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Love these first generation immigrants shitting on my country.

Maybe we need a new rule - can’t vote or own property unless you’re a natural born citizen?

She’s doing everybody a favor, in truth. Journalisms been dead for decades and Big Tech needs to punish all of us until we abandon it.

Get the hell out, a SILICON chip? Are we sure it’s not a potato chip?

Also curious, I though ARM chips were essentially spec’d by ARM Holdings and you merely bought a license.

One begins to suspect that Amazon partners with Chinese rip-off firms.

I don't like this, everything is moving to GitHub which has already done some questionable things. I don't care for Microsoft and I don't believe them when they claim they "heart" Linux.

Why do people still put things on services which follow takedown requests? It's kind of silly to rely on these gigantic oppressive corporations to get your message out when we have, say Bittorrent over i2p which is practically censorship proof.

There is a technical barrier to freedom these days. And if you can't overcome it, the societal equivalent to the laws of physics mean that you don't DESERVE freedom.

That something could easily get them killed.

This has already been discussed to death. If sites wish to become editors of content, they become publishers and lose their Section 230.

The issue is that the tractor senses if you try to repair it yourself. There’s a trap mechanism which will punish you if you’re audacious enough to try to fix your machine.

Normal people have no issues creating user handles on Reddit and Discord and Twitter. Again, the only reason to require a phone number is because Rosenfeld wants it.

Section 230 is outdated and needs to be removed lest political censors and social advocacy busybodies continue to abuse people online. There’s no more room for excuses. It’s obsolete.

It’s bad when China does it to Uighurs. But this same technology can save us from Trumpers. It was interesting to see how gleefully facial recognition tech was cheered when the Capitol riot happened. The secret is to properly label the dissident groups as terrorists.

Boycott the company, buy from another manufacturer, lobby the Iowa government to stop these abusive practices. Or just sit back, bend over, pull down your pants, and take it while wearing the branded cap of the company which is abusing you?

Really it’s all about choice now isn’t it?

John Deere is an abusive company which despises its customers, and these customers reward them by gleefully buying that new million dollar harvester and doffing branded caps at every occasion. It’s extremely difficult to pity the farmer in this case. They are planning soon to change all their dimensions to conform with metric farming practices and spacing, which will entail having to re-buy all new stuff again. Oops maybe I shouldn’t have said that last part out loud, it might still be a secret...

Seems like using a phone number as an account identifier is a huge risk to privacy. Has Rosenfeld admitted this? It’s just weird to require a phone number unless you’re talking about some big tech botnet like Facebook or Google.

Why is Signal positioning itself as a solution when Rosenfeld admits it’s not ready?

Why does it need your phone number? Seems pretty weird for a “secure” program. And why does it use AWS? Isn’t that subject to all kinds of privacy risks including National Security Letters?

Why isn’t Signal just a Free and open source, infrastructure-less p2p solution? Maybe the goal isn’t really security or privacy after all...

Once there’s an ISO standard, Rust and Go and other nulangs might be worth looking at.

New trick to get people to upload an image of themselves?

I've already moved the whole office. Even have the one proprietary program that we need, Mathematica, running in Linux VMs on OpenBSD and displaying without a hitch thanks to x.org.

I’m doing this right now. Linux has gotten too large, bloated, corporate. It no longer feels like a community project and there are quite a few recent move that make me question whether or not it will be viable down the line.

It has emacs and a modern browser and a compiler, what else do you need?

Frozen APIs are a blessing, not a curse. The only way forward is to constrain developers to a well-known standard set of tools and interfaces. We've seen what happens when they just get turned loose.

I know it's maybe not a very sophisticated position to take in the current year, but I will not eat the fake meat, I will not eat the bugs, I will not live in a pod, I will not own nothing.

So you're saying this tape claim will end up being some new form of CD?

I guess I'm just going to have to see it in a store to believe it.

Remember 3D holographic data cubes? I was promised, in the mid-1990s, that we'd have them by 2000 and that they would have "up to" 100 times the storage capacity of a DVD.

Are you trying to gaslight me? What happened in the last year? What's the money supply look like?

While personal anecdotes are fun, the numbers tell a different story.

Trump's ban on the export to China of certain materials and substances necessary for the manufacture of semiconductors is still in effect. Maybe China is prioritizing their use for military projects? Perhaps they have also sourced them from other foundries which had them on hand, using their substantial influence?