RaleyField

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by RaleyField 6y ago
"Spotify is currently not available in your country." Take my euros goddarnit. Probably fights involving licensing agreements, or competition buying whole markets. I don't know if I should play at being an international spy a
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by RaleyField 6y ago
You are choosing the most uncharitable reading which is not what he meant. How do I know that? Because, despite his meatheaddy appearances, he has consistently shown himself to not be transphobic, I watch his show. What he wanted to say is
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by RaleyField 6y ago
That's why should verbally slap him around a bit, preventatively, just in case? Because as you admitted "the context isn't inherently transphobic".
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by RaleyField 7y ago
That's what you can do, sometimes. Step around dozens of dark patterns. It's not what your less tech-savvy relatives can realistically do.
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by RaleyField 7y ago
I use Linux, I am pretty ambivalent about Windows, I don't like adware and telemetry in my paid-for software but if they really start doing that honestly that will irritate me enough to start pushing people to Ubuntu when that's p
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by RaleyField 7y ago
If it's so obvious then why am I receiving security patches for my Linux desktop almost every day?
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by RaleyField 7y ago
There's slight difference in that in Firefox's case tech journals will be writing about it, everyone else will be talking about it and it will be on front page of HN. In the case of random extension going rogue it will likely get
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by RaleyField 7y ago
That's why it's only fair we as users uphold the same rules by immediately severing any ties, present and future, with Blizzard. The rules are perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
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by RaleyField 7y ago
> poorly calibrated for obviousness They should move way to the other side on the scale of obviousness. Patents should be there to protect investments, not to stake out ideas bright and not so bright practitioners can stumble upon. In my
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by RaleyField 7y ago
Question: If it makes sense for games to be resalable then why not tickets for cinema or concerts? Ianal afaik both are contractual agreements.
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by RaleyField 7y ago
And manufacturers. I tried to install system-wide cert on my Android to intercept and see exactly what system apps on my old Nokia phone were sending to Chinese servers but couldn't because Google thoughtfully "protects" its
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by RaleyField 7y ago
I have a suspicion that most libertarians would be completely fine with unplowed roads. On top of that, should people want to have plowed roads they are free and welcome to hire someone to plow their roads.
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by RaleyField 7y ago
> Every single company did stupid things in the past Perhaps there is some boundary that shouldn't be crossed. You seem to be arguing there isn't. Perhaps global and successful companies should exercise some due diligence and h
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by RaleyField 7y ago
> In the end, these devices do ship with Windows, which has privacy problems anyway. It does, but those are "theoretical" in comparison to the degree Lenovo stooped on, it doesn't excuse Superfish at all. Windows isn'
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by RaleyField 7y ago
> want to be in control of their data and devices, The other day there was a thread on HN about which laptop is great for Linux. Tons of people recommended Lenovo, a guy from Redhat said it's even the brand that's used interna
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by RaleyField 7y ago
> but moving/resizing windows is still very painful Press alt and drag inside a window. Left mouse for moving, right for resizing.
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by RaleyField 7y ago
ls -l ~/.bashrc and by design.
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by RaleyField 7y ago
And I, as a member of the esteemed assembly of contributors to this thread, am pleased to nominate Internet Services Providers’ Association as the 2019 Internet Villain. Congrats..
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by RaleyField 7y ago
To a significant extent you have to fear US if you are planning on blowing things up and you have to fear China if you have valuable IP. I don't have to like it, but hit me up with Room 641A over PLA Unit 61398 any day of the week.
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by RaleyField 7y ago
> I don't see how boycotting ThinkPads sends a message that BIOS malware is unacceptable It sends a message to other manufacturers: add malware at your own peril. I frankly consider it unethical to buy or recommend products from com
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by RaleyField 7y ago
> For what it's worth Not much in my book. The problem isn't Superfish, the problem is leadership that allowed it.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Users could reasonably expect that that information be stored in a separate database. My Linux distro doesn't make it immediately obvious that user.xdg.* attributes are attached with the file system. Normal users don't read EULAs,
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> outweigh any privacy concerns I might otherwise have. What about concerns of other people or do you mostly do inanimate objects or selfies? I suspect there are many people like me who feel coerced into allowing our private life being s
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Letting the local market compete is "bullshit" now? It was bullshit before too. This is nothing but another form of candlemaker's petition.[1] Why is welfare of corporations more important than free choice of consumers?
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Oh yes, the classic usability problem for the Average User, how could I forget It becomes usability problem for your users when it becomes too burdensome for ISVs to port their software on your fractured platform. It the whole raison d
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by RaleyField 8y ago
How about unstable apis to anything outside the kernel[1]. Or, more personal, on this laptop I get shorter battery life (I have it plugged in most of the time so it's tolerable), sometimes it doesn't wake up so I have to always sh
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> Consider yourself told, then. Nowadays I run mostly Ubuntu but before this attitude used to be a big turn off for me. When things manifestly don't work but the partisan chorus is acting like Linux is the most perfect thing ever th
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by RaleyField 8y ago
Nobody would need to read any reports if Microsoft respected customers by making telemetry opt-in.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
It's great that all dependencies have been made to satisfy stringent NASA software assurance standards. A great day for entire NPM ecosystem.
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by RaleyField 8y ago
> I haven't pissed anyone off. You accused me of being disingenuous. I'm sure your radical views irritate other people as well. > minimization of suffering Now I'm starting to think you are trolling. Me and others have

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