Hizonner

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by Hizonner 7mo ago
... which is why the institutions that assign responsibility and consequences need to make it really clear that excuse won't fly. With illustrative examples.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
May I suggest a better approach to that situation? Israel: Hey, we're gonna start bombing Iran in 15 minutes, so pick your targets! Time's a-wastin'! US: We do not give a fuck who is meeting with who when. If you ever want to
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
For a problem the size of Trump, the intended function of the institutions would have been removing him from office by now. Not to mention ignoring basically all of his more publicized executive orders (I don't know about more obscur
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
How is it "tacit"? Anyway, it's actually bad if there's been a problem for years, and the way it becomes widely known is by Authority(TM) legitimizing it instead of trying to stamp it out.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Seems bad that people feel forced to use GitHub to talk about Apple's bugs.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Gee, that's nice, but in this case they were deciding which cloud provider the government itself was going to use, not what provider you could use.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Fascinating. Enlighten me further. How exactly will "the market" decide where the government, or a corporation, or even an individual, chooses to buy computing services? I'm very stupid, so you're going to have to explai
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Sure. Your average private corporation would do much better at sanely evaluating Microsoft's cloud, and sanely acting on that evaluation. Right. You bet. Absolutely.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
> So, move the show off the floor, never has it been easier to reach the population as an individual. Are the citizens that enraptured by "the floor" as it is? Nope, but his immunity from prosecution for disclosing classified i
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Nobody's "selling it" as more reliable than it is. People are assuming it's more reliable than it is. > People by nature are lazy and will take shortcuts given an opportunity. So, um, the fact that humans are behavi
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Filibuster what, exactly? No proposal is before the Senate... ON edit: Oops, sorry, 702 is up for renewal. Still not clear he could win a cloture vote, though.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
They can remove him from all his committees, including the ones that give him access to this stuff to begin with. If they really work at it, they can freeze him out to the point where he can't get anything done on this or any other iss
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Yep, just throw them kids under the bus.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Those aren't the ones who are actually going to do serious damage. Drunk pissed off idiots haven't planned to be carrying anything anyway. Lone wolf crazies might get organized enough to be in the line in the first place... and
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
> smarter than your average threat Well, there's a good candidate for the dumbest assumption I'm going to see this month.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
There are parental control settings on most of the devices kids have right now. Most parents don't use them ( https://fosi.org/parental-controls-for-online-safety-are-und... ) . Where's your vast majority? By the
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
> And some kids haven't got their head straight after puberty at 16, and still need (or would have needed) the training wheels. But on average they don't. > Society works on averages. Right. So setting the rules around the
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Sometimes the kids basically run away to universities as soon as they're of age.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
> You get to pick it, it isn't mandatory that it be checked, and it doesn't need to be a date, just the bucket. Is that still too onerous? Yes, because (a) it wouldn't do anything, and (b) it would take about 5 seconds for
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
I don't know. There's a certain segment of "civil society" that's pretty much OK with anything as long as it doesn't threaten the Holy Free Market. Free only for appropriately holy values of "free", m
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
The network's job is to move packets from A to B, based on the addresses in the headers. Full stop.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
> the part that changes is passive fingerprinting from third parties - network middleboxes, ISPs, DPI systems Right. Things that should never have been allowed to exist to begin with. Working as designed.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Like what? The AV maniacs apparently want to apply it to any and all "spaces" where you might actually communicate with anybody.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Of course not. You might try to write code to get around the jail everybody wants to put you into.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
You can absolutely give it a more robotic, less sycophantic and manipulative "personality". The particular personalities these things have are choices.
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by Hizonner 7mo ago
Suppose they made things worse once and made things better twice? "Even once" is not a way to think about anything, ever.
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by Hizonner 8mo ago
Why would you use a web site to format JSON, encode/decode base64, take a diff... These are all things your local computer can do just fine.
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by Hizonner 8mo ago
You're also in favor of keeping animals from being bred for the specific purpose of being killed and eaten, right? I have some suspicions about which issue would be more important to the animals...
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by Hizonner 8mo ago
You can cite that bullshit, right? "Programming the brain". FFS.
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by Hizonner 8mo ago
If you're expecting me to say that the Trump administration isn't literally fascist, openly evil, and aggressively anti-free-speech, or that plenty of previous administrations in the US haven't done indefensible things (even

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