Cyclohexane @ cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

West Asia - Communist - international politics - anti-imperialism - softwar

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Did you miss the very first sentence of my comment where I said:

Who here said "we must let bad things happen"

And the whole rest of the comment that refutes your claim that we "have to let Putin wage whatever war of aggression he desires"?

Please take the time to read it again, because your points were already addressed.

doing everything from your computer can be nicer than having to get out your phone and switch to another screen just to quickly respond to SMS

Who here said "we must let bad things happen"?

The commenter you replied to just mentioned that if we are outraged at Russia, we should be even more outraged at the US, and since a much longer time. But Ukraine and Russia are the only issues most hypocrites with double standards speak about. Say any criticism of the west and they lash out like is happening right here.

And? Should we not point hypocricy and double standards because it hurts your feelings?

Yeah let me ruin a nice day out by reducing my consciousness of this nice day and fucking my health while I'm at it.

Going back to my original comment, I was disagreeing with your recommendation of using the default sms application on your phone, as it is not E2EE. I would want an app that does E2EE with as many contacts as I can (meaning, all contacts that have the same E2EE client on the other side), and only default to regular SMS otherwise.

To simplify it, when capitalism answers "is it worth the cost?", it is not answering "is the benefit of this thing to society worth the cost?". They're answering "are the profits I would get out of this and the risk worth the cost?". And profits do not always agree with what's good for society.

One example of moderate-to-low cost investments that are of demand in society but not very profitable and hence does not see focus is low-income housing (at least in the US). Housing developments disproportionally target high income or even luxury housing, as the margins on those are far better (but the costs are also much higher). Even nowadays, that this trend has been going on for a while, and luxury housing has really fallen out of demand (which greatly increases the risk), it continues. Luxury housing still looks a better investment to investors, when society does not need more luxury housing. It needs more moderate and low income housing.

I mean I assume that's what people mean by SMS app?

If both of you have the client, it would send it E2E, otherwise send it as regular SMS (kinda like imessage but paying more mind to security and privacy).

That's brilliant!

It isn't. Most decision makers of capitalism are very unaware of science. You'd know this if you work in research. The ideas that see light of day do so not because they're good in any quantifiable sense. It is because they convince the capitalists. This can be affected by so many things that aren't merit or even cost based.

Some things make sense from a cost perspective, but not a profitability perspective. Profit isn't just about cost. There's margins, competition, longevity, etc. Something can be of moderate costs, but if the margins are too low or it is too long term or a project, it is of low value to capitalists.

I'm surprised no one mentioned projects like libgen and scihub. They are much better than Wikipedia imo.

Not just can be. Wikipedia has been proven to be manipulated by political interests.

I got a lot of downvotes when I said this in the last post, but I'll say it again: France is such a fascist place.

But it's not E2E encrypted

Do not associate people's behaviors with their race. I am from the middle east myself, and I am pro-LGBT. A lot of middle Eastern immigrants are anti LGBT, but not all of us. There are also many Europeans and white people who are homophobic, so the reverse isn't true either.

And just remember that homophobia as it exists today was exported by European colonial powers. While Muslim regions were never particularly excited or warmly welcomed LGBT, they tended to leave them be and treated them normally for the most part. It was not a societal issue worth considering. Modern homophobia was introduced by the west, and while Europe has seen great improvements there, the Middle east and third world is sadly behind on all fronts. Our wars and lack of education keep us more ignorant.

Last thing I'd add is that I notice middle Eastern immigrants to be more homophobic than the ones at home. I suppose it's their reaction to going to LGBT friendly places and thinking it's a conspiracy theory. I only say this to say that it is not as bad at home.

When people self host searx and 4get, is it meant to be local use too, or is it only for public use? (or both?)

Like would it be stupid if I host searx but only for local use? How does it even work?

I find SQL to be easy enough to write without needing generation. It is very well documented, and it is very declarative and English-like. More than any ORM, imo.

Surely there's more than 1 ORM that is at least used commonly enough to have a decent community for every major programming language. Just search the web for ORMs in python, JS, and Go and you'll see what I mean.

Not even language choice is forever. I've seen more codebases change languages or frameworks than I have seen changing databases.

What if you change jobs, and now work with a different language or framework? What if you're just helping out a sibling team in your company, and they use something different? Having to relearn a new ORM is annoying when you already know SQL.

I am not basing my argument on any of these things having a high likelihood of changing. The main point to me is that you're abstracting an already high level and very well abstracted API, and the reasons presented don't justify it (abstracting vendors but then locking you into a more specific vendor).

But then you get locked into the ORM's much more highly specific syntax.

At least the differences across SQL variants are not THAT major from my experience. The core use cases are almost the same.

The overall cost on society still comes out better. In fact, cheaper, especially in the long run.