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BTW, you've been shadowbanned for 5 months or so. All of your comments start out invisible except to accounts with showdead=true. Those accounts can sometimes "vouch" one of your comments, like I just did here, making them v
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> e2e was delivered 2016, WhatsApp was acquired in 2014. Both WhatsApp founders have left Facebook recently, and they were much more privacy focused than Zuckerberg and Sandberg. My understanding is they protected the WhatsApp team fr
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> They won’t do that until they have a different app supporting E2E. Why would they voluntarily lose all E2E users to a competitor? I would like to be optimistic, but the realist in me thinks the number of users for which end-to-end encr
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> At least with WhatsApp they only have my Metadata... Only until Facebook decides to weaken or eliminate its end-to-end encryption. It's surprising that feature has lasted this long, since it's so antithetical to Facebook&#x2
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>> Paternity fraud could be solved easily by mandatory paternity tests upon birth. > Paternity tests are accurate, but they are not 100% accurate. I think most people would consider the problem solved if they were 99% accurate. Al
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> But who regulates the regulators? As bad as this example is, have you never heard of the nightmares people fall into dealing with government bureaucracies? If anything, they're much much worse than the worst that companies inflic
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> People seem to be naturally anti-regulation, failing to see that those regulations don't exist purely upon the whims of bureaucrats, but chiefly to address previous issues brought to the regulator's attention. I don't th
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> In fact, a standard has been established: in 96% of the reports, civilians are simply not mentioned. > The[se] 'standard terms' are used [for civilians] instead: "terrorist" and "extremist". Apologies i
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> Apple announced external GPU support at last year’s WWDC, finally rolling out support for the feature back in March. I'm surprised. I guess I'd always assumed that they'd already implemented that for the trash-can Mac P
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> The title is pretty awful, but when the gig marketplace model devalues your work so much Why do you say that? You said yourself the model these apps use "devalue[s] [their] work so much." Given these people were already po
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> Seriously Microsoft, please be coherent. This post is 13 years old. They may have been totally coherent in 2005 but lost their way by 2018.
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> You could get one of those „hire a post box“ services, but again, too expensive if not really used for business. They're not too expensive, at least in the US. I an extra-small size PO box, and it costs the equivalent of $7 a mon
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I wonder how they'd make the required notifications to make this legal in one-party consent states. I don't see how this could fly at all in a two-party consent state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_
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> Yeah, but as soon as they connect to apple for registration/updates/etc they could (theoretically) be blocked again. But it's probably won't be the thief that will be left holding the bag, but rather sucker who buys
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Edit: I was responding below to the original title of the post, which is was " Civilians have been 'airbrushed' out of reporting by the UK on its drone strikes (dronewars.net) ." It has since been changed to match the t
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> Cars are left in public too: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=parked+cars You'll notice the cars in those photos are not piled haphazardly in the middle of the street, obstructing traffic ; but rather
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>> Why they couldn't grab a 2012-2015 model and upgrade the guts? No touchbar, smaller touchpad than the newer macbooks, but updated specs? Call it Macbook Developer... We build the software for the "Pros" after all. &
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> When you smash one you are saying “i vote car.” I vote to continue to make the status quo system of cars how we move from point a to b. And there are a lot of problems with cars. Are you sure you want to be on team car? You're bei
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Paywall bypass: http://archive.is/rUMsN
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> There's some charities operating here in Europe that do just that, making sure the employees know their rights - which includes minimum wage, and not to have their passports taken from them. In America, it's required by law t
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> You can also send these cards yearly, and mark then as such. And send the village head a paper saying so-and-so is no longer eligible this year, and also post that info in the local newspaper, etc. The system depends on common, widespr
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A Study of the Effect of Balloon Releases on the Evironment(balloonhq.com)
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> A pilot on board the jet receives input from the environment with effectively 0 latency, and responds with 0 latency as well. The only latency would be human reaction latency, which the remote pilot would have to. Except that remote pi
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>>> " elevators, convenience stores etc. Red light cameras are everywhere. I haven't seen a backlash." >> Because those cameras are not used to track you, nor are you identified in those videos, nor is that dat
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> RISC-V may, perhaps, compete in two fields with ARM: education, where ARM doesn't give a fuck, and hacker boards, which is a tiny market Those seem like very similar markets to those that Linux started out with. AFAIK, Sun never r
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> The same spokesperson went on to call Orlando a “smart city,” with cameras everywhere that allow authorities to track persons of interest in real time. Someone needs to design an AI-powered camera-seeking spraypaint drone.
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> In this case, the likelihood of a single engine shutdown due to this elusive bug ... _combined with the fact that all commercial aircraft needs to be able to operate with only one of the engines_, makes Boeing ask for the exemption. Th
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> A friend of mine made the same comment recently in regards to condemning human rights abuses in Israel. You can condemn until your face is blue the human rights violations in Iran, but there's not a lot the Iranian population can
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> “He yells and mumbles too much,” Don wrote. “And doesn’t ask complete questions.” Literally this SNL skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk
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HyperNormalisation(en.wikipedia.org)
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