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Legally its different because sexuality is protected so you may not discriminate based on it. How that list is chosen is somewhat arbitrary however.

The coal mines in Australia are totally unnecessary. Australia is one of the best countries in the world for the ability to be powered on renewable energy. Which is now cheaper than coal. Literally the only purpose for coal in Australia is political reasons now.

Yes I know coal is used for the production of other materials but there is more than enough coal currently being mined for steel. We just need to stop senselessly burning it when there is limitless energy raining down on empty desert.

Thats a really good counter point and I can't think of any way the situations are different other than my morals saying working for pornhub is ok but trashing the planet is not. Of course thats totally subjective and someone could be of the opinion that working for pornhub is not ok.

So the general rule is that if the companies holds some kind of user lock in they now must accept all legal users. Since a hosting company has no such lock in and moving to another one lets you reach exactly the same audience then they are safe.

Exactly. I have been hearing about this stuff for ages. Oil companies optimized raping the land decades ago.

I don't think its so much that they fall for it but that people create fake images that confirm what people already believe and the viewers deeply want the image to be true and will not think critically.

Verifying an image is not impossible. You just have to consider:

* Who took the image

* Do they have any reasons for wanting to fake it?

* Was anyone else able to verify they saw or took a photo of the same thing

* Is anyone in disagreement with the content of the image

We don't need image manipulation to fool people on facebook. Recently a random image of a park full of rubbish was used with the caption that this was the result of a recent environmental protest but the image was actually months old from a totally unrelated event. People believed and shared it because they wanted to. You could just as easily write a text post saying you saw a bunch of rubbish after the event and you would have almost the same effect.

The message is "Just about anyone could replicate your voice, its value in authentication is about as trustworthy as writing your name at the bottom of a letter"

That would solve the problem of having to find a word that you would never normally use but could slip in to a sentence normally.

Browsers ask permission first. Also I don't see how having to install an app is any better other than being better for devs to track you.

USB A was very easy to ruin as well. It might look strong but usually its just held on with a couple of solder joints which I found very prone to bend enough to break the device if it ever got an up/down force on it.

So this lets you grab the key on your own device which is used to encrypt the storage but not the OEM key used to sign the firmware image?

Does this allow users to install custom OSs on devices with verified boot chains like game consoles and phones?

Microsoft embedded an ID in one of the animations on the xbox 360 dashboard which could identify the person who leaked video of a beta game.

>due to physics

Due to Apples planned obsolescence making it an absolute nightmare to replace a consumable part because its lifespan lines up nicely with how often they would like you to buy a new device.

Imo it is absolutely critical that a new law be introduced that batteries on consumer hardware must be user replaceable if we want to have any hope in protecting the planet. It would not be hard at all for phones to have user replaceable batteries. Most android phones did for a long time and most laptops just had switches on the bottom to eject the battery.

I have been hearing people talk about google results becoming useless regularly but it never made sense to me until you mentioned the part about adding wiki and reddit to terms which I do all the time to get real information and not paid blog articles by people who just read the box of the product they are reviewing.

Apparently it doesn't work well if it takes users multiple seconds to open an app. I have heard many complaints about iphones becoming unusablely slow after a few updates which is unacceptable since much older phones were able to run much more responsively.

I said disabled by default. Make new but slow features an option. Most people would rather a working phone that isn't super slow over having the latest feature but if they still want it they can turn it on. Its total insanity that apple phones only last a few years before they are too slow.

Updates should not degrade the usability of a device. If a device is too slow to run new features then they should be disabled by default. Apple has an obvious incentive to make people disatisfied with their older devices and want to buy the new one so it is fast again.

At that point you may as well ban all user generated content since one user might have an insecure OS

Its incredible how badly apple slows down phones via updates. There is no way it would have been that slow at release. I recently watched a video of someone using the original iphone and everything was super snappy. The camera took hardly any time to open.

Don't joke. I have had security people report my stuff is insecure because there is a document upload feature and a user could upload a virus and name it virus.png and then a user could download it and rename it to virus.exe and run it.

I wonder if it would be possible to cut everyone working hours and just hire more people. Its possibly less efficient to have 2 people working on what would be 1 persons task but it would hopefully make things more equal for everyone.

NC headphones will though.

> same level of seriousness as combating other types of pollution.

So not very seriously at all?

I think the reason its so hard is when we ask something we are missing out huge bits of information about exactly what we want. Another human knows from experience and context what the person actually wants. When I say I want a webstore for selling keyboards A web dev already has a pretty good idea what I want because they know what a web store does and how it functions and they know how keyboards work so they will know to add search filters for things like switch types even though none of this information was in the original request.

Explaining exactly what we want and covering all of the edge cases is just as hard as using a regular programming language. Until we can have full back and conversation with computers that have a deep understanding of what people want from a program and can ask the user questions like "But what should happen when x happens?".

>gaming and high performance graphics

>Apple >Nintendo

What? Nintendo and apple do not provide high performance graphics for gaming. Apple actively tries to kill gaming on their platform by not supporting vulkan and killing open gl and nintendo has never had high performance graphics.

What difference does it make really. Running a program on linux as a regular user can access all of your files, record your screen, keylog you, grab your passwords from your browser, do basically anything. Run it with sudo and what more can it do? Mess up your grub config? If a malicious program was run as a regular user it could basically ruin everything you care about unless you happen to be sharing a computer with multiple people but even then it could just wait until you run something with sudo and keylog your password.

I recently had an experience getting software translated to Japanese. Just to test things while the translators were working I ran the all the yml files through google translate and then when we got the proper translations back I had a look at some of the things that changed that I would not expect to.

One interesting one is we had translations for status indicators (Red, Amber, Green) The real translator had translated these to the Japanese versions of Red, Yellow and Green but google translated had picked the word for "fossilized resin" rather than the color.

Since google translate is not using any context it has no way to know if I meant the color or the material.

I'll share my anecdote from attending a private catholic school. From the reasons I have heard from my parents and others is that the catholic private schools tend to be higher quality than the public schools without being outrageously expensive like the non religious private schools.

I don't remember seeing any student at the school who was actually religious, they were all there for the perceived better education. The only part that I saw was lacking was sexual education was non existent outside of one lecture about the different kinds of stds and how there is no way to prevent getting them other than to not have sex. The science education was still up to scratch however.

Its not needed since most linux software is open source and gets packaged properly for each distro.