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- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 1 week ago:
“We don’t accept ideologically motivated changes” = White supremacist language…
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 weeks ago:
My bad, I thought it was about payments in general (including other programs) but it says social security database. Sorry.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 weeks ago:
Another accusation Elon made was that payments are going to people missing SSNs.
A much simpler answer is that not all Americans actually have an SSN. The Amish for example have religious objections towards insurance, so they were allowed to opt out from social security and therefore don’t get an SSN.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, if the app was open-source so we can check it does not leak data, I would probably have no issue with it.
Making it a separate app makes sense if google wants to allow other apps to re-use the code. No reason to have the same functionality bundled into each app separately.
And the feature, as long as it is configurable, seems useful.
The auto-install is bad but understandable. As far as I am aware, there isn’t and easy way to mark an app as a dependency of another app so it gets automatically installed only when needed. This should be fixed but auto-install for all is not terrible temporary solution. This does not apply when the app is closed source and may steal your data.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Again? Didn’t they try this once already?
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 4 months ago:
I mean sure, that is how some (mostly strategy) games do it, but for an FPS, figuring out where the buffer should be would be a programmers nightmare. I guess you would have to try to calculate all possible line of sights a player could have within some buffer time and then all players that could in theory enter them… Add physics and it is practically impossible.
Also, corner hack is useful enough and it does not address aimbot. IMO the answer is some combination of human moderation and ability to play with “friends” instead of randos. E.g. you could ask people to like or dislike a player at the end of a match and try to pair players that liked each other in the past.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 4 months ago:
That does not detect things like wall hack and aim-bots that don’t modify the game state directly.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 4 months ago:
In XMPP, e2e encryption (just like everything else) is an optional extension. So in practice half the clients don’t support e2ee, half support different version of e2ee (can’t talk to each other) and pretty much all e2ee are likely full of holes since there are too many implementations.
In Matrix, e2ee is in a library that all clients can use.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 6 months ago:
I strongly prefer GOG to the point where I often don’t buy games that are not on GOG.
That being said, one reason to buy from Steam is steam workshop. So if I want a lot of mods, I may buy from Steam even when available on GOG.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 6 months ago:
Netherlands? Switzerland? Norway?
Like sure, there always is some corruption but relatively insignificant amount.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 6 months ago:
I immediately dislike calling it commerce for 3 reasons:
- Most people will not know what I mean so I will have to explain every time
- Commerce is an existing word that means something different so it will still be confusing in a different direction
- I, on principle, don’t like abandoning words because some dumb group(s) appropriates them and tries to change their meaning
I think I will try saying “regulated capitalism” from now on and see if it is better.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 6 months ago:
Yeah, the terminology around this kinda sucks. I always have an issue with whether I should call it capitalism or not when I mean a heavily regulated version of it, including some social policies.
I just don’t know a better word for it and it is difficult to concisely express what I mean without saying capitalism and hoping people figure out what I mean from context.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 6 months ago:
Sorry if it is unclear, I am saying CGB Gray explains how corruption happens in leadership structures.
The opinion that this is why capitalism can work better than communism is entirely my own logical conclusion. I am not trying to claim CGP Gray said so.
Again sorry for the confusion.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 6 months ago:
CGP gray very specifically refers to democracies as well and explains how things like farm subsidies are used to buy votes. Maybe re-watch the video.
And yes, CGP gray also indirectly explains why Marxists kept pumping resources into the government, police and bureaucracy. It is inevitable in a system where you concentrate power in a limited group of people.
That is why distributing power between large number of independent capitalists and voters is the system that so far worked best so far, although still very far from perfect.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 6 months ago:
It is the opposite. In capitalism, there is at least a chance a good person has power because of how power is distributed. There are multiple examples in the main post.
In communism, the way power is distributed ensures corrupt people raise to the top. See an amazing video “rule for rulers” by CGP gray for a simplified explanation how that corruption works.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 6 months ago:
In all leadership positions, period. Capitalist or communist. Democratic or autocratic. Does not matter, those that are not held back by their morals will have an advantage.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I feel like CrowdStrike did some much groundbreakingly stupid shit that this term will be ambiguous?
- Comment on Eat it 8 months ago:
I think switching to a frequency that a different region uses could be dangerous, since then the airplanes near do border would receive the signal but the airport wouldn’t. This could lead to misscommunications.
Also, the airline pays for the jets.
- Comment on Eat it 8 months ago:
They don’t command them, but they call them in like you call the police.
- Comment on Eat the rich? 8 months ago:
In the first place, looking at wealth is pointless. I could make a thousand dollars a day and as long as I spend them immediately on stupid shit, (e.g. permanently living in an expensive hotel, gambling) I could have net worth of $0. Wealth is not a good indicator of anything.
- Comment on Eat the rich? 8 months ago:
Hmm, that is actually an interesting point. If it is negative, does it bring down the sum in this? If so, how much of the world is my net worth greater than? A billion? Two?
- Comment on Eat the rich? 8 months ago:
Yes, that is a much better way to make the same point :)
- Comment on Eat the rich? 8 months ago:
Not lives on, but net worth.
- Comment on Eat the rich? 8 months ago:
The 8 richest people in the world according to investopedia have a combined net worth about 1,369 billion. Divide that by 3.6 billion and it is about $380 per person. Idk what the average net worth of the poorest half of the worldspopulation is, but I doubt it is below $380.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 9 months ago:
That being said, it apparently does not affect Mullvad on any platform other than iOS (Apple does not allow fixing it on iOS). I suspect other serious VPNs are also not vulnerable outside iOS.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 9 months ago:
No, it works at any point and the local network needs to be compromised (untrusted), the host can be secure.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 10 months ago:
Yeah, point was I did not know that. How many companies on the internet don’t rely on AWS? Would you even be able to tell which ones they are?
- Comment on The Palestine experience 10 months ago:
Still need to be careful. I once needed redundancy for simple web service for a hobby project. Set up 3 free websites on different hosting providers. Turns out all 3 were owned by the same company, running on the same servers so my service went down anyway.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 10 months ago:
Archive.org may be soon loosing a copyright lawsuit that will put them out of business. Better not rely on one third party for something this important.
- Comment on There it is 10 months ago:
Its been a long time since I finished the story, I mostly played multiplayer