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I really sympathize with statements like this:

>I hate that, if I somehow don’t want to consign my personal data, beliefs, preferences, relationships, work history, daily plans, and private messages to a massive advertising corporation, I have to risk missing out on seminal life events.

I feel very much the same way. Social media is a tool that we can use to make social interaction more convenient, but it should not replace real social interaction. Writing a letter, an email, calling a friend, or even sending a text should not be replaced by Facebook because it is ultimately a corporation that seeks to exploit those very interactions for its own profit through means you may not agree with -- that is, selling off your personal data to advertisers.

That being said, it's fine to use Facebook occasionally to check up on what's happening with your friends across the globe. But I really think that everyone should consider removing their "close" friends from Facebook and moving that communication to in-person talks, phone calls, or even text messages. If you're logging onto Facebook even once a day, you're playing into their psychological traps: it's probably best reserved for a lazy Sunday afternoon, something like how older folks treat email. You certainly don't need it on your phone.

If you're concerned that you'll lose friends by deleting your Facebook, you can always keep a Messenger account connected to your phone number and not miss out on group communications. If you're a mover and shaker in your social groups, try pulling your groups away from Facebook. Organizing an event? Offer to send out a mass email to people instead of using Facebook. Or text people yourself instead. Decoupling yourself from Facebook only gives you more power when they decide to do misbehave (do you really think this is the last or worse scandal we'll see from Zuck), and if you're really successful, your friend group will eventually start to realize that they don't need Facebook any more either. Everyone isn't going to delete their Facebook overnight, but if folks start to disconnect bit by bit we'll a) all be better off and have more future options when it comes to Facebook's manipulation and b) start to make Facebook less and less valuable, so eventually people won't even want to join in the first place. "What is an ocean... but a multitude of drops?"
iOS users can bypass this with Reader mode (and long pressing the Reader icon lets you permanently set it for SA.)
This is exactly the comparison I was looking for - thank you for posting it. I tried Godot back in the pre-2.0 days and found it lacking a number of features I needed for 2D development. I'll definitely be picking it up again.
https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Programming/UnrealArchit...

I know very little about it, but in general there's a lot more information in the docs about the Garbage Collector than there is about how to not use it.
The original comment said:

"[...] with strong guarantees that the data of end user who has opted for paid service is kept private and not monetized anyhow."

As an "actual programmer" myself, I don't see how that would be so burdensome to implement. The data is somehow segregated so that it's excluded from being sold to advertisers in any form. The user can have their data deleted permanently at any time.

It obviously wouldn't prevent someone from authorizing a 3rd party app to all of my Facebook data, but that is more about Facebook educating people about what they're consenting to rather than a philosophical debate about ownership of data.
I was an early user of Contentful. Before I introduced it, we had non-techies editing YAML or Markdown files and committing them to Git and deploying them using Jenkins (yeah that went about as well as you'd expect).

After countless hours supporting this system I decided to move over a couple of the content pages to Contentful (here's one example: https://issuu.com/m/success/madsounds). I didn't need to support anyone after making that move. As techies we tend to think things like Git are easy, but it's not (that's part of the reason we get paid the big bucks(

Also eventually basically all the company's CMS needs were moved over to Contentful. From my experience it scaled well for both small and medium-sized teams.
Which keyboard is this? I'm a keyboard-only user and would love to have an extra row of keys for shortcuts.
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I certainly expect my phone company to not record my calls, or my isp not to mine my email. The problem isn't that fb is social media; or that Google/Gmail is an email provider - it's that both of them are ad agencies and private intelligence agencies (they gather, refine and sell information; ie intelligence).

So it really is: Facebook is an intelligence agency and information broker: why would you supply information on yourself and your friends to them. And the answer is likely: I didn't know they were an intelligence company; I thought they were a (social) personal media platform. Like email or a blog, only slightly more modern.

And this isn't a wild expectation. Eg the telephone providers are regulated, and can't sell the content of your calls, even if it's "just" if you're talking about a recent pregnancy, or how you're thinking about buying a car...
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I haven't used Facebook for years (deleted my account as much as is possible). I'm lucky though because I have a wife on Facebook who lets me knom when family events occur.
If I remember correctly, the only reason Ward Cunningham invented the wiki is because HyperCard was discontinued. He was apparently writing CRC cards and storing them in HyperCard (which seems like a completely reasonable thing to do...) He wanted something that was as convenient for doing that kind of thing.
Yep, you get it.
How does wifi impact it if location services are disabled? Or are you referring to apps that have permissions to list wireless networks?
All of the effects described in the article, despite the mystical tone, can be explained by regression to the mean, publication of outlying results, and confirmation bias in future publishings.
> I’ve seen this us-against-them mentality play out elsewhere in various toxic cult-like organizational cultures.

Uber comes to mind
Maybe because without an event to go to, it's difficult to force themselves out into the world?

Maybe because they wanted to see their friend at said event?

Or maybe, just maybe, they didn't have the current contact info for their friends and would like so still see them but otherwise can't setup a meeting with them?

The article doesn't make all of the facts plain, so it's pointless to speculate the full details.
Trading done within a single exchange might only take place within that exchange's records, only interacting with the blockchain when a withdrawal or deposit is made with the exchange from the outside.
To continue the analogy, they should be euthanized
The EU wants to tax tech giants’ revenues
LineageOS goes a step further actually and feeds it junk data.
> 0 ounce of evidence to back it up

The same principle used when TV lineups are advertised on the TV network channels themselves, is what advertising capitalizes on best. Brand awareness has plenty of psychological evidence behind it. The number don't lie when you get put on the premium channels (or the Google Play recommended top 10).

Ads aren't usually effective at doing what advertisers want (more than brand awareness or opportunity hurdles), which isn't a shocker. Advertisers get sold services by other people in advertising.
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You knew he had majority of voting control, and yet, decided to buy into it.
I don't think anyone is saying the alternative should operate as a business competitor to facebook. I think the idea would be for the service to be fully decentralized, where no one has the power to remove anything
I believe this is something that regulation should address. Scooping up all this data should be a massive liability for companies. Depending on the severity of a hack or misuse of the data it should effectively bankrupt or significantly destroy profits of any company. But the OS should not completely prevent it.

There are a number of programs for power users on macOS that have stopped selling through the App Store or warn against limited functionality for apps bought through the store. There are also a lot of extremely useful apps for Android that work most effectively when your phone is rooted. Google's Safety Net has effectively made rooting a liability for all power users. When the OS provider is limiting what a user can do the device quickly devolves into an entertainment consumption device.

Bad actors should be treated as viruses and malware the same as they were before.
> The only way that I know of that you can legally enrich yourself without paying taxes is via a direct gift and that’s because the giver pays tax instead of you

How about tax-free bonds?
6 comments and I'm surprised no one mentioned 1Password. To me, it's the most user friendly of the bunch.
We moved to Samaritan Ministries and have been really happy with it. Our “premium” is $500/mo and our total out of pocket costs have just been checkups and misc small prescriptions. Our two major medical incidents have been 100% covered by members and we got some nice cards in the mail, too. I estimate we have saved about $20,000 without increasing risk (possibly reducing it since the uncertainty of the claims process is gone.)

It’s been nice to see that a well designed system can help people take care of people so humanely.
What other reasons would there be for Zuckerberg to invite regulation of the social networks his company dominates?
You can maybe call for "donating his voting power", but donating his networth... oh wait, he did that!
I did buy some calls. I am sweating currently, bad timing with all the other economic developments.
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So this uses each Google Apps Script as a database?

If so, it kind of reminds me of using Google Sheets as a database [1].

[1] - https://github.com/theoephraim/node-google-spreadsheet
The key difference is how easy it is to correlate different digital datasets. The phonebook gives you name, address and phone number. Call logs give you pairs of phone numbers. Together you know who knows who. Add in the yellow pages and you know who called the suicide hotline. Mix with taxi data and you know who visited who, what time. And who went to an abortion clinic. Or a place of worship. Or who knows more than ten people that regularly worship.

Etc. Getting all that for everyone as opposed to a certain targeted someone is much, much easier with digital records.

[ed: this is why many countries have had strict rules on digital databases of personal (not just sensitive) data a long time, well before the GDPR. The amount you can learn from "simple" correlations of even public data can be staggering.]
I'll flip it back on you. Why does a single page app make the best possible experience? I and many others don't browse with JavaScript, how does a broken site help us?

Static sites are fast and don't require untrusted code running in my browser.
I would apply the same logic to a lot of professions, actually. If you can do the job, you should be able to. Standards already exist that can be enforced without credentialing. PCI regulates credit card handling, HIPAA regulates health info, etc.
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> miles ahead of the commercial offerings

In some ways, maybe. In all ways, or even "most", no. Definitely not.

For a free engine it is impressive, no doubt, but it is not miles ahead of commercial offerings.
As an ex-employee, I feel much more confident in Facebook's processes than the company you're describing. Facebook would have no problem terminating people who do what you're describing.
Some really scary prospects there...
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I worked at a trio of adtechs. One of which anyone in the industry would absolutely recognize.

There were few effective internal controls. The obstacles to lookups were

1 - all info keyed by cookie. Which users can clear, and is very difficult to get identified. That is, to look you up, I need the cookie from your machine.

1a - most devs are not allowed to run the cluster jobs to look up data. Only on the appropriate teams.

2 - but what about stapling? We required partners to pass us blind uids. Certainly nothing like emails.

3 - no data export. The business is to run ads on the customer's behalf, so there's no way built to export data except targeting lists to the exchanges.
Many. I like bashing C++ as much as the next dev, but modern C++ has nice type checks, interesting types/wrappers which help with common patterns (shared, unique ptrs, etc), and the compilers learned some great tricks which allow you to run memory safety checks yourself. (Asan and others)

Also multithreading gets some improvements which will take more of the manual sync details away from the business logic. (http://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/multithreading-in-c-17-...)

It's still delivered attached to a foot-gun, but you could do worse.
GPU companies seem to be notoriously closed and in general secretive about their products; nVidia is only one of the more prominent current examples, but AMD/ATI wasn't that nice in the past either. AFAIK Intel was the first to release detailed specs on its GPUs.

Ideally, one should be able to go to their websites and download full documentation (and drivers with source) on any of their products, as well as actually order the bare GPUs chips. Instead, thanks to their desire to control the entire manufacturing and distribution chain, it's a convoluted NDA-filled process. Personally, I don't really get it; why would a company put all these barriers in place to would-be customers of their products, and thus restrict their revenue? I'm almost willing to bet that there would be many more buying and using their GPUs if they left the market more open.

Microchip is one prominent example of the "other way" --- full documentation for their microcontrollers, and even direct ordering from the website. They are very successful. Unfortunately no GPU manufacturer seems to be doing this.
Seeing so many obese kids in America under the age of 5 is seriously disturbing.

And seeing nearly half of the American adult population being obese is bizarre. Sometimes I look at someone's balloon-shaped head, and wonder what their potentially-beautiful face would look like without being disfigured by layers of fat.
Probably. But Mark seems so uncomfortable in his own skin that I doubt he’d have any degree of political success. Dustin Curtis put it well:

“Watching Mark Zuckerberg speak publicly has always made me feel deeply uncomfortable in a way that is very difficult to articulate.

He’s improved a lot over the years, but I still have an urge to look away when he speaks. Not great for crisis management communication.”

https://twitter.com/dcurtis/status/976627812999118848
This is literally the same as an app from the Seinfeld reunion episode [1] on Curb Your Enthusiasm 2012, except theirs was called: "iToilet".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pci_7o6cCbM
I taught myself AppleScript when I was 13, to parse HTML and make 1000-character iPod Notes. I'd used LogoWriter in school since I was 7, but never got a copy of HyperCard. I heard many good things about HyperCard, but never thought it would be worth starting an emulator just to use it.

I just opened ViperCard, and the GUI is totally intuitive. The scripts used by buttons share a lot of syntax with AppleScript. This is the GUI for AppleScript I always wanted. Now I know why people love it. If I'd been able to use HyperCard earlier, maybe I'd have become a front-end developer instead of a back-end engineer.
> Last I checked it needs a valid email address, name, and password.

I’ve had friends have to submit government ID to prove that they were using their real name.
I use Hetzner for one of my NTP servers which handles traffic for pool.ntp.org. It's rock-solid and has no problem with latency.

I had a DO NTP server for a brief time, but the latency was all over the map, so much so that it was continually pulled out of rotation by the pool. I wasn't sure if my VM happened to be on an oversubscribed host or maybe the network to that datacenter was oversubscribed, but in either case my NTP server wasn't usable, so I decommissioned my DO server.
The amusing thing is how much flack Apple received early on for their closed product approach.

It's arguable that Google traded heavily on the relative freedom of the Android platform, and sucked in a lot of early adopter / tinkerer types on the promise of openness. Kind of ironic that for most people, most of the time, the open source nature of Android is now barely a historical footnote.
Agree. It's very tiresome to extract information from this.
There are quite a few supplements that operate to boost NAD+ levels.

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Not being on Facebook is sort of like not having a cellphone.

As someone who has never had a cell phone, I can say that living this way in a first-world country is challenging. I've been in situations where it's assumed I do have a cell phone, and the result ranges from awkward to maddening for the other party.

I also don't have a Facebook account. Not having a cell phone is much more troublesome.

The pull of network effect doesn't just mean that people join for opportunity. If sufficiently insinuated into daily life, some become compelled to join out of necessity.

But with Facebook and Cell Phones, joining this club takes a major toll one's privacy.

That's the dilemma anyone resisting network effect faces.
By giving access to your data, you are saying it's ok to take that data and pander to your psyche in some fashion. You may not see direct advertising in your browser, but it leads back to how strategists decide to engage your physical community. And even if you block ads, your friends may not. Friends will influence you through your feed, based on the ads they see, based on your data.
it pencils out if you go from a duplex to a five or eight story 40 unit condo.
We technically have this in the United States (for emergencies). It is illegal for someone to be denied emergency services regardless of ability to pay.[0] No government system guarantees "full access" to medical treatment there is some form of rationing everywhere.

https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EMT...
I think it's quite obvious that Apple's approach is better. What exactly was the net gain for Android users by not being able to block permissions until 5.0?

Not to mention the Android OS itself just being a data mining platform for Google's ecosystem of products.
I would have thought a simple solution to

>I somehow don’t want to consign my personal data, beliefs, preferences, relationships, work history, daily plans, and private messages to a massive advertising corporation, I have to risk missing out on seminal life events

Is just to have a facebook account with you name and picture and limit to that? Log in in an incognito window if you really don't want them to know what you are browsing?
Is it a very inconvenient truth? if land-based plants are generally starving for CO2, would a rational evaluation support the present use of fossil fuel?

Note that at 150 ppm atmospheric CO2 level there would be massive extinction of land-based plants; CO2 levels steadily declined from 3000 ppm [1] to 280 ppm over the last 150 million years, making the holocene increase a relatively minor bump.

[1] http://caos.iisc.ernet.in/faculty/pghosh/content/Publication...
This seems like no big deal. Nvidia creates a preferred partner co-branding program, and insists that an OEM’s half of the branding effort be Nvidia-specific, presumably so Nvidia isn’t spending marketing dollars promoting OEM brands that include AMD GPUs.
It's pretty trivial to bypass Apples code analysis for private API usage, at least a few years ago it was.
Sure while "Voat" is an alternative they're both centralized.

I'm meaning decentralized reddit.

Servers as subreddits, federated multi-reddits, only registered server accounts can vote on certain pieces, server by server moderation etc.
The McDonald's are always packed by locals or tourists though? McDonald's across Europe are often hotspots for tourists for the wifi.
Technical limitations == trusting Apple.

App store validation == trusting Apple.
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By the way, out of pure curiosity (by no means I intend to question your DE choice, quite contrary), have you tried recent KDE? I'm just curious if it actually misses some good parts Gnome 3 has and if these can be added to KDE eventually.
Someone said this in the congratulations thread, but I think the salient point is that BrandonM's comment was upvoted highly, not that it was particularly offensive.

Hacker News has a strong negativity bias. Most of the time the top voted comment is a snarky takedown of the post. Especially in the earliest days of startups, its far better to be a cheerleader on the outside than a cynic (unless the startup is unethical). It's just so hard to build successful companies, and so easy to dismiss things at that early stage.

And yes, I know this very comment is deeply ironic in a way

edit: thanks for down-voting me OP!
proper companies that have been around for a while and expect to be around for a while do this.

companies that move fast and break things don't give a shit.

I want more companies of the first type and less of the second.
You can audit iOS. Security researchers do it all day long.
It does not. It's essentially preventing them from getting granular or "fine" location. They can still get basic telemetry as I recall.
I think the key is to teach them a way to integrate whatever they learn into a joyful life that strives to contribute to all other life.

Teach them to tap into intuition, ask (not demand) for help when support is needed, and learn how to learn.
True, because Apples OS is called iOS.
He is not trolling. His core point is that there is no sufficient amount of training, or expertise, or monitoring, or punishment, or trying harder the 17th time you've been caught. If you are leaving the decision up to enough/too many humans, then you are by definition providing inferior security.

The real education from this story is far deeper than just Facebook. It is that Facebook employees, and Google employees, and all humans in general are susceptible to this very same "kompromat" concept, and are all susceptible to various forms of influence to greater degrees than our arrogance allows us to admit.

Human beings are attack vectors. Human beings are too self centered to do much about this in any meaningful sense. They can laugh the very idea away too easily.
> I feel that my only real choices are to either A. Get with the program and embrace the dominant protocols of society...

Um, yes? That's literally what bring a part of a society is about. I'm not thrilled that Facebook has woven itself so deeply into our society, but if you're not on it, it's likely you'll be missing out on some things. Many of those things you may not care about, but unfortunately for some, like the death of a dear friend, you will care.
Look Usenet is nice and all but it's not a forum system and it's definitely not a reddit substitute.

It is decentralized though, which is great.