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by sterlind 1y ago
jesus. what did the Amalekites do?
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by sterlind 1y ago
Vault-Tec instigated WWIII to purge the surface of ordinary people, so that their handpicked management could eventually repopulate the planet. I wouldn't be surprised if some tech CEOs harbor the fantasy of becoming a progenitor of th
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by sterlind 1y ago
show me, please.
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by sterlind 1y ago
it should be unconstitutional because it's clearly a content-based restriction of speech, meaning that regulating it entails strict scrutiny. strict scrutiny requires Texas to use the least burdensome means possible to satisfy the stat
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by sterlind 1y ago
I'm upset by all of it, which is why I've de-Googled.
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by sterlind 1y ago
consuming oxygen produced by great British trees, too! when will the freeloading stop?
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by sterlind 1y ago
do those state apps use Play Integrity on Android? will you be required to lock yourself into Apple or Google's walled garden in order to be a citizen?
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by sterlind 1y ago
am I understanding correctly that Chat Control will use AI to scan the text of every private message, and automatically report suspected "grooming attempts" to police? how the hell do they think that will work? does the AI know
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by sterlind 1y ago
we're viewed as a social contagion. trans kids see that trans people exist, and realize they can transition too. their parents see their sweet little angel becoming something they don't understand, something that viscerally disgus
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by sterlind 1y ago
what passport are you trading?
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by sterlind 1y ago
I'd certainly consider an ISP refusing to route my packets as silencing. is YouTube so different? legally, sure, but practically?
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by sterlind 1y ago
it was an extreme time, but yes, probably the most authoritarian action I've seen social media take. misinformation is a real and worsening problem, but censorship makes conspiracies flourish, and establishes platforms as arbiters of t
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by sterlind 1y ago
I'm an American, and our politicians are starting to discuss forcibly institutionalizing all trans people. living my days out in a padded cell is not my idea of liberty, thank you. I'm getting out of here.
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by sterlind 1y ago
never was part of Windows, but from my limited interactions with it the old build system was a chimera of Perl scripts, passes, Makefile-like things and other tooling. build labs would run and jobs would take hours. it underwent a Herculean
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by sterlind 1y ago
> Among the apps described as "highly concerning" are Turbo VPN, VPN Proxy Master, XY VPN, and 3X VPN – Smooth Browsing, each of which has been downloaded 100 million times from the Google Play Store. Thus, hundreds of million
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by sterlind 1y ago
or men, for that matter. no reason it has to be the woman to stay home and support the family.
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by sterlind 1y ago
the topic of government censorship is highly relevant to technology, like it or not. the FCC was involved, so this is relevant to those who rely on FCC licenses.
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by sterlind 1y ago
> People here seem to think this is some sort of Orwellian attempt to control them, but the reasons are more mundane and technical - many of them (mine included, from two countries) use security facilities on the phone to secure your ac
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by sterlind 1y ago
it looks like MitID is basically country-wide SSO, isn't it? then isn't MitID collecting every website you authenticate to via the redirect uri?
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by sterlind 1y ago
> My Android phone prevents me from recording phone calls at the request of my carrier, even though it's totally legal for me to do so in my jurisdiction. my GrapheneOS phone has the record button. :) though I have to obtain all-p
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by sterlind 1y ago
the GDR phrasing is much stronger and less ambiguous than the ECHR one. however, given what we know of the Stazi I'm skeptical they honored it.
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by sterlind 1y ago
it'd be really nice to exert pressure on GPay or at least banking apps to add GOS's keys. accepting only Google's keys is anticompetitive.
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by sterlind 1y ago
ironically, the inconvenience of exchanging Monero for fiat helps Monero be used as an actual currency. rather than exchanging Monero for cash and then buying things with cash, Monero is exchanged for the things itself.
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by sterlind 1y ago
the problem is that technology has changed so much that it's legitimately hard to apply 18th-century laws to 21st-century life: - does the plain view doctrine allow TSA to look under your clothes with mmWave sensors? or to peek through
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by sterlind 1y ago
> Unfortunately, and you probably have already heard. ATF leaked that the rounds were etched with pro-trans messaging and the shooter is allegedly a trans man. fortunately, this was bogus! the "pro-trans messaging" was that t
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by sterlind 1y ago
sorry, I was mistaken. it looks like you'll have to build a userdebug build in order to gain root.
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by sterlind 1y ago
this was known in the US as "squatter's rights." unfortunately it's mostly vestigial now.
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by sterlind 1y ago
the way the world economy's going I could see Oliver Twist becoming relevant again.
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by sterlind 1y ago
S-tier dark humor. thank you, I needed the laugh.
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by sterlind 1y ago
Is Qubes resistant to forensics? I think its selling point is multi-level security and lateral movement prevention, not safeguarding data on a stolen laptop.

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