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by afh1 2y ago
None of it matters when China is burning coal like crazy and 99% of all ocean plastic comes from Asia.[1] Europe is mostly costly virtue signaling. [1] https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/06/90-of-plastic-pol
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by afh1 2y ago
There is no "we". There are people and their bodies and their wishes. And authoritarians who want a say on it. Doesn't matter if nice sounding words like law and democracy are used to describe the tyranny.
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by afh1 2y ago
Information can be sold or leaked, abused by a single employee for personal reasons, or used en mass for surveillance, regardless of what's written in the paper. Faith is actually an accurate term for this level of trust in government.
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by afh1 2y ago
The scary part is not the GPS installed by the fleet company that previously owned the car, which in all likelihood was just forgotten there, but the GPS and eSIM that comes with most (all?) new cars and that in most (all?) new cars cannot
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by afh1 2y ago
One can do whatever to one's computer, it doesn't matter if one is still carrying a microphone in one's pocket the whole day and sleeping next to it too.
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by afh1 2y ago
If you don't have a good night's sleep your day is poisoned from the start. That compounds to life-ruining status if not quickly addressed.
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by afh1 2y ago
Same here in Brazil. Even in the countryside.
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by afh1 2y ago
Even if that was literally done, it would still be a better home than Mars :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GjOuqAlFEk#t=6m45s (not trying to make any kind of point, just a fun fact / video)
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by afh1 2y ago
There is no monopoly. There are a lot of other browsers. A lot of people use them. Most people use one of them. They chose to do it. If you ask them, they think it's good. But no. There is a monopoly. It is bad for you. Only we the Sta
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by afh1 2y ago
Constructing sewage, the evolving history of work, and regulating hearing aids have very little in common, and apart from the last very little to do with regulators.
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by afh1 2y ago
Thank God for regulators! How dangerous would life be otherwise. How could we live without them?
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by afh1 2y ago
Related discussion, 7 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057139
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by afh1 2y ago
It is actually relevant in this case because the text portraits defensive communication as bad, and this editing stance fits the bill. In fact the current state of political speech in the west puts everyone in defense, such as with this kin
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by afh1 2y ago
> And metadata is as important as data in messaging and storage. Is it? I guess this really depends. For E2E storage (e.g. as offered by Proton with openpgpjs), what metadata would be of concern? File size? File type cannot be inferred,
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by afh1 2y ago
Depending on your social circle such exposure is not so hard to avoid. Maybe you cannot avoid it entirely but it may be low enough that it doesn't matter. I have older relatives with basically zero online presence.
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by afh1 2y ago
> There's literally NOTHING you can do to stop that specific attack vector. E2E. Might not be applicable for remote execution of AI payloads, but it is applicable for most everything else, from messaging to storage. Even if the clie
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by afh1 2y ago
Unfortunately most people seem comfortable with the idea of a Ministry of Truth, at least here in Brazil and from what I read on the web, in many parts of the world also.
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by afh1 2y ago
If you are a regular city dweller, not necessarily...
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by afh1 2y ago
What do you cook on?
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by afh1 2y ago
Fun read but not sure it can be attributed to type checking or the lack thereof
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by afh1 2y ago
Well, great, then!
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by afh1 2y ago
>PVC water pipes This is the most relevant one IMO. You can buy glass cups and jars, it doesn't matter if the water you put into them comes through PVC pipes! Even if you buy BPA-free phthalate-free bottled water, I think it's
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by afh1 2y ago
Hum, almost all of my t-shirts are 100% cotton, or at least that's what the label says. I use mostly the same clothes from 15 years ago so maybe synthetic is more common nowadays? I think the only t-shirts I own that are not 100% cotto
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by afh1 2y ago
Ironically behind a paywall (and below a political ad)
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by afh1 2y ago
IP address is a fingerprint to be shared with third parties, of course it's relevant. It's not ulterior motive, it's explicit, it's not caring about your traffic because you're not good product. They can and do diff
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by afh1 2y ago
Same, but for VPN (either corporate or personal). Reddit blocks it completely, requires you to sign-in but even the sign-in page is "network restricted"; LinkedIn shows you a captcha but gives an error when submitting the result (
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by afh1 2y ago
In my experience "unsubscribe" emails often do not work at all. SimpleLogin is the only way.
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by afh1 2y ago
This angle is even more impressive IMO https://x.com/kimbal/status/1845451222750306344
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by afh1 2y ago
Why open source anything, let alone with permissive licensing, right?
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by afh1 2y ago
Ahead of its time for sure. Dream is an accurate term here, that driving scene does resemble driving in dreams.

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