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by badRNG 6y ago
The outcome of this ban has important implications for potential bans in the future that affect apps at odds with administrations. End-to-end apps like Signal come to mind.
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Microsoft now lets you run Android apps in Windows 10(bleepingcomputer.com)
31 points by badRNG 6y ago|10 comments
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by badRNG 6y ago
I'm sure I am opening myself up for some "whataboutism" criticism, but there does seem to be a discrepancy between the respect this site shows for Brian Krebs and the support shown for SSC in the face of NYT intentionally pla
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by badRNG 6y ago
> by those measures there are no poor people in the US That doesn't feel like a meaningful metric when there are as many as 17% of mothers with young children experiencing food insecurity [1]. Perhaps that's due to COVID, but 1
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by badRNG 6y ago
> On one hand Google is the lesser evil between M$ and Apple. While I acknowledge this is certainly a highly subjective perspective, it is rare that I hear of Google being "less evil" than Apple. What either redeems Google or c
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by badRNG 6y ago
It's quite possible TikTok will go down the path of promising the moon regarding self-regulation and accountability just until the immediate threat from regulators subsides. This appears to be a trend among companies to stave off regul
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by badRNG 6y ago
> I'm not sure how trivial though He doxxed a guy for, in his words, leaving a "really bad review of my book." https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/543992830256238593?s=2...
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by badRNG 6y ago
I suppose we can never truly know what motivates anyone to do anything. I'm not committed to that stance, but even if he had the most pure of motivations it wouldn't materially change the consequences (both ethical and practical)
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by badRNG 6y ago
There are two issues to consider here: whether he is correctly identifying the people he doxxes and the ethical implications of his decision to do so. He received a fair bit of backfire for doxxing security researchers a few years ago (incl
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by badRNG 6y ago
Interesting perspective, but it seems like this is just an ad for easyDNS and their "Proactive Nameservers," though I couldn't imagine a better time than the misstep of a behemoth of a competitor in this space. Not to detract
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by badRNG 6y ago
While I'm sure the kids could survive if given shade and water, I'd have to imagine completing assignments on a school-issued Chromebook or iPad at home where it is climate controlled is a far better learning environment than in t
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by badRNG 6y ago
I do agree that downvoting sometimes has a chilling effect on Reddit, but that doesn't seem relevant to the discussion on social capital accumulation and the domination of a platform by these traditionally socially powerful users, at l
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by badRNG 6y ago
It seems that the most harm is done when the voting system is used to accumulate clout/fame/social capital both on and off platform. Democratized voting systems on pseudonymous platforms can have a content curation effect while li
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by badRNG 6y ago
This doesn't seem to cover "cancel culture" more generally, but narrows in on regular workers being terminated for their political beliefs. Is that what cancel culture is? I certainly don't think that's what most fo
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by badRNG 6y ago
uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger work on FF for Android
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by badRNG 6y ago
This extension is available for FF on Android
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by badRNG 6y ago
Thanks for clearing that up! This feels like it probably doesn't belong on this site. We don't say Google "killed" Android (Nougat), it's just an old EOL version. I've not used Angular, so maybe there are some
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by badRNG 6y ago
It says AngularJS is killed off. That doesn't sound right... can someone fill me in?
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by badRNG 6y ago
> I’m increasingly convinced people are unsettled by the possibility that this could be anything other than civilization ending and the mask averse amongst us aren’t murderers. In just the past couple of months, COVID-19 has racked up a
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Burn Down Target Buildings with 3D Printer Exploits (Coalfire IoT Blog Part 3)(coalfire.com)
1 points by badRNG 6y ago|0 comments
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by badRNG 6y ago
He puts forward far more effort than many other "scambaiters." He has coding streams where he makes countless tools to take up more time / capture information from scammers. He has a fake bank site he uses to capture banking
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by badRNG 6y ago
PEP 622 for pattern matching syntax can be found here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/
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Python may get pattern matching syntax(infoworld.com)
1 points by badRNG 6y ago|1 comments
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by badRNG 6y ago
I think the best comparison for gay marriage is interracial marriage. If you are okay with interracial marriage legally, but personally oppose it, people will have a negative reaction to that sentiment. Likewise, people will have a negati
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Almost 300 Windows 10 executables vulnerable to DLL hijacking(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by badRNG 6y ago|0 comments
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by badRNG 6y ago
> Yes there are a very small minority of people who do call for this I agree with you. We are talking about how targeted groups will demand moderation to avoid persistent targeted harassment from a comparatively small number of people. C
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by badRNG 6y ago
I don't think that there's an equivalency between the advocacy for the genocide of black people, Jews, trans people, etc and opposing someone for their political beliefs. Perhaps there'd be more legitimacy in a comparison to
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by badRNG 6y ago
People don't want to be exposed to content that dehumanizes them, argues for their extermination, or targets harassment against them. There are large swaths of the population who are targeted by the far right in this way. These targete
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by badRNG 6y ago
I'd argue that raddle is far more intensely moderated than Twitter or Reddit, probably more so than most subreddits. I may not have done a good job of illustrating it in the previous post, but the example was mainly focused on platform
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by badRNG 6y ago
When free speech on the internet is discussed, it is within the context of freedom from excessive moderation on a platform. To call a Fediverse a "platform" doesn't seem quite analogous, these communities are more like their

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