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by yogthos 6y ago
I was told that this only happens in authoritarian regimes like China. Turns out that while everybody was talking about China exact same things were happening here in the West. It's as if the whole focus on China was specifically desig
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Guide to the Fediverse(torresjrjr.com)
4 points by yogthos 6y ago|0 comments
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by yogthos 6y ago
Human population collapse is very likely in the near future.
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by yogthos 6y ago
Yet, it's obvious that your own government has the most agency over you. And when your own government starts putting shock troops on the streets and abducting people in unmarked vans, you might want to reconsider how much information y
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by yogthos 6y ago
Exactly, I'd be much more concerned about my personal data going to a government that has agency over me than the one that doesn't. The only time I'd have to worry about Chinese government having my data would be if I went to
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by yogthos 6y ago
That's precisely the argument the article is making. It talks about the fact that US companies are just as bad, and worse than TikTok, so moving data from TikTok to a US company doesn't actually help anything.
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by yogthos 6y ago
I think you misspelled USA there
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by yogthos 6y ago
At this point US has lost all credibility when it comes to privacy and security. While everybody was watching China, US has implemented exact same Orwellian nightmare at home where every citizen is tracked https://www.coindesk.co
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TikTok and the Great Firewall of America(coindesk.com)
20 points by yogthos 6y ago|7 comments
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Crux SQL(juxt.pro)
181 points by yogthos 6y ago|34 comments
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by yogthos 6y ago
While I've already acknowledged that it's not explicitly covered, I've linked an article explaining that it's in a gray area at best and falls under existing laws prohibiting superfluous injuries or unnecessary suffering
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by yogthos 6y ago
Saying whataboutism is simply trolling and not a form of argument. Claiming a country does X implies that what it's doing is somehow an outlier, and that "good" countries don't use such tactics. Nobody is refuting the po
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by yogthos 6y ago
While you're right that depleted uranium specifically isn't covered, it's interesting to me that you focus on the legal status as opposed to the horrific effects of the weapon on the civilian population. There's also a p
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by yogthos 6y ago
Right, US is a rogue state that doesn't respect international law.
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by yogthos 6y ago
Re-frame is absolutely fantastic in my experience. Here's a beginner workshop on Reagent/re-frame that I ran for Js devs a little while back. If you're interested to try ClojureScript, this will run your through the basics fr
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by yogthos 6y ago
That doesn't make the scenarios we're headed for any less horrific.
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by yogthos 6y ago
Arthur C. Clarke predicted that by the year 2000 cities as we know them would no longer exist all the way back in 1964 [1]. We would live in a world of instant communication where we could contact anyone on Earth without leaving our home. T
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Top Scientists Just Ruled Out Best-Case Global Warming Scenarios(bloomberg.com)
30 points by yogthos 6y ago|16 comments
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by yogthos 6y ago
Counterpoint is that a distributed system doesn't have a central point of failure, so the effort to subvert the entire network is significantly more involved. So, as everything it's trade offs, but a distributed system will be mor
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by yogthos 6y ago
On the other hand, there might not be a similar incentive to create spam in the first place. I guess we'll see how that develops going forward.
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by yogthos 6y ago
You're making an argument for why Mastodon is more immune here and not less. Since there are many different servers administered in different ways by many different users, you have to infiltrate each server on case by case basis. This
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by yogthos 6y ago
Sure, Jeff Bezos account would be compromised then. However, unless every popular account happened to be on the same server then other people would not be compromised. Quite clearly Mastodon does mitigate the problem here.
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by yogthos 6y ago
You missed the point here. Since there is a gazillion servers, that means you have to compromise each one individually. That's far more effort than compromising a single server. Also, worth noting the context of the hack which was a so
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by yogthos 6y ago
Worth noting that running a Mastodon instance is vastly easier than setting up your own mail server. Digital Ocean even has it provisioned nowadays, so if you wanted to set one up for yourself and friends for example, it's mostly point
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by yogthos 6y ago
I use both, and I find that I generally prefer Mastodon nowadays. I find it's strictly better, and a lot snappier as well. Meanwhile, the community is now large enough that there's no lack of interesting content.
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by yogthos 6y ago
It depends on the instance. Larger instances do have backups, and they have operational funding. There is also a history of these instances operating for years without issues. Mastodon also makes it very easy to extract your data. Finally,
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by yogthos 6y ago
That's true of course, federation doesn't provide immunity from this kind of manipulation. However, I do think that it's worth highlighting the fact that it does help mitigate the problem.
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by yogthos 6y ago
Sure, however the more important point here is that this kind of attack is fundamentally more difficult to carry out and less effective than it would be against a centralized service.
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by yogthos 6y ago
Clearly there are already multiple large instances in existence, so the situation is already fundamentally better than Twitter where there is only a single instance. Furthermore, I think that small instances are just as important as the big
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by yogthos 6y ago
The difference is that you can't compromise the whole federation by compromising a single server the way you can with Twitter.

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