malicka

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by malicka 12d ago
It’s both superior engineering-wise and morally. The moral framing is probably more popular with folks that don’t care about engineering superiority, too.
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by malicka 29d ago
No, we're supposed to hate all passively-surveilling cameras. Except for dumb ones that dump to local storage. Dash-cams are often pretty dumb, so they’re fine; your phone only takes photos when you ask it to, so it’s fine. :)
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by malicka 1mo ago
They definitely shouldn’t. Mozilla has talented engineers, but it’s been catastrophically mismanaged for almost 20 years at this point. Keep Firefox, but let Mozilla finally die.
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by malicka 1mo ago
Cute and clever gimmick, which is more than I can say about most AI-related software churned out these days.
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by malicka 2mo ago
Information was made to be free: Sharing jokes shares the joy!
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by malicka 2mo ago
Working on mine, but… sluggishly.
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by malicka 2mo ago
> Or maybe you know enough people are just generally mean and jerk enough that you don't want to listen to their silly criticism and over-the-topness. Yea, that’s lacking the bravery. Thickening your skin and sharpening your tools i
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by malicka 3mo ago
Because when you are in a country, you are subject to it’s jurisdiction. Can you be arrested for petty crimes? Yes? Then you’re under that country’s jurisdiction.
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by malicka 3mo ago
Do remember that without the government, there very literally would be no forty-hour work week. Individuals don’t have the same bargaining power as employers, not by a long-shot.
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by malicka 3mo ago
Every piece chipped off of our right to privacy and freedom from surveillance is another strike against civil society; it normalizes data-collection further and gives any government contractors (Palantir et. al) a bigger database to profit
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by malicka 3mo ago
The issue is, you can’t solve social problems with technology alone. The most challenging problems for our species (inequality, starvation, homelessness, etc) are social, after all. And we don’t have the incentives nor political will to sol
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by malicka 3mo ago
The seeming ubiquity is definitely new.
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by malicka 3mo ago
Unless you’re the type who wants their HTML to be valid XHTML! :^)
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by malicka 3mo ago
You’re missing the point: These poll watchers made things up about what they saw, kicking off a media circus – which would’ve happened even if the system was different, because it is distinct from reality. The one at fault is the media, n
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by malicka 3mo ago
This kind of gatekeeping isn’t about knowledge (which is free and should be freely shared — basic hacker ethic), but about social standing.
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by malicka 3mo ago
If the critics don’t respond to facts or data, what makes you think they will once you “secure” the election? Even those recounts after the 2020 election — which found no substantial fraud — did nothing to convince them. The media tells the
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by malicka 3mo ago
The USA is pretty dang diverse, and definitely mixed. That mixing is a core part of it’s culture and history, actually. And now, the country that mixed (USA) is stronger than the Old World that didn’t (Europe). Which is to say: There is n
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by malicka 3mo ago
> cede your land to some other people who will This is an insane way to frame immigration reform. It isn’t “ceding” anything, it just means being OK that not every single person you know is the same race. Having some cultural exchange, g
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by malicka 3mo ago
For one, this article doesn’t claim that immigration increases overall crime. Secondly, the article hints at a sampling bias we have run into before, during the Syrian refugee crisis: Immigrants are not more likely compared to their peers
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by malicka 3mo ago
> the deep psychological truths about human tribalism … that the races should keep to themselves? Yea, I’m going to have to disagree on this one. This was pretty handily disproven by the New World. Mixing, sharing, cohabiting… this creat
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by malicka 3mo ago
Crime-rates going up + Immigrants being no more likely to commit crimes = There is no causality
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by malicka 3mo ago
> crime rate hikes. No, not really. Broadly, immigration has no effect on crime-rates. In case-study after case-study, it’s shown immigration has little to no impact on crime-rates. This was even disproven after the height of the Syrian
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by malicka 4mo ago
You could block the default DoH services for Firefox, I reckon.
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by malicka 4mo ago
I think it was sarcasm.
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by malicka 4mo ago
s/[Cc]yclists/drivers/g You have crazy bikers, and you have crazy drivers. I’ve seen way more of one in my life, and that one’s definitely more dangerous.
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by malicka 4mo ago
20 minutes? Try an hour!
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by malicka 4mo ago
No, not really. You know what to think about because you were trained to by coding through the problem by hand. If you stop doing that, you stop learning the specifics of whatever problem domain you work with.
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by malicka 4mo ago
Speaking of which, Emacs’es markdown-mode is pretty good. :^)
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by malicka 4mo ago
I think it’s still cool enough to get the OS running in the first place; and there’s still novelty in using something for a purpose completely unexpected, even if the last few steps are cookie-cutter.
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by malicka 4mo ago
That doesn’t exactly instill confidence, honestly…

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