kakarot

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by kakarot 9y ago
I use ad-blockers to prevent arbitrary parties from running arbitrary code on my computer. Not because I detest seeing a 5-10 second ad every 20-60m worth of videos or seeing a small text block or banner ad or sponsor list off to the side.
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by kakarot 9y ago
> This is a feature (of content-targeted advertising), not a bug. If a business model relies on tracking and targeting unknowing users who aren't aware that they can resist being tracked and targeted, maybe it was a crappy business
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by kakarot 9y ago
It's not enough. Patreon only works for certain audiences in its current state, and additionally lacks certain integration tooling that would make it more transparent.
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by kakarot 9y ago
Yes, it's one thing for serial content like a podcast or talk show, it's another for more artistic endeavors where it would lesson the artistic credibility to have an ad ingrained into the video. It's also not a suitable form
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by kakarot 9y ago
> I don't believe the set of people willing to adopt a FOSS distributed peer-to-peer video streaming platform and the set of people who believe advertising to be tolerable would likely overlap enough to provide a better or more sta
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by kakarot 9y ago
That's a cool project. However, to make videos with quality content at a reasonable frequency, many of these creators depend on YouTube for income or at least partial income. Any P2P / federated service would have to find an agree
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by kakarot 9y ago
You're right. I was being a bit hyperbolic.
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by kakarot 9y ago
Similar to something I've been brainstorming, but with one key difference. A pillar of my hypothetical crowd-sourced news platform is anonymity. Emphasis of trust is placed on the computed reputation of the poster, who may choose to be
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by kakarot 9y ago
This goes against basically every corporate strategy ever, which is to always increase growth. At this state in the company's life there is a disconnect between those who make the software and those who make the business decisions. I d
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by kakarot 9y ago
But those are mostly localized and unorganized farms, right?
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by kakarot 9y ago
I spent some time working and living on a farm run by someone under 35. I'm not sure how much their personality and lack of managerial skills ultimately contributed to their inability to turn a profit, as they certainly had cashflow, b
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by kakarot 9y ago
If I operate a large network, I would want authority over how much bandwidth I provide to each neighboring network. That seems like a reasonable demand. I would want the authority to choose to peer with who I want, but if someone doesn&#x27
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by kakarot 9y ago
I thought the rule in particular was, that was adopted in 2015, was very premature banning something that's simply didn't exist. If I had to start a new society tomorrow and I needed a quick list of things that should be illegal
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by kakarot 9y ago
If we were to implement some form of insurance, I worry that executives who make bad decisions about user privacy won't ever see jail time. This needs to be something you can go to prison for.
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by kakarot 9y ago
It's been doing that for years.
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by kakarot 9y ago
Running an HVM with a separate kernel should alleviate those problems. Qubes is phasing out PV support anyway. I encounter an equal amount of complexity in my KVM workstation as I did in my Qubes workstation, and more problems. For exampl
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by kakarot 9y ago
One possible benefit is giving you enough time to discover the breach and rotate keys before the keys are compromised
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by kakarot 9y ago
I mean servers. The protocol is locked to the platform.
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by kakarot 9y ago
I meant I don't want to be chastised by the mods, is all.
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by kakarot 9y ago
I just wish this wasn't a battle of decentralization vs centralization. Discord seems cool and all but channel operators lack reasonable amount of ownership over their channels and Discord touches every message that comes through its n
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by kakarot 9y ago
It really blows my mind that GIMP doesn't have these yet. I've been using GIMP for almost 15 years and things like adjustment layers and better tablet support are the only reasons I have to use Photoshop for any heavy or experimen
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by kakarot 9y ago
You think I haven't heard that one before? I was consistently top of the class in my religious studies and by no coincidence the only one who didn't identify as a Christian. My understanding of the Catholic faith, Abrahamic religi
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by kakarot 9y ago
I guess you couldn't tell, but I'm knocking her pretty hard. It's more than a bit superstitious. It's religious. I'm very familiar with the Catholic belief system, I was an unwilling participant in the Catholic chur
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by kakarot 9y ago
My step-grandmother spilled some wine on the alter once at the end of mass and was enthralled by how, in her eyes, it stained the way blood would and not wine. She took that as a sign. People see what they want to see, I guess.
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by kakarot 9y ago
Symbolism is a powerful thing, isn't it? It holds all the power in our lives, bestowing meaning upon one thing and withholding it from another. I certainly don't mean to justify modern organized religion, but it seems without a st
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by kakarot 9y ago
> basically the same as giving them over-the-counter access to scheduled drugs. Something that also should be legal (with reasonable discrimination). I would choose a different metaphor because this one doesn't work in your favor.
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by kakarot 9y ago
It stands against all reason and intuition that this would be the case. There is no evidence to support the theory.
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by kakarot 9y ago
I realize you are joking to some extent, but if we are to demand net neutrality, we must be willing to enforce it even against our own motives. Facebook as a website shouldn't be treated any different than any other website. Of course
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by kakarot 9y ago
Except the author mentioned Elon in the third person, and I don't think he would intentionally misdirect like that.
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by kakarot 9y ago
Isn't that what he means by specifying "here"?

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