I follow all of that, sure. But I still don’t think you can blame either on “bottom of the barrel staff” given that the proximate cause appears to be much much closer to the money than them.

All this. It’s surveillance where your observation comes into its own tho.

mst doing some interesting work with babble, a babel for Perl 5. Hoping we get a typescript workalike in Perl.

From the install notes, can someone tell me why BoringSSL needs Perl to build?

I guess for the same reason OpenSSL needs Perl, to generate some files.

IIRC most notable the ASM files are generated via Perl.

Update: Here is a link to some Perl BoringSSL stuff: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/crypto...

Worse: why does it need Go?

Perl is used to generate the final assembly files so they can be adapted between different x86_64 variants/systems/assemblers.

I get asked for single characters of mine a lot

> I don't know what the story is in Apple-land

The walled garden is great and protects my privacy.

Google's business model, in broad strokes, is selling user data to advertisers.

Apple's business model, in broad strokes, is charging consumers premium prices for hardware.

As long as Apple thinks the market values user privacy, they are economically incentivized to provide privacy- and security-focused software features that get people to buy their hardware over Android equivalents.

Is that an irontight guarantee? Of course not. Is it a (current) alignment of incentives that means Apple is categorically more likely to protect privacy than e.g. Google? Absolutely. That's also played out so far in practice, between things like app security sandboxing and Apple's historical unwillingness to help law enforcement decrypt encrypted backups — see e.g. the San Bernardino shooter case.

More accurate description, with fewer words:

Google's business model, in broad strokes, is selling advertisement space.

Apple's business model, in broad strokes, is selling hardware.

I actually pay more for an iPhone to be in their walled garden (with all the restrictions therein) for the better security and privacy. I consider my smartphone to be an appliance and am ok to trade-off uber-customization-capabilities for better than Android level of security. I also carry an Android phablet for on-the-go mobile hacking/coding/exploring shenanigans, but don't keep any data on it for obvious reasons

There is a “web” link on this article. If you click it, you’ll find a search engine link to the article which will give you access

This doesn’t work anymore.

We’ve also not convinced our peers to vote in anywhere near the numbers that the boomers do.

The boomers didn't vote when they were young, either.

I'm a boomer myself, but I absolutely hope that this can be turned around. Higher voter participation from your generation could do much to reverse some of the really bad stuff that my generation has done.

> That's tantamount to saying that life now is on balance worse than it was in the pre-boomer period

I don’t follow your logic there at all

On this point:

>...ultimately have hurt those of us in the later generations more than they've helped us.

That seems to be saying the things they have done have made the world a worse place to live in.

If you have some problem, mention it.

Don't pick up things from some where and say related.

There were always some people who talk rubbish, there is no need for you to take the job of spreading it.