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I was all for UBI but than I started thinking... in short time all the prices will rise for the amount of "free money" given and we will come to the same point we are now =/

Here is a nice example, how US is handling nature preservation: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yellowstone-national-park-grizz...

Stop taking about DDT. I had my own expirience when I went to Madagascar. Took with me ddt based insecticide (whatever it takes to avoid malaria) and got rashes all over my hands due to it.

Yes, and this is how the normal state should behave. US messed it up big time by giving control to the corporations, but if you do some thinking: managers get their rewards based on some time based results. If they achieve better "money bases" results by screwing up customers or anyone else, they still profit. The corporations don't care if they poison half of world population as long as they profit. Make another war, few hunderd thousand killed? No problem, we made money. The only institution that can stop this insane logic is state and EU Commission is really suprisingly good in acting in good of EU cityzen, quite oposite in regard to what US is doing - acting for the corporations. I am sorry for US. People there got gang raped without the lubricant, but they are still too much brain washed to figure it out and are still living in fantasy world of "american dream", we have a saying "nation will write its own desteny by themself" and it fits for the US nicely, but I think years od dumbification are paying the toll.

Contributing to open source is, as the arihant answered, a hype. Don't do it. It is a form of slave labur where you give your knowlidge for free (it is not about giving your coding skills) you give your expertise for free to anyone, typically different companies, to profit from your work. Without ever paying you they craft their profit from what you have made. This kind of attitude brought developers wages down for more then half from 10-15 years back where instead of paying for developers work, everyone was profiting(not the developers - everyone else, from system admministrators to the lousiest company) from "off the shelf" code.

To explain it for idiots: when I need someone to pave my backyard, try to ask someone to make it for free while you will give him references. Absolutely no one will ever do it. Only the developers are stupid enough to do it. It is humiliating, it is stupid, but we are still doing it... for the fame? For the "pie in the sky"? Don't know, but surely is spitting in our own food.

(And now the downvoting begins from those who profit from our free labour)

The coolest one liner is xor eax,eax :) 1 cycle for setting register to 0.

I think that Duff device is more interesting in C :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

What about something here: http://z0mbie.daemonlab.org/

This guy was a genius (those were the times you didn't do it for profit, it was a game). Google for zmist...

Well what we were doing for pe encryptors (will try to dig out some code from tapes when I get back into civilization :D) was generating a code that was driving execution flow using SEH (structured exception handling), sometimes the code executed as intended, sometimes the exception was trigered (with faulty code, again generated) to continue at completely different part of code. This was the complete pain in the "neck" to debug (timing the code execution is a great way to tell if someone is debugging it, and you just continue into some other generated code that is missleading the reverser), and completely impossible to solve on paper (well, with huge amount of knowlidge and a lot of time, you could do it :D). That's why I am laughing with todays overuse of try/catch/throws, we were using it to obfuscate execution flow and today it is used in normal coding with same devastating effect :D

I really love this one, boot sector chess :)

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jwieder/7e7e643cc71c81f63...

Why don't you just write you are js developer? Like jsforhire.com? It directly suggests you are a felon to the computer science. :D But joke aside, as far as I am conserned, I wouldn't care what you have done (except js... :D).

Yeah but the rant was in form: "so what, you are inviding users privacy on so many levels that it doesn't matter if login screens know about your location". And I have barely started.

Stop communicating silently with your servers. Do it. Ask for each and every call to them unless the communication is already confirmed by users. Make all http* communication go trough http proxy which logs all the traffic in clearly visible form and only than make https. Show the data sent, make google play and framework open source. Enable users to see your hidden syncs (oh yeah those with asterisks infront (you DO know about them, right?) and disable them and keep their settings after updates instead of resetting them. Explain why with microg, the battery and network usage drops for 1/3. And I am not using any of your "services", no maps, no gmail, dns (oh yeah my rom is modified, a lot) nothing. Stop bubbling! Stop corelating order of pages visited to fingerprint users (and I know you are doing this), stop using cell towers to get location even if gps is turned off. Stop giving ISPs your boxes which makes spying on users local on ISP level.

Either you have no clue about what is going on in your company or you are here as a PR guy.

I really hope that GDPR will hit you hard, as far as I am concerned you are far worse than Facebook, more harmfull than Monsanto, you have opened Pandoras box of user tracking and becoase of you now every single company is doing it. And just so you know, by writting this, my karma will fall for at least 10 points as your fanbase (which typically doesnt even understand what I have written) will downvote me a lot. I am telling you this just for you to understand how very pissed off on behaviour of your company some people are. The only thing that is into your favor was actually your biggest mistake - you have mistakenly made android open source which makes it far more feasible to silence it down to the point where it no longer communicates with your domains. This was maybe when you were still having the "don't be evil" attitude, at least as form of PR.

Well, the point of E2E encryption is that you cant bypass it. That only the recipient is able to read it. Believe me that if I start making e2e encryption, no one will bypass it and I doubt the engineers at Apple are not able to do it, unless instructed otherwise.

I will tell you another case: Skype. It had a p2p protocol, highly encrypted and obfuscated, also the application was armored. The communication wasn't going through Skype servers but directly between devices. Once Microsoft bought it, the next version was using Microsoft servers and p2p was gone. Interesting, right?

Stop believing the marketing, they can say message is end to end encrypted even if they encrypt it twice, once with apple key and once with "end" key (actually it is more complicated, but for the sake of this debate it is good enough, for a simple algorithm, check bellow)

Before you start downvoting spree, read this:

For Apple: https://mashable.com/2013/10/17/apple-nsa-imessage

http://bgr.com/2015/08/06/iphone-fbi-imessage-facetime-backd...

https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/latest-security-n...

For WhatsApp: https://tobi.rocks/

(encrypt data with random key with symmetric encryption algorythm (AES,...), which is then encrypted and stored with the mesage twice. Once encrypted with recipient public key (asymmetric: RSA,ECC) and once encrypted with apple public key. This way you can say that you are having end to end encryption while you can still read everything and you can also use all the nice words in marketing material, AES, end2end, RSA/ECC,...).

Each company wants to earn by using your data, and Signal doesnt allow that (but it can be backdoored). No company like google, apple, microsoft,... is going to give you application where they cant intercept the content.

It is missing one vital point which is more important than framework you choose: You need to ask user if it allows processing of his data for purpose of analytics and if it allows sending it to 3rd party xyz. And it shouldn't be preticked or enforced.

Come on, what is bad and old on c++? :)

There is also one point that he missed. The internet is full of advices that are comming from half studying GDPR and are deadly wrong.

31 days to GDPR. I hope you at least understand it.

I think that electron desperately needs boot loader and own kernel, then they will be able to reimplement whole operating system in js.

...god of bloated software and goddess of complex solutions of simple non problems got their blood sacrifice and the sun will rise again.

(After I wrote it I have started to think about your answer as rethorical. If this doesn't fit, I would be really satisfied if people who do fit would have a chance to read it)

It is not about popularity, you can always find people that have something in common with you. You found them on FB, right? Just don't use FB for excuse for not even try and you will find out that you don't need it. I am a geek as you (probably) are, but there are a lot of other geeks too. If we would live in a same city, what is stopping us to go for a beer and play board games (which I love) and laughing at people who don't have a clue what we are doing. Screw the "how you look" prejustice (which FB is actually imposing - before FB came out, people cared much less about the look, this whole "lets be preaty" and "how interesting life I have"(which is a lie in most of cases) mania is by large its fault). The point of bonding is to interact in person, not hide behind a chat. And after a while (of hiding) you are completely spaced out in regard of social interaction. As far as I am concerned, todays pop culture is completely f* up and something to laugh at, why taking THEIR social norms on yourself? You can be popular too, due to your math knowlidge (yeah, stereotypes, I know), board games, whatever. Just find right group and BOND. In real life, stop poking your nose with rubber gloves, take them off and expirience the REAL expirience ;)

Come on, I bet there was a guy (and girl, they are faking their interests to be """popular""", wait until they are 30+, you will see a huge change in their behaviour) in your class, in your neibhourhood, who has similar interests as you do, just say fuc* off, to anxiety, to media, to pop oriented morons (I am sorry, but I really despise this part of culture, which is faking their natural behaviour just to fit... somewhere) and bond with people, what do you have to loose - except of years of training of social interactions that FB is taking away from you?

Thank you, but everyone should understand that.

Unfortunately, I didn't made it up and if you surf a bit around psychological studys it is proven fact, if you believe the science, this is just one of researches:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Yeah I believe it is really helpful for a very narrow group, let me compare it to hearing aid, people that have hearing disabilities, are having a life much better in using hearing aid devices, while it will impair hearing of anyone hearing well. To paraphrase it, what people are doing today is using hearing aid as they are too lazy to listen (To avoid confusion: I am talking in general! The majority of gaussian bell curve!) and this is turning society into bunch of half deaf people. I am sometimes having problem with, people not understanding that, socialization is a very basic skill that has to be learned and trained.

FB is like junk food, it tastes well, it is simple to obtain, it doesn't need a lot of effort to cook, but in general it harms you. And due to the fact that most of people don't care, population is getting fat, it suffer from bunch of cardiovascular diseases, but getting healthy food is progressively harder and expensier. As most of people are not using it. I don't think anyone needs to be rocket scientist to understand that.

I don't have problems if downvotes someone who actually takes part in debate :) but drive by shooting annoys me a lot.

But there is still the same problem, for you it is the same as it was before, you have a large amount of contacts, same as my phonebook. With age come lots of work, having a family makes it even worse and it is normal, that at the end you are having only a few of them. This is nothing special and observed over decades. But what the FB does is creating a false sense of friendship, and since you don't have much time (and with aging you are having it even less), instead of focusing to a few people you really like, go for a beer with them, actually bond or find another friend, it makes everyone a "phonebook" entry. At the end you finish with not having a single real friend in your live, but you rather spend a lot of time on chatting with irelevant people. Same as here but with a twist - FB gives you a false feeling that your social life is ok, while here you know that you only chat with strangers. It encorages you not to do anything to find friends, to bond, instead of helping people bond, it is actually preventing them - which is great for FB business, the more time you spend there, the more they earn. And to make it even worse, due to the FB it is becoming even harder to find frinds, as its users (not all) are off the grid for normal, real life, socializing. Actually you made me think about it: all of my real life friends are very modest in using FB or they don't use it at all. To me it looks like that what people like you are considering as a solution (FB) is actually a problem.

(I was downvoted, I seriously don't understand why, it would be great if people who are doing it would rather write what is so wrong, I am seriously having issues understanding it)

There is another perspective regarding "deleting FB is not viable option". When you encounter a case in your real life, when you are unable to stop using "something" even if it clearly hurts you, it is typically called addiction. Maybe it ia time that people revise if it is really not a viable choice.

Let me give you my example, I am not a FB user. Never was. Do I have problem finding events? Do I have less real friends? Is my quality of life any worse becoase of that? I have hard time going to all events that interest me, I am forced to prioritise meeting my real friends due to lack of time, I still chat with them using email, sms, phone, messanging. I dont see anything that FB could change here to better, only to worse, by alienating those real life friendships that I am having now (by adding endless noise of social network - I am having over 400 phone numbers in my phone, I don't want to get all the possible news about their life, it is impossible to handle).

Social networks don't help you having real friends, for those you need to keep feal life contacts, they help you to loose them, by giving you fake feeling that you have "bytefriends" and dispersing your attention from those you care the most to buch of insignificant acquaintances.

"It makes sense when people rush to the defense of close family members or even particular places or objects with special significance—think of the house you grew up in, or the bed you have had since childhood. But why do people rush to the defense of brands?"

As far as I have noticed, it always happens when you post criticism on rust, javascript, tesla or google (haven't tryed with apple, samsung,... maybe someone should, it would be a nice research). In past same was with FB and Microsoft while this improved and today you can criticise them without downvotes. I think, that it is a clear case of this: https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/leave_my_br...

When I will finally be able to speak my personal thoughts without beeing downvoted by fanboys with low self value who are bonding their self worth with a popular brand. Guys seriously, you need psychiatric care, you ARE WRONG but due to your own personal problems you are beeing pestilence to the world. It is simple to diagnose, just check your posts, if you are defending one brand, infront others you are flawed. Every brand does something wrong, but your perception is it is better.

Here you are having a study, about your behaviour, READ IT, you will thank me later, you are having issues worth psychiatrical care, help yourself and stop annoying the human race: https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/leave_my_br...

Fortunately GDPR includes class action against corporations and there was already one rejected (prior to GDPR) fro EU high court with 25.000 FB users. Now it wont be rejected.

Google has huge problem with GDPR, their whole bussiness model is standing on tracking users, they are only smart enough not to piss into the wind. Actually they know far more about you than FB, imagine that they have almost everything you have on your android phone.

And let me explain "draft it". They lobbied. The proof for that is fb and ggl attack on Canada to prevent legalising something similar as GDPR.

Please (PLEASE, FOR GOD SAKE!), stop beeing protective to corporations, either FB, CocaCola, Tesla, Google or whatever comes to your mind. None is have priority in making world a better place, their only priority is money and power and money and they do not care about you more then a milking cow. If you disagree, you have fundamential lack of understanding how world functions.