BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But all of those results are meaningless on both sides, because the entire federal judiciary is not genuinely in the business of doing justice.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> I've come to the conclusion that the only proper response to norm violations is a 10x counter-response. That may be true --- or even a 100x response. But the thing is that a 100x (and probably even a 10x) response to many of thes
873.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
But that is the problem. It's pointless to talk about the details of individual cases when the entire system is 100% broken. It's like arguing about what color shoes match your shirt when you're running from a burning house
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Our world is getting more dystopian by the minute.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Our legal system is a shambles that is clearly not prepared to handle this kind of thing, even setting aside the situation with the supreme court. It's become clear that the "shadow law" of simply passing unconstitutional st
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Sad to see a venerable blogging platform bite the dust. I never used it but do stumble across typepad blogs from time to time.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Those questions may make some users uncomfortable, but it's wishful thinking to believe they would make Google uncomfortable. Google doesn't care in the slightest about these issues.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It won't be a problem. . . until Google revokes their accreditation for some reason they won't explain.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I wouldn't say that means it's not FOSS, it just means things being FOSS isn't enough to ensure things are good.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> New technologies give us greater leverage to do more tasks better. But because this leverage is usually introduced into competitive environments, the result is that we end up having to work just as hard as before (if not harder) to rem
881.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Corporations are also notorious for doing that, except with governments you can vote them out.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Basically my point is that it's not really about software. It's about access to things that are of practical use. Having a monopoly (or oligopoly) on hamburgers or hammers would be a similar problem. It's true that within
883.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Not just forcing the app store duopoly to open up, forcing banks to open up and prohibiting these kinds of restrictions that are based on "we insist that you trust some large corporation that we also trust".
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Conditioning such rights on the device being "owned outright" will just push the same bad actors to rent you the phones instead of buying them, the same as they did with software licenses. The only way to really fix it is to brea
885.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
But Android is open source. In a way the situation here shows the limits of what is possible just by imposing license requirements that require distribution of source code. The problem is the concentration of power in the provision of se
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's possible to believe both that Stallman is over the top and that stuff like this Google action is bad, and even to be right on both. It's even easier to believe that Stallman has had some good ideas but is still a deeply flaw
887.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
You don't necessarily need to prevent all the mistakes, you can often just make them less costly.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> There's no law against a more democratic way to implement the broker either but it requires interesting methods of coordination and/or decision making that doesn't seem to exist yet? It's not enough to not have a la
889.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'm not sure it's so much that we forgot why we made them, it's that we forgot we need to maintain and enforce them and they won't somehow automatically prevent oppression just by being written down on a piece of paper i
890.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Isn't it basically the same requirement as Apple enforces for iOS? Yes, which is why it's bad.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
And K is "kill".
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The thing is that people sideloading good non-malware apps because they want to is also a thing, and all kinds of icky apps that abuse permissions but are still verified and installed through the Play Store are also a thing. This doesn&#x2
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The flip side though is that on Windows you can run an installer from 20 years ago, or sometimes even just copy the program directory over, and it will work. You might not have to reinstall Linux, but you'll have to update it and so
894.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Maybe that statement was just an AI edit and he actually said "YouTube is an evil scourge upon the planet".
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
"Oh, clutch"?
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
One answer to that is that prison bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of deciding stuff like this.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The weird thing is that to a significant extent that battle is really just about the words "Microsoft Office". LibreOffice has some awkwardness and annoyances, but it's quite adequate for probably 90% of mundane office tasks
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I'm not sure, but I used them as recently as 2019. (Well, not a blue book per se, but a printed exam where students handwrote their answers on the provided sheets.) I'm pretty sure some faculty never stopped using them except wh
899.
by BrenBarn 1y ago
Sounds very similar to my situation. I switched to Linux around the same time and for basically the same reasons. I had looked at Linux at various times in the past, and attempted to switch around 10 years ago, but wound up going back to
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I read that and it's still not clear because there are already projections that meet those criteria.

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