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by owisd 9mo ago
The EFF are fighting a losing battle: > we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. All the momentum is in the other direction and not slowing down. There are valid privacy concerns, but, buried in this
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by owisd 9mo ago
Economics is usually optimising for a narrow utility function, usually something to do with price discovery, but that doesn’t normally align with more human societal goals. Take, say, surge pricing. Maybe without surge pricing you pay $60 f
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by owisd 9mo ago
Then they scrape together their pocket money and walk into a pawn shop and hand over the cash for a second hand smartphone. Plenty of free WiFi around.
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by owisd 9mo ago
You roll out the ‘bad parents’ trope then immediately admit bypassing parental controls is trivial.
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by owisd 9mo ago
> I think you can go back further Reminds me of a line by John Maynard Keynes from 1919 about life before WW1 — “The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth,
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by owisd 9mo ago
This works both ways though, ie there’s no point opposing the laws on the grounds that they might be abused in future because the future sovereign parliament could just pass the same abusable laws.
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by owisd 9mo ago
They’re also strengthening the criminal consequences for future governments that misuse their position: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4019
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by owisd 9mo ago
> how you discover a new product Buying magazines for trusted 3rd party reviews used to be way more common, far better experience than trying to sift through SEO slop these days.
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by owisd 9mo ago
qbasic mainly using previous generation books eg https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books Personally find p5js/The Coding Train is the closest thing around to a modern equivalent.
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by owisd 9mo ago
The equivalent is that you could ask to be removed from the phone book.
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by owisd 10mo ago
The leading theory for the etymology of the “foot” in “football” is because it’s played on foot unlike, say, jousting or polo.
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by owisd 10mo ago
The steelman for federation is that email survived the rise of the big platforms despite no-one owning email, so making other applications follow the email model means they too could be free from central ownership.
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by owisd 10mo ago
That’s an argument that sounds convincing in principle, but in reality I can walk into any independent bookstore and find it’s not filled with porn and AI slop, so clearly there is a successful vetting process going on. Namely, the publishe
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by owisd 10mo ago
The problem interpreting the intent of that tweet is that Lucy Connolly herself admitted to authorities she was inciting violence so becomes hard to build a defence at that point. Incitement isn’t first amendment protected in the US either
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by owisd 10mo ago
Seems very coordinated, like whenever there’s an article on the Trump administration crushing free speech by cutting funding/sanctioning/suing anyone critical of it, it quickly gets flagged into oblivion, but anything the UK and o
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by owisd 10mo ago
If you want ideas for what you can do about it, "Let Grow" (founded by the Anxious Generation author and others) provides resources for raising more independent kids and campaigning against anti-kid neighborhoods and overly burden
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by owisd 10mo ago
Free speech was always just the pretext. They still rage about Europe or Australia regulating social media or punishing people for using social media to commit crimes, even when the arguments those actions infringe on protected speech are f
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by owisd 10mo ago
Seems to be a device for American free speech advocates to feel like they’re contributing something while being distracted from Trump chilling free speech by shaking down CBS & ABC, defunding Harvard, bogus investigations into James Com
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by owisd 10mo ago
It’s already a solved problem- load a digital ID into a wallet app, the operating system can then perform a zero knowledge proof for each website that the user is over 16. The government issuing the ID doesn’t know which websites it’s bein
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by owisd 10mo ago
Michael Burry famously did quite well betting against that advice.
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by owisd 11mo ago
For a more rigorous definition than “things I don’t like”, there’s Umberto Eco’s core characteristics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
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by owisd 11mo ago
You’d be forced to pay way more than the cost of the licence fee in punishing austerity if it was up to the Mail and the Times. The per capita cost of Brexit that they campaigned for far exceeds the licence fee.
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by owisd 11mo ago
There are privacy-respecting ways, e.g. https://blog.google/products/google-pay/google-wallet-age-id... uses Zero Knowledge Proofs to just verify age without revealing any other personal data. If Online Safety was
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by owisd 11mo ago
This is just another “bendy bananas”-tier myth. The UK was never forced to privatise because of EU competition rules, see, for example, France, an EU member state that retained publicly owned railways during the same period. There are EU co
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by owisd 11mo ago
It’s a bit like the Elizabeth Warren toaster analogy. If you bought a toaster with shoddy wiring and it caught fire and burned down your house, everyone would blame the manufacturer and not sneer at you online for not learning electrical en
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by owisd 11mo ago
It’s tragic how many are baffled by the idea someone might genuinely accept a minor inconvenience to benefit their community.
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by owisd 11mo ago
If you compile it from source yourself using Xcode you can deploy to your own device without an Apple developer subscription.
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by owisd 11mo ago
you can take a teen’s phone off them and they can just walk into a store and buy an inexpensive second hand handset and use the WiFi from a local cafe.
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by owisd 11mo ago
Not put a gun to your head but ring up pretending to be your bank and there’s fraud detected and can you follow these steps to verify your identity and secure your account.
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by owisd 1y ago
How about Tesla for taxpayer funded innovation? https://www.energy.gov/lpo/tesla

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