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C++ was my language of choice for a long time, but I can't say I'm with you on this one. If I'm going to use Vec, I had better know what it is already. Littering the code with a special double-glyph operator when a dot would do is just needless noise to me.

(I won't criticize you for liking it, though. Cheers.)

if this community has any hope of being anywhere near as comprehensive in coverage as the News Subreddits

I left Reddit on purpose.

I would rather have quality than volume.

I would rather my news feed be diverse than dominated by one or two self-appointed influencers of discourse. (Even if they have good intentions.)

I approve of this rule. Ten articles per person each day is more than enough at this stage, and the threshold for "too much" can always be adjusted as the community grows.

I can't comment on EndeavourOS, but your storage plan is fine. Good luck!

BTW, a lot of us would say Windows is already shit.

*Yuzu or Ryujinx. Not Cemu. Not Dolphin.

Valve was scanning your DNS cache

The story I read was that they didn't collect or report anything, but just flagged a user if the cache contained a known game hack site, and that they stopped doing that years ago.

Not comparable to what Epic was caught doing, IMHO. Still, if there's an article with more detail, I wouldn't mind reading it. (Maybe it was part of their anti-cheat system of the time?)

somehow they managed to invent like 90% of all “evil” MTX and DRM in the process

Having worked with DRM systems since long before Valve existed, I'm reasonably certain this is just plain false.

In Steam's case, the slowness looks more like a side effect of it being a Chromium Embedded Framework application (similar to Electron) with a lot of extras bolted on. It's just not built for efficient use of resources.

Epic cons:

Also:

• Epic has already been caught scanning and collecting data from files on people's hard drives that are totally unrelated to Epic or its games.
• Epic's habit of interfering with game availability, through exclusivity deals.

Ties with Tencent (super anti-consumer chinese state-owned megacorp)

To be more clear about it, Tencent is Epic's largest investor, so they obviously have a great deal of influence over and access to anything they want from Epic (likely including user data) and they directly benefit from Epic's growth.

Steam pros:

Also:

• Actively funding and supporting development of linux gaming technologies for more than a few years now, to the point where linux is now very much a viable gaming platform.

Steam cons:
Drm

Given that DRM on Steam is entirely up to each game publisher, I don't think it's appropriate to list under "Steam cons". I'm not even sure that any of my Steam games have DRM.

If you mean that most Steam games expect to find an instance of Steam running, you should know that is not DRM, and it's trivially replaced with the open-source Goldberg Emulator or a similar tool.

Gog
I don’t know anything besides the fact that it has drm-free games

Another plus for GOG is that they let you download games with a web browser. No special app required. (I think Itch.io does this as well.)

I don’t think getting freebies from them counts as supporting them

I do. Some examples off the top of my head:

• giving them access to your stored data, by letting their code execute on your computer
• giving them access to your behavioral data (a form of biometrics), through the same
• giving them access to your system fingerprints, through both code execution and account creation
• giving them legal influence over you, by agreeing to their terms
• giving some of their legal arguments greater weight, by increasing their market share
• giving them greater sway with publishers, such as when seeking exclusivity deals, by bolstering their user count
• giving them greater value to investors, by the same

There are probably other ways in which it supports them. Those are just the first ones to come to mind.

The purpose, a spokesperson for the legislature told local media, is to “guide people to deeply understand the trinity of loving the country, the Party, and socialism.”

How is this different from brainwashing?

This seems like a step in the right direction. Much like language translation, doing it on-device is the only way to preserve people's data agency / privacy.

Good riddance.

That headline reads like it's a planned annual event. :(

As a policy, it's bullshit. But here are the relevant sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_trust_anyone_over_30#%22Don't_trust_anyone_over_30%22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(film)

This seems like a good candidate for a bookmarklet that would append the (site:...) parts to an existing DuckDuckGo search result URL. Then you could just do a normal search followed by clicking the bookmarklet.

"some people use" ≠ “everybody wants to use”

(And are you sincerely suggesting WhatsApp, which is run by one of the largest and most aggressive privacy invaders the world has ever known, as a privacy friendly application? I would suggest re-thinking that position if you want to be taken seriously.)

but you have no direct connection from this resource to harm you claim it causes?

The connection is very clear, because you can see what domains are on the list.

So you’re lumping this resource into a bucket with other resources that were malicious

You’re saying a dev using this list [...] needs to convert their FOSS use-case to yours?

[...] the argument I feel you’re making.

Please stop putting words in my mouth. As you seem to be arguing in bad faith, I'm done with this conversation.

You’re getting into very sketchy territory by saying a dev who is using a public GitHub repo to solve their problems needs to take it down

No, I don't believe I said any such thing. Since you mention it, though, I think taking this list down and removing the false positives before bringing it back up would be the responsible thing to do.

In the interest of specifics, can you point to where this specific list has done harm?

I know from personal experience and investigation (both as a user and on the admin side) that there are now many cases of privacy-focused email addresses being rejected, or even worse, accepted and then silently black-holed, due to the domains being inappropriately added to lists like this one. I don't know of a place where people report such cases so they can be documented in aggregate, but if I find one, I'll be sure to bookmark it in case your question comes up again in the future.

Off the top of my head, taxi services lack:

• Convenient hailing. A phone call works okay if you're home, where there isn't much noise and you speak the local language, but a web form is often much easier and less error-prone in other situations.
• Efficient coverage. Many areas either have sparse taxi coverage, or multiple taxi companies competing in an area, and if the one you call doesn't have enough drivers available and nearby, you're stuck waiting unreasonably long even if there are other ride options with better availability.
• Up-front journey-specific prices. We now have the technology to see what the total cost will be before we commit to a ride. We should be using it.
• A single point of hailing, where I can submit my location and destination, and be presented with my ride options from all the available providers.
• Accurate pick-up and drop-off time estimates. Even better with real-time taxi location.
• Quick arrival.
• Automated ride-sharing coordination among strangers.
• Fuel efficiency incentives. Most taxis I've taken have been heavy vehicles that guzzle petrol, passing the expense on to the environment and the customer.

I think most (maybe all) of this could be solved by something like a clearinghouse for taxi rides, effectively federating the various taxi services in an area, with a web app available for hailing.

Signal gets some things right, but others wrong, such as phone numbers and centralized architecture. As such, it doesn't fit the "everybody wants to use" part.