jMyles

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by jMyles 3y ago
> Our hero has to stop this key from falling into bad people’s hands, or recover it before it’s too late. Perhaps at one point they utter something like the title of this post. You walk out of the theatre two hours later entertained but
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> The government is our tool for regulating society when self regulation fails. It may be a blunt instrument and a last resort. Yet there is a place for it. We cannot entirely outsource all boundaries to individuals and private instituti
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> Do you apply this ethics to webs scraping only, or to all other network communications too? I mean... if you're keying in at 20MHz and blasting a gigawatt of noise, then yeah you've certainly run afoul of decency and just law
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> Restraining orders are a thing for a reason. Sure, but for the purposes of this conversation, saying "for a reason" regarding a function which is presently delegated to the state is fraught with all sorts of future-proofing c
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by jMyles 3y ago
That's not at all what's happening here. This is me walking in, with a polite and well-formed request, regarding a piece of merchandise: "May I have <item>?" And the store, clearly and with a signed receipt, sayin
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by jMyles 3y ago
Of course it's your choice to make. Is someone forcing you to respond to requests you'd prefer to ignore?
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It's your job to separate the wheat from the chaff at the boundary of your network interface. In fact, personal boundaries of all sorts, from informational to emotional to physical to economic, are of paramount importance in the inform
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> Do you think that you have a claim on ownership of the data because you drove by, saw what you liked, and decided that now you'll just rip the baton out of my hand? Are you just trolling at this point? _You are handing the baton o
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> And so perhaps the ethics of web scraping are not so straightforward. It strikes me that the _ethics_ of web scraping are extremely straightforward and cognizable with a terse analysis: * You can respond however you like to my HTTP req
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...another obvious lesson is that acidic water - even mildly acidic - has unintended consequences which vary dramatically depending on the infrastructure being used to deliver it. The need to protect sources of water with more alkalinity is
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Yeah man I seem to be sensitive to both: red lights (or red shifted monitors) during the day make me feel fatigued and sluggish; white and blue lights at night make me feel anxious and vulnerable.
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> Id hazard a guess that live virus contact with people on scale is what — by chance — eventually selects a cross over strain. Seems that way! Now do anti-microbial resistant pathogens appearing at factory (fish and other) farms.
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> I feel physically unwell when in a room lit by 6000K "daylight" bulbs I think most of us share this vulnerability.
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> If the US wants to do something about energy they should stop the perverse tax incentives driving the proliferation of oversized vehicles which also happen to be unsafe for pedestrians due to the huge front ends. Agreed 100%, for energ
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I have dimmable, clear incandescents bookending my dual OLED monitors (providing most of the ambient light in my environment as I type this), and they're wonderful.
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by jMyles 3y ago
Hmmm interesting. I have an anecdote to share: I've been suffering from presbyopia for some years (I'm 41 now, and it seemed to start getting pretty bad around 38 or so). My eyes also often feel dry, itchy, and half-closed. I hav
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by jMyles 3y ago
I've never lived in China. But you're saying that 95% of people refrain from reading resources that are not served by The Great Firewall? That seems like a huge, huge stretch. I've never met a Chinese person whom, when the to
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by jMyles 3y ago
> The international TikTok content (not US specific) is not available in China. These comments are very confusing to me. Why is half this thread pretending that the Great Firewall is effective? Do y'all not have friends in China?
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...but even if Bytedance turns their nose up at this (which they won't, because they want to be in good imperial standing), why would users care? They'll take 20 seconds to install one app to route around the ban, and then forget
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...but doesn't this just seem completely delusional? They were unable to stop drug cartels. And drug cartels need a highly centralized and sophisticated organization, and need to ship a physical product across a border.
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by jMyles 3y ago
Yeah, I think you're correct. ...but seriously: The Chinese state pretends that Wikipedia is banned in China. Does anybody seriously think that Chinese people don't use Wikipedia, like every day? Routing around a ban of this natu
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...but is that among the likely outcomes of this? If she is so zombified by TikTok, won't she just continue to use it? Why would she comply with the ban? Moreover, even if she does, there are many other nearly identical sources of zom
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And yet, at least anecdotally, it is very widely used, along with virtually every other resource that that Chinese state regards as banned.
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by jMyles 3y ago
The state can pass whatever legislation it wants; we've seen convincingly that constitutional restraints are not substantially motivating (although the strongest evidence for this in the current week is not this bill, but the legislati
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It seems to me that the most likely outcome is that some money will opaquely change hands and that TikTok will remain available, either because of a shell game divestiture or because of a policy change. There's just too much money at s
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by jMyles 3y ago
> Identity (in any meaningful sense) must always delegate trust to some kind of issuing authority. If for no other reason than because any humane system must always accommodate users who forget their passwords, lose their private keys, e
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> About as rare as email spam? This strikes me as a defective comparison: are there people who are trying to receive email spam, but are unable to do so due to international borders? The health of the internet in resisting censorship is
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by jMyles 3y ago
> "This product makes it easy to illegally bypass international sanctions" is not the compliment you think it is. It feels like this is a wedge across the community here at HN right now. If the goal of the technology is to draw
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> Long is gone the time where unlocking bootloaders and installing custom ROMs was the best path to follow. ...wha? I just installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 8 Pro and it is, by a decent margin, the best custom ROM experience on a phone I

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