easytiger

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by easytiger 1y ago
However, I think the UK government is just trying to protect people (children in particular) from what it considers harmful content. I can't come close to agreeing. The same minister pushing this, who is by his own admission semi lit
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by easytiger 1y ago
> This law sucks for so many reasons, and is inane, but the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil. A little naivety methinks. You should say rather ... the risk to micro-bloggers of £18M+ fines is, in reality, nil.
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by easytiger 1y ago
Obviously not all homes are suitable for this. Not all people buying a home will want the maintenance burden, the insurance risk is higher. I have a massive solar array on a house in a very sunny country and even in winter there the cost be
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by easytiger 1y ago
I'll have to listen to the podcast later but what's the predicate for the determination of their age?
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by easytiger 2y ago
I would hope so
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by easytiger 2y ago
The title does not say that
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by easytiger 2y ago
Making statements in support of or in support of the actions of a proscribed terrorist group.
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by easytiger 2y ago
I've no idea who we is. For a start the vector is very different. And I don't doubt there are unknown other attacks. But I'm discussing attacks we know about because they put them in policy papers and legislation. Absurd di
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by easytiger 2y ago
I genuinely have no idea what you are talking about. Is there a particular reason you don't want to discuss the EU working group which is what I posted in response to your comment. I didn't even dive in to how your original commen
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by easytiger 2y ago
How is an exploration of broad spectrum legislative attacks on all forms of encryption regardless of hosting and corporate ownership and data communication moot?
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by easytiger 2y ago
The EU and the EUC are not your friend when it comes to privacy https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/networks/high-level-group-...
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by easytiger 2y ago
Which half truths? Define public data. Which researchers will have access? Who decides upon them and what is their specific objective? Can I have access to it for my research? > commercial meddling What do you mean by this? Who is medd
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by easytiger 2y ago
Which researchers, and why do they have such a "right"?
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by easytiger 2y ago
It's data the user has agreed to share with the company at agreement with their terms. The data is not public if it is not made public. If it was, they wouldn't need to compel them to hand it over. Who are the researchers and what
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by easytiger 2y ago
So the people have a right to have access to other individuals personal data?
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by easytiger 2y ago
It really shouldn't be easy for ideologues to spend other peoples money. There are entire parallel structures in government, academia and now in business not contributing one iota of effort towards whatever the directed goal of their o
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by easytiger 2y ago
> These titles don't exactly sound communist to me... Then we have a very different understanding. And yes the post war heist that destroyed long term economic common sense all over the western world turned into a permanent ongoing
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by easytiger 2y ago
> For someone to enjoy expressing themself with custom themes doesn't mean that custom themes are what gives their life meaning. The article laments their removal as a tragedy and a removal of agency from the aggrieved party. If s
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by easytiger 2y ago
The childish leverage over speech we have allowed to the people who think like this had to end. We cannot have a www if every comment on it has to be policed by the minority view. You cannot have a www if every comment on it by a user is a
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by easytiger 2y ago
> I'm almost 50, and to me the image of boys playing conkers only comes from books or TV based in early 1900s UK. I've never actually seen anyone play it. Extremely common for kids to play this at least into the mid 2000s whe
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by easytiger 2y ago
I can't speak to it's utility, but a decent implementation of an idea that i suspect will have a lot of potential. The simplicity is the sales pitch here for me. Iterating within the UI by mere conversation. edit : can you not it
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by easytiger 2y ago
> The world is complex, and doing good is difficult. And for the most part interventions in Africa have caused cascading problems that ultimately lead to more human suffering. A complete failure to understand what and who Africa is. Ev
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by easytiger 2y ago
Indeed, despite efforts to keep them there. There is a reason a passport was impossible (now just very difficult) to get. The place would be empty.
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by easytiger 2y ago
Go to Cuba, you'll see why that take is absolutely silly.
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by easytiger 2y ago
Survived this long without such convenience. anything worth protecting lives behind a firewall anyway
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by easytiger 2y ago
In most appreciations of risk around upgrades in environments with which i am familiar, changing config/static data etc counts as a systemic update and is controlled in the same way
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by easytiger 2y ago
Then you clearly didn't read the comment i replied to
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by easytiger 2y ago
I wonder if the move to hybrid estates (virtual + on prem + issued laptops etc) is the cause. Having worked in only on prem highly secure businesses no patches would be rolled out intra week without a testing cycle on a variety of hardware.
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by easytiger 2y ago
Surely i'ts not normal practice to allow patches to be rolled out without a staging/testing area on an estate of that size?
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by easytiger 2y ago
Which bit specifically do you have an issue with? Perhaps we can discuss it

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