dmatech

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by dmatech 3y ago
A lot of people don't realize that this sort of privacy right (ownership of data about you) is in direct conflict with free speech rights (which are far more protected than in Europe). We don't have a clear definition of what con
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by dmatech 3y ago
There's no reason to forbid recording at all, but police should be able to give any bystander (recording or not) a lawful order to remain at 20 feet or so in order to keep things safe. You might have the right to record, but you shoul
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by dmatech 3y ago
I'm not saying this happened here, but if a journalist engaged in hacking or fraud to obtain material to publish, that would be "journalism", but it would also be a crime (the research, not the publication). Obviously, the f
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by dmatech 3y ago
It definitely facilitates the commission of crimes, but doing that isn't a crime itself unless there is a clear conspiracy. It's just being irresponsible.
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by dmatech 3y ago
Net neutrality long assumed that backbones would merely slow down traffic, not block it entirely for opaque reasons. They're only supposed to intervene to prevent technical disruptions. I haven't spent that much time looking at
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by dmatech 3y ago
There is certain content that isn't protected by Section 230 or DMCA safe harbor, but it is pretty limited. 1. People post defamatory stuff on social media sites all the time. That's a civil matter. People can sue the poster ove
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by dmatech 3y ago
What's interesting is that the FDIV bug from 1994 could also be worked around, but Intel recalled and wrote off those processors[1]. For their latest several problems, their response was more of a "sucks to be you". While t
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by dmatech 3y ago
Interestingly, .edu is mostly only for US universities, but there are a bunch of exceptions. Basically, there used to be several "generic TLDs"[1] in addition to the "country code TLDs" (of which ".su" for Sov
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by dmatech 3y ago
The main concern these days is with people with specific mental illnesses or addictions that make them unable to comply with treatment. Schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder are some of the more obvious ones. One can argue that there&
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by dmatech 3y ago
It depends on the scenario. I can think of the following, although they're pretty similar. 1. Lost/stolen access token. 2. Lost/stolen refresh token. 3. Disabled account. In the case of systems like Azure where access tokens
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by dmatech 3y ago
You can generally start with a full data export[1] then use the API[2] to keep up with new data. 1. https://www.fitbit.com/settings/data/export 2. https://dev.fitbit.com/build/reference/w
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by dmatech 3y ago
This happened before back in 2014[1] and also involved Twitter blocking access to certain posts or accounts under the threat of a total block. What exactly are their alternatives? I suppose they could drag their feet a day or two until aft
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by dmatech 3y ago
It's not difficult to learn how all this stuff works and be careful not to lose hardware keys. But most people would rather think about other things and just call customer service if they get locked out. That's understandable, b
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by dmatech 3y ago
That's because users don't have to suffer the permanent effects of their carelessness. There will always be someone they can scream at and blame for things going wrong. Because they're the customer, and the customer is enti
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by dmatech 3y ago
That account exists purely to promote actions that would result in the destruction of the platform on which it exists. Expecting a platform to host that kind of content is unrealistic.
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by dmatech 3y ago
A lot of sites use GraphQL under the hood for the official frontend but expose more restrictive REST APIs for third party users. I suppose this is understandable because it's easier to document REST APIs and people generally can'
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by dmatech 4y ago
In that scenario, it's often because the manager has someone breathing down his neck too, so you have bad communication and high stress all up and down the org chart. But sometimes the manager is the source of his own stress and all y
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by dmatech 4y ago
Neither RW nor Wikipedia are reliable sources for what is alt-right, neo-Nazi, or any other contentious term. The terms themselves are largely a matter of opinion, and the sources used to make these determinations don't even pretend t
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by dmatech 4y ago
The most straightforward reasons would be: 1. Russia would get income from the pipeline, empowering their economy. 2. This sort of infrastructure would represent increased German dependence on Russia for their energy needs. 3. This would al
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by dmatech 4y ago
That's been the limit since sometime between November 29 [1] and December 13 [2]. The daily tweet limit has been 2400 since at least 2018-01-03 [3]. I'm not sure why the DM limit was reduced. 1. https://web.archive.or
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by dmatech 4y ago
I see far more bickering over whether or not this article is appropriate than actual discussion of the article, which is unfortunate. Unsubstantiated claims can be dismissed, but there's no requirement to do so. The NS2 destruction i
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by dmatech 4y ago
It happens with a lot of people who get burned out and just want to put their kids through college. There's nothing inherently wrong with that outlook, and those people can do good work keeping the lights on. But if you're at al
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by dmatech 4y ago
Perhaps, but the only references I saw to 2019 in the criminal complaint[1] were with respect to Tor and his phone. I don't know if he was actually under surveillance that early or if this is just stuff they later found. While there
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by dmatech 4y ago
I find this a bit less ethically questionable given that Tweetbot itself is earning monthly/annual subscription revenue from its users and then blocking ads. If Tweetbot's developer account isn't generating enough revenue to
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by dmatech 4y ago
The only real workaround is to create separate accounts for each venue that aren't obviously connected. That way, you won't get banned in one place for stuff you do in another.
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by dmatech 4y ago
There are ways to do that job that don't involve poking the proverbial dragon every waking minute. You can call Elon a hypocrite for banning people who attack him relentlessly, but all humans are hypocrites. Perhaps they should take
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by dmatech 4y ago
It linked directly to ElonJet's account there and invited people to join and follow this account. That's probably what did it. https://web.archive.org/web/20221215174053/https://twitter.c...
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by dmatech 4y ago
There'd be much more blowback for doing that. But showing stuff on Twitter that's leaked from Twitter and intended to influence Twitter is pretty dangerous.
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by dmatech 4y ago
On the contrary. This whole episode is a test to see if we're ruled by codified principles or by angry people. While I loathe that site, it's pretty clear that it's an example of legal speech between willing participants.
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by dmatech 4y ago
Swatting is not free speech. Posting the address of someone (knowing that there's a non-zero chance some idiot might use it in a swatting) is generally free speech, because negligent or reckless speech is usually protected. It's

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