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by flipbrad 4y ago
I'm sorry, are you suggesting the vaccines had no protective effect against covid? I feel like this is going to be a waste of my time, so I'm going to drop this.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Intellectually weak stuff. The vaccines were far safer than the alternative (remaining unvaxxed), especially at a societal level, but like all medicines they carried adverse effect risks. If you want zero risk in your life - rather than t
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Given how little covid testing is happening, is there a chance we're undercounting ongoing covid mortality?
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Re last para: probably because it's full of very certain, but also quite certainly wrong, statements along the lines of "Under current legal doctrine, blobs need some form of chain of custody." Citation needed.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
I must be getting old, because I find the world described by Schwarzenegger - with the car a simple tool, fully owned and which the lady can fix herself, and drives around with real friends in it - a lot more compelling than one where the c
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by flipbrad 4y ago
This is very, very interesting, because as I understand it, it sees the EU "cookie rule" being applied directly to the OS; no (traditional) cookies involved. Microsoft Windows could well be next.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Syncthing Paperless-ngx Photoprism TT-RSS Wireguard Caddy as the reverse proxy
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Lying to avoid a loss would be fraud, and therefore a pretty dangerous game.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Keepass and syncthing.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The answer would be incredibly hardcore privacy laws, backed with incredibly hardcore enforcement, in all jurisdictions. In other words - a very dark pipe-dream.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
In November 2022, Marie-José Hoefmans & Onno Hansen-Staszyński & Bob Hageman wrote a paper called "Schluss" Whoops, I just shared their personal data. "You can only be fully in control when you are in full control of
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by flipbrad 4y ago
"cannot" and "should not" are not the same argument. (hell, even "doesn't need to be, and yet bullies will" is not the same argument) As for facilitation: I think you're not thinking very deep about w
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by flipbrad 4y ago
That's wonderful! Though personally, I think it's even better when people join the community of active users (whether Wikipedia or any of the other projects) and help out directly!
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The OP didn't genuinely ask any questions, they simply mischaracterised the banners that are on Wikipedia at the moment. I'm not the only person in this thread that seems to be having a hard time finding one that's implying
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by flipbrad 4y ago
What's wrong with these? https://wikimediafoundation.org/support/where-your-money-goe... https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/ https://meta.wikimedia.org&#x
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by flipbrad 4y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.co...
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The Foundation is my client, but these views are only my own: This is not to say there's no excess, or that resources couldn't be allocated internally more effectively - I'm not going to put up some kind of strawman - but: 1.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
You'll have to go and ask the legislators what they were imagining. Thankfully it's not being interpreted quite as literally. Sometimes pragmatism saves the day.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Why would you assume that?
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Withdrawal is not the same thing as refusal.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The EU Digital Services Act (article 25) bans dark patterns for online platforms: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:... What a shame it doesn't straightforwardly apply to opera
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The Defamation Act, in England and Wales, brought in specific and very helpful reforms for defendants. It's privacy law that claimants now use, not least because you don't have to prove falsehood or serious harm, unlike in defama
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Society still doesn't seem to be asking itself why this law covers Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, etc, and what it would do to them.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The companies backing AVPA (age verification providers association) which include Experian, have been pushing for the child protection stuff, big time. Guess why.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Not to forget mould on the walls and fabric
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by flipbrad 4y ago
Because even a snowcovered driveway is preferable to an ice-rink.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The personal data rules in the UK are essentially the same as those in the EU, but with a huge exemption for "insurance purposes". So it's unlikely that there is a systematic data protection roadblock in the UK that you woul
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by flipbrad 4y ago
I just have a thermos flask next to the kettle. The excess ALWAYS gets put to good use: extra cups of tea (without reboiling), cooking, dishes in the sink, or even the kids' bath.
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by flipbrad 4y ago
The end result will be the emergence of a filter bubble industry - something you select, and choose to put up around your own feeds - as predicted by Neal Stephenson in Fall, or Dodge in Hell
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by flipbrad 4y ago
I do off-device Signal backups all the time, and have successfully restored.

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