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tarakat commented on New Zealand ends funding for school Shakespeare festival: ‘canon of imperialism’   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/mellosouls
tarakat · 3 years ago
British colonisers used Shakespeare’s works as an example of how people should act, Hyland said. “It would be a massive, awesome act of decolonisation if we discovered our own stories first and discovered Shakespeare afterwards.

While Hyland may be part Maori, New Zealand is majority of European descent [1]. To them, Shakespeare is "their own stories". Should they abandon their own history and culture because they changed locale?

[1] As at the 2018 census, the majority of New Zealand's population is of European descent (70 percent) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Demographics

tarakat commented on A gentler, better way to change minds   theatlantic.com/family/ar... · Posted by u/rzk
mikepurvis · 3 years ago
This is Michael Shellenberger's philosophy around saving the planet/climate. Basically, that economic justice has to come first because only people who are comfortable and middle class can afford the mental and emotional costs associated with caring about that stuff.

And yes, achieving that result on a global scale may well involve the construction of a bunch of new oil and gas infrastructure in places like Africa and South America— well meaning westerners should focus on what can be done at home to reduce, and stop protesting exactly the kind of thing that helps more people enter the middle class.

tarakat · 3 years ago
> economic justice* has to come first

So shall we put the ongoing ecological and climate catastrophes on hold while we take 200 years to reach an egalitarian utopia? On the other hand, we're told that these catastrophes affect the poorest countries the most. From that point of view, environmentalism is "economic justice".

*Interesting term. Does that mean the economically better off have committed a crime, and must be punished?

tarakat commented on A TV studio audience will vote on destroying a Hitler painting   cnn.com/style/article/cha... · Posted by u/Tomte
tarakat · 3 years ago
Where they burn books, they will too in the end burn people.

But these are paintings, not books, so no worries.

tarakat commented on Deterring Scraping by Protecting Facebook Identifiers   about.fb.com/news/2022/09... · Posted by u/yamrzou
tarakat · 3 years ago
> we recently shared an update on how our External Data Misuse (EDM) team works to safeguard people against clone sites

Is this what they're calling interoperable competitors now?

tarakat commented on Swiss evoting system – IsProbablePrime is incorrect for input 19   gitlab.com/swisspost-evot... · Posted by u/herr_gurke
hutzlibu · 3 years ago
Likely none, but nation-states can also manipulate traditional voting with enough effort.

(classic spycraft, blackmailing of key persons, intercept mailvoting, etc.)

Nothing is 100% secure.

So the question is, is it good enough?

They said they took great effort to verificate the voting and detect manipulation. I cannot confirm or verify it, but since it is open, I could. That is a great step forward, compared to the closed black boxes, e-voting systems I have heard of before.

tarakat · 3 years ago
Your examples are all less scalable and easier to detect that hacking.

> That is a great step forward, compared to the closed black boxes, e-voting systems I have heard of before.

It's still a black box. You have only their word to go that the published source is what is actually running on the machine in front of you in the voting booth. And they have only the word of their computers.

So yes, it's a great step forward, in the same way that going up a flight of stairs is a great step towards reaching orbit.

tarakat commented on Swiss evoting system – IsProbablePrime is incorrect for input 19   gitlab.com/swisspost-evot... · Posted by u/herr_gurke
hutzlibu · 3 years ago
Hm, but it sounds quite solid(I only know, what is written in the links):

They made an open public intrusion test with a bug bounty and they released the sources. And so far no one could find a real weakness.

tarakat · 3 years ago
How many nation-states burned their best zero-days on this public intrusion test?
tarakat commented on Ask HN: Options for Android phone no longer getting security updates?    · Posted by u/warner25
tarakat · 3 years ago
A related question: How secure is an Android phone that does receive security updates from its vendor? I vaguely recall hearing that it can take months before a security patch makes it from mainline Android to consumer devices.
tarakat commented on Why Infrastructure Providers Should Stay Out of Content Policing (EFF)   eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10... · Posted by u/philippejara
hresvelgr · 3 years ago
I agree with the general framework of the argument but as always there's more to it.

If a group of criminals are conducting their business out of a motel room, is it the motel's responsibility or the police's to deal with them? Most would say the police, right?

The thing with KiwiFarms and a lot of these other sites is that law enforcement is not effective at dealing with them because there are thousands of them and when one goes, another appears. So in the face of ineffective policing, the people pressure and protest the next entity who could actually affect change, Cloudflare.

The reality is that these sites cannot be effectively and efficiently policed and until someone finds a way to do that in the most minimally harmful way possible, we're still going to see mobs protesting take-downs and companies capitulating to the demands.

tarakat · 3 years ago
> is it the motel's responsibility or the police's to deal with them

Moving past how KiwiFarms hadn't actually broken any laws, let's say for the sake of argument that they had. And that this motel chain owned 40% of rentable rooms across the globe, and a handful of their friends owned the remaining 59%, with 1% belonging to small independent moteliers.

If you leave enforcement to them, then you've effectively privatized policing. Do you want a private police force? Wouldn't that represent a union of state and corporate power, i.e. fascism?

u/tarakat

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