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by diacritical 7mo ago
You forgot the urge we all share to store all our login information on our phone, to exclusively use it for banking, to take and store all our sensitive photos and videos, to exclusively use it for any kind of communication, to keep the mic
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by diacritical 7mo ago
So you think in this case the EFF was wrong? It seems that way, but I'm not sure I fully understand what you meant. Why wouldn't the training process be public? Another thing is that while perhaps entire copies of customers'
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by diacritical 7mo ago
Why take away people's choice to use a forum with permanent comments? I know my comments will be here forever, but so will other people's comments. That's what makes HN valuable. The alternative is what you see on reddit. A l
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by diacritical 7mo ago
Unfortunately from what I read a couple of times, including a month or so ago, GrapheneOS discourages and doesn't support rooting the phone for security reasons that seem vague to me and don't appeal to my need to actually own my
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by diacritical 7mo ago
I'm against surveillance in general and I see many people being against these glasses, yet not caring at all about surveillance cameras. Flock in the USA is a bit of an outlier in that it got some people riled up, but where I live in E
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by diacritical 7mo ago
What setup do you use for seeing image previews (or the images themselves?) on a terminal in Linux?
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by diacritical 7mo ago
I could add 3 off the top of my head. Probably a couple more. Privacy conscious people who aren't techies. Some have tried Linux, some don't know what a "browser" or "SD card" is. If features like phone calls,
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by diacritical 7mo ago
I'm not a dualist or anything. I'm in the "it's weird and I have no idea what the answer is" camp. And yes, I've read Dennett. I'm trying to understand your views. Lots of questions follow, but don't
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by diacritical 7mo ago
Randomness doesn't imply free will. What if you/I are NPCs that just roll the dice before doing something? It's not you that chose the outcome, it's the dice, i.e. the laws of physics. I don't know how free will c
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by diacritical 7mo ago
People who block ads are a minority. Sites that serve heavy content like video would care if someone wastes their resources but blocks ads, but why would a site that serves a few KBs of text spend the resources on blocking such users or mak
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by diacritical 7mo ago
Sorry for the late reply. I can't recommend specific HW as I'm not using anything new or beefy and I'm not running any CPU or GPU intensive things on Qubes. There's the Qubes Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) where peopl
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by diacritical 7mo ago
Just posted about Qubes a minute after you did, but I don't find it painful or even time consuming. Initially there was a learning curve, but even if the security of Qubes became the same as the security of a baremetal OS, I would stil
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by diacritical 7mo ago
Is there anything more secure than Qubes, assuming enough hardware resources? I'm asking about existing solutions, not theoretical ones. Given its track record so far, I'm betting not, but I'd love to be proven wrong. Adding
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by diacritical 8mo ago
I'm in Europe and haven't experienced the US public transportation system, so I can't offer an opinion, but in my country the number of stops seem to have a negligible effect on the average speed. Most of the slowness comes f
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by diacritical 8mo ago
If the comment is not sarcasm (I can't tell reliably anymore), there's a movie called Idiocracy. I think the word comes from the movie, or at least its wide adoption was heavily influenced by it (because someone somewhere probably
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by diacritical 8mo ago
I think restricting the allowed characters should apply to usernames and other unique identifiers that can lead to confusion (admin vs аdmin with a Cyrillic "а"). So if I write my name as "José", I should be able to make