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by jevoten 3y ago
Do you have this backwards? Any animal can be "undocumented", and there are in fact strict requirements for cattle documentation if they're to be used as food. But only humans can be criminals. More relevant is perhaps the is
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by jevoten 3y ago
Are we discussing whether Musk is a good person, or whether what he said is true?
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by jevoten 3y ago
It doesn't need a second OS - just a few "accidental" vulnerabilities in the baseband itself (and keeping the source closed to make them harder to find). Free plausible deniability.
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by jevoten 3y ago
You are describing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor#Security_co... By isolating the memory the baseband processor can access, it's possible to limit the impact of its compromise. So of course it&#x
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by jevoten 3y ago
He said it wouldn't "let" him, not that it's entirely impossible. Since the listed workarounds have to trick the installer into thinking you don't have internet or already have an account, and you have to go thr
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by jevoten 3y ago
> As an example, consider the ban on affirmative action programs, while leaving in place things like legacy admissions. The latter isn't isn't explicitly racist, and yet it tends to benefit the people who come from families adm
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by jevoten 3y ago
> you don't know the difference between systemic racism (baked into institutions) and individual racism This does confuse me, yes. How can institutions or the system be systemically racist, yet strive to suppress white nationalism?
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Epik.com has been for years the go-to domain registrar for websites that other companies refuse to do business with. Sites dedicated to white nationalism, QAnon conspiracy theories, and harassing transgender people were all welcomed by
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by jevoten 3y ago
In the way it causes deaths. I.e. not at all. Attributing suicides to the riot is especially strained.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> While it would be nice for companies to honor such promises through mergers, it would make many toxic when the obligations of their generosity is what led to their insolvency. Letting companies discharge debts and obligations at will,
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by jevoten 3y ago
Using "deadly" so broadly that a heart-attack at a water-park makes the water-park "deadly", makes the term lose all meaning. Of course this wordplay is not applied evenly to all movements.
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by jevoten 3y ago
I already thought violence occurred before seeing that video. I even thought the shooting of Babbitt was justified - a trespasser ignoring warnings and directions to leave can generally be assumed to be a threat. What I was responding to is
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by jevoten 3y ago
You can breed a living, tailless rat to produce more rats.
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by jevoten 3y ago
I'll summarize the article: Ashli Babbit, the Trump supporter shot by Capitol police. Kevin Greeson, the Trump supporter that died of a heart attack due to natural causes during Jan 6. Rosanne Boyland, the Trump supporter that "ap
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by jevoten 3y ago
If it goes the way of smart TVs, there will be no ad-free version, and shills will gaslight us by claiming an ad-free version would cost 10x as much.
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by jevoten 3y ago
To me, the most interesting aspect is the Unison language, specifically how it does away with code-as-text, and instead uses a structured database, so one is dealing directly with the AST: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs&#x
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by jevoten 3y ago
As long as you don't think more than 60 seconds on what might comfort someone truly disturbed, this is a great definition.
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by jevoten 3y ago
Even in this most simplified form, it's clear genes don't determine all of the outcome. You're Y% more likely to get a disease, with other factors affecting how the dice actually fall.
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by jevoten 3y ago
The better term is right to sovereignty. When the vendor implements user-hostile features, mere repair or maintenance fall short.
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Next week you can't have it because they think I'm importing to resell it. With all the "free trade" agreements Vietnam is party to [1], you'd think this would be perfectly fine. Funny how that works, isn'
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by jevoten 3y ago
> “There’s a long standing view that these kinds of assaults — this kind of abuse — isn’t as real and not as serious,” she said. That's the "view" - it's just a matter of perspective. Sure you or I might prefer to be
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by jevoten 3y ago
> "Just doing my job", is the excuse of the scoundrel. I do not buy it. If you're complicit with despicable people, you're complicit. End of. There's a world of difference between human fallibility, and knowingly
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by jevoten 3y ago
Interesting. Every post in that thread that seemed to have mentioned the name of the brand in question, has been removed with the excuse that it broke the rule for "Responses must be helpful and high quality" or "No requestin
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by jevoten 3y ago
> a bird that was known very well across indigenous generations as one name was decidedly named something like “John Smith’s Warbler” In English. Its English name became "John Smith's Warbler". Its Cherokee or Apache nam
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by jevoten 3y ago
It's unusual for a society that, we are told, is steeped in systemic white supremacy, to be erasing its own scientists from its language. But I don't have a whiteness studies degree, so I don't know all the mysterious ways in
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by jevoten 3y ago
This conflation of rudeness with terseness bothered me. One can be polite yet cut to the chase ('wasting' only a few words on 'please' and 'thank you') - in fact, I consider this more polite, since it doesn&#
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by jevoten 3y ago
> Behind the global success of Japanese video games lies a delicate task: appealing to overseas players whose expectations on issues such as sexism are increasingly influencing the content of major titles. Players, or journalists? E.g. i
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by jevoten 3y ago
> KOSA would require digital platforms to take “reasonable measures” to prevent harms to children No, of course we don't require you to spy on your users, break encryption, and censor who and what the independent disinformation, h
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by jevoten 3y ago
And there's the moral blackmail. Tell me, how does Meta "profit from human misery"? Do they take a cut from sex-abuse sales, deliberately turn a blind eye to it, and it represents a significant fraction of their profits? Or d
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by jevoten 3y ago
Why Meta and not the ISPs trafficking the child exploitation bits, or Xiaomi and Apple for selling the silicon that enables it? Or the GNU project for providing disk encryption software that hides it. The end goal is to morally and legally

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