SenAnder

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by SenAnder 3y ago
In addition to all the legal restrictions on "reverse engineering" (i.e. examining how stuff works) and circumventing DRM, as technology advances, using technical means to restrict otherwise legal end-user activities is becoming a
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It's salami slicing. Get states to join by promising them autonomy, then slowly take that autonomy away. The same is happening with the EU.
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Plus reporting which laundry machines are in use, and paying for their use, are two different things, so an app could show you which machines are available, but the machines still let you pay with coins. The GPs argument is similar to how f
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Preferring Biological Children Is Immoral(wired.com)
4 points by SenAnder 3y ago|8 comments
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Then showing up at their workplace is a direct threat to them as workers and their colleagues. And please stop conflating "peaceful protest of the contract signers" with "angry mob accosting children". Otherwise I will c
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by SenAnder 3y ago
If you change "peaceful protest" to "frighten people" and "corrupt giveaway to private company from parents' pockets" to "public service", then your position indeed sounds very reasonable. Ask yo
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by SenAnder 3y ago
I'm from Europe, and there are a number of laws against misinformation and hate-speech already [0,1,2,3,4]. Notably, Scotland bans hate speech in private homes too [5,6]. Free speech protections in the rest of the world are even worse,
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The consequence of handing control of our spaces of socialization and play to corporations. If only there existed technology to host our own servers..
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> what if Islam had spread throughout Europe? For much of Europe, it did. If you take a look at the maps of various Islamic empires, there remains a fairly small part of Europe that was never ruled by them. Practically speaking, what is
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Find the individuals who signed that contract, organize parent protests at their private homes.
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It's foolish to think unarmed drones are less dangerous. They'll log your face, the faces of your friends, record audio, and next time you enter a government building/airport/other high-security area, you are arrested fo
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YIMBYs are useful idiots of the development lobby(macrobusiness.com.au)
2 points by SenAnder 3y ago|0 comments
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But am I taking it much further than they're going to ? We've seen how anti-consumer, anti-privacy, anti-freedom technology becomes when left to its own devices. I'd rather not make it illegal to sell an ethical product when
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> when a simple and cheap technology is available that can radically reduce the chance of a product causing enormous damage, “the non-inclusion makes the product defective.” This is a reasonable argument (except for blaming poor anti-the
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> The subtitle of the paper is "Diversion from climate action" without any explanation. This trick is pulled off by claiming nuclear diverts investment from solar/wind, counting on the reader to forget that one could just
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by SenAnder 3y ago
The report seems to exclusively focus on how the nuclear lobby works, and how allegedly all support for nuclear is either ideological or astroturfed. How this "undermines the EU's energy future" (I suppose closing the German
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by SenAnder 3y ago
While the post doesn't address it, ask yourself: What if you do have something to hide? What if your government was like China's or Russia's? If you let privacy vanish now, you'll be helpless when you need it. Data is
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Nine Familial Exterminations(en.wikipedia.org)
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Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/8zaa3
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Nor in the police force: States look to hire illegal immigrants to fatten struggling police departments https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/21/states-look...
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> a for-profit company has a fairly compelling argument that 'business intelligence and analytics' is a strong legitimate interest If profit were sufficient justification, the regulation would be toothless.
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I wonder what would happen if you tried asking for a list of which information it is possible to opt out of while still using WhatsApp. To force them to reveal what they can function without, or how much they are pretending to need, inste
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Is this some kind of bad joke? "Privacy risks" of deliberately publicly posted content, abused to give cover for social media to become even worse walled gardens. That this will make real privacy worse for people using VPNs or fro
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> it may even lead to an increase of users downloading potentially dangerous versions of apps from sketchy websites. This also is Google's fault, for not providing any way to download .apk files from the Play store. They always choo
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by SenAnder 3y ago
10 kB/s is 25 GB/month. That's a lot of telemetry going one way, and a lot of automatic content recognition signature updates going the other.
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Speaking with our wallets is what got us to this point. Continuing the same strategy guarantees the same result - choices vanishing and things getting worse.
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> a problem for the 0.1% 99.9% of the population like seeing ads and being spied on?
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the data collected by telecommunications companies about a consumer's telephone calls. It includes the time, date, duration and destination number of each call, the type of network a consumer subscribes to, and certain other informati
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Just because I see through the false benevolence of media like MotherJones does not imply I fall for or agree with materialist misogynist grifters like Tate. Of course grifters are the only ones of the men's rights faction that publica
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by SenAnder 3y ago
But it is denying demonization of men. "Men failed, men have fallen, men find less meaning" - society is fair and balanced (when it's not a white hetero-patriarchy), men just aren't fit for it, is the takeaway. Meanwhi

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