Can you blame people? We’ve had at minimum of 4 decades of Hollywood (over-)dramatization on what torture and espionage should look like. Who is to say that wasn’t done on purpose?

Maybe. What better form of protest than an insider leaking sensitive information?

All of our water is tied up by Nestle. _/s

Seizing land from white farmers in a continent where said white people are not indigenous is such a white thing to say.

Power to the South African government! 👊

~Feel free to use that fist however you see fit.~

Yeah, I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. Everything you said is true, and respectful.

I think open-ended can be okay, so long as there are milestones we can achieve (i.e. try different things out to see what works and what doesn’t). Something as big as the environment, health/safety, and not completely alienating industries (as much as I hate to say it, we do need them and their resources to an extent), is not something that is going to be easily solved without compromise.

I expect that my last two points will not win me any popularity contests, but they cannot be ignored.

Same for humans. Who needs that blinding orange fireball for anything. It’s so annoying making us warm, giving us free light and energy, and helping our bodies create Vitamin D.

Gotta start somewhere, and gotta keep at it. It’s difficult at times, and there certainly are people who just want to see the world burn. But fuck them. They aren’t worth our time and energy.

Yes, but there are a few of us out there who want to see good things happen for all people.

For what it’s worth, it’s not anti anything to point out flaws. If anything, it’s being pro because it opens the door for a conversation; which, if both sides come at it in good faith, can lead to change.

Color me curmudgeon, but automated dependency updates should never be a consideration.

Also, one thing I do like that Github does is that it can be configured to send you a report of dependency changes (in yarn, for example).

Thank you for confirming what I said. 😊

This may or may not help, but here’s my two cents:

Windows was originally built to be as user-friendly as possible because its target audience are non-tech-savvy people. It then evolved into being a business OS. So security was never its first priority.

UNIX was built for tech savvy people to do business-sensitive stuff, and required sophisticated security models. Linux was modeled after UNIX (Minix specifically), and thus inherited those same principles. It evolved to become more user friendly. But security remained a priority.

Now, that said, both Windows and Linux are configurable. You can make Windows more secure with effort, just like you can make Linux less secure with effort (and I don’t mean simply using root all the time).

There are diehards on both sides , and they will make excellent (or terrible) arguments for their favored OS. So you need to decide what works best for you and your use case and go with that. 😊

Wasn’t this an episode of Dexter?

Either via the shower, or using sanitary wipes (e.g. Dude Wipes) when a shower is not available. In a pinch, a wet paper towel will help too.

1. Don’t put dirty objects up your hoohah
2. Men: Wash your gentlemen bits (and your butthole/crack) every day; two or three times if needed

Ive used it when I’ve found myself completely stumped with a problem, and I don’t know exactly how to search for the solution. I’m building a macOS app, and unfortunately a lot of the search results are for iOS — even if I exclude iOS from the results (e.g. how to build a window with tabs (like safari tabs), but all results comes up for iOS’ TabView).

Doesn’t matter if he makes it 2 more years. What he’s doing is laying the groundwork for the next dictator to reap what he’s sown.

My conspiracy theory is that AI is already running our tech companies, and that’s why everyone and their brother is pushing hard for AI integration, despite everyone knowing AI is nowhere near ready for public consumption.

Here’s how I approach old and slow:

1. Older software is mature and battle tested. It’s been around long enough that the developers should know what they’re doing, and have built a strong community for help and support.
2. Slow is okay when it comes to accuracy. Would I love to back up my gigabytes (peanuts compared to some of you folks out there with data centers in your attics) in seconds? Yes. But more importantly, I’d rather have my data be valid for if I ever need to do any kind of restore. And I’ve been around the block enough times in my career to see many useless backups.

I’m going to try to replicate as much of Postman as I feel is useful - minus the AI crap and the whole third-party cloud services. I do plan on using iCloud for personal storage, and I’m thinking GitHub for team sharing (admittedly, that feature is a ways off, and I’m open to suggestions).

I’m using SwiftUI to build the app. I think once I get a stable macOS version, I might do an iPad version too.