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901.
by rlpb 6y ago
> I think a lot of "normal" people like the idea of holding corporates accountable but how would that actually work? Exactly which specific problem is "holding corporates accountable" trying to fix? If it's that
902.
by rlpb 6y ago
> They just proved that OSS is not military-grade... As if there is some other software that is "military-grade" by the same measure? What definition are you using for that term, anyway?
903.
by rlpb 6y ago
This kind of hand-wringing is what the naysayers were doing with GPL software in the 90s. That the GPL would never fly in business because lawyers would get hung up in "what if" interpretations that were never the intent or spirit
904.
by rlpb 6y ago
> How are you accomplishing a redirect with just DNS? Perhaps it's an HTTP-based redirect, and that's why it's down whereas DNS is up?
905.
by rlpb 6y ago
> They've been happy with location given by w3w. I'm sure they would be. I'm not doubting that they'll be able to figure it out. Rather, I'm interested to know what they prefer .
906.
by rlpb 6y ago
> But we're moving towards sustainability. I don't think we are. As long as we accept unbounded population growth, nothing is sustainable.
907.
by rlpb 6y ago
Only according to their PR department. I've never seen any independent report of their actual prevalence in emergency service use. As others have said, it's proprietary, and I don't want to see a private company becoming a ga
908.
by rlpb 6y ago
Surely the real root cause here is that their systems are overloading the title field with age assumptions at all, rather than their heuristic being wrong? Given that the age information is safety-critical, it should be passed through as a
909.
by rlpb 6y ago
> You can still communicate with end to end encryption even if they setup mitm. I already considered this in my predicate: 4. Consumers not generally being able or willing to interfere with their client end software to add E2E on top of
910.
by rlpb 6y ago
Right now, mass consumer use of technology for communication is predicated by: 1. There being a service provider that is a legal entity. 2. The service provider providing the client software. 3. The service provider gatekeeping to the socia
911.
by rlpb 6y ago
> TBF that one requesting information would bear the costs of that request does make sense, for instance FOIA requesters may get charged the costs of searching, collecting, and copying the records they're asking for. After paying th
912.
by rlpb 6y ago
If people collectively opt to take some risk, then ethically that's fine. Your car and CO2 emission examples both include reciprocation: everyone benefits and takes risk more or less equally. The problem comes when you participate in p
913.
by rlpb 6y ago
For a file significantly bigger than the size of the hash, it's not possible to reverse, since there are many such files that would match the hash. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeonhole_principle
914.
by rlpb 6y ago
Until someone stores a secret without the prefix - because it's always the same, right?
915.
by rlpb 6y ago
The article covers this concern, and the claim there is that they have verified that regular wear and tear does not tarnish the fingerprint.
916.
by rlpb 6y ago
> I would think counting unique visitors is a legitimate business interest for most businesses. And there is no way to do that without a cookie, or without storing IP address (which is considered personally identifiable info). Setting a
917.
by rlpb 6y ago
The consent popups you see aren't just about cookies though. They want (and sometimes illegally force) you to consent to processing of your personal information for reasons beyond just providing you with a service (or more commonly jus
918.
by rlpb 6y ago
> If you own something you should be able to do whatever you want with it. It seems like a simple constitutional right to me. However, if a group of people want to make a legally enforceable agreement between themselves for their mutual
919.
by rlpb 6y ago
> That's the "don't listen to real people. Imagine people instead" defense. It's not a defense. I'm invalidating the argument that the vocal users are always right. I'm not claiming that this automatica
920.
by rlpb 6y ago
> Listen to the users. To be fair, this tells you what the vocal users think, and this is sometimes very different from what the majority of users think. For something with a shrinking market share, you also have to consider what potenti
921.
by rlpb 6y ago
> It’s just a bunch of wasted energy to arbitrarily move money from one set of traders to another. If it's wasted energy, then it's wasted money. But traders don't have unlimited funds. They are somehow generating at least
922.
by rlpb 6y ago
> The fact that nobody can simply say, "here is what Bitcoin does, this is why the energy consumption is justified" is a strong indictment against the supposed value that Bitcoin brings. I argue the opposite in a separate comme
923.
by rlpb 6y ago
It's not even a binary choice. The price of the amount of the electricity spent by miners is pegged to the value of the block reward[1]. As the market value of Bitcoin goes up, so does the mining electricity consumed. And if the market
924.
by rlpb 6y ago
> Anything involving GPG, no matter how easy you make it, will require some knowledge of those concepts. I don't think that's necessary. It would be sufficient to simply abandon the idea that keys must be relatively permanent a
925.
by rlpb 6y ago
> ...you only get access to websites if you give away your GDPR consent. If a model box only has "I consent" and "Learn more" buttons, then I don't consider clicking on "I consent" to mean freely given
926.
by rlpb 6y ago
It does. See for example the Ticketmaster case. They were fined £1.25 million under the GDPR: https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/ticketmaste... A key justification for the fine (see the report eg. se
927.
by rlpb 6y ago
There's a really good clip by Richard Feynman on explanations and frames of reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36GT2zI8lVA I think he does an excellent job of explaining why it's so hard to explain this ty
928.
by rlpb 6y ago
That would just require the ledger to be published; no need for it to be a "distributed ledger".
929.
by rlpb 6y ago
Something to do with issues with newer Android no longer permitting the background connection to remain open for battery saving purposes, I think?
930.
by rlpb 6y ago
"I agree" is presumably shorthand for "I agree to the linked license", or in other words "I agree to the GPL3", or to expand that, "I agree that I am not required to accept this License in order to receive

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