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by feanaro 4y ago
I miss the days when app installation had nothing to do with web servers.
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by feanaro 4y ago
It doesn't sound to me like the product owner should be considered the developers' manager. Though I guess that depends on what the word "manage" means and these days it's starting to sound like it's lost all m
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by feanaro 4y ago
I dislike this quip. If you are so sure of your thinking, then surely you can argument it rationally and calmly rather than reaching for the quip. Sure, if I then insist and do not seem to respond to reason, then it may become appropriate.
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by feanaro 4y ago
Yeah, but it's not just about TVs. If cellular devices become small, cheap and ubiquitous enough, I'm fully expecting these vile corporations to start inserting them in all electronics. If there's not a large enough outrage,
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by feanaro 4y ago
It's seriously time to start thinking about building houses with a built-in Faraday cage.
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by feanaro 4y ago
> On the web, the term "pirate" generally doesn't mean good things. Maybe we're on different webs, but in my mind "pirate" has good connotations. As in, a rebel, a free spirit, a fighter of oppression.
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by feanaro 4y ago
This is happening regardless of our desires. The best we can do is to be prepared and have the tools not available to only the most powerful few, but to ordinary people as well.
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by feanaro 4y ago
The point is that the law is unjust, so why would people observe it? How does it serve the people to not be able to say you were compelled to share their personal information with what amounts to a bully?
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by feanaro 4y ago
Less guarded behind individual humans, but more guarded behind individual corporations. This is the real problem.
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by feanaro 4y ago
I don't think the real problem is proliferation of AI itself. The real problem is control of AI. We need to commoditize and replicate FOSS AI models as soon as possible, and make progress with optimization so they can run without megac
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by feanaro 4y ago
I disagree vehemently with the idea of abandoning anonymity. I don't think it will fly. I prefer closed communities with invite chains, where user have a limited number of invites.
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by feanaro 4y ago
You don't get to set neither the thresholds, nor crucially the people whose writings you'd like to see. At least not directly.
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by feanaro 4y ago
I would argue that anyone who professes beliefs such as the person in question is, in fact, an "absolute nutcase". The extreme beliefs themselves are what makes someone a nutcase. A primary example of such a nutcase belief complex
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by feanaro 4y ago
And in non-web space, there's Matrix ( https://matrix.org ).
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by feanaro 4y ago
Ah, it might be that the mobile clients don't support it yet. :/
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by feanaro 4y ago
Private read receipts are supported in recent Synapse and Element versions. You can enable them in the settings, though they're missing some quality of life, for instance to be able to enable them per room and being able to toggle them
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by feanaro 4y ago
> I don't think I said any of those. You didn't, and you didn't leave the impression of having done so; it's just me poking to understand. > like who is in charge of performance reviews for who These are the kinds
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by feanaro 4y ago
Is your take then that the classic official hierarchy is purposeless? That it is simply an obstacle? Or that it cannot be improved upon because it is already optimal for its purpose (whatever that may be)?
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by feanaro 4y ago
Perhaps there shouldn't ultimately be one single person responsible for the company's performance. I know the standard way things work, but that's not necessarily the best way.
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by feanaro 4y ago
The official hierarchy still represents decision power. I'm not suggesting trying to document all work relationships but wondering whether a non-hierarchical model of decision power would be better than a classic hierarchy.
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by feanaro 4y ago
> I’ve been seeing people deflect morality over stealing digital copies for most of my life and it’s always amazed me how it’s the only act of thievery that people openly discuss and brag about. Maybe you should try considering why this
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by feanaro 4y ago
I've long wondered why we insist on modelling company structure as strict trees / hierarchies. Perhaps there are other classes of graphs which would be better suited in order to avoid such situations?
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by feanaro 4y ago
If you assume the strongest opposing argument, it's clear the "myth" isn't arising from a misunderstanding of cryptography. Rather, it's arising from the practical observation that password managers are not perfect,
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by feanaro 4y ago
If the cryptography and its implementation is perfect, and you choose a high entropy, well-guarded secret, then encryption is enough on its own. However, being a security researcher, I observe that this is not how the world works in practic
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by feanaro 4y ago
We won't be able to prevent it only if we accept it. The erosion of privacy is self-imposed, so if it brings damage and people consider it important, it will stop.
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by feanaro 4y ago
The two large ones I'm thinking of is excessive meat consumption and excessive air travel.
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by feanaro 4y ago
The six realms of existence, hungry ghosts (pretas), siddhi, sacca-kiriya, the cosmic buddhas, the Pure Lands...
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by feanaro 4y ago
> Only specific aspects of modern life are energetically wasteful, depending on what era you compare to. > Many modern conveniences reduce resources use, because they replace real things with ones and zeros, and for better or worse ma
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by feanaro 4y ago
It's very clear to some of us this stuff is already truly necessary, and the trajectory of how the situation is evolving is not looking very nice at all. So enjoy the locally optimal time and safety you're able to get out of it, b
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by feanaro 4y ago
I suspect OP meant cowardice in not fighting for what is right and even giving up with tepid resignation before the fight has even begun. Perhaps cowardice is not the best word but the meaning felt immediately intelligible to me.

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