deogeo

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by deogeo 7y ago
Blocking add-ons, with no way for the user to circumvent that block, still seems extremely against the FOSS spirit to me. The point of FOSS is to not move control over to some 3rd party, even if it is for "your own good".
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by deogeo 7y ago
> "Financially it really wiped me away. I had to declare bankruptcy. They said if I didn't pay it back they'd take me to prison. They said I was the only case," he said. Were they the first ones, or did the Post Offic
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by deogeo 7y ago
No need for telemetry. Keep a local log (of what you would be sending via telemetry), and when the player decides to file a bug, inform them that'll include sending the log, with the option to cancel/file bug without a log. Many
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by deogeo 7y ago
Because the coverage doesn't reflect the polls? Is your logic "He's not suppressed - if he's not getting covered it means he's irrelevant. If polls show he is relevant, your awareness of the polls counts as covera
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by deogeo 7y ago
> irrelevant to your average American Did you miss all the polls where he's 1st or 2nd?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Impeding medical progress so that they may profit. And the expensive legal firm knows the complaint is without merit. They are knowingly lying about the law, to make their client money, and make life harder for sick people. None of the pe
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by deogeo 7y ago
> employees' freedom to work wherever they want to and can But what about the employers freedom to restrict who their employees can work for??
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'm not sure, but I believe the EU doesn't grant this one-year gap - it becomes unpatentable as soon as it's published.
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by deogeo 7y ago
As a counterpoint, the Chinese police in Hong Kong are exactly an anonymous arm of the law (masks included), specifically because it would be harder to get locals to be so cruel to their own. It's little surprise people want to keep at
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by deogeo 7y ago
I think this counts as a "general warrant", and is probably unconstitutional. To find which phones were in an area, the location history of everyone has to be searched. But warrants for everyone's location would be illegal,
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by deogeo 7y ago
Cameras and phone surveillance and miniature microphones are also new. When technology encroaches upon privacy, "that's just the way things are!", but when it protects it, "it's new and different and must be restric
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by deogeo 7y ago
So what makes E2E encryption different, that the same arguments don't apply to other difficult-to-spy-on places? I think people should be made acutely aware it's not an assault on encryption - it's an assault on their right t
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by deogeo 7y ago
What if they talk with someone while walking through a forest? Should that also be forbidden, because it's difficult to spy on?
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by deogeo 7y ago
I did not want to imply it's not a problem, but to highlight how untrustworthy the New York Times was, and still is. Compare this with their coverage of a different revelation of state secrets: the US pressuring the UK to sell out thei
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by deogeo 7y ago
> In fact, we were never able to view the contents of his phone They were also never able to learn what was said in the van before the London Bridge attack [1]. Are we okay with Renault providing a law-free space inside their vehicles? A
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by deogeo 7y ago
Wouldn't it be more fair it the Times waited until after the election to publish this piece? They used to know better: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/eff-nytimes-dont-get-f... Edit: I was being e
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by deogeo 7y ago
Good news! China has solved the problem by watching everyone , finally giving us what we all want - crushing levels of omnipresent surveillance, without any diversity-harming biased sampling. Because that's the worst part about survei
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by deogeo 7y ago
Google unilaterally making some browsers unusable is not a 'discussion'.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Isn't it time to consider writing a new Constitution then? Look at the state of the ruling parties in the US - what kind of constitution do you think you'll get?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Last week, Reddit said the document had links to a Russian disinformation campaign, raising fresh questions about foreign interference in the campaign, though the document itself seemed to be accurate. Informing people about what their
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by deogeo 7y ago
The US isn't far behind: https://reason.com/2019/01/03/good-news-ladies-the-military-...
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by deogeo 7y ago
The topic was where does the increased dual-income money go. The poster provided very strong (anecdotal) evidence that it's captured by housing. And as a non-American, from an ex-Communist state, where salaries are still a fraction of
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by deogeo 7y ago
That doesn't make their claim that their results for an Asian country are representative for the US any less suspect. Asian and Western cultures are very different. These are not anecdotal observations mind you - it's well documen
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I would be very careful about making that large a generalization Sure - but then, lets also not generalize in the opposite direction. How many women get to work, versus how many have to work?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Fix Earth's climate crisis instead of dreaming of other planets Fix Earth's climate crisis instead of investing billions in high-frequency trading and other adversarial financial instruments. Fix Earth's climate crisis i
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by deogeo 7y ago
I too remember when Twitter widely censored protesting against US police and foreign policy. /s
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by deogeo 7y ago
If you wait till you're affected, it's too late. Take secure boot for example - should we wait until there are no computers on the market where the user can unlock it, before we complain? Because that's what it would take for
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'd be cautious about dubbing the Russians 'friends', but 'enemy of my enemy' is worryingly relevant. Why do we have to rely on hostile superpowers to learn what our own governments are doing? Secrecy doesn't g
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by deogeo 7y ago
Every time you buy media legally, you fund these kinds of laws. Not only are media conglomerates not our friends, they are openly hostile to the rights the growing IP laws have not yet robbed us of.
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by deogeo 7y ago
They have different laws . They don't represent the views of everyone in those countries - sometimes not even a majority. Although public opinion on legal matters is generally confused at best.

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