Osmose

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by Osmose 3y ago
Not only do they still have an appeal, but the problem goes beyond the Internet Archive itself. Lobbying politicians, coordinating with other libraries, inspiring more civil disobedience, all of which can more productively happen now that w
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by Osmose 3y ago
Personally I find it more naive to think that tiptoeing around book publishers in fear hoping that they can slowly make small progress is the smarter move. They're not going to make serious progress in the fight against unfair online l
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by Osmose 3y ago
It really does vary wildly from person-to-person. I know folks for whom atomoxetine did wonders, but 4 months on it for me had almost no improvements in my symptoms but a bunch of minor side effects. Like lots of medications, you really do
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by Osmose 3y ago
Twilio does attempt to detect this behavior and block it, that's what Twilio Verify is.
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by Osmose 3y ago
> All of that stuff is irrelevant, you get a new job and all of that stays the same. I'm glad life is so simple for you that you can just get free lawyers and new jobs whenever anything goes wrong, but others can't and they&#x2
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by Osmose 3y ago
Employability isn't the only factor, there's insurance, health, debt, rising cost of living, visa status, and so on that can make it such that, while you can _technically_ leave at any time, it may be disastrous to do so. Which ha
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by Osmose 3y ago
It pretty clearly is criticizing the DoD and it's representatives for 1. killing people (probably in a general sense) and 2. participating in and advertising themselves at a tech conference while doing so. Is it the profanity that puts
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by Osmose 3y ago
"Stabbing you in the back" is pretty strong language for posting social media about a personal experienced at a job she no longer has at a company that will barely see any consequences from this post using a right that literally t
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by Osmose 3y ago
There already are protected forms of speech in the workplace, including discussion of workplace safety, unionizing, as well as speaking out against harassment and discrimination. And the NLRB has already ruled that some of those are protect
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by Osmose 3y ago
And perhaps that is a problem in a world where it costs an individual a lot if they are fired, and it (typically) costs a company much less. The result is a chilling effect on the right to criticize the government via corporate punishment,
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by Osmose 3y ago
To clarify, I mean more like "your ability to pay the bills on time" but more importantly I mean that the risks you incur losing your job are much higher than the risks your job incurs from firing you, typically. It's a power
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by Osmose 3y ago
I can't think through all the flaws but "criticism of the government is protected speech for employees" broadly seems achievable, which of course has tons of annoying details like "when is an employee speaking for a comp
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by Osmose 3y ago
> basically Unfortunately it's not basic; the ability to strip all context to make this about being mean to a customer makes for a poor argument. The government isn't just _any_ customer, whether you think the firing was justif
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by Osmose 3y ago
Yes, the implication here is that having to give up something that is comparatively very valuable to you (your livelihood) while the consequences to the company of plucking it away from you are tiny (a line item on a budget somewhere) in or
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by Osmose 3y ago
What even is the point of emulators being legal if they have to tiptoe around the whims of companies like Nintendo? People have the right to run their software after the hardware required to run it has been discontinued, and emulators are t
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by Osmose 3y ago
Eventually there will be so much ChatGPT spam that the only way to cope with it is to have an LLM respond to incoming requests as a first line of defense, generating _even more_ machine content in response, and a thread that someday a crawl
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by Osmose 4y ago
You are stripping all of the context of the statement and then responding to the universal form of it that you created yourself, I dunno that Vox can be blamed too much in this case given how much you're working in order to be mad abou
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by Osmose 4y ago
In a way it's not that surprising that people drawn to work at a company that prioritizes fairness and compensation of labor in the music industry would also be amenable to forming a union to support those principles in their own labor
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by Osmose 4y ago
> I'm perplexed, then, to see so many people gleefully celebrate the collapse of an institution that helped level the playing field for people from all backgrounds. "Making loans to startups that otherwise wouldn't get a l
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by Osmose 4y ago
Exactly, people show up 5-10 minutes late to meetings where they have to click a single button to join, and we expect them to hook in to a VR setup before joining?
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by Osmose 4y ago
The quality of Firefox has nothing to do with the anti-competitive actions of platforms. This affects Vivaldi, Brave, and all the 3rd-party web browsers (or the platform browsers on other platforms, e.g. Chrome on Windows). Mozilla doesn&#x
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by Osmose 4y ago
On desktop there's emails, chat apps, etc. On mobile the default browser is often used for the webview within apps, e.g. on Android I have Firefox doing the rendering for webpages inside other apps' UI, which means I can block ads
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by Osmose 4y ago
Folks with PhDs (and/or scientists) swear _all the time_, especially on their own blog that has "swearing" in the subheader as the third most important descriptor and that isn't aimed directly at children. This has nothi
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by Osmose 4y ago
You're gonna be disappointed in the rest of the internet and a significant amount of the adults in the world if this language is so foul as to bother you. Completely unnecessary callout. Either way, a skim of some google results lookin
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by Osmose 4y ago
The article doesn't claim that the misconception makes you colonialist, it says that this kind of ignorance ultimately _perpetuates_ a colonialist interpretation of history, which is why she feels strongly about what may seem like a mi
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by Osmose 4y ago
I dunno why you think demanding that people can't feel hurt on the internet is any less overbearing than condemning people who are mean on the internet.
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by Osmose 4y ago
You're confusing disgust with surprise. One can predict abuse and also not enjoy it and decide to close the comments down after you get too much of it.
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by Osmose 4y ago
Just because bullying is common doesn't mean people should get used to it
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by Osmose 4y ago
The alternative to "Twitter is acting bad" doesn't have to be "Twitter is completely innocent", it can be "Huh that sucks, wonder what caused that". You don't have to make an immediate judgement call
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by Osmose 4y ago
Not everything needs to be an absolute rule, this totally looks like a small bug on Twitter's part, and if it takes like weeks to fix then you can decide "okay that's a little more suspicious". What's the point of m

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