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> UK users would not be beholden to Apple for E2EE if their clients had legitimate alternatives to the first-party iCloud service. Any sufficiently popular alternative would be subject to the same issue: you can't backdoor encrypti
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I pay for quite a few subscriptions, to several services, mostly to avoid ads and show my appreciation to the creator of the service (or content). I'm all for the "support the creator" stuff. However, YouTube Premium never ma
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If every article was in your preferred format, I would probably enjoy reading less. Thankfully, there's a variety of writing styles, so that every one of us can find something we enjoy reading and skip the stuff we don't enjoy. I
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It's a StarCraft reference. https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Zerg "The Zerg Swarm is a terrifying and ruthless amalgamation of biologically advanced, arthropodal aliens. [...] They are named "the Swarm
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> I really have to take what he says with a shaker of salt after the Ubiquiti fiasco For me, it was when he doxxed security researchers, claiming they were criminals with no evidence.
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I'm not shilling. I made no value judgement on Kaspersky or their operations. My point is that this is a bad article, and the AS is not where censorship should be implemented, if it's going to be.
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> you might want to check with your God Emperor on that I'm not from the US, thanks.
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I am trying to temper my dislike for krebs, but it is getting difficult. Kaspersky operates an autonomous system (AS) and "Prospero" has traffic routed through that AS. Microsoft and Google also route all sorts of malware and spam
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It's obviously not as simple as any of us write out on in a few dozen words online. I have sympathy for you. But I disagree that age verification laws are needed. I think they'll do significantly more harm than good, and they don&
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> What are those technical and physical controls you speak of? We're on a "Hacker News", and you want me to explain what parental controls are? Do you have some specific questions that you genuinely want help with? Becaus
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> However, I have seen firsthand that filtering, and talking to children, absolutely is not, and never will be, effective. Weird, I have seen firsthand that absolutely can be! I guess we're at an impasse.
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> All not necessary if parents just did their jobs, right? No... Parent's can't reasonably mitigate what a car seat or seat belt mitigates. Besides that, the benefits vs. harms needs to be weighed before you shove your parenti
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Between talking with your kid, teaching them to be responsible, and implementing technical & physical solutions (at the home level, not country level), there should be very little issue. No need for looking over their shoulder 24/7
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You do this same tactic in every political thread I've seen your name pop up in from as early as I can remember recognizing your name on this site. Sometimes your questions seem legitimate. Often they don't (they might be! but the
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That's the one! Thank you.
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I'm referring to their comments in totality, not just this one specific example.
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Your debate tactic reminds me of some variation of the gish gallop. I thought there was a word for it, but I can't find it. You just ask question after question after question after question, with an extremely disproportionate amount o
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> It takes a little more comprehension skills to understand words. I understand if you didn't get that comprehensive education. I vehemently disagree with rayiner, often, but you personally attacking them only serves to weaken you
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> Mozilla services that are not your use of the Firefox browser. The 2015 policy I quoted applied to " Mozilla’s services and products ". The 2018 version just references " services ", leaving out the "products&
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That, or some variant of that, has been there for ages. 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20181223004526/http://www.mozill... Wording was slightly different earlier than that, e.g. 2015: "Upload, d
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Not at all. For one, it's a continuum, not a binary thing. Second, for topics I care about, I look at multiple outlets and/or their reported sources so that I can hopefully isolate the facts and form my own opinion. And yes, for e
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Out of all software to disable auto-updates on, email clients are probably the riskiest, given how much use they get and that they are the number one vector for delivering malware. There's already been a privilege escalation found this
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> generate $11.8 billion in sales. This was an investment worth twice that, and you think it is not of "real impact"? Care to expand on your thinking?
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> dismantling his country for profit Wow, that certainly sounds familiar.
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The net worth increase was not because of him telling advertisers to fuck themselves.
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I assume they are referring to this partnership: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/t-mobile-starlink-beta... "T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) introduced the next big thing in wireless — T-Mobile Starlink — to te
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The very first sentence of the article makes it clear, in the uncommon case that someone thought the headline meant a universal cancer treatment. 10 words.
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> I think the real winner of “America first” will be China and Russia. Indeed. > An hour later, Slim announced that he would transfer his projects for the next 5 years with Starlink, an investment of 22 billion dollars, to companies
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" Glioblastoma [...] is the most aggressive and most common type of cancer that originates in the brain "
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> You seem to want to join in into same self-deception and denial of reality. No, I just avoid "journalism" from people who only post with wildly emotionally charged language. If the reporting speaks for itself, you don't

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