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Zak

@ Zak @lemmy.world

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  • What is a 'social rule' that we all follow but nobody ever actually agreed to?

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  • I remember being a kid and hearing about a family member's workplace instituting a rule against discussing pay after some people got upset they were making less than their coworkers and started advocating for higher pay.

    Neither I nor anyone in my immediate family was a leftist, but it seemed really obvious the primary reason for the rule was that management didn't want people to have reasons to demand higher pay.

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  • Because Nixon and Kissinger made a deal with the Saudis to conduct all their oil transactions in dollars in exchange for military protection.

    The dollar was probably the most desirable currency for international transactions before that though. The USA was the largest economy by far, and USD was convertible to gold at a fixed rate.

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  • A web UI could keep drafts indefinitely like that too. It doesn't even need to send anything to the server; local storage has been a thing in browsers for a long time.

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  • I'm going to guess you never learned to touch type. The thought of writing long-form content on a phone keyboard makes my thumbs cramp up.

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    Germany Considers Harsher Sick Leave Rules * HIGH FREQUENCY

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  • One would think that humanity would have learned from the coronavirus pandemic that anyone who might have a contagious disease should stay the fuck home.

    Even a psychopath whose sole priority is exploiting workers to maximize economic output should understand that a sick worker coming in and making ten workers sick will result in lower productivity than that worker staying home.

  • Those who have ever taken medications for depression or anxiety, how long before it started working from your experience?

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  • "Some unlucky people" turns out to be 85% of people with depression. What that suggests to me is that depression is a syndrome with multiple causes, and typical antidepressant drugs treat one of them.

  • What's your favourite non-English cuss word?

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  • Kinderficker has been sadly relevant lately.

  • What's the cheapest you can afford buying (or already bought) that you consider as luxury?

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  • Beer

  • What do you carry in your pockets or with you daily?

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  • I know who LockPickingLawyer is, and I know that disc detainer locks are hard to pick.

    My point is that cloning keys from pictures also requires specialized equipment (or a file and a very high level of skill). The only real exception is standardized keys someone might recognize like the Ford fleet key. Those used to come up in an Amazon search for "police car key".

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    Age verification alternatives ways

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  • opposition needs an argument

    The argument is that it's fundamentally a bad idea, not that we know a better way to do it. I realize that's a harder argument to make.

    Take porn for example. Above board porn sites generally try to comply with the law. They either perform age verification or block jurisdictions that require it. They verify the ages of performers. They comply with copyright law. They enforce rules against unauthorized deepfakes.

    Sites exist which are hosted outside the jurisdiction of USA/EU/AU/etc... legal systems which do none of those things. On such sites, there's a good chance of finding CSAM, stolen content, and deepfakes; I will not list any here. Driving teenagers who want to see porn from mainstream sites to poorly moderated ones is the likely outcome of a successful age verification scheme, and an undesirable one.

  • What do you carry in your pockets or with you daily?

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  • I'm not sure a video of someone successfully picking an Abloy disc detainer lock is good evidence for the claim that picking isn't really an option when it comes to Abloy disc detainer locks.

    I'll grant that picking them is difficult, but cloning keys for them from photos is probably also more difficult than common pin tumbler locks.

  • What do you carry in your pockets or with you daily?

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  • That's true, but most people with that skill can also pick locks.

  • EU Commission bans top officials from using Signal groups

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  • Sounds like a decentralized encrypted messaging platform is needed.

    Decentralized probably isn't desirable for this use case; self-hosted is. When designing something for that purpose based on a decentralized protocol like Matrix, it's probably desirable to mandate that the most sensitive conversations take place using a server with decentralization disabled and a client restricted to using only that server.

  • ICE Plans to Target Family Members of U.S. Marines Next

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  • How to lose the civil war you're trying to start in one easy step.

  • Why are you crying, Windows user?

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  • Between Firefox being its usual self and the 11.5gb of VRAM and GTT kwin_wayland is currently using, 32gb does not feel excessive.

  • White House reveals new app after cryptic posts: Full list of features

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  • Do you need a recommendation for an adblocker?

  • White House reveals new app after cryptic posts: Full list of features

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  • An app that could be a website and wants a huge intrusive set of permissions? So just like every corporate social media thing ever.

  • The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 text mentions the TSA on 2 occasions, 1 of which recommends that "The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) be privatized" (Page 134, Bullet Point 4)

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  • The TSA has little to do with the lack of hijacking since 2001. Secured cockpit doors and the widespread belief that hijacking means death are the main reasons it no longer occurs.

  • Suspect with bong built into his car dashboard is arrested for the 98th time after high speed chase

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  • Under other circumstances, I might agree with you, but the guy built a bong into his dashboard.

    That's an impressive level of commitment to DUI.

  • UnifiedAttestation: European, open source Google Play Integrity alternative on the horizon, could impact banking & government apps.

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  • You're not wrong, and an open option might be an improvement over the current situation. On the other hand, it might encourage broader use of remote attestation.

    I'm mostly disappointed that there's no meaningful organized opposition. When Microsoft first proposed adding remote attestation to Windows, the New York Times called it out as oppressive. Now it seems like only hardcore open source nerds care, and I think the tech community should be doing better.