alcoholic_byte

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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
I think some are missing the actual point here: Why does a software/hardware/driver concerned with drawing need to know what wifi-networks are available? That is tantamount to surveillance. An absolute no-go.
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
Edge is Chrome-based these days unfortunately. And they first leveraged their ad platform to feed people Chrome, then they broke the internet where they could for competitors to gain a greater marketshare to ship this spyware in browserdisg
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
Yes. Yes. Yes. Contrary to popular believe Google IS Evil. I have no problem with people wanting to make money,but sabotage and strong arming opponents(e.g. captcha(once again refuses me when I am on firefox)) is just vile. Anyone giving th
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
Hmmm...... Nice spin playing on the hacker ethos here. Although information is in its name, it gets its full meaning from its suffix. MISinformation is the missing of information or the mis-leading of an audience by spinning purposefully fa
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
> ... via warrant or subpoena to provide .... This is crucial. Legal due process. Also > ..... U.S.-based technology companies .... Other jurisdictions have something similar, every company must adhere to the laws of the jurisdiction
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
Thank you. Yes, I have heard that saying being quoted some time ago. While I mostly exist on the other side of the water's edge... I am happy and hopeful that that is the case and hope it will continue to be that way and that the circu
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
I would generalize it. With radio, television and newspapers you have national sovereignty. The internet broadened that and introduced apps. So I would see this as a correction rather than anything else.
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
No. Feel free to educate me though. Only request I have, nothing older than 30 years please as I feel it may not be relevant any longer and before long we would argue about the antebellum period and what have you not. And it must be large s
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
I know that tactic and the response to this argument is: Two wrongs do not make it right. Just because the they did a wrong the others should be permitted to do it or continue doing it until the other party stops...wink wink? The answer to
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
>It's, not profiling, it's culture. You abandon all your safety nets in lieu of a increasingly individualistic society, and then costs of living increases as wages stagnate. The logical conclusion is that you start to become mo
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
It is called a fortified democracy. And absolute democracy like the Weimarer Republik is a dangerous thing. All modern democracies are fortified these days. And it is good that they are. And yes if the US is caught with the hand in the cook
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
Well a lot of agencies do that out of the box because secure by design is not believed. Trust but verify. You see that when intelligence agents talk about cooperation between partners. So in the grand scheme of things it wouldn't reall
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
Let's be critical here: We should differenciate between spying(passive) and misinformation/manipulation(active) Mentioning propaganda you choose the latter. Pray tell what are those campaigns you talk about? If you are posing this
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
Your thoughts leave out one thing: Radio and newspapers(including internet articles here in general) are a one way street. With Tiktok, you not only get access to the users device via the app, but it is also a two way street. Tiktok gets to
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
It is about connotation. I play Go against you. You are my opponent or, if it is a tournament, I could also call you my adversary(connotation is a bit stronger, less matter of fact like opponent, more around competition now). After the game
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
> This is deeply, deeply wrong - China and Russia are natural opponents, they are two autocracies that deeply distrust each other and do not understand each other’s culture Well Stalin and Hitler were like that too. Luckily for the world
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
Amount of text is seldomly a metric for good or bad texts, some stuff needs explaining. Especially when dealing with matters like this where others do not warrant their positions. > This portion is rarely discussed. The algorithm that se
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
> It goes back to the root issue, many westerners have long lost that disciplined to be an educated populace, to identify and defend against bias. to will themselves towards what they need to do as opposed to want. a single social media
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
But you need to control the platform to siphon user data , have a foothold into everyone's phone and to peddle misinformation and entertainment instead of education (Chinese version operates differently than the non-Chinese one). There
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by alcoholic_byte 2y ago
I think, also with respect to the comments to this comment, we need to appreciate the minute nature of this scenario and statement. Journalists and your everyone else enjoys free speech, it must not be curtailed, neither must it be fostered
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
My bad. (sorry I cannot help it) Comes to show though, if you want freedom and things the way you want to have them, you are just using the wrong OS :D
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
I don't know what the fuss is about. Right below the shellscript curl-thingy(I do think this approach should die) https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/linux.md It is available, you c
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
After what they have done with their AI approach I wouldn't even use them if they were to provide the last IDE available to mankind. It is also not new.
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
It is less the ads that bother me. Although, I do remember a time with TV where there was a commercial break every 30-45 min if you are luck and every 15 min when not. Didn't bother me. Bathroom break. What bothers me with this is the
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
Well a core-plugin can still be disabled just not uninstalled. The behavior of the plugin indicates bugs and for a plugin that exfiltrates data it is rater bad to not have gone through proper QA. For number 3 we will have to take them at th
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
A just saw.. a dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38696325 ... But I cannot comment......
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
This problem composes of the willingness to take away your customers agency and willingly accepting that they are violating their regulations on pain of being fired(It does not make sense for a freelancer to acquire a company license or whe
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Comment on Jetbrains AI-debacle(their AI-assitant, failing to address concerns)(youtrack.jetbrains.com)
2 points by alcoholic_byte 3y ago|6 comments
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
Before we get into it, the linked ticket is a cluster of over 40 tickets all dealing with the same thing and Jetbrains (JB for short) pretty much did nothing. So if you are working in a heavily regulated part of the industry, handle proprie
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by alcoholic_byte 3y ago
I agree, it is nice and privacy respecting, but I take umbrige with the google-maps. I am not really using Gmaps and I have everyone in my orbit exposed to alternatives. Just because.... like cato used to say...... I believe that Google sho

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