asdfasdf1231's comments

anyone more fluent can explain 林 role on "我林檎食"? (example for 我吃苹果。)

The perverse incentives that nobody spell out: this is good for monopolies.

from soy farmers in brazil to local contractors bidding on government road work in new york. Everywhere the bigger company, that can have several more machines than it need for the daily operation, all leased with warranty, will destroy the competition that can't lease because of bad credit etc and so will have downtime/missed deadlines/lost harvests because they cannot get repairs on time.

Some big pockets benefit a LOT from all this, not just the dealers.

Also, the root cause for this was when car dealerships start doing this with cars and nobody cared.

> If it's not implemented for income to the council then why

analytics? To better serve you? to think-of-the-children?

I never understood why domains used to NTP and Package mirrors depend on external, commercial, certificate authorities.

It could be a fallback, with a red big warning to manually check the certs are alright when you need it (e.g too long without synching your root certificates package). But for most cases there is no excuse not having it local at all times.

I mean MITM a domain essential for the "distro" should be at least just a little bit harder than regular MITM.

> Now you went from writing bad code to building bad infrastructure

just write bad infrastructure as bad code. Get on with the times

Ironically something that solves all of the above and actually decrease costs: adopt GPLv3 for everything that receives or ever received federal funding. From technology to research data.

But I guess you will never see the guy who built an empire on top of GPLv2 with insignificant contributions back mention anything like that.

> My concern is that China tries to fulfill a vision of high-tech authoritarianism

Is he afraid that china implements their own version of captcha(tm). Leaving Google and the private sector out of the loop of monetizing censorship?

So you choose opaque server. At least do not hide the offline validation as deep as whatsapp and others do.

also work with linux/android distros do distribute the built from source client. otherwise, it's just more of the same

You can probably use alexa to record, then you will download from AWS.

interesting times to be a lawyer :D

end to end without self hosted open source servers have (among others) a tradeoff: either opaque server you can't trust at all, or no offline messages. Which one you decided on?