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We managed since usenet times to quite successfully communicate with knowing only the handles of the other persons involved in the discussion.

Well, since I generally don't care about your gender identity, I would be quite satisfied if I use the grammatical gender that corresponds with your gendered name. BTW in my native language all nouns are gendered, even the surnames, and it would be grammatically incorrect to refer to a feminine or masculine name with pronouns from different gender.

I disagree that personal gender is often relevant in that kind of discussions (SO, or similar general topic forums), and when it is, then it's perfectly normal to share it. The same goes for dick size. But why to mention it if not necessary?

I don't get offended when someone is rude, it just makes that person an asshole in my mind.

But of-course I don't think sharing the name is rude, it's a basic personal reference. It would be rude if it's followed by "I'm straight" or "I'm a woman". As for pronouns, in most languages, you can know the [grammatically] correct gender automatically from the name. And if you don't, most grammars have middle or neutral gender, so that can be used. The issue here is that we shouldn't bother other people with our gender identity.

This is getting quite ridiculous.

I don't want to know your gender. I don't care. It's your thing. It's non of my business, and it makes no difference to me whatsoever.

If I do want to know your gender, then things between us are starting to become intimate.

To sum things up: I would say it's rude if someone shares his gender identity with me without being asked. On the same level as if someone shares his/her dick size without being asked.

That last sentence is what caused the outrage in the wider public. It was amplified by the manipulative post of Selam Jie Gano and the media that parroted it, but his original claim did hit the nerve (that it shouldn't be called sexual assault if no physical force was used in the sexual act).

I'm totally expecting from Google to discontinue, restrict or change the API for Google Sheets at one point. It will likely be in the moment when it's hardest for you to timely update your app.

By not knowing which peers have verified numbers, the risk of getting caught that you're in the middle is very high, so that big cost for getting there will be for nothing (and actually get way more costly because you alerted the subjects).

I'm wondering why the article fails to mention that there is a sufficiently good and easy mechanism to compare and verify the new safety numbers. You just talk to your peer and read the numbers - and the peer can verify them.

This will fail when AI software gets really good at imitating voice in real-time during casual talk, but we're not there yet (or - if that is my threat model, I'll find an out of band way to verify)

"Symmetry of time means that the outcomes of experiments should not depend on when the experiment took place."

I don't think that this is correct.

No, Slav Macedonia was acceptable to us. But not to the Albanians, and we changed our constitution in 2001 to allow them to veto this kind of things (under strong US/NATO pressure).

Modern Greeks have as much in common with Alexander as anybody else here. There are many historic clues that the ancient Greeks didn't understand the ancient Macedonian language, and that the Macedonians coudn't figure out how to write their language with the Greek alphabet, so they gradually (but not fully) adopted the Greek.

(Peoples) Republic of Macedonia was formed on August 2, 1944, as federal unit in Yugoslavia, hence the provisional name Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In 1991 independence was declared, but the only real change was loss of economic integration and military protection.

There was (is) a substantial ethnic (Slavic) minority in the Greek park of Macedonia that identified themselves as Macedonians, which was treated pretty terribly by the right wing Greek authorities after the Balkan Wars: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/greece-apos-macedonian-slavic-heri... (My father was not allowed to visit his birthplace in the Greek part of Macedonia because his Yugoslav passport had the slavic name of the town).

It is this issue that is the real reason for the dispute, not Ancient Macedonia. The serious Macedonian academic institutions (and almost all of the people that I know) don't claim that we have any cultural relation with them.

Signal actually doesn't know all your contacts - you can check the source code to confirm that it doesn't know about any contacts that you don't message using Signal, for example.

I get a message in the app when a contact starts using Signal, so it has to know them server-side.

The other part of the comment was reffering to what the server could know (in the gov. case - will know), and that IS quite a lot (assuming Signal style service).

And I do trust Moxie nominally, but I also believe that he will obey US courts.

(i.e: not much).

Not sure if I'm 100% right here, but knowing all my contacts and when I communicate with whom is an awful much.

Is there any reason why is this shared as link to github page?

While opening on desktop Firefox (Linux) first the tab froze, then whole browser, and now the PC is completely unresponsive, with the disk in full write, i guess the swap is getting filled.

I don't wand to sound snarky, but you take issue with their blatant disrespect for "intelectual property", but not with their blatant disrespect for some basic human rights?

WhatsApp knows your contacts and when are you talking with whom. Also their closed source app has access to most of your phone.

"Kanal 103" is a cult indie FM station from Skopje.

Recordings expire (overwritten) after one week.

e.g. http://radio.spodeli.org/kanal103/chetvrtok/2000-2200.html

Brutalist on-demand radio streaming platform that I've build.

I was not referring to the app, but in general to discover a cheater you'll most likely violate their privacy.

My point is that privacy in a relationship is a relationship thing, and the moral choice for me would be to not interfere in other peoples relationships. This includes not judging you if you use spyware on your wife.

But what if intelligence is just a pattern matching ability, and consciousness arises when the entity starts discovering it's place in the patterns?

In the first case, you have an entity that has a proven record of breaking the law (on purpose) using technology. I can also argue that the purpose of DoD now is to protect the elites, from the people, but that's another story.

In the second, the legal line is not crossed. It may be crossed at some point by an adult person that can bear responsibility for his actions.

I would not work with both; I can understand how can one not be a hypocrite by choosing to work with the latter and not the former, but not the other way around.

Is it the right moral choice to protect the privacy of a cheater? Maybe, I don't know, I'm struggling to answer that to myself, let alone judge others.

In this case, I'll argue that they didn't change. They continued being 'model citizens', but the model became bad.

Ofcourse not. They can't put a backdoor code in the open source. Some people would build from source, resulting in the corporation not being able to access their messages when needed. Not really acceptable for the main shareholders.

I use Firefox with FoxyProxy extension for years (both on Windows and Linux) with more than 20 different SOCKS 5 via ssh proxies simultaneously (with configured IP rules for each), had no problems whatsoever.

There is an additional reason that makes the 'Cadastre' extremly difficult project for Greece. A lot of the land in northern Greece is claimed (with documents) by people who are now citizens of Republic of Macedonia. Greece will break some EU laws if it doesn't honor those documents, but that land is used for more than 60 years by other people or the Greek state.

What other systems exist that provide distributed trust architecture?

The source code is clearly not biased towards playing copyrighted content. If this DMCA notice is respected, any bittorrent related project should also be banned.

You shoud check http://mycloudplayers.com, it is built over SoundCloud and has some amazing features for discovering new music based on the favorites tracks of the people you follow.

Mass port blocking is easy. Not so hard and less disruptive is DPI of all port 53 traffic, blocking only requests for Twitter. In addition, you block the IP address range of Twitter to foil the smart-asses who use hosts file.