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by Dobbs 5y ago
But if the companies knew what they were doing was harmful and did it anyways? Or what if the companies purposefully suppressed research that showed that their actions are bad?
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by Dobbs 5y ago
This seems a bit trashy and tone deaf. Apple does have plenty of problems, and shouldn't be as rich as it is, but that doesn't justify ignoring the legitimate complaints that lead to apple's work to hide email addresses and p
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by Dobbs 5y ago
The problem is that this type of content spreads like a virus faster than it can be combated with sanity and reason.
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by Dobbs 5y ago
This is explicitly included in the GPL as a punishment that can be executed against those that continually refuse to correctly follow the rules. If someone doesn't want to follow the rules the answer isn't to force them to play an
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Assuming I understand what this is doing correctly, it does the reverse of a submodule. git submodules let you tack a second git repo onto an existing one. For example repoA tracks `repoB@version1234` at path `/foo/bar/baz`.
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Back when Apple announced this there was a good discussion about it on Accidental Tech Podcast , about how this was a really smart move. It gives a price cut to the most number of people, but requires Apple to give the least amount of mone
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Because this can be done piecemeal and in place. Additionally if you use modules and the like it can be done in swaths without issue. Additionally you can tie things across domains. Use Route53 with Azure servers, etc.
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by Dobbs 5y ago
> Basically, in almost all situations, if something cannot be provisioned, or a service doesn't become healthy, CF would roll back to the previous state. Until it doesn't and then you are in a completely unfixable state, must f
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Because not everything is about money and business. The EU while far from perfect does try and look out for, respect, and care for its people. Both at an EU wide level, and at individual country levels. GDPR and this are both attempts to pr
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by Dobbs 5y ago
My uneducated hypothesis is that Fastly runs varnish. Presumably they have some process that collects data from their config system generates the VCL (varnishes psuedo-C configuration language which compiles directly to C). Somehow a custom
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by Dobbs 5y ago
It makes things repeatable, organized, and most importantly checked into source control. It is actually useable unlike cloudformation which is for a nightmare of unreadable, barely editable yaml files and fifty commands to then upload and a
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by Dobbs 5y ago
I got a push notification from the CNN app telling me a bunch of the internet was down due to a cloud provider. I clicked the link only for the app to open to a 503. In hindsight not surprising, but quite amusing.
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Trans people don't choose to be transgender. They choose to either deal with the almost certainly crippling gender dysphoria or to transition.
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Except nothing you said is true. Fallon Fox has not caused more head injuries than is statistically likely for MMA. There is no actual evidence of trans women having an oversized advantage in sports and when it has been tried to be studied
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by Dobbs 5y ago
1) chromosome tests are useless. They set the original blueprint of what your body is, but if that original blueprint is ignored then they mean nothing. 2) As the original comment mentioned this completely fails for trans men. They are ofte
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Or there are legitimate issues of transphobia surrounding this topic. This is used as a stick to beat trans people often ignoring the realities of the situation. How few trans individuals compete, how the ones that do don't generally o
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by Dobbs 5y ago
> posterity This is what it has going for it. It is meant to be a drop-in(ish) replacement for freenode. All the same clients, all the same protocols, all the same channels (in theory).
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Is playing devil's advocate really necessary here? How many times do women have to complain about these assumptions being constantly made will it take before people believe them that there is a systemic problem of these types of assump
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Removed the reading the article bit. 1. OP says: unions are good they bring democracy into things. 2. You say: They had a democratic vote 3. I say: The article is alleging that they didn't have a democratic vote. Your comment is clear
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by Dobbs 5y ago
In the article it is made very clear that what is being alleged is that it wasn't a democratic vote. What is being alleged is that Amazon threatened to close the warehouse, and/or fire people based upon how they vote. Something th
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by Dobbs 5y ago
In the article it was made very clear that this wasn't about propaganda, what is being alleged is that they have evidence that Amazon threatened and coerced people into voting against the union. Propaganda may or may not be dirty, but
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by Dobbs 5y ago
Most cameras in London are private. It is the local off-license having cameras around the shop, and things like that. Not mass surveillance networks.
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by Dobbs 5y ago
You don't have to say you are studying the security implications, you could be say you are studying something else like turn around time for patches, or level of critique, or any number of things.
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by Dobbs 5y ago
All of my experience says otherwise. I don't know the specifics because I'm not actively working on it but ZK is the cause of a lot of problems at current company. Additionally many years ago when I was investigating Zookeeper at
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by Dobbs 6y ago
I run NextDNS on my phone. It isn't perfect particularly because it is an all or nothing type thing which gets frustrating with URL redirects. But it is far better than not.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
Nuclear power plants in Texas are down due to the cold.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
Yes. Use the search, find a few videos you like on topic X. Interact with them (like them, comment on them, follow creators). There that is most of the interaction needed to influence your feed. Then as you encounter stuff you like click ha
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by Dobbs 6y ago
If you like, watch things all the way through, or comment on, then it tries to show you more things like that. If you skip past content, or mark it as not interested then it tries to show you less things like that. So if you are disgusted w
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by Dobbs 6y ago
TikTok is 90% you get what you consume. More so than even facebook. If you consume right wing content you will get right wing content. You consume queer content you will get queer content. This is sorta like complaining that you go to reddi
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by Dobbs 6y ago
No one knew what the new rules would be until the 24th of December. Yes companies probably should have prepared a suite of options they could switch to. But there was always the chance, and probably the reality that whatever they prepared w

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