A pre-registered checksum will ensure that the downloaded file is what it says it is before running. So yes, it is safe. Unless you’ve found a collision in the checksum algorithm apple is using, although the chances are better that you’ll squeeze water out of dry desert sand.

I’d argue it should be used sparingly for the former too. You can so so easily run up costs that would literally bankrupt most small companies, and all with just a few clicks or lines of code.

Actually, that is not always the case. The paper is often impregnated with waxes, inks, or oils specifically to prevent decomposition because you don’t want a container for a product that had an indeterminate shelf life to decompose; and again it introduces a significant hamper into recycling the container. It’s not “far” better unless you’re buying into base level green washing. 🤷‍♂️

The inside lining is generally plastic or metallic foils and causes these types of containers to be significantly harder to recycle than if they were made from a single material instead. The only way around this is larger, reusable containers with no waste. 🤷‍♂️ Not to say you’re the problem, just saying that it not being “made of plastic” doesn’t really matter as it’s still not made of biodegradable materials.

Yeah. Just how it goes unfortunately. Consumer buy-in is vastly underrepresented in the technology world. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc have all leveraged customer and community laziness to push the boundaries without much blowback. If Elon’s tenure over twitter/xitter shows anything, it’s that.

There’s a lot of businesses, organizations, companies, Devlopers, and etc that use it as home base. Want to follow what x, y, and z indie dev is up to working on the sequel to your favorite game? Guess what, they didn’t want to roll a website and social media activitly works against cross posting compatibility so they’re just on Twitter. Want to follow an account that only sends something out when a internet service goes offline, and be notified about it? Better hope they thought out a open alternative because almost exclusively the companies I’ve worked with update these matters on their Twitter. I’ve even had their Twitter inform me of issues before their own status.company.com pages (frankly egregious but alas). The cesspool definitely exists, but as a tool/town hall Twitter had won. It’s a mere shadow of it’s former self in this regard nowadays since king elongate the fucked took over, but the after affects as well as the hole in the market remain.

An uphill battle, but at least someone is fighting the good fight.

Yup.

It’s a tax loophole for the rich to use tbh.

I’m just picturing that meme of the guy sweating over two buttons. This time it’s rich people looking at option 1: Pay significantly less than my fair share but still a lot of money to the “poors”, Or option 2: back an insane narcissistic kleptocrat and hope the country doesn’t fall apart.

I see what you mean and understand you. It’s very idealistic and I appreciate the thought of it, but it just won’t apply to a modern world full of varied people in the way you wish. The reality of it is that most people simply are not interested in participating and it’s not in the best interests of any project to expect to change that. Contributions from someone who shares no passion or interest will be less qualitative at best. That’s not even to mention that you’re likely missing the forest for the trees, as most open source software is built upon hundreds of other projects. You cannot reasonably expect participation on that scale. You can encourage, desire, or structure an income stream to support it; but you cannot expect it as it’s just not rational.

Not sure what part of the open source community you’ve been diving into, but the expectation of contribution to the project is not realistic nor logical as there’s not “always” something a person can contribute and you’d absolutely run afoul of “too many chefs in the kitchen” (even Wikipedia acknowledges this and has structured editing in a way to help alleviate the issues). Though open source for me, and a lot of others, has always embodied passion, a desire to aid the community, and a drive to prevent closed alternatives. None of that is based around “co-op” style expected contribution development. Hell, even Stallman famously addressed my “free as in beer” statement, saying that open source is more akin to “free as in speech” overall, but since this particular project is not monitizing and are GPL 2 licensed, they are absolutely free as in beer.

(https://www.wired.com/2006/09/free-as-in-beer/)

I understand this, but we need to be reasonable and avoid extremes. This software is extensively free (as in beer) and requires development support. As long as the prompt doesn’t cross any lines into exploitive territory I think it’s fine. It would be nice for them to have explored other fundraising avenues first though and have saved this as an exhaustive “final” option.

Don’t worry. His entire set is the joke.

Smartphones are less likely to require water resistance than a watch

Cloudflare is amazing , until it’s not. Chances are you’ll fall within the 95% that have a great time, but if for some reason you draw the ire of sales, engineering, or a system bug you’re gonna have a bad time.

There’s not a smartwatch battery in existence that’ll last 10 years, and most smart watches will struggle with water resistance after a battery replacement (kind of important for a watch). Not saying that excuses the lack of software support, just pointing out there are bigger considerations one may want to make when purchasing a watch if they want it to last that long.

Something something Hollywood accounting.

I think it’s more about what the brain worms ate and what he’s missing than what he’s full of.

I think you have to imagine it differently. If it’s self tracking and ai based with voice as the main input then it makes for a natural fit imo. Think of it like carplay. Apple wouldn’t advertise texting and driving, but they’d advertise. Carplay and siri use in the car all day/night.