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by gambler 6y ago
> More recently, it seems, some news organizations have begun assembling reports using modeling and expert analysis. This is hardly new and when it comes to news media it's hardly a good thing. It is incredibly easy to find biased
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by gambler 6y ago
It's funny how this is always presented as some sort of natural process when in fact there are marketing people in Big Tech whose main job is effectively to find ways to get people off those independent platforms. There is only so mu
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by gambler 6y ago
> can someone help me understand how this doesn't lead to inflexible hard to maintain soup? It most likely does, but it's not old and popular enough for people to have accumulated enough technical debt within systems built wi
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by gambler 6y ago
Funny how "security experts" here complain about accidental non-repudiation misfeature of DKIM, but apparently being forced to do a bunch of crazy crap HTTPS forces you to do when all you need is content signature verification is
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by gambler 6y ago
>Rather than having your traffic logged by your local ISP, bound by the laws of the land and all the privacy regulations in your country US ISPs: - Were given retroactive immunity for their participation in illegal domestic spying. - O
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by gambler 6y ago
>We are replacing the current MDN Wiki platform with a JAMStack approach, which publishes the content managed in a GitHub repo. So... Ceding control over content to GitHub. Ceding control over uptime to Amazon. (Both done by a company
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by gambler 6y ago
Apple is a hardware/design company. Google is ad tech company. They have fundamentally different motivations.
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by gambler 6y ago
Yes, in regards to holding breath. Look up Wim Hof breathing exercise. I haven't tried it it seriously yet, but the research looks promising.
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by gambler 6y ago
I get the feeling the government will step in and regulate soon: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/scowcroft-center-fo...
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by gambler 6y ago
Let me guess. Instead of thinking how to solve this on protocol level the solution is to use more Google services. Reading. ... Yep. The article even includes the obligatory "try harder" bit about security.
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by gambler 6y ago
> You can cherrypick examples to fit whatever narrative you want. So, what makes your examples better than the author's?
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by gambler 6y ago
>But it's basically an impossible problem to solve This is not just possible, but relatively easy to solve. Applications can be sandboxed by default. Signing the application or user granting it extra rights can remove some restric
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by gambler 6y ago
>- there is no explanation of what the "AI philosophy" or "AI way of thinking" is according to the authors "The core of the ideology is that a suite of technologies, designed by a small technical elite, can and
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by gambler 6y ago
Once you leak information, you are no longer in control of it. You don't know who will see it, when they will see it or what they care about.
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by gambler 6y ago
>I don't think it can be understated how much saying 'no politics' is a political statement. This is often presented as obvious self-contradiction, but in fact the definition of "politics" here changes from fir
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by gambler 6y ago
https://pharo.org/features
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by gambler 6y ago
>GNU Smalltalk turned out to be the perfect dialect for this first contact with Smalltalk, offering a very traditional command-line experience. And Vim provided the syntax highlighting I needed to write those initial lines of code. Sor
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by gambler 6y ago
The IT industry doesn't really need "programmers". It needs people who build quality software systems. There is a difference. The essential skill to look for is the ability to imagine some system working differently from how
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by gambler 6y ago
Should be a mandatory read for anyone who shills for big tech here: "Lack Of Anti-Trust Enforcement" https://blog.dshr.org/2020/08/lack-of-anti-trust-enforcement...
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by gambler 6y ago
Some of the ideas that were translated to reality are covered here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo Some of them never got fully translated to reality at Xerox because of various reasons (e.g. memory limitation
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by gambler 6y ago
Reminds me of some Alan Kay talks: https://youtu.be/YyIQKBzIuBY?t=1384 He actually mentions the book that is the source for the first illustration in the article. He also often talks about the speed of molecules and how it&
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by gambler 6y ago
>Forensic experts tell WIRED that information from the devices is valued because it can offer a timeline of a person’s activities, their location, if they’re alone, and can verify statements made during questioning. I am sure police
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by gambler 6y ago
Kind of like internal data/algorithms and external interface in OOP?
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by gambler 6y ago
>I think this happens because of atomistic, object-orientated thinking. If you think storing a list of date tuples is "OOP thinking", you have no clue what OOP really is. Educate yourself by listening to people who invented i
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by gambler 6y ago
Things Mozilla could do right now that would greatly improve our security and privacy: Add anti-fingerprinting tech to the core browser or at least verify one of the existing add-ons that do it. Add PGP/GPG to the core browser. Look in
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by gambler 6y ago
You haven't really provided any arguments for why converting companies (entities providing goods and services) into mini political parties is a good idea . Anyone can yell about "status quo" and "change". In realit
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by gambler 6y ago
I got one by accident. PO-13. Very fun device. I can use it without a reference, no problem. I'm a bit hesitant to give one as a gift for a child, though. OP-1 had lots and lots of visual feedback, which facilitated learning and experi
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by gambler 6y ago
Content delivery and DDoS protections should really be solved at the protocol level, not by some company or appliance.
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by gambler 6y ago
>That's by design; you're either part of our core audience, or we're filtering for whether you could be part of our core audience. Are you one of those publishers who purposefully create a rentable filter bubble and then
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by gambler 6y ago
VPRI archives: https://www.youtube.com/user/yoshikiohshima

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