Grangar

Oh man, that article went from super wholesome to way too real. I feel so sorry for that man, I'm donating to his gofundme later this weekend. Something like a patreon would be a good way to generate more income perhaps?

Would you really want people to blindly trust that? Like the posted article image recognition might falsely consider a deadly mushroom to be harmless, suddenly you've got potential deaths on your hands.

Wow I never even heard of hemlock before. Good to know!

Fiscal platforms such as margin trading or cryptocurrency exchanges are also heavily barred from servicing US citizens. It already cuts both ways.

Quake Champions is another worthy alternative that is much better.

When I'm done for the day I don't want to sit in front of a computer any longer. I can understand why a cook would come home and just throw down a microwave meal. The issue here isn't getting paid, it's doing the same when you get home. My current employer won't renew my contract because I oppose this mentality, it's toxic and making me debate leaving IT altogether. He considers me lazy for that. Is some balance really too much to ask?

There have been reports of Mengele-tier experimenting on Uyghur prisoners such as unsedated organ transplants. If these are true I'd say it's already on the same level vertically and only has horizontal scale left to exceed.

Nope, that's not it. You're saying I should avoid Zaltbommel then?

I can neither confirm nor deny before I get another gig, I don't want to burn any bridges prematurely just in case. What company are you thinking of?

Well I actually just got "fired" today. I'm doing an infosec traineeship right now, and I supposedly don't put in enough effort at home. Employer told me the company expects people to put in another ~20hrs of studying by themselves on top of the 40 in the office, I hope this is not industry wide...

Had I known this I wouldn't have signed in the first place.

Any infosec companies with sane hours hiring trainees in the Netherlands?

Good. Let it burn to the ground.

At risk of missing sarcasm, a large reason all these vulnerabilities in Intel are found is their market share. Same as when OSX was considered "unhackable" - it just wasn't worth the effort. AMD is likely just as bad, but it's not uncovered (yet).

Supporting the underdog is a good idea nonetheless, but not for this reason per se.

A little farther you say? That's not nearly going to cut it. We need radical change. The only way data will be 'safe' is if it lives on your device and verifiably only leaves it when intended. Any untransparent store is per definition prone to abuse.

By now I think it's safe to say the free market has provably failed us. We should require regulatory bodies to enforce an open standard for this if you ask me.

Are they the ones to blame for this all though?

I hope you have a signal jammer that blocks all other wifi networks, because it's been proven that smart TV's also connect to open wifi.

Off topic: I'm absolutely delighted with the cookie policy of this website. Everything other than basic analytics turned off by default. More should follow this example.

Wow the /s completely went over my head. Yeah it's fucking disingenuous.

Where's Stallman in this?

I'd buy it right now if I could. I got hooked instantly and only slept 4 hours last night as a consequence, I'm sitting at work thinking how I can fix my build. It's seriously decent enough for an early access title, all it needs is more fleshing out for the campaign and some UX improvements on the menus.

Oh man, I really like this. I'm staying up way too late tonight.

A company considering its users its product can't get much lower IMO. Remember that time they experimented on users' emotional states without any consent or informing? [1] This is when they started to show their true cards. To me FB is on its own level far below even oil companies and big banks, probably around the same ranking as PMCs. You'd be far pushed to find me something worse.

Apple is no saint but FB's total disregard to its responsibility and position in the world is so much worse.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...

I'm fairly sure the content FB mods have to sift through makes those subreddits seem like a walk in the park. Even I have seen some horrible things back in the earlier days of the internet that makes those look tame.

There is no upper bound in repulsiveness for the things FB mods watch. At least with Reddit there's the sitewide rules.

I mean physically small. In my view much of the mess the internet is seeing right now is because of the lack of local/real-world consequences. Links between people are now on a global spider-web scale, so to say. Whereas it used to be on a local neighbourhood-city level scale. This gives way to a separate space decoupled from your local environment. If a community is (relatively) tight-knit on a physical scale sharing repulsive content or blatant propaganda could have a real-world consequence and definitely wouldn't get the reach it has right now.

It's not the pipe dream of what the internet was supposed to be back in the 90's, but I think it's safe to say that experiment has failed. Humanity has shown itself not to be able to behave itself enough for this.

I'm sorry if this sounds abstract or convoluted or anything, I've had a long day and am a bit brain-fried but I have thought pretty extensively about this. I'm having a bit of a hard time putting it down in a HN comment. Maybe it's worth the effort writing this up.

Keep things small and community-moderated. Keeping social networks self-moderated in a small community, say a city, would quickly ostracise people sharing this sort of thing.

I'm fairly sure the racism argument was the first strawman in this thread. Chinese software has some real trust issues, given the political climate in that country. Open source does not automatically mean it's safe.

And yet the American human/civil rights record isn't nearly as bad as the Chinese one. I'm not a fan of either at all but if forced to choose I'll go with the former one.

I know right? Runescape back in the day was the perfect sandbox to learn these lessons. I remember lending out my expensive sword to an online "friend" who promptly logged off and blocked me. Lesson learned.

Nowadays all these sorts of transactions have been shifted into auction house-like marketplaces to prevent abuse. I think taking out this human interaction component does more harm than good, especially bundled with the new ability to (legitimately) buy game money for real cash. The adversary moved from other players taking your ingame stuff, to the game's maintainer itself taking real world money.

Rolexes are medium-tier anyway. The people you impress with that aren't the ones you should aim for.

It gets to do fancy admin stuff that regular malware without permissions can't.

While factually correct it's good to bear in mind that a large part of the 'ISIS' entity is online and not restricted by borders.