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by raxxorrax 5y ago
China is a dictatorship and any Chinese student can be put under pressure with their families at home. That said, the vast majority don't study in foreign countries to spy for the CCP. But obviously with this leverage there is a limit
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I think this is still very relevant to the discussion. Because spying is a profession in which behavior tends to degrade to the lowest common denominator, it makes criticism of such actions very hard if your own domestic agencies engage in
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DDG was never a "right wing search engine". I think it is good that it got feedback. Propaganda is a two way street. Either you ban it all or you let people decide themselves. Access to more information will overall only lessen th
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
My satire detector soothed my anger at this comment. It is getting a lot of strain lately...
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There is a significant difference though. If foreign governments do it, you have a clear legal recourse. If your own government does it...
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I think it would generalize the inherent logic of said ideology and apply it to everything. The problem with AI is that it still cannot really think. It can apply formalized knowledge to extrapolate a conclusion that seems likely within thi
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
This is basically prohibition and I don't think it will work. I also don't understand the incentive to act as smoking got more unpopular with younger generations. I don't think this will pass judges if anyone who smoked illeg
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
Heh, shows how long I didn't use SVN anymore. But sure, I never really had a complained and used it quite extensively. But my surroundings often switched to git so I gave in to peer pressure I guess. Funny thing is that GitHub almost r
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You need to provide a perspective, not a distraction. Free housing is good, but people will want to make money in any case to satisfy their needs. Of course that alone won't serve the problem. Crime decreases where there are better opp
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I heavily disagree with this data interpretation. There certainly was an internet with much more prevalent death threats and it did not affect the real world at all. On the contrary, putting people uttering them on a terror list makes it a
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So is this because they were laundering money or because they got caught?
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I think for developers it is already as popular. I also like SVN though even with its flaws (apart from performance in larger projects, having a .svn folder everywhere is my biggest gripe). I think git popularized versioning systems in the
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
That is indeed a stunning photo. Especially considering that the ISS orbits at around 400km and the moon at ~380,000km. It looks like it would be in a dangerously low orbit around the moon.
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Either they too just don't have means for communication on an astronomical scale or maybe nobody wants to have anything to do with these strange ape-like bipedal primitives and humanity is on an intergalactic ban list which prohibits a
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
It is like Einstein said, WW3 will be fought with TLS certificates. Or something like that... Didn't Russia have no CA at all? But even then a CA must be trusted first before their signatures are accepted.
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But the western elite doesn't in any way display technocratic competence, it is just displaying decadence with its usual symptoms. It looks old and bored and cannot even define a goal that inspires anyone. Sure, economists that look on
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
If the habitable zone isn't too close to the star that any planetary body wouldn't be tidally locked and if they don't send out regular radioactive flares that would pose a challenge to life, they might indeed prove to be a l
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That and I think it is pretty safe to say that the reasons most constitutions specifically prohibit governments to access these kind of private correspondance are quite obvious too.
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Especially since it can interface a lot of scanners via twain so that you don't even need a driver. I have this really old usb-powered scanner which only supplied drivers for windows 98 and I am the third owner of it by now. Sure, opti
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
I often wanted to ban pinterest since I cannot view the source without account anyway. So there would be sensible applications.
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
A few years ago it was already apparent that there would be a Russian reaction to some western dealings within Ukraine. It became true and was obvious. The only surprise is the decisiveness and direct invasion, the rest should not be someth
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Those that need legal force to adhere to the principle of freedom of expression simply do not support it. They often believe that they do, but in all relevant metric they certainly do not.
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While the statement might be true, none of these examples could be called common sense. It is specialized domain knowledge, perhaps the opposite of common sense from another perspective.
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
Firefox has bad management after they fired people with wrong opinions, but it is still better than the Chrome monoculture. This will especially apparent if they migrate to manifest v3 completely around next year. DDG is far easier replaced
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Even if you condemn the Russian invasion, this is good advertising in regard to the statements from DDG.
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
I don't support Russia at all and condemn the invasion, but I am critical of those that blindly trust current media as we have seen such narratives around other wars. You can only speculate about the motivation about coinbase. They mig
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False flag operations were very common in Ukraine from both sides of the parties. It was often a war about publicity and perception to get third parties to act.
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The west does imprison journalists because at least there is enough public pressure that it would never be accepted, even if the result is comparable. But it is specifically not a question about who the good guy is. This is about hiding cer
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All the more important to not rely on mechanism that mirror Putins crackdown on information. The damage from disinformation is just smaller than to openly crack down on content you dislike. Fact checkers don't exist for too long and th
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by raxxorrax 5y ago
> It's one of the key goals of Russian information warfare They seem to have pretty smart people to be able to predict this behavior then. Doesn't mean this behavior should be condoned.

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