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uda commented on Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption   wired.com/story/europe-br... · Posted by u/arkadiyt
uda · 2 years ago
Am I the only one to wonder what will happen to DRM streaming in the EU if this passes?
uda commented on Judge decides against Internet Archive   file770.com/judge-decides... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
uda · 2 years ago
Initially I'm enraged against the publishers, the judge and the system in general as many of you, but they are not the issue, while I can't talk on behalf of IA, I don't see this as a fight against the publishers, but a fight against broken business models flourishing because and protected by broken laws meant to protect earlier broken business models

The current law is broken, we know that, but most of us don't grasp broken laws as a threat until it is challenged (and we as a society usually lose), and then we expect the judge to "save" us from the broken law instead of holding the legislators accountable

This circuit should be shortened, we need to react better to laws as they are being drafted, not wait out their inevitable harm to society like with DMCA and PATRIOT act

If anything has proven this lately is the Roe v. Wade overturn, we really need to stop relying on courts to "save" us and instead fight for better laws, be more involved in the legislation process and actively propose and push for fixes

uda commented on I fucking hate Jira   ifuckinghatejira.com/... · Posted by u/yakshaving_jgt
uda · 3 years ago
1. I hate Jira, but that isn't the main issue

2. Atlassian has a terrible way of managing feature requests priorities, not unique to them, but they definitely have an impact on many developers, which is why they (deserve and) get the huge shaming

3. I managed to move my company from Bitbucket to GitLab, for many reasons, but the main reason for me was that I simply couldn't manage the settings using their APIs, they have a very weird concept of APIs

4. They send people to fill in tickets and on Uservoice, but rarely do they actually listen to reasonable requests (tickets I still get notifications: Bitbucket user public SSH keys and Archiving projects in Bitbucket)

5. So the issue is not this or that product, it is that Atlassian doesn't have the real end users in mind, just the paying users, the end users can suffer, but not many people will resign over a product used at their company, so nobody really fights the company over it, and thus Atlassian keeps getting paid for terrible products that get new terrible interfaces from time to time

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uda commented on Microsoft forked MIT licensed repo and changed the copyright [fixed]   github.com/microsoft/grpc... · Posted by u/mkdirp
radicalbyte · 4 years ago
This, the reason why we have the DMCA is to protect copyright holders, now the copyright holders should exercise their right.
uda · 4 years ago
What? no, this goes entirely against the idea of laws.

Copyright laws have one major purpose: protect the right holders. It does so by giving them tools to mitigate their loses by deterring people from infringing.

If a right holder has to invest more time in complaining on people about infringement than actually having time to do other stuff, like creating, then we've got it all wrong.

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uda commented on The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks   theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/shivbhatt
uda · 4 years ago
I actually agree with the term "Unaccountable". Sure, the banks have their boards and share holders, so do the tech companies.

The question is not whether they have internal accountability, but rather if they have public accountability to their declared statements, their stated mission and non-written guarantees given by officials to the public.

Many companies like these paint themselves as for-public, while I know and so do you, that is not true, but companies should be held accountable for the image they try to portray, they should be held accountable for public announcements no matter the personnel change.

So yes, the platforms and banks have unaccountable power, given by us the public, based on false promises and sales pitches. And we the public have the power to stops that, by making them accountable, but we are the ones who have to do that, by pointing the finger at the root decision makers in those monstrous structures of organizations.

uda commented on CTO Doesn’t Share Codebase    · Posted by u/voice0_0
uda · 5 years ago
So what are working on without having access to the code?
uda commented on Don't use third party auth to sign in   gurjeet.singh.im/blog/nev... · Posted by u/gurjeet
syabro · 5 years ago
Where can I check which websites I looged in with google? I found https://myaccount.google.com/permissions?gar=1 but 26 apps is like 1/10 of what I have I think
uda · 5 years ago
OAuth apps don't necessarily appear there, only apps using additional scopes than basic profile verification and email address
uda commented on Don't use third party auth to sign in   gurjeet.singh.im/blog/nev... · Posted by u/gurjeet
uda · 5 years ago
1. This isn't a clear cut, though some services don't allow using both Oauth 2.0 and email / username login, most do. So if the service provider allows both, create a simple user + link your account.

2. Developers should always allow restoring passwords for SSO only users, it is ridiculous for it to even be an issue.

3. As a user, refrain fro using free email accounts to identify on a platform, as others already said, buy a domain not an expensive one, and stick to it, remember to renew, and setup your email address with a reliable service, there are good providers for $1 a month.

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