Reelin

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by Reelin 6y ago
But you already can't opt out of them sharing their entire address book with the latest sketchy app they downloaded. What's the difference? They either have your phone number and other contact details in their phone or they don&#x
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by Reelin 6y ago
If and only if you opt in to it. It's difficult to understate how important that is.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> ... the very fact that people can move from one host to another ... I think it's worth explicitly spelling out that federation reduces the cost to switch hosts to near zero in many cases. There's no technical reason you can&#
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by Reelin 6y ago
I think perfect really is the enemy of good in this case. Attack vectors will presumably always exist. I look upon any argument against openness - be it software licensing, protocol federation, data export, binary blob usage, or anything el
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by Reelin 6y ago
Wow that's actually an impressively detailed breakdown that managed to address every single question I had. (I feel dumb for not checking "pricing" before, but seriously why wasn't that under "features"?)
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by Reelin 6y ago
Their website certainly doesn't make it easy to locate the source code ( https://github.com/opf/openproject ) or make it clear what license it's under (GPLv3). I had to navigate all the way to the manual instal
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Just look at the continuing existence of "youtube-dl" for example. That only exists because Google can't be bothered to break it. There isn't currently any serious attempt at an arms race taking place there as far a
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by Reelin 6y ago
> back-end interoperability needs to be mandatory for Internet of Things stuff More than that, IoT network communications need to be snoopable by the end user if desired. There's a real threat of devices sending back data you don&#x
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by Reelin 6y ago
Slightly off topic, but you managed to clearly articulate what bothers me about a lot of well meaning regulation. GDPR in particular comes to mind - I was never worried about what some small time blogger was doing with my personal info, onl
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by Reelin 6y ago
This is the VA we're talking about, so they can't do that unless congress changes the law. All works produced by direct employees of the federal government (ie not contractors) are in the public domain. ( https://en.wiki
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by Reelin 6y ago
No? Both terms are interpreted literally. If you offer something that you never intended to deliver is that not false advertising? It really doesn't matter how you go about denying the delivery. It doesn't matter that any given
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by Reelin 6y ago
On the contrary, if we reserve the word "abuse" for situations where the ToS is actually violated then the word becomes more useful. Similarly, if we reserve the word "unlimited" for things that are actually, y'kn
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Wikipedia is still going with black body radiation as the source of the yellow color of fire. Wow. The flame section is pretty terrible and most claims aren't cited (I'm pretty sure many of them are also wrong, which hopefull
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by Reelin 6y ago
If you mean specifically a utility to have the window manager or desktop environment send mouse events to applications based on keyboard input, then no I've never heard of such a thing. It certainly might exist, but I suspect that such
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by Reelin 6y ago
> local disturbances in the circulation of cell contents that not all interactions are i.i.d? Sure, in the sense that the cell isn't actually a single homogeneous compartment the way it's often portrayed. There are numerous org
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by Reelin 6y ago
I'm a bit confused. Looking at the original paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.10941.pdf ) this doesn't seem to be a RNG itself but rather a method to efficiently transform the output of a RNG onto an arbitrary
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by Reelin 6y ago
The Epic Games Store officially supports both Windows and macOS. It runs on Linux via Lutris, and they even paid them a grant for that purpose. (Of course I'd prefer official Linux support. It seems odd to support Android but not Linux
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by Reelin 6y ago
In the US at least, yes, but it varies based on the specific situation. ( https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/13549/ )
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by Reelin 6y ago
I think tortious interference ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference ) requires having the specific intention of causing the violation to occur. Not just that one party happened to be motivated to break co
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by Reelin 6y ago
> sue the extension makers for bribing the users to violate the ToS That's an interesting thought. A ToS is just a (rather questionable, in many cases) contract. Can party A sue party C for bribing party B to violate a contract betw
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by Reelin 6y ago
Which if you think it through means that the friends might have legal standing to sue the user of the extension. Not to sue Facebook or the extension author and definitely not for Facebook to sue the extension author.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Is Facebook responsible for keeping your (and your friends) data out of 3rd party hands or not? They are responsible for the activity that they directly facilitate on their own platform. They have legal authority over the interactions
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by Reelin 6y ago
> tricking users into providing access to their data on Facebook by installing apps > same scheme with chrome extensions These are very different things. One took place via Facebook's own platform while the other did not. If thei
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by Reelin 6y ago
On the contrary, if it ever shrank to an extent that posed an existential threat I think it is almost certain that a different consensus algorithm (such as proof of stake) would be adopted. There's no telling how the legalities surroun
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by Reelin 6y ago
Cartels are only involved due to prohibition. If it were ended, it would be pharmaceutical (ie industrial chemical) companies selling the drugs. Sigma-Aldrich and Bayer don't seem like terrorist organizations to me. Or perhaps I missed
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Music notation is actually terrible, even musicians agree to that. Terrible for what? My understanding is that it is quite good at accomplishing its intended purpose (ie transcribing western music in a dense manner that can be rapidly
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by Reelin 6y ago
> This is no different than the server logs that any web host has. Ehh it's a bit different. I don't particularly care what (for example) some small time self hosted blog does with my IP address internally so long as it doesn&#
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Referer includes the site you came from, what am I missing? I never claimed otherwise? There are two separate metrics in question here. One is the "visit" metric which the post specifies is based on the referrer. The other is
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by Reelin 6y ago
> and clicked around before navigating away You can't get that part without using either the IP or a fingerprinting method. (For what it's worth, I don't mind IP based analysis so long as the data isn't shared with th
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by Reelin 6y ago
The post specifies that the referrer is used for computing their "visit" metric (for which IP would also obviously be needed). It doesn't specify how their service is determining the site you came from. Since they don't

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