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by diveanon 6y ago
Not really, we have lost 50% of the life in our oceans over the last 30 years. Current trends show major ecological collapse within our lifetimes.
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by diveanon 6y ago
I'm old, I tried over my lifetime and failed. Give it a shot if you care. Education isn't the problem, it's the will to sacrifice our comfort for a better world.
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by diveanon 6y ago
We won't. It makes me sad to think that 50-100 years from now most of the species we know and many more we don't will be extinct. The only things left alive will be what we need to survive and whatever manages to carve a niche out
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by diveanon 6y ago
I really like writing rust, however not having the async runtime be a part of std has hurt the language in my opinion. Crate consumers have to consider which async lib a crate is using leads to a lot of annoying gotchas that can really conf
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by diveanon 6y ago
People have become focused on privacy like it is the only problem with Facebook. Perhaps the most dangerous "feature" of Facebook is how effectively it radicalizes its users. This coupled with Facebook's strong push into the
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by diveanon 6y ago
You should take some time to read about how Facebook "connected" a lot of people with common interests in Myanmar. Just so happened that common interest was genocide. When you build a radicalization engine, you are responsible for
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by diveanon 6y ago
I have not been on campus in decades, if I am in a "post-campus bubble" then I guess I'll be stuck there the rest of my life. There is nothing normal about Facebook and the impact it has had on society. You can try to paint i
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by diveanon 6y ago
The tobacco and social media industries actually share a lot in common in how they both studied how addictive and dangerous their products are and decided to look the other way. This shouldn't be news to you if you frequent tech forums
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by diveanon 6y ago
Yes, for decades in fact. What the web has become since the rise of weaponized ad-tech is a tragedy.
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by diveanon 6y ago
If "being safe from another companies whims" means "my user hostile business model is no longer allowed" then those companies can get either adapt or get fucked. Apple is making a choice, and I support it and will gladly
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by diveanon 6y ago
Point me towards a mobile device I can actually own that has a healthy ecosystem of apps and I'm there. Librem and Purism sound interesting, but without apple and ios there would be literally no hope in getting away from the toxic busi
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by diveanon 6y ago
Have you just not been paying attention the last 4 years or just being willfully ignorant. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you aren't living in the US and haven't logged into facebook during the recent
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by diveanon 6y ago
Facebook is scared, and they should be. For years it has been painfully clear that facebook has been a net negative for society. Bring back the days of being able to trust your device and services you use without have to skim through TOS an
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by diveanon 6y ago
Apple and Facebook are not competitors. If anything apple is setting a precedent for it's actual competition that user privacy is something people are willing to pay a premium for.
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by diveanon 6y ago
Great response. I'm going to focus on one part of it for now. "I'd argue your software stack fundamentally relies on the environment it lives within and that ceding control poses a non-zero risk" This is factually correc
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by diveanon 6y ago
Engage developers directly via gh issues. Take your time to describe the problem, and be patient waiting for a response. Developer focused slack and discord groups are another great option.
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by diveanon 6y ago
If it is overly complicated for you don't use it. However discounting it altogether because you don't need or understand why that complexity exists is naive. I hear this a lot in interviews and it's a clear signal that you ha
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by diveanon 6y ago
I'm probably the same age as this guy, the article definitely made me roll my eyes a few times for this exact reason.
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by diveanon 6y ago
Thank you for providing a more nuanced answer. I definitely agree that feedback loops, local dev, and testing are the things I hear about people struggling with. For the most part that is a one time cost that your team can breeze through if
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by diveanon 6y ago
An example of this is how lambda millisecond resolution has given me a clear reason to push for code optimization as costs savings initiative. Previously it was harder to budget for that kind of work, but now there is a clear target and roi
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by diveanon 6y ago
Articles like this try to project earlier failures on current progress. Yes, serverless shares some conceptual similarities with older development models. However, the tooling, infrastructure, languages, and general support for server less
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by diveanon 6y ago
Even more so when you factor in dev time.
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by diveanon 6y ago
How many times have you written code because nobody told you to?
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by diveanon 6y ago
Legislation is the entire point.
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by diveanon 6y ago
As an american web dev living in asia. GDPR is the best thing to happen to the web since javascript.
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by diveanon 6y ago
A man paying a prostitute doesn't necessarily misuse the prostitute.
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by diveanon 6y ago
These are not mutually exclusive concepts. You can pay for what you use and have sound regularly bodies policing user privacy.
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by diveanon 6y ago
A user on my platform costs me $0.02 per year. If you can't compete gtfo.
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by diveanon 6y ago
humblebrag
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by diveanon 6y ago
I am totally in support of this shift in business model. Paying for the service you are using in a transparent and predictable way vs deceptively having your personal information monetized should be the norm. Google and Facebook have been h

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