Matl

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by Matl 5mo ago
> America is still a democracy. Its leaders may be vile today but they are bound to change. I disagree that it is a democracy. It's a corporatocracy and it's been for decades. But the elections are a nice PR. The Trump thing of
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by Matl 6mo ago
Fair, maybe. That'd be the better case I suppose. However that be more like banking apps not liking rooted phones. The California law is more like your OS not allowing you to access resources unless you prove your age, not the external
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by Matl 6mo ago
> I like this post about how having a box to type an age into is unreasonable since we haven’t tried simply doing… global communism? I like this post setting up a straw man when I am not talking about a box to type age into (existed sinc
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by Matl 6mo ago
> You may be a libertarian, I am not. I don't label myself, but if I were forced to slap a label on myself it would be something like an anarcho communist. It's not that I don't believe in regulations helping, is that I fe
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by Matl 6mo ago
> Why do you believe that the current Iranian regime prevents its people from accessing the internet? In the middle of an unprovoked aggression, is it really that surprising that you might try to restrict channels your enemy might use? I
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by Matl 6mo ago
It is but the point is once you are OK with some invasive age verification laws, because they may simplify parenting, you get others imposed on you that might not be OK with you. Therefore I am in favor of none.
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by Matl 6mo ago
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Undecided-Age-Laws I have nothing against Instagram asking me if I am over 16, but these laws end up with my OS not allowing requests to instagram unless I prove to it that I am ove
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by Matl 6mo ago
Why am I being forced to prove to my OS that I am an adult just because of your inadequate parenting skills?
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by Matl 6mo ago
You seem to think that there's some great agreement amongst Europeans about the foreign policies being pursued by European countries when there's not. Yes, I think European foreign policy has in many cases resulted in the deaths o
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by Matl 6mo ago
> So the Kurds and Islamic State are fighting. The US steps in to help the Kurds. At that point we become "warmongers" who are "making use of" the Kurds. You left the part where the US sponsored extremist groups in Sy
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by Matl 6mo ago
> The obvious non-US potential hegemon was China, yet we normalized trade with them, which greatly helped their economy grow. Of course you present it as a one way street. Nah, you normalized with China to counter balance the Soviets and
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by Matl 6mo ago
> is not some sort of “saviour” or alternative. It is an enemy of the free world. I try to not use things produced by my adversary to not fund my own doom. Are you aware that this is how America is increasingly perceived around the world
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by Matl 6mo ago
> The families of the thousands of Iranians slaughtered by the regime doubtless think that we are attacking Iran for a good reason Regardless of the 'thousands of Iranians slaughtered by the regime' which is supposed to just be
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by Matl 6mo ago
> Libya was Europe's idea. Hardly 'Europe's', it was the idea of some 'humanitarian interventionists' in the Obama admin and the then current president of France who wanted to cover up his corrupt dealings.
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by Matl 6mo ago
> They call us warmongers and then wonder why we don't want to help them fight their war. Europeans helped when you called after 9/11. Are you seriously arguing about being called warmongers considering what your government st
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by Matl 6mo ago
Yes, but the framing when America does bad is that they mostly do good. When China does good, it's always that they do mostly bad. With China it's always pointed out how much power the state has over corporations there, but in the
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by Matl 6mo ago
The issue is that the way you're expected to criticize America from what I observed is along the lines of 'they mean well but...' With China, you can say 'yeah, this is good, but they eat babies for fun' and it woul
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by Matl 6mo ago
I mean there are ways i.e. if you run something like tailscale and can always access your private network etc. but it is a hassle. Plus, now you're responsible for everything. Backups, auditing etc.
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by Matl 6mo ago
The thing is, they have to monetize somehow. There's a setting to turn all AI features off with one toggle and you're back to an 'editor still being being developed and focusing on the experience of coding by hand'
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by Matl 6mo ago
> However, and as Louis Rossmann pointed out in one of his videos, they really need to work on the "defensiveness" and "rants" of their communication Not that I disagree but Louis Rossmann giving someone advice to ton
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by Matl 6mo ago
Famously Counter Strike as well.
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by Matl 6mo ago
Right, but this test basically means you can't ever remove a character if it was ever present. I was assuming that you still want to remove it (for some reason) and wondering how to safely test the change.
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by Matl 6mo ago
Agreed, but just to be clear; I was asking how would you test that assuming you still wanted to remove a character that was previously present.
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by Matl 6mo ago
I think there's a distinction to be made between 'is it a good idea for someone informed enough to know how these things go in the real world?' i.e. the HN audience and 'should this be a real worry in a sane world?'
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by Matl 6mo ago
Regardless, why should a Vietnamese person be forced to restrict their password to ASCII? If you want to sell your devices in a country, the least you can do is to adopt to the local market. I get that Western cultural dominance makes this
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by Matl 6mo ago
I agree with you and don't really get what Apple gets from removing a valid Czech character, but how would you test if all existing passcodes remain inputable without knowing the passcodes of all iPhone users? The one way to do this th
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by Matl 6mo ago
Translation: Israel is always the victim, even if the whole world outside it sees it as the aggressor. I guess illegal settlement in the West Bank is the result of a Nintendo console not being launched the same day in Israel as in Japan? Or
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by Matl 6mo ago
'left' as in imposed a blockade on it, you mean?
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by Matl 6mo ago
The 'both sides' thing when one side is occupying the other is pathetic. There's only one side that needs to stop the occupation immediately, the Israeli one. We can go from there.
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by Matl 6mo ago
Everyone remembers The Nakba. Or the Suez Crisis And?

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