Rugged Raccoon

  • 39 Posts
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Joined 4 years ago
Cake day: January 14th, 2021
  • Rugged RaccoonOPtoSocialism•Minimum Wage Memes!
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    4 years ago

    One of the comment from the original post,

    I had a friend when I worked at Wendy’s way back in the day, he would say this shit to the manager whenever they got on his ass about something. They hated him, I thought it was hilarious.

  • Rugged RaccoonOPtoWorld News•Bill Gates, the White Man’s Burden and Modi Government’s Vaccine Debacle
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    4 years ago

    It’s not just about the production capacity of India. India currently has two vaccines - Covishield (Oxford & AstraZeneca developed, manufactured by Serum Institute of India) and Covaxin (Indian Council of Medical Research & Bharat BioTech, manufactured by Bharat BioTech). Sputnik V is a new addition from Russia.

    While it would be wise to blame the country for the under production of Covaxin, because it’s a home grown vaccine and public money was involved in its development. It could’ve been manufactured by more than one manufacturer in the country.

    But, in case of Covishield, only SII has the license to manufacture it. If the IP rules are to be waived, it could be manufactured by others in the country.

    The whole point is, countries like India have the capability to mass produce vaccines to satisfy domestic needs and to help other countries that don’t have the necessary facilities to do so. The rich countries have secured enough vaccines (How rich countries are making the pandemic last longer) and in the case of UK, they have clause in the vaccine contracts to give it more preference, should the producer face shortages (link).

  • Rugged Raccoonto$hit Capitalists $ay•Free will argument? Free market fallacy? Google/Microsoft apologism? This Reddit thread has it all!
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    4 years ago

    This is like those free market buddies you have in a group chat.

    The free market combined with human free will, in all its glorious action. The people have chosen their preferred product, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

    The thing about capitalism, it has the tendency to use anything to it’s advantage. Like the above comment, when people don’t understand the gravity of privacy implications and how Big Tech does stuff in the open & behind the scenes (usually it gets diluted by shit ton of distraction from mass media), capitalism is going to use it and say, “That’s what people want, it’s their choice & freedom!”. This kind of strategy will only work as long as masses aren’t much concerned or unaware.

  • Rugged RaccoontoPiracy•*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    #2 rule: definitely don’t host this shit in the US :D

    Even if it was outside the US, wouldn’t the entertainment industry people or through the US government, try to get the foreign government to do something about it?

  • Rugged RaccoontoPrivacy•I didn't install Signal for privacy
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    4 years ago

    The only way to change the situation is to force those social networks to use their powers more responsibly. Europe’s GDPR law with its right to data portability is a step in the right direction, but it’s not enough. I believe we need more to regain our right to choose what services we use.

    I wouldn’t bet much on these laws, because it’s the same EU that’s drafting bills for lawful access to encrypted data - https://www.cyberscoop.com/encryption-europe-tutanota-protonmail-threema-tresorit/

    The adoption of the encryption resolution in the European Union does not affect the landscape for encrypted services in Europe immediately, as the resolution is non-binding. But its adoption suggests a “shift in tone and puts pressure on the European Commission to propose anti-encryption legislation in the near future,” the encrypted email service provider ProtonMail has argued.

    After portability, we need to discuss about interoperability, which in this case is the ability to contact people that are are using different chat applications than the one you are using. The way email and SMS already work.

    I don’t see a possibility for this in Signal, at least as long as Moxie is there pulling the strings and here are his views on federation - https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

    When someone recently asked me about federating an unrelated communication platform into the Signal network, I told them that I thought we’d be unlikely to ever federate with clients and servers we don’t control.

An open source infrastructure for a centralized network now provides almost the same level of control as federated protocols, without giving up the ability to adapt. If a centralized provider with an open source infrastructure ever makes horrible changes, those that disagree have the software they need to run their own alternative instead. It may not be as beautiful as federation, but at this point it seems that it will have to do.
  • Rugged RaccoontoSocialism•Work Won't Love You Back
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    4 years ago

    “But, but, Google gives me free food, PlayStation and a pool table” :D

    Jokes apart, from personal anecdotes, I have seen people use statements like these, who think that these are true care from the employers.

    Anything that keeps us from looking at the real issues, the employer will do!

  • Rugged RaccoontoPrivacy•Privacy comparison between web browsers
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    4 years ago

    This is the first time that I’ve come across this site. That being said, I hoped to see Firefox in mid - high tier, based on the articles I’ve read about Firefox and it’s privacy protection out of the box, like tracking protection.

    Is this a legit analysis? Would Firefox move up the ladder if we tweak its config like this?