I’m not promoting anything, but art is art.

I would think if people find that depending on certain features ultimately disrupts their work, the smart thing would be not to use those features.

Yes. That would be wiser. But it would also mean setting up a Jenkins server.

This thread pivots hard from version control jokes into a somber discussion of the future of Minecraft.

I have found my people. You all are amazing.

GitHub actions is crazy convenient, but it’s a huge pain to run a copy locally. I try not to depend on it too much, but sometimes it is simplest to just go refill my coffee while it figures itself out.

(And it’s almost never down. This week was unusual, to me.)

I’m pretty sure it will be a valuable amount of copper.

Edit: Except of course I guess it won’t, because they’re just bullshitting to drum up invetor interest, and only three of these will ever exist.

I prefer the term “beautified”.

I, for one, will certainly not loot it for parts, unless it has an unfortunate accident, in which case I’m just recycling trash that someone left out.

The whole question of who owns user generated content needs hashing out, because no one seems to actually know.

It’s billionaires. They know. They just sometimes squable over it like two year olds. But they know. They pay lawyers to make it clear in thousand page terms of service documents.

The big issue I see here isn’t the proposed solution, it’s the public image of doing something the tech bro billionaires are pushing hard right now.

It looks a bit like choosing the other side of the class war from their contributors.

Wikipedia, in particular, may not be able to afford that negatvie image, right now.

I could welcome this kind of tool later, but their timing sucks.

How much do you want to bet on the overlap being small?

A bigger question is how much does Wikiemedia Foundation want to bet that their top donors and contributors aren’t in this thread…

Edit: Moving my unrelated ramblings to a separate comment.

So you got all your friends, family and coworkers and acquaintances using Signal?

Only the ones I like.

Joking aside, yes. I’ve found that just letting a friend or relative ask exploratory “how bad can WhatsApp be?” questions for about five minutes gets them to start the switch to Signal.

I can’t take any credit, Meta decided to lean in hard on spying on people.

I’m so quick to install a custom ROM, I forgot the Meta spyware comes pre-installed on many phones. Ugh.

If it’s a Pixel anyway, GrapheneOS has a few nice security and privacy features that LineageOS doesn’t have (yet?).

I think both are pretty great and much better than most alternates.

That update though: “… completely removed…”

I assume this is because someone at Meta realized this was a huge breach of trust, and likely quite illegal.

Edit: I read somewhere that they’re just being cautious about Google Play terms of service. That feels worse.

Very nice. The only thing missing is for pieces to be falling off of the beautifully painted tail.

It’s not hard to implement.

Oh sweet summer child.

When has X under Musk had anything happen to doubt their encryption?

Musk routinely hires young unqualified technicians, and abused, laid off, or otherwise alienated much of the top talent at Twitter, in the name of cost savings.

There’s plenty of other stories out there of Musk’s ego interfering with his staff’s ability to do their jobs properly.

Most recently, the new DOGE has suffered substantial security lapses, associated with under-hiring and under-provisioning against cyber security threats, under Musk’s leadership.

Even before Twitter was aquired, Twitter had an embarrassing memorable history with public figures suffering from security incidents caused by Twitter’s own staff, training, technology or processes. This was arguably not a huge problem for an almost fully public messaging platform, but could be disasterous for anyone relying on this new E2EE solution, if it is incorrectly implemented.

The talent needed to correctly implement secure end to end encryption is rare, on a good day, for a good employer with a strong history of loyalty to their staff. X arguably has little to none of that going for it, today.

There’s very little reason to assume that X, under Musk’s current leadership, has correctly securely implemented end-to-end encryption, and there are reasonable reasons for people to fear that E2EE developed at X may have serious security flaws.

Yes. JavaDoc was/is good.

There, I said something nice about Java. I’m giving myself a gold star, and going to stop typing.

But each to our own :)

Exactly.

And it seems we, on average, decided to part ways with Stack Overflow.

I don’t know what the best answer is, but I’m not terribly surprised that Stack Overflow didn’t turn out to be it.

What, gratuitous, comma?