rickycook

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by rickycook 8y ago
i would wager that your argument is a rounding error compared to laptops, phones, and tvs... are airpods less environmentally friendly than regular headphones? sure, but let’s tackle things that actually matter before nitpicking. my airpods
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by rickycook 8y ago
well, yes and no; what are parents going to do? sit with the kid and watch the whole thing after they (parent) picked out the content? i agree the parent should pick out the content, but the whole auto play at the end of a video situation m
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by rickycook 8y ago
not entirely true... you can pair a new device which shares the decryption key. hell, you could even do a p2p sync so the server stores nothing... there are plenty of options that get technically harder with each increment (perfect forward
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by rickycook 8y ago
but also you can remove your phone number after you sign up. unsure how that’s handled though, so could provide nothing extra if they still allow searching of it, or continue to store it?
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by rickycook 8y ago
it’s not quite that brazen, but from what i remember the whatsapp server can push a new public key for your contact/chat to the device, which means that they can MITM you. the chat shows that the key changed, but most users wouldn’t kn
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by rickycook 8y ago
a laptop is not a tablet, a tablet is not a phone, a phone is not a watch; that’s part of apple’s philosophy behind how their devices work together. knock it all you want (and there are legitimate criticisms), but it works remarkably well a
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by rickycook 8y ago
“you’ve visited this site a few times recently. are you still okay with these settings? (if you ever change your mind, click privacy at the bottom of the page)” just because we don’t currently have solutions doesn’t mean they aren’t out the
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by rickycook 8y ago
duck duck go has ads and doesn’t track you... you don’t need cookies to show ads; only to show intrusive “track you across the internet” ads
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by rickycook 8y ago
well the GDPR does say many things about how the tracking consent can’t be the default right? so yeah it’s working if you just click through... of course if businesses are breaking the law, that’s different and enforcement will come for ref
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by rickycook 8y ago
we have definitely seen movement (plenty of data protection authorities have issued warnings), but it really hasn’t been that long (it’s been less than a year) the only way that a law like the GDPR that’s purposefully vague and broad can wo
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by rickycook 8y ago
assuming that we got that right and didn’t just misunderstand what we are seeing (or assuming that there’s no “side channel” to know how to correct for it) we also can’t get to a black hole, so for this civilisation it’s safe to assume they
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by rickycook 8y ago
in australia at least these days, i’ve gone to arbitrary doctors for my 3mo tests and things and almost always they’ve offered to prescribe me PrEP... i’m already on it, but it seems here it’s being promoted by almost everyone!
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by rickycook 8y ago
pretty sure critical airline systems have redundancy
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by rickycook 8y ago
yup exactly: if it was for medics, there would be no problem
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by rickycook 8y ago
specifics: you can use an iron bar to kill someone, but that doesn’t make an iron bar a weapon. putting a hololens on a soldier serves only a single purpose: to increase their “lethality” as the US military puts it i’m certain that if the c
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by rickycook 8y ago
well, australian voting systems aren’t exactly progressive (it’s just a few steps above the worst case), and neither is the voting populace id say our government matches closer to our electorate than what the US government does, but we stil
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by rickycook 8y ago
everything is randomly bashing things together; every human is randomly bashing things together. we are similar, but have billions and billions of tiny differences that make up the specific things about us. everything has selection pressure
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by rickycook 8y ago
see my reply to the parent; there’s a retrieval market too, which could help that issue
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by rickycook 8y ago
from what i understand, you get a reward for serving the data, so you miss out on a good portion of bounty. you probably COULD attack the data like that, but it would cost you which might stop large scale attacks *EDIT: and not just for ser
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by rickycook 8y ago
piracy is only an issue if it effects people paying for your product; if they were never going to pay anyway, why not give it away for free? keeping a digital product locked away out of spite is just... spiteful especially when it comes to
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by rickycook 8y ago
... there's a pretty damn good explanation given in the comment actually and it's pretty obvious regardless: status pages are highly transient. it's probably good to have a record of what's being discussed?
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by rickycook 8y ago
sure but it’s unlikely his site is going to be the target of anyone willing to spend the time to even tell the bot where the text to recognise is. it stops bulk; not target... but he’s unlikely to be a target so it serves its purpose
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by rickycook 8y ago
tipping culture and minimum wage in the US is detrimental to restaurants; not the tourists buying the food!
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by rickycook 8y ago
and at least when it comes to contracts, ambiguity goes in favour of the party that didn’t write it afaik? so it’s a VERY permissible license if that holds
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by rickycook 8y ago
i wouldn’t necessarily call it a knock-off. i could be wrong, but looks like spaces first came to OSX in 2006, which is the same year that compiz launched https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaces_(software) https:/
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by rickycook 8y ago
yes. to submit to firefox you’re required to provide them with the source code, but you may transpile it so long as they can verify that it’s the same AFAIK?
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by rickycook 8y ago
plenty of reasons. the difference between android and apple is pretty stark, and they both have merit but dont dismiss the arguments against the more closed ecosystem the apple method allows a really easy UX for every single purchase and in
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by rickycook 8y ago
mentioned and expanded on in a parent comment, but the important part of the article related to that is right at the bottom: “The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year revived the lawsuit, deciding that Apple was a
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by rickycook 8y ago
the important part against that line of reasoning though is at the very bottom of the article: “The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last year revived the lawsuit, deciding that Apple was a distributor that sold iPhone
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by rickycook 8y ago
i wouldn’t pin that all on anti competitive behaviour though... the end to end control of the platform is kind of Apples MO, and is a fairly distinguishing feature between the Android ecosystem and the Apple ecosystem. it’d be nice to have

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