everfree

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by everfree 6y ago
> It's like saying I bought a petrol car but I should have a legal right to fill it up with Diesel or make it work with electricity. It's illogical. A much more apt analogy would be a Keurig machine that's only designed to
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by everfree 6y ago
To be fair, many of those counterarguments would be seen as valid if we were discussing, say, private messengers instead of cryptocurrency: * It's not Signal Messenger's fault that it's used for shady stuff. * There are so ma
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by everfree 6y ago
It seems to me that the author completely missed Medium's import tool in his/her "mirror your blog" section. The tool is specifically made to prevent SEO issues when syndicating content from your own blog. https:/&
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by everfree 6y ago
Just use their import tool, it's designed specifically for that purpose. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214550207-Import-a... It sets up a canonical tag and backdates your post to prevent just
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by everfree 6y ago
But then aren't you just trusting your VPS provider or ISP instead?
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by everfree 6y ago
Good thinking to cya by posting a comment here that you can point to later. It's quite believable, actually.
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by everfree 6y ago
What recourse do you mean, exactly?
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by everfree 6y ago
The term "GIF" is used in a very broad sense nowadays. I'm sure the actual image encoding they're using is a proper video format, not the GIF format itself.
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by everfree 6y ago
I consider myself somewhat well-read, and I hadn't heard of these.
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by everfree 6y ago
The fee goes to the miner of the block with the transaction in it, the "next block" in a simplified sense. If you've already mined the next block yourself, you can publish the transaction directly in the block itself instead
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by everfree 6y ago
If you've already mined the next block, then you know what the next block will be.
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by everfree 6y ago
Often it's not reversible in practice, if the destination bank/jurisdiction is not cooperative. This is why you hear people losing their life savings to scammers in Nigeria, instead of just successfully suing them to get it back.
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by everfree 6y ago
Bank wires let you send money to the wrong place and are largely irreversible. The solution is for your bank to double check your transaction and refuse to send a wire with a typo'd destination. Likewise, the solution for crypto is for
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by everfree 6y ago
Try Google Meet. Different can of privacy worms, but at least they aren't connected so directly to China.
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by everfree 6y ago
> Despite what many people believe, shareholders don’t actually work like that. Shareholders do determine whether a company does something ethical or something profitable. And by the numbers, they choose profit unless it would cause publ
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by everfree 6y ago
They're hamstrung by their shareholders. This is why it's impossible to find a public company that cares about ethics in any context other than potential blowback. Amazon can keep the sharks at bay for a year and cry for help, but
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by everfree 6y ago
Not always. Say that an artist posts their art to Deviantart, and another user rips it off, erases the watermark, and uploads it to Reddit. No money changing hands, but the artist still has the legal right to remove the copy and/or be
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by everfree 6y ago
Notices should also be free by that logic, since by sending one you're also standing up for your rights. Everyone likes to imagine DMCA senders as large companies and trolls, and it's true that that's a large section of them,
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by everfree 6y ago
You'd be very surprised how many websites you visit in a day that still don't have HTTPS, if you stopped to check. Little academic sites, old tech blogs, those trackers when you click a link in an email list that you signed up for
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by everfree 6y ago
Yes because GitHub's business model doesn't directly rely on the violation of user privacy. It's just pay-for-features, afaik.
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by everfree 6y ago
The solution is really very easy, add more human moderators like other companies do. But that would cut into their profit, so they don't.
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by everfree 6y ago
IPFS does this. It doesn't have blockchain incentives though. Hosting is based on good will, like with torrents.
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by everfree 6y ago
A cryptographic proof of identity platform, with a lot of bells and whistles
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by everfree 6y ago
The letter to the inmate on the front page says "I really enjoy the work we are doing, I could see myself staying here for a long time." Is it just me or is the specific wording of this not in the greatest taste? The letter also h
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by everfree 6y ago
To be fair, Buffett doesn't invest in anything he doesn't fully understand, and his strong suit is corporate fundamental analysis.
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by everfree 6y ago
I keep hearing people say this, but I don't understand it. It was a fun little giveaway experiment funded by someone else, in the spirit of the company's focus on cryptography. I don't visit the cryptocurrency tab anymore, an
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by everfree 7y ago
It's healthy to call out the flaws in products that you use and like. Ideally the flaws get fixed, and you end up not having to compromise.
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by everfree 7y ago
They can decide to arrest you for resisting arrest?
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by everfree 7y ago
It was a copyright claim under the DMCA. You're right in thinking that it's bonkers, regardless of whether under copyright or trademark.
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by everfree 7y ago
I tried Matrix/Riot, but I ran into some big UI issues trying to get a E2E channel going between me and a friend (I had to "create" the channel multiple times, or add keys multiple times, I can't remember). And we share

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