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by save_ferris 6y ago
> The proliferation and commoditization of F/OSS is what made SaaS business thrive, and made it so that integration and polish is the only avenue left to make a buck, leading to our paltry attention economy, oligopoly, and platform
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Completely disagree. He fails to answer basic questions about why he chose to also communicate directly with a presidential advisor instead of just talking to the authorities, he changes his story throughout the interview, and he fails to c
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> Open source software is more than a license and code. It is a community and the digital public square. Unfortunately, there's absolutely nothing about the OSS community that actually instills this mantra in people. I like to think
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Not to mention that the source for the story gave a follow-up interview with several contradictory details[0]: > He appeared not to have a grasp on the timeline of the laptop arriving at his shop and its disappearance from it. He owns a
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> Throughout the interview, Mac Isaac switched back and forth from saying he reached out to law enforcement after viewing the files in the laptop to saying that it was actually the Federal Bureau of Investigation that contacted him. At o
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> Does anyone know an estimate of how likely this is to happen to an individual on a per year basis? There's zero chance Google would ever volunteer this information, anything you see on here is probably a WAG at best.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
This has been repeatedly debunked. Crowdstrike, who was hired for the security audit, states very explicitly that their IR team had proof that COZY BEAR and FANCY BEAR had breached the network.[0] > To reference, CrowdStrike’s account of
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by save_ferris 6y ago
if there's one sub-sector of tech that is more than willing to take data and massage it until it fits a particular narrative, it's advertising.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> real life up has been incredibly stable for the last couple of decades in the west This isn't universally true in the US. Millions lost their homes in the great recession and never fully recovered, it's just easy to forget th
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by save_ferris 6y ago
If you give companies an inch on stuff like this, they'll take a mile. There's no legitimate reason they should be able to play this kind of pricing game, regardless of the relative price increase.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> their actual intent is to sabotage that as soon as it’s commercially expedient to do so. Sabotage??? Wow, that’s quite an accusation for a company that’s, you know, a company. You might have an argument if they kept quiet about plans t
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> I wish you operated more like other, real, open source companies that use subscriptions or managed service offerings and don't lock features behind various obscure pricing tiers. "I want all of the functionality I want withou
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by save_ferris 6y ago
It's important to point out that while these trials appear promising, there has never been a vaccine developed for any coronavirus before that eradicated the illness in humans[0]. Influenza vaccines, for example, work to fortify the im
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Streaming hardware is another perfect example of this dilemma. I recently signed up for HBO Max thinking it would run on my Roku, because why wouldn't it? Turns out that HBO can't have more than one paid service streaming to Roku
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> Continue to do as many side projects as ever, code on nights and weekends if you want too, but don’t think about how they could be useful to you to get a new job. My experience has been different than the author. I suffer from pretty b
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> For an untrained cop an arrest can be very stressful. This then can result in using way too much force. I don't doubt that this is true at all, but it still points to major systemic flaws in how police are managed throughout the c
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Because it’s illegal in many places. A female exposing her nipples in public is considered an act of public indecency in states like Illinois, which is a misdemeanor[0]. Edit: not that I agree with this law. It’s a very clear double-standar
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by save_ferris 6y ago
We also have no interest reading about when government performs a task ahead of schedule or under-budget, and almost nobody takes the time to actually look through government reports, budgets, etc. to see what’s going on, even though almost
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by save_ferris 6y ago
That wouldn’t change anything. The issue is that Oculus is a gaming platform, and gaming platforms don’t need social media data to play games. It’s an arbitrary requirement that has no practical function beyond collecting user data. Imagine
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> The issue isn't with being forced to use social media, it's being forced to use only facebook's network. Yes it is, read the article. The report states that regulators take issue with the fact that users have to log into
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Simple. In my perfect world, Facebook events would be publicly searchable without an account. I wouldn't need to go through the hassle of setting up the account and they wouldn't need to go through the hassle of making sure I was
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Tangentially related: newly-created Facebook accounts are a whole lot harder to keep up these days if you’re just using them for a single purpose, like following events. I created an account last year to get more socially involved in my com
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> The report states that, “conditioning access to a product or service in which a firm has market power to the use of a separate product or service is anticompetitive.” I agree with this. I shouldn’t have to have a social media account i
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Not according to Crowdstrike, who was hired to do the audit[0]. 0: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Right, but have any of his claims been verified? I can’t find anything substantive to corroborate that Rich reached out to Wikileaks. I just see the same accusation over and over that the FBI has a report confirming this. If Butowsky and Wh
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> It is a theory with no evidence supporting it other than that coincidence, not a refuted or a false theory. Key elements of it were false, though. The conspiracy theory largely focused on his “assassination” by being shot in the head,
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> In any case, the creepiness of fb just keeps rising. Maybe they'll end up exploding the whole thing. Somehow, I doubt it. They’ve established themselves as a major tech stock, largely through the “money at all costs” ethic you des
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Don’t forget about access to capital. The relative ease of raising rounds in the US compared to Europe due to the more concentrated networks of investment capital pushes salaries up because startups need to hire ASAP to build their product.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Proponents of child porn argue that it should be protected speech, just as distribution of legal porn is often argued on free speech grounds. I completely agree that it child porn exposes children to abuse and should be illegal, but it’s im
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> According to U.S. law some kinds of child pornography are legal. Do you have any evidence of this? I'm not aware that this is true at all and I don't believe it to be the case. > Do you believe, therefore, that it is again

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