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You cannot let or forbid a 16yo to use stuff. You can only decide whether they will do it in the open or in hiding. Personally I’d rather have them talk to me about it than hide it from me.

Whether it works or not, this looks incredibly fun! That’s a win in my book.

The source got pulled off Github already.

The only thing we know without a proof is that they might be doing it. We don’t have a proof they do it but we also don’t have any proof they are incapable of doing so. A reasonable course of action would be to take precautions against it while not condemning them either, until they are either proven actually guilty or actively unwilling to up their security, which would also strongly imply the former.

Until it’s proven the data is E2E encrypted, it’s a fair assumption it can be read by a 3rd party, either now or in the future. E2EE is the only proof that matters, everything else is just a corporate “trust me bro”.

But wouldn’t a case do exactly what you want? It would make the damn thing thicker and flat on the back.

Making quality tools due to long-standing processes is definitely a different breed of tradition than oppressing minorities because they don’t fit someone’s “traditional” worldview.

To better illustrate my first post: The Victorinox craft isn’t high quality because it’s a tradition. It became a tradition because it’s high quality. If we subtract it being a tradition, we still have a reason to keep making it this way. The same cannot be said about oppressing people, unless one literally views human suffering as value added.

I think there is some confusion between tradition and well-tested processes. I’d hardly consider creating quality products a tradition.

If he’s being a putin stooge because it’s good for his business, he’s still being a putin stooge.

If you’re asking about a personal opinion: any policy purely based on tradition is worthless. Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people. Just like any peer pressure, it’s highly unlikely to produce anything but grief. If something is based purely on tradition without any other reason to exist, it’s unlikely to be an optimal policy.

Back to the initial question. I don’t think we can get infinitely progressive but we can keep subtracting the cruft of tradition until there is no necromantic peer pressure left at all. Mind that if something happens to be a tradition but still has a good reason to exist, it should be evaluated like any other idea in terms of being good or bad. I mean removing just one of the reasons to keep this idea. If it is left with zero reasons, it’s out. Otherwise it’s fair game.

He’s certainly popular but not necessarily liked.

It certainly sounds like you have a strong preference how to split preferences into two groups. ;)

Isn’t every rule just a preference of someone influential enough to make it into a rule?

Are screenshots even still considered evidence? They should be absolutely trivial to manipulate.

It’s a reference to her using her jet likely more often than I use my car.

(._).

I guess this is one area that AI can actually improve in our lives: https://www.summarize.tech/youtube.com/watch?v=jzQS9MmlEy8

Just because the gameplay was very simple doesn’t make it crap. The details (movement speed, the gap between the obstacles) were pretty much on point and that’s something that makes or breaks this kind of game.

Last but not least, it had little to none anti-user “features” that plague the modern games. I would choose Flappy Bird over most current games any time of the day. Actually there is no “would” in there as I still have it installed.

Until I read your comment, I thought this meme is about depression being constantly trivialized as a simple chemical imbalance.

The hexagon already knew the question so it answered before the question was even asked. It all makes sense.