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by ygjb 4y ago
Using your logic, I must not be a serious driver because I don't drive with the equipment necessary to repair my car. Or my bike, when I am riding. Or my e-bike when I am riding that. Folks who are serious about any hobby or activity
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In the context of this topic, one would have to internalize white supremacy first.
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No, it's not random. If it were random, there would be other folks represented in the victim population. This is a clear example of the racism and acceptance of extrajudicial violence against Indigenous people in Canada. That said, I
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s/city/country Starlight Tours have been documented in many major cities in Canada, with actual evidence and related cases in Saskatoon, Montreal, and Winnipeg. It is also widely suspected that it is still a practice in some comm
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First, the practice of "Starlight Tours" wasn't isolated to Saskatoon. It was, and is speculated to still be a practice in many communities, with verified occurrences in Montreal and Winnipeg, as well as claims of it happenin
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Aside from Lake Michigan, Canadians might have something to say about this...
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8-11 year old me made the time because after the sticker shock of two video games, my parents learned about and got me a subscription to Compute! I also spent the summer gathering up bottles and doing odd tasks so that I could afford to get
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by ygjb 4y ago
Well sure, if you are sufficiently privileged to warrant getting a polite knock on the door rather than an amped up heavily armed borderline hit squad kicking your door in. It's also worth noting that the author specifically called out
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> Specifically, I would say that number three is mostly false. The companies that receive those contracts are not, at least in my experience, small local shops (and there is an argument that they should be), but instead big consulting co
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by ygjb 5y ago
> How can they pay for something and not own it? Have you ever purchases software? Any media, recorded performance, or book? I don't mean to be rude here, but this question shows a complete lack of awareness of the problem space. T
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by ygjb 5y ago
Yeah, you know, it could be fake, or maybe the owner of that account wasn't literally calling to use nuclear weapons to kill Jewish people. But come on, the account name is, literally on it's own, a violation of the first rule of
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by ygjb 5y ago
That's an interesting take. I will share just a single example that flew by earlier this week that is clear evidence of this policy not being followed, either by algorithms, or by manual followup. https://twitter.com/B
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It's not super effective on me either, except for triggering crippling anxiety, but remember that we are outliers, and it's a very effective medication for most folks.
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I always wonder at the thought process behind these questions. Yes, Mozilla (.org) is a non-profit, and Mozilla (.com) is a regular corporation. Yes, Mozilla has commitments about transparency. Yes, exec salaries are insane. Do folks who
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by ygjb 5y ago
Oh, another browser fork focused on security that patches a browser? Is there an inventory of their security program? Or is it just 'we take up patches from Mozilla?
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How do you propose to prevent a user from leaking their home IP address to Mozilla without undermining the ability to: * Download the browser * implement a safe browsing mechanism * support automatic updates (which are a critical security f
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by ygjb 5y ago
> (Jail, police staffing, court staffing, prisoner care and feeding, potential violence and injury, paying staff to find targets, manually, etc) That alone is worth a lot. Uh, you do realize that to politicians, enforcement looks alot l
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by ygjb 5y ago
Are you in a region that isn't supported? I can buy it from Canada :/
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by ygjb 5y ago
It is clear from your tone that you won't be convinced by any argument, but why is it that this particular CEO earning a high salary is "money laundering" and "corruption"? Mozilla and Firefox developers are still a
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by ygjb 5y ago
There is an interesting conversation to be had here. Open source software requires that developers have the ability to spend time to contribute code. People need to get paid so they can support themselves, and as they get older, their fami
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by ygjb 5y ago
I am puzzled about why you're puzzled! They knew they weren't good at executing on something, so they partnered with a company with a proven track record, and leveraged their brand to make sure both Mozilla and their partner got v
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by ygjb 5y ago
Frankly, it's better than the race to the bottom that most tech companies are satisfied with. My issues with Mozilla's leadership team were never about the vision, mostly about the execution. I don't like Brendan Eich's
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by ygjb 5y ago
I am really excited to see Mozilla actually moving forward on revenue diversification in a way that adds value to the technical community (VPN, Relay, MDN Plus). Back when I was managing one of the security teams at Mozilla there was an att
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by ygjb 5y ago
I am aware of the legal discussions around the hypotheticals, but has that actually been tested in court? Define algorithmically generated? There are certainly tools for randomizing the mix of image elements that are present in a piece of
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by ygjb 5y ago
Oh please. Tell me you are a Linux zealot without telling me you are a Linux zealot. Its a tool in the toolbox. I use Linux everyday on servers at work, two desktops at home, and servers for my partners businesses. My main personal noteb
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by ygjb 5y ago
Yep, you are correct. Each of those decisions was made over the protests of a vocal but relatively small group of users. You can't please all people all of the time, and I agree the pocket integration, and the looking glass add were m
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by ygjb 5y ago
I am willing to wager in a broad sense, that the best COBOL, Fortran, and RPG, that "Old people who manage legacy systems" is probably a fair estimate, and there is probably narrow overlap between developers for those languages an
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by ygjb 5y ago
Yeah, I am talking about Crown Corporations like MTS, Petro-Canada, BC Ferries, and such that were taken private, not the telecoms protectionism that is currently screwing over consumers in Canada, they are quite different. I don't obj
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by ygjb 5y ago
Yep, vaccine passports suck, and I say that as a supporter of them. I am not going to argue the merits or flaws of them with a throwaway account, but they have not been found to violate laws, and no jurisdiction in Canada that I am aware o
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by ygjb 5y ago
I don't know what to tell you. The people of the United States have continuously ceded power to their government, and the corporations that wield influence over it, while being spoonfed lies about what freedom actually means by govern

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