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by tga_d 9d ago
I've never heard anyone in the internet freedom or open source communities speak ill of him, and something tells me a 14 year old was not getting involved in writing the RSS spec to steal clout for financial gain.
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by tga_d 17d ago
There is an open source version of Android released by Google (AOSP), but it's mostly permissively licensed (pretty much everything except the kernel), and the versions of Android that ship with nearly all devices (even Pixel devices)
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by tga_d 29d ago
Okay, but that again seems to just be a few selected data points, rather than an actual trend, backed by peer reviewed study? Japan, Australia, and Iceland all have CT units per capita that exceed the US (~ 112, 70, and 50 /MM respecti
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by tga_d 1mo ago
> In general the countries with the highest levels of nationalization also have the most problems with shortages. Do you have any citations for this? I've heard this rhetoric before, but every time I look into it, searching around f
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by tga_d 1mo ago
You seem to have misunderstood an is/ought distinction. You may hold the (fairly extreme, as far as copyright goes) position that surveillance footage should be subject to copyright, but it's well established that it's not.
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by tga_d 2mo ago
> Heck, are we at the point where we shouldn't even do that and everything should be done in a vm container? This is the premise of Qubes OS. It's gotten decently usable, I'd estimate about as good as Linux a decade ago.
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by tga_d 2mo ago
Strava doesn't have complete coverage, especially on newer trails, but more importantly: doing the trace via Street Complete attaches it to an OSM note with an optional (but encouraged) photo. This additional context makes it a lot mor
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by tga_d 3mo ago
I don't see how that was implied? Just because someone is part of the "club" doesn't mean many other "members" can't be skeptical of their role. In fact, it doesn't even seem difficult to simultaneous
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by tga_d 4mo ago
These are two separate incidents, please read the article. While the latest one is certainly arguable and I suspect most people would understand why someone would want to take it seriously (even if they themself would not), the earlier &quo
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by tga_d 5mo ago
Setting aside the fact that there are multiple very old, very large religions that are nearly or actually vegan (e.g., Jainism), or that people raised vegan can't easily digest meat or animal products, why on earth do you feel that you
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by tga_d 7mo ago
Most of the input devices that Apple sells on their website don't have multitouch, including 0 keyboards and only one of the mice. Many of the photos on the site for each of their non-iMac desktops include full setups that don't h
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by tga_d 8mo ago
I suspect the more likely scenario is they don't actually care how accurate these nominal categorizations are. The information they're ultimately trying to extract is, given your history, how likely you are to click through a part
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by tga_d 9mo ago
I'm going to have to bite at the bait here: your post is guilty of what it's critiquing, and to a larger degree than the post being replied to.
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by tga_d 1y ago
I agree, I just don't think it makes someone a "failed excuse for a human being".
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by tga_d 1y ago
There's a sort of mirror world of academic research happening, where on one side of the mirror, you have people building the tools to censor the internet (typically but not always in Asian venues), and on the other, the tools to circum
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by tga_d 1y ago
"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee
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by tga_d 1y ago
There is a dedicated reproducible builds action that verifies that it does match (currently failing because of the aforementioned bug). I'm not sure why you're still litigating this when, again, you can not only just go look at it
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by tga_d 1y ago
Pick a decently up-to-date fork of Signal on GitHub and look at its Actions. You can also just do it yourself if you'd like, the process is effectively just doing a build in a docker container and comparing the result. https:/&#x
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by tga_d 1y ago
People reproducibly build Signal all the time. There's a bug right now that makes the play store version differ from the one you get by downloading off their website/build from source, but you can examine the differences to see th
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by tga_d 1y ago
Tracking pixels aren't for fingerprinting, they're just regular tracking. You can block them fairly easily (just block the 3rd party request to the known tracker). Fingerprinting is a lot more difficult to detect and prevent. Comp
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by tga_d 1y ago
There was an incident a little while back where some Tor Project anti-censorship infrastructure was run on the same site as a blog post about zip bombs.[0] One of the zip files got crawled by Google, and added to their list of malicious dom
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by tga_d 1y ago
What's the advantage of integrating this at a library level instead of just compiling it and running in Shadow? https://github.com/shadow/shadow
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by tga_d 1y ago
Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, Thunderbird is developed by MZLA. They're both subsidiaries of the same non-profit, but they don't share funds or employees, so it's not clear to me how this could "sap re
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by tga_d 1y ago
This sort of rhetoric always rubbed me the wrong way, but it falls completely flat on its face now, given that there isn't a single state in the US where the margin of victory was anywhere close to being within the Green vote. The idea
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by tga_d 1y ago
The OSM community has had extremely clear rules around automated edits for most of its existence. Every experienced mapper has seen first-hand the sorts of problems they can cause. The fact that it's using AI in this instance does not
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by tga_d 1y ago
There are certainly plenty of areas in Mexico that are dangerous (typically along the US border and drug routes), but it's not as though everywhere in the country is more dangerous than everywhere in the US. E.g., I've been to aca
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by tga_d 2y ago
I want to set aside for the moment the fact that the land-owning class was English (and not Irish) -speaking and usually lived in England, because while that's the easier point to make, there's a more fundamental issue here that I
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by tga_d 2y ago
The majority of the Linux kernel's source code is device drivers. The overwhelming majority of that is not included in the kernel image by default, but instead made available as kernel modules you can enable as needed. E.g., your therm
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by tga_d 2y ago
The NRL originally developed onion routing and Tor. It was then open sourced, stewarded by the EFF for a few years, before becoming its own non-profit. The NRL still do a ton of work on Tor and its ecosystem, primarily through academic rese
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by tga_d 2y ago
Creationists don't argue things are generically "too complicated", they argue that there are structures in nature that aren't discoverable by progressive mutations. As Dawkins explains in the video, eyes are an extremely

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