kanox

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by kanox 6y ago
Freedom of speech and rule of law is not conditioned on reciprocity.
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by kanox 6y ago
No, this is a backdoor in application software that runs on a device based on huawei silicon. This is like blaming broadcom for openwrt bugs. The title is extremely misleading.
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by kanox 6y ago
Does this affect users outside the US?
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by kanox 6y ago
> I would like to uphold the principle of free speech No, you completely against that principle.
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by kanox 6y ago
This definition of censorship is bad and must be changed. Large general-purpose platforms should be forced do distribute all content which is not otherwise illegal, and only perform removal based through the standard legal system.
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by kanox 6y ago
> Bookstores offer something electronic media doesn't -- discovery. No, electronic media provides excellent ways to discover new books. What you seem to be missing is browsing physical books in physical bookstores, which is differen
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by kanox 6y ago
> You don't get to ignore states rights just because they aren't particularly popular. Wouldn't it be possible to define all police misconduct a federal crime? > Also, look into "regulatory capture". Independe
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by kanox 6y ago
The core problem seems to be that police abuses are not being properly punished. Whenever I tried to look into such incidence I see that prosecution gets stopped (or didn't even start) at a local level and the whole process stinks of c
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by kanox 6y ago
The whole point of software is that it "soft" and thus easy to change. Upgrades are whole point and not optional. The logical conclusion is that any and all software should follow and evergreen/rolling release model in order
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by kanox 6y ago
> Thanks to maildir and mbox, everybody has a full copy of the mailing list. No, that only covers emails that you personally received. You need another mechanism for older emails.
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by kanox 6y ago
This is just not true, most companies try to make customers to come back, even if all they can do is put their logo and website on the packaging.
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by kanox 6y ago
SMTP is not just OLD, it is genuinely BAD
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by kanox 6y ago
Problems with corporate SMTP are widespread and configuring your own gets you easily marked as spam. The email ecosystem is very old and not very good and it's better to avoid relying on it entirely. Fuck plain-text email.
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by kanox 6y ago
SMTP is terrible, especially for people with corporate accounts behind firewalls. I've contributed to linux in the past and dealing with corporate IT was a miserable experience and saw lots of other kernel developers waste their time f
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by kanox 6y ago
I don't see a shortage of github competitors. For example GitLab works well and also allows for self-hosting.
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by kanox 6y ago
It's already trivial to move code between git service providers, or even run your own. Code review and issue trackers are harder because they're effectively forums are only useful when centralized.
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by kanox 6y ago
Using plain-text email for sending patches is fundamentally broken because it's just not a reliable transmission medium. SMTP is very old and very moldy and it's not something that you want to force your contributors should deal w
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by kanox 6y ago
Email archives are even harder to transfer, and to make sense of in general. For example if you want to find the review comment thread for linux commits there is no reliable way to do it, your best bet is to google the title.
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by kanox 6y ago
Good: Fuck plain-text email. We should stop relying on duct-taped solutions from the 70s. Web-based code review solutions are vastly better.
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by kanox 6y ago
> And how many will where be, once 9/10 launches fail? This is not a real thing that will happen.
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by kanox 6y ago
> Internet access in rural areas is pretty much a solved problem. No it isn't. Just because it works for you it doesn't mean the same solutions can apply everywhere.
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by kanox 6y ago
So because you don't like the internet other people shouldn't get it?
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by kanox 6y ago
> On top of the points made by q3k, about this being a US centric issue, being projected as a global issue, why do you believe this implementation will be able to deliver global pervasive internet? Rural internet access is absolutely not
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by kanox 6y ago
>> The article covers the mitigations already in place and how they only partially resolve the issue. > So in April, SpaceX instead began launching Starlinks with a sunshade to block sunlight that would otherwise reflect off its an
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by kanox 6y ago
No. Providing satellite internet access is a very good thing, and imposing costs on astronomy is acceptable.
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by kanox 6y ago
There is absolutely no way to do this. These are low-orbit satellites and they will eventually "fly over" every point on the Earth up to their maximum inclination. Only geo-stationary satellites are "hanging above an area&quo
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by kanox 6y ago
This one of the stupider hills to die on. There are plenty of other factors interfering with astronomy and they can largely processed away. >This issue is yet another reminder that capitalism only appears to work because you assume infin
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by kanox 6y ago
It's also part of the "second" world by the original definition.
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by kanox 6y ago
Having other people operate servers for you is very convenient, even for very technical people. For example you could host your own mail server for personal email but almost nobody does that. It's a lot of work and you can get better s
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by kanox 6y ago
> Continuously pay for products like Netflix, YouTube and Amazon whilst those companies continue to 'recommend' you stuff you don't need. > Having companies spying on them and implementing dark UX patterns by A/B t

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