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Feel free to correct me for grammar/spelling/factual/phrasing mistakes, even trivial ones. Thank you.
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hyproxia··on M1 Pro 14“ MacBook Pro Running KDE Plasma 5 on Arch Linux ARM
No, I only care about _my_ freedom to use the hardware however I want, not Apple's or anyone else's freedom. However, if people keep not giving a shit, my freedom will be more and more limited.

You're trying too hard.

hyproxia··on What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
Or, y'know, just put it in airplane mode or unplug the SIM card
hyproxia··on Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions
A more reasonable take would be to find ways to reduce its costs.

Surely killing someone can be way cheaper than sustaining them for life.

hyproxia··on Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions
> it would be cheaper to just shoot

Ah, no, that's not how this works.

hyproxia··on Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions
So you think that locking up people for the rest of their lives is less barbaric?
hyproxia··on Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel
I assume they mean Arabs and others
hyproxia··on Firefox Add-On Policy Changes 2021
Finally, a based move from Mozilla.
hyproxia··on I don't know how to browse the internet anymore
> I have nine different browsers installed on this machine

Why?

hyproxia··on LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
Money.
hyproxia··on My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent
What happened afterwards?
hyproxia··on Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector
How old are you? Is it too late for you to live up to your potential?
hyproxia··on Firefox on Unix is moving away from X11-based remote control
Most people who criticise X like you have no idea what they're talking about. The parallels you're drawing are childish and indicate an extremely shallow understanding of the issues at hand.
hyproxia··on The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board
>Keeping it tightly controlled like that also makes it harder to crack

Can you elaborate?

hyproxia··on The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board
>Want/need to use DRM? You won't receive a response from Google/widevine

Thanks Google!

hyproxia··on EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board
>OSI

If you honestly think that the OSI were ever the "good guys", then do I have the news for you...

hyproxia··on Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap
I know, I've read the rules. Still, I thought that this is an interesting exception since it's directly related to the content at hand.
hyproxia··on Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/au...
hyproxia··on Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap
>for free

No, the site owner is usually gaining money from his users (through ads, tracking, etc). This is an incredibly dishonest statement.

hyproxia··on Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap
Thank you for posting it, I wish that this becomes a trend on HN (and other forums).
hyproxia··on Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap
Here's another way of looking at it: Does this page really need to execute code on its users' machines? Why is this such an acceptable thing in the first place?
hyproxia··on Being spied on by the makers of Pegasus, then lured them into a trap
Yay, another page that doesn't render at all without JS.

And then we sit and wonder how NSO Group is able to compromise all these machines with ease, and yes, they had/have browser exploits.

hyproxia··on OK Lenovo, we need to talk
They still don't sell parts.
hyproxia··on RSS is wonderful
>immoral

[citation needed]

hyproxia··on Going to Work for the Tor Project
Off-topic, but can someone tell me if this comment is phrased properly? I suspect that using "with" twice in the sentence is a little bit wrong, but I don't know how to correct it.
hyproxia··on Going to Work for the Tor Project
Thank you Moodles, for writing a reasonable comment amidst a torrent of unreasonable ones.
hyproxia··on Going to Work for the Tor Project
>The "rewrite in some corporate meme language" would address this issue.

No it won't, the issues with v2 are with its design, not its implementation.

hyproxia··on Going to Work for the Tor Project
The difference is that criminals that use VPNs/Proxies can be easily caught, unlike Tor users.
hyproxia··on Going to Work for the Tor Project
VPNs/Proxies do this job just fine though, without the additional latency/bandwidth penalty of Tor.
hyproxia··on Going to Work for the Tor Project
Not a good analogy. Most usage of Tor is either unnecessarily paranoid people, criminal enterprises, and state agencies. In fact, so far the leaks (Snowden, Wikileaks, etc) are the only cases I've heard of where Tor usage legitimately helped.

Can you say the same thing about electricity?

Again, I'm not saying that Tor should be shut down, it's just unsettling to work on something that the majority of its usage is "bad".

hyproxia··on Going to Work for the Tor Project
I wonder how the author will live with himself knowing that he's directly facilitating all the horrible things that go on Tor. I know that I can't do that, so kudos to him.
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