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by didntcheck 1y ago
I don't see how that follows at all. "War with x" is a factual statement with no implications of moral culpability in either direction
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by didntcheck 1y ago
That's a generous recollection. The right to create private backups was generally a very small part of people's arguments. Most discussions tended to be about justify torrenting media that they never owned, nor had any real intent
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by didntcheck 1y ago
Do you also run everything as root?
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by didntcheck 1y ago
The behavior of Windows is subject to Microsoft's whims. Microsoft could just as easily have pushed an update to Windows XP that exfiltrated sensitive screenshots too. The existence of a user-facing feature changes nothing at all here
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by didntcheck 1y ago
* Arguing about what should be doesn't alter the facts of the current situation * It's unfair to single out Windows here, when other platforms are not much better. Mechanisms for stronger sandboxing and storage firewalling do exis
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by didntcheck 2y ago
The parent post already outlined the various problems. Not wanting to deal with all of that getting in the way of your actual work doesn't make you a "script kiddie" or mean you can't format an email
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by didntcheck 2y ago
A freemium service advertizing it's premium offering hardly seems surprizing or objectional. They're not a charity
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by didntcheck 2y ago
There is also the fact that there can be legitimate uses for APIs which expose information by design One of the few good ideas Google proposed is Privacy Budget [1], which now appears to be abandoned. In short the browser estimates how much
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Can you rephrase your comment? I'm not sure what you're asking for a citation on; it sounds like you're agreeing with me. Or are you saying that not-Amazon stores have managed to streamline the experience to not require manua
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Size isn't really a factor - an average connection can download a high-quality movie within minutes. Convenience is the factor - 95% of consumers will not tolerate having to manually manage their collection and manually transfer books
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by didntcheck 2y ago
For essential personal data you're right, but a very common use case for a home NAS is a media server. The library is usually non-essential data - annoying to lose, but not critical. Combined with its large size, it's usually ha
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by didntcheck 2y ago
And yet we will still be told that these sorts of things don't exist. Or that we're the problem for complaining about them
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by didntcheck 2y ago
In the past the Lib Dems were quite good at standing up for privacy and liberties when Lab and Con were both agreeing on more intrusion, but I'm not sure if that's still the case
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Don't they almost all work on a "goodybag" model now where you top-up £x for the next month of tens of GB of data, hundreds or unlimited minutes, and unlimited texts? Using "real" balance is uncommon in my experienc
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Devil's advocate: we accept compromise of people's basic freedom of movement (via arrest) when under investigation. Even though we know a non-negligible amount are innocent, virtually everyone considers it a necessary compromise P
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Yes. Unfortunately those who thought a Labour government would be any less likely to deploy surveillance law than the Conservatives clearly do not have a very long memory. A pervasive obsession with snooping and controlling people's pr
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by didntcheck 2y ago
This is a nice project, but personally I'd favor demanding that the school come up with an alternate solution for your son that doesn't require you to supply smartphone. Rather than allowing them to shift the burden to you
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by didntcheck 2y ago
> the underlying lib could change and suddenly throw a Runtime-Exception. And what would you do in that case? Since this is a future change your existing code presumably wouldn't know what else to do but throw its own exception, so
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Nice. I have fond memories of being chased by a Flesher in one of those
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by didntcheck 2y ago
> were very rare side effects, and once those were recognized they were addressed in various ways Such as initially calling it all misinformation, and asking social media to censor it
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Science informs policy, but it doesn't create or judge it. Science can help you predict the effects of vaccinating every adult in a population, but it can't say whether you should mandate that This is hopefully incredibly obviou
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by didntcheck 2y ago
How is criticizing a particular politician [1] "antivaxx"? This intentional conflation of scientific "truth" [2] with the particular policies that a democratic government decides to implement was one of the most blatantl
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by didntcheck 2y ago
I feel similarly. I agree Musk doesn't belong in the RS, but I'd have said the same in 2018 (I missed the news). It's concerning that the author has only come to this realization now that Musk vocally disagrees with her polit
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by didntcheck 2y ago
That's unfalsifiable conjecture. I could just as easily assert that dang is building secret dossiers on all of us from our IP-request logs - we just can't see it
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by didntcheck 2y ago
I might be reading this wrong but doesn't it include four workflows, including Gitlab? The "manual way" section is grouped under the Github tab, which indicates to me that it's only explaining how the Github-specific wor
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by didntcheck 2y ago
You are right, but everyone feels they are the one special exception. And unfortunately the public sector are especially rigid in sticking to their 40 year old processes, garnished with an organization-wide god complex that they are holding
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by didntcheck 2y ago
> factors into the whole office/home debates that have been raging for 4 years Can you expand on that?
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by didntcheck 2y ago
And how is Europe doing in tech?
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by didntcheck 2y ago
Could you stop with the airy condescension and make actual comments please
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by didntcheck 2y ago
In that case the situations would be very similar, and the reporting should be essentially the same, with some word substitutions. If not, this would be indicative of double standards, which I'm glad you oppose

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