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by anjbe 5y ago
> Despite free speech laws, it has always, and under pretty much every legal system, still been illegal to utter certain types of speech, such as yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater, or inciting riot. It is never absolutely fr
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by anjbe 5y ago
That’s how I read it too. It’s interesting to see how platforms’ freedom to moderate as they please is being assaulted from all sides—some groups are claiming they must be forced to moderate more or be punished for what their users post, wh
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by anjbe 5y ago
Even weaker insults on the level of “dick” are subject to Germany’s honor laws: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...
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by anjbe 5y ago
> It's not as fast as fetching a ZIP file, but it gets pretty close. In the context of distro packages (the bug report mentioned OpenBSD and Fedora) you might be building tens of thousands of packages of which thousands are likely t
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by anjbe 5y ago
When building distro packages from source, the full revision history of a Git repo is unnecessary. Downloading just the source code of a specific commit or tag with curl is simpler, faster, has fewer dependencies, and is less prone to break
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by anjbe 5y ago
Using a premium‐rate phone number doesn’t help anything though. Like the parent mentioned, it’s not like the retailer ever actually calls the number. The problem is that advertisers use the number to correlate one person’s activity across m
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by anjbe 5y ago
Some people here might defend exposing children to pornography as a good thing, but I am not one of those people. However, blocking a ten‐year‐old from accessing the entirety of the Internet Archive simply because some of it happens to be p
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by anjbe 5y ago
> I'd rather we do that than require ID to buy a SIM? Is that really the only choice? The United States has many faults, but one can buy a phone and SIM card here without ID or proof of age, yet our ISPs typically do not filter webs
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by anjbe 5y ago
OpenBSD already officially mirrors the CVS repository to GitHub, and contributing patches via mailing list is substantially the same whether they’re created with CVS or with Git. In other words, Git users already use Git to work on OpenBSD.
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by anjbe 5y ago
What guarantee do you have that any chip on any of your devices is not backdoored? Conversely, what indication is there that Titan M is more likely than any other chip on any of your devices to be backdoored? How do you suggest we prove t
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by anjbe 5y ago
Incidentally, the OpenBSD website, while visually little‐changed since the 1990s, is 100% valid HTML5. Decent quality HTML too, with proper use of tags and good separation of presentation into external CSS.
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by anjbe 5y ago
Probably for this line: > If you're getting banned from github or a cloud provider maybe you should reconsider what you're doing. That’s a sentiment popular among Big Tech types (such as Eric Schmidt: “If you have something tha
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by anjbe 5y ago
During the W3C’s period of… lesser judgment, they hoped to fight the plague of invalid HTML markup that dominated the Web by migrating everybody to XML, which unlike HTML with its extremely generous error handling, simply aborts upon any pa
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by anjbe 5y ago
> Easter is a fertility festival! That’s a common myth. In most languages (English being an exception), Easter’s name is derived from Passover. Eggs and bunnies are a later development, but through medieval Christian traditions, not paga
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by anjbe 5y ago
Yes, much more palatable to quote a decision that used the phrase to argue protesting the draft is a violation of the Espionage Act.
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by anjbe 5y ago
That there are practical limits is never in dispute. The question is always whether this instance is protected or falls under an exception, and should it be. The analogy “fire in a crowded theater” was most famously used by Justice Holmes
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by anjbe 5y ago
No “perhaps” necessary—Facebook employees have even published academic papers based on this. > Social media also affords users the ability to type out and review their thoughts prior to sharing them. This feature adds an additional phase
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by anjbe 5y ago
> We should be thankful that Konqueror/KHTML was released under a Free Software license, rather than a permissive open source license Your wording suggests that permissive licenses are not “Free Software” licenses, which is incorrec
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by anjbe 5y ago
Cloudflare also provides DNS over a Tor hidden service: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/fun-stuff/dns-over...
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by anjbe 5y ago
It can be both give and take. Just like a VPN, DoT/DoH is sensible if you trust your ISP less than your encrypted DNS operator. Someone will inevitably pop in and remark, “I trust my ISP with my DNS queries due to regulations in my cou
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by anjbe 5y ago
A counterpoint to that is that in American thought, freedom of speech includes the right to not be compelled to speak. An individual or a private company generally can’t be forced to promulgate opinions they don’t wish to, thanks to the p
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by anjbe 5y ago
Can a newspaper be sued for letters to the editor, views that are clearly not those of the paper itself? Can a newspaper be sued for comments on its website?
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by anjbe 5y ago
Layering has additional costs, like requiring additional client configuration and software and (in this case) only working over IPv6. The number one step any public‐facing SSH server should take is to switch from password auth to keys only.
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by anjbe 5y ago
Like I said upthread: > I think simply pushing back against the length of an embargo should not be characterized as breaking an embargo. I didn’t like the “secret club” comment either.
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by anjbe 5y ago
There are at least two things wrong with this comment. First, OpenBSD did not push the patch earlier than agreed. Second, OpenBSD did not push the patch without permission. Mathy originally reported the vulnerability to OpenBSD on July 15 u
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by anjbe 6y ago
The fact that classics are in the public domain provides other benefits besides simply being able to download them. They can also be freely redistributed without bringing The Man down on one’s own head. A large chunk of my reading these day
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by anjbe 6y ago
> can't search by hex, which is another basic functionality As the manpage mentions in the “Searching” section, you can search for byte values by preceding them with backslashes.
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by anjbe 6y ago
By far the most common use I have for dates is filling out forms. In those cases the year is almost always essential. Speaking from personal experience, even an American can make an effort to use YYYY-MM-DD in any situation asking for a num
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by anjbe 6y ago
nmh does not support maildir; it uses its own (rather similar) format known as “mh”. I’ve used nmh for over a decade, but mostly due to inertia. nmh has some issues displaying and (especially) replying to some of the crazier modern formats,
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by anjbe 6y ago
Under what definition is leaving off optional closing tags “poor html”? It is perfectly valid, part of the spec, very widely used, and completely unambiguous.

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