MikeUt

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MSPs approve Scotland's controversial hate crime law(bbc.com)
2 points by MikeUt 5y ago|1 comments
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by MikeUt 5y ago
While I support RMS and find the lies peddled about him abhorrent, this article convinced me he is not fit to serve as the public face of free software: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.h
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Conversations at Home ‘Stirring Up Hatred’ Now a Criminal Offence in Scotland(lotuseaters.com)
117 points by MikeUt 5y ago|63 comments
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> for an industry which is the lifeblood of many businesses Is it? Or is it a negative-sum arms race, where businesses are forced to advertise, or lose their market share to competitors that do advertise?
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by MikeUt 5y ago
So Google never betrayed your trust because they simply haven't needed to - you gave them everything willingly.
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by MikeUt 5y ago
> How can such enormous gains be so overlooked? For immigration, I’m convinced the main answer is anti-foreign bias Strange how almost every population shares this bias. Almost as if populations without this entirely irrational, harmful
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by MikeUt 5y ago
You don't consider tracking your location against your explicit settings a betrayal? Or the pushing of AMP? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...
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by MikeUt 6y ago
CFAA requires you to interfere with someone else 's computer. Presumably, the computer in the washing machine you bought is yours , so the manufacturer would (should..) have no standing.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> Consumers need to outright reject these attempts Voters need to ban these attempts. Limiting our power to that of mere consumers is what has allowed things to get this bad in the first place.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> What are you proposing, exactly? Do you require a detailed solution before you will even admit there is a problem?
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A Battle over Race, Class and Power at Smith College(nytimes.com)
15 points by MikeUt 6y ago|0 comments
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Controversial California ethnic studies curriculum passes unanimously(jpost.com)
1 points by MikeUt 6y ago|1 comments
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by MikeUt 6y ago
I am in awe of how subtly and artfully deceptive this essay is. One of the best pieces of propaganda I have ever read. Summarized in this passage: Once government has had a monopoly of a creative activity such, for instance, as the deliver
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by MikeUt 6y ago
I was commenting on the misleading phrasing, not the right to repair itself.
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> tech companies have attempted to tighten the control over how we use their devices. Our devices.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
What a very targeted poll. Did they also ask, for example, how many non-Republicans believe Brian Sickinck was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by the mob? Or that all the other deaths at the riot were on the rioters side? http
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by MikeUt 6y ago
The platforms can make up whatever rules they want to - how does citing those rules justify anything?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
And enabling child abusers is even more niche, yet houses are still sold without built-in surveillance cameras, that would let law enforcement look at the recording of what you were doing (with a warrant, of course!) But as it stands, priva
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by MikeUt 6y ago
By that logic the tax rate should be zero, and people can just send the treasury whatever amount they like. Are we now done pretending we don't know about the tragedy of the commons?
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Debian falsified harassment claims in Appelbaum expulsion(danielpocock.com)
12 points by MikeUt 6y ago|0 comments
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If it were called "looking at how stuff works" instead of "reverse engineering", prohibitions against it would be absurd on their face. By using a new term for it, corporations have managed to take away even more of our
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by MikeUt 6y ago
It's chilling how casually we have allowed something as essential and personal as a medical device to inform on us to someone we have a fundamentally adversarial business relationship to. Do the insurance company's intercoms also
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> You are comparing two different numbers, homicides with percent of prison population for all crimes? What do you find so confusing? I am using homicide as a proxy for all violent crime. Homicide because it is much harder to bias throug
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> targeted and incarcerated minorities Which minorities are being targeted? Black people (12% of US population) commit 55% of all homicides [1], but make up only 33% of the prison population [2]. If they were being targeted, wouldn'
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by MikeUt 6y ago
Believing markets and private property should be unregulated does not mean also believing the actions of market players should not be criticized. Do you believe nothing that you think should be legal, should be criticized?
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> gerrymandering is still performed by both parties (in different states) It is? I only ever hear about it when the Republicans do it.
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by MikeUt 6y ago
> Most male actors have talked about how punishing their regimes are , like Christian Bale rapidly gaining and losing weight Note the term "rapidly". I think it would be far easier if you had, for example, a decade to reach you
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by MikeUt 6y ago
I agree with the general sentiment, but the author gets a few things simply backwards: Individual hobbyists care about tinkering with the software of their choice, emphasizing freely licensed source code. These concerns do not affect those
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by MikeUt 6y ago
You're right regarding the court's decision, my apologies. Yet the NYT did choose to go to court instead of publishing a retraction of what they then knew to be false: Sullivan sent such a [retraction] request. The Times did not
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New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by MikeUt 6y ago|0 comments

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