typenil

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by typenil 6y ago
Yes. The more control centralized authority has the more they can control hate speech. Please babysit us apathetic cynical regulatory capture mechanisms - I mean politicians.
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by typenil 6y ago
I’m so tired of seeing these posts. Private people can criticize whatever they want about Facebook and the crappy things they do. Commenting isn’t some “illegal activity” when it’s critical of legal activity.. Legality isn’t the ultimate sh
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by typenil 6y ago
Good. Maybe this’ll clarify for some people that a tech oligarchy isn’t the optimal way to control speech.
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by typenil 6y ago
I care about the reality of free speech, not the abstract concept. It matters to me not one bit who the censors are if the end result is the same. A handful of companies control the vast majority of discourse in the world - and there's
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by typenil 6y ago
Yeah, let's forget that taxpayers paid for the internet and so much of the internet infrastructure in US. But it's cool to cut off the people who subsidized it.
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by typenil 6y ago
If the US antitrust machine hadn't been asleep at the wheel for a couple decades, it wouldn't be a problem. "There's no mechanism to force a private business to do a thing" - but bakeries have to make cakes for gay
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by typenil 6y ago
Neither party values freedom or privacy. Who can I vote for who even pretends? I'm gay and largely agree with leftist ideals, but completely disagree with modern tactics by both parties. But the left controls technology, and so I criti
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by typenil 6y ago
Thank God Jeff Bezos is protecting us from these vile terrorists. We need to take down Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. The insurrectionists were customers and bafflingly, these companies don't moderate their texts or phone cal
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by typenil 6y ago
As long as it's framed as a way to cut off immoral right wing extremists from the financial system, Silicon Valley will enthusiastically embrace dystopian government control of currency.
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by typenil 6y ago
"Go make your own Facebook" Then AWS takes down Parlor. And so many on Hacker News rejoice. "Go make your own AWS" Where does that end? Go make your own domain registrar? Go make your own ICANN? Go make your own ISP? Go
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by typenil 6y ago
That's totally the same thing - because downloading a paper destroys the original copy.
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by typenil 6y ago
Referring to the straw man platform, obviously.
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by typenil 6y ago
What's embarrassing is the fact that our industry is so obsessed with censoring wrongthink that it's not enough to drive thought criminals off of mainstream platforms - we have to drive alternative platforms off of their infrastru
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by typenil 6y ago
Let's sweep all the dirt under the rug and then act surprised when we find it's so much grosser than the rest of the floor.
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by typenil 6y ago
After WWII when the Soviets took control of nations like Poland, they didn't flat out ban free speech. But they did make sure only the communist-aligned outlets had unlimited access to paper. Like so many censorship-happy people today,
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by typenil 6y ago
I really like the way they lay out the probability factors that contributed to their conclusions - it's easy to follow, at least. I'm glad they put money behind it, but dislike that they're expecting $10,000-$100,000 in risk
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by typenil 6y ago
Unsurprising. I wish that mass surveillance didn't have complicit bipartisan support, but people in power only ever seem interested in expanding it.
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by typenil 6y ago
A lot of fun facts here - definitely a pick-me-up as the year closes out. I'm cancelling my upcoming polar bear liver eating party ASAP.
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by typenil 6y ago
Over the last several years, I've stopped buying games that aren't on Linux. It's just too much of a hassle to be switching around when there's plenty of Linux-supported fun to be had.
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by typenil 6y ago
> they hate controversy even more. Did you come from the Berenstein Bears universe? Apple does unpopular things constantly. The iPhone 12 doesn't come with a charger, and you think they're terrified of controversy? Apple's
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by typenil 6y ago
> De-monitized just means advertisers don't want to advertise on those channels via YouTube It means YouTube believes that advertisers don't want to advertise, or that journalists are running hit pieces on the vertical. It may
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by typenil 6y ago
How will all the poor rent seekers survive? What's happening to this country? I thought regulatory capture was the #1 priority, here.
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by typenil 6y ago
> U.S. courts have held that constitutional protections against unreasonable searches do not apply to non-citizens overseas. In effect it's harder and harder to find cases where the 4th amendment protections apply to US citizens, ei
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by typenil 6y ago
Being skeptical of the motivations of those who write and lobby for regulation is not overly cynical - it's a recognition of reality. The less skeptical we are, the more self-serving regulation we'll get.
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by typenil 6y ago
I believe they meant that the API bindings themselves are autogenerated - which I think is pretty likely given how baffling and un-pythonic some of decisions in boto3 are. You're right that much of the documentation clearly isn't
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by typenil 6y ago
Ah nice. Facebook resorts to intimidating bug bounty participants acting in good faith by threatening them through their employer instead of talking. Can't say I'm surprised, given the level of ethics Facebook exhibits at every co
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by typenil 6y ago
I use wakatime.com for tracking IDE time. Generally I spend between 4 and 7 hours in an IDE. My best days, I can hit 9-10 hours IDE time - but generally when I hit that, it's because I've spent the evening working on my own stuff.
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by typenil 6y ago
> Zodiac made a mistake while constructing his complex cipher Think I made the same mistake in a Cryptography course cipher exchange. Felt bad for my counterpart who was supposed to decrypt it. No one died, though, as far as I know.
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by typenil 6y ago
> Or at least take the battery out when not in use. What percentage of phones even have this option, these days? If, by "infeasible" you mean, "impossible" you're right. But it's not practical by any sense o
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by typenil 6y ago
Just another way for Google to nudge you to use Chrome and make sure you're always logged into Google so they can track you. ReCAPTCHA is spyware first, competition suppression second, and a tool as a distant third - like most Google p

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