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Re:ProtonMail includes Google Recaptcha for login on Saturday May 29, 2021 @03:19PM (#27327579)

https://theconsciousresistance.com/protonmail-is-insecure/

https://privacy-watchdog.io/protonmails-creation-with-cia-ns...

https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1121.pdf

Re:Show HN: macOS (command line) QRCode reader on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @06:16PM (#27124281)

    diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
    index 5287915..330789e 100644
    --- a/README.md
    +++ b/README.md
    @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     
     #### What is this app?
     
    -This is a simple Command Line based QRCode Reader simple command line QRCode Reader for Mac
    +This is a simple command line QRCode Reader for Mac.
     The app accepts any image format supported by Apple's CoreImage API (pdf, gif, jpg, png, tiff etc).
     
     ### Usage

Re:Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential... on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:46PM (#26714147)

does it? we're simply considering input -> output. society does not own your brain, do with it whatever pleases you. how you feel about your responsibility, if any, to your species is entirely your business, not mine. that's basically belief system (secular or spiritual) territory. do i have rights in respect to society? does society have rights in respect to me? these are interesting questions, but not what i had intended.

to be verbose: since smart people are a limited resource it is imho correct to note that an intellectually, emotionally, and life-focus demanding activity, such as chess, that has not (and can not) ever transfer knowledge gains in that closed system to other domains of concern to our species, is in fact, as a matter of simple math, sapping a precious resource.

(but i'm open to the suggestion that maybe chess is keeping society safe from otherwise unoccupied mad geniuses -- calling B.F. .. :)

Re:Do games like Factorio or Eve Online sap the intellectual potential... on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:47AM (#26711689)

> Does Chess sap the intellectual potential of humanity?

arguably, yes. it's a closed universe which at best provides entertainment for outsiders, unlike writing fiction which can inspire even revolutions, to say nothing of enriching minds and widening the emotional and intellectual horizons of individual readers. not sure if you were being serious about higher mathematics.

Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped sexual assault on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:46PM (#26706674)

It's the law. 18 U.S.C. 2257

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/18-usc-2257-2257a-cert...

Re:Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:13AM (#26697987)

no, he looks like a freshly minted cold warrior. andrew roth should go and dig up scifi from bbc and compare "green-screen effects".