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by jolmg 2mo ago
> The surveillance is implicit and hidden. If we understand that it’s nearly impossible for a non-tech person to avoid being tracked by corporations and governments, then we start working on the things that really help: super tight regul
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by jolmg 2mo ago
> Does modern Xorg even support TCP? Yes. It works well. X11 over Wireguard works so much better than ssh -X. Haven't tried over the internet, but in a LAN you can't tell the difference between local and remote windows, at leas
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by jolmg 2mo ago
> We restrict certain activities and places in the real world from certain people all the time. For example, not allowing people under 18 or 21 (depending on your country) into casinos. These are not equivalent. Restricting access to a c
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by jolmg 2mo ago
> My point about complexity vs. simplicity does not apply to people who are coming in with strong, preconceived notions. Because how would a simple argument convince them of a generalization otherwise? If it covers enough ground and they
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by jolmg 2mo ago
> Have you checked the premise? Usually the waves of fake protect-the-children policies are widely decried, support is fairly thin and the politicians pass it anyway then refuse to revisit the issue ever. I think support can be quiet. I
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by jolmg 2mo ago
black = bad is the generalization, not the argument. The argument tends to be to just look at the number of incarcerated black people. That's simple. > you cannot make that argument without backing it with a bunch of convoluted nons
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by jolmg 2mo ago
It's probably more that one person understands their own views better than they do those of others, regardless of the particular views of each. Meaning, they perceive the other's views as simple and their own as complex. A leftist
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by jolmg 2mo ago
It's all relative on a spectrum to one's personal perspective, I imagine. Kind of like how most people might self-identify as middle-class, but wouldn't identify others as such when comparing to themselves.
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by jolmg 2mo ago
Political extremes will be extreme. Centrists can hold both.
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by jolmg 2mo ago
It can go both ways. Bad actors can simplify because it leads to indifference, by way of generalizations. "black" = "bad", "illegal immigrant" = "gang member". It's how racism works. > The “go
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by jolmg 2mo ago
Or you lack perspective. Also, it's not about not being able to see any bad, but some things that obviously seemed correct, stop seeming so obvious. Reminds me of that clip where a man in some TV show gets slapped by the woman host and
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by jolmg 2mo ago
>> I feel like WYSIWYG politics is what most of us want, but probably doesn’t actually work. > then WYSIWYG politics will emerge as a preferred choice. I think the problem that Waterluvian's is getting at is precisely that WYS
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by jolmg 2mo ago
They do. There's a list of them on the Arch Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositorie... The problem with user repos vs the AUR is that you're trusting the maintainer behind them inst
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by jolmg 2mo ago
It is, among most users, but it only takes a few abusing that for it to seem like there's none. EDIT: Rereading, maybe it's that other kind of "hacker"...
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by jolmg 2mo ago
> I'm sure there are legitimate uses of that functionality To avoid package name pollution, e.g. having package foo, foo-newpackage, foo-newpackage-updated, etc. each by a new maintainer as the priors get abandoned.
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by jolmg 2mo ago
Arch is simply getting popular enough to be targeted.
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by jolmg 2mo ago
> but how do you enforce that kids connection always goes through the parents control? Because the devices they're given by their parents should be administered by their parents. The minors wouldn't have administrative control
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by jolmg 2mo ago
Schools in some places seem to require them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpHaYze8kI&t=90 > We are being Forced to Buy Chromebooks [...] The school sent a list of requirements for the specs and functionality
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by jolmg 2mo ago
A lot were taught to follow their passions too, so they can have the presumption that what you do for a living == your passion.
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by jolmg 3mo ago
> There is not a shortage of books in print. I don't understand why people get so hung up on a few of them being out of print. Because the point isn't so much in reading whatever text as if all text is the same. The point is th
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by jolmg 3mo ago
> I've limited sympathy for the publishers. This doesn't affect publishers. It affects humanity as a whole by having large private parties hoard books to partly destroy them. The covers and spines can have historical value too.
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by jolmg 3mo ago
It sounded like your problem was restricting access to some /proc/<pid>/ dirs and not others without knowing the PIDs ahead of time: > How do you [...] allow reading only certain files in /proc, where process ID
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by jolmg 3mo ago
By way of bugs (unintended effects in code), who knows how it compares to proprietary codebases. Those also depend on the particular companies. However, by way of intentional code that goes against the interests of the user, which would be
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by jolmg 3mo ago
What kind of use-case do you have for that? I suppose whatever it is, you could also e.g. write a privileged service that checks those files with whatever security policy you need. Your client wouldn't have direct access to /proc.
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by jolmg 3mo ago
Basically all source is open. Eyes are plenty. Somebody would raise a stink. People can also notice things while monitoring their network via a number of tools like Wireshark, etc. All it takes is one person to notice and share their findin
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by jolmg 3mo ago
Mobile's came at the cost of composability between programs and the imposition of policy, which are against the Unix Philosophy. I wouldn't make that trade. Mobile's a sad state of affairs, inferior to desktop in many ways. Y
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by jolmg 3mo ago
You think a Mexican would see a foreign government institution outside of an embassy and not raise a stink about it? Especially one that may hold citizens captive by a foreign body in their own land? You can't hide something like that.
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by jolmg 3mo ago
But you don't have a service uploading it along with the URLs you visit, which is the creepy part. The ID itself can be useful for your own administration. And if such a service were to appear, it could easily be removed. Everything in
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by jolmg 3mo ago
It's not one homogeneous people reacting to different OSes. It's different people, and they react differently when somebody else's OS does something vs when their OS does something. Windows users don't care or feel locke
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by jolmg 3mo ago
Also, the second picture is a video link with the correct URL.

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