mildmotive

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by mildmotive 4y ago
How is having a hash-based scanner a step forward for privacy compared to not having one?
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by mildmotive 4y ago
> You can always Jailbreak your device? No, you can’t. Apple has tight control over what gets installed on the iPhone, all the way throughout the boot chain. Jailbreaking is about finding vulnerabilities to somehow acquire root, and many
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by mildmotive 4y ago
> They didn’t even make a joke. They just called trans woman a man. It was hate speech, pure and simple. It’s not a crime nor hate speech to acknowledge someone’s biological sex. That’s what we do in sports and when we select partners fo
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by mildmotive 4y ago
>Citation needed. That parents are generally the most trustworthy individuals in a child's life should be common sense. I may not agree with every parent’s ideology or beliefs, but I will stand for their right to have a parental rol
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by mildmotive 4y ago
Because that’s not where children grow up to be socialized into such a lifestyle.
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by mildmotive 4y ago
>Abusive parents also exist. Rather more commonly than pedophiles too, I'll wager. Saying that “parents can be abusive” isn’t an argument against giving parents in general authority over their children. Generally, parents are the mo
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by mildmotive 4y ago
I’m fairly certain that most “gay teens” don’t come from ultra-conservative households.
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by mildmotive 4y ago
>we ought to respect minors enough to allow them secure and encrypted communications with one another, without the prying eyes of bigoted parents ”bigoted parents”? Who are you refering to, FSF? It’s the parents’ right to raise their chi
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by mildmotive 4y ago
I only partially agree, an interpreted language can act as a hinderance when doing optimisations, for various reasons. But how we write the code also matters of course. Furthermore, competency also costs money. I’m not saying this to be mea
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by mildmotive 4y ago
It’s offloading the cost to the customer. It is way cheaper to develop in some famous interpreted language than creating a set of robust compiled binaries. As long as customers can pay up for newer hardware we will keep seeing clunky UIs th
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by mildmotive 4y ago
As long as there are poorly regulated countries to dump the e-waste in arbitrary limitations are working just fine.
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by mildmotive 4y ago
Twitter does lock you out and force you to give them your phone number, even if you technically can register without one. I’ve seen them do so almost instantly after registration.
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by mildmotive 4y ago
You’re making some good points. But I think the main argument still stands, that we should be careful not to view the Russian people as being all victims. I concede to what you’re saying about the censorship. However, do note that this can
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by mildmotive 4y ago
The same logic can be elsewhere too, given enough support.
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by mildmotive 4y ago
I don’t believe that’s what he said. He basically just pointed out that we should be careful not to speak of the Russian people as if they’re all innocent prisoners of this evil regime. It’s not a very accurate representation either. I’m qu
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by mildmotive 4y ago
> Apple strives to do right by its customers, and to be a good company Meanwhile, millions of people accidentally turn on iCloud without understanding the consequences, due to Apple’s UI decisions. Apple need to do way more than this to
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by mildmotive 4y ago
Honestly, I’ve never heard of Escape from Tarkov before, let alone know how they’ve implemented their mitigations. However, I do believe that we’re able to create an entire subfield within CS just to serve the purpose of implementing server
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by mildmotive 4y ago
This kind of anti-cheat would contradict the idea of having control over your own computer. It also wont end there in terms of invasiveness. Instead, they should focus on non-invasive mitigations such as: - Server-side anti-cheat. - Pay-onc
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by mildmotive 4y ago
Sweden needs healthy, sober and clearminded men and women.
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by mildmotive 4y ago
> As the infrastructure provider for over 20% of all www traffic traversing the internet today, CloudFlare is in a position to enforce it's beliefs on a global scale. > Who interprets what qualifies as hate speech? Exactly the is
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by mildmotive 4y ago
Apple preventing “side-loading” is an essential part of controlling the platform, and it’s making them tons of money. Apple wont let go of that, at least not willingly.
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by mildmotive 4y ago
> Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale Who would’ve thought? Well, maybe Twitter will still insist on turning into cyber-pimps. We can only wait and see. In the meanwhile it might
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by mildmotive 4y ago
>Meat is murder So are bugs. It’s also worse because you have to kill more of them.
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by mildmotive 4y ago
> The only countries that can do something are singapore and china, who are rationally treating housing as a basic need similar to food. So why are people in China paying hefty loans for apartments that haven’t even been constructed yet?
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by mildmotive 4y ago
> Cloud software then generates a 3-D representation from the X-rays. Paying possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars for a machine and still not being able to operate it independently of the producer because a significant part of the s
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by mildmotive 4y ago
> I thought the GDPR didn't allow signing away of privacy? Because if it does, then it's utterly useless - every webpage comes with a 100-page terms of service these days. If that was the case Europeans wouldn’t have been able
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by mildmotive 4y ago
I think once you sign a contract with one of these providers you’re basically signing away the rights to your personal information. GDPR wont protect you from state actors trying to spy on the people, but it will allow you to ask a company
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by mildmotive 4y ago
The reality is that the vast majority of abortions are not done because of rape or incest. > smaller proportions of women in 2004 than in 1987 said that having a baby would interfere with their job or career (38% vs. 50%), that they were
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by mildmotive 4y ago
In my experience it depends on how you open the tweet. When I click Twitter links online, scrolling works. The moment I switch tweet, scrolling becomes restricted again. Trying to scroll through someone’s profile is also very restricted, I
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by mildmotive 4y ago
> The truth is that Twitter is public, free I don’t think that’s completely true. > easy for everyone to look at No, it’s not if you want to stay anonymous. If you’re not logged in you can’t scroll all the way down (in most cases). If

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