jimlongton

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by jimlongton 4y ago
I love Jitsi Meet. My friends and I started using it during COVID and it's constantly improved. I host my own instance using docker and it's a breeze. One issue that really prevents us replacing Mumble with it completely is lack o
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> Regulators aren't going to save consumers if consumers refuse to get educated or practice restraint That's literally the job of regulators, see asbestos or cancer causing pesticides that have been banned or severely restrict
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Giving all my passwords, bookmarks and possibly browser history and credit card information to a closed source browser from an unknown company sounds too risky for me. How do they even plan to make money?
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> Safer alternatives exist. Sure, but do they have certified compilers for Functional Safety (ISO26262) development for Automotive or Medical applications? Rust does not, although there's a company working on it.
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> Finasteride gave me severe depression. This happened to a friend of mine. Another is taking it for years and is fine. I honestly think people aren't warned enough about that side effect. I was more worried about possible sexual dy
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Have any other HN readers gone through all the standard hair loss prevention treatments and just given up? I was obsessed with saving my hair in my late 20s. In my 30s I just accepted it and moved on. Treatments can be expensive with dubio
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Also psychologically experimenting on their users intentionally making them unhappy [1], knowingly facilitating terrorism [2] and enabling race based advertising which blocked black people accessing housing [3]. [1] https://www.f
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I think most Europeans would be shocked by the cost of having a baby in the US. See 'A typical American birth costs as much as delivering a (UK) royal baby' [1] [1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/201
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> towards something in which everything was codified, safetyism became rampant Those "gentleman's agreements" were not that great if you happened to be a woman, gay or any other minority. The upsides to HR, employment regu
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I recently learned what a DAO is and I simply don't understand what purpose a "decentralized autonomous organization" could serve here. What am I missing? Python, FreeBSD, Debian etc etc have foundations/boards, hold ele
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"Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off." - Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Brexit has been absolute poison for the automotive industry in the UK, as expected. I would not expect much innovation or investment when there is so much uncertainty on trade and regulations. Politically it seems there is no appetite to fa
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This analysis [1] and the linked FT article is eye-opening for many people. I can't say I am surprised though. I've traveled across the UK and the level of poverty in some areas is really shocking. [1] https://twitter.c
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He is so out of touch he doesn't understand how petrol stations or contactless credit cards work. [1] [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/rishi-sunak-contactles...
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Yes, look up the Bhima Koregaon case in India. Indian police used Israeli spyware to hack the phones of lawyers, human rights activists and critics of Modi. They also used phishing and other malware to plant terrorist material and then impr
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> „If Japan can’t control the technology nobody can“ Nuclear technology is risky but Fukushima isn't a good reflection of what modern nuclear power plants can accomplish. The reactors at Fukushima were designed half a century ago an
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It was clearly an extra-judicial execution, just like Christopher Dorner. They cornered someone they really wanted dead and ignored every convention and law to kill them. In the case of Dorner their thirst for vengeance led them to shoot an
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They already did in 2016. [1] They lied to the shooter, who they had cornered, and told him the robot was delivering a phone. In fact it was a bomb. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/
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Police have already used a bomb disposal robot to kill a person [1] in the US. The conversation they had shows slippery slope in action: > After a brief silence, Commissioner Jesse Hsieh asked the next question: “Does the department plan
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>If it was emitting an entire meaningful product, that would be something else. But it’s emitting nuts and bolts. Take a single C file or even a long function from the leaked Windows NT codebase and include it in your code. See how happy
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> rampant fascism Honest question - do Americans really believe fascism is increasing? By most (all?) metrics Western societies are radically more tolerant on racial, LGBT and religious issues than even 2 decades ago.
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> It's similar with the low quality "drone" footage from the Uyghurs "camps Multiple news organizations have published high quality satellite photos of the Chinese concentration camps for ethnic minorities and Muslims
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Facebook is happy to host peoples entire online social life to profit from (and experiment on, sell dangerous/discriminatory ads to etc) but not take the least care to ensure they keep access to all their photos, contacts etc. Banning
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I've been seeing more posts like this lately. Does anyone know why? What is the purpose of this 'hacking'? Is it trolling competitors in the gaming community? Failed extortion?
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The greatest trick the elites ever pulled was getting the media to convince the general public that violence somehow invalidates the legitimacy of a movement or cause.
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People are fools if think there isn't a Room 641A in Cloudflare, except it's a lot better since web service operators willingly handed over all their private keys and therefore user data.