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by iqanq 5y ago
It worked out pretty well for politicians and those who work in the tech sector. Worked out terribly for the rest of citizens.
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by iqanq 5y ago
All of this is similar to what China did back in the day. It helped foster an ecosystem for their own services, but of course they were (and are) of a lower quality.
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No, what I am referring to is that they show me a captcha page that they have ripped off from cloudflare.
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by iqanq 5y ago
They have cloned cloudflare's captcha page. How shady.
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Thankfully. For a second I almost clicked - I thought it was about the IRC client!
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by iqanq 5y ago
Is this ironic? Even mcdonalds self-serve kiosks have a card reader each.
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by iqanq 5y ago
Exactly. The guy who is an "Ultimate Fighting Championship color commentator, comedian, actor, and former television presenter" doesn't have a conflict of interest, which makes him less biased and more believable.
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by iqanq 5y ago
I know, it was a bad joke :P
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Isn't regulation precisely the act of acting in behalf of the citizens because they are seen as "too stupid" to know what they are doing?
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One could write a sentence like that about smart contracts. One I pulled from Google: Smart contracts are simply programs stored on a blockchain that run when predetermined conditions are met. They typically are used to automate the executi
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by iqanq 5y ago
Smart contracts are not something people who just want to send and receive money are meant to use.
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by iqanq 5y ago
I feel the opposite. Each day more and more projects are choosing to launch using truly free licences like the MIT or the BSD. Software now is more open and freer than ever.
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You are expecting to understand how a completely new and complex technology works from 5 lines of text. Imagine if someone tried to explain Kubernetes to you in 5 lines of text.
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mp4 files returned by youtube are of a lower quality than webm files.
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by iqanq 5y ago
And 'do not' is easier to read than both :)
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The downside is precisely that they are forced to do something they do not want to do. I am against that in general terms. Consumers are not forced to buy those phones either.
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by iqanq 5y ago
>Android only Well, so is F-Droid...
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by iqanq 5y ago
F-Droid is cool in theory, but it is largely unmaintaned and understaffed. If you upload a new build it may take weeks to get distributed to users.
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by iqanq 5y ago
>Right to repair does prevent warranties, nor does it require a change in how you make a product. TFA says it: "when the battery failed, it took another seven hours to replace that. Both the screen and battery had been glued into th
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by iqanq 5y ago
I am against right to repair. If my phone breaks under warranty I have it repaired for free, and if it's out of warranty I will buy another one. I don't want a thicker and uglier phone just so it can be repaired more easily, since
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by iqanq 5y ago
>I manually mark each and every such tweet as spam and block the user, which needs 5 clicks or so. How much are you getting paid for moderating Twitter?
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by iqanq 5y ago
Can you show a screenshot? As you should know, Google returns radically different results depending your user account, region, etc.
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>We cannot marginalize segments of our population based on race, nationality, religion, sex, etc. and expect to remain competitive. Seems to be working for China.
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Paying for software?
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by iqanq 5y ago
Yes, that is exactly what I meant. Thanks.
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I imagine what kind of annotations they are...
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How can they silently collect audio when they need to show a permission prompt to record audio?
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For protestants work is the way to heaven. For catholics work is a punishment.
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>It's incredible how similar Latin American corruption is across countries, I feel that every time I met another Latin American here in Europe/Sweden there's this instantaneous bond on how fucked up our governments (and ev
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The American government should provide citizens with a basic public web hosting service where constitutional freedoms are respected.

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