thecrash

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by thecrash 4d ago
Decreases what info Signal needs to collect and retain about a user. When using an SMS verification as a proof, Signal needs to log the phone number, because if they didn't, one spammer could use one phone number to create 10^99 accoun
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by thecrash 2mo ago
enough metaphors though. Here is what I think probably actually happened, based on the multiple accounts I've read: "Give us the PIN for your phone" "I don't want you to search my phone, and I want to talk to my law
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by thecrash 2mo ago
I have tested them, that's what I'm saying! The belief that the authorities are completely unrestrained in their power serves authoritarianism. Creating this belief is in fact a major priority for the current regime. This is not t
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by thecrash 2mo ago
You are incorrect, US border patrol can not arrest you for refusing to decrypt your phone (if you are a citizen). It is not considered obstructing a search to refuse to provide a password. This is not "autistic" speculation about
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by thecrash 2mo ago
It doesn't sound like this person pressed any buttons. They were pressured to provide a PIN or be delayed and further harassed. They obliged, and agents decided to enter it to attempt a warrantless search of the phone. It's not st
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by thecrash 3mo ago
It's important to note that there are very many Jews in the world who are not Zionist and many Jews in Israel who disagree with the Palestinian genocide. They're not the majority, but there are still a lot of them.
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by thecrash 3mo ago
Attacking civilians has always been "controversial". As a civilian myself, I would be pretty worried if this changed.
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by thecrash 3mo ago
It's scary that you bring up the question of whether Rene Good was under arrest or not at the time she was killed. As if it were legal or justified to execute people for failing to cooperate with their own arrest. It's scary becau
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by thecrash 4mo ago
That's the trouble though - those friendly neighborhood sites can generally be assumed to be appropriate for kids, but if we create the expectation that they must ensure they are appropriate for certain age brackets simply by virtue
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by thecrash 5mo ago
I think this might not be true though. This is like saying a marathon runner can walk like an amputee using a prosthetic. Just like anyone else with a disadvantage, people who aren't that smart develop diverse compensatory strategies t
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by thecrash 7mo ago
This case is not important because of Greenpeace, it's important because of the implications for free speech in the US. They are not being bankrupted because they took the wrong stance on nuclear, they're being bankrupted for supp
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by thecrash 7mo ago
Some of the jurors had financial ties Energy Transfer, the district is heavily conservative and economically dependent on the oil industry. The deck was massively stacked against Greenpeace at trial. Energy Transfer had previously attempted
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by thecrash 8mo ago
It reminds me of https://sandstorm.org/
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by thecrash 1y ago
It's weird that you won't come out and say what you think is "going on" though. I've given the explanation that the vast majority of people waving Mexican flags in LA would give: they are expressing that they'r
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by thecrash 1y ago
> I consider myself quite liberal, but waving a Mexican flag at these events just makes me think you can fuck right off with that bullshit. I'm confused, you consider yourself quite liberal but you think it's bullshit for Mexic
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by thecrash 1y ago
Your concerns about a majority oppressing a minority are well-founded, but a system where people vote for career politicians don't seem to be moderating this problem - if anything it's exaggerating it. If you trust the general pop
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by thecrash 1y ago
Unlike Apple, Google's main business isn't selling hardware, nor do they use hardware as the chokepoint for controlling their ecosystem. It could change in future devices, but currently there's not much stopping you from doin
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by thecrash 1y ago
Your problem statement is effectively "I want to share access to my documents very informally with people who don't care to have any security practices, but still keep them secure" There's another way of sharing in crypt
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by thecrash 2y ago
Builds are signed by the software publisher, not the Play Store. So the store alone couldn't corrupt releases, it would need collaboration by the publisher. (Google does have a service for app developers where they keep and manage your
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by thecrash 2y ago
While the bike is stationary there's limited options for moving the bike relative to your body. While the bike is moving, you can make small steering adjustments which move the bike left or right relative to your body, which helps re-b
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by thecrash 2y ago
> because they do non-free parts now they are likely to make more of it non-free later, is that the argument Yes, that's one indicator of how the incentives are structured, though there are other factors to consider too - mostly reg
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by thecrash 2y ago
Or semi-automated scammers trying to claim the ad revenue from videos for themselves.
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by thecrash 2y ago
It has to do with the way power and incentives are configured within the project, and therefore what can be expected of the maintainers in the future. For some people/use cases, the threat of developers rug-pulling a tool you depend on
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by thecrash 2y ago
It's both. Free software is a more efficient mode of production because it maximizes the exchange of ideas about how best to build software. It's also a more libertarian mode of consumption because it maximizes freedom of choice f
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by thecrash 2y ago
This is what the Tor Browser is designed to do, and it does it very well (all in userspace no less). The main drawback is that some sites don't render as nicely and occasionally a site simply doesn't work.
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by thecrash 2y ago
If you want an HTTPS ingress controller that's simple, opinionated, but still flexible enough to handle most use cases, I've enjoyed this one: https://github.com/SteveLTN/https-portal
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by thecrash 2y ago
As you point out, decades ago privacy was a widespread social value among everyone who used the internet. Security through cryptography was also a widespread technical value among everyone (well at least some people) who designed software f
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by thecrash 2y ago
By mistakenly declaring the existence of certain packages at scale, the model causes those packages to be created and published. What initially seemed like a hallucination was in fact hyperstition...
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by thecrash 2y ago
An interesting thing about labor disputes like this is they're presented as quasi-political stories, where people eagerly argue "for" or "against" the union or corp as though they were political parties or philosoph
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by thecrash 2y ago
The difficulty is that owners don't just voluntarily hand out "fair shares" to workers who agree to play nice. The only reason workers get paid at all is because if they stopped getting paid, they would stop working. Once eno

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