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by akersten 5y ago
This is the line and it's not ok. I am astounded that anyone here is entertaining the idea that it is somehow ok. Take out the "CSAM" noun from the equation - it really poisons the argument with emotion. "Apple devices c
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by akersten 5y ago
I would rephrase your first part as: copyright and government protection of trade secrets is incompatible with a principled (n.b.: not "simplistic") view of freedom of expression. As far as the other acts that rode along on the
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by akersten 5y ago
I like it too, but I'd also challenge even this: > This is a reasonable enough interpretation of that law, even with the US First Amendment. I don't think it's reasonable at all to call computer code anything other than
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by akersten 5y ago
So the proposed solution here is "use two tables." The rearrangement of the column order is somewhat arbitrary and unconventional. Seems we haven't solved the real problem. I think to answer the question of "how should t
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by akersten 5y ago
If you like this, I have some other innovations that you may be interested in: * A car that automatically pulls over when a police cruiser attempts to intercept you * A front door that unlocks when a cop knocks * A camera that uses AI to de
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by akersten 5y ago
I really have to wonder why Apple chose to do this. As far as I know, this kind of scanning is not legally mandated. So, either they think that this will truly make the world a better place and are doing it out of some sense of moral respon
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by akersten 5y ago
As with all horribly-ill-defined laws, it depends how the judge is feeling that day and their interpretation of the accused's intent. If the case can be made that the images arouse inappropriate gratification, they can be deemed illega
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by akersten 5y ago
I'd encourage you to read some of the testimonials in the bug tracker - the applications this is breaking are not tech-debt-laden monstrosities, they're very simple examples like repl.it and educational coding websites where the I
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by akersten 5y ago
How often is it that you have a malicious iframe on your website being used to trick people though? Why only remove it from iframe and not the entire browser if that is the concern? Why was this concern not alleviated with better UI for the
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by akersten 5y ago
Something's definitely misbehaving in Firefox on the page. Using a mouse to highlight text in a comment and then trying to move the highlight to the next paragraph, the selection jumps to the first paragraph as soon as the cursor leave
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by akersten 5y ago
They've even eschewed the standard way to opt-in iframes to powerful, dangerous features like `alert` and `confirm` - you can't even `sandbox` the iframe to allow it. You have to enroll your website in a Chrome Origin Trial[0],
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Ask HN: CDN outage? Discord and Steam are both down for me
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by akersten 5y ago
> You're replying to a story where the company lost. When people say "The house always wins" re: casinos, we don't take the rare slots payout as evidence that the outcomes are not, in fact, stacked against the little
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by akersten 5y ago
Tree shaking is such a well-named concept that I could tell you exactly what it was the first time I heard someone say it, even though they hadn't defined it for me yet. It's such a joy when we can map abstract mechanisms to plain
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by akersten 5y ago
Is there a resource (maybe with sound samples) that expands on the voiced/unvoiced vs aspirated/unaspirated distinction? It sounds fascinating, but I'm struggling to conceptualize it just with the text here.
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by akersten 5y ago
As convenient as it sounds, I'm not sure we're quite ready for the modern resurrection of the Company Town. On a more practical note, my guess is: why would they invest in residential property when people will work for them anyway
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by akersten 5y ago
So when stuff is pasted in from Word or whatever other weird Rich Text Enterprise application - what's actually doing the heavy lifting of translating all that \\rtf\\section\\block\\blockend\\secondend garbage into HTML? Is it the `sa
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by akersten 5y ago
If there were a political candidate whose sole platform was "dismantle the US Patent Office," I could look past almost any other position in my conviction to vote for them. That's how harmful I believe the current patent syst
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by akersten 5y ago
I'm very confused by: > The Department of Justice has charged multiple people who allegedly worked for Anom in part for obstructing law enforcement by using this [remote] wipe feature. I thought anom was a government company the who
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by akersten 5y ago
> Chromecast was already bypassing local DNS for years before DoH was even conceived. Before DoH though, my understanding is a good gateway appliance could just overwrite those DNS requests as it sees them. Now they'll be encrypted,
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by akersten 5y ago
> You don't get to control what my devices do just because you control a network they're transiting through. And if I run a guest wifi in one of the many countries where I have legal obligations to take steps to block illegal t
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by akersten 5y ago
> ISPs do not inject malware Not taking a side on this thread, but just want to point out that Comcast literally has a patent describing just such a mechanism. [0] [0]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US201202245
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by akersten 5y ago
> an electronic piano that requires a complex series of button pushes to produce copyrighted music Surely a judge presented with the "complex series of button pushes," otherwise known as playing an instrument, would hold the p
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by akersten 5y ago
This is now the 2nd "clarification" that Muse group, the new team in charge of Audacity, has recently put out - the first one being here[0]. At this point, it's clear that they are taking the product in an unpopular direction
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by akersten 5y ago
Like all movements, there's more to it than just the name - don't take it too literally: working for myself is the ultimate goal! And if I ever do find success enough to require employees, I could never imagine asking them to spen
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by akersten 5y ago
Take a minute to think, on this Sunday night, about how much personal time you've had this week. You've most likely spent 5 of the last 7 days making someone else richer, at the expense of an incredible toll on your body and mind:
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by akersten 5y ago
It may not be your intention, but both this and the parent comment really misplace the blame. The "fitness tracking app Starva" did not reveal the secret army base, soldiers inappropriately using their phones and broadcasting the
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by akersten 5y ago
> because they have not sued anyone ever for merely playing music on their phone while standing in public. But that's not (just) what the officer was doing - he was playing music as background to his business operation, which RIAA
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by akersten 5y ago
> putting a strong passive magnet in a phone is just asking for trouble. Not only can it interfere with medical devices, but it will also gather up iron particles in the environment that will scratch up the back of your phone. Not to men
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by akersten 5y ago
> He is just playing it for those immediately around him. That doesn't count as a public performance That literally is the definition of "public performance." He is in public, playing for an audience that is not his priv

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