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zoonosis··on What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
How will they know if there are soldiers if they aren't lit?
zoonosis··on Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
Children used to work because they had to in order to survive. The choices were work or starve to death. Taking away the option to work obviously makes them worse off. This plays out today when western countries force labor laws in countries like Bangladesh. When the children can no longer work in factories they often have to resort to prostitution.

The question of labor unions is a different issue. Labor unions do benefit their members who do get raises because of their actions. They do not benefit the people who will no longer get hired because the cost of labor is now higher. They do not benefit workers in other industries because the prices they will pay will be higher and displaced workers will enter their industry lowering their wages. Labor unions harm society at large in order to benefit their memebers.

zoonosis··on Facebook sues Namecheap
Trademark law is to prevent "damage" to brands, not protect customers. If a system was in place to protect the customers, it would be the customers who were deceived that sue and receive compensation, not the company owning the trademark.
zoonosis··on My new favorite vim/tmux bug (2014)
HTTPS Everywhere works based on rules as to which sites support https. It does not blindly redirect every request to port 443.
zoonosis··on Highest French court reclassifies Uber drivers as employees
Clearly the drivers are paid enough to be willing to do it.
zoonosis··on What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
I think that being well lit will help to deter intruders.
zoonosis··on Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Kickstarter
They just need to get Anbox working.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anbox

zoonosis··on Linux-ready, made-in-Germany “Volla Phone” succeeds on Kickstarter
Purism raised over $2 million to develop the Librem 5 smartphone 2 years ago and the device still isn't fully released [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181020113629/https://shop.puri...

zoonosis··on SETI@home shuts down after 21 years
The type of habitat he is describing is known as an O'Neil cylinder. The wikipedia page for the topic probably answers most questions you have about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill_cylinder

zoonosis··on Pizza Effect
Just an single data point, but this Italian thinks pizza from Naples is way better than pizza from New York [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/OUo4MUSY0v4?t=149

zoonosis··on Coke and Pepsi are getting sued for lying about recycling
What is the lie that Coke et al are being accused of making?
zoonosis··on Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones
When the phone is connected to a charger, is it drawing power from the wall? Or is it still drawing power from the battery?
zoonosis··on Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones
The iPhone SE was released a year after the 6S.
zoonosis··on Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default
AdGaurd looks like a Safari content blocker and not a VPN to me.

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-ios/overview.html

zoonosis··on WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
If that is the case, it looks like Ubuntu 19.10 and later have support.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=network-manager&...

zoonosis··on Spreadsheet Horror Stories
Austerity is effective when it is achieved by cutting spending. The cases where it hasn't worked were because the spending cuts were accompanied with tax increases [1]. This shouldn't be a surprise because tax increases tend to decrease GDP [2].

[1] A. Alesina, C. A. Favero, and F. Giavazzi, Austerity: when it works and when it doesnt. Princeton (New Jersey): Princeton University Press, 2019.

[2] C. D. Romer and D. H. Romer, “The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks,” American Economic Review, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 763–801, 2010.

zoonosis··on Spreadsheet Horror Stories
The article addresses the issues raised by OP. You don't need to read the paywalled article since it just summarizes the statement by Reinhart & Rogoff which is available here [1]. Here is an archive of the actual article if you would prefer to read that [2].

[1] https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/rogoff/files/response_to_h...

[2] https://archive.md/2daXH

zoonosis··on Archivists are uploading hundreds of random VHS tapes to the internet
I see many listings for them on US Amazon.
zoonosis··on Reporter bios don’t improve readers’ trust in news outlets
>“Using a personal photo and including personal details in a reporter’s biography made participants feel they knew the reporter better, but this feeling didn’t influence readers’ attitudes about a news organization more broadly,”

IME, people trust individuals more than institutions. So, their level of trust for the news organization doesn't really matter if they trust the specific journalist.

zoonosis··on YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules
I wonder if government involvement in the creation of Google makes the case any stronger.

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

zoonosis··on YouTube can restrict PragerU because it is a private forum, appeals court rules
And the 14th Amendment was meant to act as a constraint on the general government but that hasn't stopped it from being used to constrain state governments.
zoonosis··on A hacker's mom broke into a prison and the warden's computer
While I agree that the US prison system has many issues, recidivism rates can't really be compared between countries because of differences in time frames and rearrest vs re-conviction.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4472929/

zoonosis··on Things about the new Firefox browser for Android
You shouldn't be running outdated software on an internet connected device. I don't think any company updates their Android phones for that long. Samsung supports their devices for 3 years. Google might be a bit longer for the Pixel devices but they did drop their old Nexus line quicker. This isn't to say that the hardware needs to be given up on. If you want to use a community developed custom ROM like LineageOS then you can use a device longer.

I don't think any high end devices have user replaceable batteries and the battery is likely to be very degraded after 6 years of use.

zoonosis··on Kr00k vuln in WiFi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of traffic
The article mentions that iOS 13.2 fixes the issue. If an iOS update can fix it, then I think it would just be software.
zoonosis··on How to Design Mobile Apps for One-Hand Usage
Worth noting that the SE has a 4.0" screen so that is 0.7" larger.
zoonosis··on Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
> I think part of the negativity you see is network admins working in businesses.

They can block the canary domain[1].

> Of course their argument was parental controls being made ineffective.

DoH is disabled on Windows and macOS if parental controls are enabled[1].

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/configuring-networks-di...

zoonosis··on Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
In order to be included in Firefox, they needed to agree to the DOH-resolver policy[1]. That states that:

> We intend to publicly document violations of this Policy and take additional actions if necessary.

I believe that those "additional actions" will prevent providers from violating the policy. If not, they will be removed from Firefox.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy

zoonosis··on Servers for an Accelerated Future
From 4Q2017 to 4Q2019 AMD's server market share increased from 0.8% to 4.5%[1].

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-vs-intel-cpu-market-sh...

zoonosis··on Servers for an Accelerated Future
I think the question about caching was separate from the question about GPUs. I don't think it was meant to imply GPUs for caching.