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by _jal 5y ago
It is. Techdirt has been excellent at tracking this stuff, as they do: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210728/13245147264/enoug... The short version: it is pretty obvious that it did what the people pushi
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by _jal 5y ago
Applications that feel entitled to resources after you tell them to go away lead me to move them into a VM just to contain all the crap and sprawl and bullshit. The number of apps in this category just keeps on growing. I'm starting to
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by _jal 5y ago
> Now you are getting ads for dogfood because your coworker has a new pet Or ads targeting key messages right before your team meets with a new vendor.
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by _jal 5y ago
SLAPP is a mechanism to short-circuit certain attacks on freedom of speech, it has nothing to do with intellectual property.
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by _jal 5y ago
Anxiously awaiting the first FPS engine built out of sprocs and views.
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by _jal 5y ago
> Sounds to me like in the UK you cant truly own land Can you name a country that behaves differently?
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by _jal 5y ago
Rather similar to "identity theft", the strange name for a particular form of (usually bank) fraud.
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by _jal 5y ago
Wait, are they scare quotes, or am I quoting you? The fact that you can't decide makes me think you know I wasn't quoting you, which was contextually obvious. I find the rest of your argument equally sincere and convincing.
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by _jal 5y ago
Always nice to see people willing to write off other peoples' disenfranchisement as a rounding error or 'worth it' (whatever 'it' is.) That is exactly the attitude the authoritarians are counting on. This is how you
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by _jal 5y ago
Meh. I've ignored them for the last 20 years. I expect to ignore whatever their services metastasize into for the next 20, too.
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by _jal 5y ago
> trustlessness only applies to grandma's savings This is the lesson a lot of people fail to learn from watching. They seem to have to experience it.
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by _jal 5y ago
I like the spirit of the idea, but messing with bots and script kiddies is best kept a highly local thing. You don't need a standardized error code to signal to a red team, you can say "hi" in a number of different ways, depe
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by _jal 5y ago
> In the US, we're increasingly normalizing the culture of "well, it's legal" Yes, this makes me sick. I know a disturbing number of people who, to varying degrees, seem to think gaming things without regard to positi
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by _jal 5y ago
It is incredibly arrogant to believe you know enough about their lives to judge them. Further, if other people presumed to stick their nose in your business in the same way to judge you, I'm fairly sure you'd be very offended. And
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by _jal 5y ago
This is a unit-shifter attitude. And I'm not trying to be rude, you need sales. But if you ignore long-term quality for short-term sizzle, you lose, at least if you're producing something like Debian. If you don't understand
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by _jal 5y ago
If you can develop the political will to treat the citizens of LA like we did the Iraqis in the second Gulf adventure, sure. Just suspend the rule of law and send in Bechtel behind a bunch of guns.
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by _jal 5y ago
> those with money and power are too powerful and have too much money to be opposed I get the distinct impression some of them are planning on it happening, and their plans will be disrupted if it doesn't. > then we will see mass
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by _jal 5y ago
> if only... If only humans were harvested for bony growths?
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by _jal 5y ago
Absolutely agree that it is disturbing that this isn't a priority. Necessary, but still not sufficient - I suspect the attack model will just move to buying/stealing keys.
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by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, 'adversarial' isn't exactly the right word; I'm not sure what is. What I mean is that client side form validation is typically part of a cooperative process - I want to buy something at your store, you want to sell
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by _jal 5y ago
> The Javascript that checks validity of forms before you submit them is a form of client-side scanning It is hardly difficult to draw a distinction between ensuring a field looks like an expected datatype and ML analysis guessing at pho
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by _jal 5y ago
I just call them, "Nope." I'd really like a plugin that will override styles on links to sites on a list I get to keep.
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by _jal 5y ago
I'm sure there are some who do. There are a lot of people out there, you can find just about any belief. But sometimes I get the sense that people say things like this as a way to derail the conversation. They'd rather talk about
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by _jal 5y ago
It is a thing of beauty. "The DMCA says you aren't allowed to circumvent our attack on a central pillar of the modern nation state."
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by _jal 5y ago
> raises the question of why a blockchain is necessary For marketing, of course. Blockchains are magic, the rubes won't flock otherwise.
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by _jal 5y ago
It is cute, but I've far outgrown devices like this. Currently on the hunt for a short-depth (<500mm) 19" drive shelf with at least 16 3.5" slots.
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by _jal 5y ago
Why don't we remove all firm advantages completely and have a fully open playing field? Ban companies entirely, everyone is a free agent! Everything shall be an arms-length transaction with lawyers at every step.
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by _jal 5y ago
> This is imho a better way of building things than having everything completely integrated in a single company. Sounds like you should run your firm that way, then.
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by _jal 5y ago
> They also have the longest and deepest history of working with the government on surveillance. I've long considered ATT to be an extension of the US intelligence apparatus. Ownership doesn't matter, it is who they answer to.
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by _jal 5y ago
> NSO has claimed they do not have any info on targets by the purchaser, and has no way to find out post-sale. They've also made other claims that only make sense if they do. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20

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