@david_chisnall If you care about the concept of vulnerability, don't reward Zoom. They marketed themselves as e2e encrypted, before being forced to clarify that they meant their "end" to your "end", i.e. just TLS https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/11/zoom-lied-to-users-about-end-to-end-encryption-for-years-ftc-says/ . Then they lied about the strength of their encryption for another while. https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/03/dont_use_zoom_if_privacy/

@jake4480 @ploum I think there's an important distinction between social networking and social media. MySpace, Friends Reunited, early Facebook, etc. were social networks for a brief period. Problem is, any social networking tool _can_ be used for social media, and inevitably will be drawn towards it because humans like communicating with a broad audience. I don't know either of you but I'm enjoying the opportunity to engage. The horse has bolted on social networks.

@sntx @mntmn Apostrophes always replace dropped letters; "let us" -> "let's". "She lets him in": no dropped letters, just regular conjugation. The "possessive apostrophe" ("the king's speech") is just a hangover from when we had a genitive case which added more letters, which we have since dropped. That's (that is) why "its" (as a possessive) and "whose" are not "it's" and "who's" - because their genitive conjugation never had those letters to drop. Where "it's" is short for "it is".

@pfmoore @mitsuhiko @Gargron @ibboard @dtanzer Yes, in the same way that X years ago it was most accessible to people with reliable internet connections, and Y years ago it was most accessible to people with machines powerful enough to compile locally rather than sending punchcards in the mail, and Z years ago it was people who had access to particular elite education. Being on the cutting edge of technology has never been equitable.

@henrikb @mitsuhiko Ever tried discriminated unions, like in Rust?

Is this not reinventing Lemmy et al.?