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decoyworkeron “My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”

Violating terms or not- it's still a lot of power for Google to hold over a person and there should be some consumer protections for this.

decoyworkeron First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (1856)

Yeah, being left out of the models plays into the conspiracy factor. My father mentioned that climate scientists are shills knowingly leaving out this data.

decoyworkeron “My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”

Is there a way to get your data out if your account is suspended? In the very least there needs to be some recourse and a way for users to export their data if their account is suspended.

decoyworkeron China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide

>legally demanded

Meaning whenever the hell they feel like it. From the outside looking in, one problem seems to be a lack of a legitimate legal framework. Is there truly law in China? In the US at least, companies can throw out illegitimate requests for information. Can you tell the Chinese government, "no" for any reason? Citizens in western Democracies regularly sue their own government and win.

This, "everyone does it" defense is bullshit.

decoyworkeron First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (1856)

My father has been going on about cloud coverage lately. The conspiracy being that they have a cooling effect and invalidate some liberal climate change agenda.

decoyworkeron Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

That's true. The Chinese government could just decide they do not like you and you have no recourse whatsoever. Good point.

decoyworkeron Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

They are seeking new revenue in the Chinese market. To them they see a minuscule boycott in the US as the cost of gaining that market- net positive.

decoyworkeron Apple Removes HKmap.live from the App Store

How many people have died in these huge, violent and destructive protests that have been raging for months?

decoyworkeron Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

All your peers are doing it and improving their social credit scores. Do you want to fall behind your peers?

decoyworkeron For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate

A lot of things are taxed multiple times. I pay income tax, then use that taxed income to purchase a vehicle which carries a sales tax, and for awhile I even paid a tax on the value of that car annually. Same money being taxed multiple times. All recurring property tax can be viewed this way.

Inheritance or gifts should absolutely be taxed as income to the person receiving.

decoyworkeron Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

Look at it this way- they basically are not allowed to say anything else. I pity them but at the same time I hope things improve for them.

decoyworkeron Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

Is China a more profitable market than the US? It's worrying that US companies are willing to go this far for foreign profit.

decoyworkeron Ageing in human cells successfully reversed in the lab (2018)

Don't forget that long starship travels and long timeline scientific endeavors are now a reality.

decoyworkeron For the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower tax rate

The person receiving should count it as income and have it taxed accordingly.

decoyworkeron World's top banks pour $1.9T into fossil fuel financing since 2015

Imagine $1.9T investment into fusion?

decoyworkeron Why some software developers hate Agile

Kanban seems pretty similar to a method I used in college to track tasks, not even software tasks. This leads me to believe that it is intuitive since it more or less naturally made sense to me before ever knowing Kanban was a thing.

Going to look for this or something like it when job searching.

decoyworkeron Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

Apple should allow app sideloading.

decoyworkeron Hong Kong protest safety app banned from iOS store

I'm more free than you- I use whatever the hell that I want. No social movement required.

decoyworkeron Is the era of the $100 graphing calculator coming to an end?

This is a contributing factor as to why I'm still shit at math to this day. I'd just spend all class writing programs in the calculator that did the work for me.

decoyworkeron Will America's debt doom us?

Bill Clinton accomplished that but at some cost. My father still laments the cancellation of the superconducting supercollider that he had the pleasure to work on.

decoyworkeron Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sec-whistleblower-program-has-r...

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2018/12/pent...

These protections are used all the time- it just doesn't always make the news.

>demonstrably taking steps to ensure better oversight.

Like expanding the protections? We see a whistle-blower complaint right now in the news working pretty much as intended, with the whistle-blower's identity being protected.

decoyworkeron My Talk at Microsoft

This is a hypothetical. I realize the improbability.

decoyworkeron Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

Just say that then? He was intentionally misleading or he was lying.

decoyworkeron My Talk at Microsoft

I'm usually the first to shit on Stallman but I really liked his suggestions here.

But hypothetically if Microsoft fully implements all of what RMS suggested would Windows be listed as an approved distro on gnu.org?

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-non-gnu-distros.html

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guideli...

decoyworkeron Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

I have. Being a hero means some risk to yourself does it not? Ultimately if you piss off a government you're going to run the risk of things going poorly for yourself.

All I know is the last place he should have went was to a foreign country. Official channels -> congress -> media, and this is at great risk but this is what Ellsberg did.

With all this said- whistle-blower protections ought to become mandatory training for all DoD contractors, government employees, or anyone who handles classified information.

decoyworkeron Edward Snowden in His Own Words: Why I Became a Whistle-Blower

If that's the case why does he feel the need to lie about it? Why should I believe anything that he says now? I don't like being lied to- not by my government, and not by Mr. Snowden.

If he had noble intentions he took the worst possible route through this minefield.

decoyworkeron iPhone 11 Pro Camera Review

The new iPhone camera looks pretty sweet but the part that I'm starting to disagree with is what they call, "semantic rendering." This is where the camera recognizes different things in the photo and treats them different like sharpening some areas, smoothing others, etc.

To me this this aspect feels like basically an Instagram filter. Are we going for accuracy or how pleasing the photos are? They're definitely more pleasing but not an accurate representation.

decoyworkeron Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

There is a simple way around this- never connect these to your LAN. I don't need the features, I don't need the data collection, and I certainly do not need the extra security footprint.