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by yarrel 9y ago
The NSA records on their communcations show this. ;-)
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by yarrel 9y ago
> The NSA doesn't spy on US citizens That is a lie, but I understand why people would need to believe it in order to work for the NSA.
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by yarrel 9y ago
That answer does not explain the choice of technology.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Religions are like political parties, you say?
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by yarrel 9y ago
That isn't correct. Try the new mobile Firefox. Buying Pocket signalled that if you can take the right Mozillan to lunch, you can get an early exit. That did not solve the problem. It's still impossible to remove Pocket.
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by yarrel 9y ago
What's right with it? If I want to install it I will. I don't, but Mozilla feel that is their choice to make, not mine. You can't remove it (and disabling it is hard enough), so you cannot reduce the attack surface of your br
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by yarrel 9y ago
Alternate title: doubling down on not just doing the right thing and using GPLv3.
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by yarrel 9y ago
So you don't actually live on 18k per year, and you're certainly not saving 5k/pa on 18k?
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by yarrel 9y ago
Like any insurance, it's a bad investment until it's needed. Unlike some other kinds of insurance, you're not the one that will get the most benefit from it.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Yes. It's great for avoiding vi.
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by yarrel 9y ago
It's https://libre.fm/ :-)
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by yarrel 9y ago
Fear and Trembling reads like the fan of an aging rock band trying to convince a bored listener that the comeback album really is as good as the old material if they just listen to it enough times. I cannot imagine being impressed by the co
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by yarrel 9y ago
s/less restrictive/less respecting of their user's freedom/
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by yarrel 9y ago
This is wrong with Python 3 as well in real world use.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Multisig is implemented using smart contracts on Bitcoin as well. That's what P2SH is. Or you could use secret sharing for BTC or Eth, but people tend not to.
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by yarrel 9y ago
A billion-dollar one was.
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by yarrel 9y ago
"It currently costs $40/transaction" No it doesn't. "How is this not a ponzi scheme, help up by mining fees?" You misspelt "speculative bubble".
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by yarrel 9y ago
Like his healthcare "reform"?
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by yarrel 9y ago
Good security means not kidding ourselves that backend implementation details are providing us with any defense. They're not, and if we base our security strategy on the assumption that they are then we have at least one weakness in th
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by yarrel 9y ago
Until you get the separation of concerns that you are arguing would make publishing surveillance footage a non-issue, it is an issue. Not everyone has the same privilege as a college student here and now.
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by yarrel 9y ago
You forgot to press ESC before typing that, so...
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by yarrel 9y ago
As you touch on at the end, there's a bootstrapping problem here. If people could follow this advice, they wouldn't need it. :-(
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by yarrel 9y ago
Our Incredibly Self-Regarding Smugness Is Also Available In Dead Tree Format In A Way That Looks Like An Inheritance Being Burned.
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by yarrel 9y ago
That refutes your argument, not the responses.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Excuse me while I open my app that uses VC cash to double the payment I send to the nearest amateur violin player in order to play a really, really sad tune.
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by yarrel 9y ago
We don't need thought experiments to analyse UBI. There's data on trials of it going back half a century. The book "Inventing The Future" by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams gives a detailed explanation of how to use UBI t
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by yarrel 9y ago
Their needs and goals are open source (sic) software. Unsolving this problem would be self-defeating.
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by yarrel 9y ago
Because it does not allow them to protect their content. Their content will still be distributed without their consent, because DRM is broken as quickly as it is implemented. And they will not be the one using DRM to control distribution of
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by yarrel 9y ago
The security holes that the standard introduces into my browser. If I can compile it out, or get a version that someone I trust has compiled with it removed, that only leaves the rest of the web as a botnet attack surface. That's wha
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by yarrel 9y ago
People who are not fooled by the ideology of DRM are fully aware that DRM is a legal strategy, not a technology. That doesn't change the technological harm of DRM. Putting a DRM-shaped hole in web standards makes browsers less secure,

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