choo-t

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by choo-t 7mo ago
Using the internet trafic of the persons using your service to protect your anonymity and thus, protecting the service itself.
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by choo-t 7mo ago
> You don’t think leveraging your site to DDOS someone is a problem? It is, but it's one of the only tools they have to prevent the doxxing site to being reachable. > Do people not also deserve to be protected from being DDOSed?
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by choo-t 7mo ago
Well, if they deserve anonymity, they also deserve to be able to protect it, and they have really few tools against a doxxing, the DDOS was one of them, corrupting the archived article was another, albeit dangerous for their own reputation
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by choo-t 7mo ago
Even with ZKP this is still highly problematic, it create difficulty for undocumented people to access the web, create ton of phishing opportunity, reinforce censorship on most site (as they will now all need to be minor compliant or need a
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by choo-t 7mo ago
> How can I tell the machine didn't alter my vote if it cannot tell me, and just me, who I voted for? Isn't that the whole point of having ballot secrecy ? Even with paper vote you cannot tell which ballot is yours (or at least
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by choo-t 7mo ago
> To let unknown adults contact children in private messages is harmful. But the verification is not to prove you're a children. Everyone will be considered children until proven otherwise, which will not prevent this scenario at al
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by choo-t 8mo ago
Discord say they won't keep a copy of the ID, so getting caught for duplicate ID would contradict this narrative.
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by choo-t 8mo ago
Same thing as using the ID or photo of the same older brother : Nothing.
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by choo-t 9mo ago
If you can convince the user your are their bank, can convince them to install software and walk them through how to do it and enable side loading, you can also convince them to input their logging into any webpage.
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by choo-t 11mo ago
The fact that giving free access to books during a pandemic, in a format that doesn't need physical contact, when libraries were shut down or hard to access for a lot of people should have been praised, not pursued by legal action fro
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by choo-t 1y ago
> Books have got to be the least expensive form of entertainment out there. The value to cost ratio is incredible. Hard disagree, lot of video game will give you a better hours of entertainment per dollars ratio. Lot of sport will do the
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by choo-t 1y ago
> Can someone tell me another effective way to combat book piracy that is not Amazon's way? There simply no effective way to lock a book from copy while being able to read it. It will simply slow the process to free the book, at wor
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by choo-t 1y ago
You don't really have to replace the microswitch, at least on my Logitech (M570) I can pull them open, bend the metal strip a little, close the switch back and I'm good for another year or two. It's still tedious, as the me
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by choo-t 1y ago
The very same group did try to take down GTA V : https://www.collectiveshout.org/prostitution_survivors_call_...
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by choo-t 2y ago
Restaurant aren't subscription based, you pay for a one-time meal. The whole point of a subscription is to support an ongoing service _to you_, if your money is used to enshitify the service and make it work _against you_, there no poi
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by choo-t 2y ago
> This framing doesn’t make sense. It’s an ecosystem, and it’s not so much about “ignoring” things as much as it is about making active choices. If you go to a shopping district, there is nothing forcing you to shop at every store. If th
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by choo-t 2y ago
She may have created the account abroad.
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by choo-t 2y ago
So your whole argument is just cherry picking? Sure if you ignore everything wrong, you can say the system is alright.
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by choo-t 2y ago
> Sure, there’s a lot of crap. But you don’t have to watch that. But even non-crappy content will be steered toward some direction by the advertisement, most videos are made just long enough to fit whatever is the new optimum time for re
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by choo-t 2y ago
Because if the service you pay for start to do what you expressively pay them not to do, your whole subscription since the beginning will feel like a waste. Worst, your money was partially used against your interest, by financing people uni
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by choo-t 2y ago
Afaik Youtube cannot legally display ads to some countries' residents, it could explain this behavior.
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by choo-t 2y ago
Paying make it worse, paying doesn't prevent ads to be forced later (e.g: Netflix, Prime, Disney+) and split people fight against ad, as the ones with enough money to avoid them will berate the other for not paying, will still providin
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by choo-t 2y ago
That's UK.
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by choo-t 2y ago
Why would E2EE hinder search ? Any clients could build or update the search index.
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by choo-t 2y ago
Having one of your backups out of site will prevent its loss during a fire/flood scenario.
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by choo-t 2y ago
> We do require ID to enter e.g. porn stores and bars though Only if you look too young (and for the bars it's only for certain beverages), so the affected population is only a small parts of the customers.
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by choo-t 2y ago
Some forum use custom backend, and updating them for an asinine law may not be the maintainer priority. Having someone dedicated to contact with this authority is also a burden on hobbyist projects.
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by choo-t 2y ago
> But you’re not the owner of a computer program that is merely licensed to you for your use. For copyright purpose, you're still the owner of the _copy_, independently of what Nintendo say, you bought the cartridge, you're the
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by choo-t 2y ago
> A proprietary cart has a license that doesn’t include any provisions for installation. Thus, it is only authorized to be executed directly from the cart. So in the specific case I’m talking about, as opposed to your premature extrapola
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by choo-t 2y ago
> Why even make that argument in the first place then? Making an argument doesn't require to describe every step to it, if I told you could use your GPS to navigate to work, you're not gonna ask me how to launch a satellite in

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