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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Surely you aren't arguing that his book—which, crucially, did ultimately sell and get published—being initially rejected by a couple of publishers constitutes "discrimination." You don’t believe that rejecting an author’
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> This article is a clear and persuasive statement on how unoriginal "critiques" of wokeness are God forbid critiques of your own normalized racism and sexism be unoriginal and boring to you. That says more about you than anyth
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by teakettle42 4y ago
I wonder why Jonathan Russell Clark, the author of this article, feels entitled to a platform as a yet another “cis white male”? Is it just because he uses his platform to undermine other “cis white males”? This article pretended to a broad
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The header misleads developers and users into believing it provides security guarantees that it cannot.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The App Store review process is not sufficient to provide such a strong technical guarantee. The solution is not to add what amounts to an advisory flag to your page headers, and in the process, mislead users into believing in-app webvi
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> This is an incorrect understanding of how web views are implemented. No, it’s not. Nothing requires you to use SFSafariViewController. As you yourself noted, WKWebView exists and grants the application effectively complete control over
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by teakettle42 4y ago
That’s true, but I still don’t believe there exists a technical solution to this problem; I think this should be solved via: (1) App Store policy, including requiring apps to disclose that they can/do capture embedded web browsing acti
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by teakettle42 4y ago
This proposal seems predicated on a fundamental misunderstanding of the security model of non-web applications. A WebView is fully under control of the application presenting it. Even if the built-in APIs were extended to respect X-Frame-Op
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by teakettle42 4y ago
>> I don’t want them to use bullying, intimidation, authoritarianism, or violence to force others to adopt (or pretend to adopt) their viewpoint. > Are you really equating "not choosing to buy stuff" and "not choosi
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> I'm really sorry about that, but how do you want people to act? Like the resilient adults they should be. > I grind my teeth everytime I hear middle/upper class people complaining at boycotts and 'cancel '. What
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Can you name a modern language that doesn’t ship with a map collection type in its standard library? Rust does. C++ does. Swift does. It’s basic table stakes.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> No, absolutely not, it is entirely doable. No, it’s clearly not, and we’ve wasted decades chasing the utopian impossibility of energy with zero-downside — all while continuing to dump pollution into the atmosphere. > electrifying al
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> they also set energy politics onto a trajectory which would have meant to mostly run on renewables by now The idea that we can run not just our current demand on “renewables”, but peak demand after electrifying everything from cars to
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Does it matter? The average citizen has no control over policy other than blunt instruments — in this case, rejecting purchasing of GM crops entirely, and advocating for others to do the same. The nuance between “GM crops are safe” and “the
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> basic stuff like wifi Wi-fi is not basic. Having written a wifi driver, that’s something I’m comfortable stating unequivocally. The hardware is almost always proprietary and undocumented, and in many cases (looking at you, Broadcom), a
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The data science degrees are essentially a vocational program for the students that would not be successful tackling the CS/math program.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
What merits, other than enriching real-estate investors and disenfranchising more of the population, exactly?
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Well, but those things can coexist. In theory? They can coexist. If you want density, move to a dense city. In reality? Activists and developers are constantly pushing to upzone and pave over everything in sight.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
It’s an incredible PR coup. The progressive position in the 90s was anti-gentrification, anti-greedy rent-seeking developers; “the evil developer” was a common trope in pop-culture. Now? Dust off your ceremonial hard hat and golden ground-b
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The multi-trillion-dollar national real-estate investment firms thank you for your service towards growing the permanent rental class from which they will extract wealth in perpetuity.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
I live in a three story, single family home located at the top of a hill, with views for miles, surrounded by wooded acreage, in an area zoned “forest”. Life is amazing here. I exercise outside, explore the landscape and the hiking trails s
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Why are you so angry about this? Honest question. It’s performative, hypocritical, and a form of social aggression used to assert your own standing/power, not to actually help a single person. “Acknowledgement” has not been practi
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Woah mate, religious dogma? Please. Yes, it’s empty dogma. Do you believe in their spiritual and cultural practices? What gives you the right to welcome anyone to a country that you, by your own admission, do not own? Are you going t
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by teakettle42 4y ago
Why not? If you’re asking everyone to subscribe to your religious dogma, shouldn’t you be able to present even a modicum of an argument as to why?
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Honestly of all the indigenous elders I’ve personally spoken to, none of them expressed your opinion of ‘no benefit’. I’m sorry, is that an argument? Are you giving them back the land? No? Then what benefit do they receive, exactly, an
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> Meaningless for who? You or the people your paying respect to? Everyone. The person saying it doesn’t mean it. The people they’re ostensibly saying it to receive no benefit. > Maybe! Maybe not. I know which side my soul falls on. On
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> It is their land and you should pay respects Clearly, it’s not their land. Are you giving it back? No? Then it’s still your land. > It is their land and you should pay respects, a small ceremony isn’t too much of an inconvenience. W
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by teakettle42 4y ago
The fundamental security mechanism upon which the entire system hinges is opaque.
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> … assuming that you trust the CPU vendor and all the versions of the software that were attested to. That’s a huge caveat. You also cannot verify your trust is deserved, and that it will continue to be deserved, because such a system
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by teakettle42 4y ago
> And then imagine having to stay as true as possible to that rule for 40 years. And then imagine that most of your original decisions were poor ones, you won your position by virtue of being an abusive monopoly, and as a result, the maj

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