alpos

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by alpos 3y ago
More like a different kind of sharing app/company as the potential starting point to people figuring out how to live the way they want to. I am indeed wondering out loud about whether anyone would participate in such a system. To me, i
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by alpos 3y ago
With you on that point for sure. It is just as important for the US to end it's for-profit prison system as it is for China to stop punishing people for thinking the wrong thing.
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by alpos 3y ago
That's fine. The corrective for it is to name the bad conversational behavior where you see it, don't get too bothered about it, and demonstrate the kind of conversations you wish to have instead. It's not terribly taxing to
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by alpos 3y ago
Agreed, Nixon was a moron, basically everything his administration did was truly awful. The war on drugs must end, the people put in jail for having or consuming the wrong plants must be released, and the US government should make amends wi
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by alpos 3y ago
>wrong think 99% of time gets you an invite to the police station to "drink tea" and sign a paperwork not to do it again. Maybe occasionally a write self criticism letter. That is good to know. And genuinely new information for
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by alpos 3y ago
I can go with the general feeling here, but to use that to put the US's behavior on par with China's, specifically with regard to each country's own citizens, that is definitely a point that would need some data to back it up
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by alpos 3y ago
Good questions, for another time perhaps.
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by alpos 3y ago
The specific people referenced in the post I was responding to were not US citizens and should not be expected to be granted legal rights equal to US citizens. > Hicks was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001 by the Afghan Northern A
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by alpos 3y ago
I think people find it insincere because pointing out that both parties in question have a problem doesn't change anything about the situation or the problems. It is most often used as an attempt at a defense by calling out other guilt
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by alpos 3y ago
They may indeed like to disagree, as I'm sure anyone who has broken the law would and is entitled to. Hence the existence of a fair trial and the possibility of a "not guilty" plea along with the opportunity to present a defe
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by alpos 3y ago
Note that this does not apply to US citizens. US citizens, even those accused of terrorism, still retain their legal rights under US law. That is what citizenship in any country, is. Can those rights be violated? Yes, governments do bad thi
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by alpos 3y ago
You are completely dodging the other poster's central point. The US locks up more people, but not for wrong-think. Instead our country does it for consuming the wrong plants at the wrong time, because our systems are still racist in va
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by alpos 3y ago
That makes your email box effectively a password vault. Might as well use a service designed for that such as LastPass, or 1Password. Or better still, use a password calculator app such as https://spectre.app/ This kind of
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by alpos 3y ago
> a secret word for phrase that both you and the service you want to sign into know That would not be a password, that would be something you share. An actual password must be possible to verify without it being stored on any device. On
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by alpos 3y ago
You never get "realtime" in data processing. Actual realtime systems are a totally different animal. Mostly done in the embedded space, the design of a realtime processing system involves setting up fixed time windows for each tas
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by alpos 3y ago
In the case of networked hardware, the stealing the device part is a relatively minor concern. For the case of passkeys, expect the bad actors currently playing the phishing game to shift from getting you to enter your password on a fake si
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by alpos 3y ago
The phone unlocks with the bio-metrics but the passkey has no additional lock. Be careful to take note of what thing you are actually "unlocking". For example, if your 2fa codes for a service are always sent to an email account th
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by alpos 3y ago
IIRC, the code for at least some of those unlocks is available open source. And usually hacks or jailbreaks have a tendency to trend in that direction even when the hackers are charging for it initially. Someone eventually decides to share
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by alpos 3y ago
I've seen and read up on how some of the communes have gone, but I haven't seen any that made a serious attempt to run a company that way. By using the existing structures as a buffer, as I am proposing, a group could actually mak
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by alpos 3y ago
That sounds about right, I try to engage with people on this topic as much as I can without annoying any of them too much. That basically looks like asking them why they don't group up and prove their point instead of individually ragi
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by alpos 3y ago
Not totally opt out. That's a stupidly dismissive take on this idea. The point is that you would never get a wholesale light-switch style shift in any civilization anyway. So just start now, incrementally, and see how far you can get b
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by alpos 3y ago
Some time well before torrents were a thing? Music became essentially free long before it become a thing people rent.
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by alpos 3y ago
I keep trying to tell the socialists and communists out there that they can totally implement the way they want to live within any democratic capitalist system. Just make a corporation which all of your people are members of, give voting po
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by alpos 3y ago
Speed? yes. Acceleration? Not so much.
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by alpos 3y ago
Possibly the stupidest day-one DLC play we've ever seen. >"Customers might see that as “a bit of a cheat,” Because it is a cheat. There is exactly zero chance this doesn't get bypassed and unlocked for free with the quickn
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by alpos 3y ago
Just here to note that there are several huge problems with this approach from an actual security standpoint: First is that this changes from 2-factor authentication (something you have plus something you know) to single-factor (just someth
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by alpos 3y ago
"We built a video stream processor by splitting every 1080p+, multi hour long, 30-60fps video into individual images and copying them across networks multiple times." Not surprising that didn't go will. This strikes me as a p
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by alpos 3y ago
Which demonstrates the problem. When you have a market that only one or a few players can even operate in, that is bound to lead to this exact situation. The regulations are so heavy and complicated that the best path to profit is to just c
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by alpos 3y ago
The overall point is that, even if Boeing can, they can't do it often. And they are basically the only ones who can. That's not a healthy market and it is definitely suppressing advancement and discovery of new technology that we
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by alpos 3y ago
That's the entry ticket price my friend. Beyond that you also have continuing currency requirements and that basic license pretty much only allows you to fly on clear weather days. Which is also a problem because weather changes during

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