kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@Wetrix

So after a week of using I don't see any major advantages/disadvantages of Qwant as compared to DuckDuckGo. They are both perfectly usable on daily basis.

They have _slightly_ different profile: DDG is very strong in dev topics, it will always prefer results from StackOverflow etc. Qwant on the other hand is slightly better in general topics as it seems to have broader and more diverse set of sources. As I said, these differences are quite small.

Oh, and both allow !g fallback.

@Wetrix In spite of the privacy-friendly charm that Apple is selling, I think they're doing very much the same as Google. Google doesn't pay $$$ to include its search engine in Apple products just like that.

Certification Authority board votes on issuing DV certificates to .onion domains https://cabforum.org/pipermail/servercert-wg/2020-February/001637.html

@drq

Вот именно, когда 40% носители ВИЧ в стране это "совершенно нормальные люди", понятие "группа риска" немного теряет смысл.

@skobkin

@ink_slinger

I agree that "equality" and "justice" are rather abstract and difficult to define precisely. But if you say for example "we want income inequality to be not larger than 25" (rather than 200 as in US now) this makes a firm base for further analysis on *how* to implement this.

@ink_slinger

On abstract design phase, maybe. If you leave this out in your collected works by accident, you can be sure this "anti-capitalist" will be the only thing your future acolytes will grasp from the whole lecture and will start with a simple recipe for success - "first, let's remove all capitalists" :)

@ink_slinger I absolutely agree and I'm myself running a small infosec co-op.

The ultimate question is: why co-ops aren't more widespread if they are so good?

If companies have a natural tendency to grow through mergers & acquisitions, there's a factor - operational costs, efficiency, idk? - that somehow makes large hierachical orgs more competitive than co-ops.

@ink_slinger

Co-op still assumes private ownership of the company, it's just owned by people directly involved in the work.

Main difference is the "distance" between the owner and the actual production, which is pathologically distant in currently widespread neoconservative model.

But I don't think this can directly fit into any particular ideology. This is a scalar parameter, one of many and ideologies are by necessity reductionist.

@ink_slinger

Today USA, Russia, Sweden and China are technically capitalist, yet they are extremely different in various social indicators.

You can't simply describe an extremely complex system such as each of these countries with a single binary parameter: "capitalist" or "non-capitalist".

@ink_slinger

"Capitalism" is extremely broad, non-prescriptive and non-binary system. If you have prices and free market, you essentially got capitalism.

Marxism on the other hand is a closed and very prescriptive ideology. When Lenin introduced (pragmatically) NEP in 20's, he was heavily criticised for non-compliance with the Scripture. Stalin fixed this :)

@ink_slinger

If you're trying to pragmatically build a more equal and just society OTOH, you will inevitably end up using prices and market economy in *some* areas simply because they work better than command economy.

While it *does* make a lot of sense to regulate prices of medicines and many other things, it does not make any sense to meticulously plan production and regulate prices of socks or toilet paper.

These things are better left to the market. But this is "capitalism", isn't?

@ink_slinger

My point is that the definition of "capitalism" is so broad that any system that builds its the negation of capitalism is ultimately to end up as a parody of its own ideals. You can't build something just on being anti- something else. And this is precisely the main point of the "capitalist society" memes.

This history is full of perfectly consistent logic and legitimate arguments 👌

If you're just sitting with open mouth wondering how hackers could have been sitting unnoticed in Citrix corp network for a year here's why:

Random user's request for a slight change in main page color is a Functional Requirement.

Security patching, intrusion detection etc are Non-Functional Requirements.

Because users don't require that the system doesn't leak their data to random dark web forums.

@ink_slinger

I don't want to interrupt this nice tribal "capitalism vs unicorns" rant, but...

Decline in demographic growth is primarily a threat for social pension systems, where generation n pays pension for generation n-1 from their employment taxes.

If you had 10 employee contributing to 1 person's pensions say 50 years ago, and in 50 years it's going to be 1 employee, you can imagine it won't work.