Notices by Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com), page 8
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Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2017 10:09:32 UTC 
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"The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you're sensible, you'll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status."
- Carl Sagan -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2017 10:07:55 UTC
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Someone questioning the world around them is science in action. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2017 10:06:37 UTC
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If a view is wrong, explain why and how. To simply say "because a bunch of people say so" is a logical fallacy - appeal to popularity. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Feb-2017 10:06:05 UTC
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To chip in my 2c on a debate flying by on the TWKN: science is not "majority rules". Science is not an orthodoxy you must ascribe to.
Science is a way of sceptically interrogating the world with a keen knowledge of human fallability, to paraphrase Carl Sagan. Suppressing someone else's view as "unscientific" is, itself, inherently unscientific. We do not winnow the facts down with the suppression of views. This didn't work with Copernicus or Gallileo, and it doesn't work now. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Feb-2017 19:58:21 UTC
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@takeshitakenji You name it after an extinct mammal and call detractors Nazis. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2017 06:31:56 UTC
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TIL robek is a communist -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Feb-2017 21:01:41 UTC
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@bob The more decentralized the internet is the more resilient it is to censorship, and this is becoming increasingly important. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2017 22:26:24 UTC
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"When Google popped out Chrome 56 at the end of January it was keen to remind us it's making the web safer by flagging non-HTTPS sites. But Google made little effort to publicise another feature that's decidedly less friendly to privacy, because it lets websites ask about users' Bluetooth devices and harvest information from them through the browser."
If you think google gives a shit about privacy or security you are sorely mistaken. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2017 19:00:34 UTC
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"Then a few years later, Margaret Thatcher died. And on my Facebook wall – made of these same “intelligent, reasoned, and thoughtful” people – the most common response was to quote some portion of the song “Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead”. Another popular response was to link the videos of British people spontaneously throwing parties in the street, with comments like “I wish I was there so I could join in”. From this exact same group of people, not a single expression of disgust or a “c’mon, guys, we’re all human beings here.”
I gently pointed this out at the time, and mostly got a bunch of “yeah, so what?”, combined with links to an article claiming that “the demand for respectful silence in the wake of a public figure’s death is not just misguided but dangerous”.
And that was when something clicked for me. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2017 19:00:25 UTC
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"This commenter was right. Of the “intelligent, reasoned, and thoughtful” people I knew, the overwhelming emotion was conspicuous disgust that other people could be happy about his death. I hastily backtracked and said I wasn’t happy per se, just surprised and relieved that all of this was finally behind us.
And I genuinely believed that day that I had found some unexpected good in people – that everyone I knew was so humane and compassionate that they were unable to rejoice even in the death of someone who hated them and everything they stood for. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2017 19:00:14 UTC
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"The worst reaction I’ve ever gotten to a blog post was when I wrote about the death of Osama bin Laden. I’ve written all sorts of stuff about race and gender and politics and whatever, but that was the worst.
I didn’t come out and say I was happy he was dead. But some people interpreted it that way, and there followed a bunch of comments and emails and Facebook messages about how could I possibly be happy about the death of another human being, even if he was a bad person? Everyone, even Osama, is a human being, and we should never rejoice in the death of a fellow man. One commenter came out and said:
I’m surprised at your reaction. As far as people I casually stalk on the internet (ie, LJ and Facebook), you are the first out of the “intelligent, reasoned and thoughtful” group to be uncomplicatedly happy about this development and not to be, say, disgusted at the reactions of the other 90% or so. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2017 16:23:43 UTC
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"Nvidia is putting a stop to the resale of bundled promotional game keys by tying them to a specific graphics card purchase, according to Ars Technica. Users will now have to redeem codes via the GeForce Experience (GFE) app, which is directly linked to third-party services like Steam and Uplay. Users must also ensure that the requisite graphics card is "installed before redemption." GFE then performs "a hardware verification step to ensure the coupon code is redeemed on the system with the qualifying GPU."
Most of these games are shit to begin with, and now they're "free" shit thats basically handcuffed to the video card. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2017 19:28:17 UTC
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@bob I think the important thing to realize is that while the social pressure to not have backdoors keeps programmers honest, it doesn't make bad programmers, or even good programmers who get a bit sloppy, more secure. Just less likely to want to be a toadie. IMO. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2017 23:06:04 UTC
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@archaeme I'll never quite come to grips with the depths of malice someone can display and still get away with, as long as people convince themselves it doesn't affect them. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 19-Jan-2017 22:59:43 UTC
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"Zuckerberg Sues Hundreds of Hawaiians To Force Property Sales To Him"
He is not a good man. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2017 19:24:51 UTC
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@bob @archaeme Automatic updates are almost always a bad idea.
Automatic Windows updates are basically agreeing to take a cyanide pill before bed every evening. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2017 13:57:39 UTC
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The handful of distributions all clamouring to be part of the windows Linux bit does a good job of showing me which ones are completely shit and without integrity, and should be avoided. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2017 14:37:59 UTC
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Occasional reminder that Adobe Acrobat a shit.
"The latest Adobe Acrobat Reader security update (15.023.20053), besides delivering security updates, also secretly installs the Adobe Acrobat extension in the user's Chrome browser. There is no mention of this "special package" on Acrobat's changelog, and surprise-surprise, the extension comes with anonymous data collection turned on by default." -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2017 19:27:01 UTC
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I actually don't like infinitely scrolling pages. Id rather just pagination with proper caching that doesn't necessitate reloading all the UI elements. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2017 16:03:20 UTC
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