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by curt15 8y ago
>"Human rights and basic political speech are not an ignorable edge case." This aptly summarizes the key point for the critics of Dragonfly. Why isn't this the lede?
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by curt15 8y ago
>"Code had been written to show only Chinese air quality data from an unnamed source in Beijing" Anyone remember "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."?
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by curt15 8y ago
>By abdicating that responsibility to an actor like Baidu, who is much more aligned with the Chinese government, And how can companies establish a major presence in China unless they are aligned with the Chinese government?
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by curt15 8y ago
The fact that a giant like Baidu can get away with showing false adverts indicates a deeper problem than can be solved just by Google going to China.
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by curt15 8y ago
Google Voice? Google Fi? There may be a more fundamental question here.
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by curt15 8y ago
How limiting do scientists in China find the Great Firewall?
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by curt15 8y ago
There still seems to be some confusing overlap in their tools. For example, what is the difference between "buildah" and "podman build"?
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by curt15 8y ago
Fedora is also trying to do this for linux with their "Silverblue" tech preview
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by curt15 8y ago
>Many people seem to think that the solution to such flare-ups is to introduce more friction, so that the average person can no longer afford to take advantage of the situation. The philosophy seems similar to that behind the "right
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by curt15 8y ago
See also this VP's blog post https://seclists.org/isn/2015/Aug/4 which reinforces Oracle's worst stereotypes
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by curt15 8y ago
Debian is solidly community based. Ubuntu depends on Debian in order to add its own value on top.
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by curt15 8y ago
It's not about the money. it's about the principle. For example, where does the copyright lawsuit leave Apache Harmony legally, given that it's an "unauthorized" Java API implementation? Is the codebase's Apach
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by curt15 8y ago
How about also 5 years of security updates like Apple's products?
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by curt15 8y ago
>I don't understand why they didn't just focus on the hardware, make it very hackable for the community to develop the GNOME (or any other) OS for it. This. Why do they insist on a mobile GNOME interface from scratch instead of
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by curt15 8y ago
Which is already provided by extremely successful and well established companies like Baidu. Google would be bringing nothing new except perhaps a mechanism to report the phone numbers attached to "illegal" searches for possible p
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by curt15 8y ago
>Google could still bring a lot of good to the people. Such as...?
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by curt15 8y ago
Android was derived from Apache Harmony. Nothing in the terms of the Apache license would prohibit what Google did with Android.
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by curt15 8y ago
>So no open-source software was the subject of the lawsuit. But doesn't the lawsuit effectively outlaw Apache Harmony, and more generally the practice of reimplementing APIs?
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by curt15 8y ago
>Gomes referenced the sheer size of the Chinese market, saying “we are talking about the next billion users” for Google. In one word: "profitsssss"
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by curt15 8y ago
Nice. However the biggest limitation (which is no fault of this app) is that the gestures simply trigger commands upon their completion, with no intermediate feedback. What would it take to implement animations that follow gestures in prog
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by curt15 8y ago
>That judgment allowed European citizens to ask search engines to remove links to “inadequate, irrelevant or ... excessive” content The critical terms "inadequate", "irrelevant" are dangerously subjective. What's
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by curt15 8y ago
What prevents China from similarly demanding Apple to de-list apps from non-Chinese app stores that mention Tiananmen Square?
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by curt15 8y ago
The fight over that isn't over yet. https://www.thestar.com/business/2017/11/03/canadas-top-cour...
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by curt15 8y ago
One advantage of snaps for developers is that if one is already developing on Ubuntu or Debian, the build and runtime dependencies of a snap can be expressed directly in terms of the packages in the distribution's repositories. To buil
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by curt15 8y ago
>Getting maintainers out of the loop for auditing packages Do maintainers commonly audit source code to look for vulnerabilities? And at any rate, aren't the common security-critical libraries for flatpaks, like OpenSSL, already (in
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by curt15 8y ago
PC laptops don't cost that much less than similarly speced macbooks. Why would their margins be so much worse?
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by curt15 8y ago
>s you browse the web, that list changes as Chrome learns and enables autoplay on sites where you play media with sound during most of your visits, and disables it on sites where you don’t. What about disabling autoplay even without soun
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by curt15 9y ago
>They do not respond to DMCA notices. But Google does cooperate with DMCA. The difference there is that that content deemed in violation of copyright is actually illegal for anyone to distribute; legal responsibility extends all the way
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by curt15 9y ago
>Because ease of access makes all the difference, But every inconvenience presents a business opportunity that will inevitably be seized upon so long as the information being sought after is still considered part of the public record. Th
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by curt15 9y ago
>but it will require a certain minimum of commitment. But any inconvenience is a business opportunity unless you simply outlaw certain types of information-retrieval businesses.

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