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> I agree that my question should be able to stand alone but I think it would not have worked well in this case. As it is, this popular post has been flagged and buried so oh well.

That is why those disclaimers should not be added: they don't appease the mob while they might turn those who actually do support whatever it is you disavow away. In short, they have a negative net-value. As to the flagging, burying and downvoting which this place is rife with I can only hope that those who do the flagging and downvoting know they are part of the problem, not part of the solution but they can not suppress the urge to click that link or that arrow to ease their discomfort on seeing a differing opinion - there, that'll show you, you witch, you heretic! - even though they know they poison the well by doing so. Eventually we will have to coexist in a mostly peaceful way (in the true sense of the word, not in the burning-buildings sense which it gained last summer) so we will need to be on speaking terms no matter our opinions. United we stand, divided we fight, fall, fail.
No but encouraging and egging on people attempting to overthrow the government is sedition. That's why he's being kicked.

Facebook also does a good job of allowing people to pretend their private messages are actually private when they are not. You can bet Facebook took a hard look at his 'private' communications.
SkyFeed is a decentralized social network built on top of Skynet: https://skyfeed.hns.siasky.net
"Uh huh"

"Nuh uh"

"Uh huh"

I too saw (clips of) several of these lawsuits, where Trump advocates were threatened with contempt and finally admitted a complete lack of evidence for claims of fraud.

I also know that elections officials across the country, from both parties, assert there is no evidence of fraud in a systemic manner or in any manner that would change the results of the election.

I also know that the GOP leader of the Senate, the GOP lap-dog Attorney General, and the US intelligence community are in agreement that there is no evidence of the fraud alleged.

https://wannabewonk.com/wannabe-coup/

In short, the facts you linked to (ha) don't align with how the legal system works, common sense, or reality.
Those idiots that stormed the Capitol are bottom feeders. We all shouldn't be punished for the actions of a few nuts.
AWS's response was based on its legal right to shut down every customer it is biased against. Nothing was adjudicated in court.
Speech that incites imminent lawless action is not protected speech, for good reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
Why do you think it's a knee-jerk reaction? This has been happening for decades and I've been worried about it for decades... and I'm worried I wasn't pessimistic enough.

Why aren't you blaming anyone for anything? Do you not think what's happening is bad?
The cop was beaten with a fire extinguisher and died later of the injuries sustained.

That is definitely being killed by the mob. They don't get a pass because it took some time before the fatal injury caused death.
We're considering building this as a native feature for our new SQL client: arctype.com.

Let me know if you want to jam on this and discuss :)
Today's price drop was probably caused by some private shareholders selling their shares to punish Twitter for the dick move of banning Trump, combined the increased market risk of having offended 25-50% of the US population.
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/why-police-aggression-is-...
> Out of sight, out of mind? Is that it?

This coupled with knee-jerk actions once something surfaces reflects modern society quite well indeed.
Exactly what merit would this be based on?
So, I have to preface this with saying that I am not a particular fan of the guy as a businessman or a President. Having said that, between this "fact check" from NBC https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/785299709342654465?lang=e... in October of 2016 and CNN commentator Donna Brazile being "totally not sorry" that she leaked the debate questions and topics to Clinton's campaign in November of 2016, it was very clear that this guy was never going to get a fair shake from the media, and that any and all reporting of him must be carefully examined.

I don't have it on hand, but remember that whole bit about him calling veterans losers and weak? Yeah, so if you start digging for the full transcript, you get to see just how taken out of context that was. I just can no longer trust the established media not to have a huge agenda and be constantly on the lookout for a "spin."

Trump may have been an emabarrassment, but the media has actively made me lose faith in reporting. He'll be out of the office soon, but my ability to trust in reporting has been forever tarnished. Decades of reputation have been squandered by these acts.
This is a must watch if you haven't seen it. Thanks for adding it to the feed op.
Fwiw at the end of the episode Picard says to Riker: "You know, I really did see five lights".
/b/ is porn central. They do try to keep child porn off the site, but even that low bar is hard to achieve.
I have no reason to believe that Parler has the means to build infrastructure for DDOS mitigation that compares in any way to Cloudflare. If you're not a multihomed AS, you can't even begin to offer what Cloudflare offers.

> But, the more of your stack you have under your exclusive physical control the better.

Where's the cutoff? Lay your own fiber to your own datacenters? At some point economy dictates that you rent. And with Parler, I'd assume that that point comes sooner than later. I mean I don't know their funding situation, but I find it reasonable to assume that if they'd built a NOC first they wouldn't have gotten off the ground at all.
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So you incentivise people being as angry as possible about anything they even remotely disagree with, because then it shifts the "firehose" in their favour.
That isn’t necessarily true though. Three of the people, regardless of what you call the group they happened to be in at the time, died of medical issues that have not been tied to the events of that day. They may have just as easily died had they gone for a jog that day.
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This entire post is about protesting.... so? It was a rhetorical question, meaning that sometimes 'representation' is really not representation at all, and not a comment on BLM. In fact, I agree with much of what BLM is protesting for.
Do all Western democracies guarantee Freedom of Speech like in the US? I seem to remember reading this is actually a US-centric view that isn’t universally shared. Eg nazi slogans in present day Germany.

Do we actually need to guarantee universal Freedom of Speech to have a democracy?
This is how it works every election cycle. The candidate with fewer voters loses, and those voters are sad. If you add up all of the races across the country, a large majority of voters got a president/senator/governor they didn't want.

Most of them suck it up and move on with their lives. Some get their feelings in a bunch and can't let go.

Letting this guy whine on twitter about how unfair the world is to him 24x7 sure hasn't lowered the tensions in the past 4 years. It's given us exactly what we have now.
I guess we would need to define radicalized. I have know people who say, 'Trump was sent by God to save the USA'. These people didn't storm the capital, but they are certainly radicalized. I might agree if you said the whole GOP isn't radicalized, but it seems like all of MAGA has reached that level.

As an aside, I couldn't imagine supporting any politician to that level.
Storming is a generic term for taking over a building by force.
They do that already... Distinguishing between 'results' and 'discussion'...
I do wonder how the German car manufacturers will respond
RDRAND, Linux and systemd is so weird grotesque neverending story. Standard Linux distributions still fail to boot on mainstream hardware several years after it was discovered that userspace requiring super random numbers from kernel to boot is a dumb idea.

Torvalds seems to understand this, but now there is only so much he can do.
Poettering's stance seems so oblivious (get a better hardware or fix from manufacturer), one wonders whether he should leave maintaining/programming to people who actually care about users. It has been accepted standard for decades that software should work around bugs in hardware and it makes sense - it is much easier to change software than to fix hardware.

So glad my CPU does not have RDRAND and operating systems I use do not require super random numbers to boot.
If the cause of death isn't easy to find that strongly implies the death wasn't direct. Because if it was you'd be hearing way more about it and it would be much more well documented.
But why does systemd need random identifiers during early boot? I can understand the need for seeding a hash table (but even there, they already admit that the code can re-seed at any time), but I don't see why a boot program should rely on random id generation in the first place.
> Trolling ... may not be against any law but it is in the public interest to allow platforms to remove such content.

Is that really true? When Slashdot was the popular "news for nerds" site, many site regulars intentionally set their threshold to -1 to read the troll posts, because they were often inventive and funny. Yes, a moderation system can filter them out for users who configure the site thusly, but plenty of people would resist banning them outright because they are occasionally enjoyable to read.
45% of registered Republicans support the storming of the Capitol.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
> Did we lose the Senate? What about the house? Do we have an enemy force occupying our capital? Are our nation’s leaders kidnapped? Are there insurgents fighting in the streets?

I see you understood the word “coup” but the “failed…attempt” surrounding that word.

Attempted murder doesn’t stop being a serious offense because no one died, and attempted coup doesn’t become a minor event because only a handful of people died and the attempt to improperly seize power by force failed.
There were other cops and firemen among those protesting.
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I eat meat and I'd also have appreciated a description of the contents before clicking the link.
You can say exactly the same thing about Russia. If the Russians were not involved, what do you think would have happened?

The US definitely played a major part but it is not as if they won the war by their lonesome and it is also a well established fact that they joined way late and only after Japan pretty much forced them to.

So let's not go rewrite history here.
A successful coup or a failed coup, is still a coup. We can argue semantics but based on what happened it's clear this was a poorly executed attempt to undermine the government and seize political officials.
> For now, don't attempt to overturn a fair democratic election and install an illegitimate government. Seems like a pretty easy thing to stay clear of.

This is key advice that a lot of founders seem to forget. Capturing a capital is an extremely bold and risky action, which shouldn't be attempted by anyone with fewer than 4 or 5 high-production cities of their own (some of which ideally also having an Encampment district to support training siege units faster). I encourage new players to focus on obtaining a scientific or cultural victory instead, as these are more straightforward for beginners.
> As a mostly C++ programmer making sure that I get compiler errors as often as possible by encoding most preconditions in the type system ..

When selecting a language for a recent project, that needed to run correctly, without extensive debugging that would be hard to simulate (too many states and interactions), I had a couple of important criteria:

0) checked static typing

1) ADTs (that are reasonably easy to use, read and write)

2) pattern matching (no way I'll get all the if/else right)

3) reasonably easy to write static const (pure functional) code

4) memory-safe

I've considered rust, but settled on haskell, as I needed it fast and I know haskell. While technically any Turing-complete language would work, I don't think C++ would be a fit for must-work code, even disregarding (4).

While I haven't used C++ in a while, it seems to me, encoding the constraints would be 3-10x as much code, or even more, with many checks/cracks left, and a lot of readability gone.

Clean and correct functional haskell code took a bit longer to write than say happy-path imperative python, but after fixing 2 or so bugs that manifested on pretty much the first (partial) use (like incorrect "<" vs. ">" and a bad constant), it has been running happily ever since. I didn't even bother simulating a full system configuration before a real-world customer acceptance test, because components worked on 1-2 inputs I tried, setting up a system would take a couple of hours and I couldn't think of reasonable failure scenarios. I haven't experienced similar correctness in other languages.
I suggest we make individuals or organizations that spread lies without evidence liable on a civil or criminal basis.

The root reason for the violent riot at the Capitol last week was that many people have been lied to, and the lies are things that would incite people to fight. If you believed that America's democracy is no longer in place and has been replaced by a deep state dictatorship, you would probably fight against it yourself.

We must fight the beliefs at the source - stop the liars by making them liable for the damage they cause.
I think the media is again just a symptom, the major problem in the US is the two party system which is a result of the electoral system and the electoral college in particular.

If there are more than two "teams" it's much more difficult to just be against the "other side" and you can see that while other countries certainly have their problems, places with multiparty systems have significantly less "hatred" against the "other" side.
Were any of the 3 that had heart issues/strokes actually in the Capitol building?
You can start preparing your yellow stars, you are the new Jews.
The vengeful Jews of the silicon valley are your new Nazis.
For the same reason we don't refer to Hitler as a socialist. There are still places with actual communes.

Words have meaning so unless you're using them as a proper noun or acronym (CCP, NAZI) you follow common usage. Just because a word is useful for demagoguery or insult doesn't make it correct.
19:22:18 in which timezone?
What are you suggesting? Fire up Fiddler today, and spend a few minutes or more observing Brave's network activity. You will find no instance where Brave (the company and developers) are watching or tracking users; it's against our very core.

You keep linking to the affiliate suggestion as though it were something alarming; it isn't. And that's the response from those in the InfoSec community. To pair this mistake with the ominous warning that Brave "can potentially watch and track your every move" is silly.
WikiTribune is an attempt at this new "third party" media system described in this article. WikiTribune has since transformed into https://wt.social.
I don’t know what to think. Per-tweet moderation would be seen as censorship just as well, and would be a pretty interesting exception on Twitter.

But also I don’t blame Twitter for finally putting an end to the misery he caused. I blame them for not doing it sooner, if anything.
Don't see any reason why even a solo developer couldn't/wouldn't do this? it's just one method to use.
Part of the threat to them was the potential loss of the court, as well, with the "pack the court" talk.

/r/politics, prior to the election, was in a fervor about how this might be the last "true election" of their lifetime. That they would forever lose their voice, etc. Have their rights stripped.

It's not so wild that the people on the other side would feel the same way, especially when the talk was literally about taking away the ability for Republicans to control any branches and "making sure this can never happen again."

Besides packing the court, other ideas to accomplish that included redistricting, mandatory voting, and adding some left-leaning territories as states.
There is a difference between being deplatformed by AWS and being served thousands of lawsuits at once.
None of the people killed were by armed protestors though, they used blunt force. Also one of those two cops committed suicide. I'm more fearful of a McVeigh style attack down the line than I am an immediate response. Outside of the literal neo-Nazis (which I believe came up with the term 'ACAB' and I've always found ironic for the other side using it) most radicals don't want to directly engage cops. They probably will want to target Big Tech and Federal buildings.
Freedom of speech != B&E, looting, vandalizing, threatening physical violence.

Freedom of speech protects the expression of beliefs and ideas, and there is a legal line between that and inciting riot.

Punish when the line is crossed, but protect the expression of ideas and beliefs up to that line.

Risk intolerance is behind the fear of letting people close to the line, but that's where we talk about slippery slopes - your risk tolerance is not the same as others, and if you start moving the bar down it happens for everybody (even the most righteous causes) not just the people you hate today.

> if {party people} do not come around in next few years, I fear for America

It's interesting that I've heard that in years past but from my friends on the right talking about Democrats and violent protests. I'm not justifying the actions in the Capitol (I condemn them frequently), but listening to people aligned with either part I do find it interesting that this feels like a [downward] spiral. The question is how to break out of it and reset.
Specifically, kitty uses VRAM as a font rendering cache: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance.html
There's also Netgate hardware, which has the added benefit of supporting development of pfSense. I have the SG-3100 and have been very happy with it.

https://www.netgate.com/
It is tough when the liar is the president and somehow the learned justices of our nation have decided the president is above the law and can only be held to account via an impeachment process.
No, I remember a lot of "they're all racists" - which you seem to also subscribe to, since you go out of your way to state the "confederate flag" line.

Plenty of people voted for Trump for non-racist reasons. You might try to understand why...
>We can't effectively rehabilitate when we have so many people in prison.

But the reason we have so many people in prison is that we have stupid laws that mark as jail-able offenses the stupidest stuff. Just take financial fraud, why must someone be jailed for that? Are they a menace if outside?
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Well I've played it and I love it.

I'll agree with parts of what you said. If you want in-depth crafting, this isn't the game. If you want a sandbox, this isn't the game. If you want an immersive sim, this isn't the game.

If you want hacking, this is the game. I don't mean the hacking mini-game, which is still better than most, I mean the fact that every major skill tree can be ruthlessly exploited by learning its rules, and on higher difficulty you're basically forced to do this. Many reviewers call it broken, but the incentive landscape is both steep and similar across different skill trees which makes me think it's intentional. In any case, sniffing through the rulebook looking for exploitables and gleefully exploiting the shit out of them is The Hacking Experience as far as I'm concerned. Doom Eternal wants you to learn quickscopes and weapon-switching, CP2077 wants you to learn RTFM and exponential growth. It's not as visceral and it's much easier to cheat, but if you play it honestly then the thrill is quite comparable when your plan snaps together and you go from "struggling asthmatic" to "cyber-god" or "machete-king" or even "discount doomslayer."

The character writing is on point. CP2077 puts more effort and personality into throwaway characters than most AAAs put into supporting characters, and it really shows in side missions and replays. The Witcher 3 was in its own class for having meaningful side-missions and while CP2077 doesn't exceed it, it's a positive outlier in the right direction. When someone who hasn't played the game calls the side-quests unimaginative, it comes across as lazy and inauthentic virtue signaling. If someone came to that opinion first-hand I'd agree to disagree.

The endings are a highlight. No, they don't have a combinatorial number of AI-written endings that respect every possible permutation of choices, but anyone who expects that in a 2020 game is delusional. In 2020, if you want quality endings you can either have a large number of short endings (Prey) or a small number of fully fleshed out endings. CP2077 does the latter and does it very well. It is now my go-to positive example in that regard, the polar opposite of Mass Effect 3.

On PC, the bugs weren't bad and the graphics were good enough to give me a handful of "ambiance moments."

I enjoyed CP2077 and since I kept my expectations under control that's enough to stop me from going online and flaming it.
That you had to google these and didn't know them offhand made me skeptical, but I'll attempt to summarize the articles to see what the criticisms are:

1. https://securityboulevard.com/2019/02/brave-browser-sacrific...
Brave has a whitelist for some facebook urls for loading scripts from third party domains.
Found the brave community thread imaged in the post: https://community.brave.com/t/how-to-disable-facebook-twitte...
My read of this thread is not having the whitelist breaks authentication using facebook and they offer an extension to remove the whitelist.

2. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3284076/brave-browser-...
This is about the opt-in basic attention token system, where users can replace ads served by websites with ones that reward them with cryptocurrency. I have used brave for a while and don't use this system (using the built in ad block instead). I don't see this as a negative.

3. https://community.brave.com/t/does-brave-inject-buttons-onto...
This is about some piece of the basic attention token system that apparently injects tip buttons into websites. I don't use the basic attention token system so this does not impact me.

4. https://twitter.com/vj_chidambaram/status/107647481470831001...
This is apparently about the basic attention token system donation feature not sending out donations that do not meet a threshold. Again, I do not use this system. But I saw this mentioned by someone else in one of the comments on this post and the response mentioned Brave has changed their policies to refund people within 90 days if the donation is not claimed.
This is difficult to balance with having data be available when you are offline.

If your data is local to a user's device (laptop, desktop, tablet, phone), then it's not online 24/7. So, you need some way for other people to see it.

If you require people to use a server, there's either problems onboarding and trusting that server operator. Or you make people host their own server and nobody uses it b/c that's too technical.