https://vimeo.com/44078865

Do you think Americans would react that way if they were asked about the Kent massacre?

Maybe it's illegal, but then I prefer that over a legal exchange.

I haven't seen convincing evidence to support this.

There's the possibility that the differences we see in the higher echelons of chess arise from biological differences between men and women. But that possibility is not being explored for political/social reasons.

We have always and will always disagree about political issues. Issues that from our subjective appreciation are destroying many people's lives, so it's not surprising that we resort to all sorts of toxic behaviour in order to "help the cause", whatever it might be.

This emotional need for justice (even when misdirected) can not be discarded in the discussion about toxic behavior. Sometimes it takes the form of physical violence, sometimes it's an insult, a threat, doxxing, etc.

We should strive to channel these desires and differences of opinion in healthy ways. "just ban all heated political discussions" is a good enough workaround at the forum level, but not a noble solution to the root problem at a societal level.

That's great, but we'll need the electronic schematics and the OS source code to trust that.

Drawing the line on what is hate speech is a hard enough problem already, and companies like Google, Twitter don't even try to be impartial, their execs have clearly taken a side. Add to that the weird times we're living in and how people's fundamental moral ideas have diverted so much in the last 10 years, and you have a perfect disaster.

Facebook's approach is less harmful than the alternative right now.

Easy: don't let your kid join zoom meetings without your permission/supervision until he/she understands that there are bad people out there.

Linux sucks, but I use it becuase it sucks less than windows, for programming at least.

But also think about independent educational institutions (primary, secondary, higher, etc), think about all schools and colleges in other countries (we're all in a similar situation). All of them would have to find a way to license HEIC, just because Apple decided that they wanted HEIC as their default format.

3. I'd guess that companies that implement HEIC pay for their license.

The legal situation of using open source programs to decode licensed and patent encumbered formats is uncertain to me, and I guess it is to most people, including software engineers and managers.

The testing system for not using the tag appropiately and Apple for using a closed, patent encumbered format as the default when most of their users don't know about software patents.

> It's also not clear to me that this patent license is actually an issue in terms of decoding and converting file formats on the backend.

It's reasonable to assume that it is.

2. Sure, the college could pay, but looking at the broader problem here, saying that colleges should accept closed formats would make it really hard for open source online testing systems to proliferate, and all colleges around the world would have to pay royalties to the HEIC patent holders.

Even if they were to implement an open source decoder, unless you have plenty of lawyers, the legal uncertainty of the situation could be unacceptable to many individuals/institutions.

3. If the format was open in the first place, maybe we would have lots of open source decoders and maybe the library that the testing system developer used would have support for it, and would have transparently worked without the developer knowing about the format.

[1] https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/97036 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587923

[2] http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/833-HEI...

I do have ethics, they're the product of my own analysis and are consistent with my world view in other issues not related to my job. I don't go around telling everyone else how to conduct their lives. If they have their own ethics, good for them. If they don't, I don't care, it's their life.

1. Ugly UIs: Of all the distros I've tried, the only one that doesn't make me wanna gouge my eyes out is Ubuntu. Most Linux users seem to have accustomed to ugly UIs to the point that they don't notice their ugliness anymore.

2. Bad UX: I've been using Gnome shell for 2 years and I still don't understand it. I never remember if ALT+TAB switches between groups of windows or between windows, or between windows in the same group. Or was that ALT+ESC?. I've never had such issues on Windows. Am I just too stupid for Gnome?

Also, why do I have to edit 2 obscure files (from the POV of a regular user) in order to have a simple 'show desktop' button in my taskbar?

Also, why do I have to install an external application (Gnome tweak tool) to disable mouse acceleration? And if you're not on Gnome, good luck trying to use libinput (used by Linux Mint and Ubuntu Mate) directly, because for some bizarre reason the "flat acceleration profile" setting is ignored if you're using a touchpad.

Also, why do I have to install an external plugin and edit an obscure file to have audio compression/normalization when Windows has a single checkbox that reads "Enable audio normalization"

Also, why does PulseAudio start to crackle each time I open reader mode on Firefox?

* Note: You can choose a desktop environment with decent UX, but it will look ugly (xfce). Or you can choose a DE that looks good but has bad UX (Gnome Shell with Ubuntu customizations)

3. If the app you want isn't in your distro repos, you have 2 choices:

a) Install a ppa whose server doesn't work anymore, so now each time you update your repos, there'll be ugly warnings about the dead server. Now you have to Google "how to remove ppa" and choose between 5 articles telling you 5 different ways to do it.

b) download a .tar.gz and spend 1 hour installing the right dependencies the right way, and then 'make'ing and 'make install'ing only to find that there's some obscure error.

After all of this, I still use Linux because I think Windows is slightly worse overall. But would totally understand why some people still choose Windows.