personality and even his proclivities wrt how he chooses to go about his computing life are cargo-culled by this decentralised group of fans. You see it here all the time. Someone will be talking about Free Software, and use this as a license to be an asshole to people.

There is in my experience a large silent majority that simply won’t engage with these conversations, not because they don’t see a legitimate place for the Free Software movement, but because the culture is so unnecessarily toxic and unapproachable on account of the people that it puts on a pedestal. It certainly puts others off from the actual principles of the movement altogether.

Time was, computing was for entirely socially adjusted - primarily - women. I as much as possible try to see the period of dominant industry voices being overrun with socially awkward asshole nerds to be a blip rather than an origin story or an ongoing necessity. At this stage I think we are at the point where continuing to give these people a social platform just because of some sense of prestige is not the way to go.

Thankfully, outside of Hacker News, and particularly on Erowid, there is not as high a frequency of the “where’s MY payday” mindset. This is just American / Silicon Valley brain rot.

Anyone in my life with HPPD got it as the result of using psychedelics a lot.

Oh please. No. Most users wouldn’t struggle to comprehend the situation if they actually cared to. Most people are reasonably intelligent in areas that they care about. Accept that most people just don’t care about your hobby horse, and that things you see as grossly unjust, or should I say, potentially grossly unjust, just aren’t cared about.

You are doing yourself a great disservice by drawing such strict distinctions between certain groups of people. Business people? Makers? I guarantee you that there are better “makers” than you that also at the very least have an MBA and practice that skill set daily. Your attitude points to you being, frankly, incredibly adversarial in nature, fed by what seems to me like a completely unjustified superiority complex.

I think that you are missing something here about how the passage of time works, be used you’re dead set on pinning gross incompetence on Microsoft.

This comment is very much an extension of the “I could build this in a weekend” mindset.