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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the increasing acceptance of authoritarianism That's right, and with the remote attestation capabilities of Secure Boot implementations, governments will finally be able to demand that every device sold has to be running an up-to-
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Perhaps you are familiar with (or would support) the idea behind futarchy, which is sometimes expressed as "Vote on Values, Bet on Beliefs": http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/futarchy.html
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Draft rules circulated in June ( https://bit.ly/3KIrfuM ) ... said that significant social media messaging platforms shall allow identification of the first originator of information if directed by courts to do so. Is th
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WhatsApp bans 2.4M Indian accounts in July – monthly report(reuters.com)
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
But it's exactly the same mistake as the supposed "starve the beast" policy. If someone really doesn't trust the government to spend money on the right programs, then they shouldn't expect that reducing tax revenue
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> "60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion — which disenfranchises voters — a Democrat 'won,'" This is why we can't have nice things. I can see why p
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Do these emails interoperate with other E2EE providers like Proton?
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Unfortunately the name XDefense was already taken by Nintendo. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/X_Defense
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> In the latter you can spin up a new service in a couple of hours. In the former a couple of months is a blistering pace. In the latter you can harm society in ways that take a couple of hours to fix. In the former, you can cause harms
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Most of us will have illegal, unregistered phones then, running hacked firmware. How easy is it to hack an iPhone to make it run unsigned code, which reports to a remote server that it is running the latest iOS version (with the correc
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Shortly thereafter (if not before), governments will make it illegal to go online with a device that doesn't do a remote attestation with Secure Boot, and they'll require that the OS has a system like Gatekeeper[0] which checks a
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Possibly even unconstitutionally vague.[0] If a law requires someone to accurately predict the future actions of large numbers of people they've never met, then that seems (to my non-expert understanding) like an unreasonable burden o
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Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Comments on CA AB 2273)(blog.ericgoldman.org)
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> Legal writer Eric Goldman, one of AB 2273’s most outspoken critics, has called the requirement to establish users’ ages a “poison pill for the internet.” Did the politicians not hear (even from lobbyists) about this age verification re
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California passes sweeping online safety rules for kids(theverge.com)
3 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|1 comments
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I generally agree with your comment, but I think your love of guns slightly detracts from the point you are trying to make. Sure, in the US, the 2nd Amendment does relate to a right/liberty, but other countries have managed to enjoy gr
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These are the right questions to ask. I suspect that if one were to follow the money behind who is pushing for this law, those questions could be answered.
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That race arguably started over a decade ago, when age verification cameras on Japanese cigarette vending machines were defeated by "a photo of an older person clipped from a magazine": https://hackaday.com/2008&#x
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
You say that, but what if Apple helpfully adds this feature to iPhones, like they added support for digital driver's licenses, Covid passes, and (almost) client side scanning for illegal material? For iPhone users who use Face ID, it c
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> For some higher risk use cases, the age check may involve a liveness test where the user must ... record a short video saying phrases requested by the provider. How long before some profit-maximizing vice president suggests that the re
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I used to wonder "What would Social Networking look like if it were based on self-hosted pages written with microformats like h-card[0]?", but presumably the answer is "a privacy nightmare" (even more so than existing so
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Fine... add it to the montage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7oZ-AQszEI
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> In Nevada, Marchant has been leading a state and local push to dump ballot tabulators and count results by hand only, which election experts say would be costlier, more time-consuming and less accurate. “We all are advocating for getti
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When an election denier becomes an election chief(politico.com)
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> all software will be open source, and no one will make money with software. The first half of that statement doesn't imply the second half at all. Perhaps, in the future, companies will see the writing on the wall and plan on re-l
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Well, historically speaking, the Law.
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> There is no outside group that has a say or is somehow being oppressed when we decide that we do not want a child I guess you're counting the child him/herself as an "outside group" in this process too.
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Or gamblers, or entrepreneurs. I don't know why you'd single out schizophrenics. Well, actually I do know why, but I still don't think it's a reasonable example for you to highlight.
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> But another way to think of it is: you had a choice to decide if your child can see. You chose to give them sight. Yet another way to think of it is: you had a choice to decide whether your blind child should live. You chose that they
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> was immaculately conceived, walked on water, turned water into wine, all things that you and I know are inconsistent with reality. All those things are completely consistent with reality. Every year there are virgin births[0] (not imm

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