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751.
by frabbit 10y ago
Citizens of western countries got lazy and let plutocrats take over. The result has been a re-distribution of wealth and power. More people are starting to find that uncomfortable: http://www.economist.com/blogs/econo
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by frabbit 10y ago
Exactly the same experience for me. I can remember my surprise when I bit into a ripe, fresh, yellow heirloom at the instigation of friends that wouldn't shut up about how good they were. I love _that_ sort of tomato, but every time
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by frabbit 10y ago
Buried towards the bottom is the interesting decision to dump CephFS and go with NFS instead.
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by frabbit 10y ago
So who are we at war with today? Oceania?
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OXI: cyanogen ROM for fullscreen phone while casting multi-win external display(liliputing.com)
1 points by frabbit 10y ago|0 comments
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by frabbit 10y ago
I expect an extensive light-rail and bus service in any city in which I consider living. So, yes, the gubmint.
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by frabbit 10y ago
Gimme a break. It's a fauxpology designed to wedge people into a "well, at least he admitted he was wrong" mindset so that it all quiets down and people stop talking about the fundamental problem with Uber: it replaces soli
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by frabbit 10y ago
Quote of the day: " Uber isn't much more than a bro-themed ponzi scheme"
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by frabbit 10y ago
I agree. From my perspective the driver attacked him verbally and didn't like a robust defence. All that said, I hope Uber and similar gig-economy services die a fiery death in the near future.
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by frabbit 10y ago
I would have expected some privacy also. If there is no policy on this in Uber then this may be a greater blow to the their brand than anything else in this affair. Personally I do not see what Kalanick did wrong here. He did not seek per
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by frabbit 10y ago
Note to self: ignore all other publications from the American College of Simplistic Pronouncements on Complex Issues.
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by frabbit 10y ago
This was theoretically due to a lack of "live streaming" rights. It is of interest as an example of how the power to (not) cover events has shifted from public broadcasting to private.
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Facebook and other “new media” blocked Russia Today(thecanary.co)
2 points by frabbit 10y ago|2 comments
764.
by frabbit 10y ago
Live near work. Ride a bicycle or take public transport. Don't fly. Eat less meat. Those _can_ make significant impacts http://withouthotair.com/c2/page_22.shtml Or we can just keep on keeping on.
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by frabbit 10y ago
This was published shortly before the WhatsApp kerfuffle and is all the more interesting for that, as it admits the problems with GPG+email. Seems like an honest and prescient assessment.
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Too Cool for PGP?(mailpile.is)
3 points by frabbit 10y ago|1 comments
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by frabbit 10y ago
Or to re-phrase: This security application is not secure but it is usable.
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by frabbit 10y ago
I feel bad now. I'm just highly frustrated that everyone is not actuated by the idea "if they _can_ spy on you, then they _will_". Any appeal to morals/integrity/laws are essentially moot in this area. We have the
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by frabbit 10y ago
Ah, obviously you are a Russian troll trying to hack the US telecoms industry.
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by frabbit 10y ago
Seeing as we're on the topic of encrypted comms, anyone have an analysis/critique of SpiderOak's "Semaphor"? https://spideroak.com/solutions/semaphor
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by frabbit 10y ago
What? You must be some sort of conspiracy theorist. Just be rational and extrapolate from your beliefs: if you admit that Facebook might do this, then why not Google, AT&T, Microsoft? There would be no end to it. Basically it would m
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by frabbit 10y ago
I like this idea. However, it seems to me that it keeps _individuals_ churning through the powerful offices of state yet ensures that those individuals are only only drawn from a particular _restricted group_. That's the reason for the
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by frabbit 10y ago
Nothing to worry about according to Gizmodo: > The supposed “backdoor” the Guardian is describing is > actually a feature working as intended, and it would > require significant collaboration with Facebook to be > abl
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by frabbit 10y ago
Yeah, no point straining yourself by reading an analysis by someone who was actually around at the time and locked up by the fascists for opposing them. After all, you have your part to play in maintaining the hegemony. https://
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by frabbit 10y ago
I think the rules are that you're allowed to criticize things as long as it makes no actual difference.
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by frabbit 10y ago
Anyone else remember this (very beautifully written and interesting) piece being rolled out during previous elections? Interesting that Clinton is stumping with the Bushes (the previous boogeymen) now: https://www.yahoo.com/
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by frabbit 10y ago
> push for more forceful action, for unchecked power Is this something like Barack Obama carrying out drone strikes? Or Madeleine Albright approving the starving of 500,000 Iraqi children? Or Hilary Clinton getting a knife stuck up Ga
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by frabbit 10y ago
http://marxism.halkcephesi.net/Antonio%20Gramsci/1924/11/dem... "[F]ascism and democracy are two aspects of a single reality, two different forms of a single activity: the activity which the bourgeois cl
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by frabbit 10y ago
> enough of these "I'm not saying... " non-accusation accusations. Agreed. It's a weaselly way of obfuscating one's real argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis
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by frabbit 10y ago
> I can't follow. How is this incident related to any genocide, dictatorship, erdogan... what? Really? So, you can't see the link between the German state's power to choose which speech acts can be punished and the punish

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