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Yeah I agree with you. This is very true in the Windows world, if an app uses entirely native widgets it looks very meh.

However, on Linux and Mac it's a little different. On Mac you'll see many apps compromise their branded style to look more Mac-like in style. Meanwhile on Linux most people use apps entirely fitted for their desktop environment, and then it's branded apps that look out of place. Windows attempted to make it's desktop more this way and failed with Windows 8.

Just cut your ties with all the main ones and keep around the few you like, I did that ages ago and while my front page is a lot slower it I still get good content and decent people, and I honestly had no idea this stuff was going on until I went on hacker news, so that's nice.

I cited the Espionage Act specifically because it has almost exclusively been used against leakers in recent years because there is not legal defense for a leaker who releases something that is in the common people's best interest to have released. There is essentially no defense Snowden's lawyers can take against that charge where they could possibly win, and that in itself is a big issue.

We don't need to make leaking all things all the time legal, but we need our legal system and our courts to have the option to decide whether or not something is in the people's best interest to have released and then pardon those leakers on a case by case basis, punishing those who aren't. It's a case of balance.

And an unconditional pardon doesn't solve things long term anyway. We need to stop things like the Espionage Act which makes leaking a defenceless crime.