argv_minus_one

joined 1 year ago
[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago

People being contractually obligated to undergo medically unnecessary surgery is still an intolerable atrocity.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

They do conserve one thing: the status of the wealthy.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the difference?

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Printers should probably be connected by USB for security reasons anyway.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By “user” I mean the person who is using the application.

Using exceptions for handling unexceptional errors (like invalid user input) is a footgun. You don't know when one might be raised, nor what type it will have, so you can easily forget to catch it and handle it properly, and then your app crashes.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

We kinda do need him, though. Very few people are as intensely principled as he is on the subject of computing freedom, and without him anchoring the Overton window, there's nothing stopping the Bill Gateses of this world from moving it.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I think the problem there is that, for many years, nobody bothered to explain to him exactly why child porn is bad.

Most people observe that everyone else thinks it's bad and don't question it any further. That's not good enough for Stallman, though, and for good reason: expecting him to unquestioningly bow to peer pressure is an insult to his intelligence.

Someone did eventually explain the problem to Stallman. I don't know what exactly was explained, but my guess is that Stallman was told that child porn is non-consensual and therefore violates the child's privacy, similar to how revenge porn violates the subject's privacy. At any rate, after that discussion took place, Stallman did an about-face on the subject, and is now opposed to child porn like anyone else.

Moral of the story: taboos and peer pressure bad; logic and education good.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Hoping to see news that the US government has finally decided to stop the economy from melting down.

I keep being disappointed…

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Aren't you supposed to be sword fighting on an office chair?

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be replaced by Nazis. A sad and embarrassing choice by the people of Finland.

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