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I don't see one here?

Piracy is allowed on HN now?

If you're referring to the headline in the article, it's slang. To "cop out" means you are giving up without a fight.

Strangely though, all the studies cited on the wiki page seem to suggest that there is a higher number of "yes" questions than "no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#…

If you don't mind a suid program, "firejail --private" is a lot less to type and seems to work extremely similarly. By default it will delete anything created in the newly-empty home fo…

Perhaps they simply meant the legal expectations are constrained by the license.

You might be technically right, but there's also possibly a larger chance you'll end up dead if you don't comply, and I think most people are not prepared to make that sacrifice.

So your solution for dealing with armed thugs is NOT to comply with their demands?

The meta-irony of this statement is impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

Complacency is complicity https://tcpca.org/blog/2019/2/1/when-complacency-is-complici... During the rise of the Third Reich, a German named Dietrich Bonhoeffer re…

It is OK to separate yourself from a group when you deeply disagree with their actions, no matter how insignificant it might seem to a different group of people. However, I am glad this happened. New …

if you want something more lightweight... rustdesk has been great for me, it supports multiple adaptable video codecs and can optimize for latency vs image quality.

For private ISPs? No, there isn't... please provide evidence for this.

> PRISM works fine to recover HTTPS-protected communications Source:

> just It is easy to have strong opinions about things you are sheltered from the consequences of.

> unknowingly Often times random shovelware apps will have these proxy SDKs embedded in them, and the only mention of it being part of the software is buried in some long ToS that nobody reads.

> You can argue that, but then what is its purpose? Why should anyone care about the creation date of a by-design completely arbitrary thing? Pretty sure sorting and filtering them by date/tim…

You can't just blanket block all VPN access, that's not how the internet works... they could pick some common/well-known providers of VPN services and block their IPs/ASN/etc.…

By this same logic, would Proton also be acting suspicious if they exited Switzerland?

Sounds like their claim was technically-correct and you even acknowledged it... I don't see a problem with DDG itself in this aspect. Why do you feel that the actions of a search provider(s) shou…

> Some cars don't come with keys any more Can you name one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich > He served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer before he was appointed chief executive officer, but resigned …

Dunning-Kruger actually applies to everyone, especially to people who openly and over-generalizingly criticize an entire nation's supposed lack of skill.

> we would still be able to use self-issued certificates You still can... it just displays a warning message on first use, as does ssh.

I can tell you exactly why people don't like you. You speak as if you are an expert on everything in the universe at all times. Way too much black-and-white thinking. And many people often strong…

OP claims almost daily that some benign thing is actually illegal but practically never provides any useful proof when asked. (please prove me wrong, Alex)

Article should probably have "(2021)" in the title.

> If you have already checked-in online and your smartphone or tablet dies, you will receive a free of charge boarding pass at the airport. > If passengers don’t have a smartphone or tablet, as …