> How the hell does NOBODY understand that everything you enter into a textbox on the internet will get sent to a server where somebody(es) you certainly do not know or trust will get to read what you wrote?
If you have some free time, go watch some crime channels on tiktok or youtube or wherever. It's amazing the amount of people, from thugs to cops and even judges, who use google to plan their crimes and dispose of the evidence. Search history, cell tower tracking data and dna are the main tools of detectives to break open the case.
> I have a rather draconian idea - websites and apps should be explicitly required to ask permission when they send your data somewhere to tell you where they send your data and who will get to see it, store it, and with what conditions.
It's a losing battle. Think about what llms and AI agents are? They are data vacuums. If you want the convenience of a personal "AI agent" on your smartphone, tv, car, fridge, etc, they need access to your data to do their job. The more data, the better the service. People will choose convenience over privacy or data protection.
Just think about what the devices in your home ( computers, fridge, tv, etc ) know about you? It's mind boggling. Of course if your devices know, so does apple, google, amazon, etc.
There really is no need to do polls or surveys anymore. Why ask people what they think, when tech companies know already.
> The 1980s were not a particularly enlightened time for programming language design; and Dijkstra's opinions seem to carry extra weight mainly because his name has a certain shock and awe factor.
Zero based indexing had nothing to do with Dijkstra's opinion but the practical realities of hardware, memory addressing and assembly programming.
> I'm sure there is a culture that counts their first finger as 0
Not a one because zero as a concept was discovered many millenia after humans began counting.
I found "spaced repitition" with sporcle to be quite effective. You have a blank map and have to manually enter in the names of the countries. Memorized the countries, capitals, states, counties, etc in a few days.
If you have some free time, go watch some crime channels on tiktok or youtube or wherever. It's amazing the amount of people, from thugs to cops and even judges, who use google to plan their crimes and dispose of the evidence. Search history, cell tower tracking data and dna are the main tools of detectives to break open the case.
> I have a rather draconian idea - websites and apps should be explicitly required to ask permission when they send your data somewhere to tell you where they send your data and who will get to see it, store it, and with what conditions.
It's a losing battle. Think about what llms and AI agents are? They are data vacuums. If you want the convenience of a personal "AI agent" on your smartphone, tv, car, fridge, etc, they need access to your data to do their job. The more data, the better the service. People will choose convenience over privacy or data protection.
Just think about what the devices in your home ( computers, fridge, tv, etc ) know about you? It's mind boggling. Of course if your devices know, so does apple, google, amazon, etc.
There really is no need to do polls or surveys anymore. Why ask people what they think, when tech companies know already.