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Zooper··on Campaign to Buy Browsing Histories of Politicians Who Passed Anti-Privacy Law
Instead of an editorial techdirt article, do you have the law's text where the behavior is expressly forbidden? One of these things matters, the other has no bearing on reality.
Zooper··on System76 Galago Pro [video]
Exact same set of problems on mine here; Space key feels like it's giving out now too, and this is with the replacement keyboard.
Zooper··on Ask HN: Am I being exploited?
Yes. Don't comply with any exploitation ever. They're exercising unstated leverage over you because you're a student at their university.
Zooper··on Ask HN: Am I being exploited?
What you're describing isn't merely exploitation; it's illegal in the US because it is.
Zooper··on The broken promise of Web Components
Are HTML imports not saved by widespread http2 adoption, where the imported pages are pushed to the client upon initial page request? No reason to throw it out completely.
Zooper··on Facebook Ordered to Pay $500M in Oculus Lawsuit
I love how it's assumed, taken as axiom, instead of absurdity, that it's even possible for a company to own a individual's time and mind by contract.
Zooper··on New York Times Study Calls for Rapid Change in Newsroom
It's just the one party, is it?
Zooper··on Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
Yes, and he's also responsible for jeopardizing it for many, many years; this is not enough.
Zooper··on Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
Rather than being an example of Godwin's law, though, this is a historically analogous comparison of US war crimes justifications in Iraq to the Nuremberg defense and doesn't suggest impending ethnic genocide where there is none.
Zooper··on It’s time to get rid of the Facebook “news feed,” because it’s not news
What about the news feeds that aren't news feeds that tell us to get rid of the news feeds the aren't news like Huffington Post (a blog, no matter what css it has) or arstechnica?
Zooper··on ESPN Loses 621,000 Subscribers; Worst Month in Company History
It's exactly this response to it that is making people cringe: the solipsistic, indignant, glib moral certitude of politically useful peoples, whom would rather believe that their fellow man is riddled with bigotry than attempt to see their own faults, a product of propaganda programs enacted by political organizations on the penumbra government, skirting laws meant to protect the citizenry from such practices.

The so called alt-right is a label thrown at many who used to consider themselves far-left, but didn't make the ideological shift to villainization of their fellow man. I call our new group the revolutionary-center.

Zooper··on What I Learned from a Stroke at 26: Make Time to Untangle
I went through this; I took an entire year and change off. After a prolonged period of relationship and work stress, I simply had to step away. Any time I tried to do any sort of work, I'd seize, freeze-up, and become filled with an overwhelming sense of dread and hatred. So I did nothing for a very long time. Then, when I tried again, it was as you describe. I eventually got another job, one I enjoy, as money became a problem, and it took a few weeks, but eventually got into the swing of things again. I still struggle sometimes, but I take frequent single days off, and if I find myself dreading again or worrying about my performance, I remind myself that I can simply quit; it's a job, money doesn't have a strong causal relationship with happiness, and my needs are basic. The same goes for relationships. Unless either are giving you what you're putting in, quit. If you can't quit now, plan the exit. My goal now is to not get to where I was.
Zooper··on 77% of Ad Blocking Users Feel Guilty about Blocking Ads
I don't, but how do I block ads like this disguised as articles?
Zooper··on Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
Thank you, user, for making your fingerprint hash more unique by disabling certain default features, given your user-agent string, thus opting into cat-facts.
Zooper··on The Fight for the Future of NPR
There's another term for public media: state media.
Zooper··on It Is Time for Passwordless Login (2015)
PGP Keyring as part of native Web Storage or bust.
Zooper··on Ad Tech Is the Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Advertising
Subset of JS permitted in a policy-declared Iframe, similar to CSP, limited to merely fixed rendering, no networking whatsoever, save the initial script exec. Ads go in here, or browser blocks them by default, as a spam-like prevention measure.
Zooper··on Blackberry CEO says Apple has gone to a “dark place” with pro-privacy stance
What's a blackberry again?
Zooper··on NSA to shut down bulk phone surveillance program by Sunday
The crux of this argument and the propaganda the current administration lawyers have been shilling centers around whether these searches (ie, mass collection of US citizen data) are unreasonable. I reject your argument that searches are reasonable because the internet infrastructure is currently fundamentally flawed; as already concluded in Katz v. United States, an unlawful search occurs when a "reasonable expectation of privacy" is violated. Given your own argument, any and all attempts by end users to obtain privacy, via https or otherwise, constitute an individual reasonably expecting privacy and therefore any information gathered is done so illegally.
Zooper··on Iron law of oligarchy
Agreed, we can begin by wholly replacing the House, electing minimally compensated emergency representatives in the event of infrastructure failure. Legislation may be voted upon and edited word-for-word, tracked by a git-like interface, each edit vetted and voted upon by the whole country.
Zooper··on Replace suicide as a verb – Issue #3721 – Node.js/node
Semantics: snark provides no value, where satire illuminates it. The above is satire.
Zooper··on Smart watches are dumb
This is how you fix smart watches: cup your hand and place it over your ear. Can you hear your friend's voice in your cupped hand as concentrated sound hits it from the smart watch's strap? Can you reply to a mic in the wrist strap? Did a call pick up when you made that gesture? No? Then you haven't made it simpler than pulling out a phone.
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