Indeed, that scandal vastly predated AI everywhere, and was just vanilla consultant-grade software (i.e. trash) coupled with vast incompetence at every stage.
Incompetence is not sufficient to explain that case. Many high level leaders were aware of deficiencies in the software and wanted to prosecute anyway. That is active malice or indifference to human suffering.
When GitHub pages was launched, IIRC it was _on_ GitHub.com and only moved later. User content that is _not_ pages is on githubusercontent.com to this day.
It's much cheaper to drink at home when you're unemployed though. I live in a country with seriously rising unemployment rate (highest in EU), and bars/night clubs are going bankrupt left and right here.
Can you cite the law that says you may not do this?
There are obvious cases in Europe (well, were if you mean the EU) where there need not be criminal behaviour to maintain a list of people that no landlord in a town will allow into their pubs, for example.
Under the EU’s GDPR, any processing of personal data (name, contact, identifiers, etc.) generally requires a legal basis (e.g., consent, legitimate interest, contractual necessity), clear purpose, minimal data, and appropriate protection. Doing so without a lawful basis is unlawful.
It is not a cookie banner law. The american seems to keep forgetting that it's about personal data, consent, and the ability to take it down. The sharing of said data is particularly restricted.
And of course, this applies to black list, including for fraud.
Regulators have enforced this in practice. For example in the Netherlands, the tax authority was fined for operating a “fraud blacklist” without a statutory basis, i.e., illegal processing under GDPR: https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/tax-adm...
The fact is many such lists exist without being punished. Your landlord list for example. That doesn't make it legal, just no shutdown yet.
Because there is no legal basis for it, unless people have committed, again, an illegal act (such as destroying the pub property). Also it's quite difficult to have people accept to be on a black list. And once they are, they can ask for their data to be taken down, which you cannot refuse.
> The american seems to keep forgetting that it's about personal data, consent, and the ability to take it down.
I am European, nice try though.
It is very unclear that this example falls foul of GDPR. On this basis, Git _itself_ fails at that, and no reasonable court will find it to be the case.
> meanwhile the violent crime rates have not dropped.
The rate of school shootings has dropped from one (before the implementation of recommendations from the Cullen report) to zero (subsequently). Zero in 29 years - success by any measure.
If you choose to look at _other_ types of violent crime, why would banning handguns have any effect?
> Where do we draw the line on which tools are responsible for that instead of the humans using them for it?
You can ban tools which enable bad outcomes without sufficient upside, while also holding the people who use them to account.
I do the same - largely because I open the IDE with `idea .`/`zed .` (or whatever) from a directory with the correct nix dev shell already loaded in order to ensure the correct toolchains get used.
Typically I have 3-4 different projects open at a time and probably 30-40 terminal windows across them and other places (in Ghostty).
Honestly it had never really crossed my mind that people used the built-in terminal for anything!
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