It's aimed at anything C++ would be used for, and is being used in the same scopes. Some system programming, some application programming. Chrome is now accepting Rust code, and of course Rust originated at Mozilla, and was intended to be the language Firefox would migrate to. An artifact of that effort, Servo, is still under development as an independent project.

I don't think it's anywhere near plateaued FWIW. It has an excited cohort of programmers using it who are as annoying... I mean... enthusiastic as Python programmers were in the 2000s. It does need some clean up in some areas, specifically the NPM/composer-style external library management which is a security nightmare and just plain idiotic. But these are solvable problems.

You most certainly can. Carter inherited a bad economy, and put in place specific policies that are, today, seen as the policies that solved the problems, noteably:

- Monetarist economics to deal with stagflation
- Massive Deregulation, especially with transportation

The effects of those policies took time to trickle into the economy, because the situation was absolutely terrible after eight years of Nixon/Ford, which included abandonment of the gold standard, and of course the energy crisis. But those were absolutely things that fixed a terrible economy, and Reagan's only involvement there was to basically take credit for it when the economy started to run again.

Ironically, Biden proved that Carter went overboard, lowering inflation to normal levels by the end of his term without ending full employment. But there's also a fair argument that Trump neither helped nor overly harmed the post-Obama economy, as the major crisis that happened under his watch was COVID, and that did impact things in a way few presidents could be expected to control.

Did Biden get credit? Of course not. Just like Carter, he got blamed for the bad economy he inherited, and because inflation was only lowered by the end of his term, people didn't notice because they were still comparing things to 3-4 years ago, not one year.

If the Biden administration had done it, I would have been against it.

Of course, they didn't. Every time someone has come up with that allegation it turned out that the "evidence" they came up with didn't show that at all. At "worst" they made reasonable pleas in public, without using threats, to social networks to clamp down on COVID misinformation - which isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing.

If you believe otherwise, please show the court case where the Biden administration actually tried to force Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, or any other social network to reveal the details they have on someone who was promoting vaccine misinformation?

And yes, it matters that it's a court case, because that's what's happening here, and you're telling us they did the same thing.

BTW, this is actually a lie. A mod can't ban you from all of Reddit. Only an admin can. So whatever you did was so egregious that someone was able to report it as bad to an admin, and the admin felt it was bad enough to ban you.

Regardless, there's a world of difference between being banned from a website and being thrown in jail.

> And I wasn't banned from a shitty little forum, I was banned by a mod of that shitty little forum FROM ALL OF REDDIT.

OMG! That's exactly like going to jail!

> Yes. Your point ?

You appear to think they're the same thing, as you just pointed out. Sorry if reading comprehension is an issue for you. I thought it was obvious in my comment, but apparently not.

A private forum telling you to get knotted is not the same as a government putting you in prison. These are different things. The first isn't just far lesser an issue, it's actually normal and how we want things to be. We want private forums to curate their content and their users, because forums are useless otherwise. There's a reason people go to Reddit and not, say, Yahoo comments, or Slashdot, to get information about something.

What we don't want is a world where people go to prison for just expressing essentially peaceful points of view. (Please do not reply with examples of people promoting crimes or encouraging violence against entire groups of people being targeted by law enforcement, those are not "peaceful points of view")

FWIW, did you know you can create new accounts on Reddit? It's a thing. Maybe change your IP first, but they really can't "ban" you, they can only close your existing account. Otherwise, Wordpress can be hosted on a $1/mo VPS, if you really can't get your bullshit out some other way. Or even self hosted if your ISP doesn't block incoming port 443 and gives you a static (or at least rarely changing) IP. You're on a tech website, you should know this, and you should even know how to do it. Stop fucking whining.

The affirmative defenses from the person whose name they're trying to get suggests that that law is clearly being abused and has no relevance here, which makes me wonder if someone within the DoJ is intentionally trying to throw the case. Let's hope so!

You do understand there's a difference between being banned from a forum for breaking some forum rule, and being thrown in prison, right?

> But in reality it was about giving preferential treatment to, often to fill quotas for, women and racial minorities.

No, you made that up. When will right wingers stop lying abut this?

Given the current leadership of humanity, I, for one, welcome our alien overlords...

The headline is propaganda anyway. It wasn't a loophole, and it had little or nothing to do with reporting abuse - it was about scanning private information using the excuse that they were searching for abuse.

When I bought a car last I had the option of having it shipped to a local dealer to check out, or I could drive 40 miles south and look at it. I picked the latter, not because of price or not caring about convenience, but because I didn't want to buy the car from the same dealer that'd do the maintenace.

Because I knew ahead of time whatever dealership sold it to me would rip me off. And I would never want to go there again.

And guess what, they lied about everything. They claimed the price wasn't valid because "we have this new sales manager who likes to go to the websites and experiment with prices." They pretended the price was $1,000 lower than it actually was and then, when we'd agreed to the original price, pretended it was a software problem they couldn't resolve. And, lo and behold, they finally brought the price down when my wife and I got up and made it clear we were about to leave the dealership.

Why the fuck is this normal?

And why is lying so... tolerated in the US? To use another example, when was the last time the cable or phone companies quoted prices that were grounded in reality? I've mentioned this and people have gotten angry at me because as far as they're concerned the hidden and made up fees are "taxes", even when they're not. And the regulators literally have told them it's OK to do it, even for fees that they calculate the basis of themselves, like the USF.

And health insurance companies. Why do we put up with that bullshit? Because the government would be worse? How? How could it possibly be worse? And why is almost every western democracy other than us using a different system, one that's always non-profit, and has varying degrees of direct government oversight, from Germany's non-profit insurance system, to Britain's state-run National Health Service?

And you put all that together, and it's kind of surprising the recent outbreaks of violence against businesses, from the murder of Brian Thompson, to today's attack on Sam Altman, aren't more frequent, and didn't start earlier. I am NOT saying they're justified. But there's a median somewhere of frustration and helplessness that you and I might not be willing to cross, but others with less self control and less of a fundamental belief in democratic institutions would.

The world will probably get worse before it gets better.

I'm not sure what point you think you're making here. Violence is good because the United States was formed from it? Those two things have nothing to do with one another.

I understand the frustration, whether it's lead to murdering healthcare CEOs, burning warehouses, or trying to set fire to the public face of Big Tech Con-artistry. But we can't have a society if we resort to violence on an individual level. We need to get a government into power that'll right the wrongs. The inability of Americans to do this doesn't suddenly mean it's OK to kill or nearly kill people. Even if some of those people suck.

Not used KDE. GNOME... possibly. Every time I try to sit down with GNOME and see if I can work with it, I end up giving up in disgust and switching back to MATE.

Honestly, GNOME is the major failure in the GNU/Linux ecosystem. I don't in any way criticize them for trying, I think it was a good idea to try out new things, but they threw the baby out with the bathwater.

The differences between Windows 7 and Windows 10/11 are such that I think they can graft a windows-like UI over a standard desktop API and it'll require zero training for users who are already familiar with Windows. Just give it a big start button in the bottom left, Windows style window selection, and an explorer like file manager.

But... but... the first poster on this article assures us Elon Musk got rid of the cEnSoRsHiP!!!1!!!!

Musk banned journalists and is shadowbanning posts that use transgender terminology (weirdly calling "cis" derogatory). He's also amplifying far right accounts so they drown out centrist and left wing voices.

Meanwhile Twitter, the social network Musk bought and turned into X, banned:

1. A few people who self identified as Nazis or white supremacists.
2. Hamas
3. People running harassment campaigns or who were otherwise blatantly violating the ToS (and then only after a lot of complaints.)
4. Trump, but only after January 6th, because of (legitimate) fears he was going to use Twitter to help with his insurrection.

And that's about it.

Now, if you're a Nazi or white supremacist, or a Hamas terrorist, or you want to run harassment campaigns, or you want to use Twitter to violently overthrow the government, you probably feel that this was "too far" and that somehow this is an affront to you. You probably think that PBS is "woke" too because of Mr Rogers Neighborhood. You are probably not a nice person.

Whereas the rest of us feel our social networks probably shouldn't have people like that in there, but have no objection to marginalized groups talking to one another, or journalists saying things that might offend the world's richest person from time to time. Most of us are dubious about algorithms in the first place, but especially feel our life isn't improved by having far right voices inserted in our feeds, preferring to have sane voices that aren't full of hatred, whether left or right.

But, that's just us. Just do me a favor: Don't pretend your version isn't "censorship" while pretending the version Twitter did was. People joined Twitter. They leave X.