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by dcow 1y ago
Interesting. > Some people actually made a deliberate act to let innocent people take the blame. And those people are at fault and should be criminally prosecuted for the harm they caused.
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by dcow 1y ago
I’m fine with that. And I agree with the sentiment, just not the conclusion that we should be reporting these as not-suicide. If the original comment was indeed that tempered then I have no issue.
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by dcow 1y ago
It’s still suicide. The wrongfully imprisoned can be acquitted. That’s part of the argument against the death penalty: if justice is imperfect then don’t take actions that are permanent. You can’t classify every instance of miscarriage of j
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by dcow 1y ago
You have to pick one and stick to it. The mess of hybrid public private gets you the worst of both.
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by dcow 1y ago
It’s pathetic how bad America has become at managing capitalism. Being able to profit is a privilege not some god given right. We as a society, instead of making all these silly little taxes and regulations, should simple make broad and cur
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by dcow 1y ago
It’s not limited to games either. How many TV shows and movies in the last 10 years have shit the bed because instead of taking a good proven story from society and adapting it for screen, they decided that people actually want to hear a di
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by dcow 1y ago
I’ve been in charge of a 3rd party authenticator passkey implementation twice and both times the platform (be that chrome or apple) unfairly leveraged their position to push their solution above 3rd party options. Apple, in its most recent
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by dcow 1y ago
Unless people use weak passwords today, all their passwords are scattered across various browsers and system autofill, unless they use a PW manager deliberately, in which case they’re “locked in”. One of the couterpoints here is that while
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by dcow 1y ago
No, in this case it is actually an industry standard: https://fidoalliance.org/specifications-credential-exchange-...
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by dcow 1y ago
There is an industry standard being deployed for passkey (and other credential) import/export so that everything will work together seamlessly. Most players are waiting for that so there aren’t N different formats floating around that
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by dcow 1y ago
FWIW you’re supposed to use one passkey synced across your all devices where your PW manager (Dashlane) is installed. The fact that Dashlane let you so easily do the wrong thing might be an issue of their early/unrefined support for pa
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by dcow 1y ago
We’re talking about a language preference cookie. How is that a privacy concern?
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by dcow 1y ago
No you didn’t. You’re misunderstanding the classification of strictly necessary vs functional vs marketing/tracking cookies. Go talk to a lawyer. I’m sure they will clear things up for you.
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by dcow 1y ago
We got it from understanding the legal difference between strictly-necessary and functional cookies. I’ve received legal advice on this topic. The law is crap. It is bad and harmful and botches a nuanced topic. That’s my original point.
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by dcow 1y ago
The wording is annoying, but no. I’ve received legal advice on this topic. Functional cookies are not strictly necessary. It seems very backwards but it’s how the industry currently treats things.
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by dcow 1y ago
You didn't read what I sent. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434919 The GDPR is different from the ePrivacy Directive. The EPD is responsible for cookie consent. And it has the language addressing preferences co
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by dcow 1y ago
A language preference cookie is colloquially considered a preferences cookie, which is included in the except strictly necessary cookies.
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by dcow 1y ago
You can’t listen for incoming traffic persistently.
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by dcow 1y ago
I think if there ever was an indicator that some function should be owned by the public, it’s when the public has come to expect it exists for free, when the social expectation is this thing is so fundamental and necessary that paying for i
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by dcow 1y ago
You get to charge royalties and license fees.
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by dcow 1y ago
You don’t need a shopping cart either. Just make the user write down the skus from your online catalog and send you a purchase order. Products exist on spectrum and the ones that win are typically easier and more convenient to use. If you
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by dcow 1y ago
Read: https://gdpr.eu/cookies/ …after you dismiss the cookie banner, of course. I add this not only as a quip but to highlight that even a gdpr explainer website which you’d expect isn’t doing the evil thing of trackin
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by dcow 1y ago
No I am referring to the EPD as I state in my comment, an acronym you should know since it’s defined in the explainer you link. As someone who has experience in this area, it’s not as simple as “just use the Accept-Language header it will b
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by dcow 1y ago
Imagine how quickly we’d answer the question of whether consumers actually prefer Apple’s walled garden and are voting with their wallets, or if they’re just locked in and being taken advantage of, if 3rd party app stores with much lower o
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by dcow 1y ago
I don’t think the qualifier was necessary. I think it was used to describe the obvious nature of anyone owning the sole software distribution means on their platform, it gives them a de facto monopoly on that means as opposed to a natural?
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by dcow 1y ago
That’s covered by the compulsory license part of the comment. Say Apple has a patent on the iPhone, Apple must license the iPhone itself to me at a reasonable fee. Then I can go sell jPhones all day to compete.
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by dcow 1y ago
I didn't even know you could change the default mail app on iOS and I’ve used it for the better part of a decade now, as a Proton user too. I’ve endured the frustration because I thought it was fixed. Either being allowed to change it
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by dcow 1y ago
I am plugged into the Apple ecosystem daily and shamelessly and yeah I think it’s arguably accurate. What makes it so sinister is how benign it seems yet how devastating the consequences have been.
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by dcow 1y ago
Setting a language preference cookie is not tracking and I will die on that hill. The law requires consent before using a cookie to store even a mundane option that was just directly modified by a user. Collecting a crash report is not trac
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by dcow 1y ago
Which says nothing about a business profiling customers that walk through the door and selling its profiles to aggregators. It says nothing about requiring consent before soliciting individuals or subjecting them to psychologically manipula

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