I’ll probably never trust anything they’ve touched until I’ve taken it apart and put it back together again.
Me too. But the vast majority of users need guardrails, and have a different threat model. Even those that also care about privacy, if they just want a solution that comes by default, this adtech 'fake' or 'superficial' solution does provide something. And anything is more than nothing.
Yeah, the Germans were systematic and that makes them worst. Thanks for answering, I was asking sincerely. Pretty much agreed on the comment that said that it was like asking if its worst to get stabbed in the right or left lung. Now I see the oversimplification, since in one case we have that "effectiveness" trait.
In any case, bwfore doing any ranking one should ask "why" do it... Like, what's the aim here.
But, since we are doing it, let me bring the case of Latin America. The royalty of both Spain and Portugal are to be scrutinized. If not for their systematic approaches, let's just try comparing the numbers. Entire civilizations were decimated. And the years it took were long enough to have settlers perpetuating actions locally... Oh, the cheery on top of it all is that until recently this wasn't acknowledged even at schools. Even today there are statues of f*ing Columbus in Spain. Or museums with weapons of 'Conquistadores' without really stopping to reflect upon the terror they brought to natives. And not so long ago, in Latin América, 12th Oct. was a holiday for commemorating the "discovery" of the continent... Just plain as that. Obscene and insidious genocide. For me, it's at the top.
Once, I read that Nazism is the internalization within Europe of Colonialist practices, only modernized (e.g. gas chambers vs. contagious blankets). Mindblowin' eh?
TPB is still around, only magnet links are around. They were hosting torrent files which is basically a list of trackers. That's what they had to drop, in order to continue functioning. And their DNS is still banned like from almost every westernized country.
Regardless of technicalities, they were #1 biggest player. (Today they are like #3 or #5?) What I mean to say, is that they got busted mainly because of this. To make an example.
There are different takes... for example, take a look at all the different tracks on the latest ISCB conference. For me, there were a few books that I've enjoyed the most. For example... (1) Bioinformatics Data Skills by Vince Buffalo, showed me how to leverage the lignux shell to work with our files and formats. (2) Bioinformatics Algorithms by Pavel Pevzner, showed me how simple data strutures as strings can convey so much complexity when it comes to dealing with them in the context of this discipline. And (3) Human Molecular Genetics by Tom Strachan, showed me how my knowledge from bachellors degree in life sciences was rather limited :P
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62493137
On February 8th, 1943, she was captured by the 7th SS Prinz Eugen Division. She was interrogated, tortured and beaten for 3 days, but refused to say anything. On February 11th, she was publically hanged.
You said it's not the best and then mentioned Hyperland as a panacea of customization... It is almost implied. Meanwhile the arguments against you go a little bit in circle. This seems like the typical internet people polarizing themselves. We are all enjoying our distros, text editors, DEs, and WMs. No need to start making up factions at all... But it's way more fun to do so because we are humans and our society conditioned us to this. *shrugs*