thefurdrake

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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Depends on your moral code, I think? Who made you a moral authority? You don't get a say in what I consider moral. I don't care what you consider moral. If you don't like it, you can do as you please. I would have though
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Cosmic radiation hates electronics. Vacuum is inexorable.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Aside from being able to read the article, I've worked with the kind of crypto used by the USAF. Maybe not the f-35 specifically, but protections like this are both blatantly obvious to anyone who thinks about it for a moment, and gene
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Look. I remember what the internet was like before the adtech hegemony was so entrenched. I was happier with my internet experience back then. I legit do not care if every service on the internet that relies on ads ceased. If it all went aw
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Unwanted? You don’t have to use google products, right? There is a difference. Google isn’t a non profit or a charity. In case you missed it, this thread is about adtech. Google ads are deployed on more than just Google products, so w
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I think regulation is definitely part of the solution. The problem we're facing is that adtech is a multibillion dollar industry with the will and means to actively research and develop new and exciting ways to bypass legislation. I ca
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Mnn, somebody didn't read the rest of the thread! Oops!
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
My reply was not intended to be an all-encompassing list of all possible avenues of resisting adtech's dominance on the internet, and at no point did I imply so. It'd suck if I had to post an entire guide/list every time I me
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I see this whinging constantly. I don't care. Adtech is a pursuit that has turned into a scientifically-quantified attempt to subvert the executive function of other human beings with the aim of getting them to perform actions they wou
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
That's why I mentioned uBlock Origin and uMatrix, yeah.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I would be annoyed if Firefox included a buncha plugins by default.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
It got below 0F a couple years ago and my garage door wouldn't open. -200C in a vacuum is an entirely-different engineering paradigm as I understand it. Materials just don't behave the way we expect at regular temp/pressure.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Honestly, I admit I've never tried to make uBlock behave like uMatrix. A quick look at the UI suggests maybe (?). uMatrix allows me to granularly select types of resources like scripts, iframes, and images from every domain/subdom
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> So you feel comfortable now that it's been actively demonstrated that the U.S. can't detect such a jet in its airspace? Even its own jet it knew about?! It's a stealth aircraft specifically designed to thwart radar syst
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> Unclear from your comment who the target was, but to me it was equally inflammatory, regardless Eh, agreed. Kinda detracts from the point. I've gotten pretty vehement about the topic over the last few years I guess.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
JPL and whoever's behind engineering for the ESA have decades of experience on the Indian space program. I believe the approach is to shut down all nonessentials and run a heater to keep the battery above failure level during the night
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> I was with you until this piece. Not everyone is well educate enough on blocking ads. The statement was directed to the audience, IE HN. I have confidence that everyone on HN is capable of installing those browser plugins and comprehen
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Remember tools like uBlock Origin and uMatrix. It is moral and ethical to block all ads and scripts from adtech companies. Contributing to ruining their way of life is a socially-responsible behavior. Failure to do so results in behaviors l
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> I also think it's interesting that you dropped the "mind reading" portion of my previous comment. No. You weren't attempting to turn "Mind reading" into a dirty word. You aren't be disingenuous with t
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Except that the consumer isn't actually getting the product that made the brand #1 in Italy, are they? They're getting a differently-manufactured product with the same facade, but we both know the implication is that you're r
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Great way to concede the point by failing to address my response. :)
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Ah. I misunderstood the function of PREP/assumed it was the treatment given to people who are already infected. I don't know why, because I feel like I've heard about PREP before. That does kind of muddy the waters a bit. I t
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
So, to be clear here: You think that providing input to neurons through an electronic interface is mind control? As in, we're not talking about people doing research on how to leverage the input/output interaction between the brai
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
I think it's a complicated issue. As I understand it, existing HIV medications need to be taken consistently, forever, in order to be effective, and there's still a (really tiny but extant) chance of still being contagious? Uncert
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
That's an interesting narrative to be pushing. Care to back up your claims that this is for mass mind control with evidence/logic/reason/concrete thought, or is the demagoguery the core of your position?
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
You mean like a city-wide pneumatic tube setup? Seems kinda Jetsons to me.
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Is it just me, or is the way the author writes somewhat difficult to read? I'm confused about what is going on here...
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
> The asymmetry is west shelters much more foreign dissidents/criminals, and has more opportunities to weaponize them for foreign policy [citation needed]
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Always fun to have someone try to be a pedant when they don't actually know the meaning of a word. It's fun that this one is "word". https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/word > Definition
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by thefurdrake 3y ago
Yeah, that really seems to be working out. That's definitely not a completely ignorant view of the situation that definitely doesn't make you look jaded and unwilling to actually consider the situation and context. You people whin

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