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> Giuliani "meaningfully facilitated illegal insurrection against a peaceful transition"?

I think it takes a particularly steelman interpretation to see the content of Giuliani's "trial by combat" speech as not insurrectionist.

“So let’s have trial by combat! I’m willing to stake my reputation, the president is willing to stake his reputation on the fact that we’re going to find criminality there.”

> last summer

Sure, there are democrats who turned too much of a blind-eye to violence over the past summer. But I find it fallacious in the extreme to equate reducing a police budget with insurrection. For the particular New York exception, the budget cut to NYPD came to about 10% of the budget, which very closely tracks New York's budget shortfall as a result of the Covid exodus from the city (12% budget shortfall) [0].

> head-on-a-pike

“I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England. I’d put the heads on pikes. I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats,” he explained, as Media Matters for America first reported.

“You either get with the program or you’re gone ― time to stop playing games,” Bannon added. “Blow it all up.”

“That’s how you win the revolution,” Bannon said. “The revolution wasn’t some sort of garden party. It was a civil war.”

Even when one takes that statement as charitably as you do, it doesn't help the level of discourse.

> Left leaning celebrities

I said upthread, I believe we should be moving corporate moderation etc into a local government due process. IMO the Texas DA (for example) should be able to ask Twitter to moderate a statement like that, and have the moderation heard in court. But Snoop Dogg doesn't hold nuclear codes, or hold the ear of the person who does.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-city-budget-police-d...
That is misleading. In some fields that may hold. But in other fields nothing can trump specializing the hardware to the computation and the algorithm.
Just wanted to chime in and say I thought your argument was reasonable. After you sent those counterexamples of conservative tweets that Twitter hadn’t deleted, I think the other commenter stopped engaging meaningfully. Sorry you had to suffer through this.
> Arguably, it took election results. Easier to do what is right when the wind blows the right way.

That's why valor only exists in the presence of opposition.

Facebook, Twitter, Google and AWS had 4-6 years to make the same choice made in the last few days. Yet they refused, again and again.
Matrix itself works pretty well. This is specifically a guide on bridging WhatsApp with Matrix, and since WhatsApp really does not want you using its service without using its app, its bound to be a bit complicated.
But that’s a selective way to think about cost, isn’t it? If you ignore NRE, almost anything is cheaper in hardware. But you can't ignore NRE.
This can't be the first decentralised twitter clone, can it?
I’ve never filed an eBay return claim where I had to pay for return shipping. The site just gives you a label to print out and it’s shipped at the seller’s expense.
As someone who has spent a lot of time contributing to all manner of Australian sports articles across all codes, I recognise several of the contributors there and can assure you that they don't have some kind of secret nefarious agenda. They just - like I - are very skeptical of data claiming things like "42.6% of Australians have participated in walking". Regardless of whether or not that's actually true under their defined methodology (presumably it is), it's probably a pretty good indicator that their methodology is of extremely questionable use, and that other data may have equally (but less obviously) misleading data.

I will note that the existing participation section of that article states that soccer has a higher participation rate than any other team sport amongst males (netball being higher for females), so it's extremely clearly that editors aren't objecting to the tables' inclusions on that claim alone, given that it's made in the article either way.
Can't wait for the Twitter Share bloodbath tomorrow.
I want accountability not censorship.
So member.cash is an instance of Member - it's there to make it easy to see how it all works.

Member is open source, so you can host a mirror on your own infrastructure. You might make that mirror available publicly, or you might use it privately. Shutting down all the public instances would likely be a game of whack-a-mole. Similarly, its not dependent on AWS, or a gmail address.

While a single website might be vulnerable to DDOS, the vision is many independent instances which will allow for great redundancy.
The very first post I read on this community Home Screen is “I am sad”. Doesn’t paint a promising picture.
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Do you think it will be legal for any employer to force leave (or dismissal) if a person refuses to take the vaccine?

.. that sounds like a dangerous road to go down.

Australia has tried to "force" vaccines for years - if kids are vaccinated the parents get worse tax breaks, kids can't goto daycare or elementary school, etc. but AFAIK it's not a "legal" requirement, and nobody can be terminated from employment.
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Liberties constrain, constraints liberate.

The things we can lear from programming language theory!
The thing is, I don't think the complexity is even close to the same in the two cases.

AWS and similar services are an abstraction over hardware, software and networking all at once. There are well over 100 different services available on AWS alone. Just to get a basic configuration up and running, someone new to the system has to figure out which of those services they actually need, which is a barrier in itself given the obfuscated names they have.

Then you have much the same network and security details to set up as you would have for on-prem or colo infrastructure, but now with lots of non-standard terminology and proprietary UIs, which are so cumbersome at times that an entire generation of overcomplicated "orchestration" tools has been developed, each of which typically adds yet another layer of leaky abstraction.

Hopefully some time before this all happened you tried to work out what it was going to cost, and maybe you were close or maybe you are in for a nasty surprise because those handy managed services cost several times what the equivalent server + software would have cost either running on real servers or just on cloud VMs.

And if you fall back to that latter case as your safe default, you still get all the same issues to deal with as you would have had on your own servers and network, except that now you need to figure out what is really going on behind all those virtualised systems and quasi-geographical organisation layers before you can tell whether one unfortunate event could take down all the instances of any vital services you need.

In comparison, literally every small business I have ever worked in as a tech worker has had several people at the office who were perfectly capable of buying a switch or firewall or router and spending the few minutes required to configure it or buying a server and installing Linux/Windows and then whatever server software it needed again very quickly. Cloud systems can make it faster to deploy new hardware and connectivity, because you save the time required for all the physical steps, but after that the time and knowledge required to get a small network's worth of equipment up and running really isn't that great. After all, we used to do that all the time until the cloud hype to hold, and it's not as if that has suddenly stopped working or all the people with that knowledge suddenly left the industry in the past 5 years.
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> I’m reading the FBI warned the Capitol police about it ahead of the rally.

I’m reading now that anonymoust “senior law enforcement officials” are claiming that, even though the FBI already, after the event, said they had no intelligence that anything beyond First Amendment protected activity was planned or likely to occur. So either the FBI was previously lying on the record to make themselves look bad, or officials that won’t go on the record are lying to place the blame for failures on the Capitol Police after the head of the Capitol Police resigned at the request of the Speaker, so that responsibility is on a head that has already rolled.
The author implies it’s worse to be censored by a company because with government you in theory can influence it with voting... but in practice you have about as much direct influence as reversing tides in the ocean by splashing against them.
I am scared of hardware wallets as there is nothing to fix if it breaks. I want a backup system that is always recoverable.

Any ideas for a good strategy? Duplication on hardware level?
No I think a violent insurrection in the Capitol was the tipping point. Up until then, all of the dangers associated with the rhetoric was theoretical.
https://twetch.app is similar but more popular. Uncensorable isn't the word I would use - the data is stored on the blockchain but the website is just like any other. The difference is instead of needing to 'export' your data - it can be instantly accessed through the bitcoin network
The author thinks that anyone using a file picker with no preview thumbnails is doing it wrong. I think that anyone using a file picker is doing it wrong.

I frequently open files in projects that have tens of thousands of files scattered across thousands of directories. Any process for opening a file that involved navigating that directory hierarchy by clicking with a mouse would waste an enormous amount of time.
I believe it is the first public platform - the others are private platforms.
Looking at history, censorship has a far worse track record in terms of destroying democracy, than public assembly (even inside civic buildings) does. What makes people think that this time will be different?
How many police have you seen Trump bludgeon to death?
Everyone is doing this. It seems crazy. I bought $300 of new comforters from Ikea but they turned out to not be what the family wanted... Ikea refunded me over the phone and told me to donate them. I also bought a $1,300 bed 3 weeks ago that really did not work for me - same instructions, to donate it and they would refund me without any proof of the donation. This seems ripe for scammers, sadly.

Edit, to add: I was expressly told by both companies that they were being über-lenient on returns due to Covid...
Both the rioting by BLM protestors and the rioting by the Trump/GOP supporters would be moral and just if they were in fact based on truth.

I mean, if the Presidency was indeed stolen by election fraud, protests and rioting would be justified. But unlike the BLM protests, they were based on lies. Those lies did real damage, and they haven't stopped, so publishers are cutting ties with them to avoid further crime and terrorism.
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Now you trust Republicans.
Neutral is a very interesting word. I consider myself centrist, yet my views are considered by others to be "far right" and fringe, simply because I refuse to be told what to think by the US Left's propaganda machine.
So go figure.

When even centrists are disenfranchised by your rhetoric, why would you feel safe, wherever you consider yourself to be on the political spectrum?
So is this a federated thing like Mastodon, or is everyone operating a mirror running a copy of the whole site?
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

— George Orwell, Animal Farm

I understand the moves by Stripe, Twitter, and co. However, I would argue that the long term implications set by this precedent are much worse. When the Snowden story first broke back in 2013, many on HN argued that, hey it's all good, I have nothing to hide, and I trust our President. Three short years later, who took the office? Would you have every imagined that? The same goes for this. Think five minutes into the future if you will.

If the leader of the free world can be banned from all social media and co, who are based in the very same nation, and who are monopolies, then what hope is there for the rest of us?
Bedrock cultural events (or signs of them) should gratify anyone's intellectual curiosity. IMO we downplay them only because of fatigue and denial and even helplessness. "Surely this is a one-off thing over one dumb podcast, not symptoms of a larger problem that I can avoid thinking about" or maybe "It's fine cuz I don't like that guy". And that's how we deathmarch into the next, for example, Holocaust.

That said, I will admit that our comments sections sucks ass on these topics which is perhaps reason enough to avoid them. But that's a reason I accept unlike "lol it's just one dumb podcast cmon."
I feel like a lot of tech companies are walking into a trap. They are doing this to win favors from Harris-Biden administration but regulations are going to happen regardless.

In fact, the USGOV can now point to these very actions as evidence to push for tech regulation. It's very similar to how during Vietnam War, many on the South Vietnam side switched sides to fight their own.

When the smoke cleared, the first people to go were those who switched sides to help the communists come into power. Reason: once a traitor, always a traitor.
> The Christian ideal is to be tolerant of someone who is actively doing us harm.

That seems like a foolish ideal that has the end result of you being marginalized, with people who would do harm to you and others gaining control of society. Frankly, it sounds like just another system of control invented by religious leaders.

People who actively do us harm should be swiftly and firmly disabused of the notion that what they're doing will ever be tolerated. Anything less is folly.
Thats an interesting take. But wouldn't product end up having the same leverage? Or is the goal to divide product and engineering work so that no one person has the complete view of the business?
It will be all config files
This "reality" thing you're talking about is not singular.

Easiest illustration is that Rittenhouse fellow, a brave-ish kid standing for himself in one reality and a cold-blooded murderer in another.
It would be neat if they could set up automatic filters based on the file type/size/etc. So they could automatically disallow any pull request to the README file for example.
Politicians have been making false claims about the opposing party for centuries. Suddenly now Big Tech decides they have the right to pick and choose which lies will be allowed and which won't be? Pathetic.
I find it amazingly frustrating that an OS with no real commercial value, but immense historical value, is locked up, and subject to the whim of whoever bought it last.

We might never see the source code for VAX/VMS, which makes me sad.
Twetch is interesting, especially the marketing. However, while it uses a blockchain, it is a private platform and does not use an open protocol (probably to create a moat).
It’s not about “fascists”. That’s your politics talking.

It’s about violence. And that bail fund? That was Kamala Harris.
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if there's a will there's a way. Just look at projects like bisq and fiatdex. Not to mention the pretty obvious solution of just using crypto as money.

Also, things like I mentioned definitely still work.
Every hardware wallet gives you a secret key to write down. That’s your backup if/when the device breaks.
Maybe I'm looking at things differently.

Doesn't this push Trump to accept bitcoin. Wouldn't bitcoin get a big boost making him richer as the donations increased?

By doing this now highlight how much Stripe profitted when the going was good. But it also signals when the going isn't good they will not stick with you.
In 1861 the Senate expelled 10 senators for being involved in a conspiracy against the United States. And 7 years later, the 14th amendment was passed.

The lies for profit charlatans basically get away with it. But I do not think members of Congress should. Every single one of those who voted on false pretenses to overturn an election last week, should be expelled. That is the fraud that has happened in this election.
This is one of the reasons why I wish Falkon had more active development. Having a fully KDE native browser is so nice.
Because destroying people's businesses and livelihoods is more worthy somehow than damaging a political symbol where the damage will be paid for by taxpayers as a whole? They both seem morally wrong to me -
The description "Damaging other people's property" seems applicable to both, or "equivalent", you might say?
Look at how the same corporations are operating in China today, as the CCP runs an authoritarian and arguably fascist (in the original sense, regardless of the commie branding) dictatorship. Are any of them denouncing Chairman Xi or taking a stand against the CCP's brutal crackdowns and internment camps bordering on ethnic cleansing? How many of them would still put Taiwan on a map?

But I'm sure they have your best interests at heart.
I guess the chickens really did come home to roost.
If you can't broadcast, what good is your message?
False equivalence. Big Tech has always removed content that could imminently incite violence.
Isn't being Yezhoved out of reality an ultimate case of accountability for anyone political?
That is correct. It is okay to rally against police brutality; it is not okay to hold a Nazi rally.
i mean aoc’s referenced sit in was in a federal building open to the public, it’s just being passively noncompliant in a public space. like i’m sitting on the floor in the office and it’s sort of obnoxious but i certainly did not break a law getting here. okay, so now someone asks me to leave and i say no, i am making thus and such a point. then the police come and take me away, typically without incident.

i imagine the person relating this kind of action, practiced en masse since the 60s across civil rights, nuclear nonproliferation, environmental, LGBT movements with storming barricades, dragging police from windows and beating them to death, and literally threatening the seat of government did not actually intend to conflate the two sorts of events.
Wouldn't that first requiring proof of voter identification? I'm sure plenty of Trump supporters would be down with this plan.
If someone sets up a bounty on gitcoin or something similar I'd be down to contribute to sponsor this feature request. The thumbnail viewer would save me time from mistakenly choosing the wrong file when they're all labeled similarly.
> no small part due to how the President has run the state in the waning months of his term.

From an outside-the-US perspective, the waning 47 and a half months of his term...
By any objective measurement, Twitter is more of a hate speech and conspiracy theory cesspool.
> IMO the Texas DA (for example) should be able to ask Twitter to moderate a statement like that, and have the moderation heard in court.

If the content is criminal to knowingly carry, they can. (And not just “ask”, they can notify Twitter and inform them they will file criminal charges otherwise.)

If its lawful content, law enforcement at any level has no business getting involved, that’s kind of the point of the First Amendment.

But Twitter also isn’t (unless it has a contract in place obligating it to someone) required to carry any content, just because they aren’t legally prohibited from doing so. That’s also what the First Amendment is about.
It's real in some cases, but for many it isn't. Many of my friends are decently well off, own a home, with good jobs and support Trump. These people support him because they don't like paying taxes, immigration, BLM, wokeism, etc.

I am sympathetic to those who have been impacted economically. But, many of those who are despairing do end up blaming "outsiders" for their problems.
I heard that those black people had the audacity to burn WHITE(!!) fluffy confectionery over those bonfires!!
I've read what I could here, but I'm still not clear on how this differs from Mastodon. Is it the web client?
I remember setting some reasonable “raise timeout” and it worked well for me. For one use case, I had a workflow with two full-height overlapping windows (vim, xterm) and little mouse shifts toggled them up/focused.

Alt-tab didn’t work because its mru usually gets spoiled by other (browser) windows. If only there was a setting that fixed alt-tab mru into a stack. Alt-tab-tab to switch to app which started second may be much better than mru for some workflows, because you can always predict what it does with certainty of 1.
How does it handle abuse? Can anyone sign up and just firehosing garbage into the blockchain?
Given the situation with Amazon Essentials, anyone who sells a product made substantially of stringing together AWS technology may find themselves cut out of the picture soon enough.

Many other companies have ended up competing with their own vendors. The only thing unique about Amazon is that they are boiling the frog much more slowly than previous generations of companies have.
Matrix itself works great. But the bridges leave a lot to be desired. Mind you, most of them are only in alpha or beta status.

But it requires a lot of fiddling around to keep them running. Some bridges just stop working without telling you and this makes it hard too rely on them. Always second guessing whether it's just quiet or the bridge went down again. The signal one in particular is bad for this.

I try it every year and it gets better but progress is slow.

Also, be aware that your fully bridged matrix server is a prime hacker target, it captures all you private Comms and can impersonate you. Much harder to do with all individual apps. This is another thing I worry about.

So for these reasons I just test it every year but never found it production ready.
Not to split hairs but it is about 40 pages and it would have saved me at least several months worth of effort in research and validation, so I think so, yeah.
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I am increasingly worried that the US will end up at war with China and quickly find itself in the same place the Russians were when they are running around in Crimea.
Twister[1] came out several years ago (built using blockchain + BitTorrent tech), but looks like might now be abandonware.

1. http://twister.net.co/
I'm not sure which would be the "first" or when member.cash started, but pretty sure Mastodon has been around longer.
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Those are intentional deviations from the standard, and I think there's a reasonable assumption that those stay the same/compatible from version to version. I think the other kind are a bit more problematic, and without a standard it can be difficult to tell whether your assumptions are reasonable.
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Democrats have challenged electors for dumb reasons before. It's their right. Get a grip.
>I am tired of seeing "sensible" people here explain how it's important to reach out to fascists and make them feel loved

Nazi
Or going back even further I started my career worrying about all that, plus HVAC, hardware acquisition, capacity planning, power management, distribution and managing gensets(fuel and maintenance); and all the fun crap associated with it like a burst water pipe in your data center on Christmas Eve
What's a "public platform" in this context?
There is no common server. Each matrix address has the name of the server in it. Though matrix.org acts as a central point because there's so many users on it. It's not needed however.
Yes. Searing means fairly high/intense dry heat to produce browning/crusty texture in seconds or minutes. Such as putting a steak on a grill or very hot cast iron pan.

On the other hand, bacon cooked in a 300F oven or on low stovetop heat for half an hour may become crispy, but is not seared. Breads become brown via Maillard reaction but are not seared.

I really didn't set out to hound you about this whole searing thing...
It's used for passing the interview at a FAANG.