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Even the police unions are against cops (aside for a small number of specialists) carrying guns.

Fun fact: you can own guns in the UK and recreation is a valid reason. Most people simply don't want to, unlike the odd obsessions Americans seem to have with guns despite the fact that no one has actually stopped any tyranny with rifles over there. Shooting at cops would probably be a pretty bad idea I imagine.

But would they sell to Russia/China which is in opposition to their biggest sponsor - the USA? The answer is obviously: if they can get away with it. Personally it seems more likely to be US but that's just a gut feeling.

Hardly reprehensible. Not a very "professional thing sure, I wouldn't trust a browser made by someone who puts porn in the source but its not like its a moral failing for what seems to be someone's side project

Edit: I see the accusations of containing cp, that's way more concerning and obvious why you didn't link it but you could have just said that.

They are not harmed, it just that billion dollar companies are taking volunteers hard work to get even richer and refusing to contribute back. Now, the guys developing BSD obviously don't mind but many people do care.

Hell, even library type software could be licensed under "weak" copyleft license such as LGPL.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the rust ecosystem trying to move everything from FSF-style free/libre licenses to permissive licenses.

What do you mean a risc-v kernel? One written in RISC v assembly? Because that would be terrible.

Risc-v is the instruction set architecture, rust is a programming language. You can port languages to target ISAs. Linux can already run in riscv. The ISA of the hardware and the language the software it runs are completely different issues.

You are judgy aren't you.

What's wrong with never moving out of your home city?

Your friends moving away is generally not considered a good thing...

Also this is clearly just a snalr post that you're reading too much into, this guy almost certainly has people he talks to online (which is better than in person to you for some reason).

Err, if your friends don't want to chat with you, I don't think there's much you can do. Maybe they're just busy? Or maybe you'd be better off doing other activities with them (multiplayer games etc) if you want to hang out.

See, I actuall disagree, o think it should be a set time, regardless of authors death and inheritable. I think there would be a lot of things not made near the end of the creators life if they didn't think their family would be supported by it. Hence, why I think it should be a fixed length.

Also I think it could he shorter than 20 years, I picked that just because its the length of patents. IMO, if you haven't profited sifficoently off something in say 10 years, then it doesn't really benefit you to hold it for longer. Do you have any reason for 40 years or does it just "feel right", like with my arbitrary choice to have it be parity with patents?

Not the person you relied too, but it should primarily be the manufacturers fault for pushing a dangerous update without adequate testing. However, if say, the new behaviour got in the news and the owner didn't update to the latest, safe update it could be their fault.

How do you feel about the lengths of copyright? Do you feel the current length (life + 70 years) is too much/too little/ just right?

Personally, as much as I hate the concept of copyright, I do still want artists (I include authors etc in this term) to be able to do their work professionally without relying on something like patreon (which primarily predates serialised work like comics) so I would prefer shortening copyright to something more in line with patents, 20 years. How do you, as an author, feel about reform like that?

Everyone is a free speech absolutist until they're the one targeted. Everyone loves cops until it's their rights being violated...

These sorts of arguments can be made in either direction.

Which environmental activists are saying that? That's a pretty specific claim.

heads up, I think Decentraleyes has been superseded by a "LocalCDN", it's more frequently updated and I thing Decentraleyes has bee abandoned by the devs.

I'm hardly contemptuous. If I had a higher opinion of asterisk, I would still assume it's an error as that's exactly what it looks like. Also, do you google the title of every article you read? Why would you say this as if that's something you expect me to do. I'm not american, Hacker News is full of us, why would you assume that a specific sentence with a grammatical error is "well known".

You don't outright call me acting in bad faith, but you sure imply it. I am not embarrased at all, though I am grateful for the other commenter explaining the very nation-specific joke.

edit: I checked the video, it's thirteen years old! I wouldn't even expect an american to remember that.

except in this case, the attackers figured it out ages ago and everyone else was left in the dark.

The issue with obscurity is that attackers inherintly have a far higher incentive to try and understand obfuscated, undocumented messes than security researchers.

reception is a play on words, in an actual wedding it would mean the that the attendees had a good reaction. In the sense that the newly weds are satellites, the reception can also refer to radio signal reception.

Did you know that the Five Eyes alliance (which the US is apart of), has been noted to spy on foreigners and pass the data to their governments to bypass laws around spying on their own citizens? These things cut both ways, foucault's boomerang and all that.

Also, why do you think it's ok to spy on people without oversight just because they are foreign? Everyone is deserving of privacy. If there is legitimate reason to spy, then obtain a warrant.

Often when I see people advocating for small government, they mostly mean cutting things that they don't use. It's always about cutting welfare, or ending this or that subsidy. Why does (in my country at least) it seem that the "small government" types are the ones that want to criminalise protest, destroy privacy and encryption and make us scan our faces to watch porn (whatever you feel about the subject, can we atleast agree that that is a step to far?). Heck our "small governments" types are trying to get the face of everyone with driver's license in a police database.

"Do you agree with me or are you a fascist?" Come on, you're being unfair. "strong government" can mean many things, strong regulation in the e.g. gambling industry is something a strong goverment does but that doesn't mean it's fascist. Also, the idea that a weak government is the only kind that has checks and balances is just silly. Not to mention there are plenty of leftists that very much want a weak government, not just conservatives. E.g. libertarian socialism, left-wing anarchists, the strong tradition of syndicalist in the US.

Also, you must live a charmed life if you have access to the internet and believe that the US government is the worst example of competency.

Saying it's the "elites" who care is a thought terminating cliche designed to make you not think about how the rest of us (Commoners?) feel. Are the small hobbyist artists the elite? The programmers angry about the use of their GPL'd code?

Perhaps a better question is, why are the elites so obssessed with promoting AI?

Oh look there's more! The vague gesturing towards our crumbling NHS (accurate statement) as if that somehow means we can't talk about AI as well. And then it goes on the describe what is essentially the "paperclip maker" thought experiment in the most ridiculous way so you don't think about it.

I stopped reading there, this could hardly be called journalism. Guess reader funding doesn't stop bias, just shifts it.

I'm not sure I can trust a magazine that has a grammatical error in title of an article on the front page.* Now this doesn't say anything about the quality of the article itself (who doesn't make silly mistakes) but it does speak to a lack of editorial oversight. These sorts of basic mistakes do not inspire confidence.

*bottom article on the front page: "Rarely is the Question Asked: Is Our Children Learning?" should be "are our children learning".

ps what is the article that convinced you to go vegatarian, sounds interesting

Don't forget the anti-asian racism implicit to the belief that soy, a food eaten widely in asia, makes you weak and feminine (whatever that means). The backlash to soy is inextricably tied to old stereotypes of asians as weak and docile.