RonanTheGrey

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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I'm curious -- what are you hoping that argument will accomplish? Freedom of ANY kind allows bad things to happen. The most secure world is one in which we are all locked up, nobody ever interacts, and are only fed via tube from their
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I keep asking people to explain why they downvote posts like yours and nobody wants to. I guess they know the reasons aren't good, they just can't help giving in to the desire for control. Beautiful list though and well said. I&#x
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I explicitly added the disclaimer to preempt your attempt to ignore my question, which you did anyway. Fantastic. You know exactly what I was trying to say. ONE counter example to a statistic doesn't invalidate the statistic and you we
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
At the risk of a reddit-style comment: "Yes please." Honestly just reverse the drug bans, treat them life public health problems, and disband agencies like this. Nothing good has ever come out of giving government agencies this ki
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
How the hell did you manage this. Honestly what's your secret. I need to make sure my kids turn out this way. I want tech to augment their lives, not replace them (or destroy them).
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
You're taking one example and generalizing it. I'm sure someone did something productive with cocaine once too, but that's not generally its outcome. (just a random example that occurs to me, I do not agree with the "War
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I was 100% convinced my kids won't get these devices until their very late teens, when I saw how my less than 1 year old reacted to the phones my wife and I use. Because his reaction is pure instinct, the dopamine response just to t
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
This is how these things always go isn't it? We invent this incredible technology that augments what we do, what we can be, what we can learn, and what we can believe... and then we turn it into an almost-exclusively advertising tool d
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
You haven't answered the question and I was interested in the answer too. What would one or both of these stores need to do, to qualify as 'anti-competitive' to you?
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I have a rather large project that is in a stage where asking "where do we host it?" is appropriate. I was >< this close to choosing Gitlab over Github due to this - I stopped all efforts to make the decision until I saw how
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
There's now a bulwark between developers and bad actors attempting to use Github and the legal framework against them. It is very probably that outside actual, valid legal justification, what the RIAA tried will never be tried again, t
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Yeah, came here to say that. Wit.ai looks interesting but I won't touch it with a 100ft pole as long as they require Facebook login. Unfortunate they have to promote the walled garden. But also agree it was offtopic for the Github issu
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I guess a super obvious question is, why do they do this instead of having a robust antivirus ecosystem? I mean I guess I already know the answer, "marketing". "Look, macOS doesn't require antivirus!" Personally I d
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
You're making the assumption the "average buyer" knows anything about this issue, which is incredibly unlikely. Therefore, their buying decisions are not made based on it. I think a good goal would be to scream it as loud as
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Yeah, I absolutely loved my Lumia... best phone I ever had. Crushed when it stopped working after... 5 years?
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
There's a companion setting, "Configured Connected User Experiences and Telemetry" that if you give it a valid hostname:port, it will send telemetry to that host instead of to Microsoft. Kind of a larf but spin up a basic Nod
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Whoa. This looks exactly like what I've been looking for. Taking a serious look
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
"It's technically possible for you 30 Spartans to defeat 100,000 Persians so go ahead, good luck" doesn't sound like a winning strategy. I think the overall point here is to have the support of law that says they DO have
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Yeah, I don't think there's any meaningful way to "port" a "gmail.com" email address away from Google. The entire internet infrastructure is set up so that can't happen, based on the meaning of "domai
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I'm 100% certain that a number of opportunities I've been offered have been because I proved a certain level of competence by maintaining my own email and domain; this certainty is largely due to the incidence of comments like the
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I worked at Microsoft for several years about a decade after they lost those famous lawsuits and I can tell you that the company culture around monopoly power and user rights was incredibly well defined. The company was absolutely paranoid
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
> The odds of these things happening are to be weighted against each other Mmmmm not quite -- they have to be weighed against the consequences if they happen. For people who have had a Gmail account for over a decade (almost 2), they&#x2
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Honestly it'd be hard for any 3rd party accounts to make that claim except Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and maybe? Twitter and github? At one point I was signed up in over 300 places using my Google account. Eventually the thought occu
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
I mean, the simple answer is because they're trying to spread the use of Google login, make it ubiquitous, so they can own all authentication mechanisms too as if owning everything else isn't enough.
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
We meet again zepto! Nobody wants to take away their right to do so (ok well maybe some do; I'm not one of them). Just that there should be rules we all agree to when we do. We accept this in other venues. Seatbelts. Stoplights. Nutrit
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
> They don’t have any significant advertising business. They don’t need to collect any personally identifiable information. They’ve promoted their brand by putting their customers privacy first. Yes... now. Can you say that with certaint
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
Dude they'll just sell them to someone else. It doesn't change anything, the material and resource cost has already been paid. Stop making this about something it absolutely is not. Companies DO care when people return something,
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
> I was very angry at the time since all my my music got deleted, but these days I'm just sad. Things like this have little by little destroyed all of my enthusiasm for technology. I want to be a carpenter now. When I was a kid, I w
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
More and more I perceive Apple to be relieving themselves a #2 on their customers' heads while telling them that they should be thankful and enjoy it.
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by RonanTheGrey 6y ago
"How do we get these companies to stop behaving like this?" "Vote with your wallet!" <votes with wallet by doing as OP suggests above. Mind you, NOT buying is noise - buying and returning is signal> "Not like

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