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New comment by fxbl0i in "A German court forced the removal of a Wikipedia article’s history"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 23:41:58 +0000

Well, it depends. The EU doesn't like free speech; archive.org is not exempt (April 10th):

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190410/14580641973/eu-te...

New comment by fxbl0i in "You Don't Have to Like Assange to Defend Him"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 20:58:03 +0000

I really hope you're being facetious when you say you wonder whether the other guy was being facetious ;P

New comment by fxbl0i in "Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B cloud contract finalists"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:46:38 +0000

>you don't want anything you work on to be used by the government

Is this the work of some kind of extremist libertarian branch inside of Microsoft?

New comment by fxbl0i in "Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 18:24:23 +0000

No, I'm not saying before we can criticise China we have to fix the rest of the world. Tribalism is normal and healthy, and there's nothing to fix.

New comment by fxbl0i in "Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:53:08 +0000

That has nothing to do with the subject at hand. You are conflating issues.

New comment by fxbl0i in "Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:37:42 +0000

It's not whataboutism, I'm saying that this is perfectly normal and therefore I don't think it's valid criticism of China in particular.

New comment by fxbl0i in "Many Chinese suffer discrimination based on their regional origin"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:22:18 +0000

So, like everywhere in the world? This China bashing is getting stupid.

New comment by fxbl0i in "Wikipedia isn’t officially a social network, but the harassment can get ugly"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:59:43 +0000

It is not good or bad, it is what it is. Unless biographies of females are actively being suppressed, it is simply irrelevant: they are not being created because nobody cares, literally.

New comment by fxbl0i in "Wikipedia isn’t officially a social network, but the harassment can get ugly"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 13:25:50 +0000

There are many more biographies of males than of females on Wikipedia. Whatever the reason for that might be is up to debate.

New comment by fxbl0i in "Julian Assange arrested in London"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 10:00:38 +0000

What crimes did he commit? Honest question. I heard that someone accused him of being a rapist but then dropped the charges so I guess it was false. What else is there?

New comment by fxbl0i in "JQuery 3.4.0 Released"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:14:57 +0000

I assume people who don't think about DOM manipulation and the performance toll it takes are responsible for how slow the web is today and, what's even worse, how that waste of CPU has been pushed from the server to the client.

New comment by fxbl0i in "EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:46:41 +0000

I've been on the Internet my entire life and not even once I've seen something I didn't want or expect to see. It's simply not possible to force people to watch a several minutes long video or read a manifesto with dozens of pages, so I don't understand this sentiment.

New comment by fxbl0i in "EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content"

fxbl0i — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:42:09 +0000

The European Court of Human Rights upheld a conviction in 2018 for "disparagement of religious precepts" because a woman in Austria said that Muhammad was a paedophile (which is correct, since according to the Quran, Muhammad had sex with a 9 year old whom he had married when she was 6):

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/its-not-fr...

New comment by fxbl0i in "GitHub Has Become a Haven for China's Censored Internet Users"

fxbl0i — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:28:50 +0000

Because a) politics is an extremely divisive topic which leads easily to flame wars and b) politics is completely unrelated to software development, so there's absolutely no reason to deal with a) in the context of software development.

New comment by fxbl0i in "Tesla Model 3 becomes best-selling car in Switzerland"

fxbl0i — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:26:52 +0000

Interesting. Can't you wrap the antenna in a Faraday cage, or simply disconnect it?

New comment by fxbl0i in "GitHub Has Become a Haven for China's Censored Internet Users"

fxbl0i — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:53:10 +0000

No, I said I believe it to be inappropriate to use your position in a public software project to push your politics. I didn't ask for "restrictions on ideological content". Believing something to be inappropriate doesn't mean I think it should be forbidden or restricted.

New comment by fxbl0i in "GitHub Has Become a Haven for China's Censored Internet Users"

fxbl0i — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:37:42 +0000

It's not only about that. We all have our political ideas and I don't want anybody to shove theirs up my butt while I am in github; if I want to read that kind of stuff I'll look at twitter or facebook, thanks.

New comment by fxbl0i in "GitHub Has Become a Haven for China's Censored Internet Users"

fxbl0i — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 17:28:14 +0000

I find it concerning that someone might think it's appropriate to add political messages to software projects. Imagine if some software developer added a "fuck Bernie Sanders!!!" remark to the README of a popular repo. Just my two cents.

New comment by fxbl0i in "Nations of the Amazon are seeking “shared governance” of the .amazon TLD"

fxbl0i — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 14:51:55 +0000

"Amazon" is the English spelling of the original name, so it could be argued it's a made-up word too.

New comment by fxbl0i in "Reasons to turn down the transmit power of your Wi-Fi (2017)"

fxbl0i — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:56:29 +0000

Many of those depend on all of your neighbours doing the same thing. They won't, so you'll be the loser. I don't want to be the loser.