Absolutely it should be celebrated.
Once enough users are here, you can join a niche small instance that doesn’t federate with as many mainstream ones to get that small community vibe. (Or better yet, make your own instance to build what you want)
The more people using federated social media instead of single-entity controlled social media the better for society.
Everything has a cost. Usually of the same type as what you are buying.
You can usually reword security/stability as a type of freedom. The freedom to have a guaranteed income usually costs some of the freedom to choose where/when/how you work. For example.
You might say that you will pay for the freedom to not have school shootings with the freedom to have free access to guns. You lose one freedom to gain another.
You are correct that to some degree they are antonyms, but I would say that it’s freedom vs stability. It’s just that security is a type of stability.
If you break them down more mathematically freedom is represented as infinite possible trajectories, which is in other words a very unstable position. In order to increase stability you must reduce the possible trajectories.
Lots of great software already posted, but with some complaints about windows inefficiencies I can’t believe no one has posted:
Microsoft PowerToys https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
Basically, it’s a suite of tools that windows devs have made to make their lives easier while working in windows. Some features have made it into actual windows releases over the years, but most not.
It has an always on top, batch rename, customisable window snapping, better search, keyboard key remapper, mouse across multiple devices, colour eyedropper, and many many more.
Absolute must have for anyone that uses windows regularly.
Helped me get through my engineering degree. Absolutely the best maths education I’ve ever seen.
Interesting article, clearly written with an extreme bias.
It definitely makes some extravagant claims that are not thoroughly backed up.
This definitely doesn’t belong in TIL. It is not an established fact, and if it is an established fact, a medium article from a strongly biased author is not a reliable source for it.
TIL the US committed mass war crimes in Korea resulting in a 20% population reduction is maybe more apt. But it still requires a better source than this article. Such as an academic paper or article which includes references to reliable sources.