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by valvar 6y ago
So we should be using services that only protect the privacy of those with acceptable views? Got it!
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by valvar 6y ago
The Times Literary Supplement.
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by valvar 6y ago
To be fair, there's really very little point to having a code for your luggage. The amount of added security it gives is laughable.
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by valvar 6y ago
Clearly!
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by valvar 6y ago
It is not clear to me in what way you are refuting the first two points. The citations that you are giving seem to indicate exactly what you are trying to refute. I am very confused, and left wondering about your agenda here. :)
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by valvar 6y ago
>IQ is not a good measure for intelligence. Intelligence is way too diverse to be broken down into a linear scale, even when it comes to just engineering or 'talent', as he calls it here. Oh, you have a better way to measure g?
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by valvar 6y ago
It's good that you acknowledge your (or so I assume) skepticism of the concept as such. Pretending that the exceptions which do not relate to political speech are relevant or even interesting is almost in bad faith, however. Free speec
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by valvar 6y ago
I really do not see what your point is. Of course there are things that are and should be illegal to say — but none of them are really politically relevant. Protecting free speech is about protecting dissent and the expression of political
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by valvar 6y ago
Clearly I must have misunderstood something, then. Reddit's suppression is obviously an anomaly, and in actuality the POTUS and his followers are dictating the boundaries of acceptable speech via their domination of academia, the media
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by valvar 6y ago
Do you have an actual argument, or is your view simply that it's not restricting free speech if it's bad speech?
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by valvar 6y ago
No, the utterly ridiculous "paradox of tolerance" is just a bad cope for people who truly do not believe in free speech. "Free speech" which only applies to your predefined set of approved speech is not free speech, but
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by valvar 6y ago
It's amazing how entitled and ungrateful some people are. If you don't like it, don't use it, or fork it, or patch it, or whatever. Just don't spew vitriol at someone developing free things for the benefit of others.
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by valvar 6y ago
As a Swede who just moved to Switzerland, who has a child coming up and will be affected by this, I find it pretty reasonable. Of course, I'd prefer to take more time off to be with my child, but I don't expect tax-payers to finan
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by valvar 6y ago
I mean the UX could be better of course, but are there any specific issues that come to mind? I've never felt that way when using Calibre. I always thought of it as a rather smooth piece of software. Unlike some other pieces of libre s
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by valvar 6y ago
Or happiness. I met my wife on Tinder several years ago, and we know other couples who met the same way.
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by valvar 6y ago
FOSS is not a company with a big budget and a CEO. It's a philosophy and a community built around the radical idea that user freedoms matter. If you want something particular to exist, then perhaps you should start building it or donat
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by valvar 6y ago
For those that like Vim, but also like some of the features that VS Code offers, but do not like VS Code itself and/or its Vim integrations or emulations, I must heartily recommend coc.nvim [0]. It's like using a modern IDE, min
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by valvar 6y ago
Their ecosystem.
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by valvar 6y ago
An operating system containing only libre software, I assume. At least in my book, software must respect the freedoms of its users in order to be ethical. And their OS is indeed libre and respects its users.
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by valvar 6y ago
Why should corporations be allowed to trample all over our freedoms just because the devices can be classified as primarily being for consuming content? Should we have no agency in how we choose to consume content?
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by valvar 6y ago
Just because we are forced to accept such limitations on some devices, that does not mean that it is necessarily acceptable. I own a PlayStation because I want to partake in entertainment exclusively available on the system. That does not m
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by valvar 6y ago
That does not sound extreme at all to me. It would not need to be controlled by people in elected positions - it could just be mandated that employees have to follow a specific charter and be as neutral as possible. A bit like many national
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by valvar 6y ago
I really don't get that logic. Of course, everyone agrees that hate speech is bad (and so are a lot of things, but I digress). But how is it not censorship when one of the world's most powerful companies does it? Do they get a fre
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by valvar 6y ago
Fennec is, as I understand it, an older version of Firefox for Android that is no longer supported by Mozilla. I guess it must be more libre or not use Mozilla branding, as it is available in the F-droid store unlikel the normal version. I
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by valvar 6y ago
Oh, and add-ons are no longer really a thing. There are only about 10 "officially supported" add-ons. I had to install Fennec from f-droid instead, which is annoying as it is both slower and has some frustrating bugs (for example,
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by valvar 6y ago
Oh, that's true, I didn't think about that.
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by valvar 6y ago
You just need to make sure that they have a vulnerable firmware version. Once you've jaikbroken a machine once, you're done.
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by valvar 6y ago
There are jailbreaks for the PS4, and it seems more likely than not that there will also be jailbreaks for the PS5. The barriers for actors who want to exploit console compute power are not significant. But they are significant for regular
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by valvar 6y ago
Commercial displays are not more expensive because they don't have ads - that's an absurd suggestion. They are more expensive because they have higher requirements. They need to be running for at least 8 hours per day without issu
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by valvar 6y ago
We already have something better. It's called the AGPL 3.

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