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Comment Re:Ok...why do you need multiple keyboards? (Score 1) 65

Does your keyboard have Chinese?
I actually have two google keyboards, not that I trust google, it's just that the standard keyboard doesn't have Chinese and Microsoft bought swiftkey.

But if you look at the big example of a phone with ONE keyboard, it doesn't offer swipe/slide to type (or at least it didn't for a very long time, I have no idea about how iphones are these days). It also still doesn't have decent autocorrection.

Different keyboards focus on different things. Better predictive text, better emojis, better interaction.

Comment Richard Stallman on Tim Berners-Lee (Score 1) 248

The fact that he's a knight means he was of service to the empire. And now he's being of service to another empire...What's happening here is that Berners-Lee and Jeff Jaffee have convinced themselves that by making this a standard, they will make the injustice of DRM smoother and less annoying in minor ways. And they've convinced themselves that that's the purpose of their lives...

He should handle it by saying no. But he can't really. And the reason is he set up an organization which is controlled by the businesses that want to put in the most money... By structuring it so it's controlled by the businesses, they've structured it so it wouldn't defend us from those businesses.

He is right, and TBL is an evil asshole destroying what he helped to create (he didn't create it alone like people like to say).

"Richard Stallman" - Lunduke Hour - Apr 14, 2017 the interview.

Comment Re:No Surprise (Score 3, Insightful) 332

Of course not everyone, that's a strawman. But to try to imply that a significant portion would rather have iOS is also incredibly incorrect. Most people who buys cheap Androids are either fine or would rather have an expensive Android. People who really want an iphone are buying 4s and 5s iphones now. I know a bunch of them, it's sad.

Comment Re:Do you trust Kaspersky? (Score 1) 91

When I was a Windows user, the fact that they consistently discovered government deployed malware and attacks (including Chinese and Russian but mostly five eyes) was the reason I bought their software. Because I felt that the people capable of detecting and working against state actors were more capable than the rest. Also, I wanted to financially support companies that do that (tackle the big criminals). Lastly, because they used to look good on detection comparisons (I don't know if they still do), it was not like I was trading my security for supporting them.
My experience was fine, I never got infected with anything that I found later by using other anti-viruses. Their antivirus is good for as much as we know, and the only ones claiming otherwise are known criminals that were caught by Kaspersky multiple times, showing no technical proof, while being called on to do so.

We don't know if we can trust them, it's not verified free software, but we know for sure that the USG actively works on crippling the security of our computers (e.g.: RSA).

Now I use Linux, and have no false sense of security. I'm aware that if the spooks decide to hack or murder me they will.
Also, my computer works really well and at least I didn't sign an EULA saying I agree with their spying against me. That's pretty good.

Comment Re:Banned because Kaspersky patched NSA/CIA backdo (Score 1) 91

The NSA and the security advisors have full access to every computer from the USG? I thought there were other sectors in the government.
I also thought that Wikileaks just published CIA's ExpressLane project, showing the "cyber operations the CIA conducts against liaison services", which includes the NSA, DHS and the FBI, proving that this kind of group does hack into other sectors of the USG too (and not just innocent foreigners in their own homes).
Even if they could walk in and get the computers, being able to hack gives them much more power. It's funny that when the Chinese government wants people using IE everybody knows that it is to keep people hackeable, but when the USG does similar things most Americans just fall for it, as if they had the people's best interests in mind and the habit of following the law.
How much proof that they are more interested in obtaining more power than in protecting the American people do Americans need?

Comment Re:John Gruber on open web: Fuck Facebook (Score 1) 145

The linked article is talking about something that the author thinks is valuable, and if you read it, you might agree (the story about Roger Moore).

People's history have value, most of us see that and the Internet Archive creators and maintainers certainly see that way too. It's pretty arrogant to say that people's posts are less valuable than some storage space. And contrary to the direction the world is moving too.

If people where like you the Internet Archive would probably not exist, only Wikipedia. Remember Geocities? It wasn't the pinnacle of insightful speech either, but it was history.

The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library, and home to a giant archive of the public web since 1996. Our web archive is viewable for free via the Wayback Machine.
GeoCities was an important outlet for personal expression on the Web for almost 15 years, but was discontinued on October 26, 2009.

Of course I understand that budget constrictions would make it impossible to keep the whole Facebook on the IA, but that's not a subject of importance or value, but of real possibilities. If we could keep the pages that someone thinks is important enough to save to the archive and make public (like the one in the article), that would be a great improvement over the current situation.

Comment What about the army? (Score 1) 286

Will they censor videos supporting the military invasion of other countries? Will they censor videos supporting groups of proud people who make night raids and murder entire villages? Inciting people to join them?

Isn't the murder of thousands extremist?

I'm waiting to see what these "super flaggers" think.

Comment Re:Disney (Score 1) 71

Because copyright is not a real right. It is actually a limitation on someone else's right of speech and of movement.
I cannot move my fingers on a piano in a way that reproduces a song protected by copyright., or talk words written by others, or paint an image that is similar to someone else's picture.
This "protection" is actual physical restraint over people's bodies. It is a limitation over natural rights.
Such violence shouldn't be accepted even for a period of time, people that do not want to be copied should keep their stuff in secret, but the claim is that because society will benefit from the sharing (publishing) of said information, it is reasonable to apply such limitation on everyone for "promoting the progress of science and useful arts".

Comment Re:You know who else is linked to WannaCry? (Score 4, Informative) 99

“NSA identified a risk and communicated it to Microsoft, who put out an immediate patch,” Mike McNerney, a former Defense Department cybersecurity official, told the Post.

It became public that they were stolen in August, when did they warn Microsoft? The "immediate patch" came in march, 8 months after everybody knowing about it.

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