Ajedi32

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by Ajedi32 11mo ago
Unless you implement a way of stopping people from leaving until they pay (which is really expensive and inefficient), collecting data on who owes you money is sort of unavoidable, no? It's only when that data starts getting collected
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by Ajedi32 11mo ago
It's like if we had Asimov's Laws, but instead of the first law being "a robot may not allow a human being to come to harm" that's actually the second law, and the first law is "a robot may not hurt the feeling
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Notice though that we don't forbid people from withdrawing cash from the bank in order to prevent this. Warning about scams is fine, as is taking steps to make it harder, but once you start trying to completely remove the agency of men
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I'm a little nervous about what this advanced flow is going to look like, given that sideloading already requires jumping through a bunch of hoops to enable and even that apparently wasn't enough to satisfy Google. I'm cautio
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Which is an unacceptable loophole in our legal system that should be closed immediately as far as I'm concerned. If I buy a product, even if that product is software, then I own it, and I should have ultimate control my copy of it. The
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
That's only if you don't want your users to have to jump through whatever hoops are needed to bypass the verification requirement.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
It's not. It's just a different (and in my opinion, more accurate) way of framing what the status quo is. Governments aren't really "blocking websites"; they're blocking their citizens ability to communicate wi
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
True, but I would still frame that as a restriction on your own citizen's freedom to buy services from foreign countries. Unless they're physically shipping stuff across your borders, a foreign website that accepts payment from yo
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I think if something is hosted in a different country, the laws of that country apply to that service. It's not under your jurisdiction, so you have no say in whether it's allowed to exist, nor should you. You can, of course, pass
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Almost all real-world Thread networks I'm aware of have a border router in the form of an Apple TV, Nest Hub, Amazon Echo, etc, so I'm not particularly reassured by the fact that the protocol doesn't technically require one.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Others have pointed out I might be wrong about this. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45837052
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I realize Thread devices need a border router, but once they're connected to that router don't they get an IPv6 address with internet access? Or am I just misunderstanding the protocol?
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I wasn't aware of that. One other concern I have with Matter is that, if I understand correctly, Thread+Matter devices get their own IP address with internet access, whereas with Zigbee all of that has to be controlled by the gateway.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
There's a lot of overlap between those two groups. Half of the country voted for Trump in the last election, a few of them are probably your neighbors. They control the presidency and a majority in the house and senate. You better hope
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
You're not required to do anything. Consider though that if you refuse to see the good in people you disagree with, you have little room to complain when they refuse to see the good in you.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
They're in control of some things certainly, but not this. The decision to filibuster republican attempts to re-open the government is almost entirely up to Schumer, and under current rules the republicans can't do anything about
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Even so, Chrome has preloading turned on by default with an option for "extended preloading" which is even more aggressive. There may be some downsides, but I don't think what X is doing here is unreasonable. Speed makes a hu
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Speaking of nuance, I find it rather unintuitive how it often seems like it's harder for people to have a nuanced opinion of other people than to have a nuanced opinion about a policy or software feature or specific situation. You&#x27
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
When you're either unwilling or incapable of understanding other people's perspectives it is indeed very difficult. Try this: steelman the argument that what Musk did all those months ago wasn't a "literal Hitler salute&
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Not the Senate. That takes 60 votes to end the democrat's filibuster, which is why the last dozen attempts by republicans to pass a clean CR with no changes to the current budget failed. (The last one yesterday[1] failed with 54 in fav
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I wonder where they're getting the data. I assumed OSM but I found at least one place on this map that I couldn't find on OSM or in All the Places (but it is on Google Maps). If anything it seems to err on the side of false positi
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Yes, I fully support people's desire to work 20% less hours, if they're willing to take a corresponding 20% cut to total compensation (note that's not the same as a 20% pay cut; benefits are often really expensive). Right now
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Back when EV certificates were widely supported by browsers, HTTPS was a great way of cryptographically associating a .onion service with a real legal entity, for sites like Facebook which didn't care about being anonymous.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I'm having trouble parsing this sentence. What are "VPNs on top of DNS resolvers not sharing your location"? Why does bypassing DNS help with VPNs being blocked?
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Fully agree with this sentiment. I do think though that disallowing "certain types of commercial use" is a poison pill that would prevent your project from getting any significant adoption. I think a better option would be somethi
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Notice all three of those companies make their money selling support contracts to businesses, not selling software to consumers.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Most if not all large, successful open source projects are funded by commercial interests, not just consumers. The resources it takes to maintain something like Android far exceeds what can be funded solely by donations and volunteers.
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I don't know, why do we need a term to distinguish brown from dark orange? The term emerged organically because the built-in app store is the most common way to install apps on mobile phones (and the only way on iOS), but on Android yo
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
I agree it's a pointless distraction, but it's a distraction you instigated by trying to language police your own supporters. I and most others who use the term sideloading don't use it because we want to make sideloading &qu
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by Ajedi32 1y ago
Yes, I think quibbling over the origin of the term and attempts to coin an alternative are a useless distraction. The term emerged organically for good reasons, and doesn't have any negative connotations as far as I'm concerned. T

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