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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Them not being on F-Droid is justifiable because F-Droid app IS less secure than alternatives. It does not use modern Android session installer, which is problematic in many different ways. Granted, there are third party F-Droid apps like D
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
This is bad, because Linux has bad security culture and numerous security bug fixes occur without a CVE assigned and changes never get backported. Surprised Google allowed this to occur, considering they have Linux as a liability in their
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
E2EE itself as a concept is ridiculous. The word was stolen from networking, end to end, and repurposed for an entirely different and non-sensical context to describe sth completely else. It has to do with "E2EE" because the bigge
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
ECtHR is not an EU court. UK is part of Council of Europe, which also includes Russia. Being member of Council of Europe entails mandatory treaty law of ECHR.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Intellectual property is not property. It's a misnomer. Property is inherently scarce and exclusive. IP is not exclusive. If I have an idea, and you have an idea, and we share those ideas -- we both have two ideas. What IP is, is an ec
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Using tax to punish or reward is called correcting externalities. More formally these taxes are called Pigovian taxes and they are supported by economists from all the schools, in similar vein to a land-value tax, because Pigovian taxes do
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
If a patent officer denies a patent, the patentee can resubmit the patent. Then by procedure other patent officer needs to review the application. They do this ad infinitum until they get their patent granted. It's a denial of service
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Suburban areas do not have "parks" and "open space". Not sure what you mean. What they have is invasive turf grass, that destroys any kind of local fauna, in setbacks and miles of asphalt. Cities exporting their greenery
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
The Parliamenet is not a rubber-stamping body. It can block legislation ad infinitum. That's the opposite of rubber-stamping. The democratic crisis of EU is well documented and there are valid critiques. Yours are not.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Because they are not financially sustainable and do not create wealth. They squander wealth from productive cities to build endless roads, gas lines, electrical lines, and all other kinds of infrastructure that increases in cost per distanc
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
It has specific security mitigations that apply on Windows. It has Super Duper Secure Mode (JIT disabler per-website). It has better battery life than Chrome. It looks nicer than Chrome and it has much better vertical tabs than Brave or Fir
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Edge is really nice. Power users can use enterprise policy management to disable the data exfiltration. Certainly would be nice for regular users not to get their data stolen to be mined for commercial purposes, too. But if you use Windows,
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
We need a right from LLMs. The same way public society shuns and forces religion out of public sphere -- thus the right to freedom from religion is born -- there must exist a right from LLMs. That must not mean a general prohibition of prac
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Porn apps, gambling apps.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Hamas is not a state. ICJ is a tribunal that adjudicates disputes between states. ICJ has no jurisdiction to rule in regards to Hamas. Neither can Hamas bring a case against Israel, as it has no standing, considering it is not a party to th
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Spirit of the law is defined. It's the first handful of sentences of any European regulation. And courts can and do rule in favour of lesser parties. If the legislature has made a clerical mistake in writing the law, the court can disr
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
DNT specification does not allow for giving valid consent under GDPR because it is not granular and it is not informed. There's no browser dialogue that details the requested consent for which and what processing. There are proposed br
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Neither GDPR nor ePrivacy directive demands cookie walls. ePrivacy directive demands consent. That consent can be given programmatically by browser APIs. There's even acknowledgement of such possibillity in the legal text (see point 7
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
The company that is using value-less LLM model training fud to boost its stock price virtue signals about caring about the environment by squeezing its educational, thus prone to price fluctuations, customers.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Use Aegis.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Cars are only getting bigger and they are getting bigger because light trucks are not regulated. Also, there's the Chicken tax which preferences American car makers. None of this is consumer demand. It's about maximizing profit wi
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
> HelloFresh made an honest mistake. It's the sort of mistake that anyone could have made. They did not, as explained by countless posters below you. What they did was skimped regulation. > You can't make people infallible t
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
According to American Automobile Association, annual cost of car ownership is 12182 US$[1]. That is 3x montly than that you claim. [1] https://newsroom.aaa.com/2023/08/annual-new-car-ownership-co...
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Microsoft is trying to do that with msix and a new filesystem driver that transparently restricts file system access to app. Should land into Windows 11 this year. See https://youtu.be/8T6ClX-y2AE for the functionality expl
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
I am anti-IP, yet I am also anti-AI and think we should leverage copyright law to drive LLM companies into ground. These are not contradictory positions, unless you subscribe to some actual Platonian idealism.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
This is a win for science-based energy policy.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Yemen is at war with Israel. They are targetting Israeli ships. It's not piracy. It's act of war.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Premiere is a piece of trash that crashes on first breath. Adobe also operated Flash for quite a long time. Another amazingly engineered product, supposedly. I do not think your assesment of Adobe's engineers are accurate.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
10.5 B USD was the correct amount. Not this mere couple bucks.

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