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grnmamba··on Collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week
Yep it's the people's own fault that they died while waiting in the emergency room. The politicians are sacrosanct and must not be criticized under any circumstances. So, you see, all these excess deaths are really suicides.
grnmamba··on Microsoft is putting more ads in Outlook on iOS and Android
I already uninstalled Outlook on Android because it added an unremovable "Search with Bing" option to the browser context menu. At least the web version will be subject to adblockers now.
grnmamba··on UK inflation forecast to hit 18.6% next year, energy bills may rise to £6000
Given the current uncertainty that people will be able to heat their homes in the winter, the threat of widespread power outages, and the rising cost of living across the board: No, it won't come out stronger. Once the first blackout hits, support for economic sanctions against Russia will evaporate, and people will demand a return to their previous living standards. The idea of a green fantasyland without cars is fiction.
grnmamba··on Nuclear war between two nations could spark global famine
"Mass murder is good if it's for muh environment"
grnmamba··on ‘Zoe’ becomes the world’s first named heat wave
Can't wait for excessive breathing to be shunned as well.
grnmamba··on A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
I just put in random gibberish and submit. Too many undeliverable mails can cause the sender be punished by their mailing service.
grnmamba··on Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom to introduce persistent user tracking
Yeah communist states are renowned for their lack of citizen surveillance
grnmamba··on Contributing to WebSockets – Cryptocurrency Users
> Have we seen any creator of a deep learning library, take a similar position if not stopping any support for anyone using it for mass surveillance?

ml5.js license:

> This license gives everyone as much permission to work with this software as possible as long as they comply with the ml5.js Code of Conduct [...]

ml5.js code of conduct:

> Do not: [...] Use ml5.js to build tools of mass surveillance and prediction to repress the rights of people

https://github.com/ml5js/ml5-library/blob/main/LICENSE.md

Not sure how enforcable this is but it exists.

grnmamba··on Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
Ok, so since 2009 everyone except Apple was on USB.
grnmamba··on Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
Everyone except Apple was already on USB.

And even in the pre-smartphone days, phone chargers always worked reliably. Phone charging is and was the complete opposite of what bluetooth is today.

grnmamba··on UK Online Safety Bill put on hold
From the article: Temporarily on hold until a new PM is chosen. The labour shadow culture minister is outraged by this, so don't expect any opposition from the, er, opposition.
grnmamba··on UK lawmaker John Penrose proposes dystopian idea to give citizens a truth score
From the actual bill:

> whose content is viewed more widely than a minimum threshold to be defined and set by OFCOM.

Given the recent history of UK online regulation [2], I think it's save to assume the "minimum threshold" will be extremely low.

[1] https://docs.reclaimthenet.org/onlinesafety_rm_rep_0708.pdf [2] https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-...

grnmamba··on Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade
Yeah, now the USA have the same federal legislation as civil war torn federations like... the european union?
grnmamba··on Canada to Compel YouTube, TikTok and Streamers to Boost Domestic Content
If paywalled: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles...
grnmamba··on Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before
That would take a multi-million dollar grant from Microsoft Research.
grnmamba··on Australian customs searched more than 40k devices in 5 years
Of course, intrusive security checks are common when entering prison colonies.
grnmamba··on Loot boxes in video games
They be kinda-sorta bought indirectly.

You earn channel points every x minutes you're watching the stream. However, paid subscribers earn more channel points at every interval.

Interestingly, gambling with channel points is impossible with an Netherland IP address, but collecting them is fine.

grnmamba··on Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg
DEI seems to be a really tiny coin.
grnmamba··on Luna Founder Requests Police Protection as Investors Are Visiting His House
Should be the final nail in the coffin for algorithmic stablecoins (which are only stable until too many people stop believing that collective fiction).

I do hope he goes to jail - for his own sake. People have been killed for much less money. There are some posts in this thread accepting the violence against him. I disagree, if he broke the law he should be judged and punished fairly, not by mob justice.

grnmamba··on European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids
Is that a rhetorical question?

I'm bashing the EU because they are trying to create a surveillance state.

grnmamba··on European Commission prefers breaking privacy to protecting kids
This is the true face of the EU. Anyone who opposes it will be branded as a child molester. Even if the parliament rejects this proposal, the next power hungry authoritarian can simply try again, until eventually one parliament will pass it.

You can be either in support of total surveillance, or in support of abolishing the EU. There is no middle ground.

grnmamba··on The Copyright Clause Restoration Act [pdf]
The Patriot act increased government power, so congress had an incentive to pass it.

This act does not.

grnmamba··on [dead]
A lot of verbal gymnastics to try to create a false equivalence between two completely different issues.
grnmamba··on No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
Yeah i only watch youtube videos if someone links it to me first off-site. There's always been a lot of garbage on YT, but removing the signal of garbage does not make the garbage go away.
grnmamba··on Dutch digital identity system crisis
You can include the transaction ID in the clientDataHash calculation, which will be signed by the authenticator. This protects against that attack.

https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-v2.1-ps-20210615/fido-cl...

grnmamba··on Dutch digital identity system crisis
Yep, my bank forces me to use an Android/iOS only app. As far as I'm aware, there's not a single bank in my country that supports open 2FA standards, like FIDO2.

Infuriating, and it's only going to get worse. And then the EU complains about Google/Apple's monopoly power - I wonder why...

grnmamba··on “Used to respect HashiCorp – Now don’t.” – Cloudflare CEO
There's zero substance in that tweet.
grnmamba··on Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data structures
The primary reason I prefer working in C++ over C is that, for all of C++'s faults, it ships with a solid collection of containers and algorithms in the standard library. unordered_map may suck compared to other implementations, but it's a vast improvement over linked lists or home-grown hashmaps.

Anyone can write a hash map, in the same way that anyone can write an HTTP server over a weekend. Doesn't mean it will be production quality.

Glibc's obstack doesn't count, it's non-standard and the only type it supports is (of course) void*, which is a bad interface.

grnmamba··on BGP Blockchain
I'm not sure what your argument is. Are you implying that every internet draft eventually becomes an RFC?
grnmamba··on BGP Blockchain
Fyi: This is an "internet draft". Anyone can write one and get it published with little to no review.
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