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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • I may be misinformed but the article says

    We’ve verified that every AST produced by the Rust parser is identical to the C++ one, and all bytecode generated by the Rust compiler is identical to the C++ compiler’s output.

    which I took to mean that the new code behaves 100% identically to the old code, like a byte-perfect decompilation. If that’s not the case and it’s just the same in their suite of tests then I’d agree with you.














  • I 100% agree, but I didn’t want to come across too accusatory in my article so I chose to indirectly adress it in this paragraph:

    The real problem is the idea that GNOME project shouldn’t cater to [people who want SSD]. It would be like GNOME not supporting xdg-file-chooser and saying that each app should ship their own file picker. But GNOME does support it, and only apps that wish to implement their own file picker do so.

    Since both approaches are used, and liked, miscellaneous advantages and disadvantages of either approach are irrelevant, and so are other arguments pertaining to design. This is why I haven’t brought them up.

    basically saying I think their vision doesn’t matter when it comes to supporting things like that for third party apps.











  • If you don’t understand that the motivation is to target kids with ads and influencer content designed to push products, you’re not going to solve anything.

    I 100% agree that social media companies are incentivized to make their platforms toxic to children, and that people on those platforms are motivated to exploit them, but immoral people existing is not the problem here.

    Kids have to have spaces to communicate with each other in order to develop healthy socialization skills.

    They don’t have to use social media for that though, not only are third spaces alive and well in many places including much of France (and where I live), chat apps are 100% enough for kids to socialize.

    I know that every teen where I live uses instagram to communicate with friends, but only the group/1to1 chats and stories, which are available in chat apps. The main feed(s) never show you things from your friends anyways.

    I feel like you are envisioning “chat apps” to mean “text-only”

    No, when I think of chat apps I think of signal and discord. Both have a ton of social features, the difference is that there isn’t an algorithm that acts as a vector for harmful bullshit or public profiles. Public rooms are still an issue, but from experience being a tween/teen on those platforms, it’s not even close to being as bad. Said bad actors do not exist in anywhere near the same capacity. Imo the harm of public chat rooms falls under the “parents can handle this” umbrella.

    If it was the case that it was just individual actors on the platform causing the harm and not the structure of the platforms incentivizing said harm, then we would see more of this type of thing in real life as well.

    I struggle to think of a more complete solution to the harm caused by social media to children than just banning them.

    I may have misunderstood your thesis though, and in that case please correct me.