LegibleCrimson

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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I used to (NoScript, then uMatrix for years), but it is a ton of work. Just blocking problem scripts with uBlock Origin gets you 95% of and way there. The last 5% is a lot of extra effort for seriously diminishing returns.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I think you meant "former case" rather than "latter case", but even with compiled programs it can be a little more complex, particularly for a dynamically linked program and especially if your program or libraries use dy
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
> The author seems to have been too focused on writing a "classic analogy" that has it's own URL That doesn't track, given the sources at the beginning. One person wrote the essay, then somebody else started hosting
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
That one I get to a degree, but they've hit a lot of others for less clear benefit.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Yeah, seems most likely. In the past, they've explicitly taken down distributions of things like the SM64 PC port, but left the decompilation. Companies don't have to C&D. If something poses very little financial danger, but t
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
> Do you still want information on the internet to be freely shareable via video? Yes. And I'm willing to pay for it in taxes, or directly to creators and hosts, but I'm not going to pay Google after the massive amounts of abus
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
We absolutely can, it's just easier to start from a distro image, install everything you might need, build the software, and call it a job done. Multi stage images into a scratch final stage fix this, but you have to care about the pro
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I disagree. In Rust it's extremely useful to be able to tell if your types are correct and the code will compile with the signatures given, and with multiple placeholders, you can iteratively replace them and test them progressively. I
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I consider pervasive advertisement a moral wrong. I don't have to tell myself anything to know that blocking ads is the ethical thing to do. They are already a moral perversion. Edit: I kind of consider it disgusting that watching a vi
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I pay for plenty of things, but I'm not going to pay an advertising giant for anything. Google is an abusive, greedy company, and I'm forced to pay too many of those in the course of daily life as it is. When I'm given the ch
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
And if I simply mute the ad and do something else until it's over? It's that still fraud? How about if I download the ad but don't watch it? Since when is watching an advertisement a moral imperative?
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Then they should. They are perfectly capable of actually making YouTube unusable without watching ads. When they actually force me, I'm perfectly happy to mute my TV during ads and do something else, which is the exact same moral area
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
It seems obvious when you think of the numbers. When you have 100 users, 1% of them has to report a bug for it to get fixed. When you have 100k users, .0001% have to report a bug for it to get fixed.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Well, yes, but that wasn't the point. It's not a complaint, just disagreeing with the premise of Gen Z being the most technologically competent.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I agree. If a POSIX shell script serves your needs, use it. If it doesn't, you shouldn't be reaching for a more powerful shell, but an actual language. I'd reach for Perl before Bash, and I can't stand Perl.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
That bottom one will also fail. The empty string is not treated as a shell word. You need double quotes.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
If you have $100 in $10 bills from an unknown source and suspect that it might have come from illegal activity, stick it into a jar where 100 people have each put $100, and then pull out $100 at random in an attempt to disconnect from its p
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
It would work the same if you were transferring other non-currency assets as well and trying to mask that it was illegally obtained. Stolen goods get sold all the time.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Sort of. If one person has been paid in crypto for a contract killing and other participants either know that they are facilitating the laundering of illegally-obtained money or suspect as such, then they are culpable. I haven't reall
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Fair enough, and I appreciate the extra perspective. I wouldn't deny that many of these things have improved. Very little actually gets worse in a literal sense (environmental issues and other negative externalities aside, though they
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Technically, that one also omits the rest of the letter, which is more measured and less punchy anyway, pointing out that many rebellions themselves are founded in ignorance.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
That doesn't make much sense to me. Modems existed before the AT&T breakup. You can't encode a digital signal for transmission ever an analogue medium without a modem, and a modem seems entirely beside any point of a free in
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
Maybe that "tree of liberty" quote accurately applies to corporate hegemony as well. The tree of the free market must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of corporate tyrants.
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
They appear to from the outside. Most of the examples of ethical collapse that I'm aware of weren't entirely clear until after the organization collapsed and the dirty laundry went public. A lot of these would either be actively
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
That's the canonical example, but it's not about age in and of itself, but the gap between the CEO that turns them from a person into an idol. It's often an age gap (especially in the past) due to the culturally-entrenched i
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I agree 100%. In America the capitalist dream of competition and technological innovation actually driving costs lower for the consumer has mostly just died in almost every category. Any savings are now passed onto a cabal of private equi
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
It's not that black and white. There's more at play than just charges. Things can be better and still shockingly corrupt, with extreme amounts of unjustified overhead. Things are minimally better for any individual patient, whi
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
I think the point is that one of the big hype phrases is that it will decrease costs of healthcare and lower people's bills, but even if you lower the cost, there is no actual incentive to lower patient bills, so the extra value simply
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
> The compiler is open source, and written in rust. Wow, that's really appealing to me; thanks for pointing that out. I was thinking "well, this looks nicer than LaTeX, and I'm really frustrated with LaTeX, but I really d
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by LegibleCrimson 3y ago
> Has anyone ever changed their mind as a result of reading a listicle of complaints? Maybe they should have, because people were complaining about mandatory office work for no benefit for years, especially when open office plans, and mo

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