Liquix

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by Liquix 7y ago
Great metaphor. To play devil's advocate: if only one or two companies can satisfactorily make cars, should other less capable/affluent manufactures accept defeat and hand over the automobile market to them? Look for another line
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by Liquix 7y ago
Were Carnegie Steel or Bell fun places to work? Probably, they had cash spilling out their ears. Monopolies need to be broken up because they threaten the free market and consequently our way of life - not because employees revolt.
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by Liquix 7y ago
So if you're running the wrong combination of addons/VPNs/browser you're denied access to half the web because Big G says so? And now they're aggressively pushing sysadmins to install silent data harvesting scripts
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by Liquix 7y ago
Great read. Eat your heart out, Betteridge's Law!
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by Liquix 7y ago
Some amount? Amazon is rife with dark patterns! Amazon's choice, default "featured" search order, inability to filter certain categories by price, childish refusal to sell Google/Apple/<any competitor big enough
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by Liquix 7y ago
I applaud the authors of this and people behind similar foundations such as OpenAI for the time and resources they are devoting. Neural networks have rapidly surpassed human capabilities in some regards; care and consideration are vital whe
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by Liquix 7y ago
For many in younger generations (including myself), watching a youtube video - even a dry educational one - scratches an "I'm being entertained" itch, perhaps born of being raised watching television. Something deeply rooted
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by Liquix 7y ago
Banks reported no weakness nor degradation in his Nitinol engine after 20,000,000 revolutions. Any idea why there's such a big difference between the numbers reported in each paper?
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by Liquix 7y ago
Way to pick out the least important sentence in that well-crafted response and attack it for no reason. Alcohol can indeed be classified as a poison. When someone gets their stomach pumped after drinking too much, they're being treated
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by Liquix 7y ago
Agreed; it's frustrating and scary how difficult it is to get people to care about online privacy. If data harvesting/target advertising continues unchecked, we'll be living in an Orwellian surveillance state by 2030. That&#x
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by Liquix 7y ago
Has anyone been disputing the continued use of 'they' in referring to a person of unknown gender? I was under the impression that the recent controversy surrounding the word is linked to the LGBTQ movement.
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by Liquix 7y ago
They have definitely been compromised. You can buy lifetime accounts on the darknet for a dime a dozen with suspiciously not-real-person email addresses and passwords. Other VPN services and accounts for sale are much more expensive and you
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Damascus Steel(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Liquix 7y ago
This seems more like people having different ideas of what the word 'telemetry' means than a malicious statement meant to mislead users. Telemetry metrics were used before the digital age in diving equipment, rockets, airplanes, f
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by Liquix 7y ago
I don't think it's misleading in the slightest.. When you disable telemetry in an application or operating system, you're disabling that application's collection and transmission of metrics to its developers. Disabling
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by Liquix 7y ago
Bingo. Deanonymize the majority of users to the point where only privacy activists, power users, and grey/blackhatters are running adblockers, compile a comprehensive list of such users, and then either find another way to track them o
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by Liquix 7y ago
The goal of some MicroG users is to completely remove all Google apps. It's more a matter of preference and principle than the app not working. Also, Maps is constantly harvesting location data and beaming it back to G servers, somethi
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by Liquix 7y ago
Location is definitely the weakest link in the MicroG/Lineage ecosystem. Does anyone have any idea why this is? Are the open source location provider backends just not as robust as Google's?
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by Liquix 7y ago
They're people who have X thousand or more followers. This gives them the power to influence their audience. Yes, many got to where they are based on their looks. But there's also plenty of talented photographers, 3D artists, tr
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by Liquix 7y ago
This comes off like you're mainly trying to justify your moral views to yourself. How do you figure "the user already has access to their own data" when the author never received their explicitly requested location/devic
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by Liquix 7y ago
Absolutely agreed. The doublespeak and lack of transparency leaves a really bad taste in one's mouth. It would be one thing if they were very straightforward the 'with whom' and the 'for what' of the data they harve
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by Liquix 7y ago
The 'concrete harm' part comes into play when a corporation or nation-state weaponizes this data in order to sell you a product, influence your thoughts on a political matter, or otherwise manipulate you. If you're of the opi
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by Liquix 7y ago
LineageOS [0] is also worth a look, it's like Android without all the un-uninstallable Google spyware. No play services, no need to log in to a G account to use the device, no G apps (but you can install them separately if desired), no
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by Liquix 7y ago
Does anyone have a mirror?
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by Liquix 7y ago
Could it have anything to do with the sheer volume and accessibility of 'art' in the modern world? There was a time where thousands of people had to favor an artist/photographer's style in order for them to rise to promi
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by Liquix 8y ago
Acting as 'lookout' is only quasi-illigal, but it raises an interesting question: if a human trains an animal to do something illegal, does blame fall on the animal or the human? For example, many pit bulls who attack or maim peop
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by Liquix 8y ago
Large companies have been in the spotlight in the last 12 months for placing corporate interests above the interests of users. The use of 'dark patterns' (subtle, intentional UX changes with the purpose of driving user behavior to
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by Liquix 8y ago
Do you believe this kind of thing should be/is detectable if you're looking for it hard enough? This is pretty realistic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLJriaOumA&feature=youtu.be
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by Liquix 8y ago
Well said. Remember how whimsical and far-fetched Monsters Inc. was with the corporations feeding off of childrens' fear..? Shiver
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by Liquix 8y ago
Never had any qualms with the design, it was just too heavy for most machines I run ubuntu on. Felt like a laggy remote desktop connection.

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