kattfisk

joined 2 years ago
[–] kattfisk 3 points 2 months ago

Last time Iran tried to become a liberal and democratic country the UK and US organized a coup to replace the government with a more dictatorial one, which is how they ended up like this. Is more violent foreign intervention the solution? We're about to find out!

Looking at their track record there's no reason to believe Isreal would give an occupied Iran any rights or do anything good for them. More likely it's just more territory to be ethnically cleansed and repopulated after they're done with Palestine.

[–] kattfisk 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Repeating what they heard is very different from automatically processing the chat to harvest personal information about the participants.

Just because some data is publicly available doesn't mean all processing of that data is legal and moral.

[–] kattfisk 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

You're both getting side-tracked by this discussion of recording. The recording is likely legal in most places.

It's the processing of that unstructured data to extract and store personal information that is problematic. At that point you go from simply recording a conversation of which you are a part, to processing and storing people's personal data without their knowledge, consent, or expectation.

[–] kattfisk 3 points 3 months ago

There are LED bars for mounting in your rear windows to display text to those behind you

[–] kattfisk 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In the USA voter turnout is 50-60%, and the winning party often gets less than half the votes. So actual support for the ruling party is often less than 25%. And that's without counting the millions who aren't allowed to vote.

Yet that doesn't seem to lessen the power of the government.

[–] kattfisk 8 points 3 months ago

Gay.

It's the Gay Intersex Marxist Program. Obviously.

[–] kattfisk 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

This is an outrage!

Coq was such an excellent name. Short, memorable, unique, related to its origins and logo, as well as funny.

[–] kattfisk 9 points 3 months ago

I would think that giving people care doesn't actually cost much, it's having the capability that's expensive. And the administrative work required to deal with the edge case of charging foreigners might not be worth the minor sums involved.

[–] kattfisk 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it's such a general word that your association says something about what subjects are on the top of your mind.

My association was hand gestures, or more comically, flag signals :D

[–] kattfisk 5 points 3 months ago

Aluminium smelting is so energy intensive that Iceland, a country with a population of less than 400 000, is the world's 12th largest producer of it, even though the raw materials aren't mined there. Iceland just has cheap geothermal and hydroelectric power.

[–] kattfisk 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In the real world there is no entirely reasonable code base. There's always going to be some aspects of it that are kind of shit, because you intended to do X but then had to change to doing Y, and you have not had time or sufficient reason to properly rewrite everything to reflect that.

We tend to underestimate how long things will take, precisely because when we imagine someone doing them we think of the ideal case, where everything is reasonable and goes well. Which is pretty much guaranteed to not be the case whenever you do anything complex.

[–] kattfisk 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You cannot say no to legitimate interest. That's a valid legal basis for processing the data that you only need to be informed about. Some times it appears like they are asking for your consent (which is a different legal basis for processing data) for legitimate interest, but that's likely just a poorly designed interface.

view more: ‹ prev next ›