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In both cases, I feel like they just stopped moving altogether. It wasn't even that they didn't innovate or add new features, they stopped even improving the features they had.

I feel like there's huge market space for an application like Ventrilo that just does a simple voice server really well, without all the frills and bulk that more fully-featured app like Discord has.

I know that we aren't entitled to software support from devs who get what they want out of their software and then move on... but I'm right there with you in being sad that vent/ts haven't stayed the test of time. Discord saw the stagnancy in the market and just ate it right up.
Thanks very much for taking the time, and for the reference. To my ears that sounds like a subtle cross between classical "e" as in present-tense "read" and "i" as in "pin" or "Linux".

Hrm, now to start saying "MeSQL" and seeing what happens...
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> festering a community of terrorists

This is what it feels like to live in a country like China, where if you criticize the government, or question the dominant narrative, or call for regime change, you are called a "terrorist" and denied basic rights like expression and put on no-fly lists. Anti-government rhetoric is routinely suppressed, fire-walled, and forced out. Are you sure that is what you want?
You can and should report them. It typically takes some time and multiple reports till small accounts are locked, but reporting makes it possible at least.

Report button is behind three dots on that tweet.
> This isn't some theoretical case of billionaires imposing their worldviews by banning people that we should be tremendously fearful of.

I think you've missed the point. The concern OP raises is that this is no longer theoretical - these few billionaires actually can impose their worldview by controlling speech. In this case, we can all agree that Parler had to go. But the precedent / principle of the issue can be considered separately.

> They're not deciding what is acceptable speech. They're deciding what is acceptable speech for their platforms and services.

This is a distinction without a difference. If the major platforms all ban you, you are silenced. Its time we recognize the power these platforms have.
> killed Harley Davidson in retaliation

Their stock price (even over five years) doesn't appear to reflect this.
Freedom speech in a library context, may mean providing access to mein kampf but putting it in a hate speech section. Just like when sharing a security vulnerability, there is a world for responsible disclosure. Responsible disclosure is censorship to a purist of free speech

If however this question relates to recent events.

If you're concerned with platform censoring, then I would say the concern is misplaced. There needs to be a new definition for information monopolies. If any one platform decides to censor you, and you can realistically interpret that as a freedom of speech violation, then that is actually an antitrust problem. You can look at how this plays out in federated networks. The gap social network, try to join the activity pub federated Network. Each individual community in activity pub was able to make their own decision as to whether they had to listen to what gab was saying. Gab was effectively silenced, but not by the hand of a dictator. Each individual community had their own rules, gab decided it wasn't worth continuing to participate in activity pub because they weren't gaining traction. This reflects how free speech behaves in auditorium. Free speech does not guarantee free audience

The reason that freedom of speech is used to protect you from your government, is because your government is guaranteed several monopolies over your life in some very consequential ways.

As a third answer, freedom of speech as a context has not been tested at scales like this before. There are some very interesting ethical questions to be studied and grappled with. A downside to using politically correct terms, is that it's very often nothing is actually being said. However, when you deviate from politically correct terms, the opportunity for your words to be misinterpreted significantly increase. The use of things like dog whistles, even if unintentional have an effect on the population. So let's say that you are giving a typical speech but use words that are not precise and not politically correct. If 001% of your audience interprets your words as the most radical interpretation, this used to mean nothing. Megaphones weren't large enough to reach a radicalized population. Those population members had no coordination infrastructure that They could organize along. And as I said, none of this has to have been intentional by the speaker. Because of scale ethics and network effects the resulting consequences of the words you use scale (Little C) exponentially with your audience size, when edges are provided for free
The US has screwed itself so badly in the international arena it's not even funny.

It's gone from leading the world to being able to barely find 1-2 supporters in UN resolutions. I mean, it can barely find 2 countries of the tens of countries with populations smaller than Staten Island to support its resolutions in the UN.

The major problem for the US is that the administration has declared war on everyone, including allies. So it doesnt find any support, even from allies, because even if they agree with the US's action, they are worried that it will come back to bite them.

A classic example of this is that Trump spend years railing about China but only imposed tariffs on them more than 2 years into his administration. In the meanwhile, within months of assuming office, he had already imposed tariffs on Japan, much of Europe, Canada, Australia, etc...basically, all allies. So when time came to impose tariffs on China, none of the American allies were prepared to support the US, which meant the US had to go alone in imposing tariffs that turned out to be pretty ineffectual (China's net exports to the US are higher than ever) and further, have damaged US exports to China considerably by forcing them to find alternatives to American supplies (Brazil for soyabeans as an example, which had the wonderful knock on side effect of accelerating the destruction of the Amazon...).
Parler LLC vs. Amazon Web Services, Inc [pdf]
Let me rephrase it for you:

"If you don't let us steal every bit of income we can while operating in your countries where your local companies don't have a value larger than the GDP of Switzerland or Mexico, then we will get angry at you for figuring out ways to make them pay the taxes they should pay. So we'll make sure to prop up our Boeing that is failing due to issues unrelated to you, and we'll slap random luxury goods taxes on it for some luck"

That's petty alright.

As pointed out elsewhere, the EU put taxes on Harley Davidson a few years back following the taxes on steel from the US. That was petty too.

FWIW same thing happened with Canada in the last few years with new tariffs both ways. Mostly petty too.

Maybe one day we'll figure out ways to try and nurture making everybody grow together rather than making everybody lose more. For all its faults, the EU is an attempt at that (internally, because we've got to start somewhere).
Ok interesting, this might be different in different countries again.

What I heard from friends of mine is that the margins are not really any better on high-end bikes. Because you sell significantly less of those it used to be that it was much easier to make decent money on low end bikes (i.e. everyday bikes used for riding around town). I think things changed a bit with the popularity of e-bikes now (they are generally more expensive but also much more in demand, don't know about the margins exactly).
I must have read the graphic wrong, I thought it was the employee churn rate, not the subscriber churn rate.
While I loath "think of the children!" arguments, I'll lower myself to one here.

Imagine that Parler was a site dedicated to child pornography. Would anybody be complaining about it being shut down them?

Hopefully not. My point is that what Parler represented was equally odious. It's a hate speech platform and hate speech should not be tolerated.
> On one hand, Parler was a hate site, filled with conspiracy theories, radicalization and racism.

This is a question in good faith. Can you provide any evidence at all that Parler had more “hate” than Twitter, etc.?
How is this different from any other moderation?

Nobody would bat an eye if you were banned from HN or reddit for hate speech. Why should a platform be any different? If my customer started using my services to spread Nazism, I'd ban them too. Let's say I was a baker - would it be reasonable that I be compelled to draw swastikas on cakes? Obviously, that's absurd! It is equally absurd to demand that other businesses provide platforms for behavior they don't condone.

Freedom of speech is freedom from oppression by government. Parler isn't being oppressed, they just aren't being given a platform to oppress others by private citizens and corporations. Well, not anymore, although lots of corps made some money from them while they could.
Cudos to the website for clearly stating WHAT THE WEBSITE IS in the very second sentence. This kind of clarity is unfortunately quite rare.

> This site collects FAQs and a directory for the PTA community...
Perhaps reading the article instead of just pulling stuff out of nowhere would be helpful to making a salient point.

This has nothing to do with economics, which the USA is still doing better on a measure of GDP than then EU, hell even California alone does better than everyone but Germany.

It’s a tit for tat retaliation since the only tech companies France wants to tax so heavily are American.
Because HN readers are just as tribalist as anyone else and now they're winning after a bad ref call.

You've seen this play out in sports hundreds of times. Politics isn't any different. It's even got WWE-esque storylines.
This is disingenuous. Already credit card companies have begun to de-platform people. Once Visa and AmEx refuse to do business with you, you are on increasingly thin ice. If both Google and Apple refuse to host your app in their App Stores, what exactly is your recourse?

Nowadays, the public square, the thing that the constitution is supposed to protect, which is the difference between feudalism and democracy, is de-facto (though not de-jure), owned by monopolistic corporations. They are only accountable to their shareholders, and they have nearly complete power over their platforms. The vast majority of public discourse, news and financial transactions take place on these feudal fiefdoms.

This is an oversight in the current legal framework, and will have to be corrected eventually.
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> All viewpoints and thoughts are equal before the law; only actions can be prosecuted.

And this would be an issue if we were actually talking about government action, but we are talking about private individuals deciding who they will associate with. When the government gets involved then you have reason for concern, but if this is private parties engaging in commerce you have absolutely no leg to stand on.
I've currently a Unifi USG at home with my 1gbps symmetric connection.

Generally it's pretty good.
However a recent software update has completely broken IPv6 prefix delegation.

So I've been thinking of replacing it with a more open router.

I've seen pfsense is popular, but OpenWRT also seems to be quite active and Linux based which I'm more familiar with. But also for smaller less power hungry machines.

My use case is a router so I don't need cores or ram, but rather being able to meet the network throughput for a low power consumption.

Is there anything that bits the bill?
Preferably something that was released recently to ensure software updates will be easy on it.

Would the H2 work?
You might be surprised how often you trigger that second code path. For just one example, an increasing number of CLI programs use emoji in their output, whether you like it or not.
Boston property taxes are low at a ~1% rate, and as others have noted the assessed price is not the price I would sell the home for. In Massachusetts you also get a ~1500 dollar tax credit for your primary residence.
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American wealth and prosperity is higher than it's ever been.

If the vast majority of Americans are not benefiting from it, it's because of the concentration of wealth within US driven by domestic American policies, more than anything else.
That's the original and etymological definition of the word. We are used to progress so we see modern thing as better but modern things are just new or trendy not necessary better. Programming everything in javascript is quite modern but is it a progress ? We will see in the long run.
Threma is subject to the Swiss Büpf [1] which is not as bad as the regulations in the US but also problematic.

[1] https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/20122728/...
One thing that always hurts OpenSource project is the fact they have not ability for me to "Buy" it, with an actual invoice or receipt that I can give to my accounting people for the sale...

It is "donation" of a undetermined amount which is a much harder thing for me to clear the bean counters.

So by being able to go to a site, it buy now with a fixed price, and (I presume getting a receipt) you likey having gotten much more income than if you where to have a "donate to me" link with a open ended amount...
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I thought that by merging in the EU you would be a giant who would "balance the US and China" ? :)

Oh by the way, note that by leaving the EU, the UK is effectively NOT impacted by those, ie. it is a direct trading advantage.
> but as more skilled workers enter the labour force, I think that too will start to get marginalised to some degree and teams will shift back to having their own IT departments

I am not sure if this would the case though. Why would an employer use skilled workers to do something mundane like setting up a kubernetes cluster vs something that actually differentiate their own business from others.
With english that bad there is no chance you are American or a Business owner. Please downvote this Russian/Chinese astroturfer.
It seems we need to cull a lot of bats.
> Open protocols, or non profit open source projects will
> never compete with true entrepreneurship and hardcore
> entrepreneurs creating products.

Nginx and Apache httpd are, in that order, the most used web servers. Both are FOSS, and both serve HTTP, an open protocol. There were definitely attempts to build proprietary protocols, none of which were successful, and in the long run the proprietary web servers ended up second place to the open source projects.

Here in the US, I get reminders via SMS from my bank or my doctor telling me that payments went through or that I have an upcoming appointment. More thorough messages are sent via Email. Every form I've filled out since the turn of the millennium asks for my email address, none of them have asked for my MySpace, Twitter, or Facebook handles.

I edit my code in either Emacs, Vim, or Visual Studio Code -- one of those is an open-source product by a very much for-profit company, the other two have survived decades as powerful editors/IDEs.

If I had to make a prediction, I'd say that over time open protocols will end up winning -- not because of some kind of ideological purity, but because they permit people to build platforms that interoperate with one another. The Fediverse is young yet, and Twitter/Instagram/FB are making adversarial interoperability hard, but the entire history of the Internet and the World Wide Web is one where open has won over the long haul.
PC Engines APU2, https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm (6W TDP fanless, 3 ports)
If you liked the tektronix emulation, also have a look at sixel graphics [1], which also work in an xterm. Helpful if you are logged in via ssh without X forwarding, and need some graphics...

[1] https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
10GBASE-T is not very popular and rather expensive, while NBASE-T (2.5/5G) is gaining traction for high speed consumer stuff.

SFP+ is cheaper and better, but not exactly common in consumer networks where I imagine most low-cost ARM boards end up.
Why would he? I think he's even more convinced of it today. "Free speech" is a pretty right-wing issue nowadays and people assume it's a dog whistle for hate speech. If you want to be a progressive leftist like Randall Munroe, you can't advocate for free speech without hurting your reputation in the current environment.
I disagree with the idea that people, on average, take the word of business or corporate entities on faith. In the US we have organizations that vet drugs and medication (FDA) as well as to verify the safety of foods (USDA). I believe most US states license restaurants and have a process to ensure they aren't poisoning customers.

In my opinion, it's only in the case of electronic and software products where we are supposed to take so much functioning of the device on faith. Perhaps this is a bad idea and we need an organization to vet these products as well.
Yeah you never give out your drivers license number as an American (or passport number, for international users), and especially not for some sketchy social media platform. It’s an easy way to get your credit stolen.

Maybe they let people block out their ID numbers on the license photos, but I doubt that the vast majority of users there would even bother.

Some governments do have eIDs, that work cross-border, that are designed for both the public and private sector, with emphasis on security (although there are bound to be serious problems). This is the case in many European Union countries, and it will apply at some point to the entire EU: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/policies/trust...
Downvotes? raises fist to sky This is censorshiiiiip!!1!
Parler finds refuge with right-leaning webhosting service
Glenn Greenwald again proving to be a crank.

If Silicon Valley is such an overwhelming monopolistic force, why is 8kun and 4chan up?

No, Parler did a dumb thing by depending so deeply on one hosting provider, and the inevitable bit them.
> No, because you don't need AWS or Twitter or Cloudflare or any of the name tech companies to run a high-traffic web site successfully.

The problem is you need to rely on someone.
With constitutionality free speech the government shouldn't be allowed to force a private entity to amplify or censor speech. And don't get me wrong. I was happy about the ban in this moment.

On the other hand I wouldn't like to give all moderation power to private entities alone. If not opportune with current business model, company ethics are quickly changed (e.g. don't be evil). As long as you have small decentralized shops and platforms that's ok. With concentration of power a private company nearly acts like a utility. Maybe some kind of neutral and elected ethics committee could help large private platforms to maintain transparent and democratic standards. Would they have blocked him even earlier?
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I started my career with Geodesic, handheld division, which @atul was overlooking as VP , IIRC .

Was really a great experience interacting with him and other stalwarts of FOSS at thats time. I owe my first job to him and Pradeepto :)
This is always the problem with taking "donations" privately. Although innocent, the reality is that a lot of tax authorities look at this as income.

As someone who's primarily a creator, I find it often eye brow raising the kinds of complicated rules which tax authorities create to "level the playing field". Definitely tread carefully.
I know that many Unions get involved in political lobbying though. Regardless of how they get their point across, money is taken and spent on influencing power beyond employers. For example I was part of the Musicians Union in the UK, which has a separate political fund, and members are usually self-employed, but it did create a forum for potential collective action, and for attempting to influence the political discourse.
Are you implying our government, which spends $6.6 trillion a year and jails people for smoking weed, is libertarian in nature?
Let's just say hypothetically the French government was propping some serious money into Airbus and wine industry that makes the United States not able to compete at all. What is the most effective way for the US to respond? Prohibit imports? Slap tariffs like now? Buy a serious amount of Euros? Pump even more money into the US industry? Or some sort of other alternative?
This is what happens if you build a platform on somebody else's platform: you're subject to their whims. Any and all people who make their living off of YouTube understands this, and they intentionally diversify so they have options if their primary platform becomes unavailable.

Outside of that, though, I couldn't care less that fascist organization platforms are being tanked. Free speech as an abstract principle has been used as cover for fascism in the U.S. for the better part of the past half century.
> Privacy laws in India are non-existent. FOSS doesn't solve that unless FOSS from private companies is also audited and the data being collected is clearly explained to the consumers and they are made aware of it.

Participate / Contribute: https://internetfreedom.in/
The basic social problem is that the absence of economic growth turns economies into zero-sum operations. In order for anyone to get ahead, someone, somewhere else must lose. Historically, zero-sum economies make for some pretty shitty living standards for most folks.

Growth, at least in the short term (the 50-100 year timescale), makes it possible to have an economy where gains can be had without necessarily making other folks lose. The downside here is that growth can only go for so long before resource constraints of one form or another bite everyone in the butt.
I feel like you have the right to free speech. You don't have a right to a platform though. If you want to spread your hate person to person go for it. We're not going to broadcast your nonsense to the world.
Or, "How Parler outsourced nearly every critical aspect of its business, incurring massive risk in pursuit of maximizing profits." This is the risk of the modern, ultra-lean online enterprise. Parler got kicked off for knowingly providing a communications platform for terrorists. But other businesses that ride along on the backs of FAANG, like the business equivalent of remora eels, have been similarly affected by factors out of their control like changing search algorithms and shifting app store policies. It's a risk of running a business on top of someone else's business.
> cannot be reasonably described as moderate.

I would agree with this. I knew Aaron, at least in terms of our mutual involvement in the intellectual freedom movement, and worked with him on various things (though not well, I was a pretty shitty python coder back then).

His positions, like mine, were definitely in the "extreme", in the sense that 99% of people either 1) don't agree that we should abolish copyright and patents OR don't have an opinion on it.

But there can be a negative connotation to the word "extreme" that I don't think applies here. Our stance is extreme in the sense that the Internet was extreme in the 1970's, or the Web extreme in the 1990's, or civil rights extreme in the 1950's, or women's right to vote extreme in the 1920's.

Another way to put it: he was far ahead of our time on issues of justice.
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