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by apostacy 5y ago
> ...doesn't really seem plausible to me when we have adults killing themselves with fish tank cleaner because they confuse it for anti-viral meds What actually happened is that a woman murdered her husband with fish tank cleaner, a
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by apostacy 5y ago
> Malone's been bootstrapping this "cancelled scientist" grift in plain sight since his appearance on Weinstein's podcast. But he actually was censored. Just the fact that he is censored makes him worth amplifying.
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by apostacy 5y ago
> The problem is not so much the trial as it is the events leading up to it and the fact that kids walk around with powerful weapons. Do you also feel that way about the armed vigilantes on the other side of the incident? Was it ok that
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by apostacy 5y ago
Paying anything for your own music is too much. I could have paid for this music on a compact disc 20 years ago, ripped it, and eventually had it migrate to this service, where I now have to pay for it month after month to continue to have
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by apostacy 5y ago
> I think you may be misguided in assuming that if the "www." portion was present to users that they would automatically understand the issue at hand. It is a completely sensible assumption that the full domain name will be vis
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by apostacy 5y ago
This is infuriating. Google is once again severely hampering openness and accessibility in the name of security. The web is more than just the big CDNs. It is not all about your business model. If I can not use your browser to open a socket
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by apostacy 5y ago
> Plus now authoritarian governments get to serve out even more propaganda talking about videos that are liked and the opposition has no way to see that the opposite also happens. Well, yes, that is their agenda. The web as it was was no
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by apostacy 5y ago
Awesome, I will check it out. In my case, it was in 2017, and I remember clearly what happened. Homebrew alerted me about the most recent compatible formula, and what commit it was removed in a week earlier. I was then forced to unshallow t
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by apostacy 5y ago
Brew used to be much more useful to me. Using brew years ago, it was way less opinionated and more flexible, which was perfect for OSX. Homebrew's response to criticism seems to be to continually narrow the field of users and the scope
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by apostacy 5y ago
If you have any kind complex toolchains, then a major update can be a real burden. Just for me, using a customized desktop, iOS app development, and being a zfs user means that I had to set aside a lot of time for updates. And beyond that,
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by apostacy 5y ago
I know that there are usually workarounds to these problems, but they tend to be obscure, and change frequently, and are not simple to look up. Pacman, apt, portage, etc have much more stable interfaces. But the workarounds for my edge case
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by apostacy 5y ago
But Homebrew didn't used to be that way when I started using it. And with some fairly small changes it could go a really long way to supporting more users. TBH if I had the time, I would roll up my sleeves and do it myself. The whole r
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by apostacy 5y ago
I posted a detailed comment of why Homebrew is a problem for me[1] if you would like to see. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29080519
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by apostacy 5y ago
Homebrew stinks of over-optimization and deletionism. In contrast to how it used to be, Homebrew now seems designed for people that only want popular bleeding edge packages, and nobody else. If I just wanted to install google-chrome, sublim
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by apostacy 5y ago
I used a Thinkpad for over a year without noticing the microsd slot on it. I think they are so inconspicuous that most people don't even notice them. And what is the alternative? USBA <-> USBC <-> SDCard adapter <-> M
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by apostacy 5y ago
I think that many people only decided that they didn't need these features because Apple removed them. It reminds me of this video from awhile ago by The Onion: Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard[1] [1]: https:
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by apostacy 5y ago
What cost does an sdcard slot impose? What is the benefit of removing it? It is the size of a thumbnail, and most people won't even notice it if they aren't looking for it. I want to know who was cheering for it to be removed. And
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by apostacy 5y ago
> You actually mean spread an opinion. I doubt any one citizen would conduct a trial or research; some may actually look at data, but that is rare. These are opinions, most likely biased by a belief. You could say that about most breakin
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by apostacy 5y ago
YouTube does not deserve our trust. We've seen repeatedly over the last two years truthful and helpful warnings classified as dangerous misinformation by big tech platforms. First they censored people warning us about COVID itself, the
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by apostacy 5y ago
I'm glad you enjoyed Contrapoints, but I'm going to have to deflate your recommendation somewhat. She's a good performer, but most of the time she just beats around the bush and doesn't offer any solid conclusions about
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by apostacy 5y ago
That's really cool. Is it possible to use it without a hardware TPM, for testing? I have used rust-u2f in the past for that purpose.
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by apostacy 5y ago
This all makes perfect sense from a market perspective. Why tell the user what is wrong, when you can silently fail and make the user blame the website? The goal of Google is to gaslight users away from using technologies that Google does n
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by apostacy 5y ago
Ask yourself if you would be ok submitting your photo ID, proof of citizenship, and phone's unique ID in any of the settings that the mandate will cover. Do you honestly think they will dismantle it one day? Especially if Apple is maki
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by apostacy 5y ago
> 2. You have fears about the privacy implications. If so, what are those fears? Perhaps your vaccination status can lead people to make inferences about your health? Could you explain why you are NOT afraid? Can you please explain what
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by apostacy 5y ago
But nearly every instance of censorship is framed as non-political and purely to protect people from harm.
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by apostacy 5y ago
What is political censorship? Amazon literally deleted Animal Farm off of people's Kindle readers because of copyright[1]. We are so immersed in our ideology that we don't see that copyright is ideological and political. Would it
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by apostacy 5y ago
> And no -- anti-virus is not voluntary censorship because it's not censorship at all. It's protection from harm, not a shield from comunicative ideas. If anti-virus were "voluntary censorship" then locking your home
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by apostacy 5y ago
> (While I'm talking about browsers and particularly mozilla, I'd just like to take a moment to congratulate them on finally getting their market share down below that of edge. They've been working hard at driving firefox
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by apostacy 5y ago
> It's a cost-benefit analysis. I want Mozilla to do more. If they believe removing FTP support enables them to do more, I'll all for it. This was the justification for removing RSS support. And look at what Mozilla has chosen
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by apostacy 5y ago
This is security hypocrisy. HTTP is a cleartext protocol. Why does your browser quietly navigate to any HTTP site you throw at it? Anonymous FTP isn't any less secure than HTTP. Why does your browser scream at you for connecting to an

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