Pfhortune

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by Pfhortune 2y ago
> Yes, of course. If you believe that false claims of an opposite-sex identity constitute a harmful lie, why should you be compelled to endorse it? Because such behavior is a direct and targeted attack on an individual or individuals, no
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
> You can express your own religious identity and explain your beliefs, but you can't call your coworkers infidels if they disagree, or try to ban them from saying things that contradict its doctrines, or insist that the organizatio
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
> The drawback could be as simple as “higher cost to manufacture” or “higher risk of consumers using incorrect/third party batteries” This wouldn’t be an issue if we had some kind of standards around batteries for cellphones rather
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
You will continually get better at not just writing the right code, but at interpreting requirements into the right code. You will learn the edges and corners where bugs will hide. And sometimes you'll write them anyways, because that&
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Netflix is more akin to renting, though.
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Scurvy in the Age of Billionaires(jacobin.com)
4 points by Pfhortune 2y ago|0 comments
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
The framing of this article is absolutely ludicrous. I'm no Apple apologist but this is genuinely a good feature that puts power to control who gets access to contacts back in iPhone user's hands. "The city is helping citizen
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
GrapheneOS has this really awesome feature that I wish would come to mainline Android: Contact and Storage scopes. Essentially, it works very much like the feature Apple has introduced for these things, but importantly, it makes apps believ
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Any ETA on F-Droid, Accrescent, and/or APK releases from Github (for Obtainium)? I know it's a non-trivial ask, and is planned, but seems important that software against censorship be hosted on a less censorship-friendly platform
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
> yet Google shows you 10 pages of 10 links each And five of them are ads/sponsored links!
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Fair. Though I still think we need a tech equivalent of "look both ways before crossing the street." Though as I type this and think it through... Cars aren't trying to deliberately camouflage themselves as harmless parts of
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Android at least does show a little browser badge on PWAs. (Or is this a feature of certain launchers? I'm not sure). iOS should do the same, once Apple is done pretending PWAs don't exist.
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
PWA as a mechanism for delivering phishing apps is an interesting avenue. I would have thought the hoops Android/iOS make you jump through to add a PWA would be enough to make people question whether they are doing the right thing. The
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Were these streamers offered more than a $60-70 game key to self-censor? Why would anyone agree to such a thing for so little?
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Why only Europe?
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
> If you opened up the phone so it could run any software, all of them would instantly become infested with malware that would massively invade everyone's privacy and probably steal their credit cards and scam them. That's extr
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Well... yes, one does have to make good decisions and be intentional about using private software even on open platforms. But at least with open platforms, one has the choice to do so without a corporation being able to unilaterally wipe so
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
I thought Marzipan/Catalyst were still native, just bridged over from the mobile OSes. Are they really using web tech to render them?
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Desktop Linux only "competes" with Mac O's and Windows on a superficial level. While it seems like marketshare matters... it really doesn't from a existential standpoint. Desktop Linux has no* financial driver towards gr
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
I disagree. The beauty of open source is that many philosophies have room to prosper. The Linux ecosystem is not the Apple ecosystem.
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
For me this was the last straw to finally get me to switch my last couple of accounts off of it. Yes... the recent breach[0] should have been enough, I'll admit... 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40874341
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Loss of popular 2FA tool Authy puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox(arstechnica.com)
5 points by Pfhortune 2y ago|1 comments
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Scant detail in this article about the papers in question or WPATH's objection. Maybe these papers were rejected for good reason?
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
As posted in another thread, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Also a bad idea, and if I understand correctly, landmines are already considered a war crime if not removed after conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventi...
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
The above comment thread is: > AI weapons seems like a bad bad idea. >> Why? --- And let's not be naïve; this is the military we're talking about. It'll happen whether it's Luckey or someone else.
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Putting aside all the ai-recommends-you-eat-a-few-rocks-a-day evidence... Letting machines incapable of empathy, bereft of accountability for themselves or their creators, make decisions to end one or more lives, is a monstrous idea on its
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Amazing stuff. Thank you for sharing! I think Cuba is ahead of the curve here, considering the direction the internet is going these days WRT encroaching censorship and media availability issues.
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Here's hoping, but my inner cynic says it's unlikely since it doesn't do anything for those quarterly numbers. However, I am curious what could be done with the stock OS... This repo here seems to suggest that the UI on the C
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by Pfhortune 2y ago
Ah, fair. It is certainly true that not everything just-works on a custom rom; that is a tradeoff of them. Everyone has a different level of tolerance for this kind of thing.

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