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by kspacewalk2 5d ago
The article quotes extensively from the GrapheneOS lawyer, privacy advocates and security researchers. It doesn't owe you an unquestioning hagiography of GrapheneOS.
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by kspacewalk2 11d ago
The results will absolutely be the same. Having spent the first 12 years of my life in a commie block apartment, the absolute best thing that has happened to that building over the years is the trees have covered progressively more of the u
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by kspacewalk2 17d ago
It's a GA resolution. Vanuatu gets the same vote as India. No actually consequential global decisions could ever be made this way, so it's no wonder it's mostly used for symbolic votes like this one.
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by kspacewalk2 17d ago
To say that "the world agreed" on something based on a General Assembly resolution is an interesting claim, if rather bold.
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by kspacewalk2 17d ago
>A lot of people who are "mobile-only" prefer larger phones. And a lot of people who are not prefer smaller ones. >I've never been able to use a smart phone with one hand, even an original iphone. So this is probably a
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by kspacewalk2 17d ago
Robinson projection is a good enough, boring compromise, if the UN was interested in that.
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by kspacewalk2 17d ago
America is a big place, populated by a lot of different people. Some of those were in fact victims of a genocide by European colonists. Others were allied to the European colonists from day one, and were instrumental in defeating/exter
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by kspacewalk2 17d ago
Flock is a retroactive dragnet on demand. Whenever you want to, you can go back in time and put a digital dragnet in an area of your choosing in order to identify someone you now know you want to find.
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by kspacewalk2 20d ago
In fact, until Trump 2 they rarely thought about you at all.
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by kspacewalk2 23d ago
Whatever it is, we need more.
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by kspacewalk2 24d ago
If by "not really" you mean it's not all because of ads, some governments dabble in it too, you're right. But it's still overwhelmingly because of ads.
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by kspacewalk2 24d ago
Conservatives seemingly went from the libertarian extreme where everything under the sun is a "threat to liberty" straight to cheer-leading global authoritarianism, skipping the middle altogether.
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by kspacewalk2 1mo ago
Boise is a great city and the Micron HQ was very diverse when I worked there. Your comment also fails at basic logic: if 75% vaccinate their kids, then ~75% of straight white guys in fact do care about their kids getting terrible diseases.
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by kspacewalk2 1mo ago
I interned at that site about 20 years ago. Took me 30+ minutes to walk from one end (where their image sensor R&D was, before they spun it off) to the other end. As a 20 year old, it was amazing to walk past all the various clean rooms
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by kspacewalk2 1mo ago
I've heard the other tropes before but as a Canadian, I'm genuinely surprised that there's one about us.
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by kspacewalk2 1mo ago
Maybe it's a cultural thing in the Spanish speaking world? Had the same experience in Colombia.
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by kspacewalk2 1mo ago
Maybe overthink it a bit? I'm skeptical about the big picture. You have an air purifier in your kid's room. If this is a fairly large apartment or a house, and you have central air running, how much purer is the air in that room?
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by kspacewalk2 2mo ago
I don't understand why a police cruiser can sit in a public space (or even a private one) and write down licence plates and descriptions of passers-by with pen and paper, or record everything around them with dashcams and bodycams for
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by kspacewalk2 2mo ago
The Turks never apologized to the Russians. They said the incident was regrettable. Which is consistent with the overall "don't fuck with us" message that was being sent.
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by kspacewalk2 2mo ago
>This isn't like a hybrid car. It's a parallel hybrid, where the gas engine is just big enough for efficient cruise at altitude, and the electric motor/generator provides extra power for takeoff and ascent (or go-around po
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by kspacewalk2 2mo ago
Sadly, incontinence-like verbosity is a phenomenon which precedes AI-generated content by quite some centuries. Whether this article is generated by squishy neurons of banks of GPUs is almost immaterial. Heck, it might even be good writing.
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by kspacewalk2 2mo ago
That's why I'm increasingly asking Claude to give me 3-paragraph summaries of articles that may contain interesting facts, but are also exercises in creative writing that I am unwilling to commit the time to. Here is an excerpt fr
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The troubling Russian connections of a 'European' password manager(lemonde.fr)
3 points by kspacewalk2 2mo ago|0 comments
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by kspacewalk2 2mo ago
Because the warranty is too short? I'll go with 'no chance' on that one.
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by kspacewalk2 2mo ago
What's the mechanism for stopping them?
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by kspacewalk2 2mo ago
Doing absolutely everything useful with that data is "one extra attack vector". That is not any kind of a persuasive argument in itself.
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by kspacewalk2 3mo ago
5 years. What's your point?
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by kspacewalk2 3mo ago
#2 seems like a feature, not a bug. I certainly don't want my 11 year old texting/calling unapproved numbers, way too young for that.
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by kspacewalk2 3mo ago
This does such a profound disservice to non-white actors/actresses, because when the whole "can we make the villain a white guy" mode of thinking takes over, they are essentially typecast for less complex and more predictable
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"Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?"(hollywoodgadfly.substack.com)
44 points by kspacewalk2 3mo ago|40 comments

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