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Because they're Twitter and apt to invest in a panoply of diverse products to cater to different styles of learning.

Not that Twitter especially cares for learning, although it is no secret we tend to come back to products that we learn from. (Learning being an ingrained human trait that has not gone away)

My clipboard can still be gleaned with an arbitrary API call in other apps. Please leave my clipboard alone in other apps. They have no business being able to grab it without my permission

From what I've gathered, TOR is pretty robust at least on paper, and when explained in an academic way it has me almost convinced that the apparatus does what its supposed to, except for the part where it catastrophically fails when put into practice, like when:

1.) Custom Firefox 'Browser Bundles' which do not auto-update and ensure latent vulnerabilities are left un-addressed

2.) Trusted 'Third Parties' running exit nodes who we hope and pray are doing their job correctly

3.) Weird and non-innocuous looking domains on the wire that do nothing more than alert the neighborhood that somebody's using TOR (Unless everyone's using it you stand out like a sore thumb)

4.) Sybil attacks in the form of people-with-more-money-than-you polluting the network

5.) ???

6.) Any number of other issues (which have since been patched in the past), but still work if the TOR user is uneducated about how TOR works (traffic analysis / correlation attacks / zero-knowledge-proof attacks, etc)

Solve the problem first, and then write the code.

"Our digital lives are an accurate reflection of our actual lives"

Which of course presumes we have a digital life, and which of course has been proven repeatedly to not be the case. It is also not accurate.

Take data warehousing companies who are profiling home IP addresses and hoovering up any digital breadcrumbs people leave behind, like user agent strings, length of time spent on a page, any previous cookies stored locally on the machine: an enormous store of value for anyone who decides to purchase such information, except for the fact that it has no value.

The 'info' exists without any context, and could even be poisoned by a small portion of users who decide to stuff the system full of disinformation to control market share or lobby for certain products.

Also - IPV4 addresses (now more than ever) can be attributed to several hundred people because ISPs grant a subnet to multiple customers.

This is not saying everything's fine and our digital doppel is a fuzzy haze of nonsense. But it does say that privacy advocates are apt to overestimate how accurate such information is, and that the people who buy such information are finding out this too and have probably decided to pay more to other collection points to get a finer-grained doppel of some person.

I say let them spend more, but I will cry tears of joy when I find that money has been ill spent too and doesn't accurately portray a person digitally.

You see this now, whole paragraphs of a noteworthy book punctuating a timeline, people taking screenshots of text, or otherwise cluttering up my Twitter with textual soundbites in the guise of a JPEG

a.) These are not very accessible

b.) I am too lazy to transcribe / OCR these

c.) It defeats the purpose of Twitter

d.) It would be far more handy to have big text blobs like this in a Tweet's JSON schema Something like

    {  textBlob: '...book quotes galore...'}

b.) Images as text are a huge waste of resources. A lot of bandwidth could be saved by persuading tweeps to use a text-blob instead of an image (Free bandwidth people, that's what we all want is it not?!)

But imposing those extra costs to being verbose encourages people to be concise, unless they REALLY need the extra words.

Make the words cheap, and twitter will turn into just another prolix platform in a sea of noise.

Not if there are tools that abstract away all the difficulty. Type 10K chars into a box; hit post; magically the first 140 show up as a text and the rest as an image.

No, you've got my point backwards:

Absent external effects, it's easier to write a long message than write concisely.

Twitter in its current form imposes an artificial cost on long messages, which encourages you to do the extra work to write something short.

Remove that cost, and you'll get more lazy, long messages.

That's my theory, anyway.

Reading tends to fill my head with cognitive dissonance, and especially when it becomes a habit. It is no secret that information is just as addictive as any other vice and as with all vices, there will always be the urban legend of the person who finds it hard to over indulge (in this case, a bibliophiles). Ignore them and cut down on your reading when you can.

Unless you must increase your IQ at all costs because your life depends on it, or that everyone around you is getting as smart as you, so you have to up your game!

Yes true. So much information to consume and Today Read later apps are helping to bridging the gap. But yeah if you are more into books then you need to Balance.

I earned a 4 year degree in fine arts, have exhibited my work, and make a point to try to create at least one new work each week. I have never made it my career, but art is certainly one of my larger hobbies. By your definition, though, because I actively pursue it and call myself an artist, even though society has not noticed it or given me positive reviews... that means I am not a "true artist".

So I must disagree - one is an artist if you make art that is meaningful to yourself. I have known many artists over the years, and most of us just quietly do our own work for our own reasons. I will not go so far to accuse people who do it for society's reviews and recognition to not be artists - that would be dismissive of their own goals. But artists have varying reasons for doing their work, and trying to define a "true artist" is going to invalidate someone unfairly.

Taking what the parent comment said and what you've said, I can see both points.

In defense of the parent, anyone that practices a trade (singer, actor, artist, programmer, developer, engineer) typically doesn't identify themselves as one of the aforementioned titles unless they get paid to do so. Now, mind you, that doesn't mean in the most traditional sense that lack of monetary reward/success doesn't disqualify their skill but, in this world, it certainly validates ones work/interest.

To make my point, society typically doesn't label someone that can sing a 'singer' unless that is their profession and they get paid for it. Even though I script and do 'some' programming, I wouldn't dare call myself a programmer.

I believe that one shouldn't get too hung on titles. For me, at least, I find a sole definition limiting because there isn't a single title that describes everything that I'm good at, however, there is a single title that describes what I'm good enough to get paid for.

> If I'm electrosensitive (I constantly get electric shocks for example), then computers are probably the best medium.

This statement appears as mystical as tarot cards. What connection is there to getting electric shocks and using a computer other than some vague mystical correlation not founded on anything logical?

This reads like the wrong combination of shoes and floor, resulting in huge ESD problems. Highly individual, too.

Nope..Cork sandals will produce the same effect. It's not highly individual, it is highly reported many times by many people, but usually cast off as irrelevant or unimportant to people's daily life...

Dude, you really need to make sure your gear is grounded properly. You should not be getting electrical shocks from touching stuff. I can't begin to tell you how many times we've had screwball problems with equipment that had floating voltages due to poor earthing---problems that went away the minute we fixed the wiring. (The guys maintaining said equipment though nothing wrong of the fact that they were getting shocked and said nothing about it for months!)

I get shocks "all the time". It's when humidity is low and I build up a static charge, which happens in the winter because outside air hasn't got much water in it, then it gets heated to room temperature and has very low humidity. There's no mystery here. I bought my first wireless router simply because I was frying my wired routers; I'd systematically walk through all the ports, destroying them one by one, then I'd have to buy a new one. I realized it was cheaper to pay much more and go wireless than keep buying wired routers. I cringe when it happens now because I always know I'm frying something, I just don't know what. Fortunately, I've got a house humidifier now, which mitigates the problem.

Alternatively, as others say, you've got a grounding problem. But that's a different sort of shock.

I surveyed a related question once: "Do you have to make money to be an entrepreneur?"

Responses were quite bipolar, though startup people tended to say "no". My own background was in running a small business before working in startups and so it was something I always think about.

Equating crypto with armaments does nobody any favors. If crypto is an armament, then the banks can be said to be wielding guns at the criminals who are forever stressing their networks and trying to get in, or even their customers, who require a more-than-mathematically strong peace of mind that their money is safe from theft.