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by mechnesium 6y ago
Private entities are horrible at self-regulating. They are equally horrible at creating their own laws to selectively apply to users of their platform, in addition to laws of the location of the user. This law effectively diminishes the abi
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Hopefully the rest of the world follows suit.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Do you think the risks of taking antidepressants are worth the benefits? I suffer from depression, but I’m afraid I might do some serious damage if I go on meds.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Yeah, but you can’t put an end to violence, and violence serves an incredible biological purpose. Racism will never cease to exist, nor should society try to force it away, since that will only make things worse. Perhaps racism even serves
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Even if there were illegal content, couldn’t it be distributed and encrypted on the host machines in such a way that there would be no liability for hosters? Imagine the hosts only possess encrypted file fragments, rather than unencrypted w
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The Growing Threat of Network-Based Steganography (2014)(technologyreview.com)
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by mechnesium 6y ago
It looks like a pretty cool horror game—the screenshots remind me of Amnesia. It’s seriously a shame that publishers are censoring the game and denying revenue to hardworking devs for something as innocuous as an amulet with the expression
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by mechnesium 6y ago
I was trying to make sense of this... people unable to find clinics to get their second dose (or maybe too many doses?) because of their outdated GPS.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
This is just rich. I don’t know what’s funnier: Kazakhstan’s overt, bush league attempt at surveillance using certificates, or the virtue signaling by the Big N’s who surveil us daily at the behest of Uncle Sam.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Apple provides Core NFC to developers: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corenfc It must either be pretty neutered, or against the terms to use it for payment processing, given that there are no competitors to
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Classified networks are typically air gapped.[1] Doubtful that hackers obtained anything useful. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking)
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by mechnesium 6y ago
TLDR; the author has a certain dark mode preference and is making it known to the world. Dark is dark. Personally, I’ll take any shade of dark over any shade of light. The real question is... when will HN get dark mode? :)
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by mechnesium 6y ago
I don’t think this is necessarily true anymore. Today we have much more intuitive tools at our disposable such as vscode. I understand some people were raised on grep and vim, and it is like a second nature to them, but actively encouraging
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by mechnesium 6y ago
How is this different from Apple/Google requiring iPhone/Android users to create iCloud/Google accounts to use most features on the phones? They should be subject to similar probes.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
"Don't be evil" - Google, 1999 - Present [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
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by mechnesium 6y ago
I didn't see any information here regarding the mode of access. Is it physical or remote?
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by mechnesium 6y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this, personally. On the one hand, this is awesome for people who might actually still use this archaic piece of software. On the other hand, it seems like a waste of resources that could be better spent o
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by mechnesium 6y ago
I believe the US government is actively undermining products that don't have such backdoors. For example, the US DoD now classifies JetBrains products as prohibited, which trickles down from the 2020 National Defense Authorization Ac
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by mechnesium 6y ago
> strengthened by the fact that no other company can offer services (above mentioned) that match the quality of the product Google is giving. This is somewhat similar to TikTok's situation. There's currently no other company th
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Luckily, new grassroots mobile platforms are sprouting up. I ordered a PinePhone[0] to tinker with. One can dream that a robust mobile Linux community will one day flourish, free from these corrupt monopolies. [0] https://en.wiki
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Yeah, that’s the common interpretation. If we need an amendment to extend that to all entities and forums, public and private, then I’m all for it.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. If you read closely, it’s phrased like a suggestion, not a rule. It uses language like “please” instead of “you shall.” It doesn’t sound like something that absol
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by mechnesium 6y ago
That’s awesome. I took that cord cutting one step further. I completely stopped using all products and services from FAAMG and committed to a complete digital detox plan. Using my devices with a clear intention in mind, rather than getting
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Yes we’ve all heard it before. It “strictly lowers the signal to noise ratio. We are trying to do something different here.” No, this goal is not helping. This makes HN just like every other shithole online that censors its users. It makes
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by mechnesium 6y ago
I agree with you completely. I get regularly downvoted here for promoting free speech and denouncing all forms of web censorship. Websites and their obscure “Terms of Service” and “Community Guidelines” are eroding those rights and should
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Forgot Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft. FAAMG is evil and each of them needs to be fractured into oblivion like the Standard Oil of yesteryear.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Just wait until dang comes and censors you for inciting a flame war about free speech. (Just kidding dang, please don’t ban me. I’m just salty about previous incidents.)
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by mechnesium 6y ago
Well stated. There is no global Chinese hegemony... only the United States Global Police and their lies about freedom and democracy.
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by mechnesium 6y ago
A social credit system seems like the only logical and humane evolutionary solution for a nation with over a billion people and counting. There has to be a way to filter the signal from the noise. If you want something different, go somew
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by mechnesium 6y ago
What offensive cyberwar capabilities do civilians have to fight back?

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