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evilsetg··on Religious Discrimination at Google
While this is probably to early, the question of AI rights is one we have to answer in the foreseeable future. I hope we as humanity will do it right and I am a little scared this dismissive attitude will carry over.
evilsetg··on Apple’s Private Relay can cause the system to ignore firewall rules
You can. Today I learned how. You just have to press Shift+F10 to access the console when it asks you to connect to a network and then enter 'OOBE\BYPASSNRO'. That is all. To skip the security questions set no password initially and then set it later using ctrl+alt+del.
evilsetg··on Pens and Tablets for Linux
Have you looked into the digimend project (digimend.github.io)? They have drivers for a bunch of non-wacom tablets (including Huion) and provide tools and to make it easier to write new ones.
evilsetg··on Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed
The Fritter app has this capability, if I remember correctly.
evilsetg··on Pope Francis says Ukraine conflict is not a 'military operation but a war'
It may not have felt like war for people in the US but for people in Iraq it certainly did.
evilsetg··on Things that used to be hard and are now easy
How is that? There are still plenty of devices with USB A/Headphone jack available. Apple devices are far from the "whole market".
evilsetg··on Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
Where else would you get the update from?
evilsetg··on Rust Audio Development Forum
Discord, as any free propreitary online service is fundamentally unaccountable. Their user support is non existent. They disabled my account without a concrete reason given and now will not answer my requests to tell me why they disabled it. I beg any community not to use Discord for it does not respect it's users. Please do not subject other people to that.
evilsetg··on Germany fines YouTube for removing video of anti-lockdown protest
YouTube is free to pack up shop and stop servicing Germany if they do not like it's Terms and Conditions.
evilsetg··on Must-read psychology books
If the probabilities are reproducible it is still science I would say. Take quantum mechanics for example. It can not predict what exactly is going to happen, only how likely each outcome would be.
evilsetg··on Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S. proposal
A corporate country. Is that a dictatorship of the shareholders?
evilsetg··on Prosperity comes at 'devastating' cost to nature
Why do you think contraction "just cannot work"? I think nobody really believes technology will not be part of the solution. Rather the question is if just technology will be able to solve the problem.

edit: added question mark

evilsetg··on Prosperity comes at 'devastating' cost to nature
There is some problem in competitive systems that somebody will have an advantage over you once you tax these externalities. For this to work you would need the world (or a big enough part of it) to cooperate on this issue.
evilsetg··on Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
I would say this is true for any dictatorship or even some authoritarian regimes. How is it related specifically to communism? Full disclosure: I am a communist.
evilsetg··on Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab
I think this is what unions are for. Powerless alone but strong together.
evilsetg··on Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?
That is what you have the bio something PhD for :-)
evilsetg··on Signal is having technical difficulties
Virtuos does not mean effective. I am of the opinion that we should have a democratic government that is able to spend some of their citizens money on projects deemed worthwile.

This is how public schools are funded in my country and I like that we fund them like this instead of private schools with fees that would exclude some families. This model of funding works for a lot of public infrastructure and I doubt individual donations would make up for that. I think it is critical for this public funding to be under democratic control. Otherwise it is definitely unjust. In the end I think public funding / taxes is a way to bypass the tragedy of the commons (not sure if that is the right term here).

evilsetg··on John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)
What is bad about exceptions?
evilsetg··on Is This the End of the Repairable iPhone?
I bought a Huawei and while I am overall happy about the phone I am sad that the bootloader is locked. They used to hand out unlock codes but not anymore. It feels like I do not really own the phone now. I am completely at Huaweis mercy in regards to updates. I will not buy a phone with a locked bootloader again.
evilsetg··on Industrial Literacy
I would like that we have an Industry Wiki were for industrial processes the basic structure, context and specific implementations are described. If we had a collaborative economy this would be so cool!
evilsetg··on I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (2018)
Every time I read "We value your privacy" I want to throw something at my computer screen. The amount of dark patterns and dishonesty in targeted advertising is astonishing.
evilsetg··on World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam
I think it is a worthwhile thought to be had that if you earn more than 99% of the people on this planet and spend that money you take an overproportional part of the global climate pie. While such individuals may feel or be entitled to their overproportional wealth the question is why this wealth itself gives them the right to overconsume on our climate.

I can see no moral reason that ones monetary capability to damage the climate more than others should give the right to do so.

It is time to price in the damage that is done by consumption and emission of greenhouse gases. This won't recover the wealth (in form of consumtion rights on the climate) that was stolen by the rich from the poor, but will at least restrict such from happening in the future.

It is true that critisizing the individual consumption of the wealthy will not change anything. We need regulations. However I think particulary the 1% have responsibility to lobby for this as they have the greatest amount of power as well as the greatest responsibility in terms of damage done to our world per person.

evilsetg··on Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)
There is an alternative. Consumers (or government) in the UK could demand more ecologically produced goods to lower their emissions. Of course that would be more expensive but no involvement in policy of other nations is required for that.

To take moral responsibility for the effects of ones own consumption on the rest of the world seems just to me.

This is not to diminish the efforts the UK has undergone to transform their energy sector.

evilsetg··on Rocket Helicopter (2010)
A friend just showed me this beast, also using tip jets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWNq0LSnHLo
evilsetg··on How to not fear your death: An Epicurean perspective
The thought that some day I will cease to exist used to terrify me. It still does, but it has lost some of its sharpness since I decided to work against my fear of dying.

The fear of death was seriously bothering me and I thought: " You can either try to achieve immortality or try to loose your fear of death within your lifetime."

The second one is a solvable problem, the first one, for me personally, not. It gives a strange comfort that one day I might be free of the fear of death even if I know that still I will die.

evilsetg··on Oatly: The New Coke?
I meant water and soybeans for the soymilk :)
evilsetg··on Oatly: The New Coke?
About making soymilk: I do like the idea of making the soymilk I consume myself. I have not yet though found a way to utilize the okara (soy pulp) that is produced in the process. Do you have any tips what to do with it?
evilsetg··on Oatly: The New Coke?
I have similar feelings. The organic soymilk I buy has two ingredients: water and sugar. Reading the ingredient list on oat milks always makes me a bit uneasy in comparison. I do sometimes buy oat milk though since it does go better with tea.
evilsetg··on Small mail server best current practices
Thank you! I recently managed to get a static IP and was looking forward to set my own mail server to be independent of the big providers. Now I have been searching for something exactly like this, a recent, concise overview of the hoops I have to jump through to be allowed to send to the big guys.
evilsetg··on Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database
I grew up with evangelical christian teaching (one of the 2 big christian Churches in northern Germany) and as far as I understood in their version nobody goes to hell.
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