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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
The hits just keep coming. First I have to move off the apple ecosystem, now I have to move off of 1password.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
It's at least similar. Gay conversion aims for 3 things as far as I can tell: 1) Stop acting on your current sexual feelings 2) Stop having those feelings 3) Start feeling different sexual feelings somehow, but probably not At the very
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Is there data on how effective therapy is for pedophiles? Intuitively I'd expect it enjoys the same 0% efficacy rate as gay conversion therapy.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Agreed, we should stop ceding the language we use to describe this betrayal of trust to Apple’s idiot marketing division. These aren’t child safety features. By the time CSAM has been produced the child has already been harmed. Also pedophi
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Might as well, the jig is up. Apple has shed their privacy facade, why not go all in on surveillance?
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Also on the roadmap: making all firearms illegal.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
OPs article cites the number of NCMEC reports from Apple vs. other tech giants (200 something vs 20 million something at Facebook). It is all a bit confusing and I expect most of us are learning more about iCloud than we ever planned on; A
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
This is mainly where I come down on this. I care about what they’re doing not why they’re doing it. What they are doing is examining my private files, and that is simply unacceptable.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Surely there is communication surrounding the child sexual abuse, making plans with other pedophiles and discussing strategies. Some of this may occur over text message. Maybe Apple’s next iteration of this technology can use my $1000 phone
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
If you talk to me about "the homeless" if you have something interesting to say I'll listen. If you talk to me about "people experiencing homelessness" my eyes glaze over and I stop listening.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Very timely and apropos Carlin reference. My landlord is a company that manages Apartment Communities each of which has a couple of hundred Apartment Homes. It's nauseating. Makes me think of a point that Hicks made brilliantly: https
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Because then they wouldn't be able hook these children in like junkies as easily. Having a hard time buying this is about "the kids" or children in any way, shape or form. This is typical erosion of privacy under a worn out f
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Something that really helps me at my job is I have 2 primary roles that kind of wax and wane. When I get bored with one, there's always something to do in the other.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Paid well is a relative concept. One is paid well relative to other people, who are not paid as much. "Everyone should be paid well" - yes, that is exactly the kind of deluded thinking that "Utopia" refers to.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Agreed. Restaurant food is generally speaking unhealthy and overpriced. Low quality ingredients are doused in fat and salt to make them palatable and I'm expected to pay an exorbitant fee for someone to remember what I asked for and ca
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
The only justification required is their willingness to accept it.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
They don't produce anything of value, they provide a service that basically anyone can do. They're free to take the job or not take it. Who doesn't need to paid well in your utopia?
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
I can count the number of times I've been to a theater in the last 10 years on one hand. I ended up seeing The Lorax in theaters when it came out for some work thing. I was there to be entertained, I didn't like being lectured at.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Cal Newport sounds like a made up Chappelle Show character that Dave does in whiteface.
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If your evidence were instead your own comment, I would whole heartedly agree.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
I did that once, and the experience was a big part of why I use unraid now.
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
I don't have any of these note taking e-ink devices but I plan to get one eventually. I've been aware of both the Book Note and reMarkable 2 but for whatever reason I've wanted to wait another few generations and see how prod
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
I popped onto voat from time to time pretty much for its entire duration and I saw it become more and more of a cesspool. I think it and sites like it are a consequence of a mainstream internet culture that strictly enforces a toxic ideolog
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Good point! I’m squarely on the right in today’s climate and I think I’m more classically liberal than reddit’s authoritarian left that I had in mind when I wrote that. I suppose I meant to say “orthodox leftist thought”. It’s hard not to g
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Wait, what?
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Honestly I didn't make it very far before the smell made me turn around and walk out. > Through shrewd acquisitions, blatantly copying the exclusivity of rivals (read: Snapchat, TikTok), Facebook managed to become an integral part o
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
Anyone who uses OpenStreetMap in a city, how hard is it to give up the traffic aware features of Apple / Google Maps?
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
I don't entirely disagree, hence > satellite network of reactionary right wing outlets that are about as bad Predictably, as is custom at this point, our respective appraisals of the other side depend on the side we're on. Fine
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by xanaxagoras 5y ago
This is what Trump meant by "fake news". As much as the HN crowd hates him, he's right about that. We don't have a regular report-the-news media in the US anymore, we have a propaganda arm of the authoritarian left and a