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Would you mind backing that up with a link?

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One of the problems I face when somebody comes along and tells me that they're now on Telegram, Cryptocat, Wire, or whathaveyou is that I might recall an issue but there doesn't seem to be a good up-to-date overview that answers the questions (1) should I trust these people (how bad was it; was it in their code or a dependency?) and (2) is it known to be far less secure than it advertises? (still?)

I recall e.g. that Moxie reviewed Telegram's security, found that none of it made any sense and that its authors didn't know what they were doing. https://tobtu.com/decryptocat.php looks like the cryptocat analogue of that. Have the two projects improved somehow? Have some people joined or others left?

Could you please also provide links for the claim that CryptoCat and Telegram are being used by governments to hunt down activists?

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Please start with this log entry

> 2016-09-29T23:57:32Z Xach: I dropped com.informatimago because I do not want to have to discuss anything with pjb again. I have never enjoyed discussing anything previously, but his vile twitter feed drove me over the edge, and his project no longer builds, so I don't want to report problems or discuss solutions.

from here: http://ccl.clozure.com/irc-logs/lisp/lisp-2016-09.txt

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His projects were removed from quicklisp in September (see e.g. http://blog.quicklisp.org/2016/09/september-2016-quicklisp-d...) over this matter.

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There are two sides to this and I think they're important to distinguish: If the person in question was wrongfully accused, this could do undeserved damage to him. This would be a misfortune (albeit not a great one given how little activity my comment generated) but I'm currently sufficiently convinced this won't happen that I went ahead and posted the comment.

The other matter is rehabilitation. Whether he should be allowed to apologise at some point, say that he made a mistake, and be welcomed back, is something that you cannot decide for everyone. It's up to your personal beliefs, in particular your religion. Everybody needs to determine that for him- or herself, in my opinion.

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A person can be smart in one domain and stupid in another, so much is clear (think Grothendieck in maths and politics)

But a person cannot be both respectable and disrespectable at the same time, I find, although I'm afraid now we might be disagreeing rather about words than ideas. Respectability, to me, is a compliment to somebody's set of values.

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Please scroll further. I understand that some of it is French but you should notice rather quickly nonetheless that this did not just happen on a single occasion. Essentially everything he writes fits into the narrative of #whitegenocide

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PJB has become a bit (too little for my taste) of a persona non grata in the common lisp world (which has a large overlap with the emacs world) ever since it was suggested and so far not disproved (names match, nicknames match) that he's the person behind https://twitter.com/ogamita

edit: To make it more precise, full names are identical and http://www.informatimago.com/index.html links to http://pjb.ogamita.org which uses the same name (ogamita) as that twitter account.

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Comparing this with surgery is not fair, I think. Here (with a food like soylent) the gains are low and the risks are high. With surgery, the risks are high but so are the gains. Before you go into surgery you're given a list of 10 ways you might die if something goes wrong. Oftentimes, though, the alternative is certain death (in the very near future).

Edit: I was replying to "But we have made surgery mistakes along the way". On a second reading, I notice that you did not actually mean to imply "it was necessary there so it's necessary here".

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You're not alone: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-travel-...

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With Safari entirely unable to handle this page, I really feel like I'm missing out on the modern web with it for the first time.

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Another false negative: Pinterest.

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The use-case? Well, you have a process that will run for a long time. You don't want to keep a terminal open. You /could/ just detach it. Now what if you want to kill it? Open another terminal, kill it by PID or through pkill. Clicking a button might be more convenient.

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This is already addressed in the article, e.g. here:

    There might, however, be a dark side to the story. There is
    a good reason we were designed to have finite sensitive
    periods. Takao Hensch, a Harvard neuroscientist, has
    written that plasticity takes a lot of energy: It’s
    exhausting to keep all your neural circuits in a dynamic
    state. Restricting it may protect the brain.

and in the paragraphs thereafter (I don't want to quote them here in full).

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I didn't mean to imply that you did; sorry if that came out wrong.

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I take the attribution in the first link (references to "Führerbunker" and "Führer") to mean that the author is comparing Lennart Poettering to Hitler. That's not funny, it's just very, very inappropriate.

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You probably mean `git fetch` or `git pull`. There is no `git update` in the default feature set.

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Google Allo: Why people such as Edward Snowden are advising against using the app

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fea...

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"Sign up to view more plans"

Except that after I sign up, I still can't view the plans until I set up my billing details. Meh.

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Quick rundown of alternatives and up/downsides (e.g. everybody has Debian so that's not noteworthy) of which I've personally used the first four:

  - DigitalOcean
    has FreeBSD
    has Fedora
  - Vultr
    has FreeBSD
    has Fedora
  - Linode
    has Fedora
    cheaper than the others
    relatively fast CPUs
      e.g. Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 @ 2.50GHz
    UI not as nice as the others'
  - Exoscale
    has OpenBSD
  - CloudScale
    only does daily (rather than hourly) billing