Jinna

Legit question, I just don't know: How did they ruin Chromium? I use Firefox on the daily and Chromium for webserial but if Chromium is also cancer I'm willing to try alternatives.

Yes, it's a bit sad it took this long for enough people to reconsider if that's ok or not. You're free to continue choosing and calibrating the acceptable death rate of your actions. Just don't be surprised when others do not choose the same rate you personally consider acceptable.

The pandemic didn't end, the numbers just got low enough that most are willing to accept the remainder. Some communities have kept making the effort to stay away from the "acceptable losses" mentality which for those most immunocompromised may be their last lifeline to any in person contact with the rest of humanity.

So thanks for making a facetious joke I guess, but both sides of the issue in the article are real and there are no easy answers.

When buying a gun and/or pervert glasses, yes, sounds very reasonable?

This, but it may also be apparent even without detailed information. The key difference is an absurd level of power density. So compare footprint to power. Power can be estimated easiest based on backup generators as their smokestacks are almost always visible. The last variable is whatever generator size from CAT, Cummins etc is the most cost effective, or that was still somehow left in a warehouse to actually buy.

Triple glazed vacuum sealed windows do wonders to dull out most of it.

Doesn't seem to have any support for compression? Or at least I can't find any code or config options for that. Seems a bit odd for a backup project. Also suffers from automated releasatitis and has slop commits, so probably not something to trust backups on. Which is sad, because they're all like this right now.

Ah yes and christian values == good, communism == bad just comes naturally with that? Or perhaps it's both right and american bullshit arrogance all at the same time.

What a uniquely American way to say he's an incompetent assclown. And I don't mean that as a compliment.

The spec has issues due to usual RFC bullshit and corporate greed, but as per usual the viewpoint here is too narrow. I'm running my own open source authentication stack and choose what attestations are acceptable, say only allow the FIPS version of Yubikeys. That feature exists because companies want to be able to control which methods they consider secure enough for their own employees. This tech was built for corporate security, using it externally facing with end-users is a bolted on after the fact idea. Having control is necessary, it does not make the spec evil.

Now say GitHub enable attestations that only allow Windows Hello passkeys to go through, then yes that's technically possible. It would also be a support nightmare so they won't. (It's already a support nightmare for anyone limiting devices since for example security key vendors regularly forget to publish their fingerprints for new products.)

The whole biometrics thing? Total red herring. UV can be enabled in many different ways and totally "faked" as well, which is what all the software implementations do such as Bitwarden. Only way to stop it is approvelisting specific devices, see point above.

There's also the ADHD DLC variant of: I put it down wherever I suddenly completely context swapped to something that needed my hands free and have no idea what I was previously doing, what I had in my hands and where it might now be.

I feel like you're missing the point a bit. Living by values you hold dear is not losing, winning or even necessarily a cause. If your values happen to align with a cause, then supporting it in a way you can is at least somewhat fulfilling.

Now, there are definitely people who join a cause for tangential reasons. For example because they are a vehicle to what they want, such as someone who wants to build and use explosives can just as easily become a fundamentalist, anarchist or fascist. (And history has examples of these sordid folks.) They barely care about any of the causes and will drift wherever they can live by their own values, even if it's about blowing shit up.