kermitismyhero

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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Oh, it's not just this screwup. I've had growing misgivings about the way Mozilla has handled Firefox's path for years now. Most of my grievances have to do with refusing to provide tools to enable users to kill off idiotic a
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
It was the same for me. Firefox 66.0.3 on Xubuntu 19.04. I also turn off a lot of phone-home behaviour. And I never had any problems with extensions getting disabled. I have no idea why I wasn't affected. But frankly, "not being a
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Someone (not pornhub) has already created a tumblr clone called "bdsmlr". It's actually got an extremely wide variety of content, not just BDSM.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
I find them inconsistent from an individual-liberty perspective. I see no contradiction between opposition to Article 13 and support for the GDPR. On the one hand, Article 13 compromises the online publishing capability of anyone (either in
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
The EU is so frustratingly inconsistent on internet-freedom matters. On the one hand there's a tendency towards very strong privacy protections through the GDPR and similar legislation/regulations. And on the other there's bl
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
If singular "they" was good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for me. There's not a man I meet but doth salute me/ As if I were their well-acquainted friend.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
I would argue that Assange only really became hostile to the American government after senior politicians and officials started calling publicly for his murder. If a US Secretary of State repeatedly and publicly commented about how it would
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Having been raised in a Commonwealth nation (Canada), I've come to realize how dreadful our education system is in teaching about WW1. That war, the events leading to it, and the events resulting from it are absolutely critical to unde
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
I would argue that sentence diagramming is of dubious use outside of an ESL or primary school class. And even then the English language is such a self-contradicting mongrel tongue that it's effectively rule-less. It's a living, ev
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>where my dear teacher lectured on grammar like it was a game of chess. The greatest teacher I ever had was a middle-school english teacher who marked strictly on the basis of attendance and participation, never opened a textbook, enthus
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Why get one person to do one unit of work to train your AI for free, when they could do three units of work for free?
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>I feel super fortunate that I have a relatively common first and last name, and you pretty much cannot find me through search engines. Same here. My ultra-common first and last name means I'm also essentially unsearchable. On occas
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
I think there ought to be a verse for Go too.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Media Goblin is one of those projects that I really WANT to like, but I can't. The project goals are admirable. And when it's up and running it's great. But it's incredibly finicky to maintain and it's quite challen
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>Though seat controls are listed as common use for it. Which with some occupants and cars with the seatbelt - would enable the seat to pull the driver away from the controls. So whilst not directly deemed critical - certainly a vector of
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Yes, and I have the same sorts of worries about those laws as well.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>I suspect that society would be far better off if the deliberate authoring and spread of misinformation, were made illegal. Who defines "misinformation", and who categorizes "deliberate"?
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>Update: want to add this question. Anyone know why Apple would bar a GPLv3 app from the app store (bash is unfortunate but I think I understand that one)? I think it's simply a company-wide policy made at the recommendation of over
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>So why not an iPhone? "Jailbreaking" on Android is as easy as flipping a toggle in the security settings. It allows for easy sideloading in general, and the use of alternative app sources in particular. IOS's developer si
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
>Funny how being the techie in the family has turned me into a comparative Luddite. It's the same mechanism at work for accountants. You'd be surprised at how many of us are leftist, if not straight-up socialist. We see how the
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
You and I and many others on internet forums may have had that conversation, but most non-geeks in my social circles haven't. Deliberately fucking with their voice assistants is a great way to quickly get them thinking hard about the i
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
There is a difference between deliberately typing those sorts of queries into a search field on a website, and a remotely-administered audio bug capturing every random bit of conversation within earshot.
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
Every time I visit a friend or relative who's all excited about their new voice assistant gadget, I make sure to do my best to demonstrate the potential problems with the technology. "Hey Siri, who around here can sell me a few ki
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by kermitismyhero 7y ago
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