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by ttt0 6y ago
To be fair, there is plenty of batshit insane patents like that. The most famous example being US Patent 6506148: https://patents.justia.com/patent/6506148 As to what does that mean, whether the things described in the
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by ttt0 6y ago
That's what happened to YouTube. It used to be fine, everything just worked, but they just couldn't stop themselves from fucking it all up.
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by ttt0 6y ago
https://archive.md/rTcAg > Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background noise in order to gauge emotional state and location type to serve up the appropriate
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by ttt0 6y ago
> In Spotify, music listens to you Nice touch.
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by ttt0 6y ago
And that's the problem. I wouldn't even care about it, since theoretically "no one forces me to use it" (and I don't), but in 10 years there simply aren't going to be any toasters on the market that don't
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by ttt0 6y ago
This site is literally broken with disabled JS. But since every single person seems to have a personal reason to do this, then I guess it's fine.
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by ttt0 6y ago
My only question is: was using a JS framework really necessary for such a simple website?
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by ttt0 6y ago
They will filter "lies and hate". But that doesn't mean the "lies and hate" will magically disappear. Only the Government-approved(TM) lies and hate will be allowed to justify wars and authoritarian policies and you
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by ttt0 6y ago
First of all, "were" and "are known" is like apples and oranges. Second, there wasn't just one Capitol Protest. So no, you're wrong.
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by ttt0 6y ago
Exactly. I'm happy that the app was reinstated, but this solves nothing in the long run.
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by ttt0 6y ago
There is already somewhat of a precedent set for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R... As to how you would implement it, Poland recently had a proposal that if you were banned from a socia
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by ttt0 6y ago
> Aren't libertarians all about the absolute sanctity of private property over all other concerns? They divide themselves on left-libertarians and right-libertarians. What you're thinking about is right-libertarians, so anarcho
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by ttt0 6y ago
But as of right now Telegram and Signal is still up, isn't it? Though they're already being slandered in the media, so you might have a point here. To support my explanation, see for example this: https://www.theverge.c
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by ttt0 6y ago
It used to be that if you even uttered the words "freedom of speech" here you'd be instantly downvoted and jumped on by five people saying that censorship is only when it's done by the government. Some people still doubl
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by ttt0 6y ago
> With Edge switching to Blink, essentially becoming yet another partially-degooged Chrome Now it sends half of your data to Google and the other half to Microsoft. That's an improvement, they decentralized spyware.
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by ttt0 6y ago
Yep, abusive content. > Morning all. We've had contact from Google confirming that the suspension is due to abusive content somewhere on Matrix; we're working with them to explain how Element works and get the situation resolve
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by ttt0 6y ago
I on the other hand hope that they won't just say "oops, our bad!", reinstate it and sweep the entire thing under the rug like nothing happened, without explaining anything. There are people here who work on mobile applicatio
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by ttt0 6y ago
Sure. But as we learned, the only way to get them to respond at all is to do what we're doing right now. Blow the story up all over the internet, accuse them of censorship, call for regulations and hopefully get the media to pick it up
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by ttt0 6y ago
People will surely point out the obvious differences between the takedown of Parler and Element and I'd agree that it's not exactly the same thing, since Parler is its own platform and Element is just a client. However, when looki
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by ttt0 6y ago
And email clients.
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by ttt0 6y ago
> ”Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Not to be confused with corporate capitalism.
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by ttt0 6y ago
> hitting back, then forward, then forgot, then back, then forward, then "create offline account" will appear as a hidden option. You're joking, right?
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by ttt0 6y ago
That's fine I guess, but the problem is that there is no option to disable it. I've even read recently that they removed from settings the option to delay the updates or something along these lines, because it was "too confus
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by ttt0 6y ago
> I can barely run Windows for a day or two without rebooting. Does Windows even allow to not reboot? I've heard that if you miss the update popup it will automatically do the update and reboot. And if you click "Remind me late
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by ttt0 6y ago
> Ms folks close the issues as ‘unable to replicate’. I'm sorry, but that begs the question - what is even the point of telemetry then?
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by ttt0 6y ago
> Honestly, Americans don't know how good they have it in the free speech category. Not for much longer. Everyone supports censoring someone, so it's just a matter of time before it becomes a policy.
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by ttt0 6y ago
I don't think anyone should be banned from saying stuff like that, but what they're essentially saying here is "it's okay when we do it". Free speech for me, but not for thee.
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by ttt0 6y ago
Is this the white privilege thing I was hearing about?
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by ttt0 6y ago
That's what got me confused too, the entire article makes zero sense if it was on Jan 7. Good catch though, I would have never noticed that.
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by ttt0 6y ago
Thanks, English is not my native language.

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