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I'd love, love, love to finally see a company earnestly held responsible for their negligent security practices but I have no hope. Doubly so with this administration. Equifax getting run into the ground would help a president.

I've given up on people being outraged or even informed. Maybe I should just say I've given up on people.

Agreed. Google just grosses me out these days.

Screw YouTube's automation across the board. It's horrendous and lazy.

Hey they found one of their "leaks."

Couldn't have a more slimey FCC chairman.

Some humility mixed in with his bragging? Seems like a fair ask.

Why does this matter?

Servers ain't free, mate.

YouTube already does an absolutely horrible job with handling take-downs and fair use. I have zero interest in seeing any systems or algorithms built that would aid the sloppy, lazy, and greedy organizations shot gunning take downs, even on their own material and channels (always funny).

I can't be bothered for anything behind a paywall. Seems like a deathknell for any article you actually want read.

This is going to sound glib but it just sounds like some people in security research are butthurt. And not for any valid reason.

I was building a project a few years ago where I really needed some resources on visual-programming UI's and couldn't find much of any information on the topic. This is nice. I saved this.

Yeah, replace "we" with "some." Some contingent of the population are greedy scumbags. It's not the human condition. Everyone always wants to sidestep responsibility because "it's in our nature." Complete cop-out.

I would argue Flickr's target audience was people who really care about photography and not social butterflies. As soon as it started to go down the toilet, the real audience left. So you're left with the social butterflies who were probably just as content with every other craptrap website at the time that would host photos. Those people will always flutter to next shiny thing with a crowd around it.

I wanted to root for Mayer in the beginning but omg was her run a shit show.

Meh, it's time someone knocked them off their perch. It's the same with all these platforms. They all degrade after a few years. Their priorities change from providing a valuable service to squeezing every red cent they can out of their platform. That was probably always the plan but as soon as your agenda switches away from providing for your users, you're trash and it's just a function of time before people start jumping ship.

Scummy to say the least.

So like node.js in a nutshell?

I left FB ~4 years ago. One of the straws that broke the camel for me was that it was obvious FB was "curating" my feed for me. Without notifying or consulting me. Posts from friends wouldn't show in my feed and vice versa. The privacy issues were bad enough but when I couldn't trust the platform to fulfill the only need I had for it, I walked.

I'm far better for it.

As a vet I can tell you all healthcare for vets is a joke. And mental health? LOL!

The public, press and government can pay as much lip service as they want toward "caring" for their veterans. But that's all it is. Some momentary hand waving and noise whilst there's a new story making the circuit about the most recent veteran failure. Five minutes go by and it's a forgotten issue again.

We've treated service members as consumables publicly since the Vietnam war. For those who come back broken, not much has changed since 1955.

I know a lot of messed up vets. I've watched them struggle with their issues while fighting a broken, uncaring system. I've been aware of many enlisted suicides over the years. I know when I was self destructing I was lucky to be in a really good financial position and have a caring and resilient significant other. Without those two things clearing paths for me (which has still been a disappointing, frustrating slog) I'm pretty confident I wouldn't be here right now. If I had to rely on the VA or any other "programs" I probably would have ended up scrambling my own brains about 4-6 years ago.

You need 3rd party cloud access so the stuff in your garage can be more easily stolen of course. Just like I need my twitter followers to know when my toast is done so my toaster needs a wifi connection.

Don't use AWS. There, fixed that for you.

Clearly almost no one is asking for alternatives.

Beats the hell out of XML. The reason JSON works so well is b/c it's dead simple and no one can implement their own stupid version.

I have seen so many takes on xml and soap over the years. Every one of them made me sneer in disgust.

Why can't patents have a duration? If you're the first to come up with an idea, you get 5 years head start before competitors can use your patent for their own ends. If you never have the resources to materialize your idea or can't find a seat in the market, that's unfortunate but oh well. We can't keep allowing battery technology to be held back because Exxon bought up all the patents years ago.

I don't believe patents, as they are, are doing very much toward their original goal. Right now, and perhaps this is my frustrated cynicism here, they just look like one more method for those with money to bully those without.

Drugs fall into a problematic territory here. I don't know enough about big pharma to have an informed conversation but I feel like there are other options available to us. Pharma R&D is what is always, always, always trotted out as a defense for our absurd patent system. The whole world has to get shafted with a bad system because one industry can't figure out another way?

We're all doomed.

Not a vet, eh?

Eh... the difference is when there's photos of war crimes something often actually happens. When it comes out that there were business crimes, no a whole lot ever happens. Maybe someone resigns. Real justice happening there...

Don't get me wrong, things slip by on both fronts. But when it's financial, there isn't any sense of moral/righteous indignation to incite actual action. It's more like, "oh, bankers are screwing people again? Well, that's what they do. They'll just worm out of this like they do everything else."

Wallstreet is dominated by criminals? I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!