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New comment by struant in "State Attorneys General Want to Tie Online Access to ID"

struant — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:07:25 +0000

Just say the whole internet is not for kids without adult supervision and leave it at that.

It doesn't even matter if you can get something that technically works. Half the "age appropriate" content targeted at children is horrifying brainrot. Hardcore pornography would be less damaging to them.

Just supervise your damn children people.

New comment by struant in "The online sports gambling experiment"

struant — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 23:22:59 +0000

How about just "Don't allow advertising period"?

New comment by struant in "Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit"

struant — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:31:19 +0000

Why is doing a task with a machine suddenly objectionable when the same task performed by humans is perfectly fine?

New comment by struant in "YouTube's eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio"

struant — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 21:52:28 +0000

Unless the purpose and value of the video is solely distribution of the copyrighted music it should be protected fair use. If copyright holders don't like it they are free to not license their music to be played in public ever.

New comment by struant in "French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy"

struant — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:55:47 +0000

That is really good point. The court is basically giving them permission to do this, by asking them to not have net neutrality.

New comment by struant in "Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership"

struant — Thu, 09 May 2024 02:15:50 +0000

Their curation blows. The whole premise of having a canonical answer to a question is dumb. Most programming languages and libraries are always in flux. The whole nature of many questions changes over time.

StackOverflow is a tyranny of mediocrity. It is a bunch middling programmers shitting on newbies, and driving away experts because you get severely punished for not being mediocre.

I had a question closed as a duplicate for being too similar to another question that I directly cited in my question as being sublty different and not applicable. (Because I anticipated some idiot closing my question...and they went and did it anyway)

New comment by struant in "Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes"

struant — Sun, 05 May 2024 02:25:11 +0000

They can't fine starlink if they have no presence in their country. They already did those other things and people are still using starlink systems in their countries. There is no other recourse for them.

New comment by struant in "Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes"

struant — Sat, 04 May 2024 16:50:33 +0000

Starlink can see the packet traffic. They ought be able to analyze which dishes are on each side of the conflict. Even if it isn't perfectly accurate, a rough blacklist would help Ukraine tremendously (by hurting Russia). And if Ukraine complains about any that aren't working they can unblock those specifically.

New comment by struant in "Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes"

struant — Sat, 04 May 2024 16:39:58 +0000

I am not belittling them. Just recognizing the fact they have no power to enforce anything on starlink.

It's not about what they "deserve". It is about what is physically possible.

I would love it if pirate internet via satellite that cannot be controlled by any government became a common thing in the US (and everywhere in the world). Unfortunately the US does have the enforcement capability to tell starlink what to do.

New comment by struant in "Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes"

struant — Sat, 04 May 2024 07:18:57 +0000

What is an African country going to do about enforcing anything to do with starlink other than confiscate hardware within their borders? Whine to the UN that someone is competing with their local telecom?

New comment by struant in "Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes"

struant — Fri, 03 May 2024 23:10:16 +0000

You must have read a different article, because "starlink doesn't like it" is the only justification or explanation the article offers for their stance. And that is neither a valid justification nor an explanation.

New comment by struant in "Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes"

struant — Fri, 03 May 2024 23:01:38 +0000

Then it is up to the local government to confiscate their starlink hardware. There is no reason for starlink to respect every single legal jurisdiction's rules. They only need to deal with wherever they connect to ISPs.

New comment by struant in "Starlink geofence appears to have some gaping holes"

struant — Fri, 03 May 2024 12:04:25 +0000

Why do they give a damn if people are subscribing in the US and using their product in Africa?

If anything they should be using their position to obliterate the whole idea of region-locking anything.

New comment by struant in "So you want to scrape like the big boys (2021)"

struant — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 02:03:10 +0000

Why do you think the consent of someone relaying information matters in the slightest when it comes to what people do with that information?

New comment by struant in "Software Supply Chain Security"

struant — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:22:13 +0000

You can also reduce your attack surface (dependencies).

New comment by struant in "FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules"

struant — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:06:28 +0000

I would say that is unfair because their actual platform is deliberately sabotaging any kind of functional governance and refusing to change any government policy that is clearly broken and in desperate need of change. Obviously they won't admit that. But that is what they have been doing for decades. They wouldn't want to accidentally make things better for people because then they can't campaign on fixing the problems.

New comment by struant in "Reddit is taking over Google"

struant — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 23:01:04 +0000

Is it mostly spam that makes you think moderation is necessary or is it something else?

I ask because I have some ideas about how to implement a moderation-less reddit-alike. (I think I know how to eliminate spam)

New comment by struant in "Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK"

struant — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:16:25 +0000

In order for there to be a victim, the deep fake needs to be distributed and passed off as real.

Creation alone harms exactly nobody.

New comment by struant in "Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism"

struant — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:56:52 +0000

Ineffective and barely enforced.

New comment by struant in "Court approves 3M multi-billion dollar settlement over PFAS in drinking water"

struant — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 12:31:09 +0000

To clarify, I am only talking about direct financial benefit (capitalist ownership). But it has to be backdated to the owners at the time range when wrongdoing occurred. That way you can go after people who sold (for profit) their stock before the wrongdoing was discovered.

Financially punish the capitalists who benefit from crimes and the executives that are currently getting away with crimes won't continue to get away with anything. (Laws and regulations will change rapidly when money is on the line)

Punishing only the people responsible for the crimes is a losing strategy. You have to eliminate the demand for that behavior. Because there an endless supply of morally corruptible people to take the fall so that capitalists can gain.