Amju Wolf

It can still be pretty difficult to jump ship for any large corporation, but yeah there’s certainly harder things.

I mean if you write malware “for a good cause” plenty of people will rightfully judge you for subverting their expectations, and the reasoning doesn’t matter thst much. And it’s not like they’re completely in the wrong either.

…but do yoz “understand libraries” by reading every line of their code, or by reading the documentation? And only in the parts you’re actually interested in?

Yeah, and I’m never going to use it, just like I don’t use any of the other existing fields - it doesn’t matter.

No; I think these bills are terrible and should be resisted. But the outrage about (what is effectively) a database on your pc to store information that itself doesn’t do anything is ridiculous.

If abyone wants or needs to implement a system like that (could be for work,for example), that’s perfectly fine. What isn’t fine is the existence of the laws in the first place, and they shouldn’t be resisted with (just) technology.

I could imagine a parental control setup using this information, for example. Linux is really behind in this regard and it’s time it started catching up IMO.

There are genuinely useful use cases for it, and unlike what you suggest it is completely harmless.

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Commissions are perfectly fine as long as they’re upfront about the price and it’s not percentage based. Then you basically just pay for a service / someone’s time.

And title.search is a problem with the government… Civilized countries have national registries of who exactlx owns what, and in the best ones you can freely look it up online, too.

There are tens of millions of tech jobs, the vast, vast majority of which is doing boring stuff like running the websites you visit.

…and then in their free time some create platforms like the one you’re on roght now, for free. So the generalization you made therr isn’t that appreciated.

It’s a stupid misdirection. What should be celebrated is the achievement and the trajectory they’re on. This is as if the US finally took renewables seriously, reached at least the global average, and people were like “it doesn’t matter because there are countries that do a 100%”. No - context absolutely does matter.

Hate is maybe the wrong word, but they’re certainly naturally opposed to it. Like a fish is naturally opposed to living on land. It doesn’t hate the land, but if it gets to decide you don’t get any.

Besides their pipelines being miles better, they never wete that great of an alternative.

My point is that institutions like that simply should not exist. They are effectively lobbying groups (if it’s nonprofit / non-governmental organization) or propaganda machines (if established by the people in power).

Neither has any place in democracy.

We don’t need “purpose built” think tanks; we need people with actual experience, with jobs, etc. giving in their 10 cents of expertise when required.

And they should be required only when the governmening bodies are implementing things they have been actually voted in to do. We shouldn’t havr good-for-nothing “government employees” fearing to be out of job creating busywork for themselves that only perpetuates and creates layers upon layers of useless bureaucracy that nakes the average person’s lives worse.

The fact that anyone with any power (and they do have the power to influence politicians, which is more than what your average citizen has) is even suggesting this should absolutely be alarming. It is “only a suggestion” now, and then next time when the politicians vote on it it might be late.