Yeah, I'm not sure how to curb the trend of money destroying companies and countries.
It's hard to incentivize not being greedy.
There's plenty of billboards/ads/magazines/etc idealizing rich athletes, celebrities, CEOs, etc. There's no MTV cribs for modest/honest/hard working single parents, community volunteers, small business owners who kept their own pay lower to afford employee's medical benefits, etc.
There's no awards show for most humble (ha), most improved, most selfless, most mentor, etc.
So, with all these negative opinions of reddit and spez, I'm both curious what the business world generally thinks of him, and their plan for the business.
Ultimately, the interesting thing will be if investors will give any money when they IPO.
I personally wouldn't, but because I don't like the leaders. Some people don't care, they just want returns where ever they come.
I'm a bit of a hater for this company, and hope their IPO is a flop. We'll see.
Executives used to be stewards of the company. They took care of brand, and people.
Then we switched to a bottom line focus. Now, profit, stock prices are the only thing that matters.
Shortcuts, layoffs, benefit cuts, etc are the only way to offset not making continuous market growth, and still rack ridiculous profits.
Also, great deal of Americans started not giving a shit about where the product comes from or who makes it. We want the cheapest thing, fast. Just has been our personal priorities.
There's not much incentive for a company to consider it's corporate image, contributions to community and public, etc.
Yeah, I agree with not liking people having that info, but ISPs do, unless you use VPN, and then the VPN does.
We just usually don't hear of that getting leaked from VPN providers since their reputation is on the line.
Data breach would also be a bummer. If a criminal group takes the time to breach a government database, I think it would be wasted effort to try black mailing people over porn access. Unless you're a priest. Then uh oh.
The way you get positive ID that can't be skirted is with government issues ID card with PKI. All US federal employees have ID cards issued by their department. It has certs that let you sign into computers, sign documents, etc. It's 2FA, card and a PIN.
Every driver in the US is supposed to have a driver's license. They just need to add PKI to them. Then you sign into a website with your DL and PIN. You'd never need a million accounts anymore. Caveats apply.
I spent some time reading a significant number of the replies, so I'll offer this as a suggestion for some of the repeated themes regarding overbearing political stance, decisive topics, etc:
encourage and support people discussing matters from an open perspective, trying to take a less decisive stance, or being open to different sides
encourage people and participate in conversation with people who show compassion or agree to disagree rather than write people off
I would appreciate more people discussing things with these ideas in mind.
Between the echo chamber sentiment, and people's difficulty with empathy or accepting there could be other view points, it's hard to maneuver around hot topics and learn anything.
The extreme left sentiment has been repeatedly mentioned, but I'm honestly still hoping to learn other people's perspectives here.
This is what most of these people are talking about when they say viewpoints are critical and hateful.
People can have different viewpoints without being an ism/ist.
I don't understand why people can't differentiate or stop conflating opinions or perspectives with hate, violence, or something-ism.
Also, I am not advocating for hate, something-ism, killing, etc. Not everyone who doesn't agree with you is a fascist, hater, genocide supporter, etc. Not ever opinion on a matter is propaganda.
I also wish there was more enterprise focused IT community.
The self host is not a replacement for homelab or sysadm.
I can't even get good information security discussions @infosec.pub. I was hoping there'd be some security ninjas running around. Just a news bot.
I even think about mentioning enterprise Microsoft products, get evil capitalism lectured. I can't personally change the business world's IT paradigm. Business world...more lecture coming
I enjoy these threads. I have noticed people really hate two themes here: (1) internet censorship, and (2) people screwing with their porn :)
(I'm not a pornhub user, nor advocating for the internet censorship nonsense, just a devils advocate question for fun)
Pretend for a second it was reasonably feasible to enforce this, so I'm asking you to forget how the internet/VPNs/tons of options work :)
If a site like pornhub 'PROMISED' to not log any user data under threat of death, but all they did was run a query against some government database that verifies age >= 18, would you do it?
Also, the government database 'PROMISES' to not log the source of the age only verification queries, would you do it?
So, if you say no, is it because you believe there's no way each of those organizations would keep their word or something else?
I'm betting you're right. Hopefully they can crack that last inch holding us back from some sweet ass fusion power, or some kind of cancer+everything else miracle cure...
Their idea is that is hides all the user info from advertising companies. Downside is your browser is an ad slot machine.
Which is best?
Tracked or ad machine?
I'm more surprised people aren't talking about the fact that since it's running on the client side, someone would just figure out a way to hack and block all the ads even easier.
Yeah, I'm not sure how to curb the trend of money destroying companies and countries.
It's hard to incentivize not being greedy.
There's plenty of billboards/ads/magazines/etc idealizing rich athletes, celebrities, CEOs, etc. There's no MTV cribs for modest/honest/hard working single parents, community volunteers, small business owners who kept their own pay lower to afford employee's medical benefits, etc.
There's no awards show for most humble (ha), most improved, most selfless, most mentor, etc.