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This will be lost now in the conversation, but this video by woodworker Stumpy Nubs is worth watching for key context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxKkuDduYLk Yes SawStop sued …

I highly suggest people give Techno Tims walkthrough of this software. It explains use case and demonstrates it across all major platforms. https://youtu.be/2ITezMkbAqE?si=-YVJq8iq…

Facebook engineers don't need to explicitly change their algorithm to promote violence. They do it by negligence; by letting the algo maximize for engagememt regardless of the outc…

That's semantic sleight of hand. The US is clearly a representative democracy. One related opinion on this topic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/yes-consti...

I think many of these comnments are missing the broader implications for the fashion modeling world in general. Right now there are a lot of folks that are not models tied into thi…

It may be able blocking ads or not. But I dont think it's about tracking. NYTimes already ran a successful test in Europe where they eliminated all third party behavioral based ads…

There's a gazillion videos all over youtube criticizing, mocking, and calling out the Chinese government for all sorts of repressive activities. I'm confused as to why people would…

One of the major problems with the concentration of wealth in such few hands is that the societies/countries where these folks live don't get to make collective decisions about how…

Indeed! I enjoy many of the episodes. But the first time I had these thought was after reading Charles Stross' Accelerando. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando There's a char…

Well put. To wander a bit off topic, but I feel this is a specific example of a general problem in free societies. There is no perfect safety without perfect surveillance. In my op…

Whenever this conversation appears in the news and I listen to various law enforcement and political folks defend some sort of need for breakable encryption, I always jump to the l…

You should reach out to the folks at https://teamhuman.fm/ . Might be some connections you could make there along these lines.

"On the Media" podcast this week addresses this as well. Worth a listen. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-the-media-myth-of-merit...

I use this as well. Found it very helpful.

The Federal Trade Commision has that legal standing even if they chose not to exercise it.

I dont think this is correct. I added the boolean security.ssl.disable_session_identifiers set to true in Firefox 62.0.3 and ran the SSL Labs browser test here: https://www.ssllabs…

I think it's in there in the "waveguide" tech. iFixit has a pretty good write on on their tear down and they mention this. https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Magic+Leap+One+Teardown/1…

Re: "list prices are often incredibly far removed from the actual dollars paid, and the actual amount paid is all dependent on insurer contracts" Would be great if they were requir…

Agreed. As should Norway and Iceland.

My suspicion is that this is a false-positive. If you go to about:config and search for doubleclick there is an entry called: browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll Use is self-expla…

https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/ https://github.com/exodus-privacy/exodus https://github.com/YalePrivacyLab/tracker-profiles

Additionally it is in fact expressly illegal in 13 US states (Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, South Dak…

Perhaps but at that point the US (or whoever) can counter with their own rules/laws. Might lead to manufacturing balkanization but I'd prefer the US not the one to step over the li…

Right. But there is an apparent balance at the moment where because no government has demanded and received back doors, no country mandates it. It's a precarious spot to be sure. B…

I agree. Yes. Perhaps I should have said I have zero expectation that most corporations would say yes. They will decide they just cannot ignore a chunk of the world population that…