They need to prove that those materials exist on the device first. You can't be held in contempt for a fishing expedition.

You need "probable cause to believe" which is not as strong as "prove" but yes, it can't be a pure fishing expedition.

I'd replace "real conversation" with "community". And I think communities don't prohibit anonymity. I think the impossibility is really having a community with a very large active userbase. A macro version of Dunbar's number.

I'm immediately reminded of this:

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The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

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https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservativ...

It is unfortunately very true. For about 20 years I moderated a very large forum. We tried so hard to be even handed it was somewhat comical, and then one day I decided to just clean house. Things improved remarkably after that but there were always new people willing to see how far they could bend the rules. It's interesting how you get these new accounts on HN that immediately start lawyering with the rule book in hand. There is no way that that is organic.

Dan & Tom are so incredibly restrained, I'd be much more of a shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later type because the longer such behavior goes on the more people will believe it is acceptable.

Uhh, do you mean contactless payments? That wasn't Apple. Apple wasn't even the first to offer it on phones. Android beat them by 3 years.

The Sapir-Whorf is strong in this thread. MacOS' app-centric model makes it hard to even imagine other people's workflows. Stop thinking in apps, think about a task. I have multiple tasks (workspaces). Each task has multiple aspects (windows). Apps are a distraction, an accidental complexity. I want to switch between tasks and then subparts of those tasks.

It's very weird to assume good intentions or trustworthy info from Grokipedia but then hold up Wikipedia as "heavily poisoned". Your questions are based on a lot of assumptions that aren't widely shared.

I’m leaning paid shill tbh.

While the 2003 Iraq War was complete bullshit lies. No, Halliburton is over 100 years old and a bit of a unicorn company for oil engineering problems.

There were definitely conflicts of interest that should have been resolved but it's no where near what we're seeing this year (sigh, "so far").

And if you're not interested in upholding basic values? What if you're looking to intentionally destroy things instead?

Verified residency is better than nothing for putting real money on the table. Although if you've been to a local town meeting, you'll know it's still not perfect.

BangleJS is fun but it's not all sunshine and rainbows:

* Hackable - Only using Chrome. I haven't discovered any other method but I'd love to be corrected on this.

* Totally touchscreen based and the touchscreen ain't that good.

* Screen might be visible but any Pebble, past or present, is way better

But it's still super fun.

You need to use the forked custom Gadgetbridge to make the most of it too.

Lots of companies tried to recreate the Steam Deck and quite frankly, they're just not as good as the original.

SteamOS is a super controller-friendly desktop that would be right at home in a living room. Like the Deck, the Steam Machine could become a target profile for developers.