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  • To have something optimized they need to start from scratch with clean code

    And honestly, that speaks more to the removal of features on the taskbar than Notepad.

    One person could have rewritten Notepad from scratch in C++ in a day and bolted in Markdown in a relatively secure fashion in another 2. I doubt security even hit the requirements list. I’m not against moving windows components to Rust. I’ve not against losing features here and there to get there, but blatantly ignoring security because it’s in Rust is downright stupid.





  • Ok, honestly with some caveats, this might have legs.

    What most of us want: to use our services anonymously and privately

    What some of us want: to keep youtube/discord/roblox from enabling pedofarms. yes i get the obligatory people should just raise their kids

    What companies say they want: to keep kids safe

    What companies really want: to appease some users and farm as much data about someone as they can and to comply with the growing trend of places that require age verification.

    So, what if they provide an offline model for age verification? download the model, phone in airplane mode. verify yourself, get a digitally signed certificate, expunge the app so shove that verifiable signature as proof that you’re an adult.

    From the corporate standpoint, It’s no different than signing into their account and giving them your face. we keep our privacy, they can fuck off about it.







  • I think if there is any true truth to it, it’s the systematic dismantling of the education system.

    I do have an observation though, there is less need these days to push into the unknown. We’ve engineered everything to come out of the box so user friendly that if you don’t want to know about how something works, you can still get by just fine. Your car tells you you’re low on oil, and your tire is flat and it’s time to replace the transmission fluid. Wifi is ubiquitous. If you want to know about something, it’s available on demand. I’ve forgotten far more details about wars and countries that i’ll ever need to use in my life and if I ever need them, they’re right there 5 seconds to run a search or ask a local AI.

    The people who are into tech and history and math are into it because they like it, for the most part machines are here to answer any questions you might have as long as you already have the broad strokes to know what you want to ask.

    I’m GenX, My kids are both excelling at math and getting some semi-gentle prodding to get a little programming and art under their belts. I certainly don’t hold them in the house, but I don’t force them out either. There’s hardly any other kids out, they have access to social activities. Free ranging wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. You’re bored, you bike over to somebody’s house, they’re bored, their parents kick you all out, you ride your bikes down roads that are too busy, sneak into places you shouldn’t be just to break off the boredom.

    The media is def all propaganda now, it has been for much longer than any of us would like to admit. I worked with a guy in the 00’s that had a CNN lies bumpersticker, I looked it up, yeah they kinda did on a few things. Every news carrier out there as at least some small agenda. TikTok, IG, FB are all full of it practically all you can do is pick some sources that don’t appear to be too bad (AP) and use a large pinch of salt when anything is reported.

    who are raising these kids? The government is handing out propaganda. They are convincing the people that private run, for-profit schools are necessary. Everything is a grift. The public is dumbing down, but it’s not just the kids, they’re just the easiest metric to get