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Arguments that claim something is impossible from an argument related to the halting problem are generally bogus. The halting problem applies only to deterministic systems with infinite state. If you have finite state and determinism, you have to eventually repeat a state, or halt. Note that "very large" and "infinite" are not the same thing here.

Not being able to predict something for combinatorial or noise reasons is a more credible argument.
>It doesn't do e2ee by default.

I read the article and he claims it does? It's just that the default uses their cloud backup where Telegram has access to the private keys.
> "In resolving this appeal, we remind the litigants and the public that if the First Amendment means anything, it means that the best response to disfavored speech on matters of public concern is more speech, not less," the judges wrote.

That sure is an interesting statement in light of this weeks events.
Yeah I'm with you on this. I installed it to see what all of the fuss was about and have been loving it. I haven't run into a single glitch or problem of any kind.
If you include a cloud key in the network there’s no need to connect to the ubiquity cloud. The cloud key runs an entirely local ubiquity management stack.
>If this speech threatens democracy, peace, and safety, why hasn't it been made illegal by the government, and how has the US managed to do so well for centuries with it being perfectly legal?

Because we've generally dealt with that by deplatforming that sort of speech socially and/or in the private sector.

The history of the civil rights movement is filled with boycotts and other sorts of social pressure campaigns.
I'm reading books and listening to long-form podcasts on the consumption side. Writing more is actually helping the most.
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Currently when you don't accept ticket, no penalty is yet applied, and police needs to file court case against you. Proposed changes make it that ticket can't be refused and penalty is always applied, but it can be afterwards appealed to the court. This is less favorable as it shifts court process burden from police (they need to prove you are guilty in the first place) to you (you are appealing already applied penalty).
Buy you don't release half cut movies, unfinished novels, unmastered songs. Technically you can, but not at full price after years of hype.

I think what happened here is that investors pushed the game to be out since it was xmas and the two console platforms were real hungry for a big title.
But XMPP has the non-trivial problem of e2ee as an extension added very late and not the default.

I can't suggest XMPP to non-technical people, because I know they'll end up talking to each other with neither e2ee nor awareness of lack of e2ee.
Ask HN: How would you steel-man censoring social media vs. freedom of speech?
I think I might have a naive opinion regarding online censorship. Although I regard myself as entirely pro-freedom of speech I definitely haven't heard a good pro-censoring argument and I'm open to changing my mind. I'd like to hear what both sides (and everyone in between) have to say.
This is a dishonest line. The internet is federated, they don't have to use websites created by American megacorporations.
There was & may still be a lot of anger towards WhatsApp. It was only after it became the de facto messaging app for most of the world that it became a FB property, so I think people felt either betrayed, hoodwinked, or simply trapped without a good exit. Compare to FB Messenger, which was always a FB product from day one, so you always knew what you were getting.
Failure to address the problems they are causing.

Eg near me is a nice park. Every single evening the car park gets a dump of McDonalds and Wendy’s rubbish.

Yes, it’s their customers and not them, but if those companies addressed their waste by creating less, making more efficient packaging or finding other ways to improve the situation, they would make way more difference than any customer could.
"Circle" and "exponential growth" are also physically impossible yet useful ideas.
This.

Everyone is talking like the CCP are the culprit here. There is big turmoil within the party right now, because Xi has taken absolute control of all areas of government.

He wants to be a Mao 2 and all the moderates in the party are gone (Deng, Chou, Bo, Hu) The good thing about this is hopefully when Xi dies it gives China an opportunity to change things maybe even away from the party. The bad thing is... well dictatorships...
over the years, demographics change, macro economics change, geopolitics change, etc etc etc
If gathering in public space is gone we have bigger problems than wifi not working.
Totally agree, I've told everyone I know to drop Firefox because of this.
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> Her friend who the "threat" was directed at has tried to petition twitter to undo her suspension, but they've just ignored her.

Can you quote the specific threat issued, anonymized as appropriate?
no, it says that what people ask for, e2e chat, isn't what people get (because of unencrypted cloud backups).
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Please stop with the false equivalencies.

Donald Trump directed a mob to storm the Capitol while they were certifying election results, the ensuing riot led to at least five deaths.

He is being deplatformed because of the impending threat of violence he presents. This isn't a hypothetical situation - he held a rally, incited a riot, and people died.
Well Obama did ask Bader-Ginsburg to step down when democrats had control of the senate (I think she’d only had cancer once at the time), but I guess you’re referring to something stronger than just asking judges to step down.

I feel like the US Supreme Court nomination system only works through a combination of frequent changes of power and most judges believing in the system and following the unwritten part of the constitution, and that the US example isn’t really a good one to copy in other democracies.
Its very different IMO, one benefits the CEO financially the other is an identifier for tracking purposes. One was done without informing the user the other is a common methodology that many websites do with parameters such utm_ (not that I am advocating for tracking). They are, IMO, very different practices. Im sure you disagree but when you modify a URL for financial gain without informing your users and then backtrack only when you get caught out, its a different ball game.

Im not going to get in to the game of finding specific ways to donate to content creators. There are ways to do it. If you want to do it anonymously, I am sure you can do so as well, I have never been interested in doing so. If the reason you want to use brave is to donate money anonymously, more power to you, personally, I would caution people against using it due to their past shady behaviour (The affiliate link is just one of many examples).
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Autotools and the configure script come from a history of distributing software purely as source code instead of binaries. From the early GNU days.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Managing-R...

The intention was that software would be released as source code "tarballs" and contain a configure script, written in the lowest common denominator scripting language to configure that source code to compile on the users system. Additionally by distributing the configure script itself instead of configure.ac, users tend to need fewer dependencies that they don't already have.

It's _less_ applicable now that most users get pre-built binaries from package managers and it just feel pretty antiquated overall. But yeah the intention is that configure is platform agnostic and prepares your source code tree to build on the current platform. Whereas autoconf/autoreconf is intended as a tool for the developer to make writing "configure" a lot easier.
Do you know how ubiquiti's "edge" line compares to mikrotik?
They did. They really did (at least, some of them). And their outlets ran stories that were 95% negative about Trump anyway. They tried to "listen", to "understand", but they never listened enough to understand.
You can't really defend the US Supreme Court's actions on gay marriage from any legal viewpoint other than "because five justices said so" and "what are you gonna do about it." Popular opinion is not the talisman of judicial interpretation. If the public wants its way, they can vote for it. For what it's worth, the public did not support gay marriage until after the federal courts made it a fait accompli. E.g. In a referendum, California voted to ban gay marriage in 2008. What the federal courts in America did is overturn the standing will of the people as it existed in the laws of the majority of US states.
Well signal does have the SMS fallback, it's just not secure. But neither is email.
> Content moderation on a social network could work in a very similar way, with different groups of moderators creating different lists of banned users and deleted posts.

Serious vulnerability and potential for abuse and censorship. People could slip in the id for a user they want banned and anyone using that list would not easily realize they are prevented from seeing content from that user. Almost like reverse shadow banning.
I've been running the Unifi controller on a Raspberry Pi 2 for four or five years now with no problems that I can recall.

After the initial installation and configuration was done, I've probably only logged into it a handful of times.

(With the exception of their APs and said controller, I avoid Ubiquiti as much as possible, though.)
This just is not true. The fact that you are writing this, clearly shows you don't know of Element/Matrix.

When you use Matrix, and open a web client, the only thing you have to do is 1) logging in and 2) providing a password, key file, scan a QR code, OR compare Emojis - and you get everything synced.

The same holds for any type of client. I barely see a loss of convenience, let a lone something being hard or impossible.
I wish Signal had a setting for alternative media handling.

Guessing that a lot of WhatsApp users like myself rely on the built in media backup to Google Drive.
The automatically, well ordered media stored locally on the phone, with dates received in filenames, is great for people who like to have local media backups.
WhatsApp image folder can also be added to services like the Google Pictures backup.

All those missing features are Signal deal breakers for some people
"If you work in the other ecosystem, you probably feel right now that even suggesting what happened last Wednesday was not a coup in the literal sense of the word (e.g. an attempt at seizing power with an actual chance of success) not only wouldn’t clear an editor, but might make you suspect in the eyes of co-workers, a potentially job-imperiling problem in this environment."

This is pedantic and downplays what occurred.
Exactly like that. The bakers in that case offered to sell their potential customer an undecorated cake along with icing to use to write any message on the cake that they wanted. It should have been a much easier case for the bakers to win, since nobody should be able to make you say something that violates your ethics. Nobody should want that outcome, because one day the government will make them say something that violates their ethics.
You're right, but most companies do not have those positions formalized and therefore you're expected to do those as part of your job, but not gain the financial benefits. Also, there is a big disparity in these titles and what the duties entail, which inherently again feeds into the problem.
Honeybees which sting allergic humans causing them to die.

I think one would be hard pressed to find a purely beneficial species that doesn't harm another. Especially if you consider competing over resources as harm.
Have a look at MaidSafe. It's still not production or even testnet ready, but they're getting close.
I don't have a security or crypto background, but I saw an interesting bug story about Telegram, provocatively entitled "Cryptography Dispatches: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen."

"Now, normally the two sides would compute the shared key as (g^a)^b mod p and (g^b)^a mod p. Instead, the original version of MTProto computed it as

(g^a)^b mod p XOR nonce

where nonce was an arbitrary, supposedly random value sent by the server along with the peer’s public contribution.

This was a completely non-standard and useless addition, and all it did was let the server perform an undetected Person-in-the-Middle attack."

https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches/archive/cry...
> They offered it in their store so it obviously met their certification requirements at one point in the past. Perhaps they don't really have certification requirements...

Because CDPR promised to Sony they'd fix it at launch, it was Sony being lenient, obviously that was a mistake from Sony.
Sorry, but I don't have a response for you that is in the spirit of this site's rules. Namely, that conversation should be interesting. Have a nice day.
The incentives are pretty bad for researchers in China. Cheating and corruption is the best way to progress rather than innovation. I find it waste of time reading a Chinese scientific article, yet Chinese scientist in the US or Canada are brilliant.
Has been like this for 'overtredingen' ( minor offences like jaywalking, speeding, running red lights ) in NL for decades.

Wet Mulder for those interested.
The word OP should have used it "ought" (instead of should) as in normative ethics.

It's good that the laws/government does not coerce/force companies to do business with everyone under the sun, but it doesn't mean it would be good if they (or if society) started to exercise this right all the time, because it can be very much abused, for example if some company is extremely xenophobic/racist, then in that case it's not good that that company is excluding a bunch of people. Also, if corporations drop everybody just because it's inconvenient/unprofitable, it can easily lead to abuse of market position.
What is a lie? I think it’s highly unlikely that Facebook and Twitter will be used worldwide in say, 2040. They had first mover advantage, but as it becomes easier to create a social network and the law catches up, I’d expect to see a lot of local/regional alternatives.

If the EU said tomorrow, in 1 year we are banning Facebook and launching our own version, what can Facebook do about it?
I created https://2fb.me because I felt content was being confined by the constraints of the "network". There is no one network, or there shouldn't be as the author eludes, but an entirely new network will never reach the "network" effects it needs. Instead a protocol between the existing monoliths breaks through the confines and the content cannot be deleted all at once, as it will exist as a copy somewhere else. In short if the account goes down on Twitter then the existing tweet from that account will exist on Facebook unless it's deleted there too. IMO, this is how to to create a better social network where there isn't one authority, using what exists already.
Data independency.

Social media companies to compete on features not the network effects.

I feel like there needs to be a new internet standard.

We have emails, phones, texts, etc ...

Why can't we have a standard for social media and messaging which doesn't lock you in?

Imagine if I could only use one phone provider because all my other friends and family use that one provider.

Social media has been broken from the start.

Someone please fix it. It's bullsh!t.
> When (often hyper-partisan like Snopes) fact checkers are the ones determining what you can see based on THEIR OWN interpretation of "hate speech" or "inciting violence" then that's censorship.

This viewpoint is the culmination of years of hacking the
Overton window. In any two-party environment where only _one_ party regularly _does_ proliferate bigotry and violent attitudes, any reasonable/neutral observer will appear to be a partisan for the opposition by default.

To assume this wouldn't be the case wrongly assumes that ideas should naturally fall along a Normal distribution, with the most morally-correct views centered precisely at x=0 (bipartisan) along the left/right axis.
AWS' James Hamilton lives pretty much on a boat around the world most of the time [0].

I was at AWS 2008-2014 and had a few chats with him. Super nice, very smart, humble. For a little while he used to be a car mechanic for Italian cars in his younger years.

[0]: https://mvdirona.com/
I think geoblocking Poland would be easy enough.
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It's also worth that the author doesn't go too much into detail of the how, and focuses more on the what

> With my first account, I started using YouTube, trying every feature, pressing every button I could find, and whenever I saw an HTTP request with a video ID in it, I changed it to the target Private video

Was this done with some tooling or scripts, or purely by eyeing devtools? I could see that step for example being very similar to "parse WireShark logs", for example.

I agree that the level of detail included makes it fairly readable without being to scary to non-experts.
I'm not going to say that's a worse model.

We saw outsourcing of engines to companies who focused on that as their core competency. Then middleware. As AAA budgets go up to maintain pace with SotA, it makes less sense to trash-and-start-from-scratch (traditional practice).

DLC on online games is the ultimate realization of this. Why sink the cost of rebuilding a game, when you have a battle-tested core, with bugs already fixed, and content tooling already created, that you can start from? Essentially: EA {Sport} {Year} model, for everything else.
>the media spun a narrative of Russian collusion

No, the media spun the narrative of Russian interference, with possible collusion, something that turned out to be true (interference) and collusion was left uncertain (Muller stated quite clearly that if he could show Trump didn't collude, then Mueller would have said so, but that he was not going to say so).

"'The president was not exculpated for the acts that he allegedly committed,' Mueller told the House judiciary committee, adding that Trump could theoretically be indicted after he leaves office." [1]

Then the Trump DOJ didn't release the summary of the report, but their edited version, leaving plenty out, in order to get people like you to write what you just did. Mueller was so outraged at how the DOJ spun the report, that he immediately did a press conference about it, an unprecedented step.

Here is Mueller's letter to Barr on exactly this [2].

Once Trump is out of office, and several years have gone by without charges, then maybe you can claim these concerns were false, but they most certainly were not fabrications or lies.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/mueller-refutes-trumps-no-co...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/719004457/read-muellers-lette...
Cant work.

If you are in the super market buying food, and people are giving out free trials of crack cocaine -> addiction city.

You can very regularly see Nazi apologia which is so dressed up and benign sounding. "Teach the facts", "did this really happen" - the debunking of which requires access to people used to debunking it.

The same rule applies to a variety of topics.

Simply put, the average person is not prepared for lawyer level rhetorical devices in the wild.

So either we remove content like that, or we live through whatever disasters a world of reality distortion creates. Most likely the survivors of that world will simply lock down the news down hard.
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Even email is not permanent. There was a discussion a few months ago on HN where people were complaining that very old attachments just don't load up in Gmail, because they are not backed up on the servers.
Wow, thank you Darren! Your early feedback is super valuable for me to make my product better. I really appreciate to have your support!
In general, I kept reading in the past that Apple's sold HW (including MacBooks etc..., not just phones) has at least about 30% profit?
Ah, so my plan to buy a Dream Machine Pro would effectively mitigate this.
The title of this submission is hyperbolic.

Merkel did not "blast" Twitter's decision. According to the article, her spokesperson said Merkel "considers it problematic that the president’s accounts have been permanently suspended".
Let's call it a couple hundred offices in the building itself. There are hundreds of people roaming freely, checking what's behind every door. It would be strange if they didn't come across particular offices.
Gay marriage had a popular majority in favour before it became legal (though obviously a popular majority doesn’t necessarily mean much in the US system.) Compare this to interracial marriage which was not approved of by the majority of the population for many years after it was made fully legal across the country .
If WhatsApp has the decryption key, it's not end-to-end encrypted.

If Apple has your decryption key, then iCloud uploads aren't encrypted (and Apple seems to have the decryption key, as they offer "reset password" functionality).
Jack had every right, it’s his website. He pays for it, so he gets to decide what appears on it.
The same would apply to anyone else running a website. This is not a new idea.
I’m curious about freedom from compelled speech in the US.
But to determine if something is legal or illegal sometimes takes years, doesn't it?
I get your point, but there's a middle ground here that I feel countries should rightly be able to defend, instead of letting Silicon Valley American companies unilaterally decide their fate. LGBT advocates in America have become extreme, even floating ideas like giving all children puberty blockers (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/transgender-activist...) while other countries like the UK are recognizing, rather sanely, that there is no way a minor can give consent on puberty blockers (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/children-who-w...). These days, you'd be labeled a "transphobe" for suggesting something so obvious in the US, and your posts would be deleted from Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/whatever. So I can see reasonable reasons why other countries and their citizens would want to retain local control on allowed/disallowed speech.
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If it is newsworthy when they are removed, it is also newsworthy when a company makes a decision not to remove them.
> For now, don't attempt to overturn a fair democratic election and install an illegitimate government.

I agree 100%, viking hat guy should definitely have his AWS account terminated.

Now, let's talk about Russiagate, how the FBI knew it was a fabrication of the opposition party to distract from a campaign scandal, and how we were dragged all the way through an impeachment process in an attempt to install an illegitimate government.