No not completely but I try to not throw the baby out with the bath water. There are always dissident doctors with a clear conscience (albeit a minority) so I look to find their informed work. Google scholar wasn’t helpful (obviously).
Ok, I was tracking that project for a long time (arguably since its inception) for professional curiosity. I can say that this news is totally bogus. Let me explain:
- The news refer to ONE of the folks of the project (under the .tw domain, for Taiwan?). There's nothing "official" about this folk.
- The original project crashed a very long time ago after they get removed from Github due to pressure from Hollywood. All projects since then (years ago) are unofficial folks.
- You may think that the "indexer" is taken down, but the way popcorn works (and I read the source code once upon a time) is that it can be generated from a range of free data sources online, including torrent trackers and IMDB, which makes it almost impossible to kill. If a "source" is down, a typical dev can simply write a new "driver" to get it back up again.
This is probably nothing, or it could be comms. You never know for sure. However, from a pure technical perspective, it's fake news, sorta.
Jumping in to the conversation as someone "who knows someone who knows someone who knows someone that works in the editorial department at the paper".
From what I heard, they need to go through a bunch of hoops fact checking from first sources before publishing an original article, which can sometimes take longer than other media with an agenda.
The way my friend explained this to me was that they try their best to be factually correct & balance, meaning if you take an article from the paper, strip away the paper's name, someone who's very left or right may think such article is in favour of the other side.
Not sure if anyone know this but from what I heard, they were sued by Dominion previously (regarding the election) so they're also walking on very thin ice atm.
But well, don't quote me on this. I'm just a nobody.
That (opinionated software) refers to a software engineering principle aka Cathedral model where one thinks from first principles instead of copying what everyone else is doing.
Yeah it’s not a well understood term outside the the tech circle.
I can confirm this news from my brokerage account.
Verifiable source: https://www.commbank.com.au/about-us/support/commbank-incidents.html