> It’s in popular culture and HN comments most often as spyware and mass surveillance of people, and that’s a bit of a shame.
I don't know whether you mean it's a shame that people consider it spyware, or if you meant that it's a shame that it manifests as spyware typically. I agree with the latter, not the former. It usually is spyware. If companies went for simple opt-in popups with a brief description of the reasoning, I'd be all for that. I sometimes opt-in to these requests myself, despite being a fairly privacy-conscious person, because I understand the benefit they have to the people collecting the data for good purposes. But when surveillance is opt-out (or no choice given), it's just spyware.
I asked to put the spyware aside for one sub-thread and focus on the astonishing worldwide sensor array, and you talked about the spyware and nothing else.
It wouldn't quite solve it: the issue is it's very helpful to hit a button on my phones home screen to get "different directory" immediately via a different shortcut.
Like there's a fair bit of ergonomics here which I'm brute forcing by just having two camera apps.
MOSIP is Indian [0][1][2]. India is exporting multiple different stacks for Digital Public Infrastructure.
This project in Ethiopia is itself being pushed by the Indian government [3][4] and is part of India's larger "Global South" strategy [5].
I guess the question you should be asking is why the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has becoming intertwined with Indian geopolitical power projection.
How many people on this site are unaware of the amount of times the government's courts have found its executive, legislative, (and lower judicial) branches acting without authority?
How many people on this site are unaware of the extent to which we are monitored? And openly? We have an entire agency whose primary task is to mass surveil.
I think all the things are true at the same time... that most people already believe it, they don't need sources in this instance, but they still don't like the way the comment was worded.
Yes, that is the point of fiction. its not unfair to compare Genesis to Star Wars to an extent, but, to a Christian, what you learn from Genesis is a lot more important (the "word of God" rather than the "word of George Lucas").
However, much of the rest of the Bible should be read differently - the letters, biographies etc. Each document ("book") needs to be read appropriately and in context. Again, each can be compared to others in its genre, but its inclusion in "the Bible" (but there are lots of Biblical canons) gives it that extreme importance.
The western half, sure. You're ignoring the eastern half which carried the mantle for another thousand years. And the concurrent existence of the Holy Roman Empire, which was also intertwined with the Roman Catholic church.
I don't know whether you mean it's a shame that people consider it spyware, or if you meant that it's a shame that it manifests as spyware typically. I agree with the latter, not the former. It usually is spyware. If companies went for simple opt-in popups with a brief description of the reasoning, I'd be all for that. I sometimes opt-in to these requests myself, despite being a fairly privacy-conscious person, because I understand the benefit they have to the people collecting the data for good purposes. But when surveillance is opt-out (or no choice given), it's just spyware.
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