MalReynolds

Nah, the fun is learning form others mistakes. Thanks for a fun read :}

Also the baseband chip for 4G/5G is yet another self contained computer you don't control. Shit's egregious.

Good flick, but to be clear sneakernet is just handing over physical media in person.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of hard disks (or a suitcase full of microSDs on a plane).

C64 sneakernet swapped floppies were huge at the time, no modem required.

Devs are reverse centaurs now.

Lines of code was never a good metric, but it looks like productivity to the C-suite. This will bite them (and everyone who uses the code) in the ass. After some spectacular fails it will be judgement that a Dev is most prized for, meanwhile, this.

Still, eight to ten productive hours a day in any sustained fashion is bullshit, more like 3-4 with a bunch of meetings, learning, deciphering etc. filling out the day.

I'd argue that most things that are currently in the crosshairs for exclusion under age verification are also harmful to at least a third of the adult population and to society in general.

Actually maybe that's just for profit algorithm based social media and / or mass scale surveillance and personal information gathering and advertising.

The point being, if you're going to make a case for something being harmful to kids, you need to also make a case for it's being OK for adults or maybe it just needs banning outright for the good of society, see also smoking. Personally I'm in favor of leaving this in the hands of the individual and parents, and perhaps making easy tools for less technically adept parents to use.

TLDR: If Facebook is bad for kids, why isn't it bad for adults?

Seems pretty plausible, not 3-2-1 yet, but on the way, and should get the habits established well enough. Just having an offline backup is a huge step up from most. Consider a waterproof box (perhaps buried) in the back yard instead of just another room (in case of fire / flood).

If you have a friend with a similar setup, or who perhaps wants one, you can sync over internet and both get your offsite without the expense of online backups or the inconvenience of lugging HDDs around.

Good to hear, actually something worthwhile from FF (rust?) rather than AI crap. Hope it gets to Zen soon (and i can trust it as much as uBlock).

Yup, easy, mayhap not, but worthwhile things often aren't.

seems like I wouldn’t be able to install Facebook I think

Bonus.

Nice.

I’ve never heard about any privacy issues there, but, it’s worth keeping in mind

You would hear about it, and as someone happy there, it's a recurring nightmare, but an actual credible threat would be worth so many dollars lost to them that there's a low likelihood. Shit, Torvalds runs fedora, still, keep a weather eye open.

Mostly Linux has the virtue of the many eyes on open source protection, but it's far from absolute, as the rise of supply chain exploits demonstrates.