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Just a corn on the internet.

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    The Grind

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  • Well, building cathedrals wasn't fun either unless you were the guy in charge.

  • NHS defends cousin marriages because ‘only 15 percent lead to birth defects’

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  • Midwives have been told about the benefits of “close relative marriage”

    Nice spin. They do not list benefits but advocate that the risk have been exaggerated.

  • Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking

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  • Sisyphus is not in Hades II. However, Bouldy is.

  • safe as fuck

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  • PURGE THE HERETIC!

  • In a place without access to US apps and online services, how would you use the Internet?

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  • Google is in fact Android. The AOSP is just a fig leaf.

    Written from my phone running GrapheneOS and MicroG.

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    TIL why María Corina Machado is relevant in the whole Venezuela thing

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  • I am not sure if I understand the attitude of your comment.

    "Vindicated by history" to me suggest that given the current situation, you think Machado has done the right thing back in 2002 when she supported a coup against Chavez, a democratically elected leader. However, the question "how far can you go" implies to me that you question whether what she did was worth it or ethical? So it's not clear to me what your stance is.

  • In a place without access to US apps and online services, how would you use the Internet?

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  • In that world, what would you use the Internet for?

    Pretty much the same as before?

    The only giant tech firm from your list I am actively engaged with is Google Alphabet because of Android and YouTube. Apart from that, there is PayPal because of online payments and WhatsApp because of other people. But for both, I have 1:1 replacements already in place to be used wherever available.

  • Which model of good and evil, if not somehow both, do you think is more accurate?

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  • Fun fact, you’re wrong. Many living things don’t experience pain and act entirely like robots responding to their environment reflexively whether by their chemical or even neurological structure.

    That's the same way we experience pain (or our environment in general). There is a stimulus, such as you cutting yourself, which triggers nerves that transmit an electric signal to your brain, which then interprets this input. Cells of the immune system respond via chemical signaling, etc. etc. Just because our reaction is more complex doesn't take away from the fact that other organisms respond in a similar basic way. Whether I cut you, a tree or a microorganism, there are reactions averse to the stimulus. Our complex response "pain" is only possible through those basic ones, unless you assume some ethereal concept of the soul or such to be true.

    I'll borrow your theme of computers: Running a modern OS is only possible on top of more basic software and in the end the hardware. A GUI displaying an error is just a complex representation of the fact that the underlying system has entered a state in which it can no longer function.

    If responding to one’s environment is all that matters, then computers are just as “living” as jellyfish but don’t inherently act towards self preservation or feel pain, so you’re wrong, plenty of things that can respond to their environment don’t give a shit about it or act towards self preservation. If you try to qualify “only reproducing things count” or “organic life” you’re the one drawing those arbitrary boundaries so this isn’t an objective basis for morality.

    I am not sure why you think I'd count a computer as a living thing by default, given my reply and the fact a computer or machine is whatever we give it the capability to. I'll entertain the thought, though: We can further break down the premise to "Acting destructive is a bad thing". Coming to think of it, that is even closer to what I'm trying to convey than "Hurting is bad".

    Everything that has the ability to do so strives towards procreating one way or the other. Simply destroying something without furthering this goal can be seen as a negative action. And this premise can be expanded to include all things. So yes, destroying a computer for no good reason can therefore be considered bad.

    And, even if pain were a solid basis, we run into problems with which pain matters more? Would you walk away from Omelas? Would you kill an innocent man yourself to save five others?

    I had to look up what "Omelas" is. I recently finished The Dispossessed and Always coming home by Le Guin, and I guess I have my next book cut out for me.

    And as for the trolley problem: That is the point where IMO we actually enter subjective territory. How much evil is tolerable in the name of survival. It's a fact that in order to survive, we have to destroy.

    And what about cancer or viruses? Something tells me you think a person who feels pain is more important than the millions of viruses or bacteria giving them an infection/disease, but that’s not objective. Why does the life of one outweigh the life of many in this circumstance?

    You and I are more than one singular entity, and that's before we start to consider weird phenomena such as split brains. We consist of an unimaginable amount of cells and symbiotic organisms. So the question is not "one vs millions" but "millions vs billions". And therefore destroying millions of viruses/bacteria to keep an organism of billions of cells alive is the lesser evil.

    Can this be extended to mean that it is ethical to kill 8 billion humans in order to save the ecosphere from being destroyed by our actions? Hell yes, it can. Is this an inherently bad thing? I don't think so. Would I do it? Hell no, because I believe that humanity can better itself, therefore this magnitude of destruction is not necessary for survival.

    And if you really don’t want anything to feel pain, the guaranteed solution to this problem is to kill every living thing. No more living things will feel pain ever again. Something tells me you wouldn’t think that good though…

    That is, if you believe that avoidance of pain is the end goal of all existence. That's subjective.

    Fun fact: Do you know the game Stellaris? One of the endgame crisis the player can encounter is a megalomaniacal synthetic being that wants to end all pain by removing all higher brain functions

    (Edit: just reread this and realized this first sentence comes off much harsher than I intended it, sorry. I legitimately meant it’s a fun fact you might not be aware of and I just thought “fun fact, you’re wrong” was a humorous way to start an explanation.)

    Yeah, that definitely didn't come across, and with some more expletives in your reply gave not a good expression. I reversed my downvote.

  • Which model of good and evil, if not somehow both, do you think is more accurate?

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  • I think there are some general basic principles that can be derived from how the universe works, though.

    Most notably, that every living organism avoids pain and hurt unless strictly necessary for survival. Therefore, we can IMHO conclude that inflicting pain on other living things is a negative/bad/evil act. It is one that is necessary for us to do in order to survive, but should be minimized.

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  • No way! That would ruin my whole system of beliefs!

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  • Backend engineering code quality does not matter.

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  • TIL that on April 18, 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." and then played piano music for the rest of the broadcast time.

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  • I upvoted. May I have my paycheck now, please?

  • Making someone's day

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  • I got charged too much by insurance for a low 3 digit amount. When talking to their support the employee said I am very calm given the situation. I was a bit surprised and said "Well, it's not pocket change, but fortunately I am in a position where the amount is not life threatening". Apparently they are used to much worse.

  • You can do anything at Zombocom

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  • Not like there have been no initiatives. But given that our biggest party also sued after someone pointed out their technical fuck-ups it is not likely to happen.

  • You can do anything at Zombocom

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  • Yes, because any circumvention of any form of security, be it as useless as a hardcoded default password, is considered a crime in German law. So even the discovery of a security flaw puts you with one foot in jail, because technically you did something you are not supposed to.

  • You can do anything at Zombocom

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  • That is if you'd live in a place with an open attitude toward new technologies.

  • You can do anything at Zombocom

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  • You are braver than I am because here in Germany usually people get sued for reporting security vulnerabilities.