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The idea that it doesn't matter seems like survivorship bias. People see all the companies getting their databases dumped without a hit to their stock price/valuation and declare caution a waste of time, but what of the companies you never hear about that died because someone messed up in the rush to ship?

Labels for gender and sexuality are so much more than simple political identifiers.

People who actually use them for themselves experience them as guideposts to finding out what's going on inside by seeking out other people's experiences. To us, the labels are no different from "nerd" or "musician." I would still find them useful even without a vast social and political movement hell-bent on making my world as sad and empty as their own.

Identity labels are fundamentally about making space to explore. "Musician" leads to all kinds of places, like grungehead, or rondo fanatic, or furry rave DJ. Why people get so up in arms about identity labels when it comes to gender and sexuality is beyond me, and I've already written too much here to start speculating.

Labels are just words we use to collect and share bits of the world. A gay guy discovering he's not actually all that picky about gender should be able to start calling himself bi without fearing biphobic reactions (internal or external).

Biphobia, which is just a modern label for a collection of attitudes that predate our modern concepts of sexuality, would still be a thing if no one called themselves "gay" or "bi" (or pan), just as same-sex attracted people got lynched for going against some people's beliefs long before there were words for their attractions.

Labels aren't the problem. Dogmatic adherence to narrow concepts of gender and sexuality is the problem. It's helpful to identify the way I do so people who also identify that way can find me and compare experiences with me.

Labels for gender and sexuality are best treated as a way of finding others like yourself to increase self-knowledge and protect yourself against people who want to hurt you because of the feelings those labels represent.

That worked right up until Microsoft started taking pro hardware seriously. I keep seeing long-time Apple fans say Windows 10 is a few major revisions from being tolerable on top of some kind of Surface.

I've only seen Dexter from that list. To me, it took a few seasons to warm up. That said, it started out better than a lot of shows.

I'd be hard pressed to think of a show that didn't take a few seasons to warm up. That's not to say they were bad, but it took some time for the actors and writers to figure out how the characters work.

The problem is less pronounced now that most shows are serials planned out years in advance, but it still happens.

That makes sense if you think like a major studio going after broad demographics, but it's not how Netflix thinks. They use their data to try and build global clusters of people.

It fails miserably for me, at least with their recommendations, but it seems to work for most people based on Netflix's stock price growth. Someone is out there watching those 5000 shows imported from China with no English dub, and in big enough numbers for Netflix to consider it a wise investment.

They inverted the typical network TV situation. Instead of shows taking three seasons to warm up, they fall apart within three.

There's just enough content I like on Netflix now that I'd consider it worth it without any non-Netflix produced/branded shows and movies.

Unfortunately, it's next to impossible to find what I want through Netflix's interface. Somehow they have all this data on my watching habits and can't even get close to showing me things I want to watch. I depend entirely on review sites and recommendations from others.

I did build a temple to an imaginary fire dragon once. Unfortunately, this was before I discovered WorldEdit and its schematic saving functionality.

That only helps if the spy equipment needs more than power from the USB port. It doesn't need a data connection if it's picking up RF noise from the laptop and audio from people to transmit to nearby agents.

It was done in the '80s with much less advanced technology: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/covert/bugs/selectric/

The vent control officer has logged on.

This is basically how I play Minecraft: seeing how many pointless, elaborate rooms I can build below an unassuming surface structure.

Nobody thought Florida was inhabitable until it was. All it takes is one scientific or engineering breakthrough that stands on the right shoulders and it makes sense to build bases off Earth.

The first settlement will probably be a retirement community for millionaires fleeing the chaos on Earth. Billionaires will build and run it.

That's exactly it. Metric is on every single food item. Food is like a modern 64 bit system. Meanwhile, the roads are still in miles per hour and all temperatures are in Fahrenheit, so I need an 8 bit subsystem to run it.

I would have to convert back to feet and miles if the article didn't have it because I'm not used to those units since I never have an opportunity to use them in my daily life. Metric is not as intuitive as its promoters insist. Intuition is developed through use.

Civilization-scale issues require civilization-scale solutions. I can't unilaterally convert to metric in every context because it would be terribly impractical. I would spend my days doing conversions. That's a huge waste of finite time and energy.

You're misinformed. A foot as a measurement in 2018 has no more to do with a human foot than a computer chip has to do with a potato-powered calculator. Imperial units have had standard metric translations for a long time.

I've even seen older people pick it up. It's a good syntax.

Nothing about GMail's dominance is related to centralization.

Everyone moved to Google because they offered (I think) a full gigabyte instead of the mere megabytes that was standard at the time. And it also had a really slick web interface that didn't require setting up software. People could finally use it for work, or to send pictures without managing space or an email client. "Never delete anything" was the big selling point.

Every mail host has a web interface now and provides lots of space, but it took too long. Inertia keeps GMail dominant, not centralization.

You can do DMs, but it's possible for admins with sufficient access on each recipient's instance to read them.

edit: I didn't see that this was in the context of GDPR.

Put @blender@video.blender.org in the search box.

>> "Anti-censorship has always been the #1 benefit of federation and peer-to-peer connectivity. I don't think any other benefits come even close, and they are usually overshadowed by how much more difficult it is to build a well-working federated or P2P network."

The rank of benefits is, of course, highly subjective. I'm speaking for myself.

It's always a risk. However, I'll take my chances on something that's already paying for itself (the instances I use) over something that's going to collapse the moment easy capital dries up in the next market crash.

That said, it's wise to maintain a backup account on a different instance. Right now one of my instances is down for unknown reasons, but almost everyone who follows me there also follows my other account.

The real value of federation, and the value of a standard like ActivityPub, didn't fully click for me until I realized I could follow Blender's PeerTube experiment from my Mastodon account.

If enough sites start supporting it, you could get many of the benefits of RSS with the few benefits of massive silos like Twitter and Facebook.

>> "I'm fairly sure there are countries out there where citizens do not lie awake at night in fear of their government, and where such technologies might be responsibly deployed as a tool in law enforcement."

This was true of many countries where it's no longer the case. Once a technology is available to a benevolent government, it remains available once that benevolence ends. It's wise to do what can be done to prevent and hinder misuse before it's too late.

Courts exist to answer this question.

The south is weird like this. Some places it's great, some places you'd never know it was further in the future than 1959.

Someone willing to take on the stigma and dangers for an opportunity instead of go for one of the already abundant opportunities available for them may not be entirely cis anyway.

Summary: "I can't tell the difference between discriminatory hiring [rejecting based on identity] and targeted hiring [seeking people out based on identity]."

Author even acknowledges the previous policy (which does sound discriminatory based on their framing) is no longer in place at LLVM, which is the focus of the article.

This is not really about "open source." It's about LLVM, and springs off randomly at "open source" using poor-quality non-citations, weasel words (of the species "some people say"), and other hallmarks of bad, ideologically-tilted writing.

Abuse survivors/advocates have been warning about this for years. I'm glad it's going mainstream so the people who make them will hear and think about how to make them less dangerous.

Startup idea: knowledge sharing, resume hosting, and real estate/rental listing platform for people chasing their current quality of life at a lower cost of living.