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by beefee 6y ago
This removal is a conspiracy in a literal sense. The decision to interrupt the communications of 200,000 people was made in secret by an unknown group of Facebook personnel. Even Ma Bell, in its most powerful and abusive days as a monopolis
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by beefee 6y ago
This appears to be coordinated election interference from tech monopolists.
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by beefee 6y ago
ungoogled-chromium has absolutely zero telemetry. It's the gold standard for browsers and a rare breath of fresh air in the polluted world of modern software. Firefox, in contrast, is nowhere close. It includes trackers, "pings&qu
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by beefee 6y ago
How do we do this in the face of systemic, subsidized discrimination against American industry? The ePacket program forces the USPS to subsidize shipping from the PRC to the US. End this immediately and let's start analyzing the forces
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by beefee 6y ago
> There's not much they can do about having all their development in China, but at least their focus on security otherwise seems to be paying off. They could start moving their development to the US. There are plenty of successful s
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by beefee 6y ago
Because python2 isn't just a language that dissolves away once the program has been written. It's also a thick interpreter and runtime system that will slowly rot away without maintenance. It's yet to be seen how this runtime
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by beefee 6y ago
Thanks for answering questions about this and being so open! In your top-voted comment, you claimed that this data will never be sold to advertisers. Are you now saying that you're unsure? If so, it would be helpful to update the comme
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by beefee 6y ago
Nix has a way of exposing complex and low-quality build systems. Many pieces of the Python ecosystem fall into this category. For example, it wasn't Nix's fault that psycopg2 had a dependency on postgresql C header files, nor was