cJ0th

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by cJ0th 9y ago
I think tags only prove beneficial when you have a very well defined purpose. More concrete, I think the number of tags has to be fairly limited and the logic behind the tagging scheme should stay consistent forever. One example of tags bei
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One of the problems might be that humans tend to be not very consistent over longer periods of time. So choosing a set of tags which will stay useful for, say, 10 years is hard. Because of this "tag rot" is likely to happen. After
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correct. Perhaps the word "learn" wasn't a good choice. What I meant is that people have to be willing to change their behavior because mesh nets are not something a powerful entity is going to force them to use.
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> "I personally want to live in a world where reasonable people and companies would say, 'You know what? Under the rule of law, and with the right oversight and a warrant, communications can be listened to when it's needed
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He's dead on except it's not just FB it's also western governments who not only don't interfere (as he points out) but have given up on championing freedom and now go in the exact opposite direction. When it comes to dam
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> I think in terms of the internet the answer is meshnets. No it's not b/c that would assume the average person is willing to learn about meshnets.
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> [...] Signal are great projects If I may derail this thread even further: I find XMPP+OMEMO even better. The security concept is basically identical to Signal but users don't have to rely on particular servers and a widespread ada
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I'd generally agree. Although I think this is rather something the people behind Enigmail should figure out. The vast majority of gpg users will never interact with it over the terminal, probably.
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> There are countless studies that get conducted every year by universities, think tanks, NGOs and journalist style organisations on this topic. Could you name me one credible source that advocates the banning of encryption? At Harvard,
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But that's not reasoning. That's jumping to conclusions.
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> there's absolutely nothing substantiating her claim. yes, and this is very weird. She must have a chain of reasoning going on in her head before opening her mouth, right? We always only get the conclusion, that is: "we need m
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The list which the author introduces with the words "This, then, is what Theresa May is proposing:" sounds mad to anyone who knows anything about cryptography but they (Theresa May doesn't differ much from her western colleag
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My comment, as TeMPOraL points out, was looking at it from the user's perspective and it was a little tongue in cheek. However, google certainly is aware that its AdSense service has been used to spread malware (see my link above)
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Sounds a bit like good 'ol protection money, though ("You don't want some malware on your pc, do you?"[0]). A business classic but not exactly what you'd want from a tech company. [0] http://www.businessi
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Art is a bit like white noise or a fluffy cloud: You can see everything you want in it – and that's exactly what you see. So basically everything qualifies as a solution. This is easy to see with poems or more abstract music (like dron
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Afaik it hasn't. Therefore, I look at some colored, randomly placed smilies from to time time to elevate my mood: function smilies(){ while true; do num=$(( $RANDOM % 80 )); for i in $(seq 1 $num); do echo -n " "; done; echo
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Some of you may call me a heretic but I'd love to have the classic starfield simulation on my linux box.
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> The consumer's only hope here is the EU. Sometimes they do the right thing but I most certainly wouldn't bank on it! If we want change there has to be grass roots movements I think. If tech people would find a way to use wor
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> Maybe it would be better if we collectively decided not to manipulate each other, even if we think that we know best. Yes it would but it's not going to happen. I don't like manipulating people and thus my default is to be as
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A mixture of things. From the top of my head: Folders of plain text files, mindmaps, paper Having said this, the actual challenge for me lies in deciding what notes are actually worth storing. I recently browsed through the hard drive of on
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There obviously are bad news that no one should consume (i.e. "fake news") but I'd argue there is no such thing as good news in the sense that every one should read them to become informed. To enable the public to make inform
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After reading such an article it is easy to see this pattern everywhere. And, sadly, it is also easy to see all the areas where I am in the group of people who come in close second. With the article in mind it would seem rational to quit en
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> Historically, most online communications have emphasized text, and emojis add much-needed emotional content to text-driven communications— and often help people express themselves more precisely. Au contraire ... it's more like &
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I don't mean to be snarky but where exactly would you start to work on it? Every major scandal so far has shown that society by and large doesn't care about privacy (or isn't even willing to learn about the implications which
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Ditto. I just hope the transition to web extension will be smooth or at least happening at all.
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And what's the name of that magical place? The UK may be more extreme than other countries at this point in time but "free countries" are a myth of the past. Even the privacy conscious Germany is heading in the same direction
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The audio software industry is quite big. Most of the poplar DAWs are from Germany: Live, Cubase, Logic (at least before Apple bought it), Studio One, Samplitude and Bitwig. Many popular VST Plugins also come from German companies like Nati
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> Such a tape cannot be faked by the fake reporter. Well, at least that's the implicit assumption.
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> In “The End of Men”, a good book with a somewhat excessive title, Hanna Rosin notes that of the 30 occupations expected to grow fastest in America in the coming years, women dominate 20, including nursing, accounting, child care and fo
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Yeah, seems so. However, real press conferences and satirical ones are so similar these days that I can't really tell which one I am watching right now. ;)

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