The use of your private property should not impede someone else's ability to use theirs. I don't think building airhorns is allowed either, because it really affects others. Or how you can't just build a kilometer high mirror setup that burns your neighborhood down
A lot of them try really hard not to. A reason for the "show desktop-version" setting's popularity. It's really sad that this has to be a thing, and doesen't really remedy the situation, more like a bandaid.
Also remember organic != living. Organic is basically hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen and carbon chains in molecules. They vary greatly in their durability and may or may not be useful to carbon-based life.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Defence is done in layers. Imagine a castle; does it stand on it's own in a plain field? Unlikely. It has walls, moats, hills, guard towers, bars on windows.
Even if Google or Apple are _capable_ of doing something evil, you can stil prevent them from excersing that power by not setting an example that it's okay to do so.
> Even if Google or Apple are _capable_ of doing something evil
Genuinely, it's not Google nor Apple that I fear doing something evil here.
Google will try to give me more targeted ads, without giving that detailed data to their app developers, but instead just making their demographics tools better.
Apple will do what they think will help the circumstance.
I fear the government doing evil with it, especially under the guise of good.
"Hey, we found this terrorist's phone number, turns out he has an Android device. Give me every person that's been physically near him in the last 24 hours"
"Hey, these 37 people were at a protest, where do they spend their off time?"
> you can stil prevent them from excersing that power by not setting an example that it's okay to do so.
And then they'll do it anyway a few years later, when you're not looking. Just look at Google's introduction and continuous tightening of SafetyNet requirements.
And what the hell can you do? Switch to buying Apple, who set the gold standard for this crap years ago? Switch to Purism, which BankID (practically mandatory for life in Sweden, sadly) still hasn't been ported to?
Giving up because of a possibility of something going wrong is just asinine. By that logic you might aswell just waste away right now because we'll all perish in the heat-death of the universe.
You get a chance and you take it. All things bring you towards success one step at a time, as unsatisfying as it might feel.
Transactionality is enough for most systems. Your order either succeeds or fails, it never stays in an incomplete state. Queues are not a panacea, and introduce their own problems like obscuring problems by delaying them long enough to bring everything to a halt.
Yes, you wouldn't do all work in the task queue - commonly, we make some change in the database which can happen pretty fast, and after that transaction commits, we might defer a task that sends a notification, email, whatever.
I don't think there is anything wrong with paying for software. Free software isn't about the price, it's about the liberty,freedom of the software itself.
“It takes a radiation dose of about 5 Sv to cause death to most people. Diodes and computer chips will show very little functional detriment up to about 50 to 100 Sv“.
It's to note that "little functional detriment" contributes to a catastrophic failure in a digital system. A flip of a single bit can fell the thing you're trying to operate. Humans respond with much more delay and can usually complete most any mission, even if they die of complications later.
