It's pretty clear from my argument that I believe that it is entirely legitimate and unproblematic for everyone to collect basic data like system information and crashes. I'm not making an exception for Audacity, I'm broadly accepting this behaviour.
This is an odd place to grand stand. I'm glad you have ideals, but the fact is Audacity was looking to gather industry standard telemetry data (basic system information and crashes) as an opt-in system. This information is extremely important in fixing bugs and prioritising developer resources.
It's a convenient excuse that allows them to reject any social progress without having to examine or defend any of their own views. It doesn't matter that the ideas of the "leftist revolution" may in fact be correct and completely justifiable, because introducing it through a "revolution" is inherently bad.
I don't particularly appreciate your insinuation that because I said Palestine won't forget Israel's actions that I somehow support the cycle of violence in the region.
I don't think it is valuable to argue with this person. Anyone who can't recognise that the inherent power imbalance between child and adult makes consent impossible is probably not available to be convinced in the first place.
Obviously it isn't a foregone conclusion. Even if they come back in favor of Israel, that doesn't mean people, especially Palestinians, won't remember what happened.
I don't think it is productive or helpful to be overly cynical. An ICJ ruling may be too late or insufficient to stop a war, but officially committing a genocide would be headline news, and will erode public and political support for the occupation of Palestine.
Adding onto this, in cryptography this field of study is called "Biometric Failure Rates" (at least it was called that in my beginner course). A good introduction would be this article.
What does building an AI company "to revolutionize memoir sharing" even mean? He seems like the kind of guy to approach you with a "million dollar idea" for the worst app you've every heard of that will pay you in exposure.
