One small personal social media site that often discusses issues surrounding building and hosting personal websites and social media sites is https://bluedwarf.top.
Having several dedicated accounts is a wise approach. However, I doubt many people are doing the same, because of the effort required. Opsec is really, really hard. All you have to make is one mistake, and you are done. But, I guess having several accounts at least limits the damage.
Why is everyone ignoring the argument that Truecrypt and Veracrypt don't require a TPM to very securely encrypt a hard drive; therefore, TPM's are not even necessary to prevent a laptop thief from having access to corporate data or a company's internal network? If a securely-encrypted hard drive can be accomplished without a TPM (in or outside the CPU), why is a TPM in the CPU desirable? It seems to provide no real improvement in security will providing enormous potential for abuse. The only scenario that I can envision is that an employee simply refuses to encrypt his hard drive, even after he has been threatened with being fired if he does not. Does this happen often enough to justify the potential for abuse that a TPM inside the CPU affords--and in fact, assured abuse in countries like North Korea. By the way, I read today the Dell and Intel had decided not to use Pluton. How do you explain that if Pluton is so necessary.
Re-read the part about accidents. Accidents aren’t Darwin awards. Accidents happen in Level 4 Bio facilities by some of the most highly trained individuals in the world. I’m guessing the accident rate for kids would be much higher than 1 in a million.
And you can still buy an adult chemistry set for your kid and supervise them to the extent you feel is appropriate.
Maybe you personally have never had an accident but to err is human and kid’s products do need to be designed for the masses and accounting for the fact that their bodies, moral compass and decision making is still in flux.
Adult chemistry supplies never went away. You can, in fact, go buy all sorts of chemicals and college-level chemistry lab kits from suppliers right now. The only thing that actually changed is that the immediately dangerous stuff couldn't go in products actively advertised for children.
"Care to provide specific examples of what you have tried and been unable to say because the government explicitly tells you not to? " I would love to, despite your setting up a straw-man argument. I posted a link to this article: http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/no-vote.html on Hacker News. It received about 2000 page views in less than 30 minutes before it was pulled from the feed.
Wait, are you saying that Hacker News is the government? What does having a post getting removed from Hacker News have to do with what the government tells us to say? I'm sorry but I don't follow this line of argument at all.
The article doesn't say the government is the reason children could not have decent chemistry sets in the 1970's and '80's. That's the straw-man argument. However, I can't prove that fear of the government, due to what could be seen as an anti-government article, is the reason Hacker News pulled the post from the feed. I really don't know.
Given the topics quite routinely discussed here, I very much doubt that. But the article in question is a really short piece, and, so far as I can see, it's strictly politics - what makes it HN front page material? (popularity by itself is not a valid metric here)
Thanks for the feedback. In trying to make the text look good in medium to small screens, I hadn't considered what the page could look like for people reading on a screen that is more than 1440 pixels across. I've modified the css file. Clear your browsing history and try looking at the article again.
If you want to see an example of what (I and some others) think is a nice typographic layout for the web have a look at https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
It is what I used for my personal blog and I've liked it a great deal.
Are you the author? Thanks for nice article, I always love to confirm my own opinions! I agree with ebg13, the presentation of your article could be a little more attractive. On a web made for reading there are few simple style rules I use for all text. 1st, I use a line-height of at least 1.5 because every browser's default line spacing is too narrow. (Quanta Magazine gets posted here a lot and I think their average line height is 1.875.) 2nd, keep column width to 100 characters or below (the article already meets this). And 3rd, keep background colors desaturated as to not distract from the most important part of the website: the text!
Yes, I'm the author. I try hard to accommodate as many browsers/apps/screen sizes/devices/reader preferences as possible. But given the large number of them, it is not possible to make every reader 100% happy. I've found that keeping things simple generally works well for most people. For those who want to leave comments about the problems associated with their particular approach to reading my website, I have given them a place to do so: https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/cheapskatesguide-and-b....
