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by eecc 6y ago
Well, I can’t help questioning the “non-violent” part: it takes incredible amounts of energy to maintain that is quite literally taken away from other - possibly more helpful at social scale - purposes.
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by eecc 6y ago
Also Chipnik in NL, discontinued several years ago. Too fiddly, nobody worries about privacy any longer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipknip
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by eecc 6y ago
What do you think society is all about? I can recommend Debt by the late David Graeber
784.
by eecc 6y ago
Or labeled a foreign Agent like with Edward Snowden. /sigh
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by eecc 6y ago
Yeah sure, as long as you get your paperwork ready and book your visas ahead of time
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by eecc 6y ago
Uhm, no. Those are two straw man arguments that don’t help the discussion.
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by eecc 6y ago
That’s problematic. You don’t just move your residence on a whim like it’s picking a different pair of socks on an online store. In EU at least, people tend to hold onto their network more strongly and uprooting is a highly stressful and so
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by eecc 6y ago
Perhaps USians as desensitized to guns but I took pause when reading that the police officers drew their guns when chasing the fugitive in the original incident, about shoplifting candies from a hotel lounge? (And I wonder if the concierge
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by eecc 6y ago
It glitches, together with the keyboard. It’s like events start piling up as the UI loop locks up (for up to 1 sec.) then suddenly they rush through and the pointer wanders around and keystrokes fall through at a constant rate. Other times
790.
by eecc 6y ago
Let me chime in: just bought a T14s. Could be a dream machine but the shite 1080 panel (Windows recommends a hilariously crappy 1.5 scaling. Kidding me?) the pesky trackpad and the awfully glitchy Windows 10 (yah, probably the drivers but t
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by eecc 6y ago
Gah, glitches. Just spent two weeks trying to figure out the sudden seizures a Win10 running on a spanking new T14s. After 15 years of Apple Mac it’s insane, how can people put up with this horror.
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by eecc 6y ago
Some student home complexes in Amsterdam are built out of (I suppose new) modified shipping containers. I think it’s a brilliant design, particularly suited for rapid assembly and relocation. Ideal for disaster relief
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, there’s something to humans - testers in particular, who seem to be wired like hackers rather that programmers - that is superior to any fuzzing or “QuickCheck” approach. It’s the intuition, the art of second-guessing the mental mode
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, to be honest I much prefer - and trust - fully automated test pipelines to manuality. It affords more frequent and thorough verification of the final artifacts. The problem comes when the automation is only partial because added at a
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by eecc 6y ago
That might be consequence if GDPR: they need legal proof of the legitimacy of the request and of its thorough execution. Just as you can’t really “unsee”, you can’t fully delete data once you’re exposed to it. Something documenting its prev
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by eecc 6y ago
Ads, fine. Participating into a pervasive tracking infrastructure that strips you bare of your privacy to optimize manipulation of your individual cognitive faults is entirely another thing.
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by eecc 6y ago
No, I'm literally saying what you're advocating: if one has to expunge the research of an individual on the basis of their morals... well take these two examples and good luck with any progress in these fields while keeping them &
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by eecc 6y ago
Great, I guess you’re out of the businesses of programming and mathematics... after all Gerhard Gentzen was an enthusiastic Nazi. Let alone von Braun
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by eecc 6y ago
no, the tough sell is telling your boss that you'll have to switch to paying Microsoft-range licenses for your server farm to an IBM subsidiary, whose name and logo are - literally - references to some random guy's clothing. We&#x
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by eecc 6y ago
Purposefully? That’s a charged accusation, can you substantiate it?
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by eecc 6y ago
That’s great, thanks. But do I need to slaughter and sacrifice my privacy to Facebook and the public space to trolls and fake news optimized for virality? Reach out? Find presence on a specialized platform rather than generic portal contain
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by eecc 6y ago
Hmm, anyone worried about the analog gap closing?
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, I don’t think the point was to “import words from a specific language”. That’s a bit too dismissive IMHO. Anyhow, as an Italian living in the Netherlands, I can tell that to a certain extent this concept does exist: look, people here
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by eecc 6y ago
Besides a cunning and evil plan to gradually restrict user freedom (/s) I can also imagine this is meant to control an OS feature that can be used to nestle some pretty audacious privacy-violating software, away from the rest of the OS
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by eecc 6y ago
Malta used to be an UK colony, hardly surprising. Problem is more the cultural divide between Germanic and Latin ethics that continental Europe is split across... although Germany itself is heavily Catholic and is paradoxically the least Ge
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by eecc 6y ago
Well, I’m on mobile so I can’t check but does the website run JavaScript? Third parties could inject malicious code with little difficulty
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by eecc 6y ago
Can I get weirder? What lab assessment material should I procure - as a consumer - to evaluate the most significant characteristics of my wastes?
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by eecc 6y ago
That’s why you need to force reinvestment with corporate taxation, and subsidizing innovation with de-risking, either via direct state investment or via reduction of labor cost (UBI, unemployment benefits to compensate for looser contracts.
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by eecc 6y ago
Thought also Microsoft was dabbing into Rust.
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by eecc 6y ago
That’s an odd take. That money is labor taken out of economic activity and left rotting away in a vault. Surplus needs to reinvested in the cycle, otherwise the overall economy will shrink. What’s being quarreled about in the last generati

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