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That'd be a "style-over-substance" fallacious argument. Or one could be hoping for a halo-effect to cloud the reader's opinion of their comment because some piece of software made it read like Enron-marketing-hogwash-speak.

Sometimes the style is the substance. There is a reason people study rhetoric.

That's not substance. That's style being all there is, trying desperately to cover up the lack of substance. Rhetoric works best when it gives wings to strong ideas, not when it tries to fly by itself.

And that should be anathema to discussions rooted in reason.

>It will add an additional hour or two of effort to every resident of the state, even if they are below the state income threshold which is quite an externality.

Nope, that is false. The language of the bill only requires filing if tax is owed. There will be a handful of folks on the cusp who will need to calculate their AGI to determine their state tax liability but everyone else knows offhand if they need to file.

The language is "Individuals not owing tax under this chapter are not required to file a return..."


Okay, that is good to know thanks for pointing that out.

To be clear, this position is: "capitulate to the police state, or die" with no discussion about whether that should be the case.

It's a bad take.


yes? it's got sexist and classist elements and satirizes victorian culture.

i'd encourage reading it ahead of gifting (and i'd encourage grabbing it from archive.org or something, since it's 141 years old) because not all 10 yearolds are going to receive it the same way


if one wants additional chart types, this is a decent option


this is one where "software forge" is industry specific jargon (similar to "isostaticrebound" in earthquake science and "evapotranspiration" in biology) which the intended audience would tend to know the definition of. that said, it's a fair complaint for the quality of their marketing material (if not their technical documentation).

as an aside, i checked and it takes four taps (with an thumb highlight thown in ) to define it from my phone.


Curious, what part of the industry is "software forge" a term of art? I have been programming since the late 90s and have never heard it. Looks like it was popular from 1988 to 2007:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Software+Forge...

TIL


I would fully expect not everybody to have ran into it. I would not expect people to complain about the term without looking it up first.


It is not a term of art. A veteran programmer here and I also cringed when saw it used in this context.


It's far from new.


It's new to me, a 15 year industry veteran. I know of sourceforge but never heard the term used otherwise.


Exactly. I never saw SourceForge as some sort of inspiration name-wise.


That's fair enough!


I didn't watch the video but read the GOG post and did an AI summary of the video.

I don't see the "humiliated" part. GOG definitely is picking a tiny fight and taking a principled stance but there's no indication Blizzard even cares, is there?


is the problem Android, for you, or is the problem "Google Android", "Samsung Android", "Motorola Android, by Verizon"?


Given that third-party Android OSes are missing features that many people consider essential (like anything that requires passing SafetyNet), I don't believe these OSes are a general solution, applicable to the masses, even if installation were dead-simple and reliable.

I ran CyanogenMod for years, and every app I ran and every feature I used on the stock Android OS worked properly on CM. I loved it. But these days that's just not the case on Lineage or Graphene or Calyx or any of the others.

So I think for many people, it doesn't matter. "Google Android", "Samsung Android", etc. are the only realistic options, so they are just "Android" to them.


Why would you want "Safety"-Net? If the answer is banking apps, how about pushing back and using web apps instead? Different priorities I guess.


Contactless payments using Google Pay.

"Pushing back" doesn't really work when there's no support, and adding that support is against Google's priorities.

Regardless web experience on mobile is unfortunately generally subpar than native apps, for most sites/apps. I'm not sure I'm equipped to change that situation.


Never understood the appeal of Google Pay (versus contactless cards). I also wouldn't trust Google with anything financial, but that's just me.



Thank you.


that FAQ is accurate but (rightly) doesn't cover high-security deployments.

if I'm running the bridges local-to-the-client (I am, on my McBook) it's not meaningfully any less e2ee. encryption happens in the matrix client (running on the laptop), the encrypted message is sent to the homeserver on localhost, the bridge (on localhost) grabs the encrypted message and decrypts it, then the bridge re-encrypts it and sends it to Whatsapp (or wherever). the content of the message is as secure over the wire with this approach as using first-party apps directly

if one hosts their own bridges they're person-in-the-middling themselves and should take all the necessary precautions. if they're using beeper's hosted options they have to delegate read/write ability to beeper (though I think the signal and imessage bridges might be device-local), and beeper is clear about that.


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