Ansil849

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by Ansil849 4y ago
This seems unrealistic. Especially because, as I pointed out in another comment, there are tons of other far easier ways for someone to get someone's first name at the airport. I think perhaps people are misunderstanding how this tech
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Sorry, I have zero interest in discussing some nonexistent hypothetical. Obviously, a technology that 1) was not opt-in, but universal, and 2) broadcast your information to not just you but everyone, would be problematic. You might as well
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> That being said, I think it would be totally fair for a person to feel embarrassed about any personal information being displayed publicly on a monitor without their consent. OK, but this is a pure fantasy, if not outright delusion. Th
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> hold up your boarding pass for everyone to see, which is what is implied by a big screen. I feel like you missed the part where only the person standing at specific coordinates can see your name, i.e. you. That's the whole point o
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by Ansil849 4y ago
If an attacker is targeting your first name, there are any number of ways they can extract it from you in ways that are far, far easier than having to more or less literally sit on your shoulders so that they're in the same spatial coo
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by Ansil849 4y ago
I'm genuinely not understanding the embarrassment. If you're saying you're embarrassed about going to a particular destination, do you not sit in the designated gate area? Do you sit elsewhere? What do you do when it's a
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> I wouldn't want random people in the airport to see my personal information. Why not? I'm as much a privacy advocate as anyone, but I don't see the big deal here. The board seems to display your first name, your gate num
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> So we now live in a weird world of, everyone is breaking the law, who do we call on it? Welcome to today's world. This is the case, not just for corporations, but for individuals. Chances are near 100% that everyone breaks some la
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Because of data disclosure concerns, in that students' data may be disclosed to US interests.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> I really miss Windows 95/98 era UIs. They were so much more practical and less noisy than current generation UIs. This. I miss the practicality of these designs. It feels like designers today make changes to justify having work to
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by Ansil849 4y ago
You can't "gamble or porn a website" either. But alcohol and nicotine companies have an online footprint, and you can buy alcohol and nicotine online. Or in other words, there is web content that directly facilitates other &#
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by Ansil849 4y ago
What irks me about this is the disingenuous concern trolling in the title: > Aiding to break habits If mullvad's intention with these blocklists is to help break habits, then why is the focus solely on gambling and adult content? Al
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Why is this bullshit tolerated? What I see is a band of thugs terrorizing a person. And I say this as someone who skateboarded all through junior high and high school. We did so while doing our best not to be living stereotypes of being bra
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> If I'm watching your average YouTube video, I don't doubt for a second that the content on display was made intentionally by the video host. Why not? Parents pressuring children to gain celebrity status isn't exactly an
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> How do you know an actor or actress is not performing in a shoot because they were forced to? How do you know $worker isn't performing $job because they were forced to? If you're going to make the pearl-clutching argument tha
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> This strikes me as unnecessarily defeatist How so? I think it's just a realist view. What alternative would you suggest?
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> banned from __________ without reason or recourse That's the risk we all run when using services owned by others. The unfortunate takeaway is that you cannot trust other people.
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Does this paper come with its own Data Availability Statement?
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by Ansil849 4y ago
All this. I feel like people are not understanding that this is not meant to be a secure safe or even a deterrent. It is a home safe designed to keep valuables minimally safe from an average fire, with a side benefit of also preventing a to
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> Why does half the entire read just focus on destroying this guys character? Yeah, this was my question reading this piece as well. This article overwhelmingly reads like uncritical character assassination. I think whether the guy was a
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> Leaked operational secrets = people killed. Correct. Leaked operational secrets, like say via spyware installed on devices, = people killed. Which brings me back to my original question: > What about the people who could be hurt as
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> How exactly was someone "hurt" because of said spyware? What do you think the information gleaned from the targets is used for, if not to harm the targets or others? This is beyond the fact that you don't think the mere
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by Ansil849 4y ago
What's with the uncritical pro-CIA tone throughout this whole article? Quotes like this go completely unchallenged: > Karen, the O.S.B. supervisor, later recalled. “That information getting out into a forum like that can hurt people
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by Ansil849 4y ago
An advantage of Telegram over Signal or related apps is that if I am in a situation where I need to delete a message and leave no trace of it having been there then I can do this on Telegram. On Signal, if I delete a message it leaves a &#x
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> but Google Docs handle it fine As opposed to files that consist of a '1' in them [1], or .ds_store files [2]. Not to mention the risk of Google just decided to lock your account for no clear reason and you losing access to al
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> Are there open-source implementation of Docs Yes: https://cryptpad.fr/
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Yes, there are some very popular white and ambient noise casts on Spotify. Just like with every other genre, however, for every one creator that's extremely profitable and successful, there are thousands who are not. So if your takeawa
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> it's to accept the terms of the agreement for access to the unreal source code. Alright. So if Epic Games are abusing Github Teams, why should the poster not be able to also?
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by Ansil849 4y ago
> Sending email notifications to 400,000 users for unimportant things is antisocial. What about requiring people to join a specific team to access the source for no apparent reason? In other words, how are the conditions which led to the
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by Ansil849 4y ago
Huh. And yet why is that sort of annoying forced registration not considered 'antisocial', but this accidental tagging is resulting in calls for the poster to be banned?

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