Serinus

Build the mass transit first, then the apartments make sense.

It also seems like somewhat reasonable anti-malware practices, for the most part. They want a government ID if you're going to push kernel level drivers. They have a process for doing so.

Could have been smoother, such as allowing them to recover their existing account.

I've heard great things about Malazan. I should probably pick that up.

Sanderson is a great airport read.

I wouldn't recommend it outside of that context. It's nothing special.

This isn't helpful.

I understand the intent, but this is not phrased well.

prevents your messages being spied on by Signal, but ironically they’re probably one of the most trustworthy actors in this whole chain, so the fact that it’s protected from them, while commendable, is not particularly valuable security

It's extremely valuable security, because most companies, even if they don't want to spy on you might be compelled to by court order. And those companies often think their security is sufficient because they have good intentions, and they expect the government to have good intentions when they're going as far as getting a court order. (I also suspect more court orders are justified than not, but a few bad subpoenas spoil the bunch.) The fact that they physically are unable is quite important.

All your points about how things around that can fail are valid.

I will say that double posting is a completely reasonable solution. More orgs should be the gateway where they can be seen, and have the visibility of the big platforms, but they also offer Mastodon as an alternative. If enough orgs do that, it enables people to just... move.

It's hard for users to move when 75% of their content is exclusive to X. And it's hard for orgs to move when 75% of the users are on X. Double posting allows this to move to 10% X exclusive content, 60% content that's available everywhere, and 10% exclusive to open platforms. After the orgs move the content, it's so much easier for users to move, and after the users move, it's easier for the orgs to move.

This should be a cooperative thing. And afaik it doesn't take that much effort to post the content to two places.

The US would lose, no chance.

Maybe we haven't been losing enough. Our losers might want to lose more bigly.

We're getting away from "speak softly and carry a big stick." We're more interested now in yelling loudly while shooting ourselves in the foot.

Hopefully things are better in a year.

It's likely they see it as one harmless comment and not the pattern and culture that it is.

Yeah, I don't plan to leave in two years, so I'm motivated to not say "oh fuck" when I have to maintain the thing I built later.

Plus, you know, I don't want people to groan when they have to work on my code.

You fucking idiot.

Is this referencing a specific game?