MajorHavoc @ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

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That's the correlation.

For the parents, their world turned upside down, and Andrew Wakefield gave them someone/thing to (incorrectly) blame.

A thousand deaths aren't enough for Andrew Wakefield. (Paraphrase quote from Frank Herbert's Dune.)

Disclaimer: l'll never illegally harm Andrew Wakefield. But if some authorized entity convicted him to execution and raffled off the right to throw the switch, I would buy one ticket for each person I've lost.

It makes me sad that the piece of shit Andrew Wakefield is still alive while so many better people than him have died for his bullshit.

Therefore the advice of the CDC can't be trusted.

I trust the CDC. I wish others would too.

I lost people I love to all of this anti-vax bullshit.

As part of my grief journey, I tried to understand.

And now I'm not inclined to mock those who mistrust the CDC.

Mocking them won't bring my loved ones back, and it won't save anyone else's loved ones.

Their experience is different than mine, but it's real to them.

We either talk about ways to rebuild that trust, or we accept that we're going to keep losing loved ones. I choose not to accept it. It's not easy, and it requires trying to understand their world and their hurts. But I've lost enough people, it's worth it to me.

Yeah. We only betrayed 400 of our citizens. Why don't the rest trust us?! (This is sarcasm.)

Joking aside, that's just how trust works.

I agree with you that rampant capitalism is the true primary source of distrust, but we're not going to fix the full distrust without addressing the history as well.

all participants were given long term medical care thanks to funding from the government.

There's a lot more than my cherry picked example in our history.

We have a history of treating our least privileged society members as lab rats.

Now we're acting shocked that folks aren't lining up for a poke in the arm.

Trust must be built, and we clearly don't have it anymore.

Getting rid of our billionaires is step one, but it won't magically change hearts and minds and create the missing trust.

My point is that they government itself doesn't have a spotless history, and so cannot simply say trust me bro. It's not just privatized healthcare that lost the missing trust.

Getting rid of our billionaires and un-privatizing healthcare is step one. After that, we still need an accountability overhaul, and a ton of patience to rebuild the lost trust.

United States citizens have reasons not to trust their government with their health. Trust takes a lot time to build, and recent administrations haven't been building it.

I'm just going to leave a link here to the Tuskegee Syphilis Study for the folks arguing against your point.

Note: A more updated picture is not available, as we never found his ultra compressed remains.

I could live without the "guess which commands even work right now", aspect of the original gameplay.

I don't have the game patience I had back then.

Im in disguise now

"I picked a bad day to give up cigarettes."

I don't follow either closely enough to make a rank list or anything.

In the same ballpark as some moments that Torvalds has apologized for. Milder than Torvald's worst, but also unrepentant, as far as I've seen.

its lead dev is a bit socially awkward

Heh. You're being gentle, and that's good. But that's maybe understating it a bit.

I've seen the GrapheneOS official Mastodon account being an antisocial uncollegial mess.

It's okay to acknowledge that we wish some of our open source contributors were better community members.

Nice. This is for me, if it runs on SteamDeck. I cannot be arsed to buy the latest great game system, but once a remake runs on the thing I already have, I'll try it and enjoy it.

The first step towards being great at anything is being shitty at that thing.

So how come email spam still exists

We were really naive back when email was invented.

Is there anything about Lemmy's architecture that will prevent this problem?

While Lemmy versions maintain some backwards compatibility, Lemmy is designed to move forward, and allow incremental security improvements. And it is possible to apply significant security updates to individual servers without losing access to the out of date ones.

Email really doesn't have an equivalent way to improve security, Incrementally, without dropping large legitimate parts of the network.

DMARC and DKIM are making finally progress for email security- by dropping large legitimate parts of the network.

I have macros to swap my audio devices.

Ooh. That's really good. I didn't realize, but I need that. Thanks!

I think we will see this continue, but with federated product search, soon.

Small business vendors cannot afford to continue to leave their search results to Google and Amazon to control.

I'm not saying it's impossible. But I tried and failed. It's not part of the native HID spec, as far as I could tell, last time I tried. So it would, I think, at least require a serious undiscovered vulnerability.

Damn. These kids need to wake up and stop getting ripped off. Salary range in the listing is the law in many states now and much of the world.

It's basic self respect to expect it in the listing, and ask why it's not there, when it's missing.