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by _cenw 3y ago
I don't know, if your working definition of democracy involves the rich making as many compromises as the median income person in a developed country or even someone in the global south, democracy is broken.
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by _cenw 3y ago
Honestly, I really like that the AWS implementation is not magic. AWS is the only one of the big 3 cloud providers where I can reasonably assume I get what it says on the lid, and that it works with the pieces it advertises working with (
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by _cenw 3y ago
It happens pretty consistently if you mention you're trans for any reason (even if it is fully on-topic) or you are visibly trans as the writer of the post itself, you will either get voted down or an entire tangent on how trans people
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by _cenw 3y ago
They do get moderated eventually most of the time. But not always, and not fast. The "blocking people who visited HN" part is accurate, but that's only after HN decided to noreferrer Asahi links (unlike all others).
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by _cenw 3y ago
And also, a lot of german banks are actually federated with centralized IT departments (like Finanz Informatik) providing the entire bank as "blueprint". Yes, even if they aren't called Volksbank or Sparkasse. For instance, i
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by _cenw 3y ago
Windows 10 1607 was released 7 years ago.
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by _cenw 3y ago
It's rather politically charged, but my favorite thing to recommend on YouTube in general is Innuendo Studios, particularly the "Alt-Right playbook" series. It's actually more widely relevant than the title might suggest
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by _cenw 3y ago
Schön got away with it for years. One of my favorite video essays is a long exploration of that case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfDoml-Db64
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by _cenw 3y ago
A good way to measure how annoying this would get is to look at the handful of applications demanding SafetyNet on Android. It is not quite as much as one would assume, since adding friction of any kind is a retention killer. On the open we
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by _cenw 3y ago
That wasn't my point? It was that the ACLU probably has bigger fish to fry. This one didn't need a legal intervention by the ACLU . They'll win this one anyway.
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by _cenw 3y ago
It seems like a pretty "downhill" battle and repression wouldn't really have worked either way if no entity like this had intervened. It's a nice case to blow up for publicity and further making fun of such blatantly cor
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by _cenw 3y ago
I'm flagging this, this must be trolling.
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by _cenw 3y ago
You are a very ignorant if you think there is no barrier to getting someone to try an app with a substantially less good UX than what someone's currently using, and that that barrier doesn't border impossible in a group of 10. I c
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by _cenw 3y ago
You are rude enough that I'm tempted to say "OK Boomer" because you clearly are a different generation with no insight into mine.
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by _cenw 3y ago
Essentially everyone my age and down? I'm a late millennial. If the number in your name is your birth year I'm not too surprised, but don't assume you can project from your own experience onto others 1:1.
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by _cenw 3y ago
Have you ever actually tried to convince a non-technical friend or family member to use a different platform for communicating? Now try that with 10 people at the same time. The only reason Discord ever became successful is the huge vacuum
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by _cenw 3y ago
security isn't privacy, and technology isn't a public policy alignment
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by _cenw 3y ago
> voluntarily downloading an app that's all true until an app becomes the only way to interact with certain groups of people. i certainly wouldn't call my usage of Discord voluntary. it doesn't actually matter how often i
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by _cenw 3y ago
or we could just… tax the rich instead? the not stupid ones too?
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by _cenw 3y ago
I'm not sure what you expect everyone involved in such a culture to do, but the same disregard from executives that caused a lack of documentation (and runbooks for software I was on call for) caused the overnight Slack shutdown.
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by _cenw 3y ago
Saw the same pattern with 3 employers over the past 5 years. One killed Slack and all institutional knowledge in its search engine within a month. One replaced all remaining Intel Macs (not an insignificant amount) because Teams would being
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by _cenw 3y ago
Through 3 employers over 5 years, all have switched from Slack to Teams partially or entirely because someone in upper management thought they were equivalent enough to cut the extra expense of Slack. It doesn't even make Microsoft any
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by _cenw 3y ago
> The expectation is that men provide. The 60s want their gender roles back. In my experience, if a man fails at being a provider, he usually fully commits to the failure too. At least this was the case with my family. A healthy in betwe
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by _cenw 3y ago
I did worse. We had a redis with sessions. Early on, someone decided every write to redis should also cause a write to S3 as backup. My first task was to get rid of this 4-digits a month extra cost in PUT requests. I decided to instead writ
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by _cenw 3y ago
RHEL also has codenames for major releases. 8 is called Ootpa and 9 is called Plow . Though these codenames seem to not be too public facing, they are included in /etc/os-release.
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by _cenw 3y ago
Isn't this the SUID binary that trusted the USER env variable for instant privilege escalation? As the kind of person who likes replacing sudo with doas, this is not something I'd install. https://cve.circl.lu/cve&
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by _cenw 3y ago
Configurable. Also runs ARM on Intel Macs if you want.
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by _cenw 3y ago
I'm still waiting for a "Noise cancelling headphones culprit in divorce rate" headlines. There are so many ways to escape your partner. Doesn't mean they're root causes.
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by _cenw 3y ago
The actual text starts on page 32. Also, legal texts are the always longer than a conceptual tl;dr of them. Covering for all eventualities. It's not a flaw of the legislation itself that some boilerplate is required. Also, a lot of it
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by _cenw 3y ago
I will take your point, but I'd say you also need to account for how the GDPR has been enforced to this point. I regularly submit complaints to supervisory authorities and I've been employed by a few companies that regularly have

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