actually, this is on my list of signs that our civilization is fscked...

It certainly is a sign that people are note very considerate of others.

fsck report: some bad sectors are worse than others

...or their goal is simply not what they advertise.

wait...! do you mean the commenter or the people in law enforcement?

they removed it promptly.

remember: god kills a kitten every time you comment/assume something without reading it...

I read the whole thing you just didn’t understand my comment. That’s my fault because I left out one word, “automatically”. Fixed it.

The person to whom I was replying thought that perhaps someone wanting to stop Archive was uploading CSAM and getting them to crawl it. I was pointing out that they didn’t have to do the first step, the internet has lots of that stuff apparently, they merely had to have a list of urls (law enforcement could easily provide) and check Archive for them.

Archive doesn’t do this automatically apparently, as some platforms do, so there’s probably plenty of it there.

Also, it’s quite possible that they normally simply ignore these requests and in this case, they removed it because of it mentioning law enforcement or potential lawsuits and coming from somebody who has the power to block their site from a lot of people.

I’m not saying I know or believe that to be the case, I have no knowledge at all here, but it’s entirely possible archive ignores most of these requests and responded to this one.

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

There are very few guidelines listed there that this community actually follows

i believe that a crucial feature of good keyboards is that your wrist is stationary. this enables a better form of "muscle memory".

i've been using such a keyboard for two decades.

My personal search ended with the ZSA Moonlander.

ideally -- without a legal system using force to stop people using knowledge (IP laws), -- i would be on your position. in fact, i used to agree with you.

but in the current reality around us, i believe it's a more nuanced issue.

it seems to be little more than a mission statement... no?

there was a distinct floppy sound when the filesystem was updated after a write.

i noticed my first virus pretty quickly, and even though i couldn't remove it, i could disable it in some files that i couldn't reproduce (no internet back then, and i was on the wrong side of the iron curtain as a child)

following upstream is overrated since we have good package managers and version control.

it's completely feasible to stick to something that works for you, and only update/port/rewrite when it makes sense.

what matters is the overall cost.

Hmm, if one writes a library Zetalib for the language Frob v0.14 and then Frob v0.15 introduces breaking changes that everyone else is going to adapt to, then well, package managers and version control is going to help indeed - they will help in staying in a void as no one will use Zetalib anymore because of the older Frob.

For libs, yes, for applications dev, no.

I would expect fixing an application to an older version would be just fine, so long as you don't need newer language features. If newer language features are a requirement, I would expect that would drive refactoring or selecting a different implementation language entirely if refactoring would prove to be too onerous.

look up Operation Mockingbird. half of the media is government operatives...

netflix is a crucial tool of narrative control...

they are nowhere near "just producers"...

This is why I think Microsoft, Apple and Google are owned as well. And answers a lot of questions about gatekeeping and vendor lock-in