Because there is currently no direct evidence of anything amiss.

You don’t need direct evidence of a problem. It’s the other way around — In order for the software to be trustable with private data you need steady, ongoing evidence that the authors are trustworthy.

National spy agencies are out there, right now, and recently in the news, trying to suborn open source project maintainers. This is a known risk.

Yes. It’s very very hard to read the source and know there’s no security bug in it. That’s 10x truer when the security bugs are potentially on purpose, and carefully hidden.

I really don’t see why there are so many people around saying “it’s probably fine”

In my personal opinion shit like this is probably not fine at all.

Speaking as a parent who understands all too well about my kids’ depression, it might not even help.

“Ok, yes, life sucks, nothing matters, nothing is worth doing, and nobody cares. This is normal it’s just like that for some people. Now get your ass out of bed and [do your homework | get that resume written | go to work]”

This is my refrain for the past 10+ years. My kids do not enjoy hearing it, I do not enjoy saying it, and none of us has the faintest clue what to do that’s better than this.

You could try going for a walk outside in the sun and/or rain when your mom is bugging you too much with her not-understanding. That doesn’t get the homework done or the resume written or whatever but it can be a real mood lifter even for people who have heard the advice enough times already to be frustrated by it.

Good luck out there kid, it’s a hard world but somehow you can do it.

Digital photo frame that somebody else controls is great for the case where you are a person who can’t do tech, but you have somebody you trust who can, and you want to get a daily update delivered to your kitchen showing what all the grandkids have been getting up to.

Mark Twain talks about tipping over outhouse and other pranks as the main activity on Halloween. So I guess if we assume he’s an honest narrator of his time (definitely in doubt…) then trick or treating is a mass extortion

I don’t think deserving things (or not) is really a relevant consideration for people like that. They just have things that they want for whatever reason and the power (or not) to have them

You really do. Have you tried it?

Hiked out to a hot spring at Big Bend National Park with my laptop, my satellite dish, and a big solar panel, and spent my day working with my feet dabbling in the river.

That was a pretty awesome day for me but I bet in 50 years people will just be irritated that all the cool places are full of losers trying to get work done and ruining the vibe

Is eating erasers going to get you more ostracized than constant nagging from the teacher to not eat erasers?

unless they force people to stop and wait to get their money

Do you really feel like inconveniencing us is unlikely?

A few years ago before I moved away, PNC bank had a few branches with new ATMs that made me tap through ads for loans and special checking accounts.

Not OP but I’m partial to, “Damn, that sucks.”

No they’re kind of just doing their thing how their thing feels best to them

Everybody is their own person and dating may not be for you, but autism does not have to mean that. I have a diagnosed autistic friend who dated so much they have two spouses now.

OP If you’re really going to do this (questionable imo) then you’d need to find some kind of list that gets updated automatically. Because if you just make fox and OAN suck he’s more likely to find some other, worse thing you never heard of.

But if you do do this behind his back and he notices, you can pretty much forget about him ever trusting you for anything again. Those are the stakes.

Cut off for sharing, or cut off for running illegal/unsafe/unlicensed wiring and plumbing connections?

Go to the bathroom and eat a snack.

I spent a vacation once with no internet and no lights. Worked myself hard all day snorkeling and went to bed at dark.

Every night, woke up in the middle of the night for a peaceful amble to the jakes and wandered around for a bit enjoying myself before going back to bed.

It felt very natural.

https://arstechnica.com/

Yes, like the Wii and the Wii U!

Babbel is working ok for me for learning French.

Just lessons without all the hearts and ads and crap