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Ah, so you're referring to contractual issues (I posted an image and now Instagram's sub-licensing it to everyone a la https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/judge-smacks-dow... ) rather than te
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> As a photographer, I want security and assurances that my work remains my work and is not easily stolen nor transferable without consent. I'm curious how you reconcile this with your previous desire for the "old web": p
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The report is technically true but also misleading by omission / its very existence: how many Microsoft accounts are sold on the darkweb? Tons, because accounts being sold on the darkweb is the default state of basically any online ser
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I don't buy it one bit. The medium forms the message: FB's structure (non-linear timelines, "one authentic identity", "it's their birthday!" engagement fishing) optimizes for short-term user numbers via fl
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It's funny, I've got almost the inverse of your inverse experience. An old group of friends, formed over IRC/TS2/MMOs, had in recent years traded a lot of that sort of thing for less-frequent IRL hangouts as lives and in
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> Saying impaired people shouldn't have to work and from there arranging a world where they aren't allowed to work is a nightmare scenario where any defect cuts you out of the system entirely. This really struck me. There'
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This is totally non-scientific but is an interesting thing I've been thinking about recently: Many of the Europeans I know, both online and in real life, who grew up on the internet in the 90s/early-mid 2000s, swear up and down th
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Probably fits your requirements. One interesting thing to remember about FreeBSD is that a lot of commercial users of it use it as a base for enterprise appliances (think storage arrays, proxies, DPI boxes, etc). This means that the project
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In the words of Terry Pratchett: '... he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric.'
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I think that if in your hypothetical you were _directly_ inciting violence against a minority student (so, "let's go fuck up X" "let's go fuck up students with Y characteristic"), you'd also definitely (an
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If we're name-dropping, the Vernor Vinge pack-mind dog things are another fun example of non-human races with actually non-human modes of cognition, even if they're not as far removed as Solaris/Revelation Space sentient ocea
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Given the national security aspect of this case you might be right, but in general a lot of dirty details about the hows and wheres of CP cases comes out eventually in court filings. Exhibit A: "Mad Thad" McMichael / https:&
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I think at this point in time the "anonymity makes people assholes" argument is pretty dead - look no further than Facebook during the 2016 election for a fantastic example of real names and faces being exactly zero inhibition to
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> The Privacy Issue is brought to you by the team behind IVPN. Get to know IVPN’s mission and download the app to browse privately and securely. Ugh. It's a fine article, but I worry the VPN industry's constant mis-selling of s
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IME removing yourself from the original emotional context of your post works wonders. Write the whole thing, sure, but then go do a context switch - go for a walk, read a different article, make some food, whatever - then once that emotiona
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I'm a little skeptical. Many Japanese live in a pretty grinding form of underemployment poverty - "freeter" will get you lots of hits in Western media. Moreover, some truly deprived groups like the urban homeless are almost n
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Fwiw, usefulness, even as a hikkiNEET, isn't only to be found in formal employment - but I totally agree with you about its importance. I've known a lot of the sort of people described in the article over the years and one of the
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Not them, but with my usual work pattern it is really easy to end up with hundreds to thousands of tabs. New issue? New i3 workspace with a new ff window and a new tmux session, which each accumulate tabs related to that issue. Workspaces c
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If that were the only way of eliminating robocalls you might have a point, but I think this situation is a good example of a case where relatively targeted regulation coupled with technical progress (develop+mandate SHAKEN/STIR and all
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That's extremely exciting news! Working LTE? No blobs? "Holy shit!" is an understatement. Tangentially, what's an appropriate entry point for a reasonably capable C/C++/Unix systems programmer without prior mob
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This truly is the cyberpunk world line: time to break out the mirrorshades.
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I guess Terry Tao would be a good example of collaborative mathematics? He was mentioned in another thread and I noticed the following while reading his wiki page: > Within the field of mathematics, Tao is known for his collaboration wit
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> Also, dear American friends, the biggest reasons for refugees from the middle east fleeing to Europe are a) your constant wars and meddling in the area While you're not entirely wrong about that, there's more than enough blam
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I feel like if any one person can seriously subvert something, you've already lost. Maybe that's just my perspective from working at international enormous tech corp X, but we've already basically got that problem in the form
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Maybe because high penalties + high enforcement == rebellion? A traffic-related anecdote: the geograplically-isolated suburb I live in had a metric fuckton of speed traps about twenty years ago - like, an absurd quantity. You had cops staki
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Yeah, +1 anecdata. I was homeschooled for a while and saw a lot of the other homeschooling families via the school district resource center thing, which even the real extremists interacted with at least some. From my perspective, it was bro
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Without descending too deeply into American domestic politics, I'm skeptical of that given his stated desire to expand the scope of slander and libel laws. It's really easy to end up in a "speech for me, not for thee" ki
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German murderer wins 'right to be forgotten'(bbc.com)
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Specific bug gripes aside: I see this editor as emblematic of Slack's broader shift away from what I think it should be (primarily synchronous chat; irc with a friendlier ui and integrated bouncer features) towards what many people see
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Guess not: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=acpi_fujitsu&sekti... > hw.acpi.fujitsu.lcd_brightness From man acpi_fujitsu on an actual system: SYSCTL VARIABLES These sysctls are currently implem

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