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by throw2016 8y ago
How the mighty have fallen. From once defending freedom and liberty to advocating looking the other way when an app that grossly violates the basic human rights of an entire gender shows up. The top voted comment betrays the current moral c
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by throw2016 8y ago
Slavery too is a 'process'. And creating an app will no doubt make it more 'efficient' for slave owners and slaves and maybe even provide the one off opportunity for one to escape. So let's forget about the slavery
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by throw2016 8y ago
The US does not have a rail and wider public transportation culture that is prevalent in 99% of the world. Predictably the discussion here will be preoccupied with the kind of 'metrics' that other countries that take for granted t
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by throw2016 8y ago
The crime is the action, not who is doing it. Why should US firms be allowed to not only get away but seek to normalize and profit from global surveillance while Huawei is penalized for FUD? What sort of global system is this? This just won
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by throw2016 8y ago
Android is designed to leak like a sieve but using an OS by the kingpin of the surveillance industry and expecting privacy and things to be above board is dissonance. We live in a 'fantastic' world where the same people who have m
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by throw2016 8y ago
This reads too much like a one sided political letter by a state functionary. It's curious no such 'open letter' was forthcoming from any public functionary accounting for the losses due to the long list of bank frauds and ba
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by throw2016 8y ago
Given the widespread apologism and hand waving around Google, Facebook and others here this is hardly surprising. Decision makers shoulder the blame but what we are seeing from these revelations is rank and file tech folks are 'eager&#
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by throw2016 8y ago
Its like Linus, Stallman and others create a free public pool where before only restricted private pools existed. Now 20 years later the private pools have faded into the background and the public pool is a lake but its inhabitants are disc
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by throw2016 8y ago
Lots of users mucked around with arm boards years ago untill most realised this wasn't something Arm was interested in with no drivers and those that existed not optimized for performance. It was all a hack with open source developers
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by throw2016 8y ago
This thread has been comprehensively derailed and is an embarrassment to informed discussion. Imagine if a major Chinese firm had 'forgot' to document a microphone, how many people here would be making excuses? This is an astonish
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by throw2016 8y ago
This is a narrow and reductionist view that misses the scope and scale of the issue to make it personal when this is not personal. Nobody is interested in the random individual so looking at this the purely personal level is pointless. It&#
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by throw2016 8y ago
Its only a matter of time before people realise their time is valuable and there is pushback against the frenzied cult of complexity driven by resume builders, framework builders and job seekers always looking for an opportunity to promote
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by throw2016 8y ago
We urgently need to jettison naive and simplistic models of the world that ignores centuries of history to deflect accountability, provide a comfort zone for some and perpetuate another fraud on the world. Look at the word fraud of 'ai
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by throw2016 8y ago
Its unnecessary but those in the midst of this massive data collection effort have convinced themselves its hypercritical. Context and IP is available with zero tracking and from an advertising perspective, anything more is often superfluou
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by throw2016 8y ago
Behavioral targeting which requires stalking people 24/7 and building invasive profiles is not only unethical but creepy, deeply dehumanizing and democratically problematic. As usual many are too blinded by greed to realize this simple
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by throw2016 8y ago
PHP is the same but with speed improvements in 7. But even without that the sheer number of high traffic sites built on PHP and proven scalability cannot be ignored or its ease of use and setup. All talk of accessibility and ease for new us
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by throw2016 8y ago
There is a lot of misinformation and false choices. The ISP scaremongering seen here is not real and only serves to further entrench SV based global surveillance data collection unimpeded. An ISP is local, accountable to its customers and m
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by throw2016 8y ago
There are more than 40000 individuals in Google in SV working to stalk you 24/7 and monetizing the data with different teams thinking up more ways and means to do it, other teams working on thwart any regulatory or other challenges to
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by throw2016 8y ago
This narrative fashions PG&E as victims when they are the criminals here. Please have a look at Judge Alsup's early comments here [1]. The regulatory framework was compromised by lobbying and the usual problems like ex PG&E exe
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by throw2016 8y ago
This is a classic example of 'manufacturing' a problem so you can 'solve' it in a self serving way. At some point technical discussions will have to rise above current naivette and various parroted 'laws' and d
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by throw2016 8y ago
The author goes into 'contempt culture' which is valid in any group of people ie 'PHP haters' but then tries to slip through the old trope of 'resistance to change' which is a clever bait and switch that positi
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by throw2016 8y ago
It just gets creepier and creepier and to think there are hundreds of thousands of people involved in this sordid endeavour who think nothing of and stalking, profiling and dehumanizing others for personal gain. More evidence there is zero
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by throw2016 8y ago
The problem here is you are familiar with Docker but not LXC which has suffered serious misinformation from the Docker ecosystem. A little bit of research will show it's far simpler to use and manage than Docker [1], and because it off
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by throw2016 8y ago
Two generations ahead of LXC in which way? There has been no such thing. No point making blanket statements without substantiating them which is exactly what ails the container discussion, hype driven statements with no technical content pe
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by throw2016 8y ago
This just runs full circle back to the LXC project which Docker 'forked' without attribution in 2013. Run unprivileged , runs daemon less, support layers, advanced networking and more important a standard OS environment. The whole
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by throw2016 8y ago
On the contrary with web content you can get enough context about the information being served. Combine that with IP geolocation and you have more than enough information. But this is not about users or ads, its about self serving people th
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by throw2016 8y ago
The unix way is 'decoupled microservices', breaking down components in to small pieces for reuse, it continues to be used and reinvented in different contexts. Both monolith and decoupled components have their cheerleaders but sim
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by throw2016 8y ago
Amazon, Google and hundreds of others show otherwise. They have tens of billions of dollars in revenue from open source. Open source is probably supporting revenue in the hundreds of billions now. However without closing the gap between the
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by throw2016 8y ago
The deal of the year, or last 5 years, for a nice Linux laptop has to be the Huawei Matebook D Ryzen edition [1]. It is at $620 and was going as low as $420 a month ago, and Ubuntu works out of the box. Don't let that price fool you, i
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by throw2016 8y ago
Anything like this is essentially trying to set up a 'ministry of truth' which is a propaganda operation itself. The kind of structures and thinking you would need to create this challenge fundamental ideas of dissent, free speech

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