simonra

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by simonra 3d ago
> But using a multipurpose computer without qubes is unsafe at any speed, worse than driving without a seatbelt. Could you elaborate on the odds of death and permanent disability occurring through use of unsecured general purpose compute
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by simonra 6d ago
> So because some people can't use some information well, we should deny that information to all? The argument isn't that using information is bad, it's that world scale maps are so shit at conveying usable information tha
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by simonra 6d ago
I remain unconvinced. Even with regional maps people struggle with conceptualising that similar distances at places even relatively close can vary dramatically in time needed to traverse, or with regard to energy/fuel cost to cover, or
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by simonra 6d ago
What are the practical uses of a world scale map beyond sailing? I mean they could be neat for visualizing some useful route calculated as vectors and further used as vectors, but it would still be of mostly an aesthetic value, appealing to
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by simonra 9d ago
I don't know, while I miss the super+right click drag to resize window and super+left click drag to move window from KDE on my work machine, I also kinda miss the smoothness of macOS's handling of many windows and desktops utilizi
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by simonra 10d ago
I always found writing to be an unnecessarily arduous tool for communication, so I never do it until I've overthought what I want to express and approximately how. At that point I flesh out the skeleton of the message, and pile on word
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by simonra 12d ago
As our surroundings grow more secure, the justice system variant of swatting becomes a greater portion of the threats to worry about. There will be abuseable bugs and situations in our non static world, there is no way we'll ever have
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by simonra 14d ago
PoE2 is still in early access, I feel it would be wrong to say that it is out until the makers claim that the product is ready to stand on its own two feet in the market
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by simonra 17d ago
Using Denmark as an example of somewhere doing well because they didn't adapt the euro would be wrong though. They pegged the Danish krone to the euro decades ago, and have as far as I know had to follow the European central banks inte
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by simonra 25d ago
"Being needed" is a poor choice of source of existential happiness and contentment though. Sure, it's an easy and accessible one for the masses with some mental gymnastics around how you view your income generating activities
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by simonra 26d ago
> You can't use propaganda to trick people into becoming experts at calculus, for instance. Perhaps not an individual instantly. But how about settling for making a generation of parents fear that there will be no future for their k
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by simonra 27d ago
It is for netflix, or the cloud image storage provider that wants to secure against the consumer easily extracting data and going to someone else. The user being able to easily take a program made by a third party and have it completely rea
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by simonra 27d ago
Unless the organisation is on the brink of collapse there is valuable learning and understanding in honestly attempting the research. If nothing else one gets a bit more knowledge on how to research the topic, although some knowledge of the
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by simonra 1mo ago
How do you secure against the system vendor (in this case the browser) limiting what the consumer/user can or can't do (alone or with the help of third parties) with the product after acquiring it though? After all security for in
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by simonra 1mo ago
> is it ethical to allow a model to give medical advice, knowing that it can be wrong. Most people would say no, I wouldn't be so sure, most people I've met seem to be all too eager to suggest what worked for them (or they have
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by simonra 1mo ago
Even with opportunities for remote work, after having spent ages 8 though 19 rurally and in suburbia, you'd have to pay me enough so I'd be able to comfortably retire to a proper city after about 3 to 5 years. I've gotten to
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by simonra 1mo ago
There are many indirect ways to get information though. Better would be to ban "discrimination" of customers/humans (no loyalty programs for long term customers/whales or people who know people), and ban of usage of all
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by simonra 2mo ago
Online retailers in the nordics occasionally try to post terms and conditions that contradict consumer protection laws, for instance retailers being on the hook for warrantying product(ion) defects for 5 years after purchases of products th
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by simonra 3mo ago
I disagree. Writing became seriously unfun after the 8th year of school. Now after grad school it seems very wasteful to spend any calories focusing on the packaging of the ideas and things. Especially at a time when we have achieved the te
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by simonra 3mo ago
You have (the perception of having) someone to forward the claim to once you're hit by one where the damages are quantified in money like a life insurance or disability payout caused by the data loss?
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by simonra 3mo ago
What would drive a love of technology over ones peers in the formative years? And when society further obstructs the path to working with one's interests by further exposure to the peer group and its passions, why would the society bec
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by simonra 3mo ago
As long as the odds are good enough (and/or you know the distribution), there is nothing wrong in relying on and profiting from stochastic systems despite not every outcome being positive. What matters is the sum of outcomes, not the i
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by simonra 4mo ago
What stops someone from adding a watermark to an actually photographed (carefully framed?) picture to discredit it? There is no certainty either way, just suggestions from someone else about what the truth might be.
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by simonra 4mo ago
Please don't export US labour and safety standards. The amount of paid time off is hard to argue is not unethical, the conflation of vacation time and sick time clearly is unethical, the amount of parental leave (especially maternity)
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by simonra 4mo ago
> Off the top of my head, I can't think of anyone who's tried to restrict people's right to borrow from a willing lender. Didn't the Christian phase in Europe effectively restrict meaningful lending from most of the e
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by simonra 5mo ago
A lot of the local newspapers have abandoned third party comments systems and gone for only allowing comments under full verified name (often using the national id system). The result is that only the trolls and and generic perspectives any
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by simonra 5mo ago
I use at least 4 different devices on a daily basis, sometimes more. Forfeiting access to things deemed not for children, or I want connected to my ID like banking or prescription renewal, on any one of them because my id can only be on one
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by simonra 5mo ago
> I've never understood why so many people still chain their identities to physical SIM or even eSIMs. It's so fragile. Living in a place where getting a replacement sim is gated behind obtaining an id from the police tied to y
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by simonra 6mo ago
What I tried to express was privacy being the primary concern. The easy and accessible self-hosting on old hardware would be the uses of a home network beyond superficialities like consumption and commerce. Privacy wise headscale as a solut
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by simonra 6mo ago
Wouldn't easy and accessible self-hosting be a major privacy win if that's your primary concern? Sounds much more private to run a Minecraft and Mumble server on an old laptop in a friend group than paying a commercial entity like

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