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by Ajedi32 2y ago
They actively amplified any content that got high engagement, not ragebait specifically. That's why you see this trend across nearly all social media, not just Facebook. There's a strong financial incentive to get people to engage
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
You can turn off suggested posts in settings, but Instragram flagrantly turns them back on after 30 days.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Facebook has a Friends feed[1] which only shows posts from friends (and ads, but that's a whole other discussion). Even so, like 80% of the posts from my friends are just them re-sharing news articles or random memes; I wish there was
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yeah, I don't think bundling programs by default should be considered anti-competitive for exactly this reason; there's a near infinite number of possible combinations of configurations and it would be ridiculous to expect users t
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
"We" could do that now. "We" haven't because it's not profitable to do so, and there's barely enough oxygen as it is for one non-profit browser funded by donations (Firefox).
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Correct. Chrome is not and never was a profitable venture apart from Google. It was a strategic move designed to push web technology forward to allow Google's other, more profitable businesses like Gmail, Google Drive etc. to compete w
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
> I would argue that reading random quotes without context can be misleading. Unless of course you believe in a univocal, consistent and divinely inspired bible - which is a fairly extreme position to take. Those two statements don'
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GPL definitely does.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Noncentral fallacy. Nobody's against "medical care for women" except where they believe it overlaps with "legalized murder of children", and it's extremely disingenuous for you to ignore that and act like &quot
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yeah very little information here. Looks like he got charged with an immigration-related crime, ruled not guilty by state court because he's a citizen, but they can't actually release him yet because ICE got involved so now it&#x2
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
This isn't about the cert issuance servers, but DNS servers. If you compromise DNS then just about any CA in the world will happily issue you a cert for the compromised domain, and nobody would even be able to blame them for that becau
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
> pays good money to make sure that their internet connection is not being subjected to MITMs Is that actually true? I mean, obviously CAs aren't validating DNS challenges over coffee shop Wi-Fi so it's probably less likely to
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Right. 'You can't "distrust" .com.' is probably not true in that situation. (If it were actually true, then "what happens" would be absolutely nothing.) I think you're undermining your own point.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
In an ideal world where we rebuilt the whole stack from scratch, the DNS system would securely distribute key material alongside IP addresses and CAs wouldn't be needed. Most modern DNS alternatives (Handshake, Namecoin, etc) do exactl
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yes, Mallory just pretends to be Alice to Bob and pretends to be Bob to Alice, and they both establish an encrypted connection to Mallory using Diffie-Hellman keys derived from his secrets instead of each other's. Mallory has keys for
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
GP means unencrypted at the wire level. ClientHelloOuter is still unencrypted even with HSTS.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
It's an unauthenticated encrypted connection, so there's no way for you to know whose keys you're using. The attacker can just tell you "Hi, I'm the server you're looking for. Here's my key." and yo
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
It tells you the entity which holds the key is the actual owner of myfavouriteshoes.com, and not just a random guy operating the free Wi-Fi hotspot at the coffee shop you're visiting. If you don't care about that then why even bot
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
It's a real shame. OCSP with Must-Staple seemed like the perfect solution to this, it just never got widespread support. I suppose technically you can get approximately the same thing with 24-hour certificate expiry times. Maybe that&#
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
In what situation would you want to encrypt something but not care about the identity of the entity with the key to decrypt it? That seems like a very niche use case to me.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Inputs are cheaper (and thus have lower tariffs in an absolute sense) than outputs. I think the author underestimates the ability of the market to adapt to incentives. They're still correct though that there are plenty of good reasons
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
> People are generally in agreement against lower wages and higher property prices Neither of those are economic policies. People are very much in agreement that they want cheap goods, high wages, high property values, low housing costs,
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
The principled approach to YIMBYism is to say yes to (or rather, to not artificially stand in the way of) every development (within reason). Otherwise you're just another NIMBY with slightly different opinions about what types of thi
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
I'm pretty sure it's satire. "built by local artisans" is the give away. Other than that line, there are lots of people who would post that unironically.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Installing LIDAR isn't an "easily implemented solution", assuming that's what you mean. Otherwise why not mandate that all cars have LIDAR, self-driving or not?
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It could be 100x better than human drivers and still rear end motorcycles occasionally. Without better statistical information this article tells you almost nothing.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
??? What kind of clunkers have you been using that lose charge on the 12 volt after just 3 days in the cold? I've occasionally left my ICE car out in the cold for a week without using it and it never once even crossed my mind to worry
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
What a perfect opportunity share this article again: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/16/cardiologists-and-chin... Forget cops, cardiologists are the ones you should really be worried about.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yep, the original Minecraft ran in the browser in a Java applet so this is particularly fun example. Though obviously there are significant security benefits to the JVM running within the browser's WASM sandbox instead of directly on t
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Well for one thing, I don't think "starting a war" against the cartels would necessarily be a bad idea. And my concern isn't with the language used, but the casually hateful attitude being expressed. It's not constr

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