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Many people dislike the cloud-focus of sonos. When they started, the primary use case was streaming off of SMB shares, but now it's streaming from cloud providers. Given that all of your music is coming from the cloud, is it really that much of a stretch that your sonos hardware is heavily backed by cloud services too? It really does help ease-of-use for non-technical folk.
I don't care for the topic at all, so all of everyday life in the US is getting tiresome. If anything, HN is my break from it as people here tend to be a little more objective and rational than elsewhere online.
You can hide those threads. When the Covid thing took off I seemed to be blocking every other thread.
Musk himself has been the author of some really dumb comments, but he is right. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (Originally spoken of the Pope, but applicable.)

Those, by the way, who want to support the ethos of free speech can start by not down-voting or flagging on HN. Period.
I have to say, the whole blog is pretty good. If you like this article, definitely stay and look around. It's a good example of proper old-school, deep but well explained engineering.
This is the end of an era for Detroit. I used to attend the auto show yearly with my late father. It was kind of a father son bonding thing. After not attending in the last five years it was one of things that I was looking forward to once the COVID had receded. I am not at all certain that going to Pontiac is something I would consider.
KQED, which is the default (to my knowledge) news/radio station is exactly this. Nonprofit, but definitely left leaning.

I'd love if there was an alternative in the Bay Area, something truly more neutral or at least right leaning so I can listen to both points of view.
Depends which version of “the singularity” is being discussed. IIRC, the original (almost certainly false) idea was a sufficiently powerful AI can start a sequence of ever power powerful AI with decreasing time between each step — reaching infinite power in finite time.

I don’t need that version of the singularity to be worried.

I think in terms of “the event horizon” rather than “the singularity”: all new tech changes the world, when the rate of change exceeds our capacity to keep up with the consequences, stuff will go wrong on a large scale for lots of people.

As for grey goo? Self replicating nanomachines is just biology. It gets everywhere, and even single-celled forms can kill you by eating your flesh or suborning your cells, but it’s mostly no big deal because you evolved to deal with that threat.
How fast are the ARM CPU they have in their routers, do they support AES-NI and how much data you can push with VPN encryption through their boxes?

The current ARMv7 I have goes to about 100 degrees Celsius and loads in the level of 4 to 6 when downloading a bunch of data full speed.
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It boils down to this. Left or right is irrelevant, these companies will remove you if you say something they don't want you to say, there's no additional complexity that needs to be analyzed. Any judgement that one needs to make on how to feel about the censoring they do can be made on that simple rule alone. I'm amazed the discussions about censorship have been muddied to this extent where even the past relationships of people have been scrutinized to determine if they were deserving enough of a ban. None of that matters - did you say something they did not want specifically _you_ (the individual) to say at this time? Then they will decide to ban/suspend/remove you. Now how you feel about that is how you feel but there's no reason to even think "Well they let this person say this!", because these companies are not in the business of free speech. They can turn on a dime tomorrow and start banning Antifa members left and right and it still wouldn't change their bottom line.
Oh, thanks, I thought it's only needed for it to show up at all.

That's very yikes indeed
I feel like "The New Paper"[0] fits the bill of what the author wants. It's neutral (i.e. unaffiliated with either party), operates on an email distribution model, and strives really hard to keep news from being sensational. It also links to primary sources as much as possible. For example, in today's TNP email:

- Twitter permanently suspended President Trump’s account, citing "risk of further incitement of violence" (source). Several other social media and technology companies (including Facebook, Instagram, Shopify, and Stripe) took similar measures against President Trump, his campaign, and related accounts and websites.

That's it - that's all that's written on that particular event. No "interpretation" on what the implications on free speech or whatever are - that's left up to you, the reader. The source linked is Twitter's blog.

I've been using it for a few months now and I love it.

[0] https://thenewpaper.co/
Maybe it was the part where he directed an angry mob to the steps of the Capitol building?
I just tried that and didn't get very much on YouTube. Maybe they've cleaned it up somehow?
Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'
There's a neat docker container you can run for their management application instead of using Cloud™.
"Parlor [sic] was only used for hate"

What does this mean exactly? All the content on Parler was hateful? Or something else?
If you a run a business that violates the terms of service of your vendors, be prepared to be cut off. It's like if I rent an apartment and decide to make meth; I shouldn't be surprised if I get evicted.
there are 15 year old hackers finding 0day kernel exploits and vm escapes. A superintelligent AI would have no problem jumping an airgap and spreading to the entire internet. It could promise anyone it interacted with billions for an Ethernet connection and deliver on its promise too. You’d have to pull the plug on _everything_ to shut it down.
I think there were some really big marketing mistakes but most of the backlash on CP2077 seems to be over the insane levels of hype. I had pre-ordered this game a long time ago and it was genuinely fun on release, there are some bugged quests and I don't have a card capable of rendering ridiculously good graphics but it's playable and fun.

From what I've heard the PS release is absolutely worth getting mad over - it's likely that CDPR should have just given up on even attempting a PS release given how poor the performance is but it probably needs some serious investigation to see what pressure Sony was putting on them to make sure it was available.
I could agree with this view if the article was titled something like "Deplatforming is not the answer"

When you are in a politically charged moment like we were when that post went live, a headline of "We need more than Deplatforming" is implicitly stating that the actions taken were correct and justified. That is obviously something a large portion of the country is going to disagree with.

Ever since the ousting of Brendan Eich over his Prop 8 donations, right-leaning people have been a bit wary of Mozilla. Many of us still backed them because the ideas they claim to stand for seem noble.

Blog posts like the one in question make it very hard not to feel like Mozilla's position is "we disagree with you and we don't want you around." If they don't want us as users, then maybe it's better we go elsewhere. Brave is a logical place for such people to look since it is run by Eich, which was where everything started.
You have to explicitly find and enable the ad notifications. It can actually be a bit of a PITA to enable. It's not even supported on my phone. The purpose is if you want to support websites, but don't want to spend money. The ad revenue goes in a wallet, and you decide who to disburse it to (they do have to be registered as a Creator -- Brave's system is subject to KYC laws). The revenue is small and not worth the notifications, so transferring funds to your wallet is generally a much better option.

That thread looks like someone had a device with ads explicitly enabled. Perhaps someone else set it up, or he just forgot about it. That happens all the time with software.

The case is that most of the bad press is inaccurate and overblown, and Brave has changed course when needed. Their track record is imperfect, but far better than the mainstream alternatives.

I don't have sources other than that I've been using Brave as my primary browser on all devices.
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Neutrality is not a realistic goal. In fact, the idea that neutrality is the goal has just resulted in more shrill commentary as each side claims their position is more neutral (i.e more truthful).

Humans aren't neutral. The way we interpret events isn't neutral. It is difficult to be brief or put this down to any one event/cause but, ultimately, media is just a reflection of what people want.

Weakening bonds between people in society, an education system that teach facts over nuance (this is interesting, lots of lawyers in politics in the US which generally builds a culture that permits resonable disagreement...hasn't happened), low levels of respect for other people, etc.

Neutrality is not realistic though, and isn't required. Res
When the livelihood of those businesses depends entirely on their ability to track their users to deliver better ads, I would say that’s so much worse than letting conservative people express themselves freely.
I have to strongly disagree with this.

What we call "video games" now encompasses pretty much all other art forms except cooking. Whatever you can do with one form, you can do the same thing plus more in a game. There is much greater artistic potential in this kind of software than anywhere else that doesn't require physical presence (and even that can be simulated). It also requires massive engineering skill, itself an art.

That being said, the medium has a very long way to go yet and there are still many areas it has yet to explore. I'm very glad there's a thriving indie scene where developers are continually experimenting with fresh, crazy new ideas.
Well, no, reddit "supplements" it by banning pretty much every forum whose regulars don't match the owner's political ideology. There's no "uncheck this box to see all the stuff I didn't like" option there. I remember Reddit before they got ban-happy, and it was a much friendlier place then - and actually less overtaken by extremists.
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Since they only use it for UUID generation, couldn't they use rdrand() to seed a PGC pseudo-RNG?
A Pi 4 can handle about 1 Gb without issue. It is a great option for consumer workloads at consumer prices. I've certainly seen far worse consumer gear.
They also dragged out the release for a long time, all while continuing to build hype, like Anthem.
> It was also troubling when Democrats and news media firms disputed the previous election

No substantial fraction of Democrats or the mainstream news media argued that the result that was certified and carried into execution of the 2016 election was not the proper, lawful result of the election.

There was an argument that the successful campaign had committed illegal actions in an attempt to manipulate the public in regard to that election, and that those actions had some effect. And there was an argument that that conduct rendered the successful candidate unfit for office. But there was no substantial segment of the Democratic Party (especially no substantial segment of the Democratic Party elites like members in government or the defeated candidate) that argued that that misconduct rendered the election result invalid, and there was no armed attempt egged on by Democratic elites by supporters of the Democratic candidate to obstruct the electoral vote or the transfer of power to the elected Republican.
Generally in Poland Polish companies are the worst employers in terms of using up employees and paying pennies, and also some times hiring on contract which doesn't give employees enough protection (in terms of pension, protection from being fired without severance package etc.)

In the middle is government job (like, policeman, teacher, clerk at the government building) - you get poor pay, but you get normal employment (so, firing = severance package).

And the best of all (in most cases, there are exceptions) is a foreign company that does outsourcing - you get good pay + a normal employment contract.
One of the problems with your quest is that "violating the law and doing terrible things" are, despite everyone's best intentions, matters of judgement.

Let's take a trivial example: the emoluments clause of the Constitution. Did Trump violate this or not? If you're looking for a simple factual answer, you cannot get one, because this is a legal question, and will only ever (if ever) decided by an actual court case. There are arguments that he did, based on some data, and there are arguments that he didn't, based on beliefs that the data isn't relevant. Only an actual court case will ever come to a conclusion (and even that will be disputed by many).

There's a tendency for some of us (I include myself in this) to want the world to offer clear, black-or-white, yes-or-no, true-or-false answers to things. But the world doesn't offer this most of the time, certainly not in the realm of human affairs. There are no hall monitors or gods sitting on thrones to decide if Trump did or did not break the law or do terrible things. Only other human beings, whose opinions, clearly, diverge.
> And yet you point me to a YouTube video, rather than a link on their website.

So you can see it

> and yet, the documentation doesn't seem to describe, in friendly terms, how to do that.

mind to expand that?
Yeah, me too. AWS is a whole lot closer to "essential public infrastructure" than, say, Twitter or Facebook. (Or Zendesk or Twilio or any of the myriad service providers that Parler happened to use.)

Where does it end?

Can the local utility provider that serves Parler's physical office decided to "deplatform" them and revoke their access to electricity?

Can the small handful of Tier 1 transit providers (which together make up "the Internet" as we know it) decide to deplatform a network by refusing to peer with it? [What if they extend that depeering to include any other networks (Tier 2 etc.) which refuse to stop peering with the target network?]

Sure, that's just a hypothetical right now, but then again last week "AWS decides to terminate you" was one of those hypothetical but very unlikely risks. How far is this witch hunt going to go?

[Sadly, given recent discourse here, I feel compelled to state that I strongly disagree with the content posted on Parler, which was indeed some truly awful stuff.]
> The media landscape has exploded, and there's no outlet that is of enough importance anymore to hold people's feet to the fire.

Maybe not, but I'd still like a Fairness Doctrine -aligned news source such that I can do my part in rejecting dubious partisan citations (e.g., "I'm not going to believe your $partisanNewsSource article, but I might be more inclined to believe you you can support yourself with something on $aspirationallyNeutralNewsSource").
People need to stop hiding behind the first amendment and "but censorship" as a way of allowing democracy-threatening activity. Speech has ALWAYS had limitations. You cannot yell "fire" in a movie theatre. You cannot publish falsehoods that harm a person's reputation. You cannot reveal classified information. You cannot imitate a police officer. Why is "you cannot incite violent terrorism" suddenly controversial? Particularly when these are private corporations making the decisions, who are not duty-bound to enable free spech in the first place?
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> In this case, his both-siderist argument is that liberal leaning journalists and commentators are just as guilty as those on the right, because they (according to him) feel pressured to use the word "coup" rather than the more accurate term "insurrection".

This is a beautifully constructed strawman argument. Taibbi's claim is there a unified underlying incentive structure that has manifested in emergent behavior across all of the media. Your mental model about tribes is purely incidental: it is tribeless, so the idea of "sides" even coming into it is your own construction. The reason Taibbi uses the tribalist framing to articulate arguments is because it helps readers understand the alternative sub-incentives that lead to different emergent phenomena grounded in the same root incentives.

The reason Taibbi's explanation should be taken seriously at this point, beyond it's intuitive explanatory power and first-principles oriented construction, is because it's proven itself quite predictive in the broad strokes of this march towards a civil war, even if it cannot predict the specifics.
Do you work there? Or just a fan?

Thanks for the response!

> There's a small clock between the sending date and the (double) tick which indicates just that.

Cool, I see it now. But there's still no way to change it. In Snapchat, when I set the time it impacts all messages in the conversation. It'd be nice to have the timer impact all messages in the conversation, it's weird how it is set at the conversation level but doesn't apply to all messages in that conversation.

> Which features are you missing on the desktop version?

Create new group. Invite friends. Change your avatar. Change group avatar. Literally had to text myself a picture from my Macbook to my Phone so I could use it as my avatar. Oof. Windows Desktop version vs iOS app version. MacOS version I dont't think is any better.

Found another annoying thing... two actually. "Mark as unread" is device specific, not message specific. Also under the little info on each message there's a button "Delete Message" but again it's not a real delete, it just impacts the device -- all the other places they said, "Delete message for me" so they know it's confusing to just say "Delete" and not have it actually delete the message for everyone.

> It does suck on iOS from what I've read.

Good it works better on other platforms, but yeah it really sucks on iOS. Get a new phone, and you have to be re-added to groups.

> If you compare Signal with Discord, Slack and Microsoft Teams, Signal will never win on features.

Why? Doesn't seem like it'd be impossible to sync all messages across all devices. Doesn't seem like it'd be hard to allow for deletion of sent messages. It's not peer-to-peer, and they keep all the messages on the server... when you turn on Signal Desktop it goes and retrieves the messages for you going back quite a ways. They just need to sync between devices.
I've spent years creating my version of what I think is missing: It's here:

https://quanta.wiki

One narrow incomplete summary of Quanta is that it's Federated Social Media.
7 of 27 EU states have a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The EU Human Rights Court has not stepped in to overturn those bans: https://eclj.org/marriage/the-echr-unanimously-confirms-the-.... In 2016, it held unanimously that the European Convention on Human Rights doesn’t protect same-sex marriage. In the EU countries where it has been legalized, that was done by statue.

In the US, those issues are handled through court cases, regardless of where public opinion stands. For example, elective abortions (without health risks or something else) in the second trimester or later is very unpopular in the US and the EU. Only about a quarter of people think it should be generally legal after the first trimester: https://news.gallup.com/poll/235469/trimesters-key-abortion-.... That matches up with the law in most of the EU, where the limit for elective abortions is 10-14 weeks. (As I recall, the UK is the exception at 24 weeks.)

The US constitution doesn’t say anything about abortion, or anything that could really be construed to be about abortion, but the Supreme Court has interpreted it to protect abortion up to viability, usually 22-24 weeks. So the Supreme Court has interpreted the constitution, which says nothing about abortion, to create an abortion right so broad France or Germany’s or Denmark’s abortion laws would be invalid in the US.

The topping on that cake is that the US is that the US is the most religious developed country in the world, more so than countries like Poland.

Which is why Supreme Court appointments get so heated here.
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Well, I know where the phrase comes from.

One day I walk in the house and see my mother crying, watching TV, and pictures of a lot of people laying down. My mother was NOT a crier, so this scared the crap out of me as a child, and is probably why I remember it so starkly today. At some point years later I came to learn what was actually going on that day. (My mother was also not an explainer.)

I wince when I hear the phrase used casually. But of course, people have largely forgotten the deeply dark connotations it has.

Anyway, even though we can’t ensure radicalized sects don’t form, simply ignoring them as the post above mine suggested, is not any kind of solution. As we’ve seen, such groups won’t necessarily be satisfied to just talk among themselves.
The affiliate link "controversy" didn't impact user privacy or security in any way. Brave offered a pre-search affiliate option for some keywords before the use navigated. Our mistake was doing this for fully-qualified domains too. Read https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/ for more details, including screenshots.

Regarding your second concern about ad notifications, these are Brave Ads. They're opt-in. And they're built on privacy and anonymity. See https://brave.com/rewards for more. A quick summary: users who opt-in to Brave Ads receive a regional catalog of ads. Their browser, locally on their device, studies the catalog for relevant items. When an ad can be shown (users determine frequency), a notification is displayed. At this time, 70% of the associated revenue is directed towards the user.

Brave Rewards is a way for users to support content creators on the Web without having to sign up for services, hand over personal information, or dig into their own pocket. It's a way to passively translate your attention into real, substantive support for the sites you visit.
> Twitter literally claims that "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th." was the straw that broke the camels back [0]. That isn't an objective bar.

When President Trump published this tweet, he knew full well extremists are actively planning to attack the inauguration on January 20th.

There isn't a clear, objective bar in this kind of situation. Jack Dorsey, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos each decided for themselves if they were willing to stand by and allow Trump and Parler to continue along the path of inciting violence on January 20th.
Well, there's bad actors, and then there's twitter-assigned villains. Really bad actors, as in people who are doing things that are clearly bad enough for there to be laws against them, need to be controlled somehow. That's what most moderation energy goes in to preventing.
Revealing a political bias evidenced by selective enforcement is not "whataboutism." It's informing motive.
That is a wild misrepresentation of the facts.

That was the second of two tweets, that they are taking together. This was the other

"The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

They explain the context and how these tweets are being interpreted.
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But does FF have an adblocker on iOS?