The cool thing about books, music, movies, pictures, sculptures, theatre and opera is that you are perfectly entitled to like things that other people don't like. And vice versa. There is no great conspiracy here keeping the things you like from getting recognition, it's just a bunch of different people's different opinions.

I read Light for the first time a few years ago, and wow it's quite mindbending. A really unique and visionary author, I've never read anything quite like it. I wanted to get some of his other books but they were not so easy to get down here in the southern hemisphere for some reason. No idea what his new book is like but I'm glad writers like him get recognition.

the comment was melodramatic but I think it reflects something in the 'West', where a whole generation of people have grown up associating Chinese manufacture with plastic/poorly-made junk. And that's largely true.

To get from there to buying an actual Chinese car can be a real leap, because most (?) people don't buy many cars in their lifetime and they're generally a significant investment. Without an established track record of customer service and reliability, the only way to pull people in is to tank the market by making them cheap enough for people to take that leap. I purchased a new BEV last year in a market where Chinese cars are widely available, and tbqh one of my key requirements was the car had to NOT be Chinese.

Mind you I remember when Korean cars 10+years ago had a similar reputation and they really turned it around (my BEV is a Kia). Maybe China can do the same - we'll see.

this sounds very much like someone sitting down and thinking "... how could I make a thing which nobody wants but requires some centralized signing and distribution layer which I can charge $$$ for".

I mean -

Very much in keeping with Poettering's other work, the ends justify the ends.

put another way, there's no good theory about the origin of life.

Not a scientist but personally I find the odds of propagating human life from a comet to be astronomical.

But I don't believe in god either, so I'm not sure where this leaves me overall.

ok thanks! I'll message this doctoral candidate at the literal Cambridge University Institute of Astronomy and tell him he needs to go back in history a little bit farther. Thanks for the tip.

once we got this first part working, though, why wouldn't we extend it everywhere to save EVERYONE from kiddie porn?

as Himmy32 is carefully pointing out above - these aren't the same thing.

Okta provide an IdP; a client of their service can fuck it up and get their account compromised. How is that Okta's fault? You're one of those guys who was laughing at AWS when people made their S3 buckets public.

yes agree. Surely we can get some EFF/FSF/whatever groups to stump up this kind of money and send a big fuck you to google ??

everybody wins

I've been dealing with a Tailscale advisory recently about compromised emudhra certificates. They don't mention anything about emudhra closing shop but this can't be totally unrelated can it ??

EU, Brazil, India, China, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Indonesia.

Some examples of countries/regions with clear overarching national general privacy legislation/regulation. What kind of 3rd world shithole is the US if your baseline privacy protections depend on which side of a state border you're in. What a joke.

I don't disagree that Mozilla has made a lot of bad decisions but cmon you can't be serious with this.

The fact that Microsoft and Google can bundle their browsers in devices used by billions of people has nothing at all to do with why an open source browser people have to go out of their way to find has never caught up ???

'My Documents' felt like the start of a slippery slope where filepaths became abstracted away. In a business context, add in Teams/Sharepoint/Onedrive and no wonder nobody knows where their files actually are any more.