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by sandov 9y ago
I value freedom more than privacy. I choose what to share and what to not share.
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by sandov 9y ago
I've always fantasized about people switching from FB to an easy-to-use RSS platform. Kinda like Mastodon, but bloggy/facebookey instead of a twitter clone, and obviously: chronological feeds. I'm sorry for her loss.
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by sandov 9y ago
Is it easy to find free (as in freedom) DAB receivers?. Analog radio circuits are easy to examine, but I suspect that DAB receivers must be impossible to examine thoroughly for obvious reasons. There might be some security concerns because
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by sandov 9y ago
It would be acceptable for your local Chinese food restaurant to serve their landing page without https. But a bank? of all things? A FUCKING BANK?.
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by sandov 9y ago
As a kid, I had so many questions about physics and when I asked my mother about it she gave some dumbed down reply and when I inquired further she said that I would learn that later, it was really frustrating. If I ever have kids, the one
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by sandov 9y ago
I find it hard to follow nutritional advise when there are so many charlatans taking advantage of women trying to lose weight without any health concern. A Medicine degree shouldn't be necessary in order to eat well. Any reliable sourc
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by sandov 9y ago
>So if you didn't want Brexit, think immigration is helping demographics, think Princess Di should be laid to rest now and don't think the world is full of benefit scroungers, there is only the Guardian left. So, we should only
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by sandov 9y ago
I'm the complete opposite. I want to get back into facebook because I want other people to see all the cool stuff I'm doing and feed my ego, but I know that doing it would be inconsistent with my desire for a more free society, an
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by sandov 9y ago
And phones don't have the purpose of spying?
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by sandov 9y ago
Why not better educate people about the fact that some devices are easier to repair than others?. If they care about it, they will naturally buy stuff that's repair-friendly, even if it's a niche market. I care about repairing my
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by sandov 9y ago
This article doesn't answer the question on its title.
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by sandov 9y ago
The difference is that we've always known (or at least assumed) that Mozilla is anti-censorship, but can't assume it's anti-capitalist. Not everyone agrees that capitalism is oppressive, but anyway, that's a technical di
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by sandov 9y ago
Do you expect Microsoft to open source their operating system?. I mean, it's their right to do it.
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by sandov 9y ago
Maybe I didn't word my comment correctly. But I thought of politically neutral as not left-wing nor right-wing, not openly supporting capitalism nor being openly against capitalism. I wouldn't be surprised by Mozilla pushing priva
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by sandov 9y ago
>Then you misunderstand what a 501(c)3 is and what it can do politically I'm not saying that they did anything illegal. I said that I would not expect it of them.
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by sandov 9y ago
>political activism has been intertwined with free software for a long time. Only in the sense of privacy and civil freedoms e.g free speech, copyright. Not in the sense of capitalism/socialism, collectivism/individualism, more
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by sandov 9y ago
Because there are people of various political ideologies that contribute to Mozilla and to free software. If tomorrow Mozilla decided "we support X ideology", then the organization would lose credibility and support from a lot of
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by sandov 9y ago
>$100,000 to RiseUp, a coordination platform used by activists across the political spectrum, to improve the security of their email service; However, RiseUp has shown to be leftist several times[1]. If I was a right wing activist or som
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by sandov 9y ago
People being too stupid to discern between 4chan and real news is not Facebook's nor Google's nor my problem. How about promoting critical thinking instead?.
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by sandov 9y ago
I think they went a little overboard with the blur effect on the applications.
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by sandov 9y ago
Depending on how the scritp is written, you're screwed only if it comes with a tpull command.
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by sandov 9y ago
Sending docx and pptx files, expecting the receiver to be able to open them is wrong, not OP's fault.
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by sandov 9y ago
In South-America and other countries it's common for a wife to keep the name she was assigned at birth for ever.
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by sandov 9y ago
Courage.
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by sandov 9y ago
>this is a ratio of 2000:1. In which case he would actually have been generous to DuckDuckGo while not being wrong by orders of magnitude. Conclusion: OP meant linear size, not mass. He could have stated it explicitly though, because one
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by sandov 9y ago
Are you implying that Stallman would support the regulation of App Stores? Has he supported similar things in the past?. He has critiziced what he calls "extreme capitalism" in the past. But I highly doubt that he would support a
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by sandov 9y ago
>I think we have decided the answer is yes. When did we decide this? To my knowledge it's still a debate. And IMHO, we shouldn't force anyone to sell/buy anything from/to anyone.
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by sandov 9y ago
So, Where do we draw the line between a company rightfully refusing to host inappropriate content and a company "abusing" its network effects?. Where do we draw the line between a company "abusing" its network effects an
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by sandov 9y ago
Every time I see news about facebook I feel better about the fact that I deleted my account several months ago.
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by sandov 9y ago
Me: When a company treats its users badly, users can stop using Google and Whatever Corp treats them badly. If users voluntarily subject themselves to mistreating, then I don't see why governments should intervene.

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