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I'm not seeing how that doesn't help support DRM? It does nothing to dissuade content gatekeepers from employing restrictive DRM on their sites. Anti-DRM would be avoiding anything…

Regarding point 1, recent judicial decisions on scraping seemed to have entrenched it as legal. On two, it seems like they are concerned with trademark to me. A workaround could be…

That’s because San Francisco is expensive. A sandwich with no sides at many places downtown is more than $10 and I’m pretty sure it’s not organized shoplifting…

Until the plastic results in loss of sales because people don’t want to bother, we probably won’t see it reversed. The cost is sunk. Why wouldn’t they leave it, even if ineffective…

Theres that kind of growth, and then the expectation that you grow into every conceivable vertical to expand more rapidly or support stock prices for an otherwise stagnant business…

Years ago someone reported this about GitHub projects as well. If I recall correctly, working as intended was the response.

Yea. That’s the part that is ripped. Making a new photo sharing app shouldn’t be controversial. I like Pixelfed, but it was naive to rip the filter names and think that was somehow…

Yea. And you’re not “on the internet”. It’s a series of nodes that talk with each other and route requests between them. /s There is no strict technical definition of “on” in this …

No commuters? What city are you referring to? In SF, Muni is packed along my commute to the city. Probably there’s not as much commuting, but there’s certainly quite a bit. Also, m…

As far as I can tell, the people against market rate housing are really just using low-income housing as justification of their NIMBYism. Kind of like how domestic espionage is jus…

I think l the reason is that it means that they don’t trust or don’t want their users to know what they are doing on your machine. To me, that is already a malicious premise. Even …

Fraud is already criminal.

Exactly. Big pint media companies like those you mentioned and New Yorker put out plenty of articles in spite of legal threats. They have legal teams that can tell them if the thre…

It doesn’t look like you disagree to me. The result of such taxes or regulations is less and more expensive consumption.

Yea, the OP said federal legislators should do something. The constitution provides them a legal framework for writing laws.

Bahamas have.

I want an open and private platform. Google may let me sideload apps, but the operating system is hostile to data privacy. For me, an iPhone that I can install other apps on is the…

I’ve had one on my keychain for at least 5 years now with no issues. It would have been longer but I did switch to a USB-C key two years ago. I kept the old one enrolled as my back…

What you described is the fact that generalizations can be useful for survival, not that they are accurate.

> $1000 right away before the item even went back. They don’t do this anymore. I recently bought a hard drive and found the anti static bag was opened. When I returned it Amazon ma…

Rolling your own crypto is bad, unless you’re an authority on crypto. Moxy certainly is. Also, Signal Protocol isn’t an encryption algorithm. As far as I know, it still uses AES an…

It’s possible and how to do it is public. Signal has encrypted group chats across devices already and is open source.

That’s exactly why it’s deceptive. Most people think of “private” as between the conversation parties, not everyone in the conversation, the company, and any government with levera…

I’m not sure what the threat is that the phone number opens you up to. That a government will scan all domestic phone numbers against a Signal API to identify a list of users who, …

Each party picks something it seems. Republicans can’t seem to be bothered with the 4th amendment and Democrats seem to support it. At least at local levels. At the federal level n…