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verroq··on Voat Is Shutting Down
>Always remember that "free speech" is 100% about the right to say what you want and not be prosecuted for it

No I don’t remember. You can have “free speech” except the social consequences are that your neighbours lynch you in the streets. No I don’t recall it like that. Free speech has always been absolute because the majority opinion is immune from social consequences. It is the minority opinion that requires protection.

verroq··on Unix Recovery Legend (1986)
Those are?
verroq··on Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ‘Zero-Click’ Exploit
When it come to security (and literally everything else), don't even both with with the "trust" part and skip directly to "verify".
verroq··on Resignate
This is similar to the usage of 被 in Chinese slang. E.g. 自杀 (suicide) turns into 被自杀 (was suicided, with the implication of foul play). 失踪 (disappearance) -> 被失踪 (was disappeared).
verroq··on A leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members
Yes this is true. Being a party member is just passing a test and paying the membership fee.
verroq··on Twitch bans Confederate flag, racist emote usage in new conduct policy
It’s not a motivator at all and your argument is invalid. Secondly, hiding things on your own screen is not censorship, hiding things on someone else’s screen is.
verroq··on Encryption Lava Lamps (2017)
A key property of cryptography is that a good entropy source XOR'd with a poor (biased) entropy source does not degrade the quality of the final result.
verroq··on Twitch bans Confederate flag, racist emote usage in new conduct policy
I block ads to not be tracked, subjected to malware and unwanted annoyances. I do not block ads to censor speech.
verroq··on Twitch bans Confederate flag, racist emote usage in new conduct policy
Ah but it didn’t used to be like this.
verroq··on Twitch bans Confederate flag, racist emote usage in new conduct policy
Oh yes displaying the confederate flag which is protected speech, is comparable to death threats now? Yes Twitch isn’t a government agency, they can censor speech however they like, much like Reddit.

Perhaps we are too used to take free speech on private walled gardens for granted. These sites used to pretend to be proponents of free speech, but now that veil is being lifted and we see what they truely are. Is one not allowed to complain about this transformation? To the casual observer, these sites set the impression that they are a public forum yet they enforce their policies with a strict partisan bias. That is the crux of the issue.

verroq··on Sony acquires anime streaming service Crunchyroll
Youtube’s owners didn’t upload copyrighted content to their own site with fansubs. It was all in: go legit or die in a lawsuit.
verroq··on Octopus with transparent head caught by blackwater photographer
Don’t you realise the entire point of leaving is because we can’t cohabitat here?
verroq··on Reddit Claims 52M Daily Users, Revealing a Key Figure for Social-Media Platforms
Zoomers find it relatable since it’s another facebook/instagram/twitter feed.
verroq··on My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
They can take the case pro-bono.
verroq··on My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
What’s wrong with hiring a lawyer to assert your rights?
verroq··on Hackers can take full control of online compilers through a RCE exploit (2018)
Online environment that allows arbitrary code execution allows arbitrary code execution.
verroq··on AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
So who will have access to this? DeepMind never publishes their models.
verroq··on Suicide claimed more Japanese lives in October than 10 months of Covid
That’s not how it works. That’s also not how science works. The burden of the proof is on whoever is making the claim. Saying “this unsubstantiated claim is true until proven wrong” is a logically fallacy.
verroq··on Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses?
Just don’t hold your breath for Cryptography 2
verroq··on Suicide claimed more Japanese lives in October than 10 months of Covid
Why do you have to:

1. Incorrectly quote the statistic (two thirds of suicides are male)

2. Come up with a BS narrative (domestic abuse, when japan isn’t even locked down) to explain these statistics after the fact (instead of a falsifiable hypothesis that can be tested)

Funnily enough, this is exactly what is wrong with social science in general.

verroq··on Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible
Maybe we’re just not the target audience for reddit anymore. I’ve spoken to spoken to zoomers who use reddit and their response is that the “new UI” is all they’ve used and they like it because everything is embedded in the same page and scrolls like their twitter/facebook/instagram feed.
verroq··on An Introduction to ZFS
The only thing preventing me from adopting zfs is that it is not being part of the linux kernel.
verroq··on Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com
I think what he meant was that people will dig thru your history to find stuff that (they find) is no longer socially acceptable and cancel you.
verroq··on China attacks fishing boats in conquest of South China Sea
No country has any “legitimate” claims to any land either.
verroq··on Tiny bubbles under a ship may help reduce fuel consumption
Related: Propellor Boss Cap Fins https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a8PjWSeLUzY
verroq··on Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why Is Silicon Valley Helping Them?
SV gets the blame because they control the platforms (e.g. Twitter, Facebook) and have no problem with doing whatever they want to further their agendas.
verroq··on Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs
I doubt they’d implement PCIe since they don’t need that for their baked in GPU to talk to their baked in CPU.
verroq··on US Government Continues Encryption War
Survivorship bias
verroq··on Netflix Targets Critical ‘Cuties’ Tweets with Copyright Takedown Requests
Punitive damages is a thing.
verroq··on RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
Any reason why youtube-dl hasn't filed a counter-takedown notice?
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