I don’t say it would MORALLY below him, quiet the contrary, but more from a skill level. Acting so obviously would be just amateurish.

Wouldn’t that be below somebody like Thiel? I mean, he is a professional and this seems a bit too much “amateurish”…

Absolutely! The moment i catch ANYTHING remotely affecting the mucous in my nose everything is sealed shut tight. Regarding the reduced sense of smell i haven’t noticed anything.

Interesting, from time to time over the years i wondered about it, but never looked further into it.

Lizard, otter, human… i think this may count as an identity crisis?

Hah… this also explains my taste for fish and natural attraction to water!

This has Robocop vibes…

Well, if China invades Taiwan everything in the region (at least) is going to hell one way or the other and everybody knows this. So, i think this threat is a somewhat unneeded publicity stunt.

I would also recommend wiby which caters to the really small and old parts of the net.

And THIS is the problem. How long is PGP / GPG around? I have vivid (and fond) memories of a time in the early 00s when we did encryption parties inviting normal people to help them install GPG and teach them how to encrypt their emails. And people came to these events! We had an event in a community centre where we did over 200 installs on laptops of “average Joes / Janes” in a single day.

But somehow, interest in private communication fizzled out over the last decade or so.

No, its not because in the end even the most noble goals will lead to tyranny and suffering when carried out by fanatics.

Do you think the biggest monsters in history started their day by thinking “Well, today I will make the world a little bit worse… hehehe”?

At least they are learning from mistakes, one may argue

He is breaking Rust, so i would not be that sure…

Perhaps, if anything, i think the prompts for creating the song MAY be copyrightable.

I mean, the song is not BAD, but somewhat… generic, “beige” i would call it. Something that can play in the background in a shopping centre.

Weeelll… back in the “good old days” of the GDR there was even machinery for unnoticeable opening and resealing envelopes to spy on the population…

Yup, i personally own various 32 bit machines that are completely usable in daily driving but the steady decline of supported programs to run on them is forcing them into more “retro computing” roles. Honestly, its a shame…