As others said, the fact is that scumbags exist everywhere, and Brazil is certainly not exempted from this. Another fact is that Brazil is obscenely huge. The country is almost the size of Europe, and the number of online Brazilians nowadays is probably larger than some European countries' entire population. So, given that the ratio of scumbags is probably and roughly the same for every country in the world, the chance of anyone running into a scumbag Brazilian online is naturally larger than average, which tricks our biased brains into believing that "whoa, Brazil must be filled with scumbags".
And of course, the notoriously pervasive "stray dog syndrome", a sentiment that every Brazilian thing is inferior than its imported counterpart (including manufactured goods, culture and whatnot), and which is hammered into the unconscious mind of 11 out of 10 Brazilians from a very young age (myself included), only helps strength this confirmation bias.
Once I had an argument with a PhD biologist at my university because she was doing a Fisher's exact test in the most insane way I had ever seen: taking floating point ratios instead of integers, and because the stats program she used didn't take floating points as valid inputs for the test---obviously---, her workaround was to multiply these numbers by 100 to get integers. She refused to back down on this madness because "her supervisor did it like this, and his supervisor before him". In the end, her paper was peer reviewed and published and it was the first in a series of let downs that made me decide not to pursue a career in academia. Sometimes it's not like researchers want to tamper with their results. It's just that statistical ignorance is widespread and affect even the reviewers that were supposed to be the first line of defense. Which is a huge problem for an environment that relies too much on p-values and not so much on explaining them.
I have a blast being a senior data scientist, and I've recently turned down a manager role precisely because of the points you raised, despite the better pay. Your comment made me glad of my decision.
Certainly true, but amusing. Presumably the primary rationale for a no-WebRTC policy is to avoid WebRTC leaks? In which case installing Zoom is a case of preferring "the devil you know over the devil you don't know".
> Presumably the primary rationale for a no-WebRTC policy is to avoid WebRTC leaks?
I doubt corporate IT departments even care about "WebRTC leaks" (ie. your LAN IP getting leaked). Knowing that your computer is at 192.168.1.123 doesn't help attackers much. What's far more likely is that their networks only allow TCP connections, because that's all their firewalls/middleboxes/proxies support.
> Knowing that your computer is at 192.168.1.123 doesn't help attackers much
One can reconstruct your subnet scheme with a handful internal IP addresses, allowing them to locate potential targets faster once they get into your network, making attacks more efficient ("oh, so these guys have some vulnerable clients in this /16, it's probably dev, and I see there's another /24, which looks like prod").
What's amusing about that? Preferring a whitelisted set of programs rather than allowing users to run code from any source is precisely how most security policies work.
Are those mods? Cool, didn't know that! I'll definitely have to check it out. I remember that Death Rally had very cool mod tracks too (by Purple Motion if I'm not mistaken).
The first digital music files I'd had contact with were mods downloaded from a BBS. (Or did they come in those computer magazines? Can't remember now.) Space Debris was among them. Listening to it now immediately brings me flashbacks of 13-year-old me with the same hundred mods on repeat on MOD4WIN, creating levels for Duke Nukem 3D and feeling quite da h4x0r on IRC. These were good times, and mods were just the perfect soundtrack for that. Thank you Markus!
By the way, it's still possible to listen to plenty of mods online on https://modarchive.org/
This project is AMAZING. Earlier this week I had the exact same idea of a project while disentangling a bowl of spagetthi code. I'm glad I've seen it here today so I didn't have to reinvent the wheel. Also, I'm impressed by the quality of the documentation. It's pure eyecandy. Kudos!
I've always thought that personal files, photos, or any other kind of just needed more connections between them to improve my information retrieval experience. That's how I had become a Zettelkasten evangelist. I believed it would be the cure for the information overload disease of our era.
But life made me use Emacs org-mode more and more, and I'm now in love with tags. Retrieving information has become so easy, especially with org-mode's tags inheritance, that I hardly think making connections between headings or notes is necessary anymore[1]. And I believe that applying tags to filenames (a la Karl Voit [2]) will create the same effect
[1] A Zettelkasten-like system is still unbeatable imo when it comes to ideas repositories, i.e. a second brain you can talk to and get new insights. It's just not that great for personal knowledge management or project management.
