RandoCalrandian

Me suspects the latter

Every problem looks impossible until you see the solution, and then it was obvious the whole time.

The feeling never goes away, instead you do what some other commenters have suggested:

• pick a project
• get it building locally so you can fix something
• pick a bug from the list
• get to work. Understanding what to write means understanding what the solution is, which means understanding the problem and the scope of it, what parts you can fix and what not. This process is more akin to going on a nature hike than painting the view, but people always seem to assume coding is more like the latter.

Tbh, you will likely be able to eventually solve any bug, given time and effort. Reaching out to discord groups in the language or product domain when you have questions will speed the process up.

Believe it or not those are all solved problems

The largest blockers to implementing them for voting are no longer technological, they’re political

We can absolutely cryptographically verify your voting choice from your phone, and have you and everyone be able to verify when it changed, where, on what device, etc, while also preserving the anonymity of the voter.

(Edit: while also making it far easier to combat fraud by making elections trivial enough to go “ok, everyone go check and resubmit your choices!” And immediately validate the majority of the votes as valid, minus those who don’t have internet access who would still need to travel)

Problem is, there are a lot of very powerful organizations who would suddenly lose much of that power if voting were in any way convenient and accessible to everyone.

Less chance of security vulnerabilities, breaches, less bugs fixed more permanently, faster features, etc

Those things all sound like value adds for the end user…

Even their excuses if a “24h only event app” don’t hold water

Even in that case, a business would be wanting to make many of those apps, and this commenter is arguing making a new one from scratch every time over massively simplifying things with quality reusable code.

Even their own example shows how terrible it is an idea to deprioritize code quality/readability.

Refusing rust and wasm is a signal you don’t care about code quality or security

See? You can keep playing that game all the way down to the most onerous language

Don’t forget simple login gives you a bunch of free aliases with a proton account

Seriously best value for money, if all their encryption and privacy claims are true

Until they add a history feature for edits (i’d really appreciate that, actually. I edit my shit all the time just to fix errors, but i know there’s plenty who use the feature maliciously to change how an argument sounded)

And you’re dreaming if you think reddit can’t get whatever you “overwrote” back.

And this is different from everywhere and anywhere else… how?

Edit: No, seriously, this is meant to be a public square where people can talk freely.

What part of “public” do people not understand?

Anybody who is afraid of showing proof (which making the code open source does) should be given a wide berth

They were depending on you not knowing, and that is never good for you

Why is that important, he’s been accused of bigotry! Grab your pitchfork and don’t ask questions

He’s saying they add a plug-in system to add additional functionality, but the plugins don’t have to be open source and can be DRM’d to hell

Fat chance. We can’t get the existing terms of GPL to be enforced

Re: red hat restricting redistribution of GPLv3’d code

How about obsidian and you paste in messages after you’ve drafted them out?

with this to recover anything missed in a copy?

That autohotkey script could lose you your job, your retirement funds, your savings… it’s just not worth it when there are secured solutions around if you could manage a little change in behavior

1. you question looks like Hilary’s aid asking “How do i permanently delete emails from a hard drive”, so is sus on it’s own and i have 0% trust that you have a valid use case for this

2. literally every use case you have or could mention is solved in a better way. Pursuing the avenue you are currently on is a security vulnerability. It’s like asking a lockmaking group “Hey, how can i have my keys copied automatically so i don’t ever forget them again? And have them printed to a shelf right next to the front door”

So even if you are being genuine, any sense of a duty of care to an internet stranger compels me to tell you to not do this

Keyloggers are malware and malicious by default, even for your own use.

Look into clipboard managers, and you can save/paste history more easily. Do not pursue keyloggers, they will leak all your secure passwords.