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by dns_snek 1y ago
Let me be more specific, how much division, hatred, pain, and violence does a person have to be responsible for before it's socially acceptable to express an opinion that the world is better off without them? How much before it's
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> the same standard of being polite and reasonable person should apply. I'm curious how standard this "standard" is, did you (and the rest of America) mourn the death of Osama bin Laden? Did you express condolences to his
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Neither does the EU. The DMA only concerns itself with the products and services they offer on the EU market.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> they should just prevent collusion and regulatory capture monopolies. Is there any reason why you're picking your words so carefully as to include "regulatory capture monopolies" but exclude "anti-competitive behavi
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Some of my other favorite bits from where that came from [1] > In its notice of compliance and at the May 2024 hearing, Apple claimed that restrictions on link placement protect against “security risks.” Again, Apple attempted to mislead
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> Please don’t turn this into another “malicious compliance evil-corporate conspiracy” meme like GDPR is on this site. It doesn’t cultivate intellectual curiosity, just flame wars, and is making me want to not hang out here anymore. This
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by dns_snek 1y ago
It's not an argument, it's a factual answer. Apple has to comply with the law. And yes, it also happens to be a good law that promotes competition and curbs anti-competitive abuses.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
What does that have to do with Chat Control? You need better parental controls offered by iOS, Android, Windows, etc. Chat Control is chiefly about scanning and censoring every private message sent between adults under the guise of stopping
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Typical meme comment with zero substance. The DMA is a competition-promoting regulation which will breed innovation as long as it's properly enforced. Inventing a substandard product and using your market dominance in one area to ensur
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by dns_snek 1y ago
The EU, that's who. The law exists because these policies stifle competition and prevent the proper functioning of the free market and the DMA is a small step to restore the competitive balance. It's bizarre that you're even
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> If you want to stop things like Chat Control, give parents an alternative No! It is not my job to appease your fantasies. It is your job to first and foremost prove that Chat Control will effectively curb child abuse, which proponent
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Never? What are your views on violence as self-defense, violence against tyrannical governments, and the 2nd amendment?
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by dns_snek 1y ago
It won't help you with those specific cases no, but Chat Control would be the perfect tool to monitor and stop the spread of information between regular citizens who are trying to organize against the government, just look at China. It
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> Another political solution? Not going to happen. I hold out some hope that the EU "faction" responsible for the DMA makes enough progress in the coming years to make the lives of Chat Control proponents difficult by fighting
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by dns_snek 1y ago
A type of exploit (Remote Code Execution) that can be used to secretly infect your device with spyware without requiring any interaction from you (0-click).
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> If 99% of the population don't care about your issue, you're not going to win the political fight Indeed, that's why I'm not very hopeful about the future of our privacy. We will need technical solutions to Chat Con
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by dns_snek 1y ago
"I can still use GPG" isn't a win condition you seem to think it is. Authoritarian governments will be perfectly happy to let you continue using GPG as long as the remaining 99% of society continues using monitored/censo
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by dns_snek 1y ago
It's not a technical problem. Chat Control wasn't about breaking encryption, it would bypass encryption with client-side scanning. It targets the apathetic 99% of the population who won't have the energy or knowledge to do an
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by dns_snek 1y ago
What is actually a meme is this need to squash the entire universe of unrelated political beliefs into a single axis of "left vs right". The Democratic party is just as, if not more socially progressive than many European "le
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Why do you care about determinism in a probabilistic system? What difference does it make to the end user if the input "How do I X?" always produces the same deterministic output when semantically equivalent inputs "how do i
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Just to be clear, I don't think security improvements like this are the problem, they're genuinely welcome and appreciated. The problem is when this technology is weaponized against us by removing the escape hatches to stifle our
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> I don't know what rhetoric you are taking about. The rhetoric of blaming consumers for buying the wrong product when they complain about hostile features on Apple's side of the duopoly, and then blaming them again when they s
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> Buy hardware that supports running your own software without fighting you. It will be very hard to buy something that won't exist in the near future. This rhetoric should've died a decade ago.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
I think that's impossible to do with an extension, there are far too many holes to plug and it's a moving target, it has to be done in the browser. I believe GrapheneOS is trying to do that with Vanadium (security and privacy hard
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> If a video isn't worth waiting 10-60 seconds for, is the video even worth watching? I won't know that until the video starts playing. I'm not watching a 90 minute movie here and I don't know if the video I'm a
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Generally speaking youth have more than enough money to pay the same rates advertisers pay. But publishers want to take users who earn them $0.10 per month through ads and charge them $10 per month as a subscription, that's where the b
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by dns_snek 1y ago
My eyeballs and attention are not for sale, I will pay you a reasonable fee for your effort but I will never watch ads and subject myself to tracking as payment, just like I won't provide you with sexual favours as payment, no matter h
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by dns_snek 1y ago
It doesn't stop there, it would also fake-buffer when you jumped to a different point in the video, it would be stuck in a broken transitional UI state for 10-30 seconds any time you navigated to a different page. Clearly they want peo
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by dns_snek 1y ago
You don't think it's fair to expect a trillion-dollar business to implement effective technical measures to stop rogue (or hacked!) employees from accessing personal information about their users? I'm not talking about small
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Don't you think that was the first thing I tried?

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