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> But it’s not like the designers are unaware of more information dense alternatives.

Strong disagree. I have been in UX reviews for products like Bloomberg terminals as the intended user. I specifically asked for information density and the designer looked at me like I was from the moon. Their counter offer was a permanent floating chatbot that covered the small amount of information still on the page. No joke. Information density is something those web designers genuinely could not comprehend.

Package distribution is the best solution but why would you download the install script a second time?

It’s a shell script. You can download and read it before you run it. Piping it directly to the shell is reckless.

I’m not sure how your machine is configured but mine has permission boundaries and security policies that make sure programs are behaving properly. I don’t run everything with my personal user context.

Ooh! Are we talking about infrastructure projects in Washington State? This is a nerd-snipe headshot.

Washington State has four of the top five floating bridges in the world!

I-90 is actually two bridges, the second and fifth longest in the world.

SR-520 is the longest.

Hood Canal is third.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pontoon_bridges

Am I out of touch?

No, it is the children^W commenters who are wrong.

If you made that comment face to face I would assume you want me to ask what the company is. You could just not do that and talk about the signup flow instead. If you don’t want to talk about something don’t bring it up.

You could have just ended your comment at:

> side note: i really wish more companies did the no email + randomized account number flow.

Everything you said after that added confusion and this tangent instead of the conversation you wanted to have.

Because it creates confusion as proven by the responses mistakenly assuming that you were referring to proton.

Then why comment at all? This is the danger of speaking in riddles.

But if both services keep logs de-anonymization is a join.

> there is a certain popular "pro-privacy" product beloved by many here

Please don’t speak in riddles. Just say what you mean.

> AI gives the military a way to cover or deflect war crimes

Huh? Who is accepting “it was AI” as cover for war crimes?

> Does a horrific war crime like My Lai[0] get scrutinized and investigated in 2026 or do people just say "eh maybe AI gave them bad intel" and ignore it?

Of course it does. The girl’s school bombing and strikes on fishermen are scrutinized. Why wouldn’t any atrocity?

We do not suffer from a lack of scrutiny. We suffer from a lack of accountability. AI is only tangential.

The People (as in the electorate) are doing a lot. If you mean our elected representatives then say that instead. Otherwise you’re just perpetuating the toxic helplessness that got us into this mess.

I honestly don’t get the snark. The status page has:

Seemingly meaningful IDs

Search

Region filter

Email update signup

Predictable URLs for instance status so they can be deep linked in runbooks

What appears to be the actual live instance status.

What appears to be the actual live service status in each instance.

An update log with frequent detailed updates.

Could be. With a big conference going on and the updates mentioning resource exhaustion it could be a bunch of people doing demos, AI driven or not. Basically slashdotting themselves.

You claimed Oracle is offering something they aren't. I corrected you. Nobody said anything about AWS or Google.

There's a 0.0% chance I trust my credit card number to Oracle. The Free Tier page says up to 2 VMs with 12GB of RAM.

   Compute
   Arm Compute Instance

   Arm-based Ampere A1 cores and 12 GB of memory usable as 1 VM or 2 VMs

   Always Free
   1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours per month

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

It’s 12gb and two ARM instances now. If you can get one. They’re frequently out of capacity. They even suspended the over-provisioned legacy instances.

This conversation is tiresome. It comes up every time the LCM is mentioned. Jody Allen is simply respecting her brother’s wishes.

Paul Allen had many projects. Only a handful were ever intended to outlast him. LCM was not one of them. He wanted his fortune liquidated and donated. That’s exactly what his sister is doing.

Jody Allen is the executor and trustee of Paul Allens estate. She is simply complying with his wishes.

Partially.

> Is this the Living Computer Museum?

> We are not Living Computers, but in May of 2024 the Living Computers Remote Vintage Systems were acquired and transfered to us.

https://icm.museum/?faq

Yes, I’m surprised it has not been discussed more.

I submitted this because it appears to be something of a successor to Paul Allen’s Living Computers museum which I occasionally see mentioned in comments. I think we were all disappointed at how that ended so I was relieved to see this project is carrying the torch.

> So do you agree or not agree that mandatory penal slavery is an extension of 19th century and earlier American slavery.

I agree that mandatory penal slavery (as practiced in US prisons in the 21st century) is an extension of 19th century and earlier American slavery.

> Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

> Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

The 13th amendment specifically mentions penal labor as an exempt form of slavery.

Take your criticism to the authors of the 13th amendment, not the people who bothered to read it.

They don’t know what you do.

Ignoring externalities remains popular.

We live in a society. I can’t build a helipad on my roof in the middle of Seattle. Technically that’s a limitation on my personal liberty. We accept it because of the cost to the people around me.

Or just honor the deal. The only reason for doing this is Verisign’s bottom line.

> If we, collectively, decide we need age-gated websites

We haven’t decided this.

> having something from the government that will say "Yep. He is who he claims."

You’re literally trading liberty for convenience.

I understand your position. I just fundamentally disagree that the tradeoff you are so eager to make is worthwhile.

Then inexplicably keeps the data and gets hacked in the most obvious way possible.

> […] ability to use the ID as a proof of age or other attribute as needed

What attributes should require proof? Where do you draw the line?

Age?

Gender?

Race?

Religion?

Political party?

Citizenship?

> We'll get there eventually, but not before we try everything else first.

We got here by trying everything else first.

The “good old days” are now. Thousands of years of progress and blood delivered our liberal societies. Don’t give it up so easily.