When I think of funding Africa, I think of Andrew Millison's video blogs about building a green belt.

https://www.youtube.com/@amillison

> And as a parent, I know that if child protection is opt-in, there’ll be a huge fight about it, because some other parents won’t activate it, which then makes the situation unfair for the kids. I’d much rather have it on by default so that all kids are treated the same.

If you cared about your children, you would be against this. Otherwise you're fighting against your children's future; their privacy, their sanity, their ability to participate in a functioning democracy.

I take it you're not one of the many people who've had a dozen different services over the years get bought up by Microsoft, then forcefully migrated to multiple Microsoft Accounts, and then lose access to all of them?

Perhaps not. But it's still more seamless than Windows these days. Microsoft keeps lowering the bar.

But otherwise, nice work tying all the concepts together. You might want to get some better model trains though.

Speak for yourself. For installing via system packages, yes. Otherwise absolutely no.

Most of the time if I install something on my computer without using the package manager, I am the administrator of that computer and I want the thing I installed to be available to a specific run-user, not to all users.

I used to have this opinion too.

Then I decided that I actually don't want random things to install to `/usr/local/bin`. They should install to `${HOME}/.local/bin`. I should be perfectly capable of installing any application without modifying the system for every user.

I see you haven't heard of Microsoft...

I personally think everyone should default to using local resources. Cloud resources should only be used for expansion and be relatively bursty rather than the default.

Your computer is your private domain. Your house is your private domain. You don't make a "getAllKeysOnPorch()" API, and certainly don't make "getAllBankAccounts()" API. And if you do, you certainly don't make it available to anyone who asks.

It absolutely is sinister.

Test what you care about. If you care about performance, then test your performance. Otherwise performance doesn't matter.

Hopefully they're well-understood and meticulously mitigated risks. Because if they're not... well there's always modern day Boeing.

It can be easier, but not always. But it is almost always a better design.

Redesigning software so that whole classes of problems simply can't exist is absolutely better than software that needs to handle all kinds of problems. Many of those problems might not even ever happen in real circumstances!

> Requiring all things to have a zero value, even when they do not have one, makes it harder to be correct by construction, not easier.

Don't require a "zero value". Require a "correctly-constructed" value. Sometimes zero is correctly constructed, sometimes not.

Who decides what's age-appropriate? Is it the parents? Nope. Is it the business? Yup!

But the bigger thing is: why would you want to get disqualified from one of your biggest civic duties?

I only open LinkedIn... very rarely. When done, I just close it.

Don't scroll. Don't read stories. Don't do anything except message recruiters. Get them into email or a phone call. That's it. Fuck LinkedIn.