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granitDev··on The State of the Awk (2020)
Clearly someone needs to make a Rust implementation called RAWK
granitDev··on The Imprisoner’s Dilemma
How about we legalize the drugs, because the drug war has helped exactly no one, and release everyone convicted of a non-violent drug offense, AND wipe the conviction from their record and offer them free educational assistance? That would be a start, would probably get rid of half the prison population, and would prevent a whole lot of future arrests, and would defund the gangs.
granitDev··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
She's got money and power and a D in front of her name, she'll get voted in every time in California. Vote Blue no matter who, remember?
granitDev··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
For how much free speech is suppressed by social media? It could only get better, because the one sided free for all isn't doing anyone any good.
granitDev··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
There's another good reason for term limits, how many of these VERY OLD people don't even understand what encryption is and couldn't possibly understand the concept that this is like passing a law demanding that you leave your house key at the local police station, unless you let them search your house every second Tuesday.
granitDev··on NovaChat: Multi-Network Chat
I'm not sure why this is needed...looks to me like a solution in search of a problem.
granitDev··on The Case Against Google
I think part of the problem when it comes to Google, is the massive name recognition. I'll wager that the average not-technical user who ventures to Google doesn't understand 1) what exactly a search engine is 2) alternatives exist.

If you asked them, they probably think Google is the internet, and if you have to find anything, you have to go to Google to find it.

I'll admit I have no proof of this, but I've found, generally that the non-technical individuals I know, have incredible poor working knowledge of the internet. I take as my primary evidence though the masses vulnerability to really stupid and easily caught scams, spoof websites, click bait, and spam emails.

As a technical user, I'm constantly baffled that people fall for this crap. So if people really are that incomprehensibly ignorant, I'll bet they don't' even really know what a google is and why they use other than it's all they know and they'd be lost without it.

If the general public can't figure out no one is going to hand them a million bucks from nigeria, how the hell can they figure out you don't have to use Google?

I use DDG btw. I find their results fantastically good. So good that I can't even use google. The spam, the adds, the poor results. I cant' take it. I also can't handle that google returns different results on different computers.

I get the same results on DDG every time i make the same search. I've gotten lazy and started performing searches for things instead of typing in the address because it's consistent and faster.

granitDev··on The Case Against Google
This is so wrong it's laughable. Please provide proof if this ridiculousness.