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I generally agree with your post, but that question is really bad, as it can be seen as mansplaining. The fact finding is fine, but requires a gentler approach.

They do have memory-holed some very inconvenient blog posts, such as this https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/okcupid-inbox-attractive/ (probably exists somewhere on archive.org)

What was novel about COVID-19? There is a worldwide epidemic pretty much every decade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics#Chronology

Funny then how for the first few months of the pandemic the emphasis and public guidance was on desinfecting hands and surfaces and endless debates about how if masks actually help.

If reddit ever gets rid of old.reddit.com, that is the day that I stop using it.

This only switches between windows of the same app. On Windows, with Alt+Tab you switch between all of the currently open windows of all applications.

It depends on how the display is detected. Never got it to work with Dell UltraSharps, but some curved LG display works fine.

What use is that all that performance when you can be randomly locked out without any recourse? In terms of gaming, "dead DPS does 0 dps".

I think that say what you will about the social media and the ills of it, Tinder is definitely a net positive for society. This is because matching on Tinder removes the ambiguity of attraction from the whole confusing dance of social interaction. So in the long run, when Tinder and its clones take over, there should be much less stories about unwanted sexual attention: either you make it on Tinder or you do not make it at all.

I am not saying whether you should or should not use this product. My point is that before using such products, you need to read really carefully where and how you can use it this product because of the included resources or intended purpose for using this. It is not sufficient to only read the README file and decide based on that.

The key part here is the second sentence "Use of these trademarks or logos must follow Microsoft’s Trademark & Brand Guidelines.". But there can be other such limitations also, just hidden somewhere else.

Usually projects like this are meant to be used together with Office 365 or for extending Microsoft ecosystem.

Straight from the README, but maybe there are other limitations:

"This project may contain Microsoft trademarks or logos for Microsoft projects, products, or services. Use of these trademarks or logos must follow Microsoft’s Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship."

I think you are seriously and intentionally misunderstanding the point. So far it was completely fine for Facebook to ban whoever they wanted and it was justified by them being a private company. Anybody who complained about it was told that they can build their own social network/cloud provider/payment provider.

Somehow now this is bad... Ridiculous.

If you do not like the rules set by them, you can always build your own social network.

Actually, yes. Blizzard had an unbelievable amount of goodwill and reputation built up over the years and in any case, these kinds of changes do not happen overnight.

For me, the first understanding that things are rolling downhill was how they killed the social aspect with the removal of battle.net without any replacement and completely messed up the concept of playing custom maps when StarCraft 2 launched. Longer thread from 2010 about custom maps: https://tl.net/forum/sc2-maps/139745-the-real-problem-with-s...

Yes, IIRC, for Formula One there was a saying ages ago that the 3 most unhappy participants after a race are 2nd place (did not win), 4th place (did not get to be on the podium) and 7th place (did not get any points).

edit: Now I looked at it again and I see that F1 has adjusted their points system throughout the following years, so you need to replace the 7th place with whatever is relevant now.

There are legal ways to get around it. The viager system is a plot device in this short story by Guy de Maupassant: https://americanliterature.com/author/guy-de-maupassant/shor...

And yet this is a very important game to play that you must participate in if you want your company to grow. What use is having a very good product with 15+ years of history and integrations to any system you consider relevant in that space, if nobody can find you even in the first 20 pages of Google search results in your category?

Faced this case recently, only found out their product via word-of-mouth recommendation.

Do not blame Firefox, this is actually how MacOS UI works by default: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/269622/macos-windo...

I think the other poster has some addon installed and forgot about it.

I am not sure how good of a comparison this is, but relying on one client or one platform in business feels like going all-in in poker. But in these kinds of relationships, you are definitely not the shark.

The link to the Youtube video in the previous to last paragraph is not working for me even after removing the extra space after ?v=

Does anyone know what the mentioned infamous example is about?

Soviet Union kids might remember this book and how capitalism was displayed there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon#Lunar_capita...

Unbelievable that nowadays it reads more like a checklist.

Because GP was discussing a socially sensitive topic, but the other person asked for an explanation about an easily googleable concept. This is intentional noodle-braining, explanation on reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/ixp19i/did...

GP was not trying to be racist, such a concept does exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c...

In a common forum that is not purely dedicated to Microsoft technology, MS product names really ought to be prefixed — context is important. For example, it applies to Entity Framework also: it has happened a few times to me that a non-MS developer assumed that ORMs in general were discussed, while it was related only to the MS implementation.

It is very hard to trust hard drive manufacturers these days. I have a few of these drives mentioned here https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/ironwolf... with the specified "typical" noise level of 25 dB for seek and it is definitely much much more than that.

Synology forums have several threads like this: https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/1/post/130843

And I understand that these are different companies, but why I even went for Seagate was because of the CMR issues.

In this case it is. High capacity 7200 rpm drives can be unbelievably noisy, to the level that they are not recommended for home theatre NAS as you can hear the seeking sound during a movie or from the next room at night.

> The fact that sometimes suffering is very intense and temporary and that forcing someone to live through that can later lead to a fulfilling and happy life. A life where they are grateful they suffered through the temporary thing without ending it.

I will have to disentangle myself from this discussion to remain polite. This is veering too much into the 'being bullied will make you stronger' territory.

Let's keep it very simple here. What possible justification can you have to force another being with feelings to suffer?

By the way, even the part of "something "suffering psychologically" is not unsurmountable" is quite often unjustifiable, such as when psychological suffering is caused by the environment and there is no way to escape the environment.

Please try to think here in terms of probabilities, not absolutes and about the threat model.

1. Closed source and loaded on an USB stick is the simplest case. But in the end, how will you still know what is the actual code that the eventual tallying system is running?

2. Verification of votes is not about encryption. If you allow it to be unlimited, then you can actually sell your vote. In Estonia, you can verify your vote 3 times for 30 minutes after your vote was cast: https://www.oiguskantsler.ee/sites/default/files/field_docum... (point 14 on page 5)

3. Mostly agreed with you about the rate of vulnerabilities. But the issue here is that voting is such an important of how democractic society works that there should be no obvious vulnerabilities or any exploitations of vulnerabilities can be easily discovered. E-voting has neither of these because again, how can we know what code is actually being executed?

4., 5., 6., 7. Yes, one vote can get lost. Hell, thousands can get lost. But on average, I can still count on the process eventually working out due to the observability. Somebody will find ballots thrown in trash, pre-filled ballots, 117% of eligible people voting. Sure, in those cases the country is unsalvageable, but you will at least know that it is happening.

8. OK, but that is neither here nor there.

9., 10. If you open up Google Maps and look one country eastward, you will understand. As a reference, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia Not sure on what their planning divisions are cooking up, but I do not doubt that they will use any angle they can. What is the going price for a Windows 10 0-day anyway, on the order of a few hundred k to 1M, I assume? Peanuts.

It's not about it being compulsory, but the system being unverifiable end-to-end and any criticism of that being laughed at.

If you put it into business terms, would you trust an employee or vendor who told you that everything was alright, did not allow you to perform checks and audits and mocked both your and external partners concerns [0] about it? I don't think so. If the government is indeed for the people and not vice versa, then this is not acceptable.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs Tom Scott's video about e-voting. Funniest rebuttal I saw on Estonian social media was that we are secure, since he is talking about e-voting, but we have i-voting. So I guess once we will call it c-voting, it will be even better...?