Xelbair

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by Xelbair 7mo ago
Because this does not address the problem at all. Or rather - it does not address my problems as a citizen, and it just pushes responsibility of parents onto 3rd parties and punishes everyone collectively for it. Also fundamentally speaking
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by Xelbair 7mo ago
I wish it was decade for me, in early 2010s they were still teaching 90s approach to handling complex projects(upfront design, with custom DSL for each project and fully modelled by BA without any contact with actual users, with domain expe
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by Xelbair 7mo ago
Congratulations, you've put subscription on running red lights.
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by Xelbair 8mo ago
Exactly the same way as i do now for such laws. It's pointless, does not increase security, does increase complexity of every interaction, and introduces a lot of weird edge cases. What i want is full anonymity enshrined in law, while
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by Xelbair 8mo ago
Web is already mostly centralized, and corporations which should be scrutinized in way they handle security, PII and overall software issues are without oversight. It is also a matter of respect towards professionals. If civil engineer says
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by Xelbair 8mo ago
No, because it isn't something that should be up to google's control.
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by Xelbair 8mo ago
True, you can't separate ads vs sponsored content quite easily. but you can help this by banning all forms of active tracking. Static ads only, no click tracking, and complete ban on profiling clients and especially on adjusting prices
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by Xelbair 9mo ago
It wasn't a directed statement but a general one. "Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups.&
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by Xelbair 9mo ago
I am sorry but is being employed a job or a daycare? Not only this is extremely patronizing towards all people on spectrum, but at the same time extremely hurtful statement for people who are treating employment as a job(ie - most of popul
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by Xelbair 9mo ago
>made it work More like made it dysfunctional - i live in EU btw Laws are system made by people who live within that system - it is a part of resource distribution system. Lawmakers do work in their own interest, and so far the only way
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by Xelbair 9mo ago
You can really see how well such system works by observing USA right now. Only way you could have any form of public financing of such endeavor without conflict of interest is to have multinational organization funded by every country. Or y
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by Xelbair 9mo ago
>Don't make it possible for the current administration to cut the funding of the public media? Surely laws are immutable system and cannot be changed ever. It is always perfectly designed without loopholes, and especially so when o
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by Xelbair 9mo ago
It fact you absolutely shouldn't as this put them in huge conflict of interest. how will you investigate corruption if your funding can be cut?
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by Xelbair 9mo ago
We'll see how it goes this time. If they once again go for creating their own forks, instead of financing development of existing software then I'll know the initiative failed. Also imho their 'questions' mentioned in th
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
are you unable to comprehend hypothetical? This is just one example showing that circumventing any legal block, without ability to control every form of communication, does not achieve it's goal. And if any government can control all s
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
I'm suggesting that there are enough layers of interdiction, that you can easily 'wash' political fallout and push legislation that would otherwise get you voted out of office in local elections.
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
Thorn
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
>I sympathize with nation states’ urge to be able to see what’s going on online, but I hate the way they’re going about it. How do we balance a free Internet against a need to crack down on foreign influence? and more importantly - whose
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
There's democratic deficit in the whole system as this issue wasn't part of most internal election campaigns, effectively circumventing democratic process, due to lack of input from citizens themselves. EU severely lacks checks an
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
I find it preposterous that anyone defends this agenda that flips concept of 'innocent until proven guilty' on it's head by collectively punishing everyone for POSSIBLE crimes of some individuals. In a way that any criminal w
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
Yes, because i would rather not work at such company and go somewhere else.
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
>This whole backlash to firefox wanting to introduce AI feels a little knee-jerky. We don't know if firefox might want to roll out their own locally hosted LLM model that then they plug into.. and if so, if would cut down on the maj
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
>Most techies under estimate how little normal folks care about privacy, cybersecurity and stuff like that. No, we just think that this security nightmare should be regulated, and companies should be forced to keep sane security standard
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
>These loading time projections were based on industry data - comparing the loading times between SSD and HDD users where data duplication was and was not used. In the worst cases, a 5x difference was reported between instances that used
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
worse, in their post they basically said: >we looked at industry standard values and decided to double them just in case.
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by Xelbair 10mo ago
The previous static ads of the past are completely different beast compared to targeted advertising and attention driven design(leading to doomscrolling etc).
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
>This is, unfortunately, what Europeans collectivelly voted for. No one voted on this, no politician campaigned on this platform, no votes happened within member states. This is plain political capital laundering where heads can push unp
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
No, their voice should have exactly the same value as everyone else's. no less, no more. Unless we are done with pretending that there are no power disparities. And one of few ways to do so is to either: - completely ban lobbying, any
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
what's even worse that schema uses extremely generic types with attributes denoting actual type. Makes reading it even harder, and any possible constraints due to type safety go out of the window, so we get worst of both worlds.
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by Xelbair 11mo ago
now how much of it was good investment, and how much of it was just plain advantage due to that? It is hard to separate those two to verify either - that is my point.

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