skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is essentially a worrying prospect if these developments are actually implemented or advance further. The users trust in the social media service is breached if a backdoor where to be placed in their products (It also defeats the purpose of the end-to-end encryption argument). If you reside in the UK and especially in London, things have just become 500% more Orwellian.

>Priti Patel, the U.K.’s home secretary, has previously warned that Facebook’s plan to enable users to send end-to-end encrypted messages would benefit criminals...

In London alone, it is not possible to pay for public transport with cash. A debit card/oyster is required but for anonymous travel, an oyster can be topped up via cash and reduces transport surveillance, unlike using credit / debit cards. Their reasons for doing this because it "benefits criminals" is echoing the "ban encryption" nonsense.

> The U.K. and the U.S. have agreed not to investigate each other’s citizens as part of the deal...

This I don't believe.

EDIT: Use a oyster card for public anonymous transport, refrain from using a credit / debit card for this.
It's a stock term - bull vs bear: https://www.investopedia.com/insights/digging-deeper-bull-an...
Yeah I’d neglected to mention that we’d tried some of that as well... but the only available probiotics matching the “correct” lactobacilli strains were in Europe... so we tried a few weeks of them but between their cost and not being certain they’d even survive the long journey to California we didn’t get many doses and as mentioned weren’t confident they’d be active on arrival.
The BSL is not open source, but appears to be a commitment to eventually releaseing code as open source.
Fair enough. I didn't look up Brazil specially but I am familiar with the rates in the region and assumed they were similar.

Western countries have not eliminated a quarter of their GDP to prevent climate change, shouldn't they do that before telling those much poorer than they to do so?
It’s been a while since I used jailbreak on an iOS device, but I remember the “benefits” being pretty skimpy. “You can install anything you want”, sure, except at least back then there wasn’t much compelling about that. And the whole thing is too much of a hassle.
Proteus, I am concerned too. Sometimes fiction reflects reality better than we might like, I am thinking of William Gibson’s cyber punk future distopean sci-fi.

That said, freedom can also be in our own minds, creating a good life in an ocean of political corruption and increasing control of corporations/elites. It would take more effort, but I think I could also have a good life in Gibson’s sci-fi worlds.
Right, so like I said, their only benefit is to their brand. It preserves the expectation that Google is the best place to find everything.

And the French law applies to all companies in Google's position, not just to Google. So the there's still nowhere better than Google for users to go.

The only losers in this deal are the French news agencies, and perhaps French users if you consider them worse off for not finding French news sources.
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The ends aren't secure.
Two wrongs don't make a right.

If we were to follow your logic we'd never make any progress in any laws.

But I suspect your lack of support for the rights in this case is not actually connected to the false equivalence you have drawn to undermine it.
Number of complaints is irrelevant without considering the magnitude of the infractions.

Does the US require foreign firms to have local partners? Routinely ignore foreign copyrights? Completely block all foreign information from reaching its people?
Maybe @moxie could enlighten us.
If messages are encrypted end-to-end, and laws force the ability to intercept those messages, the end-game (the backdoor) is fairly easy to tease out.
>My concern is primarily with people taking comments that don't reflect a person's current views, willingly disregarding context or simply having views I don't find particularly objectionable.

To be fair, and as far as I'm aware, RMS never bothered to inform anyone of his "current" views on pedophilia until after the fact of the Medium article going viral[0]. His prior views on the matter were current as far as the public record was concerned until that point, and RMS was willing to let that stand for about 20 years.

[0]https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September...
I'm not saying this is a good idea.

I'm saying publishers convinced EU that it was a good idea and now they got what they deserved instead of what they wanted.

It also feels right that Google should pay, but I want them to pay ordinary VAT / sales tax on ad sales instead of this.
Currently, the only way to configure DoH for everything is one-time setting local dnscrypt-proxy as the only resolver. Easy on Android 9+ and Linux with systemd, on Windows you have to override DNS settings for all NICs because it has a weird process of resolving. Don't know about macOS, iOS is definitely out.

edit P.S: I'd never trust ISP's DNS servers, because it's the easiest way to track what customers does.
I like to simply dismiss criticism founded on "rising inequality".

In many cases, economic inequality is morally just and socially desirable. Those who work more, should earn more. Those who produce the goods and services that people need and want should earn more than those who don't. Those who put in the risk should be able to reap the reward - for every rich person there's a million others who have tried and failed. This is all obvious even to the layman. We want those sources of economic inequality.

Of course there are sources of inequality that are injust, some of them natural, some of them socially constructed, some plain corruption. Those we don't want, but those are different problems to solve/mitigate than just looking at inequality as a number and deciding that it's bad if it's high.

Given that inequality is simply a ratio, it says nothing about the actual standard of living. If incomes doubled over night, inequality would stay the same. Just look at "Communist China": Inequality has steadily risen, but the standard of living has improved dramatically.
Why is agreement a measure of how scientific a field is?
I would argue that if there are no conflicting views, no progress can be made. I would also argue that the older a science is, the more consensus there will be for fundamental things, and since economics is a rather new science, there are fewer things economists can agree on.

Besides, there are actually a lot of things that economists agree on: https://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/news-flash-economist...
We should fix both immediate problems and the fundamental ethics issues that perpetuate an exploitative mindset. Animal rights are part of that.
On re-reading the sort article, I realize it only says they will be compelled to share "encrypted messages" and "information to support investigations". It never says anything about decrypting the messages. If that is literally all it is, then it is quite misleading.
Julian Assange might disagree.
I have to deal with middle and top tier executives in many sufficient big companies, if not fortune 500, most of them are quite responsible and efficient in the work they do.
How often are 10000 people miling around in American towns?
> to see a genuinely technical disadvantage of DoH

Lack of privacy issue aside, there are a bunch of technical disadvantages compared to alternatives. Like using encryption to a local resolver or to a resolver over trusted or encrypted network is unnecessary overhead and complexity, including operational complexity that you really want to avoid. And if there is a case to use encrypted communications with a recursive resolver (i.e. non local), it could be done by simply tunneling DNS protocol over any of existing crypto protocols, no need for yet another complex protocol tunneled over https that still has to be converted to a native DNS protocol down the line.
It's interesting this is even necessary -- Australia's legislation to this effect passed last year could've been used just as easily (in combination with the 5-EYES pact).

(As an aside, there was meant to be a parliamentary review of the Assistance and Access Act earlier this year -- but I haven't heard anything about it.)
I am not sure about that. Of course enforcing your usage ideas will be next to impossible, but mentioning sth. can serve other purposes too (e.g. making a set of shared values visible to other developers).

So if you for example say that everybody except military, secret services and weapons manufacturers are allowed to use your software, that might not stop them from using it, but it makes other devs consider similar clauses and at one point it might be widespread enough to show some sort of effect (e.g. less people willing to work for the goons).
I didn't read that - are you sure about this? I am reading that backdoors are being asked to be created on WhatsApp. Anyway the messages aren't stored.

From the article:

Priti Patel, the U.K.’s home secretary, has previously warned that Facebook’s plan to enable users to send end-to-end encrypted messages would benefit criminals, and called on social media firms to develop “back doors” to give intelligence agencies access to their messaging platforms.
Sure you can. Just pop a fake pin capture screen and you’re good to go.
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I don't think they do anonymous accounts there (AFAIK). Social media needs to be connected with real ID, in any case the most popular, WeChat is connected to your phone number, and people link it to their CCs to pay for everything (I saw a lady selling baked potatoes from a pull-cart, the cart had a QR code which buyers can scan on WeChat to pay her)
The government is populist and very bad, but on this matter it's actually pro-Ukrainian. They gathered support creating anti-Muslim histeria, Ukrainians shouldn't have any problems with that.

Ukrainian and Polish are very similar languages and after 1 year you can learn the other one and speak with no recognizable accent (my cousin's wife is Ukrainian and nobody realizes that till she tells them).

There are nationalists that do have problems with imigrtion from Ukraine and Russia, but they are a marginal minority, not unlike the nationalists in UK protesting Polish immigration. They don't represent the mainstream opinion and aren't a threat in 99.99% of situations.
The majority of college grads are women. The majority of lower-class and blue collar workers are men. Depression and suicide rates are significantly higher for men than women. Nearly all workplace deaths and injuries occur to men. The fact that a small percentage of men are highly competitive and enterprising in a way that puts them in the top does not mean that our social system somehow coddles men or gives them power without reason, which is what the Patriarchy implies.
Without more details I’m pretty skeptical, currently WhatsApp metadata gets turned over in warrant requests but no message content (metadata includes the times messages were sent and who they were sent from/to).

It’d be a big deal to force FB to modify WhatsApp for message content interception and I think it’d be challenged in court.
There's a funny,rag level newspaper in the UK, called DailyMail. I suggest reading comments under the article about this, gives a good idea of how naive people can be.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7514787/Facebook-fo...
[Dev] I'm not a fan of syncthing, but that's up to everyone. Why I used email is because I often have to send links from websites to other contacts. I click the right mouse button and send the link. I like to combine several applications to save time. At first it sounds like a marginal time difference, but it's the total time of a year. The browser has evolved as it turned out to be best for my very special way of working. I can't please all people and I don't want to.

I am not satisfied with the previous Javascript solution. Yes, an ad blocker can help, but this is at the expense of loading time. I hate to wait until a website is loaded. Since most videos are implemented as Javascript application, they are blocked by default in the alligator. I don't want to missionize you here either, because there are enough web browsers on the market. My main goal is to get to know other points of view so that I can develop a better product.
you're totally free to start a few companies and pay 'fair' salary to the execs you hire

or, if an executive at some publicly-traded company is paid way over his/her value, it would mean that the company is inefficient; subsequently, you may want to invest in the competition, or short this company's stock to exploit this inefficiency

in other words, put your money on the line to prove your argument
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Anyone can add ethical stipulations to the license of their choice but the result is no longer a free software license.

A license requiring a user to adhere to the software developers' moral code is the opposite of a free software license.

In your example regarding "weapons manufacturers;" in the United States the right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution and interpreted by the courts as an inalienable human right. Your proposed software license would thus restrict the freedom of the user and is therefore non-free.
Another reminder that there are no secure platforms; there are protocols with (one hopes) the potential to be secure. The difference becomes more important by the day.
> Not for one moment saying twitter's won me over, but it provides a cleaner way of annotating a story than any other platform I'm aware of.

Medium? It seems specially built for that.
And that’s as it should be. We should each be proud of, and willing to defend our country.
Decision making around sunsetting Samsung GearVR is fascinating. In terms of unit sales, it looks like it was a runaway best seller. I mean it figures. It's just a phone attachment that retails as low as $19.99. But the friction of having to remove your phone from its case, pop it into the head set, download content, and drain battery life was too much. Folks used it once, and then never again. Contrasted with the Rift S and Quest retention rates which saw daily usage. And mass audience streaming of Beat Sabre ;)
Would you mind be more concrete? I’m curious what part is surprising from your travel experience, assuming you are just a regular traveler/tourist (i.e. not journalist)
When the article says "share users’ encrypted messages", it's not clear if it's referring to the messages in their encrypted state, or is referring to messages have been decrypted before sharing.
We look at open source funding in isolation but wealth inequality is pervasively unbalanced all over the place. Per-project funding has already failed to allocate resources adequately because it's only corporate projects that are funded not their dependencies. One proposed solution to this wider inequality is Universal Basic Incomes, that funds open source by design.

There are a lot of reasons to like UBI as a funding channel for open source. Open source contributes immensely to people learning how to use computers and even the bad ideas can influence the future. There is all this value and ecosystem being excluded when we look at funding on a per-project basis.
Segment IO is currently being blocked on browsers with adblock. Does this mean it will work even with adblock?
I’m wondering about the economics of this release. I don’t know if Apple has any bug bounty program and whether it would apply here, but I’m pretty sure someone would have paid a lot of money for this.

Hence my question: why make it public? What’s the backstory?
Nothing. Whoever is interested, has to get hold of the phones to access the messages.
What context? Insincere how? I do strongly like a few deities from various fictions. I would gladly eat your ear off about them.
Not bad!

That's the beauty of crowd-sourcing. Fee free to use words that seem right, and if it turns out that there is a slight adjustment to be made, everyone learns for free.
It's possible for society to tackle more than one injustice/problem at a time. Choosing one thing to work on isn't at the direct cost of another.

It's reasonable to say that the overall efforts towards things should be proportional to the amount and degree of injustice, but it's not useful to mock people who are concerned about a specific problem.
from whatsapps official homepage, respectively
(https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/28030015, https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/general/26000050)

>WhatsApp has no ability to see the content of messages or listen to calls on WhatsApp. That’s because the encryption and decryption of messages sent on WhatsApp occurs entirely on your device. Before a message ever leaves your device, it's secured with a cryptographic lock, and only the recipient has the keys.[...]

>A search warrant issued under the procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure or equivalent state warrant procedures upon a showing of probable cause is required to compel the disclosure of the stored contents of any account, which may include "about" information, profile photos, group information and address book, if available. In the ordinary course of providing our service, WhatsApp does not store messages once they are delivered or transaction logs of such delivered messages, and undelivered messages are deleted from our servers after 30 days. WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption for our services, which is always activated

Very interested to see what their response is and if their promise holds that they do not have technical access to content but merely to account information.
add: the many other problems that religion is supposed to fix, but it actually produces them or makes them worse.
Many at Kodak knew they were toast and the smart executives left. Tens of thousands of patents and employees having to do with complex chemistry around photography and almost no natural edge against competitors that were cleaner camera plays like Canon. The clearest strategy for the agents of the firm to capitalize on their own information was to leave.
Instead of countering my arguments you’ve attempted to use a logical fallacy to negate my point. Two things can be true because they’re independent or caused by similar preconditions. You’re not offering the contradiction you appear to be claiming.

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I think it is calling for the FSF to think about addressing a potential unwanted fragmentation of the free software community over opinions on ethical uses of software and solutions based on restriction from licenses.
EV charging hardware is very expensive at the moment.

A 100 Amp relay good for 10kW is < $2, yet the cheapest similar EV charging system is easily $1000.

I imagine a future where the people who make streetlights just integrate a couple of sockets in the bottom of every streetlamp. Total human time to fit one to an existing streetlamp should be only 15 minutes or so, so they can be rolled out en-mass.
> mammograms have a false positive rate of something like 50%

This is pretty astounding to me. Where should I read more about this?
America cages innocent people

They are not innocent, they are trespassers.
Keep in mind this is content marketing for a dead Google product, nothing more
Can't you buy new oyster cards with cash?
It's certainly up for debate, as there are varying definitions.

Although, I don't think it's fair to put things like "Man photographs Lock Ness monster, and you'll never guess what happens next!" BS in the same category as my nightly news saying "After the break, new CDC warnings you should know before you vape"
If the source code isn't available for audit by 3rd parties (or yourself), and you can't build it from source, then it was never really "secure" anyway. What lawmakers do or don't say is just noise.

Platforms that rely on trust (in this case, trusting that FB isn't doing bad things) provide very weak guarantees about privacy/security. They could easily include a keylogger in WhatsApp and bypass the e2e encryption, for example, and us regular folk have no way of knowing.
You are dealing with the darkest depths of humanity to get these confessions. Sure as hell beats using torture and duress to extract this info. I’m not sure how someone would be able to convincingly lie about multiple murders if they were lying. Most details aren’t public. I have not had any close family become victims of a violent crime so I don’t know how important the confession is to these families, but it seems to mean a lot to many of them.
It’s not easy to come up with every possible scenario your code will be used in. For example, I’m sure the now-infamous chef author didn’t think that their code would be included by a company as a part of their for-profit offering to ICE.
Agree. Don't touch definitions. For example, some people were not fine with the definition of "free software", so they coined the term "open source software" to line out their views on the topic.

I think "social" or "ethical" software could be a reasonable term for the views proposed.

That being said, and IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that such ideas would not held in court, unless the "unethical behaviour" is illegal. But in this case, why should criminals stick to software licences?
That "8 forms of capital" is kind of intersting, I'm not sure I agree with the overall analysis but it's close to a good model of economics.

Take the Capital Pools & Flows chart and put the corresponding 8 forms of demand (social demand, material demand,...) on the right side. Then ask how to use the 8 forms of capital on the left to satisfy the 8 demands on the right, especially when each form of capital can be used to satisfy multiple forms of demand.

Then expand the list of types of capital into the thousands, expand the types of demands into the thousands, and realize we're living in a society with hundreds of millions of people. How do you use the many forms of capital, which each have finite supply alternative uses, to satisfy the many forms of demand?

That's a big problem to solve and it's exactly the problem that the field of economics studies.
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The AGPL license Mattermost uses for their source is OSI approved Open Source.
Well, if we found it, it would already be contained unless accessed by definition.

Also, magnetic fields could definitely contain it, as is already done.

We can already make anti-matter, as it't essentially the process of making matter bounce off, using a photon, in such a way that it reverts its time direction.
Or, in classical view: Turn a photon into a particle/antiparticle pair.
The problem is, of course, that it first takes those shitloads of energy, that it would release later.

And to actually find anti-matter in nature, you would most likely have to turn into anti-matter yourself, travel back in time, and somehow survive the big bang without touching anything, to come out the hypothetized other side where time is reversed and anti-matter expanded to. Or try to get inside a black hole, and revert your direction of motion (as time and space are reversed in there).
Both not yet technically available, to say the least. ;)
> "Nevermind that we have so many laws it's impossible for anyone to be sure they haven't already broken one today."

I'm sure there is a good middle ground that can be reached. The more we automate, the less we leave ambiguous. Because even though ambiguity enables us to be civil towards one another in the form of understanding "context", it also allows a lot of genuine bad behavior to occur and also inevitably leaves loopholes for bad actors.