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by viridian 4y ago
> limiting encryption You mean stopping online crime, identity theft, and cyberbullying. Going after encryption is the goal, the stated goal is usually about more tangible, friendly concepts.
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by viridian 4y ago
It's to the point where I, as someone who has used reddit for over a decade now (somewhat regrettably), will never, for any reason, ever click the snoo/homepage link in the top left corner. The thought of doing so reminds me of th
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by viridian 4y ago
People aren't as unique and individualized as one might think. A half dozen channels, and thus permutations of outrage content is likely plenty enough to capture the overwhelming majority of the population's attention.
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by viridian 4y ago
I personally tell anyone who agree me of arguing in bad faith that they shouldn't have started talking with me in the first place if they thought I was a bad faith actor, and then I stop talking to them. Nothing productive can be said
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by viridian 4y ago
I personally feel that conscription/drafting carries a different connotation than impressment/shanghai'ing, but maybe that's just due to the historical context in which they were used. The former I expect to be a highly
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by viridian 4y ago
I'm a big fan of this personally, but I've also lived with the experience of completely useless commit messages, so I understand both arguments. Here's the most recent commits for a project I'm working on: Counts Counts
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by viridian 4y ago
I personally find that the more I have to use JIRA, and the more magical ephemeral rules that are set up in it to take actions in response to my actions with it, the more terrible it is to use. I've worked on teams where I just threw i
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by viridian 4y ago
After using the internet and nested thread style sites for way, way too long, I've finally comes to the conclusion that we had it right the first time with mailing lists, e-bulletin boards, forums, and imageboards: chronological, oldes
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by viridian 4y ago
> HN is an ideal place to hit the minds of very influential people This level of self importance seems unwarranted, IMO. The readership almost certainly wields a teeny, tiny fraction of influence of say, the Economist or the WSJ.
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by viridian 4y ago
It's interesting because if you watch one of the interviews with Azov members, this is how they see themselves, as well. They adopt the Nazi aesthetic and ideology not because a hatred of Jews, but a hatred of Russians, and rejection o
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by viridian 4y ago
Quite a few one dimensional villains come to mind from my childhood: Dora the Explorer's swiper the fox, G.I. Joe's cobra commander, He Man's skeletor, robbie rotten from lazy town Still, I'd say it's a stretch to c
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by viridian 4y ago
I don't like a lot of their business decisions (I know much of this is driven by credit card/payment processors) but this is the most respectable mass layoff I've ever seen from a company, and should be lauded.
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by viridian 4y ago
Alcohol and tobacco cessation are heavily pushed on you the second you begin to try to conceive. Doctors tell you there is no safe amount of alcohol. The only place weed was even mentioned to me was in the Mayo clinic guide to pregnancy, on
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by viridian 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by viridian 4y ago
It's like Stalinist Russia, you can believe whatever you want, it's only expressing those beliefs that gets you sent to the gulag.
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by viridian 4y ago
Surely you could have made your point without the unprovoked attack on Christianity? I agree with you on the monarchy, and I'm an atheist as well, and I still can't help but read your comment as divisive and distracting from your
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by viridian 4y ago
Should I trust the Russian press on the topic of Ukraine or NATO? i.e. "So Russia has reasons for being not too keen on Ukraine and NATO, which you understand, but you also wouldn't trust them to talk about that? Does anyone with
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by viridian 4y ago
Follow up: I was curious about the math, so I thought others might find these numbers interesting as well: At current continual growth rates (assuming the decline comes to a dead stop and remains steady), we will see 10 billion people late
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by viridian 4y ago
The crazy thing is that we not ever see 10 billion at this rate. Globally we are down to 2.1 births per woman, and the majority of nations now have a birth rate below 2, meaning most countries are below replacement. And even the positive bi
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by viridian 4y ago
Piggybacking to confirm I saw similar behavior, and someone upthread had 22 satire titles in a row.
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by viridian 4y ago
I've stored those on paper in a safe and on a little plex server with local network only access. Both of those attack surfaces are very small, require immediate proximity, and one runs a substantial risk of injury or death to attempt.
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by viridian 4y ago
Yeah, I thought about checking the md5 before wrapping and aborting the run if there was no change, but I like knowing that the process is still working and that nothing stupid happened to my cronfile at some point. Two instances of having
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by viridian 4y ago
I just use keepassxc and have a cron job that zips and encrypts the password vault and then uploads it to Amazon S3 once a day, simple and pretty much foolproof, probably costs me $0.12 a year for storage.
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by viridian 4y ago
Sorry, I've never used the browser plugins. Personally, generally don't want code with squishy, hard to conceptualize access rights having more access to my web data than I intend, so I just run the desktop app or mobile app and u
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by viridian 4y ago
KeePassXC is one of the best pieces of software out there. Does exactly what it needs to do, runs on every device I've ever owned, and has been independently audited for implementation weaknesses. It's not just great FOSS software
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by viridian 4y ago
I see value in all three cases: 1) Snowden's reveal of PRISM and more generally the reveal that the government could access almost any text message sent to or from America took the idea of the surveillance state out of the land of theo
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by viridian 4y ago
This sentiment towards not just discord, but the entire internet, is becoming increasingly common for a reason. I regret my time spent on the internet more and more with each passing day, and I've heard similar sentiments pop up like a
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by viridian 4y ago
This is how I (and I'm sure many others) first heard about kiwifarms, the NZ govt threatening to arrest citizens for even watching footage of the shooting. I was running a little warrant canary meta-service at the time (since the EFF l
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by viridian 4y ago
Was just talking to my wife about this not in the context of Kiwifarms, but of Yandex and "covid misinformation" as well as Edward Snowden. Russia is always happy to be a friendly port in a storm when the subject is speech that Am
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by viridian 4y ago
What's more likely: That this user has compromised the backend of HN via some exploit in order to make a couple of posts? or They are the type of person who regularly deletes their old posts? Because I see the latter on reddit, twitter

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