bryan_w · HackerTrans

vor 4 Tagendiscuss

Indeed it would be silly to prosecute the record execs because they found a report called "what are the youths listening to" or even with the video game moral panic of the 90s, going after game companies because they found a report titled "Is Laura Croft setting unrealistic beauty standards for teens" at gamedev companies

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vor 10 Tagendiscuss

> I appreciate 404 media's mission but

Really makes you think: should you really support efforts like this when there are better and more honest groups out there? (Cough EFF *cough)

bryan_w

vor 10 Tagendiscuss

You're assuming these people know what a lobbyist does beyond the edgey cynical definition they learned about when they were 13.

bryan_w

vor 10 Tagendiscuss

> poor journalism.

404 media has never been interested in being good journalism, but rather driving signups to to their website by people who don't know what proper journalism looks like

bryan_w

vor 11 Tagendiscuss

You would have loved XUL

bryan_w

vor 14 Tagendiscuss

Anything having to do with water

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vor 16 Tagendiscuss

This feels like something Steve Jobs would have slapped someone for allowing to be shipped to production

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vor 17 Tagendiscuss

If you don't trust your operating system, then I guess you can't operate

bryan_w

vor 20 Tagendiscuss

Isn't putin begging y'all to get in tanks for Ukraine? Just find a like minded group of recruits and turn the tanks around

bryan_w

vor 25 Tagendiscuss

Yes and we want them to have zero. What do you not understanding about this?

bryan_w

letzten Monatdiscuss

It's crazy how people in this thread wanted to physically cause harm to this city's councilmen when it does seem pretty believable that "nobody at the office knew why they had the land or any stipulations attached to it" when someone takes a second to look into it

@dang what kind of site are you trying to run here?

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letzten Monatdiscuss

The state requires things sold to meet a bare minimum of safety. Cars sold require seat belts, movies/games sold require ratings. Devices sold have a meaningful parental controls flow.

bryan_w

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

> it's not intuitive that allowing malicious-site.com to access your Bluetooth keyboard might give that site access to your stored passwords, give them the ability to hijack your DNS settings, or allow them to encrypt your hard drive and hold it ransom. And if it's not immediately obvious how those things are possible, that only serves to demonstrate how completely non-intuitive the risks are and how intractable trying to explain them in a permission prompt would be.

Which is odd because the very next thing a user will do (Which you've allowed for years) is download and execute a .exe or .dmg/.app from that same malicious-site.com which will do the same thing

bryan_w

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

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vor 2 Monatendiscuss

You didn't even mention the "infrasound" issue that's been picking up steam lately

bryan_w

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

> Lazy cynicism is itself a form of corruption of one's own mind

I love this way of thinking. I might use this quote down the road

bryan_w

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Let's play this out: how do you determine individual clients? By ip? By seasionid?

bryan_w

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

But that's not a specification

bryan_w

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

People on this site don't really think deeply about what they type. They just say whatever is the most cynical in order to farm up votes

bryan_w

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

> Children will just lie

Not if the parents are setting it up beforehand (like with small children) then their iaccount or Google account will be under parental controls from that point on.

It seems reasonable that if a parent enables their child to visit sites after that, then that's just their prerogative (like giving your kid beer)

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