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by dane-pgp 4y ago
No, the cloud systems still need to be there (to track when you are trying to use your identity), but they will rely on private keys that you can surgically implant in your limbs. In fact a more realistic (but symbolically equivalent) scena
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
But what if the couch wasn't panther-print but made from actual panther hide? Is a dead panther still a panther? How much of the panther's body has to be visible for the object depicted to still be a panther? I'm reminded o
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> a love of making up foreign sounding words One great example of this phenomenon is "Häagen-Dazs".[0] Admittedly that's a brand name, rather than a specific dish, but I assume that Dalle-2 would generate an image of ice c
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> * It's a fermentation process, so it takes heat and water, not just air. To be fair, if the heat is from solar or wind energy, and the water is collected from rain (which I guess includes river water?) then those are also "ou
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> only achievable by introducing a National ID card That's about to be required for elections, and it's already a requirement for resident non-citizens[0]. The system might be a little more complicated for people just visiting
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The NSPCC are spending literally almost their entire lobbying budget on it due to the personal obsession of key staff If we're still wearing our tin foil hats, I have to ask how did these people become key staff, and what links do
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
"India's dodgy mass surveillance project should concern us all" "Biometric ID card project Aadhaar links almost every part of a citizen's personal life to a state database" https://www.wired.co.uk&#x
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> 'What's being proposed is that we ... read everyone's messages. I don't think people want that' Just as people need a frequent reminder that "in the Cloud" really means "on someone else's co
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WhatsApp boss says no to AI filters policing encrypted chat(theregister.com)
22 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|5 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This issue was brilliantly parodied by Penny Arcade back in the day: > ESRB employee: "What about games with infinite replayability, or ones that include procedurally generated content?" > Bureaucrat: "I don't unde
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Interestingly, people were predicting[0] in 2018 that the robotic equivalent of this task would be solved by 2023: > The team also predicts that by the year 2023, a machine will be able to “physically assemble any Lego set given the piec
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
If the target knows that the adversary is going to keep torturing them until they die, then what incentive do they have to divulge anything? As soon as the torturer tells you that they don't know how many secrets you have, you can just
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Presumably you won't charge your friends to send you emails, so you'll need a rule that exempts people you've whitelisted. Then there are the spammers, who won't adopt your system, so you'll never receive their emai
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It's a "binary transparency" system, allowing software developers to publish the hashes of their releases, signed with their project-specific key, to protect the software supply chain. In particular, it can protect against co
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> there is a difference between government providing access to services which citizens can choose to avail themselves of, and government legislating reproduction directly. Yes, and between those two extremes is the more modest approach o
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Yes, the title corresponds to this article: "Britain will soon have a glut of cheap power, and world-leading batteries to store it" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/07/28/britain-will..
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US nuclear power: Status, prospects, and climate implications(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|0 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Providing free (at the point of use) health care, and making sure children don't go hungry, and even providing tax benefits to couples who raise children, are all perfectly constitutional policies that don't encroach on civil libe
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> reproduction is not a state concern But population growth rate (or decline) is absolutely a concern of the state, and reproduction is a significant contributor to that. In fact, one could argue that if a state has an interest in provi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Personally I like the idea of using Matrix (the E2EE, decentralised chat system) as a backend for websites. It potentially spares website creators from worrying about user management, encryption, data persistence, data portability, and some
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
"systemd may not like being cross-graded"[0] In other words, Lennart is not interested in your use cases, so they must be sacrificed for his grand vision. [0] https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading#Caution_with_syste
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Electoral reform is a necessary pre-condition for a third party to have any power at the state or federal level at all. It's not enough to have policies and politicians that appeal to people who currently vote for the major parties, yo
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think strategically they should encourage their voters to support whichever major party supports electoral reform (adopting a voting system that doesn't have the spoiler effect), and only vote third party if neither of them do. In pr
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Maybe Scotland? "A total of 97.4% of gross energy consumption came from renewables, a rise of 8% on the year before." "Of the Scottish Government’s renewable electricity target for 2015-2020, onshore wind accounted for 60.3%
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Subjects of opposing cultural outlooks who were assigned to the same experimental condition (and thus had the same belief about the nature of the protest) disagreed sharply on key “facts” — including whether the pr
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> it will cost me about $3,000 in FOIA search fees [6]. I'm not asking for funds I think if you did launch a crowdfunding campaign, you could easily reach that level, and possibly as a stretch goal you could hire some lawyers and in
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think one basic argument against nuclear is that it can't produce energy as cheaply as renewables (and nuclear energy is getting more expensive while renewables are getting cheaper). If we had decided to invest heavily in nuclear 20
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
"ex-".
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> For 10 years, MI5 has been knowingly breaking the rules and failing to report it, and the government has failed to investigate clear red flags. There has been no proper investigation into MI5’s breaches by the Home Office despite havin
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Home Office ‘unlawfully’ approved MI5 bulk surveillance warrants(computerweekly.com)
18 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|4 comments

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