SenAnder

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by SenAnder 3y ago
You're right, incidental and primary are better words to use than accidental and deliberate. But every term has grey areas, and people trying to spin truth to make themselves look good. That doesn't make the term meaningless or &q
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Which term would you use to distinguish between deliberate and accidental civilian casualties?
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> Nobody is not using chatGPT or stable diffusion because it could be biased. But their makers did expend a lot of effort into lobotomizing, sorry, censoring, sorry, making the models "safe", due to the smears, sorry, "rep
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by SenAnder 3y ago
And we must stop stereotypes, whatever the cost: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/bart-withholding-s...
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Yet the US had (has?) a secret court that signed off on PRISM. Without strong technical barriers in place, such as ee2e, such things are near-inevitable - surveillance is just too easy . Like putting a pile of cash on your lawn with a sign
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> With a responsibly designed cryptographic protocol Facilitating mass surveillance of populations is the opposite of 'responsible'. It's what allows tyrannical governments to remain in power.
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> unless there is a warrant provided. > This element is also difficult in practice. What stops a rogue employee from taking a peek? More pertinently, a warrant is not a magical guarantor that the surveillance is legitimate (nor can a
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The key to winning the encryption fight is not in nuanced arguments, but to call anti-encryption/client-side scanning laws what they are: mandatory submission of all private communication to government inspection. Because ultimately th
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> within two months a memorandum was circulated to the Cabinet by a Zionist Cabinet member, Herbert Samuel, proposing the support of Zionist ambitions in order to enlist the support of Jews in the wider war. I'm confused. In 1900, J
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by SenAnder 3y ago
> When you're at a point where you're relying on a display name to make security-critical decisions, you've already lost. This obscures how dramatically worse the situation is if you can't even trust display names. Do
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> that would be unfair They can install a browser plugin to convert punycode to their alphabet if they care so much for using it in URLs. There is no need to inflict this on peoples with safe alphabets. Alternately, highlight non-safe-AS
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> Elon agreeing with a point a conservative politician made makes him a nazi to you I can't read German - what was the point?
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> seem to only be available on US stores Surely the many "free trade" agreements Australia has entered mean you can use US stores as much as you please? ;)
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The root cause is alphabets/fonts with lookalike characters being permitted in security-critical contexts. Tracing further, it's the mindset that this is a valuable feature, and not a reckless risk, that is to blame. Browser desig
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Both far-right and pro-Nazi definitions have been greatly expanded to cover nearly all of the "original antifa" [1], CS Lewis is a far-right red-flag [2], and "racist" has been expanded beyond all meaning [3]. Meanwhile
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> I live next to Jaffa and it is 100% an Arab city. After the 1948 Palestine War, most of its Arab population fled or were expelled, and the city became part of then newly established state of Israel, and was unified into a single munic
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by SenAnder 3y ago
Both describe the refugees as a result of the “Arab attack” in 1948. But even a cursory look at history reveals how flawed this is. Before a single Arab soldier crossed into Palestine on May 15, 1948 more than half the total refugees were
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> This has nothing to do with race Palestinians were expelled from their land based on their race, they cannot get Israeli citizenship despite having lived there for centuries, while a Jew from New York can get that citizenship by virtue
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A Jew from New York can immigrate to Israel, get citizenship, and live on land a Palestinian whose family lived there for centuries was expelled from. Can you explain how 'apartheid' is not an accurate description? It's und
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by SenAnder 3y ago
A noble campaign, but it may be illegal in the US (and Spain, and legally risky in a few other countries) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws : Most anti-BDS laws have taken one of two forms: contract-focused
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> How come we end up here again? Through failure of instinct. Seeing government agents open your letters, copy their contents, then re-seal them to send them on their way, or tap your phone and listen attentively with headphones, provoke
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Wikipedia distortions are standard. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement stubbornly avoids mentioning the reality of the underlying demographic changes. There's a lively discussion on the t
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> And no one ever wonders how we know. The same can be said of plate tectonics, vaccines, the transistor, the cosmic microwave background radiation, the big bang , and the laws of thermodynamics .
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Reform the police, demilitarize the police, deescalation for police, stop police violence, accountability for police, teach cops to be kind, etc... Of course they're not "critic proof" - someone motivated to twist words will
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> ambiguous But it's not ambiguous. It has a literal meaning, which is zero funding for police. That the activists using it are trying to act smart with Humpty Dumpty wordplay [1] doesn't change its well-established meaning. E
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> there was a huge drop in anti-Christian/Christianity is Jewish threads, India hate threads, lolicon threads, and furry threads on 4chan Did anyone document/quantify this?
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> They are appointed by the elected The more indirect the method is, the more control shifts from voters to lobbyists and insiders versed in the system.
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> The average person simply has no hope of understanding If Mastercard used a private detective to follow you when shopping, and he wrote everything you bought and where you bought it into a notebook, which he later delivers to Mastercar
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> The primary reason for this foreign aid has been to guarantee U.S. interests in the region, given Israel’s proximity to Syria to the northeast, Hezbollah-influenced Lebanon to the north, and an Islamist insurgency in Egypt’s Sinai to t

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