snakeanus

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by snakeanus 9y ago
Not exactly. In the link case the application is the browser instead of the site and there are many browsers that you can select from, in the .net case however the .net itself is the application.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> if I link to an image, javascript file, or even an iframe to ycombinator.com, your browser will make a request to ycombinator.com most likely without you knowing. True, which is why many people (including me) use something like umatrix
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Please elaborate.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
ycombinator.com is a site that you willingly send data to, it is not an application that you use locally. I do agree however, we do not need more laws about that, we just need the people to start using software that respects its users and c
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> only on HN could we see child pornography being defended as a victimless crime. No, not really. I have seen it being defended in multiple places over the years. Mostly places where there are many STEM people and can't bear the tho
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Related http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/09/21/wikipedia-keeping-it-fr... and https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia... Also, look at how much they spend fo
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I had no idea that he was also the owned of wikia. Quite disappointed.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> you could somehow guarantee that production would only come from artificial sources then there would be no reason for it to be illegal Yet the majority of anime porn is illegal on the countries of the commonwealth even though they are
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by snakeanus 9y ago
In greek as well.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
A bit sad that it does not allow for the file to be signed with OpenPGP.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Nobody suggested to remove any part of the English language in this topic.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> (manufacture it, sell it, give it away...) hide it, inflate the value of applying the cure, etc
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by snakeanus 9y ago
They can just use tor.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
In fact, I think that the tor version is the main one and that the clearnet version is just a mirror.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
In that case they should deal with the consequences of their ignorance.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
What is the point of the redirects? If the user wants to use the https version he would directly go to that (either manually or by using something like httpseverywhere). Why force to user to use a specific one?
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I fail to see what the problem with accepting ads would be, after all anyone who did not want the ads could simply fork the software. Even he could make a ads-free fork. Moreover I am pretty sure that all GNU/Linux distros would includ
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Mandatory: https://moxie.org/blog/ssl-and-the-future-of-authenticity/
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by snakeanus 9y ago
All forms of authoritarianism are justified by some.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I would argue that this is the case indeed.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
What browser are you using and how did you disable the js? With firefox esr and with either ublock origin (dynamic mode) or umatrix to disable the js I am unable to see the images.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Thank you for your reply, I was not aware of Mu4e and notmuch before, I will try both of them. Have you ever tried mew? I heard a few good comments about it in the past but I have no idea how it compares to these clients.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I tried to use gnus in the past as a nntp and smtp client and I hated it. When for example I had set my user-mail-address and mail-host-address to something specific that I wanted but that gnus did not like (even though it was a valid addre
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Quite a bit ironic that you need js to actually see the images in that article.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> Say what you want about MathML but as of now it's the best standard we have for putting math on the web I would argue that this holds true for (La)TeX, most sites use JS implementations of it and show the raw (La)TeX code as a fal
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> What do you mean? That I do not believe that sexual freedom is a goal.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Could you elaborate please? What are your experiences?
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> Isn't sexual freedom a goal? For whom? Not for me.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I thought that it was talking about WeeChat (the irc client) for a moment.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
DNS servers do not have "illegal calls" (read: thoughtcrimes) for the independence of any country. These are served by the server that the DNS points to and only on the request of the client.

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