> There is really no danger of Cargill impacting your life [...]. There are other strong players in everyone of their markets.

Cargill actually owns most of the players on the other markets.

Just recently, the Amazon fires benefited a Cargill branch so much, some think it was all a ploy to plant more soy. Even Nestle (another borderline unethical company, e.g. water rights) announced they will stop buying from Cargill Brazil because of that one. Yet, nobody in south America knows the name Cargill.

So they can barely be profitable (assuming they don't die overnight if they reduce marketing spending) during the out-of-this-world perfect scenario for their business caused by the social isolation? ...notice that the article didn't even bring the "perfect" situation 2020 brought them to also be able to squeeze the restaurants for insane margins.

Did you forget any disclaimer about being involved in the deal? because that was a stretch to paint it in a good color.

Try to install an apk without internet connection, and then try over a slow 3G connection to see the several(!) minutes it takes.

If your phone has the old style data arrows, you will see the upload one all the time while you stare at the "installing" screen.

That is a lie and you know it. Google updates the OS, but they are also directly responsible for many products they sold themselves with their brand. And those have as much updates as any other company, well maybe one or two more.

I happen to have two devices bought directly from google. One is stuck on android 2.3 and another on 4.0, both full of security holes, not updated because "it would be too slow" when in reality i can't even install replicant et al because google never worked with the component providers to offer compatible binary blobs for the hardware.

Yeah, android itself is opensource (mostly because it is built on top of GPLed linux code so they do not have an option) but 99% of what makes your phone run is a proprietary binary-only code provided by the likes of Qualcomm etc. And why phone manufacturers, google included, use the options with closed source binary blobs? To save $5 or so from the BOM cost in production.

And both are reasonable and not excluding.

Google sells you a pocket computer with a locked down OS, not for your safety but to control the ability to run ads.

If they cared about user security, they would provide updates, no matter how "slow" (their excuse) the device gets.

If they didn't want full control to show ads (ads are downloaded by the GooglePlayServices, which is pretty much the kernel of all your android experience) then it would be trivial to install other android distributions like replicant.

hence, both a reasonable and google is evil. They want full control and do not care about (your) security updates.

Now the next cycle will have to understand not only the code, but why some test is validating some unused endpoint with data you never thought possible

I am going to believe that. Github CEO wanted a reason to open source it, and used a rogue leak in a win-win situation.

Why he didn't sign it to prove it was him? because the desktop client doesn't even have this basic git feature implemented ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ...and everyone knows managers only uses GUI, Q.E.D.

Instead of making conflict messages clearer and easier to work with using local files, contributors keep thinking the users are too dumb and adding (and changing) merge resolution hacks.

This boils up to github, as can be seen by teams who do not understand the very basic about git commits, and enable "squash commits by default" on their repos. With these teams, git commit history cease to be bit sized changes in a larger changeset, and become useless displays of the author interacting with the remote server while they upload small changes to tests to make the continuous builds get green.

[0] you failed to read the 1st paragraph of the linked article :)

with this little change, you automatically block 99% of trackers (which run from the tracker's domain) and enjoy mostly functional websites.

When needed, just open uMatrix, and allow scripts either globally or per domain, to get client side integrations to work.

another benefit is to disable iframes globally. uMatrix replace them with a link to the iframe content, which is what you really want 99% of the time you want an iframe (which is otherwise mostly used for ads)

* uMatrix is from the same author of UBO. and it is the perfect sweet spot between UBO and noScript, for advanced users.

sigh.

it's all the disadvantages of a central authority with all the disadvantages of a slow network.

How is this different than paypal over ipfs?

Hearing about people using 1password, etc, I get an uncomfortable smug feeling, similar to when i hear that someone is coding on notepad.exe :(

Also, weird you mention dvorak. I know this is just a hyperbole for the joke of being an easy to identify linux hacker... but keymap is the one thing you can't use for fingerprinting... well, you are able to use the language (by detecting typed in keycodes and matching against a mimum denominator of keymaps) but not the keymap itself (e.g. no way to see qwerty-US vs dvorak-US, but easy to detect -US vs -DE for example)

and Google, for not doing the minimum thing they could have done and served you the best encoding for the platform.

It is almost if the companies you actually give you money to (or eyeballs) do not care at all for your interests.

You will see those one time/fee costs do not scale, but to the benefit of the employer.