> Defending “reverse racism” and “reverse sexism”, concepts not backed by empirical evidence
Yeah, racism and sexism goes in all directions, at relatively equal rates. The key thing being the _power asymmetry_ that makes certain groups differently visible (and effective in their bigotry) than others.
Saying that bigotry does not flow in a particular direction is cultivated ignorance at best, and maliciously dismissive bigotry at worst.
AI being thought of - by the Parasite Class - as an effective replacement for many employees, thereby eliminating the employment that most people depend on in order to survive, all the while it wildly hallucinates entire industries straight into the dirt.
I mean, yes, the Parasite Class will get their comeuppance for their greed and arrogance and hubris and stupidity. But not before the majority of working-class people get driven into abject poverty and destitution from job loss. It will hurt the common man _long before_ it hurts those who truly deserve the pain, and if rolled out too fast and too far, may even trigger economic or societal collapse.
And while this is quite similar to your № 1, I feel it is materially different enough to stand separately: the paranoia here being that average working-class folk cannot turn aside this diesel locomotive because they have zero control over it, and the Parasite Class that does control it being so obsessed with obscene levels of profits that they are eagerly driving everyone off of a cliff just to get to it.
I put in a word that I know would bring back at least 1,000 results that use that word precisely, and in its entirety.
It didn’t bring back a single one. I got a whole lot of results that had parts of that word, or looked similar to that word, but nothing with an exact match.
That word is not only a well-used German slang for a common vegetable (so, present in hundreds of online recipes), which is also used throughout the Middle East (food reviews and online menus), but it’s also a part of several company’s names (not related to the slang term) mainly because it’s also a German last name (online biographies and Wikipedia entries).
Clearly, this search engine has a long way to go before it comes close to being minimally functional.
I would love to see most drop-in/bolt-on authentication packages (such as DotNet’s Identity system) to adopt “bitwise complexity” as the only rule: not based on length or content, only the mathematical complexity of the bits used. KeePass uses this as an estimate of password “goodness”, and it’s altered my entire view of how appropriate any one password can be.
IIRC the key point there is that it's contextual to whatever generation method scheme you used--or at least what method you told it was used--and it assumes the attacker knows the generation scheme.
So "arugula" will score is very badly in the context of a passphrase of English words, but scores better as a (supposedly) random assortment of lowercase letters, etc.
> Many years ago, I installed and managed OpenWRT on my routers, […] but I grew tired of the maintenance and keeping up. It had moved from hobby and became a job. I was full-time network administrator for my own house.
Wait, what??
I check OpenWRT once every several months for a new release, and if one exists I spend an hour or two updating my gateway and wireless bridges. There is no extensive maintenance needed even when running multiple servers behind it.
Honestly, I run two VM platforms, a dozen or so VMs, several workstations and a mess of personal machines and devices, and I think I’ve spent half a day on my network in the last year.
Well, all I can say is that this was about 15 years ago. Updates to OpenWRT were not fun, and I was never very confident that I had done things correctly. Whether it was my shortcoming in technical knowledge, or poor documentation, it was more than I had patience for.
IMHO, dampen might be a more suitable verb. Unions are not a panacea to all issues an employee can face. And sometimes the union will put its own interests first, or the company’s, before the interests of the individual employee. But on the whole, unions can play a useful role on the market of labor.
IMHO your domain name is a confusable that will make many people think it’s offline if they try to manually type in that domain name - because even I typed in portfolio dot app, and not portfolo dot app. And portfolio.app doesn’t lead anywhere - the owner of that domain name hasn’t stood anything up.
And while this product may appeal to many, IMHO most technical people are going to want to self-host in some fashion in order to avoid the issue of niche/boutique SAAS products being suddenly discontinued by their creators.
I certainly don’t touch the vast majority of SAAS products unless it has a significant commercial backing behind it, and even then I try to avoid SAAS as much as possible for philosophical reasons: if I can’t control it, I can’t depend on it.
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