I think the problem with this argument is the assumption that nature is inherently good. Nature is cruel and uncaring. Moving beyond it is a good thing imo. We’re just lucky that as a species by the roll of the dice we were given the power by nature to usurp it.
Nature is not cruel, don't anthropomorphize it. Nature has no free will or emotions or intelligence. It is indeed uncaring, because it doesn't have the capacity to care. Nature is neither good nor bad. It just is.
Whether or not it is moral or ethical to eat animals is an arbitrary decision made by emotional beings. There is no right or wrong there, only what people feel.
Someone who is vegetarian or vegan for moral reasons is making a choice, not living some sort of universal truth. Someone who eats meat is also making a choice.
Someone who eats meat but criticizes others for eating the "wrong" kind of meat is a hypocrite.
Certainly the way we farm animals for food can be sustainable or unsustainable. I wish people would focus more on that aspect than pointing fingers and making it a moral issue.
You're defining the word cruel to narrowly. Per Merriam-Webster "causing or conducive to injury, grief, or pain" and Cambridge "(of an event) causing suffering". Natural forces can be cruel. So can fate and life.
What if it is? We transcend nature and evolution because of our culture and foresight.
We are the ultimate result of 4 billion years of evolution. Nature has made itself redundant in some ways.
Actually, transcend is the wrong word we are still a part of nature of course but we can literally leave the planet and have the ability to irradiate this globe to erase most macroscopic life.
We are an outside context problem as an Iain Banks Ship Mind would say.
It’s a huge responsibility and opportunity that we will almost certainly squander.
We are nowhere near being able to live outside this planet without significant struggle. It would be far easier to live in a submarine in the ocean than anywhere else in this solar system.
Our culture and foresight has brought us into such misalignment that 25% of the US population is on psychiatric drugs, you have a lot of homeless, a drug epidemic, there's a general crisis of meaning, males have given up on finding partners, women are all competing for a few men or think they're all animals and stay away from them. To be able to eat quality food costs a lot and few people have the time or energy to cook anyway because city life is so stressful to most.
We are living in a profoundly sick society and economy all over the world. WW3 is knocking on the door, one wrong move and we fuck up the only ecosystem we have in the galaxy.
I'd bet if people were given the choice between living in a small fishing village from 2000 years ago and modern lower middle class the choice would be obvious.
So to say we have mastered nature and we know better requires a lot of hubris.
Have you used VLC on MacOS tho? Full screen video looks very slick and is tough to differentiate from native quicktime other than having support for more codecs and features.
The non full screen UI is a little more crusty but still looks better than the windows version imo.
Browsers enforce that certificates are signed by two independent CT logs. The public keys of which is shipped by the browser. So a MITM would need to compromise a trusted CA and two CT logs to be able to pull off an attack undetected. Maybe not impossible but much more difficult than just a single CA compromise.
Nothing makes life harder on yourself than making your parents hate you. It is also extremely hard to do, no your parents disagreeing with you isn't a good reason to never see them again.
There is nuance to this. Being queer and living with a homophobic family means suppressing your personality in everyday life in myriad ways, way beyond "being gay". Moving out removes this tension entirely, well without any need to abandon one's family altogether.
It is surprisingly easy to do. You clearly come from stable families, but parents can hate their children for a lot of things: being different (everything from sexual orientation to not being social), being not like them, being exactly like them, not getting the grades they hoped for, not babysitting your 5 siblings because you had to go to school, not bringing in money, costing them too much money by existing, not being a doctor in a family of doctors....
More often, it's not the children who don't want to see their parents, its the other way around.
IDK if I'm misunderstanding, but it sounds like you think LGBT youth make their parents hate them by being LGBT? In my opinion it's the duty of the parents to foster a proper loving relation with their children.
> no your parents disagreeing with you isn't a good reason to never see them again.
Browsers are just mini OSs at this point. It’s probably best just to accept it. Honestly in some respects (security, isolation, resource management) they do a better job than the operating system they run on top of.
Even as a user I don’t there’s a good reason to love cert pinning. If you’re going up against adversaries that can compromise web pki they also probably have some other exploits up their sleeve to pwn you.
Cert pinning pretty much serves to protect companies from people reversing their protocols and little else imo.
As a westerner I can only speak for others a little bit, but this is a very western perspective. Even Kazakhstan has been caught doing sketchy stuff with their CA.
If it’s managed well, certificate pinning takes the web PKI out of the implicit trust envelope for your app.
From a pure security perspective, why trust someone you don’t have to trust? The web PKI CA bundle is great for cases where it’s hard to have a unique trust root for your application - like you’re running in a browser with no privileges - but if you’re distributing code then you’ve already solved that problem.
Managed well, it should be completely transparent to users as well. Managed poorly and it can be catastrophic (your app is dead until users upgrade it).
i agree, feels sort of like "we have a walled garden dont anybody else use it cuz our stuff is super secret and secure, trust us(tm)"; it's a layer of obscurity for their "security" - in reality its the app on a users pc that both has this "secrecy" as well a the "handshake" to open it
Write access to .bashrc is plenty to very sneakily get sudo access tho.
alias sudo='./.my-evil-sudo-binary'
And wait till the next time the user authenticates, they wont see anything amiss and you just silently delete the alias after you’ve got the sudo password.
Also even without root dumping .ssh and the browser’s cookie jar is probably plenty to achieve lateral movement and you don’t need root for that.
Hahahahaha. Yeah, sure cryptocurrency never comes crashing down. It certainly would never lose 60% of its value in 6 months. That would never happen. What a perfect store of value. /s
