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Arcka

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  • ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?

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  • Email has been a decentralized federated system from the start, though I'm not aware of any community I'd trust to be a more privacy-respecting host than the available commercial offerings.

  • ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?

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  • Our legal entity is in Sweden, where the law does not allow for any government to force us to spy on our users.

    You'll agree that Proton doing better would require them to move to a different country, right?

    Also Mullvad doesn't offer email accounts, does it? Seems that they couldn't have a 'no user data' policy if they did since the emails would be exactly that.

  • Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns

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  • It's less-lethal, not nonlethal. Even blanks can be deadly. A gun should only be pointed at something you're willing to destroy.

    Cops are not held to as high of standards as everyone else. This should not come as a great revelation.

  • Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns

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  • If you go through a defensive carry class you'd almost certainly be discouraged from doing that by the instructor for multiple reasons:

    First is that all ammo can be lethal, even blanks. So if you're not willing to kill to protect your own life, that may cause it anyway. On the flip side, a prosecutor will argue that if lethal ammunition wasn't required, then use of a gun wasn't necessary and you've not only broken firearm discharge laws (in place where most people live), but are also guilty of assault with a weapon with intent to kill or maim.

    Firing a gun in self-defense is only warranted if nonlethal means are insufficient. If you try using less-lethal ammo and it doesn't stop your attacker, you're killed or seriously injured. If you try using less-lethal ammo and it does stop your attacker, you're still screwed by the legal system (possibly except under some "stand your ground" laws).

  • Why liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns

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  • Because you shouldn't use a gun unless deadly force is warranted.

  • Framework flame war erupts over support of politically polarizing Linux projects

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  • Which brands are acceptable to be associated with?

    (I don't own one, and I'm not familiar with what other brands are available these days.)

  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • F-Droid works [...]

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    [...] that's going to severely limit the potential userbase for that package.

    I don't think most developers who are putting their Open-Source apps on F-Droid have any minimum user threshold.

  • flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace

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  • Agreed. I've made a day trip to the neighboring state to buy a used car from a CL listing, but I probably wouldn't travel to the other side of the country for it.

    Similarly, for many things I wouldn't travel more than an hour to get them.

    The distance radius really needs to be adjustable per search to be useful outside of densely populated areas.

  • flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace

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  • It seems like on CL the city labels are mostly for human readable convenience and behind the scenes it's by distance. You can set a distance from any point:

  • flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace

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  • One thing I would find valuable is mechanisms to dissuade the listings with obviously false prices. So many things on CL that aren't really free or $1.

  • flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace

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  • My use of eBay is closer to my use of Craigslist instead of being like an auction. I don't like to wait for the long bidding windows used online. I also don't like haggling on prices. In this case, people post what they're selling, and if I decide to buy it a third party payment platform is used to transfer funds.

    The differences are that CL is usually items I pick up personally instead of being shipped (but not always), and some CL sellers only accept cash. I have also picked up eBay purchases locally.

  • Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds

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  • Someone makes a good product and then sells it in a store. Even if they do nothing else and buy no ads, a marketing wank somewhere would apparently want to take credit for the maker's work.

  • Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

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  • It’s too neck-in-neck.

    Do you feel that turducken-style programming and differences in the current models' ability to handle declarative vs imperative impacts realization of productivity gains?

  • Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that

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  • That saying too often gets used as an excuse to not even try moving away from patronizing a harmful business, as though it isn't worth any inconvenience since we're screwed no matter what.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • Gladly go back to every site having an animated 'under construction' gif.

  • 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought

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  • ^ Obviously uneducated about the topic.

    At least read up on JStark and the FGC-9.

  • The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’

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  • Thank you for the difficult public service you do.

  • Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not

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  • If this is the ruling which causes you to lose trust that any legal system (not just the US') aligns with morality, then I have to question where you've been all this time.

  • ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops

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