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I agree with controls on addictive/exploitative platforms like Facebook or Instagram. These can be feasibly controlled at the source. In principle I agree with keeping some content…

That seems to require having control of the discord, and can't be done by individual users. A hostile moderator can also kick/ban you which stops from deleting things.

I don't mean that type of archive, but rather "just in case" data like "last month's scrape of this website" after we scraped it 5 more times this month or higher resolution versio…

Obvious note but if you run this on anything other than your own computer it nullifies E2EE.

Buried here is the fact that Gajim seems to have had big updates lately. I might just switch back to XMPP from Matrix, as all the matrix clients on Linux suck frankly. Conversation…

Semi-ephemeral is the wrong way to view Discord et al. It's only that way if you actively remove your messages after a while, but they have made it as difficult as possible. Though…

I don't think the HDDs are being used for any intensive loads. They have too much latency for most of that. It's probably just archival storage for their scraped content and genera…

> don't see much possibility of actual widespread bans Why do you think there would be regulation to honor the "underage signal", but not explicitly ban social media sites for "unv…

Many laptops from last few years have soldered memory. Your previous laptop's SSD can also be reused, since those don't die that quickly compared to the laptop.

Bingo. A number of corporate interests don't want to let you own your personal computers for different reasons. Google/Apple wants you to get locked down devices, and cloud/AI prov…

I think banning facebook/instagram/etc is one of the special cases where it makes more sense to be enforced by the site, because people use these out of mainly peer pressure and ne…

Individual used pieces of clothes are not nearly the same as unsold or returned (~new) available in bulk quantities.

If you have enough cores, av1an can do it pretty quickly by splitting the video into chunks.

I really suggest not using GPU encodes for this purpose unless it's mostly worthless archival content. You can save way more space using AV1 on CPU via things like av1an. If you re…

Meanwhile, over the border in France, software patents aren't a thing. That's why VLC gets to ignore it, by the way.

I'm not sure what I feel about depriving teens of general purpose computing devices, either, which is the logical consequence of both the pseudo-ZKP scheme and parent's "underage s…

You can make it zero too if going by this argument. Count up the individual points at which crimes were committed. The area adds up to zero since the number of crimes is finite.

I wonder if there would be standing to sue, since public schools are an agent of the government and sending your kids to school is mandatory. Lawsuits are the usual way these types…

A ZKP will work as a base, but the proof mechanism will have to be combined with anti-user measures like device attestation to prevent things like me offering an API to continually…

I don't think it would be reliable enough. Small odds in favor of you and large variations (due to small market cap) require you to invest only small amounts based on the Kelly cri…

Brand value particularly for commodity products is usually just a form of information asymmetry between consumers and suppliers, and creates economic inefficiency since it diverts …

Then that's not a donation, just some shenanigans to bypass the law, which regulators presumably understands could happen.

Brand-name clothes is not really a commodity, and there is nothing efficient about destroying inventory (at scale, destroying small returns might be efficient). The brand name is a…

As the recipient of that donation, why would I actually destroy it when I can sell it?