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by decasteve 5y ago
That definition of Spyware Engine has existed for a while. Every browser checks sites and downloads using Google's Safe Browsing [1]. Firefox constantly phones home to googleusercontent and AWS. Apple sends hashes of every application
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by decasteve 5y ago
In the past it could have been an anti-trust issue. Does the FTC care about this nowadays?
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by decasteve 5y ago
DDG relies on Microsoft for both search results and hosting as far as I can tell. The site itself is served from Azure endpoints.
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by decasteve 5y ago
Paraphrased from Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, in which he referred to books but I think he captures the sentiment universally: It's not the old internet you miss, it's some of the things that were in the old internet. The same
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by decasteve 5y ago
> Raising children at home. Then fetuses raised outside of the womb in an apparatus. "Brave new world", indeed.
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by decasteve 5y ago
It would be nice to see some analysis. This is just a write-up of the G7 talking points.
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by decasteve 5y ago
I wasn't trying to make a point other than sharing examples of companies, like Akamai, that store a lot of personal data on behalf of others. Storing data with Apple is storing it with Akamai, and all of the other third parties involve
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by decasteve 5y ago
Akamai and Microsoft. When your Apple device communicates with "Apple", many/most of those IP addresses are owned by Akamai. Even when you search DuckDuckGo, both the search results (Bing) and web servers that serve the conte
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by decasteve 5y ago
I struggle with the "socialization" argument for school. It's an institutional environment systemically stratified by age. How in any way does this model community life outside of school? Compared to homeschooling in a class
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by decasteve 5y ago
I think he predicted the opposite of what Bitcoin is now. Bucky thought a globally stabilized energy grid, along with computer facilitated time-energy accounting, would lead to a measure of "real" wealth and value of exchange. Bit
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by decasteve 5y ago
Or slide windows like the old Land Rovers.
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by decasteve 5y ago
I've been going deeper into the mid-19th century to pre-WWI era. I keep thinking that the war eras of the 20th century and industrial consumerism lost the diversity of ideas and art that preceded it. I've been diving into (or revi
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by decasteve 5y ago
I'm saying platforms can't have it both ways. If they want to avoid ad-blockers and video downloaders then pick another medium, or invent one and create a new thing that achieves this objective. The web is not TV. Public content o
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by decasteve 5y ago
Serving videos without ads was how YouTube's monopoly was built. It became an ad platform later. That created an expectation that YouTube was a library in the public interest. Pre-2010 Google marketing had that public interest and inte
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by decasteve 5y ago
Dairy farmers don't sell cows, they milk them.
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by decasteve 5y ago
I've had a similar thought: what consequences might there be from years of institutional classroom based learning on human development? Are there similar rates of ADHD in non-institutional learning? How do homeschooled kids, alternativ
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by decasteve 5y ago
I vowed never to watch CNN again after exclaiming how excited they were to be going back to Iraq for the 2nd war.
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by decasteve 5y ago
Brave New World becomes ever more prescient. Fahrenheit 451, too: We're Mildreds too busy being consumed by the stories of our parlour walls (social media?). Or Fabers too cowardly to really speak up and stand up to it when we had the
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by decasteve 5y ago
If I'm trying to read, watch, or listen to something of a thoughtful nature, something that requires my utmost attention to grasp or process, and reflect upon it, ads are destructive. They destroy the experience and slow or limit the l
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by decasteve 5y ago
A direct causal relationship is unlikely, however, the link between increased cyanobacteria in our waters and glyphosate spraying is possible and being studied elsewhere. New Brunswick also carried on with heavy spraying of DDT into the 198
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by decasteve 5y ago
Not just seafood but fish from remote lakes across the US and Canada which were heavily sprayed with DDT to kill the spruce budworm. This was done up until the early 1980s and now accumulated in lake beds with concerning levels still showin
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by decasteve 5y ago
The was exactly the argument for dumping nuclear waste in the ocean originally. That was until the places they once thought were dead zones are teeming with life.
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by decasteve 5y ago
Baseload is the demand side of the equation. Sure, no single wind or solar farm can meet localized baseloads over a 24 hour period, like a single nuclear or hydro station can. However, given distributed solar and wind turbines at sites acro
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by decasteve 5y ago
I don't think it's an either-or scenario. There are other options and other factors at play. The assumption of global peace for thousands of years in a world dotted with world-ending bomb material is a big gamble. The current poli
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by decasteve 5y ago
> And before I knew it (it was a very short time) I was ``playing'' - working, really - with the same old problem that I loved so much, that I had stopped working on when I went to Los Alamos: my thesis-type problems; all those
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by decasteve 6y ago
Gandhi's take on the "bread-labour" idea via Tolstoy/Bondarev puts a better perspective on issues of intellect. Bread-labour being the physical labours involved in the direct sustainment of human life. Based on their ins
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by decasteve 6y ago
School, the institution is not for everyone, and is definitely not normal, even though society has normalized it. My son went through periods of anxiety and stress through school and there was a push by a teacher and an administrator to hav
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by decasteve 6y ago
I have adjusted estimates saying that exact thing to a publisher, but never in a traditional software environment unless it was a physical injury or sickness.
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by decasteve 6y ago
These companies are not "the Internet". Why don't members of congress lead by example and delete their accounts/memberships with these social media companies? And stop spending their campaign money on social media. Boyco
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by decasteve 6y ago
The Fed printing money isn't the engine, it's the throttle. The engine is powered by a treadmill that requires everyone to run, i.e. being consummate consumers. Throttling up requires running faster, thereby increasingly consuming

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