criley2

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by criley2 5y ago
I apologize that my well-sourced comment, the only comment in this thread with any sourcing at all, did not sufficiently meet your quality standards. I note with amusement that you did not post this same comment in response to every other r
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by criley2 5y ago
Well here's some data to counter the anecdotes: - 80%+ of Americans agree that there needs to be Data Privacy legislation controlling big tech https://epic.org/privacy/survey/ - Americans are rather in favor
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by criley2 5y ago
?? I think you're absolutely wrong here. My boomer parents who can't setup a Smart TV and played blu-rays in standard definition for years absolutely know that Google and Amazon are tracking everything they do and have reached out
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by criley2 5y ago
You're being disingenuous. It's a massive move that will dramatically lower the traffic to the subreddits, and was also done to the far-right supremacist and abuse subreddits before they were finally closed. It's the largest
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by criley2 5y ago
You've been rightfully needled for trying to start a culture flame war, but to heap on here, I want to specifically call out your virtue signaling claim that reddit cares more about the male gaze than female speech (speech you yourself
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by criley2 5y ago
I mean, Twitter out-did Reddit on that by 2012. Everything on Facebook and Reddit is just screenshots of Tweets.
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by criley2 5y ago
>I wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular Tracking. Most people just assume that if you share a real link to a product, fourteen different quasi-legal shady third-party advertising profile aggregators will have that saved and loaded
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by criley2 5y ago
Those services will not be able to afford the lawsuits. That's the point. New services will be one of two things: 1) Pirate media in open and flagrant violation of the legal requirement to ensure the legality and veracity of all user c
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by criley2 5y ago
We don't hold social media companies accountable for things that are posted there because then they will perform a cost/benefit analysis on the risk and liability of comment sections, free speech, posting news and political conten
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by criley2 5y ago
Incredible demand? Are you referring to their stable ~15% market share? And decades of uninspiring market performances? The company which didn't experience its meteoric success and growth until after the computer, with the smartphone?
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by criley2 5y ago
Really? It seems very obvious. This is a discussion of how "UX is why Microsoft is losing market share", which is what you replied to. I'm reminding some tone-deaf wealthy users that COST is the #1 factor behind OS usage, and
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by criley2 5y ago
For the price of the absolute cheapest MacOS running computer (Mac Mini, with a monitor) one can get basically 2 entire Windows computers. For the cost of the average computer running MacOS, one could buy a TV, a console, a desktop Windows
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by criley2 5y ago
It's kind of an interesting problem because Google drives cars around and reads the all the networks and saves the location for use later. Even if you don't use Android, just like they took a picture of your front door with their
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by criley2 5y ago
I said whimsical because a lot of times Kenji's opinion will be like "I usually just whip this up looseygoosey but if we're trying to be as silly about it as possible, I suppose we could do this fourteen step process..."
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by criley2 5y ago
I think the characterization comes from a legion of homecooks online going through a cooking journey and treating Kenji's whimsical opinion as a law, especially when written down for one recipe. Kenji's videos show how creative an
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by criley2 5y ago
A cryptocurrency backed by the united states could certainly succeed as many people want to do business that way, but the point of bitcoin was decentralization and preventing government control of the currency. The same people (lots and lot
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by criley2 5y ago
FaceTime: Owned by a notoriously secretive and litigous company using closed source and unverifiable claims I'm not saying that Apple is somehow abusing your privacy in ways you don't know, but I am saying you don't really kn
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by criley2 5y ago
FaceTime: Owned by a notoriously secretive and litigous company using closed source and unverifiable claims I'm not saying that Apple is somehow abusing your privacy in ways you don't know, but I am saying you don't really kn
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by criley2 5y ago
It's the same thing Apple is doing. They want every device to be a part of a low-power BLE network for Apple AirTags or Amazon Echo Tiles or whatever they are. They want a huge network so that these small low power devices can use ever
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by criley2 5y ago
>"But the persistence of antibody production, whether elicited by vaccination or infection, does not ensure long-lasting immunity to COVID-19. The ability of some emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants to blunt the protective effects of antib
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by criley2 5y ago
I value my time and money way more than that.
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by criley2 5y ago
It works OK that way, they accept new members of their club when you conform. However, I've had my Prius damaged by rural folk (in lots mostly full of pickups) on multiple occasions. (Joys of having family who decide because of politic
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by criley2 5y ago
As soon as I saw that his wife left him after he gleefully associated with Epstein decades AFTER the world knew he was a pedophile... it looks bad from my perspective. Bill knew Jeff. He knew he was a predator. He knew it all. And he smiled
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by criley2 5y ago
>Pro sports players didn't do anything to earn the genetic makeup which accounts for a significant portion of their ability, yet they aren't asked to acknowledge it and take steps to reduce its impact. Big Harrison Bergeron vib
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by criley2 6y ago
While the standard is lower in civil law than criminal law, this isn't how it works at all. The rightsholder does not want to fight you in court because the amount of money you can pay (most likely) is less than what they have to pay i
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by criley2 6y ago
>Since that is usually not a thing, what other options do people that want freedom and privacy have? A realization that your desire to access music and content with freedom and privacy DOES NOT SUPERSEDE the creators right to profit from
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by criley2 6y ago
How much landfill use does my stream use when it's been watched 100 times and becomes garbage? How much of the Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch will my Netflix stream take up? Plastic is killing the planet.
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by criley2 6y ago
Physical media doesn't automatically provide privacy. There are players which do track what blu-rays you put in them. Blu-ray players are internet enabled and include advertisements, which obviously can have tracking as well. Also you
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by criley2 6y ago
Would it still be hidden if a government identified servers hosting the network, seized them and forensically analyzed them including having access to potential zero days in encryption tools, backdoors in algorithms, and supercomputers? Etc
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by criley2 6y ago
So you think if a notorious terrorist or whatever moved millions of dollars through Monero to fund a terror attack, American or other intelligence agencies wouldn't be able to identify the transaction? It could be done truly anonymousl

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