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by arkh 9y ago
It's funny to see businesses who use a lot of PR for diversity of appearance create software which goal is to stiff diversity of thought. People scoffed at China trying to control internet in the early 2000. Now that they're proof
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by arkh 9y ago
I'll take a wild guess as to why. Because you are young. Most people working for government you know are also young. So you hear about the crazy amount of work they do. But here is the thing: they have to work this much because old gov
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by arkh 9y ago
> The only explanation I can think of is that I had used my phone number to sign up, and they scanned all their users to see who has my phone number stored in their phones. Simple. Those services ask permission to access the contact list
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by arkh 9y ago
https://github.com/panzi/SocialSharePrivacy You can see an implementation of it on Schneier blog: https://www.schneier.com/
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by arkh 9y ago
Isn't the Pen mightier than the Sword? Aren't ideas immortal contrary to people? If you agree with those tropes missiles are less dangerous than propaganda. My comment may come as exagerated but I think you need some shock value i
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by arkh 9y ago
I expect people who dismissed the Cassandra of privacy to not act surprised. 10 years ago they dismissed people telling them about things like Google Analytics or other external scripts on website. They used the "nothing to hide, nothi
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by arkh 9y ago
How the fuck could people be surprised? Open a software job board. 50% of offers are by companies trying to optimize some data harvesting and analysis to better target some ads. Ads, the direct child of propaganda. So to everyone working in
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by arkh 9y ago
> So really the problem is that people are not aware of the scope of the information aggregate of their actions on social media and how it is or may be used or abused. Simple case: G-fucking-mail. Lot of people on it so even if you'
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by arkh 9y ago
> But God, that would cost a fortune. It would. Like an infrastructural job. I mean, it would be like railways for individual trains. But that's kinda-sorta the job expected from government and what taxes are for: paying for things
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by arkh 9y ago
I'm for a middle-of-the-road way of doing things at first: make some highway lanes for autonomous cars only. Separate those lane physically. Remove the speed limit there to encourage people to get cars which can use those lanes. Implem
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by arkh 9y ago
> What GDPR does is forcing business to make privacy their core concern. Not really. It will mostly be a problem for companies which use a lot of SaaS services with no on-premise solution and companies in the business of selling their us
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by arkh 9y ago
If you're using PCRE you should also make use of named patterns. It makes the expression easier to understand as you can reuse parts of it (a little like functions) and the matched patterns can be then used in your language with their
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by arkh 9y ago
> Yet another item – "Don’t enable social media sharing by default.". Is the thinking that user's shouldn't be able to share something via social media without first explicitly enabling that option? That just seem unf
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by arkh 9y ago
> act as a continuous drag on developing new technologies Or foster new technologies around privacy and user management.
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by arkh 9y ago
> I am not sure if the subscriber base is technically illiterate or users that hold a given coin have a strong incentive to dismiss any criticism. Why not both? Most of those crypto currencies smell like MLM schemes for people who scoff
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by arkh 9y ago
I think you should also use quotation marks around the word news. Maybe the alternative is: if you don't want to charge for the content you produce or give it for free don't bother producing it. There are huge chances your content
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by arkh 9y ago
As a whole, a database-backed CGI server can be considered a state machine.
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by arkh 9y ago
> In countries where university are cheaper nobody bats an eye at someone going through the cycles just for the sake of it, purely to learn interesting things. We do. Every year discovering yourself is a year you're not productive.
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by arkh 9y ago
Just consider the commercial web as a lost cause: this is the centralized, identity enabled network companies want. Focus on the anonymous decentralized efforts to develop tools for the open web. If most people don't care about their d
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by arkh 9y ago
I like the theory presented here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/7yvh55/wow_i_just... > I actually believe that Bitcoin is a purposefully deployed project by large banks to restore faith t
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by arkh 9y ago
> Alot of websites these days are lurching from one page to another, just to score more page views or something, rather than a Single page app. All hail the Single Page app! Long live the Flash heir! I wish more websites were not using t
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by arkh 9y ago
Doing stats per county is useful when you have a gun control debate as gun issuance policy is specific to each county.
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by arkh 9y ago
In 4 words: maintenance programming and debugging. Most clerical jobs don't have a lot of surprises hidden in the middle of some undocumented feature. And things are not improving with the multiplication of dependence on SaaS and build
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by arkh 9y ago
Garbage disposal is not what people usually call a cognitively demanding field. The gender imbalance is still worse than CS. What those two have in common are shitty working conditions. Yes, coding is done sitting in climate controlled offi
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by arkh 9y ago
> he did it in a very loud way From what I remember he did not. Someone at Google publicized a document written by Damore on a Google forum.
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by arkh 9y ago
> This “war” has been going on for centuries. The difference is that white men were totally dominating it until recent times, and a lot of them really don’t like that they may need to adapt behavior. African Americans had a right side of
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by arkh 9y ago
> How many tests does a PR need? Enough test for each of your spec. Adding a new functionality to your product? Your test should cover and the cases you put in your specs. Correcting a bug? You test should trigger it with the old code. Y
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by arkh 9y ago
> For example, I have Google Analytics [1] on my site, and I trust them to handle this responsibly. I don't. And I don't appreciate people injecting Google beacons on their website. Same thing with Facebook, Twitter, Disqus an
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by arkh 9y ago
And you have the opposite thing with the war on drugs: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-... > "You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it ill
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by arkh 9y ago
> mandate that schools start earlier You know it's bad for teenager health? http://www.nj.com/education/2014/05/early_class_times_are_ba... > Because their biological clocks push them into later sl

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