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dbdjfjrjvebd··on Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeals Court Says
Not causing the general public to fear and mistrust the police is even more important.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program
Not quite. I Norway you log in and check the numbers. In UK you do literally nothing at all.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program
In the UK waged and salaried employees need to do nothing.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
Exactly! I was including making test case images and writing tests.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Instagram now forces people to sign in to view public profiles
It takes a couple of hours to write code to handle exif rotations.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on A Phone Company Run by Drug Traffickers
Serious question. Why?
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Tor Browser 9.0
People in countries with oppressive regimes that are not aligned with the US.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on From a life prison sentence to a computer engineering job
BP?
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)
Curious why you pick PHP?

I find Go codebases more likely to be full of ad hoc undocumented stuff than PHP.

I guess it depends what you are used to.

dbdjfjrjvebd··on Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3
Fortran has maintained nearly full backwards compatibility.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show
I don't know much about this but I guess you could check out RISC V
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports
It should not be the responsibility of individual members of the public not be threatened or assaulted by the authorities! Such rapid escalation from friendly to threatening should be a retraining issue.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on After accidental vote, EU copyright bill faces three legitimacy issues
Listening to people that voted for Brexit has shown me that they voted for it for many reasons. This is one of the reasons that people have given me. Furthermore this is a reason that many remainers were not able to push the case for remain strongly enough.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
Article 13 is going to change this...
dbdjfjrjvebd··on China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do
It is generally thought that increasing women's education level is the most effective route to reducing population growth...

This is because educated women choose to have fewer kids later.

Luckily this solution is not only effective but is also very much acceptable in a liberal democracy!

dbdjfjrjvebd··on The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]
What doesn't work about systemd?
dbdjfjrjvebd··on What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
The doesn't account for a systematic failure. It doesn't matter if you have 1000 sensors if they all fail at the same time.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were cast online
The thing is that bank security is at least theoretically possible. Banks and/or governments act as a central sources of trust in such systems and trust for can be derived from this source. I.e. a bank could build the hardware tokens from scratch themselves. With an election the trust model is inverted. I'm not sure there is any practical way to allow the trust sources (every voter) to audit the hardware tokens.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
In many ways no. NB the same can be achieved by disabling the App in settings?

There is the principal of who owns the device... But that is a slightly different topic.

dbdjfjrjvebd··on Show HN: Two Kilo – A curses-based text editor in 2kb of code
But someone else has already tested that code.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
> This works because applications truly aren’t being fully uninstalled from the device, they are just being uninstalled for the current user
dbdjfjrjvebd··on EditorConfig: Consistent coding styles across various editors and IDEs
Or they just leave.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on EditorConfig: Consistent coding styles across various editors and IDEs
Don't you mean that OS is Emacs and the editor is evil... :)
dbdjfjrjvebd··on YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
I've read this a few times and I don't quite follow what you mean...
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Nobody Likes the “Idea Guy”
Why has wanting clean air and water become a left right issue?
dbdjfjrjvebd··on W3schools.dev Redirects to Mozilla Developer Network
I am confused. I expected an editor but the link goes to a promising looking OS? Can anyone recommend a good editor for this Emacs OS? Maybe someone has ported ViM?
dbdjfjrjvebd··on YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
Not sure why this was flag killed. The Covington incident is a good example. A controversial event occurred and everyone from every 'side' was inflammatory and no one maintained civil standards.

EDIT I guess flagging indicates part of the problem. Society is so busy screaming at ourselves that the only thing reasonable people think they can do is check out of controversial topics.

EDIT Would any downvoters care to engage about why they disagree?

dbdjfjrjvebd··on YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
Ironic you would say this on a low toxicity anonymous forum.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Mozilla releases the largest to-date public domain transcribed voice dataset
This isn't quite true if e.g. there are degenerate cases.
dbdjfjrjvebd··on Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
Its a well optimized mature memory resident key-value store that can be used by arbitrary processes and threads which has an api accessible to arbitrary programming languages.
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