The error is consumers believing journalist news is anything but uninformed, hot take heresy; spun in the most sensationalistic way.

They are hired to get eyeballs for advertisers. Not to be accurate, thorough truthful, or unbiased.

Product being search users. Customers being advertisers.

Guessing this is BPF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter But, reader shouldn't have to guess. That is the link that should be in your Introduction. Just after tldr;

I can't remember how long, but I started when you had to make a stack of 3.5 floppies to install... More than 30years ago.

Long before that, I was using 4DOS to create best "shell" possible on Microsoft. ~14 yr old.

They are part of function definition, they aren't in the function body. You should expect them to be "executed" when the function is defined.

Your cellular isn't? Maybe switch providers, T-Mobile doesn't make me go maintain cell towers.

+1 for practical paranoia!

Both of which are hard and/or expensive. So most rely on public shame. Out them on social media and foment outrage.

Copyright holders are organized, e.g. MPAA/RIAA, and motivated (money moves ya). Content consumers are disorganized and little motivated.

BS jobs are the ones that only exist to support hordes of people having jobs; middle managers, service industry (all the downtown office worker coffee/lunch/bar/cleaners/maint). And most retail.

Everyone should be a glasshole

I'm sure I'm not alone in using drugs (alcohol, caffeine, pot) for many reasons other than to "make them feel good when they don't feel good". Which along with equating use with abuse is such a shallow, narrow minded and ignorant view of drugs.

Or, at very least stop spreading misinformation.

Even better stop supporting / participating in DRMd walled gardens.

Likewise code should be optimized for reading, which is to say for maintenance first, and for other things only if/when needed.

As society, we've decided peoples individual rights can/should be curtailed when they harm others. We will never agree on definition of "harm". But, certainly money can be used for harm. From I pay someone to kill you, to I donate money to group government has labeled "terrorist", to we made profit polluting environment, etc.

agree; b00b, DlCK, cntfcker

But I suppose, if user doesn't get to craft input, the collision space of converted numerical ids and words like above is sufficiently small to be ignorable.