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> Why would _that_ be the problem

Because it should still be my choice as to what you do with it, which data you associate with it, and how you store it. Removing that choice is anti-privacy.


It's way less your choice what happens with a photo of your face in pretty much every other situation.

When your face is on your LinkedIn profile, anyone can download it and do whatever they want with it. Legally. Here, the vendor has to tell you how they use it.


Someone downloading it randomly is not the same as me volunteering information said random person wouldn't otherwise have and having that information be stored next to my image in a database that can be breached.

All for a checkmark next to my profile that says I'm a real human.


I maintain `debug` and the number of nonsense ReDoS vulnerability reports I get (including some with CVEs filed with high CVSS scores, without ever disclosing to me) has made me want to completely pull back from the JS world.

Examples please.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/14/transgender-...

[2] https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Scottow-...

”Margaret Dodd of one offence of improper use of a public communications network, contrary to section 127(2)(c) of the Communications Act 2003. This provides that a person commits an offence if “for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another [she] … persistently makes use of a public electronic network”.”

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/23/uk-police-le...

Regarding Graham Linehan who is by far the best example.


[1] is illegal

Not sure what [2] is about.

[3] doesn't appear relevant either.


“Is illegal”

Well yes, that’s my point. :)

2. Is a woman being arrested and charged with causing “anxiety” for a series of tweets.

3. Is the same; wrongthink guised as “threats” etc

If you just want to defend the censorship as is your right then just say so instead doing the usual:

“It’s not happening”

“Ok. It’s happening and that’s a good thing”

Rigmarole and wasting my time.


No. They need to understand memory failures. Teach them what it looks like when it's wrong. Then show them the tools to make things right. They'll never fully understand those tools if they don't understand the necessity of doing the right thing.

Unicode consortium already manages a ton of language specs. If there's any group of folks I'd trust to understand languages (natural or otherwise), it's them.

This is the one. Think of all the "misconceptions developer have about X" lists, I trust Unicode to have encountered (if not written) all of them. The people behind unicode are thorough.

I mean they have hieroglyphs, some of which have plurals: https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_13000.html


> Rust will also never replace C or C++ in any meaningful way

Not only do I disagree it never will, I think it's already well on its way to doing exactly that.


C? Never. I feel like that ship has sailed, it's too primordial and tied to too many system ABI's to ever truly go away. I think we'll see a lot of Rust or Zig replacing certain popular C programs and libraries, but I don't think C will ever go away.

C++ on the other hand? Possibly, though I think that it's just as much because of the own-goals of the C++ standards committee as it is the successes of Rust. I don't really consider Zig a competitor in this space because if you're reaching for C++, you are reaching for a level of abstraction that Zig is unwilling to provide.


They said the same thing about Fortran, COBOL, etc. Still "around" but not the de facto.

Is it? rust has to ditch llvm to be able to replace c++ - or rewrite llvm in rust.


So far I have seen no plans to replace the reference implementation with Cranelift.

Android is the same. Grass isn't any greener over here. I miss T9.

On android there are 1000s of keyboards to choose from. They have various perks, customizable and if you don't like what's available you can simply build your own if you have the skills

When I had to prove my passport for my bank over a video call they told me to rotate it around in the sunlight to show that it had the holo-whatever ink. So I wouldn't put it past them.

A call requires a human, which is inherently not scalable. And even humans have trouble distinguishing AI content these days.

And it's not like Discord actually cares. They just care about appearing like they care. Something to keep the heat off of them from regulators and angry parents.

Discord built its own TSA?

A “video call” perhaps requires a human, but the type of test described need not be a video call. One can imagine a network trained to distinguish a fake id card from real one from a video recorded where the user is asked to move the card such that the holograph is glinting in the sunlight.

Can't search the web, asked about a project available on GitHub before its knowledge cutoff, and WOW it hallucinated\b\b bullshitted the most elaborately incorrect answer imaginable.

Immediately deemed irrelevant to me, personally.


Agree, unfortunately. Zulip is one of those apps I want to see succeed but I cannot for the life of me get used to the UX.

Huh, I have the opposite experience, I love Zulip's UX. The fact that everything is a thread in a channel means I can quickly skip the threads I don't want, and I don't have to mark things as read in an all-or-nothing fashion. Slack doesn't let you do this, if you read a channel, it's now read, and you can't say "actually, keep this thread unread for later".

I understand that part but it makes it really difficult to peruse when joining a large instance. I have little to no idea what I'm even looking for, which actions are going to cause side effects others can see, etc.

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