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by drngdds 8y ago
It has never been the US government's job to decide which speech is 'harmful' and should be silenced. The First Amendment prevents that. (Of course, some things like slander are illegal, but that's nothing like the &#x27
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by drngdds 8y ago
Copyright holders (not synonymous with the authors, btw) don't actually have a right to be the sole distributors of a product for all of eternity. The law says they do, but it's a dumb law, and you don't have any moral obliga
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by drngdds 8y ago
I sincerely thought that was promotional material for some religion or cult
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>alternative information The phrase your looking for is "dangerous lies"
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by drngdds 8y ago
Your best option by far for mobile gaming (if you're on Android) is to install an emulator for an old console/handheld and download/rip some games. It's unfortunate how bad the state of mobile gaming is, considering how
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by drngdds 8y ago
>I don't want to just donate to charities, I want to end systemic problems that lead to charities needing to exist in the first place. You could give some of your salary to political groups that you think will help fix those systemi
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I liked computers and the idea of having a good job, so I decided to study computer science. By complete coincidence, I ended up liking it.
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That seems like pretty straightforward (though presumptuous) advice to me
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This seems like really flimsy reasoning. Sometimes news stories are wrong, therefore 90% of what you hear about Facebook is false?
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No, but when real 5G comes out, they won't care because they think that they've already seen 5G and it's not that good.
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by drngdds 8y ago
I find that the ability to search through all available actions with Ctrl+shift+P makes things very discoverable.
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>They are quite neutral and generally "human friendly". They are certainly reasonable and human-friendly! But "you shouldn't be xenophobic or transphobic" is still, unfortunately, a relatively left-wing idea. It
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by drngdds 8y ago
Each server can have its own rules and can choose to block whichever other servers it wants. But besides that, they're pretty similar. The big draw of Mastodon is that it doesn't really matter that much which server you use. If
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by drngdds 8y ago
I'm pretty lost too. It reads like the second half of an article with no context.
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This is one of many reasons that hypercentralization is bad. You can't have one company arbitrarily decide to kill 12.5 million blogs if those blogs aren't hosted by one company, or even any company at all.
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There are memory-safe languages that aren't Javascript, you know
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by drngdds 8y ago
I wonder why Valve is bothering with this. People who use Linux exclusively are probably too small of a market right now for this to be a profitable endeavor. Maybe they're gearing up to revitalize SteamOS and Steam Machines?
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by drngdds 8y ago
It's both. The latter isn't the intended use, of course.
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by drngdds 8y ago
Your best option is probably to make as much money as you can without being evil and donate a ton of it to Givewell[0]-approved effective charities. Givewell is a group that analyzes charities to determine which ones do the most good per do
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by drngdds 8y ago
Definitely, but being addicted to something that will make you chronically ill and kill you is much worse than being addicted to something that won't.
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1. Money. 2. As you can see among other replies, people can find ways to justify anything. It doesn't matter that you deliberately create an addictive product and aid authoritarian leaders; if people use your product, that must mean wh
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If companies can't be trusted to act carefully and responsibly with users' data, then I think that's a problem with the companies.
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That's actually a good policy though, because meat is bad
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>better things are at the horizon. Anything in particular?
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by drngdds 8y ago
Using Blind with your company email on the company WiFi seems really dumb? Maybe I'm paranoid, but I act as though everything that goes through my company WiFi and on my company computer is being tracked and stored in some database for
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Only if they would otherwise spend that time working, which seems unlikely.
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>This is a very wide net and immediately includes effectively every free software developer, and the employees of every tech company. This doesn't seem very meaningful? I live in the US. If the Australian government goes to me and t
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by drngdds 8y ago
You're telling me Facebook is evil and does bad things with users' data?
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They don't matter very much here because unlike cows, spiders probably can't experience suffering.
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by drngdds 8y ago
What does this add over Privacy Badger + uBlock Origin?

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