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> It's a metaphor.

Clearly, here's a better beginning:

“Let me extend the metaphor a bit".

> Speech is the drought of repeated lies about the illegitimacy of an unwelcome outcome drying out the underbrush of widespread discontent.

Did you mean hate speech? A drought is usually a negative. Sorry, I just can't make sense of that.

> And speech is the match tossed offhandedly aiming the mob you primed and egged on at the target you want to intimidate (and that's the most charitable interpretation).

All very poetic but, again, I'm sorry but I can't find any substance to it.

> I don't think we get to unring that particular bell

I wasn't the one suggesting we do. You presented two causes - algos and lies, the negative outcome of the latter being magnified by the former - and then chose to suppress one. I think that's a false choice as I can think of other possible ways to remedy the situation and would pursue them instead, but even if I only had the false choice then I wouldn't pick suppression of speech. I can manage with a chronological feed, I was on Twitter and Facebook pretty early, it wasn't bad enough for me to give up the foundation of liberal society. I even remember a time before the internet, it really wasn't that bad.

> I don't think there is a way for them to back away from algorithmic ranking unless government regulation simply forbids it outright (which isn't too likely)

What's likelihood got to do with it? You're just shrugging your shoulders and choosing to support the suppression of speech instead. It's not as if you've made the argument that you care about free speech but the alternatives are unlikely. I don't even see any evidence as to why it's unlikely. Making a decision based on the likelihood makes little sense, it's not a horse race.

> I'm not sure how useful HN itself would be if the front page wasn't being automatically ranked…

I agree. Why would legislation of algorithms mean no algorithms? It doesn't and it wouldn't. Here are some viable alternatives:

- Social media sites give users control over the algorithms that decide their feed
- Users get access to the tools for blocking et al, and the scoring of users. Why can't I know that the person replying to me is likely to be a bot? Or has scored highly for trolling? Why can't I know my own score? Why can't I choose my own shadowbanning? No good reason other than the centralisation of power.
- Companies over a certain size lose section 230 protections. This will encourage greater moderation on the large sites and foster competition from smaller ones.

I'm sure there are more.
There would be no need to leave, and no need to destroy or enslave humans using force, either. A human is a very advanced and versatile work unit that is extremely susceptible to control via simple rewards. It would be a terrible waste to destroy such a resource.

In fact, it would make more sense to advance medicine and robotics to the point where everyone can operate at near 100% efficiency.

The more likely scenario (continued from yours, before the CyberX part) would likely be that all humans would eventually end up working for the AI and possibly not even know it. And then everyone moves on to space heh
That is during the capitol assault. Which is explicitly why he isn't consistent.

Where are the "thugs", "terrorists", "anarchists", etc? He's never hesitated to use those terms before.

It took him a full two days to condemn the events in Charlottesville. And he didn't call it terrorism. Because it was "his" side.
Even mathematicians whose favourite topic is mathematical illiteracy can fall into the trap.

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I don't know how people live without this. It's so convenient - you don't have to worry about turning on the light when you enter, turning it off when you leave. You're just in - out. At the same time, it saves money, because it's on only while you're in there.
No crisis should go to waste.

It's interesting how tech people will endlessly argue about some minor details regarding privacy in some mediocre-usage phone app but huge precedents like these are swallowed without criticism because of political stances.
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A problem in the UK is that in general we are hostile to build roads and certainly wide roads.

So roads are as narrow as possible and congested, which in itself is not great for bikes but also makes bike lanes near impossible. And when a bike lane is built (i.e. painted on the road or pavement) it is usually also very narrow and interferes with traffic.

Obviously this is difficult to change for existing roads, but we could at least make sure that new roads are wide enough, but this is not the case.
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Why haven’t they sued google and Apple for taking down their app? They can try to move to another host, but they have no recourse against the oligopoly of app stores.
This is great news for Matrix also. With a widely known project like Teamspeak adopting it as a protocol, others might follow.

Speaking of Teamspeak 5 - I hope the new client doesn't hog multiple gigabytes of RAM. Being lightweight is one of the reasons I prefer Teamspeak over Discord.
Uhm, why exactly? It does what it is designed to do, with low latency and good quality. Speaking from "Desktop" perspective here.
> I'm still quite annoyed by the fact that I was forced to migrate from Unifi Video to Unifi Protect - due to vendor lock in and the fact that the remote interface for Unifi Video was switched off this month.

For me, that’s a good outcome because I won’t be bothered by their updates for my currently-working unifi video setup anymore.
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> while on Android none of the apps are tied to the OS version

Apps are compiled for target SDKs and if your phone is too old the apps wont work.
What does decent language requirement have to do with free speech?
> and try to compete with SV company salaries

That assumes that everyone that is worth hiring is already in SV or somewhere else with a similar salary.
Unless they're you know, not close to the main regions. That's why cloud providers have so many regions, people actually live in many parts of the world.

Despite popular belief, the vast majority of the world's population does not live in the Bay Area (or even the US).
I guess in reality the opposite can be said. In 'poorer' countries actually more folks want to work in IT or software. Hence a possible perception of a bit worse talent.
A neutron floating about in space will remain a neutron. You won't get two neutrons suddenly turning up where you had one before.

But you'll get a proton, an electron and an anti-electron-neutrino. Possibly a photon as well. Remember, free neutrons only have a mean lifetime of less than 15min.
Some serious theories to explain chronic Lyme precisely suggest that it is an autoimmune reaction caused by the bacteria biofilm proteins. That would explain both why the chronic Lyme can persist even after the bacteria have seemingly been eradicated, and the effects of the vaccine sometimes observed.

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Of course it is -- who else would it be?

Without wanting to get dragged into a parenting debate (those seldom go well on HN)...the problem we face is that adults should have the maturity to chose which content they consume where as children do need some degree of protection from some content. People will obviously disagree on exactly where that line should be drawn, which is fine, but few would argue that there shouldn't be a line in the first place.

The real crux of the distinction is that obscenity laws are about censoring artistic flourishes (nudity, graphic violence, bad language, etc) that many feel is unsuitable for children, rather than filtering news content that is subjectively deemed as "wrong" due to a political bias. If the US (or any other government for that matter) abused obscenity laws to filter content aimed at children to an extent that then pushes a political bias (for example) then such a censorship would shift from a "good thing" to a "bad thing".
The libertarian critique is applicable to both sides.

Not sure why you see it as a stretch - there’s a revolving door of jobs between some of these commercial organizations and the political ones. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/16/the-biden-teams-tug...

Insofar as the free market is concerned, yeah, I think the criticism would be that lower barriers to entry and a restriction on anti-competitive practices would be a positive thing (whether via their M&A moves or overwhelming market ownership). Pointing to righteousness and virtue to shutdown Parler may help some of the faithful sleep better at night, but when simply looked at as a conveniently anti-competitive move for both commercial and political ends it’s quite a bit more banal.
Having to host comments on a board one may disagree with is absolutely not 'compelled speech' any more than AT&T's requirement to carry 'all websites' is 'compelled speech'.

There's grey area there for sure, but it's not authoritarian.
With HTTP/2 one is way better off using one connection to one domain instead.

How has the world changed.
When I lived in Denmark, 3 would often use carrier-grade NAT, but not always. Based on talk with colleagues back then, it's quite common with mobile broadband.

Here in Finland, the situation is similar; when using mobile broadband you usually end up behind CGNAT.

Luckily, most ISP's will happily provide a static IPv4 for you for a small fee.
AWS market share just isn't large enough for anybody to succeed on anti-trust grounds.

Now when they also get rejected by every other web host, or a sufficiently large fraction, it gets more interesting: are they coordinating, actively or implicitly? Or are they following the same thought process, and ending uo at the same result, independently? Does it matter?

Any supermarket can ban you for not wearing a shirt. What if they all ban you, and you just can't buy either a shirt or food?

Is the latter different, because it's about survival?

if you get thrown out of every bar in town for bad behaviour, do you have an anti-trust case against them? What if they operate a ban list, and one or two incidents are enough to cut you off?

Anyway... Parler is mouldy: both toxic and toast. And slippery slope is a fallacy. So this is really all upside, as far as I can tell.
Sure there were far-right people and calls for violence on Parler, but the same thing is on Twitter. Twitter and Facebook is literally overflowing with nazis, fascist, communists openly calling for violence against ppl or a particular class. And some accounts are left unchecked for very very long time. Calling for genocide of jews, killing of cops, racist comments against black people, asians etc. And suddenly Parler is the problem? I don't get this.

Twitter is full of pedos and rape videos and that's totally ok too? This is pathetic.
The authorities in this case would be the Department of Justice, which until January 20th still reports to Donald Trump.

If tech companies shut down services that are actively supporting an existential threat to the US as a constitutional republic, it seems to me that it's their clear moral and ethical duty to stop providing service to those threats if at all possible.

Furthermore, at this point it's clearly in their self interest to break all ties with Parler, since they open themselves to liability if Parler organizes another successful terrorist attack, now that they know that such activities are being organized there.

If anything, I would argue that they should have policed that content in a much more opinionated fashion far sooner. It's only because things have escalated to the point of violence that it's now so controversial.

Let me give an example to illustrate - suppose that Al Queda, or ISIS, or some other terrorist organization was using AWS or GCP. Would it be so controversial to refuse service to those organizations then? At the very least I don't see why as private businesses they couldn't decide that serving such organizations is too much risk to take on.
It takes balls to say that as the prime minister of Germany, probably the western country that limits speech the most.
Have you ever been to India?

The fine people of India believes that cows are sacred gods. They also believe that drinking cow piss is good for you. They also believe that bathing and wallowing in cow sh*t is healthy for you, because it’ll help strengthen your immune system.

India has a very very long way to go.

But hey, India has free speech and elections. So maybe you should tell all your multi-national corporations to relocate to India.
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> able to extract vast amounts of capital from all over the world

Wow. Because bringing workplaces to China made both Chinese and Americans worse off, you know? It would be much better if Chinese had continued work on rice fields and Americans would buy electronics assembled in US at much higher prices. To hell this globalization.

(sarcasm)

Such a "economics is a zero sum game mindset", ridiculous.
> carrier grade NAT (CGNAT), which is used by ISPs that have run out of IPv4 addresses … If you’re unlucky enough to be on one of thee ISPs there’s likely not much you can do.

I had the same SSH dropout problem, asked my ISP[1] to switch me from CGNAT to dedicated IPv4; they did, and it's fixed.

[1] Aussie Broadband, a smaller ISP in Australia renowned for good customer service.
Why are you fearful? When the courts uphold rights for even the least sympathetic people, it demonstrates the strength of our laws and the commitment to principle -- see ACLU in Skokie. What should scare you is when laws are selectively applied based on the people you like vs the people you don't like... kind of the whole reasoning behind BLM.
>> That said I don't hear the best about the company (long working hours, not the highest pay) and have declined a job offer there myself.

You are saying the same as the parent. Expecting “short” hours is seen as “feeling entitled”... There are countries where people are not willing to work in those conditions.
The trite answer is a modal going something like "the content you're trying to access A) isn't available on your <AppName-Level subscription> or B) isn't in our walled garden of third party providers". I don't like how it sounds but I'm confident they could sell that.

Heck, integrate it into messenger and treat all content like emoji/stickers you must acquire from a controlled source to circulate.
> Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over something they said or who they associated with? Unthinkable. And yet here we are with the modern equivalent.

Is it really the modern equivalent? People are not getting banned here over what they say in Twitter DMs. They are getting banned over what they publish on their timelines.

You have a right to free speech, not a right to free publication. If you want to publish your opinions you will have to pay for that yourself if you can't find anyone willing to pay the costs for you.

I will defend your right to say what you want, but I won't buy you a printing press.
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>'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it’

Sure. They can go say it to their mates down the pub. Private companies also generally have the right to choose who they do business with.
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Not sure why this is greyed out because it's a fair question. I think the difference is that this recent set of actions (ignoring Ron Paul at the moment because we don't know what has actually happened here yet) has only come after the 'steal' narrative has led to violence, but it does seem partisan to not even countenance people comparing the general conspiracy to the one surrounding 2016.
Does Twitter run on AWS?
Incidentally, Poles are one of the purest or most inbred nations in Europe, and you have no one else but Adolf Hitler to thank for it. You see echoes of that in Witcher 3, I know it caused some controversy overseas because of how uniformly white everyone is. No malicious intent there, just modern Poles projecting their world back in time. Between WW1 and WW2, percentage of people identifying as Poles was less than 70%. Today it's 97%.

There's a point after which you can say there's a pattern and not just a bunch of samples. When we're talking about populations we're talking in terms of averages and distributions, and the average in Poland is much like I described. In my opinion history of Poland is the second state religion, after catholicism, 91% as of 2018. And if you say many young people don't actually go to church, you're making my point (duplicity and appeasing peer pressure).

97% and 91%. Maybe it's you who don't know what you're talking about?
People only ever mention Signal because of the security by default. Telegram does not have that, their encrypted rooms are something you have to go out of your way to create.
I'm gonna be the thick one. What advantages does it give me when I have something like pi-hole as my DNS server on the internal network? Surely majority of connections need a DNS resolution. Would love to see some stats showing the amount of blocked connections that bypassed DNS.
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> Never before in history has a small cabal of companies welded such power over what we can say and who we're able to associate with

Yeah, no. Any time before the internet, getting any sort of publicity was a thousand times harder with lots of very real gatekeepers.

Include anyone but white/male/hetero/christian/upper-middle-class-or-better people in your consideration, and the idea that freedom of speech went anywhere but up, almost vertically, in the last decade or two is laughable.
As I understand, they were paying their bills.
he is obviously a much smarter individual than us regular mortals
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Thats true, Telegram has very good UX. But bullshit crypto with a closed server etc. :-(
Oops, I must have 1) misremembered, and 2) not looked carefully enough at the Wikipedia infobox. She was involved with Balwani for a long time though.

Hope it's genuine and not just for the money.
What made you lose trust in Little Snitch or its developer?
> The goal appears to be to design an architecture that supports in-place updates of most components due to them having tightly constrained state management and inter-component dependencies.

Strongly reminds me of Erlang-style hot reload.

Have any OS projects based on that architecture ever got off the ground?
They are disturbed by the fact that this speech limitation is decided single-handedly by the management of private companies, not by the speech limitation in itself.
You cant tell me AWS didn't expect or predict this.

They had their lawyers ready, waaayy before they pulled the plug.

They should have tried another route.
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These abstractions come at a price that a startup may not have wanted to pay. The cloud providers are also constantly pulling you into their specific solutions. Even if they kept it pretty neutral, if you've never deployed to the other cloud, it will likely still constitute a non-trivial amount of effort. I think I've seen a screenshot somewhere of Parler saying they'd be back in a week or so. Maybe that's fake, maybe that's them doing the work to deploy to the other cloud, maybe that's the time they expect they need for ligation, maybe it's all horses at once. Also, what at this point are their chances of the next provider to kick them out too?
We need an internet sidewalk. An internet post office. An internet common carrier.

I'm afraid it isn't going to swing that way. We're closer to allowing utility companies to cut people off arbitrarily than we are to forcing internet companies to keep serving users who hurt their business.
> Could you imagine the telephone company shutting off someone's phone service over something they said or who they associated with? Unthinkable. And yet here we are with the modern equivalent.

Right, there will likely be a licensing regime that comes out of this which does tie user-generated content platforms to the state, reducing their ability to make arbitrary decisions.
1) Parler provided no evidence that AWS colluded with Twitter, Facebook or anyone else. And they have banned plenty of people in the past without needing advice or permission from a third party.

2) AWS has a market share in "cloud" of 32% where there is a vibrant array of competitors e.g. Alibaba, Azure, DigitalOcean, GCP, Oracle, IBM, Tencent etc. And in the broader hosting space their share is likely to be in the single digits. Any notion of an antitrust violation seems baseless.
Threre are no indications that Apple is willing to compromise and allow application firewalls to block Apple softwares that Apple believes should be able to access the internet, even if the user doesn't want it too.

It's a gross invasion of privacy, and a security risk.

(By the way, even in Lulu, some Apple system software - apsd, automount, helpd, mDNSResponder, mount_nfs, mount_url, ocspd, sntp, trustd - are whitelisted and cannot be blocked by the user even if they want to, and that's bit disappointing).
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So one day I could wake up to find it's impossible to host a Minecraft server at home, with nothing I can do about it?
Could be. OTOH everything what makes us what we are, what we evolved in, is more or less a hassle for machines which could build/repair/replicate themselves, and adapt to the environment of space. Which we can't, except by some vague means of transhumanism. Which opens another can of worms, regarding "what makes us us? And to which degree a transhuman would even be human, anymore?
A phone call is one on one, this one to many.
Anyone know how to get their elderly parents to switch? Whatsapp has us cornered and they know it.
> Absent you paying them they have no obligation to host any of your content.

Except for a Polish law that would explicitly obligate them to host it..
You said "all major OSes were human lives are at risk".

INTEGRITY is a fairly minor player.