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Avali, coder, friend-shaped.
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make sure to rotate your lifelong traumas every six months for security purposes
@cstross I can't find the post now, but someone made the point that Recall (a) exfiltrates the contents of E2E chat programs (b) is readable by anyone who has remote access to the machine including Microsoft. It's literally exactly the on-device surveillance functionality that law enforcement has been asking for the world over under names such as Chat Control. Quite plausibly it wasn't even Microsoft's own idea to include it in every copy of Windows.
"taco, why do you listen to the weird people asking you all of these hypothetical questions"
Had a friend tell me he couldn't tell if my new name was "a gender thing" because he can't make heads or tails of whether it's supposed to be more feminine or masculine. Peak enby hours! 
Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation
Done with striving, now I'm just thriving.
Just beat the OG FF7 for the first time, it was a lot of fun! I played Remake already, debating picking up Rebirth.
Friendly reminder that in the time you would spend confronting an online stranger's hostile and bizarre opinions, you can just as easily exclude that stranger from your infosphere permanently and still have time to go to your kitchen space and make yourself a nice cup of flavored coffee.