Why stop there?

I’m sure it happens even with perfectly functional cameras.

The place that truncates passwords is probably not the place to look for best practices when it comes to security. :-)

To save a few megabytes of text in a database somewhere. Likely the same database that gets hacked.

Seems like you might have fed it the phrase “rats fleeing a sinking ship” to steer its output in a specific direction.

Cory Doctorow came to the office I worked for Amazon in, to give a talk at Goodreads (we shared an office). I always thought it was ironic. I got him to autograph my Kindle, and he wrote “if you can’t open it you don’t own it” on it, so it’s definitely not lost on him.

I use it as a time-saving device. The hardest part is spotting when it’s not actually saving you time, but costing you time in back-and-forth over some little bug. I’m often better off fixing it myself when it gets stuck.

I find it’s just like having another developer to bounce ideas off. I don’t want it to produce 10k lines of code at a time, I want it to be digestible so I can tell if it’s correct.

And where were the pagers when they exploded?

Where were the explosives then? One central place?

In this instance I’ll blame whoever planted a couple of thousand explosives on people all over the place and detonated them simultaneously without caring who was nearby.

Imagine one of them was on a plane carrying your mother, or one was dropping off their kid at the school your kid goes to, or at the supermarket with you behind them in line.

I’m sure that’ll make that girl’s friends and remaining family feel much better.

The explosions had to happen at the same time to be effective, and so people who were being attacked were in a variety of places. Detonating explosives in an uncontrolled variety of public places is not precise.

That “even the girl was a daughter of a member of Hezbollah” part got me very angry.

Kids don’t deserve to get blown up, even if their parents are mass murderers.

The problem with explosions is that they injure everyone nearby, not just the person with the explosion in their pocket.

I read in a NYT headline that they were pagers with explosives added in.

Here’s the article I saw but didn’t read.

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All the things that used to break phones got fixed, mobile OS changes got smaller and smaller, designed obsolescence required something that would get people to buy a new phone every 18 months. So here’s a hinge. Here’s TWO hinges!

Most people have never installed an operating system, and I’ve never seen a laptop running Linux for sale at Best Buy or wherever, so there’s a huge barrier for entry for the average person.

I’m sure most people would be fine with Linux day to day if it was set up for them, but they’re not going to download an ISO, boot from it, and install an OS if they don’t have to.

These same people, to stick with my example, might grow delicious tomatoes, better than those you buy at the supermarket. Can anyone grow some tomatoes? Pretty much. Does anyone really have to? No.

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People can choose what to spend their time doing. Some of us choose to be able to install operating systems, other choose to become master gardeners. Who’s to say which one is right or wrong? The gardeners probably don’t have any issues using WhatsApp, even if there is advertising in it, because it solves the problem they have. Then they go back to the thing they’re experts at instead, saying things like “why can’t these tech sheeple grow a radish? send them all to jail.”

It took me a lot of convincing to get my friends on Signal instead of WhatsApp. I believe WhatsApp was talking about adding advertising or charging money, and I used that to get people to switch.

This reminds me of the argument I see from Linux users that Linux is just as easy to set up as Windows. I think it doesn’t occur to people making that argument that most people never even set up Windows. It’s just on their computer when they get it.

The setup needs to be fast and easy for people to consider it. Nobody will spend even 5 minutes figuring something out these days.

Edit to add that a bunch of younger people have never had a computer or laptop. They do their computer stuff on a phone or possibly a tablet and they definitely never did anything technical like reinstall the OS.

Uber is quoting me about $15 for a journey that Waymo charged me $19 for.

There’s a tip to add for the Uber ride. I’m not sure what the cost for Uber would have been when I took the Waymo.