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I agree with this take on Greewald. That Twitter thread, and his recent substack article, is effectively attacking private property, and implying that corporations ought to be compelled to transmit and amplify all speech. According to greewald, if I send a letter to the editor to the New York Times, and it’s not published, that’s a violation of my free speech. Patent nonsense.
It's not systemd's job to fix hardware bugs, it's the kernel's (or AMD's). The fix for the last time this happened was to mask the offending CPU IDs in the kernel's RNG from using RDRAND. systemd did have a temporary hack in place for their direct RDRAND implementation, but this current bug isn't the same (not just emitting 0 like last time, but eventually emitting duplicate values in pairs).
Someone doesn't understand civil law.

If I dont have to wait for a child porn conviction to ban you from my site for posting 'illegal' content. I will do it immediately and sever all contracts.

Its funny how we have the freedom of association right up to the moment it affects those supporting fascism, then all of a sudden a different set of laws matter.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-ccp-nationalize-jack-mas-alibab...
In this Great country, everyone is a "protected class" unless a court determines otherwise. It is their "right" to kick anyone off because of their overly broad Terms and Conditions, but they have no right to label anyone as a criminal.
To me signal is like the new charging standard or version control system to rule them all: I am now forced to juggle (n + 1) versions in my life.

And no web client means I am forced to type on my mobile (ugh), and I cannot mitigate the hurt with Franz.
> "It's stupid that we're letting foreigners have 20% (or whatever) ownership of our economy" and just deem it illegal / confiscate that equity.

That would be a very dumb move since they own over a trillion dollars of US debt.
What benefit does the CCP get by owning Alibaba and Ant? Can't the CCP do whatever it wants anyway? Why does it need to own these companies?

And aren't there a lot of negatives by taking over the largest IPO in history only a few months later???
If you're interested in diving deeper into those sorts of videos, http://astronaut.io/ was shared on HN a while and discussed previously[1]. It definitely digs up some interesting stuff.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225
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Well it was not recorded as that, it was just a "parking fine". What's why I'm saying I'm lucky it wasn't logged as substance possession. Also by arrested I mean handcuffed/put into a car, but I wasn't taken to a jail. I was just written a possession fine/piece of paper.

I think the answer to your question is I was not affected. As I've taken jobs that had to do security checks to get in and I got through. I guess it depends what they're looking for.
It is not possible for that page to be conservative, regardless of what the sub is called. The title is irrelevant, it is the nature of the thing that makes it such.

Going to /r/conservative is like a red cross visit of a communist labor camp and all the inmates have brand new clothes with creases in them. A facade of what the regime thinks a conservative subreddit should look like. Do you actually think that people can espouse "conservative", let alone even non-regime conformant beliefs anywhere on Reddit? The thousands of reddit accounts piled up in the digital mass graves would suggest not.
Europe has a different conception of free speech and censorship than we do.

Censorship is acceptable and desired in Europe. Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc., all censor entire categories of speech and types of speech, including for example criticism of religion in Germany, or expressions of religion in France (to cite opposing examples). Free speech in Europe is really just what the government says is free; the default assumption being that the government has the right to censorship speech unless it is shown to warrant free speech protections.

In the U.S., freedom of speech is presumed. Censorship is only allowed by the government if the government can show that restrictions on speech are warranted, and in such case the restrictions must be limited to those necessary to address the reasons for placing the restrictions. But, censorship by private parties is allowed without restraint (accepting certain physical facilities like shopping centers) because not speaking is regarded as speech in the U.S.

So, Germany's criticism flows from their belief that the government should get to decide what gets censored, and not understanding that in the U.S., individuals and companies get to make that choice for themselves.
I agree with you 100%. It's why I don't like that Parler is being forced off the web.
Does no one here know about https://notabug.io ? Pretty sure that's decentralized.
What about xclock?
Your point [1] argues that the USSR collapsed due to internal reasons only. I believe that it is an oversimplification.

Cooperation with totalitarian states often prolong their existence. An example that comes to mind is the US subsidizing grain being sold to the USSR and thus preventing starvation, which would have arguably led to a collapse of the communist regime [a].

However, it is also possible to encourage the "feedback loop" that you mention by merely demonstrating the alternatives that are out there. Radio from the other side of the Iron Curtain [b] gave hope to many people in the USSR.

To sum up, thoughtful action from the outside can help bring down totalitarian regimes faster.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Grain_Robbery
[b] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America#Cold_War
> To the best of my knowledge, one downside is the text rendering is synchronous.

I find this to be a feature, it's part of what makes xterm a terminal emulator.

There's a speedhack in recent xterm that makes it behave more like libvte, but I forgot the incantation to enable it.
I've never not heard Parler's "free speech" claim challenged, at least among the media or other credentialed sources. Critically though, TFA's argument doesn't seem to hinge on whether or not Parler is authentically devoted to free speech.
I got a 500 error on any pages within https://murex.rocks but every other site I tried worked fine. Really cool project this and polished rather nicely.
If you are that level of paranoid then you shouldn't have an HN account to begin with.
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What's the context here, OP?

I'm getting a message that reads

> Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:40:41.

But no collaborating info on any news sites. Agree with minimaxir that may be a hack.
Someone just forgot to remove a currentTime() call in the footer. It updates every time you refresh the page for a lot of the pages.

Just a bug.
Not that I distrust you or am asking you to make a change, but it would help if they were to at least post the mailchimp link on their social media.
Exactly this. A lot of other messaging apps have this problem (read the App Store reviews of LINE for a sampler of people upset about it), and I find it baffling. Have these devs never lost a phone (or had one break unexpectedly?)

It seems like it should be trivial to back up message history to the cloud.
How is Signal going to fund their operations in the future if they grow to anything close to the other three in size? Donations? Even if they're a non-profit they still need to keep the servers running.
You could try it, if you ain't using the phone for anything.
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Brave with the various crypto extensions removed is a very nice alternative to Chrome.
I'm sure the exchanges like the buckets of money that HFTs pay them, even on their discounted commission fees. There's also billions in industry just around supporting HFTs, including FPGAs, silicon fab, networking equipment, etc. The cost to society of killing HFTs would probably be fairly large and imo the drawbacks are mostly minor.
I like the default HN approach (Slashdot used to do this too): users can upvote/downvote, and by default you don't see content that's downvoted far enough, but if you want to see everything, you have the option. That seems to work well enough against spammers.
I was just thinking about this the other day. With Facebook popularity in decline, what major social media still insists on using real names?

To be fair, I don't read their ToS very closely, so maybe they all still require it.
You might like the showBlinkAsBold Xresources setting
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xterm&apropos=0&se...
I received an email from Ubiquiti that is 1:1 to this post. It did not provide a link to a statement on their website but can confirm its real.

I can post a screenshot or something if necessary.
More realistically, make them pay for the disposal of as much garbage as they spread.
AWS being able to shutdown a company is the fault of that company not having a multi-provider arch.
This is the most overtly communist thing China has done in a while.
Not being listened to is very different from being silenced.
So long as we're talking about white supremacists and hacking, I remember when a "white supremacist" hacker weev was convicted and sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for reading a few thousand sequential ids from an AT&T webpage. He reported the vulnerability to AT&T and showed a limited example to a journalist.

This seems far worse - so of course we can expect criminal prosecution of these "researchers"?
agreed, just make the text #fff
I didn't say it shouldn't be posted; just a warning to be prepared for what you're going to see.
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Then you are lost.
geologic component isn't relevant. In our current legal system, the only way to ensure equal access to a service is via regulation as a public utility.
A lot of the points are interesting, but I couldn't help but get hung up on the link to the covid analyist who supposedly beat the experts, at https://www.maby.app/covid/

A couple of immediate red flags: the predictions stop in early May, and there appears to be no weighting of how "important" a given prediction is. Perhaps the former is just because a contest ended at that time. For the latter, of course, importance is subjective, but ranking these two as equivalent is silly:

* How many cases per day will Washington state average for the week ending June 7? (Tom: good prediction, Experts: bad)
* How many US COVID deaths will occur in 2020? (Tom: bad prediction, Experts: good)
They might even make more money. I'm guessing Parler doesn't get the same volume discounts that Twitter does.
The main difference with mastodon is that there isn't just one server hosting all of the material ; you can create your own mastodon instance, and likewise, if a hateful/illegal mastodon instance is found, people can avoid it and/or law enforcement can find it and squash it.

It's more analogous to email and shutting down an email server than shutting down reddit.
And why do you even need globally UUIDs here? What's wrong with a plain old sequence counter or the like?
No, I mean those individual things. There may be some intersection between Alex Jones fans, Daily Stormer Fans and Reddit users ... but they're certainly not the same audiences at all.

You can replace them with anyone you want that's heterodox that's been banned honestly.
No, the lesson of Parler is not that you need to have

> ... a rock-solid strategy for moderating ...

The lesson is you need to have a rock-solid `policy` that content which advocates violence is impermissible.
> Virtually every conversation that has taken place on HN has asserted that the "insurrection was planned on Parler",

No, it hasn't.

> and that claim went largely unchallenged.

On the contrary virtually every conversation on the issue on HN that has even mentioned Parler has prominently included claims that Parler was less significant than other social media platforms in the planning.
It's decent and supports direct-color and all the obscure features of xterm of course, that others don't like querying and setting the color palette.

It doesn't support most(any?) of the bleeding-edge sequences for hyperlinks and underline styling.

It may have better input latency than xfce, but what are you running it on, a 486? Maybe for RPi, but—it has poor paint performance as well. It will flash if you try to do animation or scroll a complex screen. Bit of a toss up on the that front.

Anyway I find it useful for testing terminal sequences, but it's a tough sell as a daily driver. Things like tabs and a proper scrollbar are a minimum for me.
Yes, that's definitely a problem. Sorry—it's a mess right now.

Our intention is still to finish the performance improvements we've been working on, which will hopefully allow us to turn off pagination altogether.
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That’s the difficulty, isn’t it? If I say, let’s go and burn that police station down now! Let’s be there at 9:15. It’s pretty clear. If you say, I wish that police station would get burned down. I don’t know. It’s not a nice thought, but you’re not actively working to have it burned down. On the other hand the wish does not have pure intentions.

This is why I think it’s impossible to “monitor” and purge or ban violent tweets or what have you.

One, what is the intention of the speaker, two who is responsible for the audiences reaction? Do you take the most extremely negative interpretation? It cannot work.

And that’s not even taking slang into account where violent words don’t mean violence and normal words can take on other meanings.
There's an update at the bottom:

- Delmarva Broadband is authorized 14.35-14.99 MHz at 186 kW. Contact is a law office in DC. See https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.htm

- … and M-Wave is authorized the 14-14.99 MHz at 16 kW. See https://apps.fcc.gov/els/GetAtt.htm
>Sure we can move the goalposts.

Nobody is moving goalposts. The point is that there's always another layer of service providers that can cancel you, some of which are monopolists. If you think that's fine, or "just business", good for you. I do not.

>What is your point?

People shouldn't be able to put you out of business because they have more power and don't like you.

>Does that make sense? Again, the analogy is completely missing the point.

You're overthinking things. For the third time: "If you don't like it, build your own competitor" -- oft-repeated-- is a ridiculous statement in most cases. No one is going to build their own App Store, Play Store, Facebook..or yes, bus line.

I'm glad you can poke holes in an off-hand analogy though. It was never intended to be a literal 1-1 translation, with Parler filling the role of Rosa Parks.

>They don't need to break a law for another business to cut ties.

This is news. Thanks.

(edited to remove much sarcasm)
The phrase "Donald J. Trump's term ended" shouldn't be there. It hasn't ended yet.
Further tips that might interest people:

Xterm should support sixels out of the box but needs further configuration to make it work properly:

XTerm*decTerminalID: 340
XTerm*numColorRegisters: 256

If you want to scroll the content in alternate screens like less instead of the scrollback buffer with your scroll-wheel you have to enable:

XTerm*alternateScroll: true

If you want a subtle and less jarring visual terminal bell you can enable this option which flashes only the current line and not the whole screen:

XTerm*visualBell: true
XTerm*visualBellLine: true
XTerm*visualBellDelay: 20
I totally disagree. Joined up writing is just more comfortable and has a relaxing cathartic quality. Just think that in East Asian countries they have to learn 1000s of Han characters, I think in the west we can find time to learn our 26.
That depends on the pattern of behavior by the other account.
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> You needed literal storming of the Capitol and a platform seemingly specifically targeted at those people for this to happen.

I fail to see how Parler should be expected to be responsible for the behavior of some users that share a demographic and political alignment with a group that stormed the Capitol. Was the planning for it done via Parler? Was it not Twitter where the announcement by Trump actually happened?

The bar is already low my friend. This is nothing but an excuse for big tech to wield its trust effect to shut down potential competitors.

If big tech believes that social media companies should be held accountable for its users' actions, then they should support the repeal of section 230, which would effectively have the same effect, except with the additional protections under the justice system. Why is it suddenly okay when big tech does the same without due process?

Rules for thee, not for me.
But that's the ENTIRE point here! This supposed itty-bitty exception - "Hey, just no bad stuff, okay?" - is actually EVERYTHING. You say something like "Just no hate speech" or "Only if they have violence in mind" and those statements inherently violate the very notion of free speech the people are erroneously saying they're in favor of, and those innocent-sounding qualifiers are why things are devolving so rapidly. We've taken a simple concept that worked brilliantly for 250 years (free speech) and in the blink of an eye, now that online life has (for better or worse) usurped the government's role in setting rules for society, we're just rearranging how the game is played. This is the broader issue, online life (for lack of a better phrase, but I hope you get my point) has become so ubiquitous that it's like some sort of alternate society with a new governance. We wouldn't/couldn't insert these qualifiers into the constitution, but here we are giddily doing it for our new alternate world.
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https://underviewed.com/ and http://defaultfile.name/ pull random videos named by default. Pretty intriguing to look through.
Exactly. Very bad name, too techy for the average folk and it doesn't have the same network effect as Signal or Telegram. I disagree that it is ahead of Signal for usability in fact it is still behind.

Although I do praise it for not requiring and collecting my phone number and being a bit more future-proof and decentralised, unlike Signal and Telegram.

But in terms of getting my friends grandmother over it, it completely loses on usability and its name is so confusing to them you just had to also mention the Matrix protocol, when it is just Element. which even that by itself is very ambiguous.
Starting with the title "We need more than deplatforming". First claim is that deplatforming / silencing is great, but we need even more of the same.

"more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms"

And of course, they want to be part of determining who, exactly, is a bad actor.
This reminded me of the story of the EF50 valve and 'PYE IF strip', so I've added a submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735404

'The history of a pioneering tube that was developed by Philips Research and that was, next to the magnetron, “The most important tube from World War II” - Ronald Dekker'

One of the problems Bowen was facing was that while early 1939 all components of the Airborn Radar seemed to have fallen in place, he still had only one receiver which up to that moment no supplier had been able to duplicate. But then quite unexpected his old professor comes up with a golden tip:

"Quite by chance in april or May of 1939, I heard some encouraging news from Edward Appleton, my old professor at King’s Colledge and now Jacksonian Professor of Physics at Cambridge. He told me that the Pye Radio Compagny, still hoping that there would be a television industry in Britain, had set up a production line for 45 Mc/s TRF chassis and had actually made a trial run. I went hot-foot to Cambridge to see B.J. Edwards, the Technical Director of Pye Radio, and was rewarded with a remarkable sight – he had scores [!] of TRF chassis just the type we were looking for. These used a new valve with an octal [sic] base, which had not yet appeared on the market. It was the EF50, a valve which was destined to play almost as important a part in Radar war as the magnetron itself."

Bowen took a few samples of the Pye chassis back to Bawdsey and quickly verified that it was significantly better than their old EMI chassis; it was also smaller and lighter. Touch and his men quickly put a 200 MHz mixer (at that time still based on an acorn tube, but later replaced by an EF54) in front of it and the receive problem was as good as solved.
To really overtake the US economically, China needs to become better than the US at innovation – innovative technologies, innovative business models, etc

Coming up with leading edge technologies or business models – as opposed to mere incremental improvements on stuff invented elsewhere – is not China's strong suit.

China's problem is that authoritarian regimes in the long-run are worse at innovation than freer ones. At one point it was hoped that China might address this problem through gradual liberalisation, but recently under Xi China has been moving in the opposite direction.
I just migrated from a pixel 4xl -> 5 and back with signal.

Nobody noticed, no warnings about encryption keys changing, no problems whatsoever. Took about 5 minutes each time (including googling of the directions).

Just make a backup (with an encryption key), then do a restore (and enter said key). Not as convenient as if it was automatic, but it does seem like a pretty secure approach.
Wouldn't a high frequency trader be building point to point links and thus benefit hugely from highly directional antennas? Seems like that would help with the interference quite a bit.
Maybe the same way that WhatsApp did: $1 per year per person.
Hey Cory! CEO of Gather.Town here. Connection issues are always our top priority, and at this point, we're chasing down and squashing the last 1% of bugs. If you run into this in the future, reporting a bug will help us solve the issue! (Grape icon > send feedback/bug)

As for the other issue, active speaker detection is on our near-term roadmap. It's become more pressing for us too, as our team has grown and no longer fits in one page :P

Thanks for the feedback!
Do you believe antagonising China even more will make things better? Should the EU stop all deals with the biggest exporting economy of the world, home of one in 5 human beings, because it disagrees with its policies?

I will answer that: no it shouldn't. You can have a certain level of engagement even when you strongly disagree with another country. Showing aggressive behaviour, specially taking into account the history of agression and colonisation by the West as recently as 50 years ago, will not do anything at all to make life better to the victims of Chinese prosecution. By engaging with the Chinese, the EU may at least have some leverage to politely request that the Chinese , as sovereign people, start displaying a little more respect to other cultures within their own borders.
For me the verify by text worked, but you can click on a lot of very similar places and you get different results. For example if you click verify it forces interactive verification. If you click the sessions and then click a session you can verify individual sessions. Of course you can't non-interactively verify a users main key.

I'm also confused why each device is handled separately. I would rather I just share a key around (and ideally it rotates occasionally) and not share what and how many devices I have and what one I am using at the moment.
As much as I don't like systemd this probably was reasonable decision back at the time. systemd needs entropy for generating some random identifiers during early boot. Trying to read it from kernel random facilities might block infinitely until kernel 5.4. Before that pulling entropy from RDRAND might not be that unreasonable decision, nowadays it probably should just call getrandom().