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by gzread 7mo ago
Knowing if the user's over 18 doesn't imply total surveillance, it only implies a user profile setting that says if they're over 18.
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by gzread 7mo ago
In a sense, surveillance is a multiplier on your goons, creating virtual goons. If you have 5 goons but you can send them directly to the house of people who disagree with the government with 99% accuracy, it's like you had 500 goons w
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by gzread 7mo ago
The application has access to your entire home folder, isn't that enough information?
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by gzread 7mo ago
At 1x1 I don't expect any difference. It would be the average of all pixels in the image if you don't unevenly weight them (which you might decide when choosing a main color, but no downscaling algorithm would do) and the only dif
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by gzread 7mo ago
Show me where the California age attestation law, or any other law you don't like has
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by gzread 7mo ago
It helps these computers didn't use much power, probably didn't even have much of a heatsink on the CPU. Someone in this thread quoted 3 watts for the CPU. Of course with this many of them you might be using something like a kilow
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by gzread 7mo ago
The BBS software itself would have likely ran on the PCs, one instance per simultaneous user, and because it's a single-tasking OS, that means one simultaneous user per PC. They aren't just bridging packets to a single central mul
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by gzread 7mo ago
It also takes work to keep it working and it may have a lot of bugs already, that are hard to fix because of it. A non-E2EE chat app is very easy to make.
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by gzread 7mo ago
Normal people don't choose a messaging app based on E2EE but based on whether their friends use it.
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by gzread 7mo ago
PR. They wanted to seem like the good guys, but they get your messages through backdoors like the automatic backup.
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by gzread 7mo ago
Fine, a drop-down menu, not a checkbox. They're throwing a hissy fit over a drop-down menu with 4 items.
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by gzread 7mo ago
Yes, it's very useful to parents who want to restrict their children's computer use. Some of those parents use Linux. Yes, it does.
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by gzread 7mo ago
The ADA?
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by gzread 7mo ago
How has HN gotten to this point where citing the actual text of a proposed law is downvoted while wild speculation is not? There are already laws about OSes, that they shouldn't spy on you and so on.
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by gzread 7mo ago
If my job was to promote open source software it would make sense to ban proprietary software. That doesn't mean I should actually be allowed to do that.
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by gzread 7mo ago
Just as open source software represents the intent that all for-profit activities shall be illegal...
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by gzread 7mo ago
The CA/CO/IL law where the root user just sets the age of the child's user seems pretty sensible.
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by gzread 7mo ago
The Illinois one treats it the same as a product with a known manufacturing defect.
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by gzread 7mo ago
You only need the license to work professionally, of course. You don't need a bridge building license to build with Lego.
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by gzread 7mo ago
This is not being supported because the size of the step is small, but because the step itself makes sense. The slippery slope argument says that open source software is a stepping stone to a world where all commercial activity is banned. S
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by gzread 7mo ago
Your wallpaper image and everything on your home directory
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by gzread 7mo ago
Are there any other places this argument could apply or is it specifically this one? Like if I said "Yes, the university reserves the right to expel students who defecate on the teacher's desk. But we all know where this is going.
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by gzread 7mo ago
It doesn't ask for any attestation. It's literally just a user profile setting that can be changed by the root user.
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by gzread 7mo ago
Why, what's wrong with it?
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by gzread 7mo ago
The UI can be implemented using the user's date of birth, but it can also be implemented by selecting an age bracket and then all it tells you is that the user changed the age bracket setting.
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by gzread 7mo ago
I'm flagging this for the misleading and incendiary headline.
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by gzread 7mo ago
We are also talking about the Illinois one, which doesn't do that
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by gzread 7mo ago
Type in the number 30 to disable gating
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by gzread 7mo ago
Can't see where you said that. You definitely commented about parental controls.
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by gzread 7mo ago
Entering your child's age when you create their user account is a loss of privacy?

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