kfprt

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   by kfprt 5y ago

   All of the 'bad things' you mention are already very illegal . Changing the laws in this case will only lead to tyranny. I cannot emphasize this enough, you cannot fix societal ills by simply making bad things illegal. Right to r
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   by kfprt 5y ago

   > remove them from the ISS Space Station Freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Station_Freedom
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   by kfprt 5y ago

   The emperor has no clothes. The more the public learns about how FB operates the less likely it is FB is allowed to exist in its current form. The idealistic future is one with much more censorship but of much smaller communities (~150) lim
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   by kfprt 5y ago

   When you surrender your rights you should expect to never get them back.
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   by kfprt 5y ago

   >What gives me the creeps is the notion that we're expected to be constantly tethered to our digital communicators and supposed to synchronously spend energy processing/answering every single inane message thrown our way. Never
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   by kfprt 5y ago

   Too much of technological 'disruption' is just ignoring laws, protections, and just making the experience worse at great cost to society.
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   by kfprt 5y ago

   Very informative. Bookmarked.
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   by kfprt 5y ago

   I guessed they would have skipped it but no... ISO 666:2006 Machine tools — Mounting of grinding wheels by means of hub flanges https://www.iso.org/standard/35748.html
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   by kfprt 5y ago

   Gary Plauche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Plauch%C3%A9
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    Drug dogs are "probable cause on four legs". https://www.npr.org/2017/11/20/563889510/preventing-police-b...
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    The police already have an incentive to not investigate rape because it makes their numbers look bad which affects funding. Now extend that to children who can't file a police report and you can get an idea of how little the 'thin
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    The laws regarding CSAM/CSA are not the problem, they are fine. The problem is that we are expected to give up our rights in the vague notion of 'protecting children' while the same authorities actively ignore ongoing CSA. Th
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    This is why copyright should be ~10 years. Most money is made within the first year and it's a steep drop off after.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    This is underrated. It should absolutely be a right to leave the walled garden and take your data with you.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    Freedom of speech is a natural right that just so happens to be enshrined in the constitution. It's very disturbing to see how modern discourse ignores the existence of natural rights. I don't see how the 1st amendment is a tenabl
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    Who? Ted Kaczynski
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    I guess it depends on how you define 'political'. Almost all censorship is related to politics in one way or another. The cycle is X minority is mad and gets a news article written and then there's a new wave of disappearance
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    For me it's the realization that I don't even know what I lost. I just have lists of dead URL's.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    Lately being on the internet is feeling more like Junta era Argentina with content disappearing left and right.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    It's not quite the same, delivery (mechanism/location/encapsulation) is different.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    Politicians of both parties often use the same middlemen. The 'campaigning industry' isn't so much red or blue but green.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    I would very much enjoy seeing you trying to teach my grandma who has a deep fear of technology to install Linux on her obsolete iPhone.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    It's practically the only issue they care about. "Republican congressman Greg Steube asks Google CEO why his campaign emails are going to spam" https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2020/jul&
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    I wouldn't oversell HN either. Arguably the value of HN lies in how relatively few users it has compared to FB or Reddit. Bringing to market a competitor to android/iOS that everyone including your parents could and would use woul
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    Indeed. On the bright side PC gaming may save humanity.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    Amazon and Google will notice but your local news station will not. Without press coverage forcing the company to negotiate employees have very little bargaining power.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    Better yet, if you absolutely want to force someone to abandon their email you can sign them up with donations. Political campaigners are the best harassment money can buy.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    This has got to be absolute peak HN bubble . OS's success is almost entirely defined by network effects. This is why the UNIX wars ended with everyone using Linux. It was available (for free) and lots of people used it. It wasn't
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    This was the most interesting thing I learned when studying geology. More people should know about it.
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    by kfprt 5y ago

    While I love the FLOSS ecosystem I don't see how it's anything but a rounding error for consumer electronics. Unless there was a massive societal shift I don't see any future that includes a plurality of users owning FLOSS