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by 4bpp 7y ago
A similar disclaimer is contained in the GPLv2 and therefore applies to the Linux kernel. Does that mean we can not impose any expectations regarding security on its maintainers either? Why can't we have legal disclaimers like this so
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Even if Signal's assertion that they do not keep metadata is in fact trustworthy, a network-scale adversary (such as a nation-state) could easily figure out that you called someone and who you called by looking at the data exchanged be
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Looks fairly comparable, but the writeup at https://docs.cumulusnetworks.com/cumulus-vx/Development-Envi... makes me think it might not quite treat "standard Linux-world solutions" as first class citizens. (N
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Is there something comparable to this that is offered as a native $distro (Debian in particular) package, rather than a Snap? I'm slightly allergic to running parallel package managers.
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by 4bpp 7y ago
As a general principle, Western legal systems don't let the victims determine the punishment for a misdeed. Are you suggesting this is not a good thing?
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I don't understand how you get that out of my comment. Regardless of what problems the parent poster actually faced, it's clear from their descriptions that (1) at this point they are genuinely experiencing problems from their ex
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by 4bpp 7y ago
This sounds like your problem is not so much any actual discrimination as it is the expectation of it, and you are suffering real disadvantages due to that expectation. It might be better to try to reduce your consumption of US culture war
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I think there is a general element of Europeans being more openly hostile to US tech monopolists, too. Compare how Germany has always retained one of the highest ratios of Firefox users.
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by 4bpp 7y ago
What's subjective there, though? If you go to Crimea and commit a crime (heh), you will be caught by Russian police and hauled before a Russian court. If you start in a point on Crimea and walk towards Kiev or vice versa, you will be s
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by 4bpp 7y ago
It's not like everyone has to go off the same trail, or up the same tower, or onto the same hotel roof. There are hardly any single things on this planet that would not be ruined if everybody did them, but we still use them with the im
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I assume that it suffers from the same problems that make me usually give up when I find that a FOSS project's only venue for support and bug reports is a mailing list: search and discovery is less than optimal, conversations just rand
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by 4bpp 7y ago
In a way, it's fortunate that hardware performance improvements have all but ground to a halt; according to online benchmarks, the CPU in my nearly 7 year old (3rd gen Intel M series) Thinkpad is only something like 50% slower than the
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Not the parent poster, but probably in a similar boat because I would be ok listening to "a quality presentation by Sarah Mei" even though I am considered a member of a group I have a creeping suspicion they would be quite happy t
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Oh boy. Considering that the most authentication that happens seems to be based on government IDs (which are well within the capability of any government to fake in such a way that a random startup would be fooled), this could actually be a
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by 4bpp 7y ago
What would be a reasonable way to let Mozilla know that I strongly disagree with this decision (and, really, the majority of calls they have made surrounding extension security lately)? Who was responsible for making this decision on their
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I don't know how you get that out of my post. Privacy violation is not the only grounds on which something may be illegal.
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Let's not forget that unlike cars, data on the internet can not actually physically harm people. Especially for crimes with an overwhelming moral component such as sexual abuse, people seem to have a tendency to conflate someone derivi
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I would consider a society in which you are not allowed to communicate with others without the government getting access to be one without a right to privacy. It's interesting how we can come to polar opposite conclusions about the i
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I suppose it all depends on whether you think persuasion or group membership signalling is what primarily influences people's beliefs. I was under the impression there was a wealth of studies suggesting that people basically do not res
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I'm not sure what to make of your Bigfoot example; it seems more driven by the circumstance that nobody really at all cares whether Bigfoot wins or loses outside maybe of some scientific fields. I could imagine that claiming that Big
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I do not think that a tacky joke about "emacs virgins" as part of a comedy routine parodying real religious movements past and present deserves being treated as a punishable offense at all . Not only do I think that this should n
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by 4bpp 7y ago
There is one: (1) let Stallman keep his position and inspire/encourage one set of people, while discouraging/putting off another; (2) remove Stallman from his position, foregoing both the inspiration/encouragement and the dis
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Can you elaborate on why you dispute it is rational? I'm working with a definition of "rational" that is more or less "the optimal way to attain your goals", and assuming that the goals of Stallman's detractors
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by 4bpp 7y ago
> implying that there's any way a rich, famous, 73-year-old man can "have sex with" (rape) a 17-year-old girl, whom he has extraordinary power over, and who, in in this case was his friend's trafficking victim. ...wha
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by 4bpp 7y ago
But consider the possibility that this might be perfectly rational behaviour for people who care about some side of the cause (even if it comes at the expense of HN as a forum): the victory condition for any belief is to be so universally a
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by 4bpp 7y ago
I don't think my leap from murder to war was greater than your leap from some gauche remarks during a talk in the '90s and a handful of emails lawyering about word choice that might have put some people off working in the speaker&
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by 4bpp 7y ago
> But I expect that the second- and third-degree network effects have. MIT has had a huge influence on open source software. Keeping the number of women who contribute to FOSS lower has a snowball effect of discouraging other women from
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by 4bpp 7y ago
In general, yes. Murder is a very peculiar case that is hardly suitable to be the benchmark for building our intuitions about trading off harm in general: human lives are not fungible, murder is not reversible, the victims do not generally
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by 4bpp 7y ago
Do you believe he has alienated more women from FOSS than he has inspired people to contribute to it? Considering the frankly extremely low percentage of female contributors, it seems that he would have had to personally (considering that a
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by 4bpp 7y ago
It's notable that all of these anecdotes are from back in the '90s and before; since I assume Stallman's accusers dug around very hard for material and this is the best they could find, it stands to reason that he probably ha

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