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by nullityrofl 2y ago
I think you've missed the point: it's Americentric to assume that Navy SEALs and Army Rangers are inherently pure, good and have done nothing evil on behalf of the American government when we largely know that to be untrue.
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by nullityrofl 2y ago
There's not nearly enough public information to discern whether or not this had anything to do with stored PII or lawful interception. All we know is that they geolocated subscribers. The SS7 protocol provides the ability to determine
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by nullityrofl 2y ago
It depends on the circles you run in. If you consume news primarily from, say, Hacker News, then sure.
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by nullityrofl 2y ago
I think it's fair to say that western cryptologic agencies could likely repurpose hardware, perhaps to a degree unknown in the public space.
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by nullityrofl 2y ago
Right but _they_ are talking about the IRS. If the US government wanted to end crypto, they would give it a whole lot better shot than Nigeria and Argentina.
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by nullityrofl 2y ago
I think you might have a hard time arguing that sanctions are illegal or unilateral given that many of them were voted on.
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by nullityrofl 2y ago
This is the entire premise of sanctions, yes.
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
> It's not like those products can't evolve. The developers and communities behind these products can, and most likely will, do things to help with adoption of the services they've created. This isn't like the book of
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
I'm not all over the place. You're just exactly the frustrating personality type I'm talking about: one who is hyperfixated on the technology and the decentralized nature who can't see the forest for the trees and is mor
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
Those two points are not contrary. The quote you pasted does not dispute my point at all. Your emphasis is my point that the fact that the service is decentralized does not allow it to make up for the fact that it does not meet the needs of
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
> You're claiming that decentralised services won't see wide spread adoption because it doesn't conform to how things work on Reddit. That is explicitly not what I said. What I said was: > What I think is that people ha
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
If you think Reddit is social media in the same sense that Facebook is then I think we're coming at this from very difficult angles. Reddit is more akin to Wikipedia than it is to Facebook at this point for many people. Yes, much of th
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
I'd take a wager that we'll see Digg 3.0/Reddit 2.0 before we'll see widespread adoption of the Fediverse. I don't think people are cattle and I think that is a deliberate attempt to misrepresent my position. I don&
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
It's ironic that I posted "federated services are difficult to engage with because the people designing and advocating for them are more interested in ramming an ideology down your throat and condescending you than they are provid
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
> You're insisting things have to work a certain way in order for them to have value and be usable. Things don't have to operate in a specific, fixed way. No, I'm not. I'm staying on the topic of the thread you'r
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
> you sound an awful lot like a luddite. I'm not sure if this is meant to be some kind of childish insult or gotcha but no: I'm talking in representation of luddites. > A social network doesn't require millions of user
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
> It works until it doesn’t: when the host of a centralized community decides to make enemies with its users. And yet in spite of this very thing happening, Lemmy and Mastodon remain largely unadopted. Diaspora* existed during the Digg i
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
Email works because despite it's decentralized nature, it's functionally transparent to the user and you aren't constantly forced to acknowledge that nature. The issue with "Fediverse" technologies is not dissimilar
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
Federated services will never become mainstream. This is just the reality that people need to come to accept. I find them heavily talked about in circles with my colleagues and in my profession but the attraction of decentralized services j
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
Cache is probably a good guess. I don't do infinite scrolls but I do use Reddit mostly for hobby subreddits which aren't as popular and less likely to be in cache. I imagine it probably has some to do with specific geography as we
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
Sure, twice monthly is a lot more than "not for 10+ years"!. Anecdotally I think it's more and that the threshold for "errors above normal" is probably set pretty high. It feels like their infrastructure isn't
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
Yeah, I'm also US West Coast and I only ever use old.reddit or BaconReader. The Reddit Status Twitter and number of people responding to you confirm this isn't an isolated incident, though.
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
No, I only ever use old.reddit and BaconReader. I've never used the new UI or the official app. The official Reddit Status Twitter confirms this is a pretty common occurrence: https://twitter.com/redditstatus The &quot
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
You can't be using Reddit very often if you think these are a relic from 10+ years ago. I would say I experience a Reddit outage at least weekly. My friends and I have a running joke about how often it's down. The official Reddit
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
> Same reason we (SW engineers) think X field is easy and can be self-taught: the fundamentals are easy to learn, but figuring out where and how to deal with edge cases when they pop up is something that can only be learned with experien
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
My girlfriend used Bumble BFF to find friends and the friends she found had partners. We found a community surprisingly quickly. But we explicitly wanted the opposite of what it seems many here want: more friends in tech. We wanted a more b
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
I promise you Google is running user activity learning models that go well beyond spot checking the occasional account. Google deals with abuse creation accounts in the tens of millions.
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
> This ... is not what is going on. I am reasonably confident that Google are more aware of what's going on with dormant accounts on their platform than you are. I previously worked at Google in Security and while it wasn't in
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
GDPR was just an example. I was suggesting that the 2023 regulatory environment looks very dissimilar to the 2013 one. The company is bigger and is a bigger target of lawsuits as well and there's some precedent that European rollouts w
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by nullityrofl 3y ago
A decade ago GDPR didn't exist. Legislation has consequences.

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