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by wybiral 7y ago
Even if I trust them to do what they say they're doing with the data I may not trust every party who comes to possess that data. And I may not trust their possession/use of it in all future contexts - as their privacy policy slowl
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by wybiral 7y ago
Those statistics compare it to a time when it was absurdly high though in the midst of massive lobbying efforts to prevent gun control regulations (but also significant increases due to the war on drugs and generally elevated crime rates).
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by wybiral 7y ago
The potential damage of climate change and rise in mental health issues and gun violence stick out to me, but on average I do agree with you that we live longer and probably have higher quality of life now. Out of curiosity, do you think th
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by wybiral 7y ago
What about things like the pharmaceutical industry pumping out insane quantities of opiates? Or the gun lobbying industry trying to block regulations on registration and background checks? Or the crazy number of petrol-refinery incidents in
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by wybiral 7y ago
A while back I wrote a Python script to watch for links posted on Twitter and then scrape their /robots.txt file [1]. The requests are routed through Tor for privacy purposes. It's been incredibly enlightening. One thing that stic
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by wybiral 7y ago
> I don't understand the protests. They were about the human rights abuses and war which some people find worth protesting regardless of whether or not a handful of wealthy elites get to attend a liberal university.
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by wybiral 7y ago
I agree, some kind of "Local access: enable/disable" the same way that notifications and location services work would be great. Especially since there's only a handful of use cases where this kind of access could maybe m
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by wybiral 7y ago
The demo currently only looks for these services but in theory could detect anything that opens a listener on a fixed port number: MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Dropbox, Steam, DAAP media players, and Tor (daemon, browser, or Brave
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Show HN: Detect software running from JavaScript in a browser(github.com)
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by wybiral 7y ago
It sounds like the user violated policy and got banned. I don't see how that makes Wikipedia a "propaganda tool" any more than any platform for hosting any content or communication which has rules that can result in bans. PS:
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by wybiral 7y ago
Hey, at least it's as likely as some of the weird conspiracy theories being floated around.
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Why those specific days?
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Why would you assume it to be so malicious, if true? Maybe they were under attack. Maybe they were just removing all of the Bloomberg rice grain chips! :) There's an infinite number of "maybe"s though. Far more than there are
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by wybiral 7y ago
Fair enough... But then they all just did a really crappy job of concealing the patch?
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One company keeping a specific product launch secret is different from three or four independent companies and all of their network engineers all conspiring.
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by wybiral 7y ago
If you go down the route of conspiracy theory you have to also believe that the companies who have already issued a PR response are lying and that all of the employees privy to the truth are also staying silent. That would be quite a story.
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by wybiral 7y ago
I'm just going to shamelessly plug an open source Golang project I've been developing to stream my own videos from my YouTube channel, but in a self hosted privacy-focused way. Builtin Tor onion service support so you don't n
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by wybiral 7y ago
If I were going to buy into any theory other than coincidence my bet would be on an emergency patch situation where we're seeing the rushed deployment. But it's probably just a coincidence.
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by wybiral 7y ago
I don't think the service needs to be critical for it to be an "outage". If the service is unavailable to people who use it that's an "outage". You could have a soft-serve ice cream machine outage.
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Yeah, my first reaction to Google heading yet another standard was to cringe but this is one of the situations where I think it makes a lot of sense. They're dominant in the search industry and most other engines tend to take their cue
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by wybiral 7y ago
The interesting thing about robots.txt is that there really isn't a standard for it. This [0] is the closest thing to one and almost every modern website deviates from it. For instance it explicitly says "To exclude all files exce
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by wybiral 7y ago
But somehow you need to share the link itself, right? So instead of sharing the link couldn't you just... Share whatever the message or content is? Edit: what I'm saying is that "activists" (which is an interesting conce
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by wybiral 7y ago
I have multiple but the one I use the most has Kodi installed. It's connected to a projector and I basically use it as a media center streaming files from one of my desktops over the local network. Another one is used more like a custo
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by wybiral 7y ago
There may be unintended consequences in the current scheme that we've just grown to accept too (like an always increasing wealth gap).
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Well tell them to back Elizabeth Warren already.
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If you only tax "> $X" then you aren't really stopping anyone from reaching $X. I guess you can argue that they're WAY above $X and this is a way to prevent people who reach $X from climbing, but let's be honest
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by wybiral 7y ago
I noticed that too. Hit refresh and it was magically gone from the front page with 139 points while older submissions with fewer points remained.
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Also "Eleven protesters were arrested on suspicion" is a pretty low percentage of incidents for a 2 million or so strong protest. That to me sounds like pretty good evidence that it's largely very peaceful.
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Just because they're biased or "unfair" doesn't mean they aren't independent. And there's a big difference because you can find consensus or inconsistencies between a collection of independent sources. The same
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by wybiral 7y ago
You're right, I didn't mean to compare them in that way. There is a difference between government-mandated vs corporations voluntarily censoring. My point was just to highlight that even here in the US we accept some level of cens

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