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No, I only care about _my_ freedom to use the hardware however I want, not Apple's or anyone else's freedom. However, if people keep not giving a shit, my freedom will be more and more limited.

You're trying too hard.

Re:What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? on Sunday November 07, 2021 @07:54AM (#29139052)
Or, y'know, just put it in airplane mode or unplug the SIM card
Re:Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:10AM (#29118678)
A more reasonable take would be to find ways to reduce its costs.

Surely killing someone can be way cheaper than sustaining them for life.

Re:Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:57AM (#29118535)
> it would be cheaper to just shoot

Ah, no, that's not how this works.

Re:Japanese death row inmates sue over same-day executions on Friday November 05, 2021 @08:32AM (#29118263)
So you think that locking up people for the rest of their lives is less barbaric?
Re:Google Employees Oppose Company's Cooperation with Israel on Friday November 05, 2021 @04:00AM (#29116534)
I assume they mean Arabs and others
Re:Firefox Add-On Policy Changes 2021 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @06:56PM (#29113461)
Finally, a based move from Mozilla.
Re:I don't know how to browse the internet anymore on Thursday November 04, 2021 @05:45PM (#29112889)
> I have nine different browsers installed on this machine

Why?

Money.
Re:My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent on Saturday October 30, 2021 @05:22PM (#29052383)
What happened afterwards?
Re:Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector on Saturday October 30, 2021 @10:06AM (#29048855)
How old are you? Is it too late for you to live up to your potential?
Most people who criticise X like you have no idea what they're talking about. The parallels you're drawing are childish and indicate an extremely shallow understanding of the issues at hand.
Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:28PM (#29027897)
>Keeping it tightly controlled like that also makes it harder to crack

Can you elaborate?

Re:The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board on Thursday October 28, 2021 @08:35AM (#29025318)
>Want/need to use DRM? You won't receive a response from Google/widevine

Thanks Google!

Re:EFF co-founder John Gilmore removed from org's Board on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @06:32AM (#28998594)
>OSI

If you honestly think that the OSI were ever the "good guys", then do I have the news for you...

I know, I've read the rules. Still, I thought that this is an interesting exception since it's directly related to the content at hand.
>for free

No, the site owner is usually gaining money from his users (through ads, tracking, etc). This is an incredibly dishonest statement.

Thank you for posting it, I wish that this becomes a trend on HN (and other forums).
Here's another way of looking at it: Does this page really need to execute code on its users' machines? Why is this such an acceptable thing in the first place?
Yay, another page that doesn't render at all without JS.

And then we sit and wonder how NSO Group is able to compromise all these machines with ease, and yes, they had/have browser exploits.

Re:OK Lenovo, we need to talk on Sunday October 24, 2021 @10:14AM (#28978087)
They still don't sell parts.
Re:RSS is wonderful on Saturday October 23, 2021 @10:16AM (#28968743)
>immoral

[citation needed]

Re:Going to Work for the Tor Project on Friday October 22, 2021 @10:00AM (#28957258)
Off-topic, but can someone tell me if this comment is phrased properly? I suspect that using "with" twice in the sentence is a little bit wrong, but I don't know how to correct it.
Re:Going to Work for the Tor Project on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:50AM (#28957173)
Thank you Moodles, for writing a reasonable comment amidst a torrent of unreasonable ones.
Re:Going to Work for the Tor Project on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:49AM (#28957151)
>The "rewrite in some corporate meme language" would address this issue.

No it won't, the issues with v2 are with its design, not its implementation.

Re:Going to Work for the Tor Project on Friday October 22, 2021 @09:29AM (#28956950)
The difference is that criminals that use VPNs/Proxies can be easily caught, unlike Tor users.
Re:Going to Work for the Tor Project on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:53AM (#28956627)
VPNs/Proxies do this job just fine though, without the additional latency/bandwidth penalty of Tor.
Re:Going to Work for the Tor Project on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:44AM (#28956049)
Not a good analogy. Most usage of Tor is either unnecessarily paranoid people, criminal enterprises, and state agencies. In fact, so far the leaks (Snowden, Wikileaks, etc) are the only cases I've heard of where Tor usage legitimately helped.

Can you say the same thing about electricity?

Again, I'm not saying that Tor should be shut down, it's just unsettling to work on something that the majority of its usage is "bad".

Re:Going to Work for the Tor Project on Friday October 22, 2021 @07:30AM (#28955925)
I wonder how the author will live with himself knowing that he's directly facilitating all the horrible things that go on Tor. I know that I can't do that, so kudos to him.

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