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Also, accepting donations and sponsorships opens you up to being sued for profitting from copyright infringement.

I use my own default CSS, so it's pretty nice to read for me. It's sad that most browsers have crappy default CSS.

It really shines in text-mode browsers, though.

I like this post because it validates my opinions!

IMO this is the pinnacle of web design: https://stallman.org/

Archived link:

http://archive.is/HiG0l

Corn syrup represses the feeling of being full and is also extremely cheap to produce, it might actually make the applesauce cheaper to produce.

I think you're forgetting something...

Herbert: oh, touch me there <3

Is the distortion of public opinion by means of the now fairly mature fields of economics, politicology and psyops how things got so bad?

What can a person do to not feel powerless in the face of this?

Did people actually believe that this was ever about drugs and terrorism? Do people still?

Can someone help enlighten me? Are there books I should be reading? Could I even learn to understand why, or can I just strive to bear the weight of this pervasive madness?

I find it very hard to accept the existence and scale of these issues, to accept how insignificantly small I am compared to them. To accept I barely understand enough of them to know that they should be solved, and that solving them will be a long and painful process that I'll have little say in.

It's a very lonely and alienating experience to hold these views and opinions. I wish I knew how to express them better, so I could be understood and understand myself better.

In somewhat news: depression is ungood and our anchor is hitting the couch.

Get an anti-adblock killer list, it's great :)

I basically enable every list in uBlock. Suprisingly it almost never blocks too much, when I get blocked it's consequently for being on a VPN.

I guess it could still make sense for tech-heavy, "we rewrite 50% of our code every month"-companies, like... Google?

Maybe they're mostly running their cloud to iron out the kinks im the API's they use themselves?

And 2017 is the time of Windows XP and WannaCry.

What I'm saying is, those things are all still running in prod. I got an employer off Java 6 just two weeks ago. The next step is all the Java packages that were deprecated 5 years ago.

You could use Git-LFS for managing huge data blobs with Git?

I'm flying significantly less, you could try that?

I'm not sure, I only learned to manage services when I was already on Windows 7.

Fair enough, I got hung up on the lack of guarantees to distribute code alongside compiled applications.

Would you say compiled MIT programs are still "free software" when they don't come with the source code?

Didn't they?

My understanding is this happened:

* Microsoft writes codes with bugs

* NSA writes exploits for said bugs and a worm based on them

* ShadowBrokers leak the NSA exploits and worm

* Random hackers take the NSA worm and combine it with a ransomware payload

So the NSA wrote the exploits and by not reporting the vulnerabilities they found they exposed the public to others finding the vulns or their findings and/or exploits leaking.

It's more akin to manufacturing portable arms factories, that can also replicate themselves.

Lose one and you're SOL.

I thought MIT wasn't free software as defined by the FSF?

Open source would be the term for that. Free requires end users to receive source, open just allows you to use the source if you have a copy.

That's what the lawsuit is to determine.

I'm guessing Qualcomm will lose.

It'd be a good start if they just didn't use Windows.

But yeah, definitely. It's pretty damned unlikely that an OpenBSD backup server would get wormed, unless an ME exploit is involved.

Disabled the SMB services yet? Win + R -> services.msc

I routinely disable services (until things stop working and I have to figure where I went too far) and luckily I'd disabled this one on my Win7 gaming box, even though the updates came through as well (I just manually vet updates, and have a bunch of them blacklisted for adding telemetry).

To the author: it would be nice if your site had a small screens layout.

I can't read the article on my phone because too much code is cut off (and the right margin is unpleasantly close to the main text, unlike the left margin).

What sections of the law and precedents make you so sure about that?

Perhaps by ways the DMCA, for "p0wning" DRM('d) modules?

It doesn't, but you do have to do a manual check and remember to do that.

Then it turns out parent is the ransomware vendor and the linked file turns out to contain the ransomware, with a few letters in the URL substituted for Unicode lookalikes so it appears to be a legitimate Windows update.

I'm not saying that's truly what's happening, but it's easy to imagine. I'd verify I'm connecting to the right domain and double-check with e.g. VirusTotal if I were you.

Not everyone wants to update to Windows 10. Windows 8.1 will receive extended support (e.g. security updates) until January 10, 2023.

Microsoft, training the next generation of operations teams to use staging environments.

Do you have a good alternative to the Freedom of Press Index?

On the Geert Wilders issue: it is a lot more nuanced than how you present it. The quote Geert Wilders prosecuted for (translation mine):

"In this city and the Netherlands, do you want more or fewer Moroccans?"

the crowd starts chanting 'fewer'

"Then we're going to take care of that!"

This was not just a casual remark, as the judge determined that it was a scripted section of a speech meant to evoke that particular reaction from the crowd. The charges were "inciting hate", "inciting discrimination" and "criminal insult of and inciting discrimination of a group", the group being the Moroccan race (race as defined by Dutch law)[0].

The first charge was dismissed, but he was convicted of the latter; the judge decided to give no penalty because he considered the public conviction enough in the case of a public figure. The maximum penalty he could have received was two years in jail, though that would have been highly irregular; a fine is generally used.

Personally, I think Geert Wilders adds little of value. He consequently refuses to set (literally) any concrete goals for his party and only runs on populism.

The context matters, too. The Dutch legal system works very differently from the American system. Jurisprudence and the letter of the law are used, but the principle of arriving at a reasonable, proportional and good faith judgement is weighed very heavily when compared to the American system.

Our prison situation is that prisons are closing. We have 9,145[2] prisoners as of September 2016, out of a population of 16,979,120[3].

[0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweede_zaak-Geert_Wilders [1]: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redelijkheid_en_billijkheid [2]: http://statline.cbs.nl/StatWeb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=... [3]: http://statline.cbs.nl/Statweb/publication/?DM=SLNL&PA=37296...

How do you define "extreme end"?

The US isn't doing great in the Press Freedom Index[0]. Norway, or my home country the Netherlands, would IMO be much better examples of "extreme freedom of speech". I'd say the US is strong on this point, but not at the extremes.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

That's a good idea, very similar to map makers hiding small deficits to find copiers.

That gets awfully close to DRM, though.