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it has a community doing a lot of innovation in areas people find interesting
So, ignore evidence of fraud (including eyewitness testimony from dozens of witnesses sworn under oath) because you and others summarily deem it not widespread or systematic?

However, Congress spends years investigating sketchy, anonymous claims about Russian interference in 2016 elections?
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> To a non-us citizen and somebody who believes in free speech, this whole debacle looks like the parties behind who own our social media trying to stop in anyway the possibility that, maybe, just maybe, there might have been something fishy going on in the voting process

From another non-US citizen, this doesn't seem like the case at all; TBH, it sounds pretty paranoid.

The sitting US president has been spreading (easily disprovable) lies about election fraud for months - Facebook and Twitter didn't stop him. They are only acting now because the US president went just a little too far (leading to a violent mob attacking Capitol Hill), and also because they have to be seen to do something, lest the government try to force regulation on them.
How about you focus instead on securing the roster and less about widespread fraud. The system is built to be anonymous so finding evidence is not possible. The problem instead is people being on the roster when they shouldn’t. I know of 2 cases of this, one of which was in my immediate. Both instances an individual received a ballot but should not have. One of the individuals was not even a US citizen, yet they were registered to vote. Dems didn’t want voter IDs, don’t want voter reform because of “disenfranchisement”.
Does it matter? People care. People don't want to lose years worth of chat histories with friends, family and their significant other(s). That's just how it is. I'm not sure why it's so hotly debated around here. People want to preserve their chats and their media. There's sentimental/emotional value to these things and they don't want to lose these things. That's all that should matter. I feel like these discussions always get bogged down in "but why", particularly from people who have a different opinion, when it's irrelevant. People value things differently. Just because their values are different from yours doesn't make them any less justified than you. This is reality. This is people.

If Signal wants to provide a mainstream secure and private alternative to WhatsApp, then it needs to make concessions to accommodate these preferences. If they don't want to, that's fine, but it also means I can't recommend Signal to non-tech friends/family.
For the most overt ones - prime example is Louis Vuitton - it's about protecting their design. That is, you cannot copyright or patent a design (e.g. the cut of clothing), but what they did instead is plaster their things with iconography that CAN be trademarked.

Basically they made their brand / labels part of the "identity" of the outfit. I mean you can get a $5 or a $50 or a $500 polo shirt, for the most part they'll be the same but the more expensive ones will have the alligator or guy on a horse on them. The practical differences between them are minimal, and in terms of production it's a few dollars (at most) difference.
Long-overdue legislation and increased activism, including activism by the tech community, and ongoing informing of consumers about dangers of sharing their data, are some of the possible mitigation steps.

A simple first step: send an article on digital privacy, that you like, to your network and invite them to get back to you with questions they have. A possible start: EFF have an excellent privacy hub https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy

I have taken a case study with my teen about people loosing careers after facebook flame-wars; and being hauled in by police on face-recognition and geolocation data. We have a discussion at least once a month about the cyber-dystopia we find ourselves in.

As I posted before, I'll just leave this here:

1. "It turns out that Facebook also buys data about your offline purchases. The next time you pay for a burrito with your credit card, Facebook will learn about this transaction and match this credit card number with the one you added in Messenger.

In other words, Messenger is a great Trojan horse designed to learn everything about you."

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/23/facebook-knows-literally-e... From 2018!

2. "Google now knows when its users go to the store and buy stuff.

Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores [...] Privacy advocates said few people understand that their purchases are being analyzed in this way"

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/05/23... From 2017!

Consumer data is the gold the consumer appears to be giving away, unwittingly or carelessly, regardless of the regime or geographic location.
Most papers criticize the idea and describe physical limits. I don't remember which one on the physical possibility of hypercomputation I read (a long time ago), but there are some papers such as the following:

https://oronshagrir.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/oronshagr...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11047-009-9114-3

https://sci-hub.do/10.1142/S0129626412400105

An overview is in A. Syropoulos: Hypercomputation: Computing Beyond the Church-Turing Barrier. Springer 2008, chapters 8-9.

Gotta love the subsection headline in the third paper mentioned above: "A CTC Based Relativistic Hypercomputer That Actually Works Without Problems." ;-)
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> They had to properly fact-check it and educate the viewers. I think this should be the default mode for stupid (counter-factual) opinions.

That’s unrealistic IMO.

I can type out a hundred lies faster than you can fact check even one of them.

Besides we’ve already seen that facts don’t matter to a lot of people. They don’t care if something is true or not anyways. All they care about is having their world views reaffirmed.
Lol... Have you ever seen a Louis Vuitton bag or Supreme clothes? I mean, maybe is low tier to millionaires but people usually wants just the logo because others will know is expensive and they ""can"" afford it... Or maybe I didn't get the point xD
Signal handlers have their own stack for this very reason.

Handling interrupts within the Linux kernel is not really very similar to signal handling in userspace.
Is my understanding correct that a virus so deadly would quickly peter out because it kills its hosts before it can spread?
The margins being this thin electorally when Biden got 51.3% to 46.8% of the popular vote is indicative of a serious issue, but not the one you're claiming.

Thin electoral margins also give people like Kemp/Raffensperger even more reason to speak up if there was even a smidgen of evidence for "the steal".
Not dissonance, but consistent cooperation with those currently in power.
People pay more for no logos, look at examples like www.outlier.nyc
Network transparency is definitely a feature. I can't count the number of times when X forwarding was an extremely convenient feature to have.
The "unemployed men" is a narrative, but the ringleaders of this stuff are comfortably employed or retired.

Exhibit A: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/10/retired-air-f...

> And if you think that the American military is entirely unsympathetic to these people, you are starkly and dangerously wrong

This is a serious problem. Either the incoming democrat administration lets it fester and be "protected" by people who will cheerfully discuss their murder, or they carry out what could accurately be described as an ideological "purge".

> Russia

They sent a spy to solicit the NRA, who was hugely successful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Butina#Involvement_in_U....
I keep hearing the court claim but most of the court cases were dismissed without looking at the evidence. [1]

You have to wonder why the democrats, Biden in particular, never simply said. “We don’t think there was fraud but to ensure faith in fair elections and democracy we fully support a full investigation / audit. We have the utmost confidence in the outcome of this investigation / audit.” Instead they mocked and opposed every attempt to look deeper in the alleged fraud. Is it really so weird then that people start to wonder why there is so much resistance to the idea of fraud after 4 years of democrats and media claiming Russia stole the election?

[1]https://hereistheevidence.com/election-2020/stats/
Yeah, but it clashes with the mail analogy that is used to promote federation.

But what makes me wonder is the choice of words "based on matrix" instead of "using matrix". So even if you wanted you couldn't federate.
2200-2500h? Where did you pull that number from? That's like 6 days per week with no vacation.
The outburst was a reaction to the question of why people would give him the benifit of the doubt. He was entrusted (non violently, but begrudgingly by some Americans) with the ability to command the United States' nuclear arsenal. Violent insurrection is how the republic that governs the people who operate Twitter was started, there can be good parts of it. I don't trust that Trump incited the violence, nor that it's a good idea to blame him and dismiss objection.
Using mobiles/social media is a lot easier to grasp than the steps under "How to do it". Copying files around a mobile file system and building a whole Android application is completely different to what you are talking about.
as noted ITT:

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This is a problem with the US system at the moment. It was the same issue with the Brexit referendum; people got two choices (remain or leave), while the process was a lot more subtle and there were plenty of 'in between' solutions available. People voted leave for single issues, while leaving actually caused multiple issues that affected them directly.

Anyway tl;dr the US needs massive political reform and one should never be constrained to just two choices.
"Private" posts are posts shared to specific circles AFAIK, not the classic definition of 1:1 DMs. They're still semi-public, a bit like Google+ Circles.
Can you get static IPv6 addresses assigned? Or do they change periodically?
The only time I've seen it used has been by people looking to buy drugs. It's so closely related that a single "wickr?" post on social media is basically synonymous with drug deals.
I know that feeling. Few years back someone asked me if I accept Bitcoin as donation for an SDK I wrote https://github.com/namaggarwal/splitwise

It felt so good that I went ahead and create a wallet and he donated me some fractional BTC. It wasn't much at that time but it motivated me a lot.
Some* people. The HN crown is probably not the primary demographic for Louis Vuitton.

You are not your target market.
> There are European states in which government overreach wrecked the economy so much that anti-establishment parties got elected.

[citation needed]
For me it's mainly about using the unique strengths of a phone compared to other devices. For example:

- My phone is always nearby, has a microphone and an internet connection. This makes it ideal for capturing ideas and todos in an app like https://braintoss.com/.

- However my phone has limited screen space and cannot have multiple windows open side by side, so for organizing my todos or expanding on ideas, I use a computer.

And:

- My phone has an easily swipeable touchscreen, so it's well suited to triaging incoming e-mail.

- However my phone has a small and error prone keyboard, so for answering e-mail, I use a computer.

Etc.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. (...) Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please, let's not reduce the level of discussion over here. Let's keep this respectful.

I have deliberately chosen to keep my answer to the OP on point, even though I disagree just as strongly.
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I doubt I'll ever know how this feels because I don't create a lot of open-source side projects and soliciting donations is illegal here.
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It's time to re-evaluate restrictions on Big Tech. This is getting scary.
Ask HN: Can you suggest self-hosted chat/audio system with Android/iOS client
Apologies if this question was already asked, I could not find good answer here but maybe I was not using the right keywords.

I would love to host a system for my family (including my grandma who is not very technical) and friends that would let us communicate over messages and audio calls (if video calls would be possible then I would be in 7th heaven)

Can you share what you are using (if you have done something like that)?
people getting organised and working together...has to be a good thing.
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Yeah this is why I'll never view Signal as a real Whatsapp replacement. It fixes some of WA's issues but not many. There's still no federation and the ban on third-party apps makes it very hard to connect it to anything else.. I want fewer chat apps, not another new one alongside everything else :)

The mautrix-weechat bridge to Matrix uses the actual production Signal desktop client so they don't block it, but it's super wasteful because of this, it uses almost 1GB of memory just to relay some messages :P And it also uses your phone number as ID, doesn't allow integration with bots like Telegram does do, etc. It's ok for a small niche of people needing super secure chats but it's not the be-all end-all chat app.

So I recommended everyone around me against Signal as a Whatsapp replacement.. We should move to something that is solving all the problems, not just some of them. I think it's crucial that the network itself is just as open as the software, otherwise Signal can be sold and we end up with the same mess as Whatsapp once more (remember Whatsapp actually used to be a pretty decent IM app before Facebook took it over). Open protocols have been the building blocks of the internet and this fragmentation is making it a mess.

I think Matrix is the way to go, I just wish they could simplify their E2E a bit.. Right now it's too much in the way in terms of user experience.
I understand that some people are religious, I know it’s fun as long as it’s kept personal and voluntary
These things are happening in real life and I am not alone in feeling unsafe.
You're being downvoted but you aren't wrong. It's starting to look like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.

A friend of mine runs a social media brand that calls out men who post nasty comments on female strength athletes profiles, she simply screenshots them and posts them to the brand as well as making memes of the horrific things.

She's shared screenshots of people wishing violent sexual assault against underage girls just beacuse they are a strength athlete, and instead of that person getting banned for advocating the rape of a minor, she gets a 3 day, week, 30 day ban from Facebook and/or Instagram for simply screenshotting and reposting a public comment. You can see some of these awful things screenshotted, as well as her various bans, on https://www.instagram.com/you.look.like.a.man/

Or they you remove a politician, or something like Info Wars for saying absolutely insane/dangerous things and then all the fans "overstepping! You're overstepping!" meanwhile everyone else is "it's about bloody time!"

I would absolutely hate to be the leadership at any social media platform. Even things like nudity, I've seen several burlesque friends have posts removed and temporary bans issued for topless women with pasties covering their nipples on digital flyers advertising their next show, meanwhile I once saw a woman breastfeeding to a club song while sexually fondling her bare breast that wasn't being used to breast feed with millions of views on Facebook and tens of thousands of comments that was months old...

Not only is there no consistency in how such things are applied, but when they do get applied people freak out for various reasons.

Like Sam Altman (/u/sama) said a few days ago:

>There are exemptions to free speech defined by the Supreme Court, and we urgently need new ones for the age of social media.

>What those exceptions are should be decided by the government, and fairly applied by companies.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1347980613559611392
Thanks so much for posting this link. In the documentary "Internet's Own Boy" about Aaron( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M85UvH0TRPc ) some one made a insightful comment about Aaron. The insight is this, there are people who are highly technically capable and then there are people who live by high morals and sacrifice themselves for a political cause, but the intersection of the two in a same person is very very rare. And that very true. The only other person who fits in this category is probably Richard Stallman.
> They had to properly fact-check it and educate the viewers.

They weren't doing that. They were pushing an agenda. It was not rare to see a "false information" flag only to see the "fact-checking" article support the claim. One particular claim I saw marked false was China did not need a vaccine to keep covid under control. The article went on and on about everything other than vaccine. There were like three or four lines talking about vaccines. Those were mostly about how the Chinese weren't anti-vaccine. At the time of the "fact-checking" article, there were only about 1 million Chinese vaccinated which was still in testing. That is just a drop in the bucket compared to the total population. The source articles the "fact-checking" article linked to did not even mention vaccines. Sounds more like pushing an agenda rather than fact-checking and educating.
They are very imprecise, and they cannot fit on your desk. The device is just a speaker, but the actual computer is in a data center elsewhere.
I don't think they ever got close to $50M.
Didn't even realise Teamspeak was still running! Throw back to old MMO days
No, features like a good desktop client.
Here's a sample shop that focuses on that: https://logofree.clothing .

Branding seems mostly about vanity. People often say that they don't care about popular brands and yet the popular brands remain popular. Perhaps we're more vain that we think.

Clothes without branding are sold in less fancy stores or look less cool; often customers are not actually willing to buy them.
> Being lightweight is one of the reasons I prefer Teamspeak over Discord.

Any reason you prefer teamspeak over mumble?
ISPs are already blocking content, notably Facebook and Twitter.

This is only possible because of the lack of net neutrality rules via the FCC.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/idaho/articles/2021-...

And payment processors? That has been a concern for over a quarter of a century.

Plan accordingly.
Kidnap and ransom insurance usually has stipulations that only very senior management on a need to know basis are told in a company.

Telling regular staff members that you have it in place can often mean the insurance company won't pay out for many reasons:

- adversaries might learn you will pay out and target your org/country specifically

-staff may act more recklessly knowing it's in place

-if you have to make payouts your premiums may go sky high or you won't get it in future

- staff may make a deal for a cut of the ransom by setting up something with a dodgy actor

- when/how K&R is paid is very very complicated. For example a ransom is never paid by insurance directly, the company must have cash to pay the ransom (which often catches them out) and they are compensated for loss of XYZ etc.

Also many people find only when they need to use it that K&R has strict rules depending on what country you get it from. Some insurance companies won't pay if the ransom is to be paid to AQ, ISIS or other sanctioned organisations. Also how the whole situation is dealt with and the ransom negotiated is important and effects the K&R payout. If the company doesn't have good corporate security etc to manage it, things can get very messy on the K&R side of things. A lot of people (esp US companies for some reason - perhaps the idealism that "sending in the SEALS" people see on TV) think somehow their government is going to be a knight in shining armour in such situations and believe me, very often they make a situation a lot lot worse.
I think Rust tickles a certain kind of aesthetic.

There's a great essay[0] by Steve Yegge that talks about a certain spectrum of philosophy amongst developers with those liking lots of compile-time validation at one end and the free-and-easy dynamic runtime-checked-if-at-all ones at the other.

Those of us at the "conservative" end of this spectrum see great alignment between what the rust language offers, what the rust language development process promises, and what we're seeking. Seeing that, there's also the tantalizing prospect of like-minded peers amongst the enthusiasts for it.

It's also just kind of neat from a technical point of view that it's possible to make the sorts of rigorous promises at compile time that rust offers.

Understanding the borrow-checker rules is a famously tricky challenge for newcomers to the language, which perhaps nerd-snipes[1] some of us.

Because it's a systems programming language (writing an OS directly in Rust is perfectly possible [2]) it has some allure as a "grown up" language.

The rust language development community is famously welcoming with good quality documentation and the IDE support is getting there. So it's approachable. That helps for sure.

Finally there's unarguably some evangelical fanboy-ism going on that no doubt boosts the numbers a bit on top of all that.

Disclaimer: I'm not a rust developer, but I'm definitely attracted by what it has to offer :)

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[0] Alas it was posted on Google+ so the original is no longer up, but there are a variety of mirrors of it out there, e.g. https://gist.github.com/cornchz/3313150 - see also meta-discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365255

[1] https://xkcd.com/356/

[2] https://www.redox-os.org/
Maybe you're talking of more expensive stuff than what I'm linking, but just compare these 3:

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I think you're focusing on the storming of the Capitol itself and not the over-arching sentiment that even makes such an event possible.

As a species, we're not exactly martyrs. Its the reason one man with a shotgun can hold 26 people hostage. At best, if every person bum rushed him, he might get 2-4 shots off. That's the absolute best case scenario. The logical thing to do is a coordinated attack, because then you ensure the safety of the group instead of your individual safety.

So it goes with this. If hundreds of people were willing to storm the Capitol, its because hundreds of thousands - possibly even millions - have the same sentiment, but for whatever reason - distance, fear of reprisal, etc. - couldn't physically be there.

I think that incident was 1) just the start of many more riots / clashes and 2) evidence of much larger, broader problem that we need to solve.
It’s one of their weirder decisions. You can’t claim to be privacy king while simultaneously doing something like this. Maybe this is caused by Apple departments being siloed. The privacy champions are in a different silo?
And why would that be?
Well yeah, your "go to market" team is probably different from your "grow your market share" team. Different problems interest different people.
Holding protests is not the very definition of terrorism.

I can't believe you actually claimed that current events are more impact full than 9/11.