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That sort of acceptance is why amazons ring is so dangerous: there are new business models around aggregating and automatically processing and mining that footage

I have been frustrated by those lines for years now, I don’t understand how they could even be legal but they are ubiquitous in online contracts

Snowden was not a national security threat, he was a government embarrassment threat. It’s not okay to conflate the two

These are daily programming puzzles? How long do they take on average?

Also, I know somebody who is just starting out at coding. Would it be too hard for them? They are brand new, learning about loops

How is this information logged/preserved, and for how long? Just because it isn’t being used for ads doesn’t mean a person is comfortable filling up a database with their activity.

IMO, ads are probably the least worrisome way the data could be used. A boring but scary example is that aol search history leak (which is still searchable today):

https://searchids.com/

This person is identified by name for example: https://searchids.com/user/19431784-joann_whitman

The Starcraft community requested subscription content for years during the hots years. The popular reasoning was that the game needed refreshing and updating but that a company can’t afford to do it without incentives - and the ongoing revenue would incentivize them to keep the game in great shape.

Then again, you can’t use subscription software at all after the company completely moves on either - no windows 95 compatibility mode to keep using your expensive desktop applications. So you still end up with unusable software eventually - longer peak but a shorter life for more cost

The fundamental problem is how difficult and expensive it is to make software and maintain it year after year

Think for example about the difference between pre-Hastings England and 100 years later. The castle sprawl was really dramatic after William took over, it really changed the dynamic

(Not op, just chiming in)

I really love working in Godot, it’s a wonderful and fast program. It is tedious to find how something works however because the docs are pretty sparse and the tutorial community is so small. It can take forever to find the function you need to call for something, or what the limitations of something like tilemaps are

I also miss the python libraries and procedures I’m used to (it uses a python inspired custom language called gdscript)

I’m going to try it for a larger project later this year and see how painful it ends up being to figure things out. It’s a really great program for everything I do know how to do

Does anyone know what it’s tech stack is or whether it was architected/designed well enough to build off of? It’s a cool project but it has been running a long time

The connection is more clear in this sub-link imo: https://www.gnu.org/software/network/

It links to a Savannah page that links to gnunet.org

Reminds me a lot of simpleanalytics, but foss and self hosted. Very cool

DDG isn’t as good at indexing various forms of social media, but is decent otherwise. I find it depends where my results live

Eg, Reddit, forums, stack overflow (sometimes), YouTube, etc

Same for me (safari on iOS)

Credit card payments are sort of scammy: they pay you 1% so they can charge vendors 3%

Pick a foss project you use regularly and contribute!

Digital ocean would be $5 per month. I’m not sure what their logging/privacy policy though because I found their terms documents so broad and confusing

Incompetent seems a bit harsh. Sloppy or careless is more accurate

Did not know this

The wirecutter did an article [1] on VPNs and recommended tunnelbear. I’m not sure who to trust but I’m going to at least give it a re-read

[1] https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-vpn-service/

No. You could associate the two profiles later on

We need to take these foreign stories as serious cautionary tales. For anybody who has been in doubt so far, this is what all this surveillance tech looks like as soon as the government decides it wants to gain power with it

Why are “these calls to action” just preaching to the choir? Over the last year a bunch of people I know have stopped using google search, Facebook, and the epic games launcher. It’s working slowly

In 20 years it will probably be 3

I didn’t know that

Announcement of an announcement

I was deciding what engine to make a hobby game with last week and was looking at ThreeJS. I couldn’t find any projects with good higher end visuals that had acceptable performance however. I settled on Godot, but I’d love to be proven wrong about webGL

My wife got rid of her spare Fitbit bands and plans to not use the Fitbit, and to replace our scale without mentioning it on social media.

So is that the only way it gets installed? Is the dialogue clear about what you are agreeing to? Why install that besides to opt in?

10+ minutes of introduction, then the owner of Palantir talks about the eye of sauron and libertarianism, then changes topic to how things scale. Transition into saying the Obamas were bigger liars than Trump by 18ish minutes. Does it get better later? His other talks and his book are so much better than this (so far, halfway in).

The YT comments also note that he never mentions the end of the computer age in the talk.

Better title: Iran government gradually shuts down internet in response to protests