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You cannot let or forbid a 16yo to use stuff. You can only decide whether they will do it in the open or in hiding. Personally I’d rather have them talk to me about it than hide it from me.

The only thing we know without a proof is that they might be doing it. We don’t have a proof they do it but we also don’t have any proof they are incapable of doing so. A reasonable course of action would be to take precautions against it while not condemning them either, until they are either proven actually guilty or actively unwilling to up their security, which would also strongly imply the former.

Until it’s proven the data is E2E encrypted, it’s a fair assumption it can be read by a 3rd party, either now or in the future. E2EE is the only proof that matters, everything else is just a corporate “trust me bro”.

Making quality tools due to long-standing processes is definitely a different breed of tradition than oppressing minorities because they don’t fit someone’s “traditional” worldview.

To better illustrate my first post: The Victorinox craft isn’t high quality because it’s a tradition. It became a tradition because it’s high quality. If we subtract it being a tradition, we still have a reason to keep making it this way. The same cannot be said about oppressing people, unless one literally views human suffering as value added.

I think there is some confusion between tradition and well-tested processes. I’d hardly consider creating quality products a tradition.

If he’s being a putin stooge because it’s good for his business, he’s still being a putin stooge.

If you’re asking about a personal opinion: any policy purely based on tradition is worthless. Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. Just like any peer pressure, it’s highly unlikely to produce anything but grief. If something is based purely on tradition without any other reason to exist, it’s unlikely to be an optimal policy.

Back to the initial question. I don’t think we can get infinitely progressive but we can keep subtracting the cruft of tradition until there is no necromantic peer pressure left at all. Mind that if something happens to be a tradition but still has a good reason to exist, it should be evaluated like any other idea in terms of being good or bad. I mean removing just one of the reasons to keep this idea. If it is left with zero reasons, it’s out. Otherwise it’s fair game.

If you’re okay with paying for it, Kagi is great and respects the user privacy.

Can you summarize their reaction to BG3? You got me intrigued.

Well, that’s certainly a color scheme.

I swear, soon the terms “fediverse” and “federated” will get muddled up like when people have been saying “open source” when they mean “free (as in free beer)”.

Either FR or PFP. “FR” just feels like another filler word. PFP… I’m too used to calling them “avatars”, it just feels wrong and superfluous. I’m probably aging myself here.

Not for the abusers. They’d rather shape your experience and groom you into a perfect abuse victim.

I can’t wait for some pope to tell the Africans it’s wrong to use these. Again.

Prey (2017), Monster Hunter, Stalker, Dark Souls. All great games that only show their true self after some time investment. Not too ridiculous time investment apart from Monster Hunter which gets really fun literally only after a few tens of hours, maybe even a hundred. I wish I was kidding.

We get it Elon, your X has left you.

The very fact you’re able to do all of this is an effect of politics. And there are people that also would like to have similar rights to exist the way the feel is right for them, but they can’t.

Wait, what’s wrong with TLOU2? I thought it’s widely regarded as a masterpiece.

Seconded.

I see literally no incentive for them to limit their API to just the Google version of Manifest v3. If I recall correctly they already expanded their implementation to offer more.

If they ever implement WEI (the “web DRM”) then it’s because the Internet forces their hand. A web browser is only as useful as the websites it can browse. If our banks will demand WEI support Mozilla doesn’t have much choice. We need to worry about the website providers changing the web, not Mozilla adjusting Firefox to these changes. In the latter case it’s already too late and it’s hard to blame Mozilla at this point.