nodester

You are a weirdo but for unrelated reasons.

Computers are remarkably efficient but at the dawn of the Gutenberg press, you could have made similar observations. For the first time with paper, it was possible to commit crimes in the privacy of your own home merely by writing things down and sending them to a publisher.

Oh totally. And they’re not even alleged to have done anything wrong.

The prosecutor will say “well they could have lived in a Four Seasons instead of with their father.” Prosecutors are seldom reasonable people.

It’s more efficient, certainly. But telling someone pretrial in 2023 they can’t use a computer isn’t realistic.

Part of the premise of the criminal justice system is supposed to be that the system is designed to occasionally fail to punish the guilty if it protects the innocent. That’s often expressed as, “it’s better to let 10 guilty men go free than 1 innocent man go to prison.”

You might just have to accept that you can’t always be completely sure that someone’s internet usage is sanitized. Could they reoffend awaiting trial? Possibly. Same as letting an alleged mugger walk the streets until trial or an alleged rapist be around women. Innocent until proven guilty means that, as it stands right now until a verdict otherwise is returned, an innocent man and his family are having their right to use a very basic feature of modern existence, the internet, infringed upon.

What’s the cleaning cloth cost?

I always try to ask what problem is being solved.

Is it having a universal parser? Actually xml kind of did solve that problem. You could easily exchange data without having to write a parser and as long as the data was mostly text, it was fine.

But that’s all it solved. It made it so you didn’t have to write a new parser. You still had to figure out on a schema to serialize and deserialize though. And you needed to parse non-scalars.

Yeah, but no native desktop app. 😭 I miss 1Password’s early years.

They’re trying to juice up their stats for advertisers. More registered users = more surveillance capitalism.