Also see The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror XIX, where Homer tries to vote for Obama using an electronic voting machine:

https://youtu.be/47QZ6PoHl44

I've lost data multiple times with Paragon.

And I lost data with XFS.

Doesn't tell us anything. Which product, version.

Paragon's NTFS driver is now (after open sourced) part of the Linux kernel, and this one is rw.

(My data loss with XFS was some 20 years ago with Linux 2.4.x after a power loss. I've also had RAID5 write hole ZFS data loss a couple of years later, on FreeBSD, and that was with a BBU for the hardware raid. Ever since, I learned to disable write cache, until I've seen NVMe with PLP for cache.)

Several Mac versions of the commercial Paragon NTFS driver. It's always been flaky on Mac.

Fair. Well, I can't get my license to work, so I swapped to Fuse (which I also use on Windows). Works with sshfs, too. Though since I already use Wireguard, NFS should suffice.

Seemed they were ingesting more than just weight loss drugs.

What are you on about?

I've lived through three major nuclear incidents, and what they had in common, regardless of the political systems of the US, The Soviet Union or Japan, was not the transparency, it was the lying. It started immediately after each incident.

I'm essentially pro-nuclear, I just don't trust people who run it.

Totally valid perspective. I only became part of the industry after Fukushima. I only knew an industry by its disasters. I will say, having gone through the training programs we studied the nuclear incidents and spent a year in training before going to the plants. I just don't see parallel experiences looking back like that. The people in nuclear (at least from what I saw) want the industry to be safe and successful.

You describe incidents which become political. At some point the normal rules are being ignored by those on the top of the information food chain. That says nothing about the rules of the game, but does say a lot about the people involved.

The rule-ignoring and the lying started inside the plants before anybody outside got involved. Then it just spread like cancer.

I'll order a pallet of 10 000-piece jigsaw puzzles

You could of course try not to be a jerk.

But then it wouldn't be the internet

Not today's internet. But there was a time when people on the internet as a rule were not jerks. Unfortunately it now serves mainly as a conduit to connect various jerk-groups into globe spanning entities. But it wasn't always so.

- <Torvalds enters the room>

'as a rule'.

This is the most unrealistic take in this comment chain so far

Saw it too late but thanks, gonna keep an eye on them

Wasn't Rob Hubbard one of the guys behind that trick?

Who's worse? Palantir?

Yeah no kidding. Curious how someone could not rank Meta in dead last. Is the FBI last on your list or above Meta?

At least in regard to Palantir you understand their business. Meta masquerades, hides, and cowers their shady practices behind consumer friendly products.

Toxic lollipops labeled properly as toxic vs toxic lollipops labeled with a tiny * that requires consumer research. Which one do you think most people will reach for first?

The worst offender of giving my secrets away is still myself sadly.

Google is the absolutely bottom of the pile. They’re literally nothing but a mass surveillance for money company.

I went from a VIC 20 to an Amiga 500. Quite the leap.