The interview discusses the potential for civilizational collapse due to climate change and other environmental issues. Watts points out that the solution lies not in technological fixes, but in a fundamental change in human behavior. He argues that the current trajectory of maximizing short-term gains is unsustainable and that...
I really like their focus on systemic change and focus on long term perspective. If we could transform society to prioritize the big picture we'd all be much better off.
I expect that much more will be gained than lost in the process. China has been doing huge investments into open source because that makes more sense than starting from scratch. So, what we're going to see is a lot of proprietary software being replaced with open alternatives.
China's got plenty demonstrated competence across the board. From lifting people out of poverty, to making large scale infrastructure projects, and now leading the way in green energy transition.
Plenty of Chinese companies release stuff right on GitHub, and contribute directly to popular open source projects though. Here's just one example https://github.com/ant-design/ant-design
Because those urls are right on the page together. What exactly are you even complaining about here? Evidently you judge the legitimacy of a source based on page layout? 🤷
So, a site linking to primary reputable sources has the end game of spreading disinformation. That's a totally reasonable statement a rational person would make.
So your complaints are that a site having legitimate information with primary sources is... new and has a bad layout. And you're accusing me of digging in my heels while making a clown of yourself here?
Maybe follow your own advice. The only criticisms you've made of the site is that it's new and you don't like the layout. You did not make any substantial criticisms of the actual content. The fact that you don't see what an utter clown you are is hilarious.
More vague FUD, not actual criticism of the content. You keep making baseless arguments and expect people to take you seriously. It's always hilarious to watch internet illiterate people behave online.
The reality of the situation is that I posted a link to a factually accurate article that lists primary sources from credible institutions. You haven't even bother acknowledging this fact in all your ranting while bleating about some supposed "misinformation".
I don't need to be creative to call out your bullshit. All you've done here is attack the site without any substance and exposed yourself as a troll. That's it. Absolutely hilarious that you're still going at it for a second day. I guess you've got nothing better to do with your time. 😂
I'm always amazed how people come out of the woodwork to defend Signal any time any criticism of it comes up. It's become a sacred cow that cannot be questioned. Whatever you may think of Telegram should bear zero weight on your views of Signal.
The reality is that developers of Signal have close ties to US security agencies. It's a centralized app hosted in US and subject to US laws. It's been forcing people to use their phone numbers to register, and this creates a graph of real world contacts people have. This alone is terrible from security/privacy perspective. It doesn't have reproducible builds on iOS, which means you have no guarantee regarding what you're actually running. These are just a handful of things that are publicly known.
And then we know stuff like this happens. NSA suggested using specific numbers for encryption that it knew how to factor quickly. The algorithm itself was secure, but the specific configuration of how the algorithm was implemented allowed for the exploit https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/nsa-crack-encryption.html
These kinds of backdoors are very difficult to audit for because if you don't know what to look for then you won't have any reason to suspect a particular configuration to be malicious. Given the relationship between people working on Signal and US government, this is a real concern.
The same kind of scrutiny people apply to Telegram and other messaging apps should absolutely be applied to Signal as well.
I agree with that, there's a lot more to be done to get to truly open stacks, and it is unfortunate Huawei decided to make their stuff less open. I'm just pointing out that there is still value in open stuff they do publish.
The flip side of this argument is people asking for references for things that are well known and completely not controversial, as happens to be the case here. We're not talking about some conspiracy theory. We're talking about the basic fact that OpenHarmony exists, and this fact is trivially verifiable. This is known as sealoining.
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