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by duckfang 5y ago
It should be blatantly obvious that is is, especially in cases where software is making actionable decisions. Is the software trained on sexist, ableist, racist, etc content that is illegal or deadly when applied to decisions? To answer tha
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by duckfang 5y ago
I'm glad to see most Limes and Birds gone. More often than not, they ended up in roads, across sidewalks blocking access, thrown in parking spots, in lakes rivers and other deep-enough bodies of water, thrown off parking structures, an
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by duckfang 5y ago
From what I gather, they're a: Expensive and hugely expansible webapp built on top of Oracle that allows admins to make and track customers through the sales pipeline using various methods. The software's intent is for marketing,
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by duckfang 5y ago
I scanned my own page on GL... And the findings are in parity with about.gitlab.com . Except there's 32 third-party cookies on my repo versus 22 on the marketing landing page (about.gitlab.com) So I'd classify it as worse than the
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by duckfang 5y ago
And folks, this is why I pirate. Why purchase and download and be on a hope and prayer that I retain my stuff? If I download from a pirate source, I'll always retain my goods. And https://xkcd.com/488/ is eminentl
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Kyle Vogt of Cruise Automation (YC16) blocking people who question sped up video(twitter.com)
8 points by duckfang 5y ago|0 comments
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by duckfang 5y ago
1. No informed consent that your device can do this 2. No positive consent to use it 3. No positive consent to allow others to use it on your behalf 4. Who controls the spy network? 5. They are using your bandwi
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by duckfang 5y ago
But GNS3 can (if you <ahem> have license to cisco firmware) can emulate routers fully. That's really a different use case where you're designing the back-haul for the company or university. But that's super powerful as
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by duckfang 5y ago
Lets be clear here. You were not held at gunpoint to sign this. The worst case is "dont work at IBM".
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by duckfang 5y ago
> It's true but they also have a reasonable set of processes for open sourcing things. So its "mother may I?" for the 'privilege' of working for such a shit company? For a company to claim ownership of everything
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by duckfang 5y ago
With Signal, it means your friends can rat you out by them sharing their address book.
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by duckfang 5y ago
> I allow my boss to be very demanding. Want me to take an important customer call during holidays? Sure, I can convince my wife to allow that. Want me to work a week in a different timezone? Let me check first, but should be doable. Th
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by duckfang 5y ago
Whenever places wantba phone number for ad and/or discount stuff, use: (Local area code) 867-5309 There's always an account, and it's a 100% gamble if this purchase you get something.
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by duckfang 5y ago
To be honest, I didn't read that screed that far down. But his apologies are the same ilk we saw back in 2000's of how the GPL would never take off.... And look where we are now. The AGPL will also take off, once we achieve critic
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by duckfang 5y ago
<Quote> In the 2020s, the enemy of freedom in computing is cloud software (aka software as a service/SaaS, aka web apps) – i.e. software that runs primarily on the vendor’s servers, with all your data also stored on those server
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by duckfang 5y ago
I think it's the "1$ = 1 vote" is the issue here. That means a single person with lots of money can literally buy their way over all others.
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by duckfang 5y ago
100% correct. This at best will only stop casual and inadvertent clicks to piracy sites. And harder yet is to define piracy itself - Should the Canadian government be protecting copyright not under its purview? How about US copyright? Or Eu
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by duckfang 5y ago
And the unfortunate "solution" to that is the following. Thing = $399 Plastic case of $thing = $1000 And I only wish I were kidding. I've seen plenty of things put out for washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, and vehicles
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by duckfang 5y ago
Sure, the article is about PS3 and PS4, but this scope really covers all digital "assets" that you "buy" (for various definitions of buy). The more we see, purchases involving proprietary software/firmware are incre
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by duckfang 5y ago
Wow, the bots are out in full force on this thread. I've seen the proof on twitter and elsewhere it was 100% an option in the GUI. Enough of your gaslighting, Synology.
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by duckfang 5y ago
Birth control is already severe blood clots at 1:1000 . Only affects people with uteruses. That's cool. This is 1:1000000 of a severe event, but affects men as well. HOLD THE LINE - It affects a.... Man!
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by duckfang 6y ago
This seems very similar to Hyperloop, up to the low pressure tube, super cheap per ride, intercontinental, and returns energy to system.
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by duckfang 6y ago
> This, exactly this, is the problem with people in the union-mindset. "Oh it's unlimited, that means we don't need to work at all, right?" It means you have a certain amount of accountability and responsibility: &quo
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by duckfang 6y ago
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li... And research in logs and events can either be quick or very slow, depending on what you're looking for. And it's also easy to slop out slow bad code,
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by duckfang 6y ago
> hard to fire bad performers In the jobs that I do, "bad performance" is super subjective and very hard to measure. It's also the common canard to use from the managerial class to get rid of someone they don't like.
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by duckfang 6y ago
Then I didn't quite get my point across. I'm not at all saying "Be antisocial at work". That just makes for a shitty time for everyone. What I was trying to get to was "dont use work as a way to make friends as well
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by duckfang 6y ago
Because your "family's parents" (aka: managerial class) have absolutely no compunctions about firing you at the drop of a hat, and thus evicting you from your "work family". I'm not saying to be rude - be nice
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by duckfang 6y ago
I don't go to work to socialize. I go to work to make money. And if I had enough money, I wouldn't work for someone else at all. I socialize by going to conventions, events, clubs, parties; with people I want to be around.
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by duckfang 6y ago
Yep, rules for thee and not for me. Companies subcontract all day long. And they rely on cheap labor to do this. And the company benefits. Yet when the person (not a fake person like a company) does this, it's a "firable offense&q
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by duckfang 6y ago
Yes you are correct that unemployment insurance is taken out of a check, and paid in part by the company. HOWEVER in many states, and the further republican/red it is, the more onerous it is to be granted it. It'd be a whole diffe

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