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Android users’ at risk from shadowy ecosystem of pre-installed software(techcrunch.com)
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This illustrates the confusion around infrastructure and apps by 'devops' in a rather telling way. It's a bit like comparing Mysql or Postgresql and Aurora. Both give you databases and even some builtin replication technology
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If we were living in the jungle no one has to care about anything beyond their own survival, but if you live in a 'civilized' society then by definition you can't behave like you are in a jungle and there are certain responsi
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Here is a link to the UN press release already linked in the comment so there was no need to search. [1] https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N... Here is the interview of the UN rapport
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There is no need to speculate about bias. There is a link to a full hour interview above with the UN rapporteur for Venezuela about the facts on the ground. What is a more credible source? UN reports are routinely used by the US, Europe, th
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How is designing for laptop networking for a system predominantly used as a server with marginal desktop market share justified. Why not roll out something discrete for the negligible percent of laptop users instead of imposing configuratio
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You clearly haven't read the links from the UN itself that comprehensively debunk these kind of uninformed propaganda. Over 150 observers from 30 countries [1] observed the elections and declared it free and fair so you are spreading u
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Doesn't this apply to the 2 party system in the US too with both republicans and democrats following the same neoliberal policies over the last 40 years? Democracy only works with effective choice and at the moment we seem to have the
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Who is 'we'? The Venezuelans already elected their leader. This is a brazen coup attempt by the US to destabilize a democratically elected government and install a puppet oligarchy. The UN rapporteur for Venezuela has a report fo
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Another cynical thread derail on HN. The serious problems with plastics, out of control plastic use and waste is swiftly trivialized into an individualized 'consumer problem' and 'meat eating' problem ie let's not d
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If you think Snowden leaks was about 'one illegal program' you are seriously misinformed and have a lot of catching up to do. These are large scale and illegal mass surveillance programs. [1][2][3][4][5]. More can be found here. [
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There has been zero consequences from the entire set of revelations. What is the incentive to continue to do investigate journalism as great risk to one self when there are no results? What Snowden seems to have inadvertently revealed is a
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This idea of a world with chinese and russian trolls with no mention of other state actors seems to be missing a rather big part of the picture.
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This is a witch hunt that will undermine confidence in the global economic system. Everything one can accuse Huawei of can be applied against any tech company - and for some with hard evidence and most here know. This can easily backfire wi
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The article mentions horrific abuse of 2 of the children including being tied up in chains and forced to work and the rape and abuse of the other leading to an unwanted pregnancy an being sent to a home for pregnant girls. And one of the ki
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If we think of open source as an ideology that drove people to plant trees and tend them so that users get fruits for free at a time when fruits are only commercially available then the point becomes a bit more complicated. We now have a co
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This is vaguely discomforting but perhaps inevitable in a world where open source is sponsored, funded or developed by corporate interests. The connection with end users and ideology has been broken as everything from the kernel to major pr
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This is rich coming from the head of AEI, an organization which is part of a network of think tanks funded by the likes of Koch that have been bootstrapped to promote corporate interests and a worldview where there is no society only '
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This thread defines 'whataboutism'. It's supposed to be about Warren's new 3 page tech regulation bill but has more than 600 comments rehashing telecom regulation issues discussed thousands of times, without engaging a
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This is some sort of collective 'memory loss' on these issues. Activists and journalists have been put under surveillance, infiltrated, harassed, put on lists and singled out at airports.[1] The harassment of keystone activists an
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There is a middle ground of recognizing serious systemic issues in both gender and race and being concerned by some of the issues around intersectionality, speech and feelings. There is too much indignation, hysteria and manufactured outrag
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Anything serious on arm runs the risk of throttling. Upping performance will see more consumption and power usage. The even bigger problem is ARMs closed nature with no support for the open off the shelf culture that has made the PC industr
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Most have no clue of the scope of stalking and creepiness currently ongoing, or in fact the depth of data being collected, collated and invasive profiling involved. Google, Facebook and others have a whole collection of intentionally mislea
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Then what's the point of having standards? One could make the case Firefox is trying to 'protect users' if they resisted or protested any of the user hostile standards you mention, but Firefox has implemented all of them. It&
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The standards explicitly name and allow 127.0.0.1 and localhost. Is there any value in rehashing this? This works perfectly on Chrome and all other browsers. Its only Firefox which is a problem. So its for Mozilla to explain why they are go
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A standard website cannot access your local services. 127.0.0.1 and localhost are local addresses to the server, not the end user system. Private addresses cannot be accessed over the public internet. This is about a server accessing backen
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This is a pattern. Mozilla and others are furthering the interests of gatekeepers under the pretext of 'end user security'. The browser community have been scaremongering against self signed certs for years now and yet are happily
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There is a larger issue of a level playing field. These kind of subsidies are a race to the bottom. Instead of business growing the overall economy they shrink the economy by the amount paid out in subsides, since these businesses will be
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Due process can also be used to oppress. Totalitarian systems are about 'process'. Customs officers going through your personal papers in US airports like the stasi is 'due process'. Secret courts and secret orders are a
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There is a lot of finger pointing at China and wild claims by people who don't care about these things. After Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, threatening Iran and now with open meddling and orchestrating coups in Venezuela its

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