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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
HTTPS also protects against spying on the specific sub-page you're on for example. That's valuable. Besides installing a Let's Encrypt cert is straightforward these days.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Because if you're talking about that Helicopter gunship video, that was not a warcrime Since when is killing journalists not a warcrime?
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> The Manning leaks were hugely irresponsible. While whistleblowing is a vital activity, the data dumps Manning pulled from the military network and State Department were unredacted raw dumps. WikiLeaks tried to get the Pentagon to help
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> I used to be a big WikiLeaks supporter but these days are long gone. Then you've been duped. The prosecution of Assange is based on his work with Chelsea Manning on US war crimes in Iraq. But if the lives of poor brown people far
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/04/uk-governme...
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> The USA is Russia's chosen archenemy is an extremely US-sided view. Speaking to Russians, they'd tell you that they'd love to get along with the US, but that Americans only have 2 modes of operation i.e. be submissive to
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> I personally just think everything works better when the best people are in charge and rewarded for being the best. The problem is that they're not necessarily the best i.e. some poor person if given the same resources, education,
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I suspect many who believe in meritocracy are already successful people who like to tell themselves they got there by merely being so much smarter than everyone else around them, dismissing the access, luck, (i.e. quality of schools they we
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Russia involves itself only in affairs of few neighboring countries Was presumably meant in reference to neighboring countries where Russia involves itself to the point where it would be wiser for a citizen of such a country to store t
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
To Afghanistan? Iraq? Iran? Venezuela?
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
At least there's universal healthcare in the middle of a global pandemic, unfortunately there's a push to remodel it after the U.S. private insurance model, but also a string opposition to that idea.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
You missed the point. The point was how Apple users are also keen to dismiss an entire OS based on a singular, unlikely, bad experience in the same way OP was willing to write off the iPad based on his experience setting it up.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> So, it's more like "I had a quite unlikely and unrepresentative experience with an iPad and it put me off from such devices, whereas I tolerate the same far more often from servers and desktop machines and don't think tw
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
You've missed the point of my comment entirely. I've put the "as far as I can tell" part in there precisely BECAUSE from what we CAN tell i.e. has been declassified or leaked, it pretty much all terrible shit that has no
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
The CIA is very quick to 'leak' of its successes to the national press via 'anonymous government officials'. It's just I don't consider staging coups and arming extremist 'rebels' to be part of protec
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
CIA does very little guarding national security as far as I can tell.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I get where you're coming from but Linux exclusive desktop apps are so rare that it is probably worth it using tight platform integration as a way to convince users we have quality, nicely designed desktop apps too, especially consider
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
As someone who plays on Linux, I'd bet it's safe to assume exactly that.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
RMS is too strong of an ideolog, (in the good sense), for him to go astray, others am less sure of.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Preferably with a rotating board.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
So GPT-3 could run for office.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
So does cmus :-)
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
There's a blog post claiming the Earth is flat. Would the BBC publish an article on it outside of satire?
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I honestly think that's a simplistic view that allows us in the West to feel better about how terribly we're taking care of our own people. Just look at the U.S. handling of COVID and how there's still no universal healthcare
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
I get the same, together with videos about how social media is censoring conservatives while am literally being recommended their videos. It's quite something.
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> One could argue they’re just following local laws. One couldn't argue that as they knew about Chinese labor law violations at Foxconn & Pegatron. Do you seriously think China has laws that mandate abuse of workers?
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> Hating on Israel specifically is a very cool and woke thing to do. Has been for decades. And defenders of Israeli actions using the defense of people 'hating on Israel' instead of reflecting on the fact that people have genui
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
> How come when we hear about this stuff it is always Israeli companies involved? Is ethics not taught in Israeli Computer Science curricula? Personal opinion, but I think the mandatory army service in Israel seems to teach that everythi
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
Israeli courts have repeatedly ruled in a way that violates international law, including on illegal Israeli settlements. Does it really matter if they're independent if they disregard the law in exactly the same way the Israeli governm
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by AsyncAwait 6y ago
They destroyed entire indie businesses by arbitrary changes and/or enforcement of App Store policies, not to mention they're leading the war on general purpose computing as we know it by locking everything down. I want to be able

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