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enough metaphors though. Here is what I think probably actually happened, based on the multiple accounts I've read: "Give us the PIN for your phone" "I don't want you to search my …

I have tested them, that's what I'm saying! The belief that the authorities are completely unrestrained in their power serves authoritarianism. Creating this belief is in fact a ma…

You are incorrect, US border patrol can not arrest you for refusing to decrypt your phone (if you are a citizen). It is not considered obstructing a search to refuse to provide a p…

It doesn't sound like this person pressed any buttons. They were pressured to provide a PIN or be delayed and further harassed. They obliged, and agents decided to enter it to atte…

It's important to note that there are very many Jews in the world who are not Zionist and many Jews in Israel who disagree with the Palestinian genocide. They're not the majority, …

Attacking civilians has always been "controversial". As a civilian myself, I would be pretty worried if this changed.

It's scary that you bring up the question of whether Rene Good was under arrest or not at the time she was killed. As if it were legal or justified to execute people for failing to…

That's the trouble though - those friendly neighborhood sites can generally be assumed to be appropriate for kids, but if we create the expectation that they must ensure they are a…

I think this might not be true though. This is like saying a marathon runner can walk like an amputee using a prosthetic. Just like anyone else with a disadvantage, people who aren…

This case is not important because of Greenpeace, it's important because of the implications for free speech in the US. They are not being bankrupted because they took the wrong st…

Some of the jurors had financial ties Energy Transfer, the district is heavily conservative and economically dependent on the oil industry. The deck was massively stacked against G…

It reminds me of https://sandstorm.org/

It's weird that you won't come out and say what you think is "going on" though. I've given the explanation that the vast majority of people waving Mexican flags in LA would give: t…

> I consider myself quite liberal, but waving a Mexican flag at these events just makes me think you can fuck right off with that bullshit. I'm confused, you consider yourself quit…

Your concerns about a majority oppressing a minority are well-founded, but a system where people vote for career politicians don't seem to be moderating this problem - if anything …

Unlike Apple, Google's main business isn't selling hardware, nor do they use hardware as the chokepoint for controlling their ecosystem. It could change in future devices, but curr…

Your problem statement is effectively "I want to share access to my documents very informally with people who don't care to have any security practices, but still keep them secure"…

Builds are signed by the software publisher, not the Play Store. So the store alone couldn't corrupt releases, it would need collaboration by the publisher. (Google does have a ser…

While the bike is stationary there's limited options for moving the bike relative to your body. While the bike is moving, you can make small steering adjustments which move the bik…

> because they do non-free parts now they are likely to make more of it non-free later, is that the argument Yes, that's one indicator of how the incentives are structured, though …

Or semi-automated scammers trying to claim the ad revenue from videos for themselves.

It has to do with the way power and incentives are configured within the project, and therefore what can be expected of the maintainers in the future. For some people/use cases, th…

It's both. Free software is a more efficient mode of production because it maximizes the exchange of ideas about how best to build software. It's also a more libertarian mode of co…

This is what the Tor Browser is designed to do, and it does it very well (all in userspace no less). The main drawback is that some sites don't render as nicely and occasionally a …

If you want an HTTPS ingress controller that's simple, opinionated, but still flexible enough to handle most use cases, I've enjoyed this one: https://github.com/SteveLTN/https-por…