josephcsible

> excess mortality for all causes more or less matches Covid deaths, so the numbers are roughly correct. This doesn't follow. It just means that the number of falsely-claimed Covid deaths is r…

> Surely we care about a murderer who kills an elderly person. That's not what it is though. If you put poison in someone's food, and they die before they eat it, you didn't murder t…

You're missing the point. The point is that some of the excess deaths were caused by Covid, and the rest were caused by the lockdown, and the numbers are intentionally being skewed to make all of…

> So, your not arguing that people didn't die from Covid19, just that you think those people weren't expected to live for much longer? The implication being we shouldn't care so much…

> the stats are huge DESPITE the unprecedented lockdowns Another possible interpretation of this is that lockdowns don't really help much. > We know this because we have seen how things hav…

> I don't see why we've suddenly decided to take a microscope to the stats. Because this is the first time that these sorts of stats have been used to curtail everyone's freedom so m…

It doesn't have uBlock Origin, and the ones that it does have aren't as good.

This isn't that effective anymore. A lot of sites now proxy their ads through their own Web server for the express purpose of making them harder to block. The only way to effectively block these,…

There's one control group that I wish they had used but I didn't see: people who were exposed to Covid-19 and had to do a full quarantine for 2 weeks, but then later turned out to never have…

I acknowledge that that's a limitation of ifconfig today. My point was that we should have just modified ifconfig instead of completely replacing it with an incompatible new tool.

Why do we need a law that bans lead paint and asbestos? Why do we need a law that requires cars to have backup cameras? Why do we need a law that requires buildings to have wheelchair ramps?

> Slingbox servers will be permanently taken offline 24 months after the discontinued announcement date (November 9, 2020), at which point ALL Slingbox devices and services will become inoperable. …

Free market economics would solve this problem. The reason we still have this problem is that our market isn't free enough: once you buy something, it should be yours to do whatever you want with…

> abuse its customers by denying them control over their devices That's exactly what tivoization is, so the GPLv3 already prevents that.

That's not what I said. It's fine for devices to only run signed code. It only becomes bad when the owner isn't in control of whose code signatures are trusted.

Most systems that aren't servers only have one Ethernet adapter, which you used to be able to count on being named eth0. "Predictable" is a huge misnomer. They're stable, sure, but…

There are? Are you sure you're not getting Digital Rights Management and Direct Rendering Manager mixed up?

There's definitely one advantage to autotools, though: anyone who wants to compile a program that uses CMake needs CMake on their system, but you don't need autotools to compile a program ju…

> Why is this new syntax worse? The question is, how is it better? When you have something that works, replacing it with something that's just not worse is unnecessary churn and work for every…

It allows reselling, yes, but since anyone who buys it could give it away to everyone else for free, it doesn't really happen much.

> But we don't have this because Stallman is a zealot and he wanted to Make A Point about purity. Uh, he's okay with selling exceptions.

This is just a special case of option 3. Why would this get you licensing fees when it wouldn't?

Apple intentionally cripples mobile Safari so that Web apps will never be as good as native ones.

The containers run locally on the Chromebooks, not in the cloud.

Chromebooks aren't locked down. You can put them in developer mode and replace the entire OS with one of your choosing, without needing any jailbreaks or exploits.

Why do you keep saying "secure" and "locked-down" like they go together, when the opposite is true?

If it only works until Apple stops signing your certificate, then it's not "unapproved".

Give it a few more years. They're working on it. They've already done Gatekeeper, SIP, removal of kexts, making the root partition read-only every boot even if you turn off SIP, etc.

Be careful: the Play Store has a bunch of problems too and is in some ways almost as bad as Apple's App Store. The real reason that Android is better than iOS is that you can sideload apps from t…

Are they going to DMCA a federal judge's order too? https://www.rcfp.org/wp-content/uploads/imported/20120105_20... …