what do you mean walkable city? a walkable city you do 10k steps without even noticing! a US city that is not NY or boston in summer you have to drive to a park/beach like you would to a gym, do your steps and drive back home.
so true. the fact that browsers have dns resolvers is weird.
to me only the kernel could do it, and it would limit outgoing port 53 by default to every other process.
if I want to set configuration on my hosts file I damn sure want everything to follow it, not have to worry about thousands of applications that might or might not use it.
less lawyers on retainer to establish a precedent?
you are talking about dirty politicians, who are standing against something initially designed to twart oppressive regimes such as China's great firewall... any dirty trick in book is fair game to them.
I'm happy for you that you speak a language google happens to have support in, and that you have the time to besides creating and uploading content, to monitor it is not censored at a later, random, date by google. And that you were able to provide the US based documentation they required and that your videos content happened to not be in the blacklist of any nation state.
someone who analyzed 200 years of data is criticizing people who analyzed 50 years of data before. and both think they can extrapolate to events that are assumed to cycle every 900-11,000 years!
all sumarized by a writer who uses star war analogies.
spare your time. don't bother reading this. Go read Foucault instead if you care for this topic.
you mean, excluding actual capturof wealth after ww ii, like Crimea? Or soft ones like belt and road taking over Africa's infrastructure or the fight to keep Venezuela under US control?
that's the sort of elitist behaviour that plagues digital world.
dvd locked by region? don't worry, more expensive models can be bypassed by those two button presses, only the poor is really impacted.
tracking users and OS security bugs, don't worry, the latest $600+ devices will get a patch. only poor, used device buyers and developing countries models will be affected by not receiving a patch.
the modern world now is divided into the elite and the not-economically-viable-to-port-security-patches. And everytime we, the elite, dismiss something as a nuisance because we are the elite, we are making things irreparably worse.
my sugestion: do not give in to drm because you can work around it. instead pay the extra cents and get a used hardcopy. the convenience of a ebook is lost if you have to work around a drm anyway. and that way their drm sales drop to zero and they have to rethink this whole falacy.
The number of people accepting DRM content is used as a sales pitch by Pearson printing to force universities to use DRM text books that can't be resold! again, screw the poor, right?
pleroma (and i think maybe mastodon) provide media proxy that i think work for youtube. so when one person shares a video, one instance serves it to all the other users
that's only the first part of the piece. Then it goes on to show how everyone forgot how to do business and instead blindly trust random indexes, from exchange rates to chicken price (and one can easily extrapolate to BTC, which is oscillating on $9-15k every 15min for the past 5 hours btw --exchange wash trade scam news in 3, 2, 1...)
hiding packages you have installed from your ISP/NSA/etc.
this discussion comes up time and time again (in rpm, apt et al). the consensus is: if you need that extra feature, manually download sensitive packages via ssl or something. everyone else (with nothing to hide, heh) keeps benefiting from a global cache of unencrypted transport of (mostly) open source data.
if you want the real deal for the title, see STS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology_and_societ...