@des4maisons come to wlsg chat and @ossguy can tell you (he has the science 😉 )

MonadIO is the same as IO, therefore you can use your normal catch/try operations that work on non-MonadIO IO just fine.

All security software that you could consider trusting is free software. Proprietary systems cannot be made secure.

I would suggest watching one of RMS' introductory talks or reading some essays on fsf.org to get a good baseline understanding of the issues 🙂

I loved Dirac, but Google basically killed it with VP8. Hoping Daala kills every video codec and we can stop the war for awhile.