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by panarky 7y ago
Conventional wisdom says filter bubbles are bad because they hide alternative viewpoints. But after I've understood and incorporated alternate views and I'm ready to build, then I want to discuss with like-minded people to refine
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by panarky 7y ago
"The New York Times had held the story at the request of the government." https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...
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by panarky 7y ago
> They are not blocked They are absolutely blocked (with the possible exception of Github). > refuse to comply with Chinese censorship laws And Huawei refuses to comply with US economic sanctions laws. > Not blocked in China .
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by panarky 7y ago
Blocked in China: Twitter, Google, YouTube, Github, The New York Times, Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Bloomberg, Tumblr, Signal, Reddit, Netflix, Le Monde, Wikipedia, Reuters, Dropbox, Bing, Discord, etc., etc., etc. Who started this trade
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by panarky 7y ago
Not a new thing 2017 derailment https://imgur.com/a/7Bn0bqC 2013 ignornace and fuckery https://imgur.com/a/lPrB0Gx
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by panarky 7y ago
You're not a real pedant until you can spell it correctly. (Who says we're not fun?)
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by panarky 7y ago
Innovator - To help me ride my bike on dangerous mountain trails, I made a sturdy frame and fat, knobby tires. HN - The bike is the wrong tool for transportation in mountains. For absolute safety you must only use a cable car or funicular.
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by panarky 7y ago
I identified with this post immediately -- both because of the Cixin Liu reference and my own behavior recently. Before: good opsec, ad blockers, minimal social media under my own name, anonymous and pseudonymous accounts, etc. Now: Between
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by panarky 7y ago
Two big wins: 1) The First Amendment protects the audience as well as the speaker . 2) The court carefully reviewed the fair use factors and concluded that "they tip sharply in Darkpilver’s favor." And a pretty big loss: The co
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Reddit Commenter's Fight for Anonynmity Is a Win for Free Speech and Fair Use(eff.org)
2 points by panarky 7y ago|1 comments
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by panarky 7y ago
Experiment 1 While we used the NGINX reverse proxy to terminate TCP, it was challenging to find an openly available reverse proxy for QUIC. We built a QUIC reverse proxy in-house using the core QUIC stack from Chromium and contributed the
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Account Hijacking Forum OGusers Hacked(krebsonsecurity.com)
46 points by panarky 7y ago|7 comments
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by panarky 7y ago
There's no conflict between state and federal law. Immigration law a federal responsibility. States don't maintain national borders. California isn't contravening federal law, they've made it unlawful to use California-f
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by panarky 7y ago
This is a bigger issue than immigration, and the EFF isn't taking a position on immigration. The EFF identified abuse of the CLETS system before immigration became relevant. It's now relevant since a new California law prohibits u
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by panarky 7y ago
As someone who doesn't smoke, it's awkward to read these articles that assume inevitably of tobacco's influence. You can quit. We can quit. Sometimes I run into a group of smokers that I want to be more involved with. When I
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California Classifies Immigration Enforcement as Misuse of Network(eff.org)
14 points by panarky 7y ago|10 comments
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by panarky 7y ago
Is this a different product from AWS SNS ($1.00 per million) or Twilio push (10000 free per month, then 0.00025 each)? https://aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/ https://www.twilio.com/notify/pricing
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by panarky 7y ago
What's worse? Private companies making decisions about what appears on their privately funded platforms? Or bureaucrats, ideologues and partisans using government power to influence what appears on private sites?
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We hear you: updates to Works with Nest(blog.google)
5 points by panarky 7y ago|0 comments
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Who’s Afraid of China’s Internet Vigilantes?(nytimes.com)
1 points by panarky 7y ago|0 comments
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by panarky 7y ago
This is cool, this is interesting, and I'll probably try it. If nothing else, maybe it will answer the frequently heard argument that cryptocurrency shouldn't have any value because it can't be used to buy coffee. Of course,
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Why Outlawing Cryptocurrency Purchases Is a Terrible Idea(eff.org)
15 points by panarky 7y ago|4 comments
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by panarky 7y ago
> you're (ostensibly) supposed to be objective and unbiased Nobody is objective and unbiased. If your goal is to report the truth, pretending you're unbiased just makes it more difficult to separate facts from ideology. It&#x
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by panarky 8y ago
The "Chinese math" fallacy is only fallacious when it hides how difficult it is to steal a small percentage of a giant established market. How exactly does the "fallacy" apply to Uber, a company that thoroughly understan
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by panarky 8y ago
How big is the worldwide market for 1) personal transportation, 2) package and parcel delivery, and 3) 30-minute delivery of prepared foods, groceries, pharmaceuticals, auto parts, etc.? Can Uber capture 10% of that combined market opportun
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by panarky 8y ago
> it's often a lot of work to disable the "press Space to erase your operating system" prompt That's not what this article is about. Yes, you can put the Chromebook in dev mode, disable secure boot and deal with tha
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by panarky 8y ago
I can think of some pretty big Microsoft pivots, and I don't begrudge them their choices at all. But it's curious that you only hear cries of outrage when Google kills products, not when other companies do it. Why do you think tha
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by panarky 8y ago
Please read my comment again. I'm not defending anyone. Why would you accuse me of something so outrageous?
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by panarky 8y ago
Would love to see a comparison of products "killed by Google" to products "killed by Microsoft" or even "killed by General Electric". I'd bet a week's paycheck that Google's list would be the sho
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by panarky 8y ago
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." These 16 words were the pretext for the disastrous US war against Iraq. These words were false and US official

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