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by __jal 10y ago
This. Also: peer pressure. As a non-Facebook user, I get questioned about why fairly often, and my family makes passive-aggressive noises about missing pictures and whatnot. And here, any time this comes up, someone thinks they're bein
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by __jal 10y ago
Theoretically, nothing. In practice, the isolation it relies on is somewhat weak. And in general, it is new and exciting and changing frequently, which means security bugs. Also, most people seem to rather suck at configuring it, as far as
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by __jal 10y ago
I've never used Facebook, see no reason to start. I occasionally get pushback from some relatives who tell me I'm not taking part in family stuff. That probably matters to some people, depending on their family dynamics. I simply
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by __jal 10y ago
You can "opt out" of a lot of the data collection by editing your hosts file. 127.0.0.1 facebook.com 127.0.0.1 fbcdn.com etc. Multiple people maintain lists of Facebook and other surveillancecorp domains.
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by __jal 10y ago
"The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House." -- Audre Lorde.
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Blueprint for a microwave trapped ion quantum computer(advances.sciencemag.org)
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by __jal 10y ago
Hadn't heard that, but I can believe it. It is also entirely different than users running Infinity Blade or whatever.
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by __jal 10y ago
Well, one reason is that touch screens for desktop OSes suck. Holding your arm out screen operations for any length of time is awful, and wiping the prints off your screen on your pant leg doesn't work very well on a laptop. That'
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by __jal 10y ago
> why not, for example allow iOS apps to run in macOS Never say never, but that is the sort of thing Apple would never do.
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by __jal 10y ago
Joining the chorus to say, why on earth not? And what in the announcement made you think that there was some litmus test? This might earn me down votes, but it is an honest question. I understand that a segment of the population, accustome
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. I've done similar. Once, I'm pretty sure I dodged a bullet, because the person I was talking to went from sunny and gladhanding to really frosty and stiff in one sentence. (To be clear, I doubt it was some calculated IP grab
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by __jal 10y ago
There's been plenty of pressure for Apple to show it is not on the decline since the 90s. The "Apple Hype Peaked; nowhere to go but down" and "Does [decision or product] prove Apple as lost its way?" articles are pr
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by __jal 10y ago
Keep in mind that there are actually many ACLUs - the national body, and a lot of local chapters. The chapters are pretty independent, and occasionally do things that I personally disagree with. The distinction is frequently omitted, and us
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by __jal 10y ago
More specifically, I think the NRA regards the GOP as extremely useful. They actually stooge for the gun manufacturers. If somehow the Republicans and the Democrats flipped sides, the NRA would flip, too. LaPierre and his crew would have to
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by __jal 10y ago
Hysteresis also has to be taken into account in systems monitoring - if an alert on, say, IO wait > 5% or whatever is desired, it generally needs to enter an "OK" state at some value under .05 for the same reason.
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by __jal 10y ago
> Wrong, it is freedom to do whatever you want with your property while freely associating with others. You're adding in free association, which I accept. I still find that a massively stunted definition, which omits many important
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by __jal 10y ago
As others have said, I have a problem with folks championing large social experiments and then leaving it to others to clean up the mess. I also have a problem with the notion that the only freedom that matters is economic. As I see it, the
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by __jal 10y ago
Why, it is almost as if the interests of those with 10-figure wealth align poorly the rest of the nation. Who woulda thunk.
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by __jal 10y ago
As I see it, there are a number of issues that need to be cleared up before certs are anything more than snake-oil. Unfortunately, the economics of the current market-reality fight (tooth and nail) against doing so. (Note that I'm limi
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by __jal 10y ago
I see a distinct difference between DDG and Google. We know Google does what it does. DDG's reason for existence is predicated on not doing so. If DDG were found to be lying, I'd guess >80% of its customer base would evaporate
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by __jal 10y ago
Bingo. The user ultimately needs to retain control. And I'm especially interested in the exception for audio - that really should be user-controllable, otherwise it just encourages annoying page authors to be even more annoying.
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by __jal 10y ago
2a) I want to get to the site, not another Google property. Penalize my search listing all you like, but none of my stuff will be hosted elsewhere. I thought publishers learned their lessons here - use someone else's printing press, an
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by __jal 10y ago
Man, brilliant! The VCs and media companies won't be capable of leaving you alone! ...I think I still have one of those in a junk-box somewhere.
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by __jal 10y ago
And here is the chilling effect in action, folks. Enjoy your freedom of speech.
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by __jal 10y ago
Question: are you a full-time nudist? Just saying, someone has seen you naked, so why not everyone?
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by __jal 10y ago
Yes. Applications only get access to the resources needed to do what I want them to. Sorry, nobody gets telemetry. It is a bit of a pain the first couple times you run a new app, but settles down fairly quickly. OS X upgrades are far worse
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by __jal 10y ago
I make a point of providing what could be considered pointed feedback on their spam-feeding mechanisms formatted as obviously fake-but-valid-looking email addresses. If shortsighted jerks want email addresses, I'll give them some. What
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by __jal 10y ago
Not the OP, but... that's not how it works. (a) It is the responsibility of the person making an assertion to back it up. If you disagree, god says you need to give me all your money. (b) The proposed test (compare with 25 years ago) i
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by __jal 10y ago
Gutmann writes a bit colloquially, and the text was a message on a somewhat informal mailing list. So keep that in mind regarding the tone. The overall point of the post was not to blast DJB, but, well, to point out the crypto monoculture,
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by __jal 10y ago
This is a very late response - hope you find it. I really like the idea of Qubes, but it just seems Not There Yet. Or at least, was when I last looked. Anyway, I wouldn't recommend doing what I'm doing. My home environment is the

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