cybernautique

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   by cybernautique 5y ago

   I actually didn't know about this, nor largely about ignore functionality. Thank you for the write-up, it definitely gives me more appreciation for what the previous contributor meant.
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   by cybernautique 5y ago

   I do not interact with Facebook, the product. Facebook, the company, increasingly has their grimy paws in every networked enterprise. This is a multibillion dollar corporation dead-set on tracking every individual on earth since before thei
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   by cybernautique 5y ago

   I'm not sure what your experience was or how long ago, but syncthing is one of very few programs I've ever had 'just work,' like absolute magic. sudo pacman -S syncthing, syncthing was all it took to stand it up, followe
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   by cybernautique 5y ago

   Syncthing helps prevent against theft and disaster. Syncthing with an offline backup policy helps mitigate against ransomware, but unfortunately any policy that moves bits from one place to another allows an attack vector for malicious bits
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   by cybernautique 5y ago

   I replied to your toplevel, which I make note of simply because I don't want to seem as if I'm targeting you. You dislike their privacy intrusions, and I hate them for it. My life is actively made worse for their stalking, their i
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   by cybernautique 5y ago

   It's a multibillion dollar corporation that wants to track me wherever I go, whatever I do, whenever I want to connect. Facebook is a maniacal stalker. Their website is merely an innocuous facade that hides a nest of ugly, venomous, sn
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   by cybernautique 5y ago

   This is a bit extreme, but I'm of the opinion that it's literally impossible to act immorally against Facebook. It would be unfortunate if this were to happen. Ultimately, whatever is good for the goose is good for the gander, and
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   by cybernautique 5y ago

   Very disappointing. Hopefully some enterprising ransomware gang can do the world a service and encrypt all of FB's data for them, possibly upgrade all of their servers and backups to being /dev/null hosts entirely. A man can
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   by cybernautique 5y ago

   Unfortunately, I'm not given the option about whether I interact with Facebook. Their aggressive insinuation into the fabric of most websites ensures that there are very few places I can go without Mark Zuckerberg personally stalking m
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    I highly recommend the books "Octopus and Squid: the Soft Intelligence" by Jacques Yves-Costeau and "Other Minds: the Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness" by Peter Godfrey-Smith. [1] [1] https:/
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    Appreciate it! Downloading and seeding on a few different trackers :)
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    You might like the Nooniverse series by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, also known for their terrific work "Roadside Picnic."
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    I think Jan 6 was a problem in its origin, not in its means or ends. As an American, I truly do not care about people attacking Congress, or the White House, or any politician, because they are not symbols of my power anymore than my local
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    Good catch! I wonder how access to DAISY format can be made more accessible. Perhaps a service that automatically fills out the necessary paperwork?
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    Thanks for the recommendations! I'll put them on the top of my reading list. I generally consider A Fire Upon the Deep to be one of the great achievements of human imagination. Reading this book and discovering Vinge's unique visi
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    A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (1992)(archive.org)

    131 points by cybernautique 5y ago|69 comments
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    Skriders! Entities cut from this very cloth appear in Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep," one of the great achievements of human imagination. https://archive.org/details/fireupondeep00ving
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    I'm not asking you to convince me. I do study decision making. Your contention that it's to your advantage for others to not have as good of a decision making process seems like a pretty strikingly perspectiveless position; if you
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    I disagree that this is a representative parable. Putting eight blind men in a room to touch an elephant is a very controlled, very well-defined, problem; the insinuation is that if the blind people could merely collect the correct data, th
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    Honest question: why do I need more perspective than mine to make statements about my experience of the universe? Regardless of how broad or limited a statement I wish to make, the experience I have as an individual is the sum total of my r
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    Devil;s advocacy: then why so much ad spend to push pro-vaxx media? Also vaccinated, not remorseful at all. Wouldn't the responsible messaging be a huge ad wave of "talk to your doctor?" My opinion: this isn't actually a
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    Unless Google fucks things up, or citizens start making bureaucrats' lives much harder. I'm 100% in favor of people going directly to teachers, principals, counselors, on and on up until enough additional busywork is piled on top
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    They shouldn't be widespread. I will continue to hope that schools which mandate their use fall ever further out of favor. May the management be ever engaged in fights for public funding, and their allotments continue to shrivel. I&#x2
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    They're not free. They're certainly not "free" as in they respect my freedoms, nor the freedoms of any child or parent that has to dirty themselves with it. It might not be a cabal with the schools, but surveillance capi
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    No, I actually rescind what I said about you not granting me charity. With this further elaboration, I can better read your first response and see that you did indeed engage with me as I asked. I talked past you. Thank you for your engageme
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    Well, I explicitly asked for your charity. If you're unwilling to grant me that, then we're already at an impasse. Yes, what if what if what if, a hundred times over. Imagine whatever mitigations you deem appropriate to obviate th
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    > Why would you as a company need to defend yourself of accusations like this if they aren't true? I'm wildly against Kafka traps like this. However, after reading the rest of your comment, I fully agree with the spirit of your
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    I quibble with your notion that this argument needs be logically sound in the first place. Logic is about consequence; this is a question of values. It is my value judgment that Facebook is disgusting, and my arbitrary desideratum for this
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    I'm a fan of your delivery; "Unless I'm grossly mistaken about the feature set of Instagram" gave me a hearty chuckle. Anyway, if you could spare me a moment of charity and suppose that Instagram _is_ directly responsibl
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    by cybernautique 5y ago

    If it's not part of any service that's marketed to me, I won't. However, if some vendor wants to run code on my machine, I _will_ be inspecting it.