actually, you are breaking privacy laws just by storing content without having your users sign a privacy policy; if you are allowing read requests as well you are responsible for the content those users upload to your bucket (e.g. copyright infringment). If you publish any of that, you are again violating privacy laws and possibly copyright (if you get a copyrighted work without a license, there might be some things you are allowed to do by law; redistributing is most certainly not one of them)

> he said that Minsky would have had no reason to believe that she was being coerced Except he didn't say that. From your own link, he just said that nobody presented *evidence* of him knowing the girl was being coerced. It's a subtle difference, but I think he was mainly upset with the technical fact that journalist used the word assault when even the victim didn't claim Minsky assaulted her, but that instead someone else directed her.

You have to accept that those are not US social media, they are global social media. Most of their user base and therefore their profit is outside of the US, even if they were founded in the US. Also, I think all or most of social media company (or any big enough corporation for that matter) are traded in public stock markets where anyone in the world can buy shares of ownership at any time. US created globalization, now you have to live with it.

The point here is not who can do better with less core. The point is we have a 6000â budget. Do I get a faster build with a Threadripper, an Intel Alder Lake, or an M1 Ultra? Well, at multithreaded workloads, we all know the answer to that, even without waiting for Zen 3 Threadrippers to come to market. Intel probably wins at single core performance, and when you add a 3090 or 3080 to both systems Apple ends up possibly winning at power consumption, except they are marketing it as a performance champion.

With that pricing and number of cores, I think a system mounting an AMD Threadripper would be a fairer adversary on the CPU benchmarks. With a 6000â budget you should be able to pair the one with 24 cores with a 3080 and lots of RAM and see what's what. That Alienware Aurora is half the price, FFS...

It's not even that. Even if you paid for it (and some people do) this is the kind of mistake it's unreasonable to protect people from. Github does scan from some kind of secrets connected to APIs widely used by developers, giving warnings to them. It makes sense, because it makes sense for those files to be in the repository directory and forgetting to gitignore them can be an honest mistake. Committing your whole home directory to git is a bad idea already, as there are better tools for that kind of task. Not understanding the difference between a public and private repository is even worse.

It does say "in Britain", which usually means that it was still present elsewhere.

That's not how copyright works. Once you get copyrighted content, you are allowed to do exactly what *the license* allows you. If the license tells you shall only open a file on Mondays, you are infringing copyright by opening the file on Tuesday. Some countries have laws that allow stuff even if prohibited by the license, but the basic point is that you're prohibited to do anything it's not explicitly granted by the license. So you cannot state "you surely can do that" universally.

The only thing this does is remove the trust from your ISP, which as you say is a good thing. Everything you have locally is not affected, because if the DoH request fails they fall-back to standard DNS. And if you know enough about setting up your own DNS, you most certainly are able to disable this feature. As for certificates, sure they run their own certificate storage instead of relying on the OS one, which is odd. But they do provide a gui to manage it, so just use it!

Except this is not a website. It's a fcking audio editing and recording desktop software that has no need for collecting any kind of data, and used to collect none. It's sad to see even what was once trustworthy FOSS fall at the same level of proprietary software.

And they also use the services the government is providing (I assume there are some... streets perhaps? I know healthcare isn't). The main point is, is everyone was capable of avoiding paying taxes, the nation would collapse. The government could be having the very same income they have now by taxing less honest taxpayers and getting the money from these tax-evading corporations. Instead, they keep their part and let others (who tipically earn much less) cover it.

Your suggestion is not novel, is how VAT works in most of Europe!

Actually, you got it backwards. Back in the nineties and early 2000, html+css+js did exist, but their feature set was largely inadequate for complex applications. So flash and java took the stage and dominated for years. They were the first to market. The standard html+js+css later won because, once they reached feature parity, they were more convenient (no need to install and update plugins) and flash and java did have their lot of additionaly security problems. Also, time to market on the web stack is lower, and flash required developers to buy a pretty costly proprietary software suite.

With online voting you either a) use PKI, blockchain to attach to each vote the identity of the voter, hence losing vote secrecy or b) all votes are identical to each other, and you need to trust a centralized authority, that might be either a government or a private company, to record votes right and not tamper them. Conversely, paper ballots allow for decentralized recounts, without sacrificing vote secrecy.

Of course not, because like during the crypto wars nobody in the whole world is capable of developing a product without the US selling it to them, so banning exports will rapidly destroy all Chinese companies