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I know that if you are I randomly fired our guns into a large crowd of people indiscriminately striking many of them... we, too, could confidently predict a minimum of six months' delay before we were indicted for this violent crime.

Six months to fuck off and wait is about typical, right? 🙃

coloradosun.com/2023/01/04/den

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Oh. my. god.

Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.

This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.

#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.

nbcnewyork.com/news/msgs-facia

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Hey, so this is super cool.

Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.

scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacy

Anyone who's relying on proprietary software or cloud services should take a close look at what's happening in Russia right now. What do you do if a vendor you rely on one day simply refuses to do business with you anymore?

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Apparently RiteAid requires a Google account to schedule a COVID-19 test.

Oh. Hell. No.

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1975: "Let's build the Internet, a network that can survive a nuclear war!"
2021: "Let's host everything on the server of this one discount bookshop!"

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We're indoctrinating our entire population into thinking that they can't function without the miracle (**spits) of Zoom/MS Teams/Google Hangouts/Webex, etc. Well, that's bullshit. Talk about sowing learned helplessness & foreign corporate dependence. Why aren't our national educational authorities (yes, NZ Min of Ed, looking at you) organising a far more cost-effective, proven, *local* services for education, like using BigBlueButton? They have *no idea* what they're doing with regard to tech.

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The law needs to apply to government officials. The case below should result in both personal civil liability for damages caused and whatever the charges are for using a stolen license plate.

gazette.com/premium/police-lea

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swerfs, internet censorship 

Anne Wagner of FOSTA/SESTA is now pushing to go after OnlyFans vice.com/en/article/4avpe3/ann

There's a You're Wrong About episode that traces the bad faith framing of a lot of this, a pivot strategy from anti-porn and even satanic panic (!) propaganda pushers podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

(Sorry for the Apple Podcasts link, it's the only webpage they've provided for individual episodes.)

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Today I saw someone describe all non-social-media, non-newspaper websites as "the dark web". Big oof from me

Apparently states are banning high power PCs now. Spoiler: High end gaming rigs are meaningfully the same devices as high end compute workstations - you can't ban 4K gaming without banning, say, medical research.

burlingtonfreepress.com/story/

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And the digital Dark Age analogy is, I think, a compelling one. I've fleshed it out here: davelane.nz/darkage

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TIL

1. us congress recently passed a law to make it illegal for ISPs to charge an equipment fee on hardware that you already own, yay

2. at&t fiber-to-the-home evades this by placing secret authentication keys into their otherwise standard combo wifi router + ont (fiber modem).

so you ahem, could, wink, use your own equipment, but the service won't work when you do 🤢

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Popular webcomic "The Oatmeal" no longer asks people to follow them on #Facebook, #Twitter, #instagram etc. Here's their explanation as to why (contains minor swearing):

(from theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching )

PS Currently if you want to follow them, visit here:
theoatmeal.com/pages/subscribe

As I suspected, you can't fix gerrymandering by making rules about voting district shape.

youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo4

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WHY DO SO MANY COOL OPEN SOURCE WEB APPLICATIONS DEPEND ON DOCKER, HOLY SHIT LEARN HOW TO WRITE PROPER SETUP DOCUMENTATION :blobcattableflip:

I refuse to run Docker containers inside of Linux Containers so my options are…
- Install manually and make upgrading a pain in the ass
- Don't use the app

As much as I would *love* to use it, the reliance on Docker for managing 100% of the stack is a *hard* no. Figuring out how the image has changed between releases would make manual maintenance absolute hell and I am unwilling to shoulder that burden.

Not everyone is *able* to use Docker and not everyone is *willing* to use Docker. By not supporting any other deployment method, you are preventing some individuals from using what could be *the* application they've spent years looking for.

Let the admin decide how to architect their own systems. They know their backend better than you do.

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Good job Canadian parliament. Way to play into the "COVID panic is destroying democracy" narrative. Regardless of the intended goal or actual effect, voting to "suspend elections" is not a good look.

reddit.com/r/canada/comments/n

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