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by cutitout 6y ago
> If I have to communicate to every bad actor how I identified them as a bad actor, that only helps them sidestep my prevention mechanisms. If you don't, you're the bad actor. If specific actions lead to a ban, the way to sides
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by cutitout 6y ago
I use FreeFileSync to synchronize my Thunderbird and Firefox Profiles, KeepassXC files, web server stuff etc. I also prefer portable applications that keep their preferences in their own folders. So I also don't mind if a machine rando
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by cutitout 6y ago
You haven't addressed a single point. Being an expert should help a person to make arguments, and sometimes does, but it's not an argument in and of itself.
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by cutitout 6y ago
"Making the world a better place" is terribly generic, and not impressive in context of stubbornly refusing to even acknowledge, much less warn users about, an issue that puts actual lives in danger. If they ignored her for so lon
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by cutitout 6y ago
> By presenting the issue the way she did, people moved the conversation away from the issue By HER doing A, OTHERS did B? That doesn't even parse as English, and betrays doublethink.
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Snoop calls Amiga a “heartbreaking story all computer nerds should study up on”(twitter.com)
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by cutitout 6y ago
If it's an issue in any app that can lead to privacy leaks, it's a showstopper issue for something like Signal. It being an issue with any app is even more reason to tell people about it, not less.
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by cutitout 6y ago
> But if a person has something important to say, calling people that don't know about the issue assholes is not a great way to go about it. I don't mind it at all. If someone uses "being called asshole" as a reason t
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by cutitout 6y ago
> calls them assholes that don’t care about what happens outside of western society That's hardly her main point: > For Chinese who are used to a specific IME- like Sogou, trying to type on something else is a tiny bit like a QWE
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by cutitout 6y ago
I responded to someone who didn't even attempt to make the case how all users of Parler are "violent extremists", they just pulled out that broad brush to justify a transgression. That's intellectually so dishonest I s
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by cutitout 6y ago
Godwin's law just says that as the length of a discussion increases, the probability of a nazi comparison approaches 1. It says nothing about that even being a problem, much less losing the argument. Even better: as the length of a dis
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by cutitout 6y ago
> I fail to see the importance of these people's privacy in the wake of recent events. I also fail to have sympathy for people who trusted this hacked-together Twitter clone with their personal information. Then I fail to have any s
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by cutitout 6y ago
I think one man's flaw might be another man's feature in this case: > The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conver
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by cutitout 6y ago
It's amazing to see this downvoted within a minute of you posting it, probably by someone not even aware they are only underlining your point.
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by cutitout 6y ago
Of course it's concerning, but it's also concerning how quick people are to dehumanize and call for censorship, putting a lot of energy into discussing endlessly just how evil or stupid or unreachable those other people are, rat
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by cutitout 6y ago
> Responsibility is not a chain No, but events are. The question of how to use a tool arises from the existence of the tool. > otherwise you could hold me responsible for looking at a driver the wrong way, which annoyed him past a thr
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by cutitout 6y ago
All links in the chain are responsible for what they do, there is no single packet of "blame" that gets to reside with any single party, and denying one's responsibility will not make it go away.
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by cutitout 6y ago
> It is true that a computer, for example, can be used for good or evil. It is true that a helicopter can be used as a gunship and it can also be used to rescue people from a mountain pass. And if the question arises of how a specific de
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by cutitout 6y ago
> War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme internat
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by cutitout 6y ago
Haters also downvote, making the upvotes effectively invisible.
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by cutitout 6y ago
> Well, I think here you point out to one, really, of the basic defects of our system: that the individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making. And I think that
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by cutitout 6y ago
Well, the article speaks of "Deutsche Bank strategists" and "experts", and it is Deutsche Bank Research that made the suggestion. Digging further, the person who made the suggestion is a "Macro Strategist" doin
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by cutitout 6y ago
I'm very happy to see that the German tax break is basically the opposite of what Deutsche Bank Research suggested, namely extra taxes for people who WFH, because they "contribute less public transport and the economy", and
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by cutitout 6y ago
I love how the circuit diagrams were part of the manuals. Admittedly, an Amiga 500 was vastly less complex than a modern computer, but still: what today companies like Apple want to keep under wraps, so not everybody can just repair anythin
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by cutitout 6y ago
Playing around with it made me realize just how much I miss those good old derpy days, and how many great times I had on myspace and then mostly forgot about. It made me a bit emotional even. Thank you! I don't have that much time at
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by cutitout 6y ago
Or as Roland's teacher Cort put it: > "Control the things you can control, maggot. Let everything else take a flying fuck at you and if you must go down, go down with your guns blazing." - Stephen King, "The Drawing o
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by cutitout 6y ago
Now that is an outlook I can get behind much easier than what many turn it into. > Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go. -- Meister Eckhart
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by cutitout 6y ago
Free, conditioned on believing it -- if you get called and pulled in the first place, which isn't true for most. They just get preached the Gospel, so people can say "hah, now it's your fault for not believing it". Image
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by cutitout 6y ago
10 minutes in and it's still mostly about Silicon Valley and private companies, as announced as the main subject by Greenwald in the beginning of the video.
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by cutitout 6y ago
One man's edge case is another man's line in the sand.

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