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It is in fact the contrary: I am trying to maximize it by pointing out how big tech platforms makes it possible.

Palantir does not work in a vacuum - it requires other technology, platforms and systems to operate and succeed - many of which are designed and maintained by the users of Hacker News.

Take a look at Palantir's trust center: https://palantir.safebase.us

Schellman did their audit and compliance - do they have blood on their hands?

How about AWS, GCP, Azure cloud resources used by Palantir - are they stained, too?

> Does anybody get the looming impression that the probability they'll die in war is approaching 1?

No. If I had this level of anxiety, I would disconnect from news and online media for a little while to take a walk in the forest to clear my mind and calm down.

"End to end" protection/encryption has lost all functional meaning when the masses accepted corporations as the arbiters of "ends". No one can even respond to the argument based on technical merit, because all that remains is hollow marketing bullshit.

What is especially insane is people STILL praise Apple for championing "privacy" - after Snowden, after China, after Trump ... the well-engineered sunk-cost fallacy is just too potent to resist, I guess.

Is there even one secondary source confirming this figure? The number of Western newspapers printing this as fact, without apparently a modicum of research, is kind of concerning. "China announces" is not the most reliable source.

> without creating a record that ties them to my IP, browser fingerprint, etc.?

Tor Browser

It is important to establish facts and a narrative before asserting who the victim actually is.

"Morpheus is fighting Neo!"

Missing from this heartfelt plea is any indication of what code you were working on before the ban, or why you are so certain it was a result of credit card activities. We only get your side of the story - what does Github support actually tell you?

Regardless, hopefully a valuable lesson in mirroring public contributions to other source control systems (Gitlab, Codeberg, etc.) is learned.

Not surprising. Asymmetrically-powerful personal technology is a threat to the State's monopoly of force and power. Same reason for US juristictions banning hardware "hacking" devices, firearms manufacturing, 3D printing - hell, even building and maintaining a PC is becoming untenable. The writing is on the wall for what is next.

> Do we want our fundamental computing environment to be ultimately under our control, or controlled by private interests with their own incentives?

The reality is a lot more nuanced than that. Should one live in a forest, devoid of any city services and company of other individuals, so that one may be under "own control"? This is the essential value proposition with Linux and it's no wonder many prefer the comforting institution of proprietary prisons^Wsystems.

Have not used Instagram in a decade - sincerely curious why would a physical address be part of the leaked data? Are users actually required or voluntarily provide this information to Facecrook?

No mention of any security review, or even testing. Reason enough to stay away from such tools.

A pharmacy is a terrible example, as medicine is grossly overpriced for exactly the reason you state. The "users" may be getting "enriched" but the pharmacy is profiting a substantial order of magnitude more.

May I ask how long the battery lasts under lid suspension? And how quickly does wifi connect after wake? These two issues alone drove me begrudgingly to macOS.

On the desktop. Laptop/mobile devices still significantly suffer under Linux compared to proprietary operating systems. The author even admits: "Tried getting Linux on my laptop over Christmas. Didn’t work." We have a lot more work remaining to claim any sort of victory.

"Free" market coercion is probably the only reason companies like Microsoft are still in business.

This suspicion is likely an unconscious bias.

No one appears to be pissing on shoes, but a public urination analogy may be fitting here. Should the alleged offender be reprimanded for their obvious behavior, or have their past bladder expressions deeply scrutinized first?

By the same logic, an inmate in prison is benefiting from incarceration because they are receiving food and housing. Obviously, the costs of being imprisoned is greater than any "enrichment" from it, and this is exactly the case with Windows and almost all technology.

Schrödinger's comment: you wouldn't know an account's purpose if you did not first trawl its history.

> It’s not legal to be denied jobs based on health.

There is a vast gap between what is not legal and what is actually actionable in a court of law, which is well known to a large power nexus.

Concern for metaphysics is shared by many great thinkers, including Aristotle and Kant, so your unwillingness to even apprehend it is disappointing.

Why do people trawl through a poster's history in attempt to disarm their argument? Surely just addressing it on its own merit is sufficient, no?

Cool. Got anything interesting to say to us, besides expressing your disbelief at our mere existence?

Not really. The provide convenience, sure, but fundamentally all technology creates dependence and limits freedom by influencing behavior in subtle ways, while disproportionately benefiting the technology owner/operator.

That is not the asymmetrical power dynamic described between you and technology.

Facts are more important than tone - both greatly offend people who are wrong.

This "enrichment" is wildly asymmetrical to users, however.