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by asveikau 2y ago
There's lots of arguments against it. Probably the biggest one is that I do not believe that punishment is an effective deterrent most of the time. People will keep committing crimes even if the punishment is harsh. Another is that ou
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by asveikau 2y ago
I don't think GIMP is a fair comparison to any of your other examples. VLC, KDE, and LibreOffice are all more intuitive than the GIMP.
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by asveikau 2y ago
Except there are some platforms where you need to go through libc and the direct syscall interface is considered private, or subject to change. OpenBSD is like this, and I believe Mac is too.
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by asveikau 2y ago
I've followed politics for my whole life and watched tons of Biden speeches going back decades. I was seeing his old "spark" quite a bit well into 2024. The debate, he fell off a cliff, and his follow-up interviews were eve
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by asveikau 2y ago
I actually disagree, but I'm glad you're happy.
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by asveikau 2y ago
I think California just passed the prop to escalate some crimes to felonies, so I feel like the policy commonly used to justify this joke may be dead.
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by asveikau 2y ago
The gap between his last state of the union (March 2024) and the debate (June 2024) seemed pretty big, and I'm not the only one to say that. But again, it isn't black and white. Maybe the speech format suited him better.
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by asveikau 2y ago
Inflation is a complicated topic that doesn't get adequately captured in the sound bites. I kept hearing clips of voters saying they want prices to go back down, but my understanding of the economics is that this would be terrible. Ins
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by asveikau 2y ago
I believe his faculties got substantially worse in 2024. He was a lot more present in speeches in 2021 for example. Mental decline isn't black and white, and you tend to see people as your mental model of how they used to be, so you ca
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by asveikau 2y ago
The idea that running stuff in the cloud will protect you from a criminal investigation is totally absurd.
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by asveikau 2y ago
What do you think "the cloud" is? I'm reminded of an old meme, "the cloud is just someone else's computer". They could raid a data center and seize machines. They could also subpoena data they are looking for.
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by asveikau 2y ago
> hour glass for the X. Imagine using a symbol for your powerful new computer that essentially means "wait". Are you sure you're not mixing timelines? Was the hourglass established for this metaphor in 1986? I first rememb
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by asveikau 2y ago
I misread two names. Bill Waterson doxxing Scott Adams. Because they're both comic strip authors, I suppose. But reading TFA and seeing hypercard set me straight.
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by asveikau 2y ago
It's important to note this document was not disclosed to her defense. Law enforcement suppressing evidence that might exonerate, even in part or lead to a lesser charge, is a well worn trope, and should outrage us all. Not to mention
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by asveikau 2y ago
Thanks for the warning, I guess I'll need to watch out for that in a few years.
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by asveikau 2y ago
My daughter has a normal android phone with Google Family Link and tons of builtin apps removed and websites blocked. The parental controls are pretty good.
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by asveikau 2y ago
You seem to think a lot of things that aren't security boundaries are security boundaries. There have been VM escapes too. VMs are not for running untrusted OS images you get from end users. I'm done with this thread, have a nic
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by asveikau 2y ago
Just google the criticisms of flatpak from a security perspective. They're out there. Containerization on Linux was never intended to be a security feature for totally untrusted, malicious code. It's isolation for trusted code.
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by asveikau 2y ago
I wouldn't trust flatpak enough to run a truly untrusted executable. I am sure flatpak's isolation is full of holes unrelated to windowing. But I don't think a game purchased through steam counts as untrusted.
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by asveikau 2y ago
More like do a thing and do it once. If every WM and DE needs to do it, you have some that don't, or you have issues that are handled correctly by some DEs and not others, etc.
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by asveikau 2y ago
The criticism is that Wayland duplicates a lot of effort in multiple compositors. The compositor does work that happens in Xorg and in the WM. Whereas lots of common functionality gets implemented in Xorg that WMs and DEs don't need to
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by asveikau 2y ago
It's instructive not to argue the finer points without acknowledging what TFA says about the operators of the scheme breaking the law: > In 2006, Charles Edwards was convicted of 83 counts of wire fraud and sentenced to thirteen yea
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by asveikau 2y ago
I'd say that is a bit like splitting hairs, but the article does question the extent to which actual payphones and calls were actually involved..
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by asveikau 2y ago
This article isn't about retirement; the reference to retirement is the line the scammer is using to hook people. The scammer is telling the mark they will generate lots of money from passive income (from payphone calls), and won&#x27
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by asveikau 2y ago
I would imagine that's even more attractive to them in the old days, when they dealt in coins and bills. A modern vending machine probably mostly gets credit card transactions, which are traceable.
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by asveikau 2y ago
If someone listens to him or watches about 30 seconds and doesn't come away with the thought that his charity thing is complete BS, I think that person is probably a very poor judge of character. It's a subjective assessment, and
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by asveikau 2y ago
Remind me what party had the house and senate when DMCA passed...
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by asveikau 2y ago
The headline and the byline are vague but the article has 19 occurrences of Hoback. I read the article and had no confusion about this. I find it disingenuous to say they want to evade accountability by omitting it from the headline.
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by asveikau 2y ago
I think that all living beings and even cells within a living being possess a form of intelligence. Though I don't know enough about biology to defend that intuitive understanding with the rigor that many HN readers would require and m
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by asveikau 2y ago
When you describe the fungus as trying to do something, you just ascribed intelligence to it.

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