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Comment Cookie storage is a file system (Score 1) 110

My browser should have zero knowledge of what a filesystem is.

If your web browser didn't store a session identifier in a small file called a cookie, how would Slashdot's server know that you're logged in as ArchieBunker (132337)? Otherwise, I'm not sure where you've mentally drawn a line between cookie storage and "a filesystem" proper.

Comment Re:Vizio is throwing away a great opportunity (Score 1) 66

Imagine if Vizio were to become the first pro-consumer TV.

The MPA member movie studios would probably withdraw their respective streaming services from Vizio's platform on grounds that a user-modifiable free operating system fails to satisfy the "compliance and robustness" rules of whatever digital restrictions management protocol they use.

Comment I doubt most home users have heard of HTPC (Score 2) 66

Seriously who bothers with the crapware built into a tv anyway? Just use it as a dumb screen and attach other devices to it.

First, the user needs to know that "a cheap little computer" exists and can be connected to a TV. Walmart and Best Buy haven't been doing a good job of marketing these to the public. Second, the user needs the spare time to learn to administer yet another computer. Third, the user needs to be satisfied with some services limiting streams to 480p because a desktop computer running Linux and Firefox has a low "integrity level" in Widevine.

Comment Re:Self-hosting isn't for everyone (Score 1) 82

Very few ISPs intentionally block inbound TCP.

One U.S. ISP that technically blocks inbound TCP over IPv6 is T-Mobile Home Internet (fixed wireless). The gateway appliance included with the plan offers no way to forward a port to the subscriber's computer. (Source) I've read that most major U.S. ISPs threaten to disconnect a home subscriber for running a publicly accessible server. (Source)

IPv6-only [...] site is inaccessible to users stuck on legacy networks

One large legacy network in the U.S. is Frontier fiber, which is still IPv4-only in 2026.

Comment Re:Join the union! Fight The Man... (Score 2) 60

Ah, another nonsense unions-bad "argument" that is factually wrong.

Being a union member is one of the easiest ways to get higher wages:

Nonunion workers had median weekly earnings that were 85 percent of earnings for workers who were union members ($1,138 versus $1,337). (The comparisons of earnings in this news release are on a broad level and do not control for many factors that can be important in explaining earnings differences.) (See table 2.)

Comment Regarding Pakistan's increase of solar panel usage (Score 1) 293

Pakistan "has been spared some of the impact from the war, since it began drastically importing cheap Chinese solar panels a few years ago

The country's official energy production dropped 10% year over year recently (because people install their own, independent solar panels, from China).

This was mentioned by author Bill McKibben in a podcast episode of Why is this happening?

Comment Re:Predictive policing and religious conservatism (Score 1) 166

What you're claiming is that somehow there's an international cross party conspiracy between American government agencies, American religious fundies and some much more left wing governments in Australia, France and the UK, and somehow no one has blabbed.

There's no organized conspiracy as much as a less-formal worldwide shift in the Overton window toward more surveillance and less tolerance of erotica and nontraditional gender expression. Left-wing governments in other countries are just as eager to surveil their citizens. Look at how the People's Republic of China has expanded criminal background checks into a numeric "social credit score." The UK has its own share of conservatism; just look at Brexit and the "TERF Island" movement. And as long as global economies depend on hydrocarbon fuel from the Middle East, Salafis (Arabic for "reactionaries") will continue to have a platform.

Comment Predictive policing and religious conservatism (Score 1) 166

Who is "them"?

Anonymous Coward mentioned two categories of "them". In case you don't see AC comments, I'll rephrase:

1. Government agencies interested in performing the same sort of predictive policing that led to Terrorism Information Awareness of the early 2000s.
2. The sort of religious conservatives who ultimately want sex and violence purged from even media intended for grown-ups, as we saw with Collective Shout pressuring payment processors to pressure itch.io to remove erotic works.

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