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by jpxw 6y ago
I’m no expert, but https://nano.org/ seems to solve this quite nicely.
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by jpxw 6y ago
There’s something very unsettling about a law which forces you to provide information that you might not actually know. I can see the pragmatic arguments for such a law. But it’s unsettling nonetheless.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Russiagate and the “piss dossier”?
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by jpxw 6y ago
Nobody is “outwitting” Wall Street here. That will become particularly apparent in the coming days. I’ve read posts on /r/WSB where people talk about having put all of their savings into this. I only hope that they’re just teenage
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by jpxw 6y ago
Yes, it’s either that or just use paper ballots, hand counted. When I learned that the US actually uses software in its elections, I was shocked. It’s unthinkable here in the UK.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Reminds me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal
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by jpxw 6y ago
My pet theory is that it’s an expression of people who are hungry for tradition.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Another way of looking at this: Everybody has experienced having a flu. Everybody knows that feeling when you’re sick, and suddenly you realise how much you take for granted when you aren’t. In fact, you even start to _envy_ those around yo
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by jpxw 6y ago
Perhaps because its message is often relevant, especially on a forum full of people who think they’re smarter than most other people, like this one.
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by jpxw 6y ago
If you take the time to study why and how the Nazis became popular and came into power, you’ll realise why suppression of public sentiment is so dangerous.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Let’s say Trump wants to send a message to the country using the internet right now. How does he do it? Think about it, and then tell me that these corporations don’t have power over our speech.
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by jpxw 6y ago
If I had a dollar for every time someone made this point... The issue isn’t whether they have the right to deplatform. The issue is whether they _should_.
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by jpxw 6y ago
If you think Trump incited violence, that is a crime which should be decided in a courtroom, and not in Mark Zuckerberg’s office. For what it’s worth, I don’t think what Trump said was incitement, or even close to it. Irresponsible? Yes. In
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by jpxw 6y ago
Regardless of your political persuasion, you should be concerned about this. Massive multinational corporations having this much power over our speech is not healthy. If they can do this to a sitting President of the US, they can do it to e
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by jpxw 6y ago
No. There’s a role for moderation, in removing comments which are off-topic or illegal. My issue is with “moderation” where you just remove content you disagree with politically.
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by jpxw 6y ago
You seriously think that Twitter decided to ban Trump because they think they will make more money if they do? Seems very unlikely to me. Trump draws massive traffic to Twitter.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Just because companies in a free market should be legally free to censor people, doesn’t mean they should do it. The sheer number of people who can’t grasp this basic point is staggering.
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by jpxw 6y ago
There’s a difference between what is legal and what is morally correct.
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by jpxw 6y ago
You realise that it’s possible for entities outside of the government to censor things, right? That word isn’t only applicable to state actions, and nor should it be.
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by jpxw 6y ago
With this and Trump’s Twitter ban, it seems there’s a level of co-ordination at play here that should be worrying to people who care about freedom of speech. And before someone tells me that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to private comp
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by jpxw 6y ago
Parler, Trump’s logical next step after Twitter, has just been removed from the Play Store. There’s a level of co-ordination at play here that should be worrying to people who care about freedom of speech. And before some idiot tells me tha
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by jpxw 6y ago
You’re allowed to think it, it’s just patently idiotic. Our hospitals would be overwhelmed, the morality rate would skyrocket amongst COVID and non-COVID patients alike.
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by jpxw 6y ago
I agree that this would be effective against most people. But when this happened in Italy, a large number of the conspiracy crowd just said the photos were faked.
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by jpxw 6y ago
And yet we still have idiots here in the UK saying things ranging from: * coronavirus is invented as a government power grab * the government locking down is a deliberate ploy to kill small businesses * the government should just let this r
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by jpxw 6y ago
Github’s help text when opening a new repo irks me. It contains the following: git branch -m master main With absolutely no explanation of what they are doing, or why. I can imagine this being confusing to beginners, and it require
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by jpxw 6y ago
Why bother spending money on doors? They are expensive and you have to kill trees to make them.
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by jpxw 6y ago
RIP to one of the most genuinely innovative (both musically and personally) musicians for decades. Crazy to think MF had passed away when I wrote this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25026544
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by jpxw 6y ago
As Go’s net package IP parsing was mentioned, here’s a fun fact: under their API it is impossible to distinguish between an IPv4-mapped IPV6 address and the equivalent normal IPv4 address.
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by jpxw 6y ago
Yeah, it seems clients are lagging behind with this. Visually marking emails which are from new domains or addresses is a nice idea. The From header should be much more prominent too. For example, perhaps a user should be presented with the
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by jpxw 6y ago
The (rough) equivalent of HTTPS is DMARC/DKIM. It doesn’t solve this problem, in the same way that Amazon using HTTPS doesn’t stop people visiting non-Amazon phishing websites.

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