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by motters 12y ago
I've also had similar issues in which it appears that email from me was being blocked purely because I was within a particular IP range, not because my system was actually sending any spam.
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by motters 12y ago
Yes of course. I can control a calculator or a desktop computer. Both of those are orders of magnitude smarter than me at doing calculations. To understand why this is a silly question you need to unpack what is meant by "smarter"
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by motters 12y ago
I don't think that email is going to go away any time soon, so there doesn't appear to be a lot of alternative. I doubt that Moxie is suggesting that users send emails in plain text, so maybe email encryption needs to be reinvente
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by motters 12y ago
Surely this has got to be illegal. When will the lawsuits commence?
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by motters 12y ago
Having been unemployed on a few occasions for non-trivial lengths of time I think it's unlikely that my personality changed significantly as a result. However, those experiences were "character building" and changed my politi
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by motters 12y ago
That's the contemporary situation. We have something close to a police state with mass surveillance, militarised police and heavy restrictions on protesting. At the same time we're also seeing more interest in Basic Income and I e
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by motters 12y ago
In other words taxpayers money was redistributed into the personal bank accounts of some of the richest people.
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by motters 12y ago
Expert systems. And so the AI circle has been completed.
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by motters 12y ago
This is a parable about whether you really understand the nature of the problem, or not. If you do then you can produce a concise definition (i.e. a better program in fewer LOC) and if you don't then it can get much more complex. It&#x
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by motters 12y ago
If you're running a business and you want an internal social network then you're far better off installing redmatrix. https://github.com/friendica/red It's easy to deploy and you can do things such as
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by motters 12y ago
I think "data ownership" needs to be highlighted more prominently as a feature. I think it's a critical battle and that loss of ownership - as we can already see - leads to a lot of negative consequences for the user.
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by motters 12y ago
Sadly, I completely agree with this. From a wider public relations perspective beyond the realm of hackerdom calling it "darkmail" hands an easy propaganda win to the authoritarians. Instead of dark scariness emphasise safety, sec
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by motters 12y ago
I view my side projects as the main work, and anything else as merely a way of supporting them. Also, I have enough side projects that if I lose interest in one I can switch to another.
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by motters 12y ago
Eesh. I'm surprised that such a self-evidently whiggish article would make it to the front page of HN. I assume that the author lives in a bubble of wealth and privilege. If "we've never had it so good" then why did my p
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by motters 12y ago
Yes, I think you're right. It is probably better for most public software to be independently produced, outside of the context of companies or governments. Another way to tackle the problem might be to ensure that people who want to ma
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by motters 12y ago
A thought occurs to me that maybe public software could be funded by the public, via taxation. I don't think that would be any kind of panacea, because you can see what happens with other publicly funded things, but it's worth con
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by motters 12y ago
Especially if there are a lot of Russian tech companies relying upon Github then that could be a useful strategy. Or it might only result in a separate Russia-only version of Github.
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by motters 12y ago
I think this is good news. Companies such as Google and others have been avoiding paying taxes for too long. They do this in ways which up until now were fraudulent but technically legal, by creating fictional companies or by laundering mon
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by motters 12y ago
My Emacs configuration is based on Sacha Chua's, with some things added and removed. https://github.com/bashrc/emacs
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by motters 12y ago
There are all sorts of problems with this narrative. It entirely misses large components of the contemporary economic situation, and seems to be written from a rather imperialistic standpoint.
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by motters 12y ago
That's free as in price, not as in freedom.
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by motters 12y ago
Today, we’re introducing something new. It’s called Exfil. Years in the making, Exfil is by the same people who brought you Gmail, but it’s not Gmail: it’s a completely different type of inbox, designed to focus on what really matters. Emai
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Triple Revolution (1964)(educationanddemocracy.org)
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by motters 12y ago
See http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Grid_cells
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by motters 12y ago
Yes, but if users later can't remove their information because the list is append only then that may not be legal in the EU.
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by motters 12y ago
I think that's the key insight. It may not be legal for NSA to look at records of US citizens, but build a search engine and there are other departments for whom it is legal to do that. NSA just becomes the facilitator or router of the
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by motters 12y ago
If they set up their own pod then they can spread whatever propaganda they want. Earlier in the year IS made the foolish mistake of setting up on a Red Matrix server administered by someone who opposed them, and they promptly got kicked off
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by motters 12y ago
Good article. However if your adversary is a three or four letter agency then by all accounts it seems that PGP/GPG still does work. Snowden and Greenwald used it, apparently successfully after some tuition. The article also doesn&#x27
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by motters 12y ago
Same old same old FUD campaigns. Perhaps Microsoft will never get a clue, but it doesn't matter to me because I'm not using any of their software. Also, you can't claim that your systems are secure and then not have the code
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by motters 12y ago
Another thing to keep in mind is that BIG would be basic, and living on it would not be particularly luxurious. Unless you did things to supplement the basic income then you probably wouldn't be able to afford to buy or run a vehicle,

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