busterarm

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by busterarm 3mo ago
He already previously qualified tech bros as people who literally built technology and a whole industry in the US that the EU did not build. The advocating for privacy is the cherry on top. And I never said their work was insignificant. It
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by busterarm 3mo ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of the idea. I pretty much follow a lot of what you're saying without giving it names. I'm just used to people giving lip service to certain ideas as an excuse to move with less friction i
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by busterarm 3mo ago
Like half this list + Meredith are lawyers/policy people. Add in computer security specialists/operators. They use software as a tool to achieve political ends. "tech bros" in context of the article is pretty much refe
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by busterarm 3mo ago
Really? I'm overwhelmingly seeing people just complain and call him a crank without really making any arguments. There are some arguments but it isn't the majority of the comments, or even what I was responding to.
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by busterarm 3mo ago
This often massively discounts the cost of reversing decisions. People often work to build things without any thought given to those who have to maintain it afterwards. Especially when it's not them. I worked at a large, publicly-tra
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by busterarm 3mo ago
It's extraordinary to me how highly intelligent people can't tell the difference between saying "don't this because people don't have the right to do it" and "don't do this because even if you're
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by busterarm 3mo ago
I guess tech has grown too large and fractured and maybe most working software engineers are too young to be familiar with phk and his points of view. He's been a strong privacy and FOSS advocate for decades and has more credibility on
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by busterarm 3mo ago
None of the ones you're thinking of. PHK is Danish. Danish politics and society at large leans pretty left. Even what you might call the rightwing party there consider themselves as bourgeois-liberal, or "not-socialist".
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by busterarm 3mo ago
I think people also underestimate what a serious obligation this can be. I'm taking care of an elderly parent with dementia who cannot afford the care that they need. It costs me significant time and money. It has completely stalled
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by busterarm 3mo ago
The laws not stopping the criminals isn't the point. People are calling on their governments to do something and thus governments are going to do what they are going to do. It's a mix of what they can do and what they're lik
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by busterarm 3mo ago
It's not anti-privacy to point out the obvious that privacy-advocacy is sometimes at odds with governments and the will of voters at large. Privacy is being abused by criminals to victimize people at scale. Just because privacy is a m
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by busterarm 3mo ago
Boomers can be trust fund babies too.
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by busterarm 3mo ago
Yeah I don't even judge them poorly for making that decision, I just come to different conclusions. Now I think there are plenty of other reasons not to work for Google or Facebook so I guess I end up in the same place for different mo
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by busterarm 3mo ago
Fair comment and thank you. "Freedom of movement" is a fairly loaded term, but is defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is: - "Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders
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by busterarm 3mo ago
> some comment you edited out where you said I'm heartless and spineless. And I know what it's like to live in a place without adequate law enforcement and/or military. Personal insults and calling me mentally ill. Are yo
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by busterarm 3mo ago
Same to you I guess? The world is not a black and white place. Rigorous self-defense is not evil. I chose to be vulnerable and honest knowing what kind of responses I would get and the guidelines of this board call for assuming good faith
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by busterarm 3mo ago
No, they would just walked all over by the 2% who have no principles whatsoever. Kind of like what's happening already. Principles are only good up until they enable you to be systematically victimized.
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by busterarm 3mo ago
On the upside, I guess maybe DeepMind is hiring. ... I'm sure I'll get flamed into oblivion for this but it's weird to me how the zeitgeist is anti-colonialism but also against enforcing borders and national sovereignty. I g
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by busterarm 3mo ago
Seek help.
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by busterarm 3mo ago
It didn't even end there at Twitter. The same engineer at Twitter decided early on that no distributed messaging technology was good enough for Twitter, so they wrote their own. It fell over and they threw it away and wrote their own
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by busterarm 3mo ago
Context matters. Big announcements and uninformed blog posts can kill your momentum. I still remember the Twitter dev blog where they abandoned Ruby/Rails and the damage that did. It turned out Twitter was doing a lot of stupid thing
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by busterarm 3mo ago
there's plenty of Rust posts to talk about Rust. I come to an OpenBSD post to talk about OpenBSD. Rust isn't even really tangentially related.
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by busterarm 3mo ago
> I use Rust for things because it's so specific about what it wants from you and won't let you go off-script, and frankly I find that very beneficial for myself as someone coming from Python, Javascript, PHP, etc. where you j
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by busterarm 3mo ago
I read the comment that they were referring to and it wasn't even constructive conversation in the thread. It was basically a complete derail to backdoor in a conversation about why they think everything should be in Rust. OpenBSD stil
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by busterarm 3mo ago
It's also funny because the statement isn't even controversial and people still get insanely ass-mad about it. Also consumer car buying by ethnicity is tracked data and billions of dollars in investment & marketing are allocat
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by busterarm 3mo ago
I've seen this in just about every online space for 40 years now, but it is particularly bad there. I was deeply involved in several subreddits up until about '09-'10 and it slowly dawned on me just how far off the reservati
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by busterarm 3mo ago
You're proposing a fiction that there is functionally any difference. Migrating a subreddit is a large community effort and rarely if ever happens over just one ban. If you're banned from a subreddit for X, which famously happens
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by busterarm 3mo ago
I do this at significant scale and you need a high tolerance for a lot of different negatives to last doing it for governments (and adjacent). The only exception to this rule I would say is AWS GovCloud, which also might be one of the only
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by busterarm 3mo ago
That's also just new products. Anything they already have been selling they can still sell.
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by busterarm 3mo ago
DJI makes a ton more than just drones.

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