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Comment · 11 months ago
This is too short and the justification provided is flimsy at best.

I predict that normal people will began to get comfortable with ignoring SSL errors, even more than they already are. Perhaps we will see the proliferation of https-stripping proxies too.

Comment · 1 year ago
> We know exactly how to do these things digitally. Many European countries have had stored-value payment schemes in the 90s. Japan still does today.

But how do they prevent people double spending the same amount? Say someone has 100$ and boards on a plane. During the trip, this person buys a bag of potato chips sold for 90$. At the same time, his bank account is automatically charged 90$ for a bill.

With credit cards, handling this case is baked into the system. As far as I am aware, direct debt has no equivalent.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'll just repost what I posted in the last thread:

> There is no on-device scanning without compromising privacy. Scanning that can detect child abuse can also detect human rights activists, investigative journalists, and so on. I imagine this technology can be easily used by the government to identify journalists by scanning for material related to their investigation.

> On-device scanning is a fabrication that Apple foolishly introduced to the mainstream, and one that rabid politicians bit into and refuse to let go.

And I'll add this: Citizens lose of their right to privacy is the death of their democracy.

Comment · 1 year ago
Don't modern screenshot apps allow for selecting text? just take a video and select away.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ha! We've become the robots!
Comment · 1 year ago
This is my plan as well. If we loose the ability to run GrapheneOS, I'll get an iphone and treat it as a locked down home router, and use a linux phone with open source apps for my calls/messaging.

I will also do everything in my power to halt support for Android in favor of web apps. No sense duplicating work for two separate platforms if one is just a crappy clone of another.

Comment · 1 year ago
One look at the victims (or their mangled remains) immediately discounts all three.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is the right answer. I'm willing to stick my head out and assert that languages with a "minimal" standard library are defective by design. The argument of APIs being stuck is mood with approaches like Rust's epocs or "strict mode".

Standard libraries should include everything needed to interact with modern systems. This means HTTP parsing, HTTP requests, and JSON parsing. Some laguages are excellent (like python), while some are half way there (like go), and some are just broken (Rust).

External libraries are for niche or specialized functionality. External libraries are not for functionality that is used by most modern software. To put your head in the ground and insist otherwise is madness and will lead to ridiculous outcomes like this.

Comment · 1 year ago
There is no on-device scanning without compromising privacy. Scanning that can detect child abuse can also detect human rights activists, investigative journalists, and so on. I imagine this technology can be easily used by the government to identify journalists by scanning for material related to their investigation.

On-device scanning is a fabrication that Apple foolishly introduced to the mainstream, and one that rabid politicians bit into and refuse to let go.

Comment · 1 year ago
Are all UN nations bound to this declaration or at least those joining after 1948?
Comment · 1 year ago
What was allowed to happen in Palestine has set a new standard for the value of human life and morals. It was not only set for the Palestinians but also for the other side and everyone else.

Perhaps this is no consolation to the victims, but the pendulum will continue to swing both ways as it always has. These monsters and their offspring will reap what they sowed. Humanity too will reap this reward.

Comment · 1 year ago
OP, I recommend switching to the LGPLv3. It ensures users remain in control over your part of the code while avoiding this type of reaction.
Comment · 1 year ago
Still better than OpenAI HR.
Comment · 1 year ago
I hope AI never gets legislated where you live, and if it does, I hope other countries don't and absolutely pulverize your country and any chance of these nonsensical reactionary laws taking hold elsewhere.

The solution to some people being susceptible to influence is not to cover the entire world with styrofoam. Mind you, I too stared suicide in the eyes and unlike you, I was not lucky enough to escape unscathed. That said, I will never propose something as unhinged as this.

Comment · 1 year ago
lmarena did the same thing and saw its usage take a nosedive. I wonder if the same thing will happen here.

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