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by pluma 8y ago
Wait, that's a thing? Do they reset them before the TüV inspection every time? Having been blinded by oncoming traffic on the Autobahn a few times, reading this is extremely infuriating. Xenon headlights are especially vile.
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by pluma 8y ago
Sending things to (actual) space is expensive. Drones are a lot cheaper than orbital weapons and easier to justify than WMDs. There's not much profit in sending things beyond Earth orbit as Earth is where all the strategic targets are.
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by pluma 8y ago
> The USA basically won the space race The USA lost the original space race, then redefined it as "race to the moon", eventually accomplished that and then dropped the ball. I don't want to denounce the amazing accomplishm
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by pluma 8y ago
The article indicates that this is what the group is already known as, it didn't come up with the term. That said, "a popular spirit of hostility to legal restraint and to the law" sounds indistinguishable from how AirBnB, Ub
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by pluma 8y ago
The way I understand it the only sane use for JWTs is for short-lived delegation of authorisation. E.g. a user wants to talk to service A but access to that service requires certain privileges. Instead of authenticating with service A, the
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by pluma 8y ago
This assumes you either have headphones or you're in a place where listening to it on speakers doesn't disturb anyone. And of course that you can hear and follow the narration. Luckily there's a transcript. EDIT: FWIW somethi
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by pluma 8y ago
That you provide the transcript and audio recording is amazing. I think the descriptions of the illustrations could be improved a bit though: they make sense if you've seen the images but they don't really provide the same informa
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by pluma 8y ago
Don't think of it as taking things out of the public domain. They "fixed the glitch".
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by pluma 8y ago
Last I checked the murders of farmers in SA have little to do with skin color and even white victims have come out to clarify that. But of course focusing on the white victims is more interesting when your audience is mostly white, especial
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by pluma 8y ago
Peterson is definitely a gateway drug. There's a gradual progression from "conservative left-wing" (e.g. Carl Benjamin, who for a long time self-identified as "left-wing"), "anti-SJW"/antifeminists an
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by pluma 8y ago
I mean, Free Software is basically communism (think of software as "the means of production" and the ideological similarities become obvious). But the reason most startups are not worker-owned is simple: most founders are capitali
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by pluma 8y ago
It's the same word games as the "sharing economy". Yeah, Uber drivers are "independent contractors" rather than employees because they have to buy their own cars and are totally free to do what they want (as long as
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by pluma 8y ago
You're implying the problem is Russia or that the "attack" was somehow particularly sophisticated. It was entirely possible, using the tools Facebook provides, the way those tools are intended to be used, to do extremely unet
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by pluma 8y ago
Sure, but that proves Facebook was aware of its influence as early as that and had enough time to consider the implications. If you find that politicians are using your product to sway public opinions, it's your moral responsibility to
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by pluma 8y ago
> backed by George Soros Can we please stop dropping conspiracy-fueled asides like that? It's entirely tangential if taken at face value and my ears are bleeding from the dogwhistling.
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by pluma 8y ago
Try setting a gas cloner on fire.
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by pluma 8y ago
As a non-American I'm a bit baffled. Does this mean hemp was previously illegal? In most of Europe cannabis is illegal but you can get hemp-infused drinks and food (though I personally don't care much for the taste), even energy d
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by pluma 8y ago
I guess you mean "fine" as in "legal", not "fine" as in "ethically unobjectionable".
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by pluma 8y ago
You seem to be making the same mistake a lot of people (especially those from countries with no regard for consumer protection or privacy) do with regard to the GDPR: It's not about e-mail addresses. It's about personal informatio
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by pluma 8y ago
Cookies don't matter. Personally identifiable information matters. Storing a "seen_cookie_notice=true" flag is fine (assuming the banner itself indicates that interacting with it will set the flag) as long as you don't u
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by pluma 8y ago
If you escalate things to the point where you need to "pay them off" you're entering serious monetary fines territory.
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by pluma 8y ago
No it doesn't. Consumers can withdraw consent at any time, they have to give informed consent (i.e. the consent is void and null if the consumer can't reasonably be expected to understand what they consented to) and companies ha
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by pluma 8y ago
Context matters. Firefox is significantly more trustworthy than Chrome (the outrage over Mozilla's occasional screw-ups exists because that behaviour is decidedly not the established norm for Mozilla whereas the same behaviour from Goo
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by pluma 8y ago
That sentence really came out of left field. "Here's how to write a blog post. [..] It's okay to poke fun at my particular ideology but you still have to admit I'm right."
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by pluma 8y ago
The reason this is outrageous is because they weren't doing this kind of thing before. The reason this isn't outrageous when Chrome does it is that Chrome always does this. Using this as a reason to distrust Firefox and instead tr
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by pluma 8y ago
Or more specifically, because so many web developers use Macs and therefore Safari (or have superiors that use Macs and Safari) day to day and don't have to do any explicit testing to find those bugs.
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by pluma 8y ago
Probably a good moment to remember that "unicorn" is an arbitrary label and valuations are entirely based on subjective speculation and extrapolations that may be entirely unrealistic. It's never about how much money a compan
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by pluma 8y ago
I wonder what this means for Chakra Core, their JS engine. They previously tried to establish Chakra as an alternative to V8 and even maintained their own fork of Node.js running on it. It doesn't look like those efforts went anywhere.
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by pluma 8y ago
Nobody at my company uses an iOS device. I'm the only one not on Windows and I use Ubuntu. If you look at the global marketshare, Android dominates iOS. The point is that I can test on Windows without a Microsoft device or giving money
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by pluma 8y ago
(Hint: you don't) I'm a web developer with an Android smartphone and Ubuntu as my main OS, Windows as my secondary. My primary means of testing on iOS/Safari is to be very careful about which features I target by checking can

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