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Of course it should have an option to be disabled, without a doubt but for the most part it's no more intrusive than using RES on Reddit.

People aren't going to like what they see. One that always annoyed me was a google services app pinging a geoip url everytime I connected to wifi.

I run nextcloud on a $5 vps just like in this article, it's still underutilised. Out of the box my family can have access to certain folders and their own account, they can watch videos in the browser and I can have a selfhosted google docs/sheets alternative. All encrypted at rest.

The court of public opinion is far more important than real courts. You only have to look at enlightened HN comments on Ross Ulbright to see it in action, nearly all are convinced he's guilty of a charge that never went to trial and was dismissed with prejudice, which is rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

https://legaldictionary.net/dismissed-with-prejudice/

It will simply just be a different crop, hey they might even raise cattle or buffalo or grow canola instead just to spite the West.

It's painful to watch people think that palm oil is the environmental problem when it's merely the symptom of far deeper issues that are much harder to solve.

Lecturing some family living in poverty to not cut down trees on their land is a bit rich if you look at the history of deforestation in the states and Europe in the last century, to that farmer you're trying to put out of business all he sees is hypocrisy and gatekeeping, not moral duty.

Guess we'll have to rely on other reporting to find out.

That's far beyond, keys to server room is access to basically every phone on the network. For nearly a decade or so any kid in a mall kiosk can pull off sim cloning attacks. Yet we still use sms as a second factor.

The arrogance that led to that many deaths in WW1 is easily repeated by multiple parties

Tad amusing after all this time people still don't understand why proof-of-work schemes exist.

Rate limiting has zero cost to an adversary. PoW has physical costs. It's in the name :)

It's run by the party who got dramatically voted out at the last election. Even their supporters call it a "backdoor" government.

The former PM who stole billions and was found guilty of all charges was sentenced to 12 years in prison yet still sits in Parliament while getting friendly media interviews, he gave a speech on the budget just the other day representing all of the backbench.

I always find the South China Sea discussions interesting because I'd love to hear who people actually think deserves ownership of it?

The Philippines is run by a proud mass murdering nutjob, Vietnam is China-lite, Brunei just tried to roll out the death penalty for gay people. Malaysia is steadily gaining more extreme Islamists in power who bizarrely blame the Jews for everything that goes wrong like it's a country run by 4chan.

Who exactly deserves all that oil and fish? It's none of the above in my opinion.

That aside, plenty of people don't even use the command line and use linux for various other reasons. My dualboot laptop gets another hour of battery-only time, which is enough reason alone.

From what I gathered everyone moved on to graphene, including the original architect.

I've not seen anyone mention copperheadOS as a modern secure phone in a long time. Not trying to denigrate the post but it's somewhat strange to see them appear out of nowhere.

Also, on my barely secured, out of date firmware phone, the site doesn't work because I block js :/

Truly long for the day people at least attempt to make fallback no-js sites or at least text only static pages like some 90's ftp server for us weirdos who don't need nor want interactivity. Last I looked something like 80% of Android and 50% of apple phones were end of life and yet still used.

This is modern webdev in a nutshell though.

It's not "incompetence", it's industry standard.