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by chaosite 5y ago
Agreed, we are conditioned to have different expectations from software which inherently deals with the network, like a web browser, than software which is inherently offline like a audio editing program.
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by chaosite 5y ago
What the GP was saying was that there was no essential technical reason for Firefox to send telemetry data to Mozilla (unless you're connecting to Mozilla). And yet, Firefox does this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US&
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by chaosite 5y ago
We really don't know yet if (and when) a booster shot would be needed, and if we would need an extra shot of the same vaccine (to help with immune escape) or a tweaked version (for resistant variants). So far research suggests that we&
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by chaosite 5y ago
There's no basis to believe at this point that we'll need "booster shots" of any kind with COVID vaccination, and in fact the opposite seems to be the case, so this comment is being downvoted for spreading misinformation
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by chaosite 5y ago
And it further implies that the speaker has suggested that the two options are the only possible ones, when in fact there are other possibilities. But the person you're correcting seems to have already noticed that, and has corrected t
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by chaosite 5y ago
mensa pythia?
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by chaosite 5y ago
And although it's called "TeXmacs", it doesn't use TeX, LaTeX, or Emacs, and is not (natively, anyway) compatible with them.
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by chaosite 5y ago
Seeing ads isn't nice.
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by chaosite 5y ago
This isn't phishing. These people are giving out full access to their account on purpose. They would give out the 2FA seed if that was a requirement.
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by chaosite 5y ago
You're right, but less, rather than more. 1. 4 HMOs total, not hundreds. That's a big difference, it's still pretty centralized. 2. The HMOs actually compete on very little, mostly customer service. They are heavily regulated
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by chaosite 5y ago
I mean, sure, SmartScreen is an important security service that should not be disabled if you're OK with hashes of every executable you run being transmitted to Microsoft.
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by chaosite 5y ago
The person you're replying to did not at any point say that. What he said was that deflecting criticism of slavery in North America by mentioning slavery in Africa is an attempt to mislead by distraction, i.e., whataboutism. Yes, there
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by chaosite 5y ago
The stupid but relatively safe way - it's rather difficult to discharge that capacitor with BOTH hands, and the one in disposable cameras is not that big compared to power supply caps. You'll get a nice, painful reminder to respec
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by chaosite 5y ago
Programmers don't need documentation to describe what the program does, the code is already a perfect description of what it does. You need documentation to describe the intent that is not present in the code, i.e., why something is th
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by chaosite 5y ago
The professor's site says that he is an assistant professor, i.e., he doesn't actually have tenure yet.
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by chaosite 6y ago
You're being overly pedantic over the exact difference between "scientific discovery" and "technical invention", a discussion which is completely irrelevant to the article. That line isn't even important to the
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by chaosite 6y ago
You're right, the digitization effort was around 2000 or so. But you're presenting that as somehow being bad, while it's actually better than what a lot of other countries have.
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by chaosite 6y ago
As an Israeli, are blood tests not a normal thing done everywhere? I did not realize that... My family doctor asks for a battery of lab tests about once a year (or whenever I get around to scheduling a check-up), including glucose and chole
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by chaosite 6y ago
It's "good enough", and it used to be free when texting wasn't. And it's better than SMS at Unicode.
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by chaosite 6y ago
Trying to manage healthcare capacity only causes that capacity to be met. And while mainland Europe is not a "relatively small Island", the UK surely is...
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by chaosite 6y ago
It did not when I used it, which was before it was integrated into AIM.
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by chaosite 6y ago
The GPL is all about protecting a users freedom to use their software in any way they'd like, and correctly notes that users require access to source code in order to do that. Quoting verbatim from the preamble, "the GNU General P
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by chaosite 6y ago
I agree with you that this is a problem, but I don't see how you can fix that with licensing. I mean, I guess you can add a clause that says "you can't use this software if you do things that the author doesn't like with
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by chaosite 6y ago
it's not just a US specific thing, it's a generation specific thing. The scenarios described in the GP link is a very late 70s-80s (Gen X) thing. 90s and early 00s high-schoolers had somewhat different experiences, but they know t
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by chaosite 6y ago
OK, so you agree that corporations a government created construct. Is it such a leap that liability is also a government created construct?
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by chaosite 6y ago
The way I'm readying it, his point is that a Grsecurity customer, who is not infringing Linux copyright (because they're not distributing kernels) would still be on the hook for contributory infringement because they contributed t
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by chaosite 6y ago
One of the reason Google Analytics (and logging solutions like it) is popular is that people don't have access to server logs.
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by chaosite 6y ago
No, "obscurity" does not mean "bad security", it specifically refers to the practice of hiding the details of the mechanism hoping that it makes it more secure. Things like "Pet names and mother's maiden names
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by chaosite 6y ago
Sure, that's common. But they also don't lie about it.
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by chaosite 7y ago
China was slow, and it turned into a disaster, then they got their act together. Italy was slower than that.

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