swiley

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1. 751.▲
   by swiley 5y ago

   That's why we have TOR. Which allows you to use TCP without revealing the two TCP endpoints to anyone else.
2. 752.▲
   by swiley 5y ago

   >LinkedIn No! Vendor lock-in Horrible privacy track record "Dark-patterns"/manipulation before it was even popular Absolutely not.
3. 753.▲
   by swiley 5y ago

   >The people carrying out a coup often want to deny there was a coup, and that "democracy has prevailed". Now beginning at the turn of the 20th century?
4. 754.▲
   by swiley 5y ago

   Those are extremeley limited and I don't think it's possible to run any kind of interesting scripts locally. I did look at it when I still had an iPhone and it's one of those "almost usable but fundamentally broken"
5. 755.▲
   by swiley 5y ago

   Does anyone even have a solution for automated scheduled script execution on the iPhone?
6. 756.▲
   by swiley 5y ago

   The same was true of Active-X with IE at one point.
7. 757.▲
   by swiley 5y ago

   How hard is it really to just run QEMU?
8. 758.▲
   by swiley 5y ago

   More disturbing than mobile prices in Canada is electricity prices in Africa IMO. I heard a while ago that people are actually trading sex for access to generator power. This means on that continent at least unneeded JS in web pages is lite
9. 759.▲
   by swiley 5y ago

   I prefer to use YouTube in private mode so the ML doesn't pigeonhole you. It only takes a few videos for it to "decide what you like" and so you can pretty easily convince it to feed you weird stuff like this if you want.
10. 760.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Thermal cycling is a big part of PCR. My understanding is that the cycle length is related to the length of the DNA/RNA you want to amplify. At some point there's just so much noise you'll probably find carcinogens everywhere
11. 761.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    I always open the web inspector and remove or hide them. There's nothing to be gained by answering these if the site is following the law.
12. 762.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Facebook fails to go after child pornography despite it's insane panopticon.
13. 763.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    I wonder if it's even possible for Chinese citizens to play rouge/nethack.
14. 764.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Not only that but it can be hard to even get legal access to. I know someone who was shot and the cops weren't able to get access to the location data needed to catch the other guy.
15. 765.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Only if people tolerate it.
16. 766.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    There's no way to build apps locally on most smartphones which are the majority of end user devices. Open source practically died with personal computers.
17. 767.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Use GPG. Don't use smartphones, don't use any closed software (especially non-free OSes.) Vote.
18. 768.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    There's currently a landslide going on WRT OS vendors and privacy, I wouldn't call any "slippery slopes" a fallacy at this point.
19. 769.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Light firearms are probably easier to manufacture than pellet rifles. You're kidding yourself if you think they won't start making them.
20. 770.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Crypto is just about worthless without personal computing.
21. 771.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    I'm actually posting from Reston Town center but yeah there are lots of examples around here.
22. 772.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    >If you don't like it go somewhere else >Also crypto should be illegal
23. 773.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    I live in an artificial town that was constructed 10 or so years ago near a light rail station to the larger city to the north (and other similar "towns") so it's totally doable, it's just not for everyone.
24. 774.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    This. Bitcoin mines were not the first to dump heat into natural bodies of water, but their number makes the damage and need for regulation obvious.
25. 775.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Ransomware existed before crypto, also banning crypto is very hard to do and arguably not legal.
26. 776.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    If I had to download source in zip format I probably wouldn't touch it outside a VM.
27. 777.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Coincidentally I think the best self help book I've read was written by a Canadian. Maybe it's because he had the rest of the culture to contrast his ideas against.
28. 778.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    Trusting other people to administrate your home computer is totally ok though because they're actually experts.
29. 779.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    This is why I don't use editor configurations that execute code from files I open. I prefer zero trust.
30. 780.▲
    by swiley 5y ago

    I'm against both, it's just harder to avoid the results of Microsoft's decisions.