headsman771

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by headsman771 11d ago
What's always conveniently left out of lists like this is the greater context in which it occurred. Any state will go to great lengths to protect themselves and ensure their survival. Ukraine is an excellent example. Look at all of the
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by headsman771 11d ago
European governments (and American) have been drumming up fear and hatred of Russia for more than 50 years. It's my default assumption at this point that all blame placed on Russia is either from those trying to stoke those feelings, o
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by headsman771 11d ago
Even more reason not to use it. Its clear that user freedom is under greater threat than it ever has been.
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by headsman771 18d ago
I don't think you paid very close attention. They clearly showed it transcribing audio when the TV was "switched off". And they weren't "running audio recording through SSH", SSH was just incidental to watch th
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by headsman771 23d ago
What is ICE doing besides immigration control?
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by headsman771 27d ago
It goes through periods of slow change and periods of rapid change, with regional variations. That will never change. The climate cannot be controlled precisely by humans. To think otherwise is just a comforting lie people tell themselves.
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by headsman771 3mo ago
Nothing makes me dismiss and distrust a person or organization faster than hearing them say "russia/china are funding {controversial_thing}" Its boogeyman thinking.
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by headsman771 3mo ago
Being concerned about the trend of laws in the EU doesn't make someone a bad actor.
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by headsman771 5mo ago
I would love a good Linux tablet with long battery life, repairability be damned.
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by headsman771 5mo ago
I remember hearing about forest mismanagement long before Trump's presidential runs. It's curious how many people complaining about right wing talking points associate it solely with Trump.
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by headsman771 6mo ago
> Dutch company Mammoet was awarded a contract in May 2001 and, within three months, designed, fabricated, and deployed over 3,000 tonnes of custom equipment aboard a specially modified barge. Impressive, particularly by today's sta
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by headsman771 6mo ago
A CO2 sensor isn't going to tell you anything that your own common sense couldn't. Enclosed spaces with many people have higher levels of CO2. Tracking CO2 levels seems like a pretty boring hobby.
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by headsman771 6mo ago
Don't be mistaken, it's the delay I'm complaining about, not how to instal F-Droid or apps through it. It is not reasonable to advocate for ADB if the 24 hour wait is too long. I'll copy what I wrote elsewhere. Fraud use
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by headsman771 6mo ago
And they should remain the outlier.
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by headsman771 6mo ago
No, it is not. This is moving the goalposts. The original issue is developer verification. No appreciable harm prevention can or will come from forcing devs to identify themselves. That's because most fraud uses social tactics and LEGI
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by headsman771 6mo ago
Why do you keep harping on about ADB installs. That's not helpful. It doesn't help me install open source apps from FDroid. It's ridiculous that you think booting up a computer and using ADB is a reasonable workaround. It isn
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by headsman771 7mo ago
Yes. Because it isn't any of those 3. It's not in contravention of any long standing norm (just since the popularization of the internet), law, or long standing precedent. And because it gives multiple groups extreme power and inf
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by headsman771 7mo ago
No. Not without upending innumerable precedents, laws, and norms in the US, or optionally, bankrupting it.
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by headsman771 7mo ago
I take your point, but it's extremely foolish to think that ensured compliance won't be sought when it's technologically feasible. Its already illegal to show adult material to minors. If they were about enforcing laws proper
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by headsman771 7mo ago
I admire your optimism. All I can do is encourage you and others like you to ponder upon: Google is trying to force all devs to have verified identies Google and Apple and Microsoft already ban applications they simply don't like (viol
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by headsman771 7mo ago
I will reiterate: there is no way to enforce laws or policies like this without restricting the ability to modify the OS. There is already a pre-existing push to bring attested computing to Linux. The California law is not the only OS level
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by headsman771 7mo ago
Its about maintaining access to general purpose computing. There is no way to enforce laws or policies like this without removing the ability to modify the software running the computer. Once that door is closed you can kiss 90% of what we
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by headsman771 7mo ago
You're trivializing how difficult tampering with OS internals in locked down secure boot environments can be. Just look at the state of Android custom roms. Devices that are years old can be impossible to modify the OS on.
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by headsman771 7mo ago
Are you aware that there are bills along similar lines in a majority of US states and at least one is reported to require using identity validating services to ensure the age is correct? How will that be accomplished? How will these laws be
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by headsman771 7mo ago
I like rss2email sending to a local email box read with evolution or the like. https://github.com/rss2email/rss2email
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by headsman771 7mo ago
And they still try to pressure you to scan your face.
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by headsman771 8mo ago
> I don't want him going close to the cars because they've LITERALLY been pumping out pollution for 10-15 minutes (those early spots are very coveted). I have to tell my son to hold his breath when we bike on the empty sidewalk
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by headsman771 8mo ago
HN got a lot of refugees from Twitter and Reddit the past few years as well.
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by headsman771 10mo ago
Its more the case that certain people decide X11 will no longer be supported and block anyone from trying to support it in "their" project.
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by headsman771 11mo ago
The reason for its omission should be obvious. First, most people who "sideload" apps do not have ADB installed, and may not have the technical knowledge to do so. Second, the ability to do so can be taken away just as arbitrarily

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