Readit NewsThese standards will likely make officers go after more genuine LARPers than before. These tips are very problematic if police officers start to follow them, for example:
> Role players will not discuss law enforcement concerns on social media or provide guidance to each other if confronted by an officer. Also, they will have no demonstrated interest in criminal cases involving claims of LARP.
If police officers are going after LARPers then LARPers will start to talk about what to do in those cases.
> The foremost distinction between LARPers and violent extremists is that genuine role players will not care whether others are watching. They may even embrace third-party observation, such as nonplayer characters or a general audience. After all, LARP is a performance.
Lots of people are embarrassed to do things in public, a police officer coming across some people LARPing in private shouldn't be cause for investigation.
But if you're playing pretend with real weapons, you deserve scrutiny, regardless of your ideology.
2002: Microsoft proposes Palladium, everyone loses their minds.
2007: Apple effectively implements Palladium, nobody panics, because it's all 'part of the plan'.
Firefox—my daily driver—still supports the "main" uBlock Origin (and I'm a somewhat heavy user of features unavailable in Lite like custom filters), but I had been waiting for Lite to be available and immediately went ahead and replaced uBlock Origin with uBlock Origin Lite.
The security win can't be understated: with its permission-less design (enabled by MV3) I am down to zero third-party developers that can get compromised and silently push an update that compromises all my web sessions. Sure, attackers could still get into Mozilla, Apple (as I run macOS), or cause a backdoored update to be pushed via Homebrew (how I install unsandboxed applications when no web app is available, which thanks to the likes of WebUSB is getting less common), but unsandboxed browser extensions were clearly the lowest hanging fruit, so this update (and MV3) significantly raised my security posture (and transitively that of projects I have access to, and that of their users).
Yeah, but is this really a risk for anyone who isn't the sort to have installed Bonzi Buddy back in the day?
That attack surface, compared to that of brew, npm, pip, gem, etc., is miniscule. And browser plugins don't yank in obscure dependencies at install time.
I only run uBlock, and I suspect I'm in the majority here, and my choice of browser is predicated on the availability of a non-crippled ad blocker, because malicious ads are the primary threat.
What your original comment said is that people are blindly deferring to the authority of scientists, when they should instead be blindly deferring to the authority of theologians and philosophers (and presumably only those of your preferred faction).
(In the spirit of the continental philosophers, I read between the text.)
The result: science, which is supposed to be a neutral process that encourages dissent, becomes a political game, where scientists are treated as the ultimate authority on non-scientific questions.
Innit, though? The people who whine about 'scientism' tend to be selling a religious or political ideology. They reject the need to measure things because they don't want their shit tested.
Problem is that the CCP is basically intimately tied to it so WeChat has massive advantages there.
It takes something the size of a corporation to fend off other corporations. And it’s not as if many have not tried and failed to break the phone OS duopoly; the walled garden aspect of iOS is a fairly small obstacle.
Yet, strangely enough, I can't uninstall Safari from any of my iPhones and replace it with Firefox.
Every single one of them. If you don't want to do business with a firm that's evasive about its ownership, that's your prerogative, but forcing anyone engaged in business to have sensitive personal information about them recorded in a centralized database that will be a beacon for corruption and abuse is invasive, anti-social, and dangerous.
> Only those that dwell in darkness fear the light.
You are of course welcome to post your full name, home address, phone number, social security number, annual income itemized by source, credit score, and any other personal information you feel should be exposed to "light" right here in this thread.
It's funny that every bit of that information is demanded by employers, and they usually don't reciprocate. It's only considered "sensitive" information because our society is incompetent and corrupt. The secrecy that protects the rich and powerful is an artifact of that corruption. In a just and competent society, none of that information could be used against us, because we wouldn't be using identifiers as secret keys, and harassers could be identified and punished.
If you have to hide to feel free, you're not actually free.