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I have never liked the word "manager" because it's rarely useful in practice, the best managers are actually doers who can cut through the performative transparency and "DDoS attack" of constant updates to see when communication is being used to manipulate or mask failure rather than report progress, because the last thing you want is for your employees to become politicians

Stadia was lightyears ahead, but pro-Microsoft media assassinated it with FUD

While "journalists" were busy bootlicking a laggy 720p Android only xCloud beta, Stadia was already delivering flawless 4K@60FPS in a web browser

They killed the only platform that actually worked just to protect Microsoft

This will be a textbook case study in how a legacy monopoly kills innovation to protect its own mediocrity

Microsoft won't survive the century, they are a dinosaur on borrowed time that has already lost the war in mobile, AI, and robotics

They don't create,, they just buy marrket share to suffocate the competition and ruin every product they touch

Even their cloud dominance is about to end, as they are already losing their grip on the European market to antitrust and sovereign alternatives


I remember a video where they went through scyscrapers zooming into a room, where life was moving on and there was a screen inside a room and there was something running on it. I never understood how this was tanked. It was revolutionary.

If you don't use rust, i hate you, you should use rust, and i'll force rust on you

If you don't use systemd, i hate you, you should use systemd, and i'll force systemd on you

If you don't use wayland, i hate you, you should use wayland, and i'll force wayland on you

If you don't use gnome, i hate you, you should use gnome, and i'll force gnome on you

See the pattern?


By aggregating breach data by email, this tool inadvertently exposes users's full web history, including sensitive sites like crypto/adult/dating platforms, to anyone who knows their address

Fun


From the FAQ [1]:

What is a "sensitive breach"?

HIBP enables you to discover if your account was exposed in most of the data breaches by directly searching the system. However, certain breaches are particularly sensitive in that someone's presence in the breach may adversely impact them if others are able to find that they were a member of the site. These breaches are classed as "sensitive" and may not be publicly searched.

A sensitive data breach can only be searched by the verified owner of the email address being searched for. This is done by signing in to the dashboard which involves verifying you can receive an email to the entered address. Once signed in, all breaches (including sensitive ones) are visible in the "Breaches" section under "Personal".

There are presently 82 sensitive breaches in the system including Adult FriendFinder (2015), Adult FriendFinder (2016), Adult-FanFiction.Org, Ashley Madison, Beautiful People, Bestialitysextaboo, Brazzers, BudTrader, Carding Mafia (December 2021), Carding Mafia (March 2021), Catwatchful, CityJerks, Cocospy, Color Dating, CrimeAgency vBulletin Hacks, CTARS, CyberServe, Date Hot Brunettes, DC Health Link, Doxbin and 62 more.

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/FAQs#SensitiveBreach


You don't get to gatekeep what counts as "sensitive", all of my privacy is non-negotiable

> Bestialitysextaboo

I laughed pretty hard


In the technofeudal new world order, your smartphone is not just a device, it is your gov issued digital ID/wallet

The Apple/Google OS duopoly exists by design, they view bootloader unlocking and sideloading as threats because they break that control

They want to be able to define and/or revoke your existence in the system

No escape, because no alternative


Exactly. For most people not having a bank app, probably no digital payments due to that, and no government-issued digital ID is too much friction to even consider any alternative.

Kagi's "waiting for dawn" is just waiting for Google to legitimize their reseller business

Meanwhile, users pay a premium to pretend they're not using Google

Fascinating delusion


> Meanwhile, users pay a premium to pretend they're not using Google

My searches can’t be tied to me by Google for their ad targeting: this is worth paying a premium for, and I am glad Kagi are providing this service.

You seem to have a very limited understanding of the value Kagi provides.


I have a limited understanding of the value Christianity provides. That neither means that Christianity provides no value, nor does it mean that God exists.

Uh oh you're eating your tail again

Users pay a premium to have Google's results cleaned out of spam/trash. It's effectively paying someone to cut out the newspaper ads for you and then give you the resulting ad-free paper.

With Kagi being $55-$110 a year and Google making >$200 a year per US user, it's arguably a discount.

In addition to what others are telling you, Kagi also allows you to

- filter out results from specific websites that you can choose, - show more results from specific websites that you can choose, - show fewer results from specific websites that you can choose,

and so forth. When you find your results becoming contaminated by some new slop farm, you can just eliminate them from your results. Google could also do that, but their business model seems to rely more on showing slop results with their ads in those third party pages.

Just like mobile phone providers, third parties can provide lots of value add by reselling infrastructure. Business models can be different, feature sets can differ. This is not a delusion but the reality of reselling.


users pay a premium for superior UX and no tracking, actually. Kagi has wildly better filtering and customization.

The US CLOUD Act mandates American companies to provide data to US authorities, even when stored abroad

Whoever gives US Big Tech access to their digital infrastructure is a foreign spy and should be jailed


> Rust certainly calms security fears

No, memory safety is not security, Rust's memory guarantees eliminate some issues, but they also create a dangerous overconfidence, devs treat the compiler as a security audit and skip the hard work of threat modeling

A vigilant C programmer who manually validates everything and use available tools at its disposal is less risky than a complacent Rust programmer who blindly trust the language


> A vigilant C programmer who manually validates everything and use available tools at its disposal is less risky than a complacent Rust programmer who blindly trust the language

I agree with this. But for a component whose job is to parse data and produce pixels, the security worries I have are memory ones. It's not implementing a permissions model or anything where design and logic are really important. The security holes an image codec would introduce are the sort where it a buffer overun gave an execution primitive (etc.).


Rust programmers are far more likely to have the vigilant mindset than C programmers, or they wouldn't be using Rust.

You can get an awful lot done very quickly in C if you aren't bothered about security - and traditionally, most of the profession has done exactly that.


> A vigilant C programmer who manually validates everything and use available tools at its disposal is less risky than a complacent Rust programmer who blindly trust the language

What about against a vigilant Rust programmer who also manually validates everything and uses available tools at its disposal?


History shows that either vigilance of most C programmers is not enough, or they are not vigilant at all. C/C++ and RCE via some buffer overflow is like synonyms.


> A vigilant C programmer who manually validates everything

So, a fairy-tale character?


I can't believe someone is still using this argument. Is this sarcasm?


They want you to do the pinch in/out gesture /s


I moved away from XFCE over the CSD drama, despite winning that battle, the resistance showed me the project lacks the backbone to resist GNOME long term


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