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drsnow··on Meta Ignores Brazilian Court Order to End Bolsonaro Favoritism
Holy shit.

Gender is factually, as evidenced via a multitude of highly respected scientific studies conducted by a vast majority of respected experts both medical and psychological, distinct in every way from biological sex.

There is genuinely no room for opinion, disagreement, or dispute on that subject, at all. To disagree is to be, objectively, incorrect.

I can see where you are coming from in a purely politically motivated sense, yes. But the medical and psychological facts do not actually care about politics, and transgender individuals exist regardless of your belief in them.

drsnow··on How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?
You cannot possibly be serious. JS is one of the foremost ways of fingerprinting and identifying users that exists, if not THE foremost way.

And considering this site is "HACKER news", I'd wager that thought process is not at all rare or unexpected.

Additionally the content of this linked URL could easily and fully be conveyed in pure HTML with no need for JS.

drsnow··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
Humans most certainly did not evolve to be religious. We evolved to look for and, if necessary (to our minds), invent meanings behind things which sometimes have truly no meaning at all, i.e. the existence of existence itself. We also evolved to be fearful of the unknown, e.g. the experience of death and afterward. It seems quite simple to see how those two things resulted in our eventual invention of religion, but we did not simply evolve to be religious per se.
drsnow··on I tried Servo
Firefox users also tend to disable telemetry and any kind of phoning home whatsoever.
drsnow··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
Genuinely: why? All that is related to the business email is already accessible, it's just been forwarded elsewhere. The info is already known. What's to discover?
drsnow··on What Visa earnings tell us about the state of the payments industry
Literally every payment is used for illegal crap. I fail to see the relevance of that point.
drsnow··on Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
In what ways? I'm curious as I have been under the impression it's no longer much of a difference in the way it used to be.
drsnow··on FAA investigating how counterfeit titanium got into Boeing and Airbus jets
I'd imagine by insourcing.
drsnow··on Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI
Exactly how is cryptocurrency merely a "money laundering scheme"?
drsnow··on Building end-to-end security for Messenger
No company is obligated to do anything. Such lack of obligation is not sufficient reason to praise companies that do the bare minimum to keep user data safe. Sure they aren't obligated but how on earth does that matter?
drsnow··on It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian
What is your email sir
drsnow··on Psytrance Guide
Bro what the fuck does literally any of that shit mean lol
drsnow··on Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
Private trackers are the solution to this problem
drsnow··on Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web
This is simply a false dichotomy and that you don't realize such is damning
drsnow··on Human embryo models grown from stem cells
If metaphysics were real, it'd just be called physics.
drsnow··on Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
This is the way the world works now and anyone who disputes the justification of it just gets neatly added to the pile of "complaints" burned by elites for warmth.
drsnow··on Privatisation has been a costly failure in Britain
Animals have the instinct to shit in front of you and not feel the slightest discomfort doing so too. Should we all start shitting in front of each other to more closely align our behavior to animal instincts?
drsnow··on Easy HTTPS for your private networks
Are you being facetious or do you actually believe this?
drsnow··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
You will find, in time, that nobody has an actual answer to this. It's purely nerd-lust for not doing things the simple way
drsnow··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
There is no sane person on earth doing this kind of thing to save money. That's entirely missing the point
drsnow··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
Do you ever get the feeling you're just inventing asinine problems for yourself to waste time solving?
drsnow··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
I don't understand how or why this defeatist, nihilistic attitude is growing in popularity. Do people just lack the self awareness to realize their inaction is tantamount to malice?
drsnow··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
Can't you set your client to sync a specific folder and simply relocate the things you want synced to said folder?
drsnow··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021)
>(as part of the meal, not as an assistant)

Did that really need to be said?

drsnow··on Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore
Literally everything "affects the brain"
drsnow··on Why gravity is not like the other forces
Right, so those kinds of energy also induce spacetime curvature and are included in what I was saying
drsnow··on Why gravity is not like the other forces
A measure of a particle's energy as pertains to the spacetime curvature it induces
drsnow··on It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry
You can't be serious. As if going line by line would make it any clearer why the software is doing what it's doing when it's obfuscated with so many neurons and layers that there's no way to grasp the entirety of the system through code alone.
drsnow··on Coinbase secures Bermuda licence
Is that not the case?
drsnow··on The U.S. cracked a $3.4B crypto heist and Bitcoin’s anonymity
How are you/authorities defining hiding? Is it hiding if he wasn't trying to evade anything and LE were just too slow in identifying him?
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