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IIUC, X11 had the same problem, but Wayland allows sandboxing to prevent this?
And MacOS has some degree of sandboxing? But many applications require "Accessibility" permission that similarly gives far too many privileges?
Are there other similar projects that you're familiar with? Perhaps targeting other languages?
What are the major problems with this approach to programming? Are large programs hard to work with?
It does however harm the ability for well-meaning organizations to function.
But that free-thinking definition of Java clashes with the mainstream beliefs in the Java ecosystem, and you'll get a lot opposition at workplaces.
So I gave up on Java, not because of the language, but because of the people, and the forced culture around it.
Personally I think 19th century communism was context-specific to the 19th century; we now have AI, and central planning could be done with the same computational efficiency as the stock market.
For me, communism is more about fundamental beliefs. Like "Do you believe in Jesus Christ as your savior?", the fundamental question is: do you believe that the state should serve all mankind, and that private ownership should never extend over more than what an individual can reasonably consume? Which then necessitates public service infrastructure and market places.
I think "social democrats" have more thoughts on practical applications. "Communism" is more about fundamental beliefs, i.e. the right to nationalize and collectivize private ownership. For example, it is increasingly clear that Microsoft, Amazon, etc. are becoming tyrants. They should have been broken up into smaller companies years ago. Imagine if Windows, Office, Xbox, Azure, etc. were each produced by fully independent companies? And if those companies were fundamentally obligated to serve the public market.
IIUC, the land that is unutilized or has forest, is either protected, too hilly, too dry, etc.
It's a great tragedy if they felt threatened by capitalism, and capitalism by communism, in a self-perpetuating way that could have been avoided.
But I would argue that capitalism has its roots in aristocracy, imperialism, and private ownership (i.e. slavery, colonialism, and systemic exploitation), to an extent that it is fair to say that capitalism cannot co-exist with communist ideals.
But yes, European countries were heavily influenced by communist ideology, which continues to shape our values today, about well-regulated free markets, fair taxation, public service, and so on, which directly threatened capitalist interests, and arguably that's why we're seeing a rise in fascism, in an attempt to remove these communist ideals.
To be clear, I am confused on this matter, but I do think that the Europeans have been foolish to follow US doctrine for the last 50 years (since Reagan/Thatcher), and especially the last 10-20 years have been devastating on virtually every sector of the economy.
Similarly, I would argue that you should not underestimate the harmful and wide-reaching effects of industry.
The US has waged war in virtually every country around the world, for example Afghanistan, Vietnam, and Korea, which were significant threats to both Soviet and China. China has virtually been besieged since the 1950s, with Americans present in Thailand, Philippines, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.
How would you feel if the Soviet installed weapons systems in Canada, Hawaii, Mexico, Greenland, and Cuba? And then started a tariff war to hopefully bankrupt your economy?
Obviously America refers to the continent, so I'll use the shorthand country name "the US" instead.
> is the best
That may be true, but I do wonder if it was a lucky accident. What if the Irish famine hadn't happened? What if WW2 had been averted (but maybe the EU wouldn't exist...).
> rural cabin
That's nice, but what value is it if the forest burns down, the lake is polluted, the wild life is dead, and there's nothing left but neighboring land full of fracking wells? Glory to god.
Of course the reality is just that the US has become the axis of evil, and perhaps always was, it just had the best PR.
I think you're doing yourself a disservice by belitting Asian cultures and what insights they may have, that are apparently incomprehensible as more than a trope to Americans.
I agree about capability-based security, but strictly speaking, the capabilities of current OS are just primitive, i.e. checking file permissions. What capability checks do you mean?
My understanding is that the biggest threat is not capability checking, but capability escalation, i.e. bypassing checks, and hardware hacking, e.g. spectre/meltdown-type attacks that can read arbitrary memory.
I somewhat feel that there was a generation that had it easier, because they were pioneers in a new field, allowing them to become experts quickly, while improving year-on-year, being paid well in the process, and having great network and exposure.
Of course, it can be done, but we should at least acknowledge that sometimes the industry is unforgiving and simply doesn't have on-ramps except for the privileged few.
VSCode is MIT licensed. But the extensions aren't, which locks you into the Microsoft distribution of VSCode. And that's how they turned an open source product into a monopoly-enhancing tool.
And in the same sense regarding VSCode, and the VC fueled takeover of the open source ecosystem; the old guard warned against it, that's why they promoted GPL as critically necessary.
I feel like I've been doing that for years on a wide range of topics, but every time it's like you're talking to cult members.
How do you break through to people? People say things like "you're overthinking it", "that's never going to happen", "I don't care because I like using VSCode and not alternatives".
Is it individualism? That they only consider their own narrow short-term interests, and have become blind to collective problems?
We don't know what the world would look like if the US hadn't destroyed communism, and hadn't actively supported tyrannical leaders.
But in an ironic twist, the US will now be destroyed by the same dark forces they created.
It is significantly better than privatized tourism, because private tourism is frequently taken over by organized crime who destroy the nature to build hotels. Public service tourism usually doesn't care about profit, but rather about reducing public spending, so it is generally more efficient, has a smaller foot print, is shared, educative, and respectful.
I'm not an expert so I can't give you references, but ask your neighborly LLM:
> The USSR promoted the idea of "democratic tourism" — affordable and accessible to everyone. Unlike Western commercial tourism, Soviet tourism aimed to educate and unite people. The Tourist Union (Туристско-спортивный союз) and other state organizations built networks of tourist bases, campgrounds, hiking routes, and equipment rental centers.
No, it's not. It literally has no meaning.
> not the other way around
Yeah, until an alien species shows up that has more powerful weapons and decides your meat is delicious, and considers you a herdable animal. They might install you in a coup so you can play videogames all day and drink beer as your only source of nutrients, to give your meat that kobebeef marble.
> Whatever happened to liberty
The Americans decided that it wasn't worthwhile anymore.
> and the pursuit of happiness
It became profitable to keep you from being happy.
Perhaps there's a nicer way to say it? "If the author so pleases, he may consider improving accessibility by making it compatible with Dark Reader."
Then it is phrased as a request, rather than a complaint or critique.