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by apostacy 7y ago
Actually in the case of breaking DRM potentially in violation of the DMCA, they have relaxed things a bit[1]. I do remember that they would delete any discussion of cracking DRM. But my bigger point is that they essentially act as toadies w
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by apostacy 7y ago
All this nonsense started with online agitators from Breitbart. Instead of having the gumption to just ban people like @nero, they instead unverified him for some reason. Probably because he was making money for them.
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by apostacy 7y ago
Crummy Buzzfeed content drones with 5000 followers are getting verified. Verification ticks are just a badge of being well connected, and approved. And having your tick removed is a way of saying that you have stepped out of line.
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by apostacy 7y ago
I think the benefit of verifying someone nobody has heard of is that you know that they have submitted identification documents to YouTube, and are less likely to be scamming you, and could be sued. I would certainly trust a verified user m
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by apostacy 7y ago
One of the most frustrating things is when SE modes decide to deputize themselves on behalf of third parties, and try to enforce the laws of other countries or the intellectual property rights of decades old software. I've seen questio
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by apostacy 7y ago
I have had similar problems. The algorithm they use is not perfect. My Nexus One used to fall back to 2G whenever my 3G got below like two bars, it was so annoying. And also there would be a temporary outage while it switched. I eventually
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by apostacy 7y ago
You COULD play YouTube videos in the background by default in Safari up until about summer 2016. Then, they sneakily added a hook that kills it if it loses focus. But sometimes there's a race condition or something and it doesn't
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by apostacy 7y ago
Are the issues I've brought up not worth being frustrated about? Do you think I'm a hypocrite for complaining about the thing that I use? What would you suggest I do? I use Chrome sometimes. Firefox is bad in its own way, often em
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by apostacy 7y ago
> For 90% of people, they have always "felt alienated" from their computers. They didn't understand what was happening or why things changed either, and it was easy to get yourself into trouble if you didn't know what
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by apostacy 7y ago
I had an interesting incident recently, where I was with some relatives and we were trying to plan the next leg of our trip; what restaurants to go to and what directions to take, etc. Anyway, we had to start using a paper notepad and pens
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by apostacy 7y ago
They would call it "repairing permissions". OK, so I didn't break into someone's house, I just "repaired" their door that had locked me out.
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by apostacy 7y ago
It's fascinating, because whatever thing was silently deprecated, there will be hoards of defenders in comments insisting that the thing never existed, and it was just your imagination. Even on sites like Stackoverflow! Part of this is
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by apostacy 7y ago
> For this specific feature, on LineageOS, you can restore home screen rotation. I don't really understand why it's off by default though, it's confusing to have apps rotate but not the home screen. I think it is either be
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by apostacy 7y ago
The trends that Google has spearheaded have had a real effect on me over the years. I feel alienated from my computer. Subtle things will just change. If I really dig I might be able to find out why, but I don't have the time, so I jus
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by apostacy 7y ago
No. They bear some responsibility for their abusive updating mechanism. They did bad and they should feel bad. Users have no choice but to take whatever updates they throw at us, and have no recourse but to sit around and wait for another u
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by apostacy 7y ago
While that is true, I do not believe that is why they are doing it that way. There's nothing stopping them from giving some minimal feedback that an update happened. It would actually be better that they did. It is also suspicious how
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by apostacy 7y ago
At least with Dropbox, they needed that access to modify menus and make changes to benefit the user. And they also made it clear that this is what they needed it for. When Google does it, they are just elbowing their way into your computer.
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by apostacy 7y ago
Obviously they could have a consensual and transparent updating mechanism. This was not some sort of oversight. Google's software is a cascade of lies and deceptions. Think about this: when you start to tamper with Keystone agent, it n
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by apostacy 7y ago
I usually do chflags schg instead of chmod 000. I know it might seem like overkill, but Google is very sneaky, and I would not put it past Keystone to just change the permissions for itself.
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by apostacy 7y ago
> After 30 years in the same house, my partners mother still calls the tree in her front yard an oak tree despite the fact it has always been and will remain a maple. Her misapplication of the label doesn’t mean oak trees no longer exist
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by apostacy 7y ago
But people aren't usually quibbling about it's misuse. They are objecting to unjust censorship, regardless of whether someone is called a neo-nazi or a flarndingle. If someone was being harassed and censored because they were accu
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by apostacy 7y ago
It feels dishonest to me honestly. Snopes has had some fact checking mistakes that they have silently deleted. I wish publications would own up to it when they make a mistake. Retractions are dying, instead stories just get 404ed. This remi
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by apostacy 7y ago
Who gets to decide who is a neo-nazi though? I've heard Jordan Peterson and Steven Pinker called neo-nazis. Maybe you're a neo-nazi. Since neo-nazis always deny being neo-nazis, then your denials are further proof that you are a n
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by apostacy 7y ago
I don't want Firefox to "beat" Chrome, that is a terrible idea that is killing Firefox. Even if Firefox was superior in every way, Google has more leverage, and will always be able to shift the goalposts to stay ahead of thei
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by apostacy 7y ago
I used to be so enthusiastic about stuff like this. Sadly, I don't think this will be cool at all. I don't think this will ever reach parity with desktop operating systems, because they don't want us using desktop operating s
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by apostacy 7y ago
> > "But extremism has been central to 8chan identity since it was founded in 2013 by a computer programmer and self-proclaimed eugenicist Fredrick Brennan." This is highly exaggerated and misleading language, and makes it h
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by apostacy 7y ago
I don't think anyone wants to completely get rid of 230, but it should be narrowed. I think an ideal compromise would be that ubiquitous mega-platforms should be held somewhat responsible for what their users post, under certain circum
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by apostacy 7y ago
Dissenter is a great example of why we cannot trust Mozilla. Being able to link URLs to a message board is such basic web functionality. They clearly banned it out of a political grudge, and this is just another example of how they have zer
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by apostacy 7y ago
> You'd want to avoid having hatespeech or some attack being planned on URLs of your blog. How could you possibly expect to control people saying things about your blog on a remote webserver? There is no solution that is not worse
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by apostacy 7y ago
> We know YouTube has the ability to edit video, heck they have done it to their own promotional videos. I think that unless they are making trivial edits to a video, not disclosing an edit to an official announcement or rule change can

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