I've seen people say "Well that was a decade ago" .... he's literally 10x worse now. He's grown zero, or in the negative direction.
The whole RMS thing makes me wonder if he's be commandeered by some corpo to destroy the GPL in a psyop, but I think the simpler explanation is he's just that fucking scored earth retarded.
@drewdevault is such a pussy he didn't even put his name on his hit piece. His credibility in all tech communities is so low it's gotta be approaching absolute zero by now.
How the fuck is this bastard still allowed on Hackernews and I'm banned?!
This isn't a great take. I think 2/3rds of society have to believe in it's oddity (divine right of the king, the church, the newspaper from the printing press, the radio, the news...) ...and conformity creates stability. It doesn't matter if what people believe is correct, only that 2/3 of them believe.
Allowing people who don't believe to express themselves freely is essential to making society stable longer, and ensuring more individual liberties.
But when half or 2/3 of people stop conforming ... whether they're "right" or "wrong," it does not matter. That State; that society ... it doesn't collapse. It evaporates. And what arises is rarely ever more free than the previous. It can't be.
People aren't "stupid" for believing. That might be the limit of their capacity, or they might just be pragmatic.
Would you rather be a slave to a 9-to-5 with a TV and gaming system and clean water and bug-free food or would you rather be free be in a bear sanctuary a week after they awake from hibernation?
We've really degraded the word "slave" ...slave's can't get addicted to meth, quit their jobs and lay out on the street.
They'll either push for digital+biometic ID or some obscene Xitter digital identification. Part of it will be to appease/fit-into the scheme many states are employing for adult website verification.
There is no need for any new system. Just verify the fucking plastic drivers licenses we already have. All you have to do is enforce the existing system.
But all the Trumptards will jump onto this shiny new system that rips away all privacy because "illegals" and "voting"
A friend of mine who lives in Georgia said she's seen a lot more out there (for both Trump and Harris), and that it's significantly different from the Tennessee side ... weird
Have you seen any election signs in your area? I'm in Southern Tennessee and there is nothing. I think I've seen one Harris yard sign and maybe two bumper stickers. Other than that: Nothing. No Trump. No Harris. The past month I've had to drive to multiple neighborhoods all around town and even into Georgia and I haven't seen a damn thing that's noticeable.
The local community centers only have local election signs .. and like maybe 5~10 when normally, at this time of year, there'd be like 30+ signs.
Maybe everyone realizes elections are fake and gay and no one cares anymore ... or is it just my city that's like that?
I am for smaller government: no EU .. people say smaller nations can't scale. I think they'd scale more slowly, and when they do so, it will require more open standards and interoperability (not just with tech, but laws, procedures, etc.)
I think you'd eventually still get confederations across small countries for things like food safely and regulation, and would see corruption grow there, but it would still be an improvement over mega-states.
It's a double edge sword. Not having good food regulations and labeling leads to the situation in China. I had a Chinese roommate when I lived in Australia who said a lot of meat had filler or was injected with water so it looked fresh when it wasn't. Look up Chinese "Gutter oil" too.
But you're right, regulations are also use to squash out competition. It also keeps people who want to buy questionable things, like raw milk products, from being able to accept the risks and doing so. At the same time, fat retard law-tuber Barnes is defending Amos Miller, an Amish farmer whose raw milk has gotten people sick. The state has even tried to work with the guy to decontaminate his tanks, but he just ignores them and keeps selling.
And in the US, the food industry has lobbied against labeling GMO food. So unlike many places in Europe, you can't tell if a food comes from genetically modified crops by the packaging.
I wouldn't say infosec is "bullshit." I'd say a lot of people in those fields are NOT developers, and they lack a true understanding of what security techniques are actually versus beneficial versus those that tick a box on a checklist (CrowdStrike was always a garbage security nightmare from the moment I saw it; and I constantly raised concerns and no one cared because "compliance.")
SHIELD certification was talked about a lot ~2012 and a lot of people in the security sector were against any type of certification, because it's just so pointless. There was a panel discussion about SHEILD form 2012, but Ruxcon pulled the video for some reason. I'd put it on catbox, but it's 950Mb.
One of the most iconic images I remember for a security conference was [Travis Goodspeed's talk on packet-in-packet injection](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQk0GHXs8NY), because of the following image titled "Encapsulation."
Software is built on layers, and even security is designed in layers that are intended to create isolation as well as redundancy. The trouble is that very few people can describe, in any reasonable level of detail, everything that happens in a single HTTP request.
Modern security exploits are often a single strap in these layers. No matter how much everything else is locked in, one bad link could cause everything to come crashing out on the motorway.