Going by that logic, hasn’t Trump defrauded big banks rich people have huge amounts of assets in?

My bad, of course, not sure why the defamation trial was still in my head.

SBF engaged in things like securities fraud as well, which is harder to spin into a civil thing I guess.

My bet on why they decided to go the civil route is that Trump has the money to make things right (if he will that’s another thing), and SBF has nothing.

So they’ve just decided to go the “better for everybody” route, since, well, it’s better for everybody.

Oh yeah, we’re talking about the New York Trump corp trial :)

In that case, here’s a nice explanation why a criminal trial wouldn’t make sense and why a civil one is much better for everyone

Your comment proves you don’t understand what’s happening. At all.

Trump defamed someone. That’s a civil issue. He was put on trial. On a civil trial. Because it’s a civil issue. He lost. He got fined. Not sent to jail. Because it’s a civil trial.

A bunch of text, all of it unrelated to the question.

Trump lost a civil trial, SBF lost a criminal trial.

You can’t be sent to jail for breaking civil laws.

Your bones are broken then, because that’s just straight up not how it works.

Trump was fined because it was a civil trial that he lost. In this instance. His criminal trials are ongoing.

SBF is getting locked up because it was a criminal trial that he lost.

Yep, guess that’d do it.

You’d still have to handle transferring keys across your devices, every time you login on a new one.

Also, searching would probably not work, at least as well as it does right now, since all messages are indexed on the discord side, which they wouldn’t be able to do without seeing them. Everything would have to happen on device, meaning the devide would have to store all messages.

They are exchanged between the two devices.

Have you tried using Signal on desktop? It doesn’t offer history syncing. Cross device for whatsapp for example is also a terrible experience. Unusable for something like Discord.

For a seamless experience Discord would probably have to store the keys themselves, defeating the whole point.

You’re actually joking with the “inviter providing the decryption keys to the invitee” part right?

The whole point why people use discord is that it’s simple, this is a feature that’d only annoy the average person, and every single extra step is a disaster for user retention (look at any eshop study).

Stuff like this is completely irelevant to discord, the tiny subset of people who actually care will and should use Matrix / other solutions, because that’s the people they were made for.

Do you want to explain how to do it better?

That’s how joining a server and being able to see history works

Yeah, but people don’t like change, and I’d expect low level engineers to like it even less.

And looking at Linux, that shit still supports ancient hardware, being able to actually get rid of old code (that now has to be maintained alongside the new code) is gonna be a PITA.

I’m just guessing, but what about backwards compatibility? Or cross-system compatibility?

For example, something like a syscall that’s existed for 20 years. Changing it would break old apps.

Of course you could just keep the now “old” syscall and add new methods that replicate it’s behavior, but haven’t you then introduced bloat? More ways to do the same thing, meaning (eventually) more bugs, more fragmentation, memory usage, etc.

I had no idea, thanks for the info

That’s on the tv manufacturers though, it’s their choice.

Oh I know, but I do think anti-trust would require an erection of some sort of barrier. Say, if HDMI required that if HDMI is present, displayport cannot be.

Right now, tv makers are complete free to choose.

Doesn’t mean displayport can’t be used there.

If the tv maker wanted to not pay licensing fees, they could put a displayport on the thing. But they don’t. Their call.

That’s not the point of my comment, the point is that whatever hdmi is, it’s got very healthy competition, so there’s no real reason for anti-trust stuff

But displayport exists, is widely used and is free?

I’m pretty sure that’s kinda exactly what happened though, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was just that no one thought to add a logo because engineers don’t care about shit like that (at least a lot of them don’t)