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> Do they allow creating accounts just for testing? Would I risk that they close them?

Best to just ask them. They've never had an issue with my ones even after they've asked why they're not active.

> One thing that annoys me about the lack of a test environment is also that they allow only one webhook URL per account.

Yep, it's not ideal and I haven't heard anything about them changing that. Is having to create three accounts and a few product clones in each that big a deal though? It's not the kind of configuration you change often and once I had subscription create/update/cancel event processing code set up I've barely had to touch it.

> do you know if this persists across all future events for a subscription?

I don't know to be honest. This is the kind of thing I meant where the API might not be clear but support will tell you. I had to figure out a few things just by experimenting too. The API has at least been reliable.
Instagram doesn't claim to be a "free speech" platform. You have to only be mildly interested in it to see that it's all about "engagement" Parler explicitly claimed "free speech" as a goal
In general, I am a big proponent of getting used equipment and keeping it running for well after the manufacturer has abandoned it.

Before the Pixel 2, I hadn't purchased a new phone in like 12 years - I had gotten a couple of used Android phones, and used Windows Mobile before that. They all had the issue of essentially 0 support from the manufacturer by the time I got them, so I was dependent on community ROMs to keep them up-to-date. The phone I was using at the time had multiple issues, including an aging battery, physical damage, and something wrong with the GPS sensor.

A couple of the big reasons I bought the new phone rather than another used one were the promise of 3 years of support (which Google delivered) and waterproofing (which has come in handy a few times). I also just liked the phone in general, and there wasn't much on the used market with a similar feature set.

I like tinkering with my phone, but this was shortly before my second child was born and I knew I wasn't going to have the time to mess with custom ROMs to fix whatever was broken that week. Now that my kids are a little bit older and I can sleep through the night most nights, I think I'm ready for that "fun" again.
Are they idiots, or do they get something out of it?
I looked at this yesterday, but if I have to download something just to look at it, that's a huge barrier of entry.

It needs to (also) work over ordinary HTTP/HTML and needs to be indexed by search engines, just like Twitter.

The guys at STEEM.IT or LBRY.IO have figured this out. Also, somehow these sites aren't Neonazi cesspools. Not sure how moderation works over there.
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We wouldn’t be able to control superintelligent machines
It's true, but there are so many ways to skin that cat. Smalltalk, for example, gives an even more fluid way to browse at a high level and then drill in, and it doesn't (necessarily) have source code files in the first place.
Common things that existed 20, 30, or even 40 years like refrigerators, coffee machines, dishwashers, washers, and dryers, often lasted 10 or 20 years in some cases, and could be repaired. We have witnessed the steep decline of device reliability in my lifetime, and our expectations are so low that the latest appliance we buy we consider lucky if no problems develop in 2-3 years. Anything serious requires you to usually toss it out and buy a new one.
>no markets--free, 'naturally-forming', or otherwise--are devoid of rules, whether they be implicit (e.g., dollars as trading medium, refrain from taking by force, etc.) or explicit (e.g, trading hours are 9-5).

9-5 trading hours are not a rule of US markets. If there was demand for trading at 8, people would organize to do that - and in fact they have, it's called after-hours trading.

Dollars as a trading medium is also an example of a non-rule. In a free market, all currencies would be lawful for transactions. In fact, in the US companies are free to sign contracts that numerate quantities of money in any currency. The only legal privilege of the dollar is its role in taxation - hardly an aspect of the free market.

Finally, the rule against taking by force is enforced by the executive branch of a democratically elected government. It is not possible to call that a free-market mechanism. A free-market mechanism for security exists, it's where you hire rent-a-cops, or in third world countries, where you hire mercenaries.
I think you have a reading comprehension problem, but I don't think I'm capable of fixing it. Hint: it revolves around the word 'since'. Best of luck.
Just make it $1/yr per account. Sure there will be trolls, but they have to pay for the privilege of each sock puppet account
Robotics seem like a natural extension of space travel or transportation to me. Or maybe I just associate crazy high-tech stuff with Musk.
Those seem to be about fake cables though, not genuine Lightning cables?
Dropping Parler is part of a broader trend of eliminating content claiming electoral fraud: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/youtube-says-it-will-suspend...
While true, Microsoft used to be able to do a much better job of it (and still does, compared to Android).
"That" list refers to {man,monster,machine,monkey}. Any three alternatives equally work for me. But cryptographers may have other concerns.
I’m not that knowledgeable about what materials can be used to construct one, but doesn’t “embedded into the frame” mean “embedded in a Faraday cage”? Or could one use the frame as an antenna?
A study (if it's a real study) can't tell you what should be done, it should give you new knowledge about the state of affairs.

(while I agree that drug offense should be decriminalized).
> Apples old hardware isn't all that closed - most models have enough exploits it's very possible to get your own low level code running.

This might be semantics, but the fact that unlocking the bootloader or running code with the highest level of privilege on an iPhone requires exploits in the first place is a pretty big sign that these platforms are pretty closed. Checkra1n is very nice but this is an oversight that Apple is unlikely to make again (the only way Checkra1n was found in the first place was Apple fixing the underlying issue on Apple A12 devices anyway).

Unfortunately I think the existence of Apple's Security Researcher Device program squashes any hopes that Apple would consider opening up store bought devices any further. The only real way I see Apple opening iDevices if some regulation to that effect would be enforced, but I don't see that happening any time soon either.
I did not say anything like that
Both internet and Facebook were available in rural areas. Described as an "internet revolution" at the time: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-f...

The UN also said that Facebook played a "determining role" (see the Diplomat link).
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Yep and people buying Office and Windows in the 90s were absolutely fine with what Microsoft was doing back then. Most OEMs selling computers with Windows on it were also fine with agreeing to not also sell Linux PCs.

Everything was going well for Microsoft until it wasn't.

Apple's iPhone has a 90% market share among youths in the US and a 50% market share of active devices in the general market. Their general market share in the US isn't going to be shrinking anytime soon. As they get more and more popular, the rules will change for them.
I think this one is it? I've kept my eye on it for a while, but it doesn't look like there's been any movement for some time.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634741
So because the owners claim the platform to be something other than it actually is, it is okay for this person to leak the Parler users' private images and videos?
Or you could build protected intersections, as is standard in the Netherlands: https://youtu.be/FlApbxLz6pA
I'm a partisan, of course, but I always found ocaml to be the practical choice for ML-style functional languages. All the functional type-y goodness without being shackled to it, you can let yourself off the hook if you need to, you can just write a dang loop if that's what needs doing, compiles down to native, just a good practical mix.

Other than Jane Street, nobody much uses it though, so that's that.
Profit is fine; the problem is that the true costs aren't borne by the consumers. We subsidize by polluting, by relying on forced labor, by relying on people working in dangerous environments and so on
Wouldn't that be held in the legal records? In which case, a judgement can be made?
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I wouldn’t call the machine “bricked” if you could just restart the process. “Bricked” is when you cannot recover from a problem in any way. The machine is the as useless as a brick. Having to restart the restore process with a potential successful outcome is annoying, but far from “bricked”.
The #1 issue in the USA beyond simple conviction and incarceration is rehabilitation. At the federal level, where I have personal experience, it seems like it's entirely retribution instead of rehabilitation.

I was in a federal prison camp and it is primarily an exercise in leisure. The entire day was composed of well.. nothing. If you like reading, fresh air, and exercise you're in luck. If you like alcohol, drugs, and facetime you're in luck. There is very little programming activity to do. If you have the funds to support yourself you can get anything you want from the outside. You can have any book sent in or buy an illicit cell phone. There are so few guards to watch you and very little motivation to crack down on rampant offenses.

The First Step Act is supposed to make programming uniform across all institutions and reward programming with sentence reductions. That's a fantastic idea and I hope that it works out well. There are very few levels to pull to incentivize people, but that should provide motivation.

The problem after that is the stigma that follows you around forever. I count myself blessed to have opportunities when I came home. It was unpleasant to work as a laborer in block masonry, but it lead me back to the shipyard. That has lead me to a better opportunity in the shipyard. This was only afforded to me because I went to a university with name recognition in a field with job prospects. That combined with my previous maritime experience is the only reason I'm not still day laboring will praying for a better opportunity. If you have limited work experience and were accustomed to a high(er) level of living before incarceration it will be difficult to adjust to life after prison.

There are so many thorny issues with the judicial system in the USA that reach into so many aspects of life.
I'm guessing brute force search
Not sure why you got downvoted, but the idea of individuals owning their own domains is an important pillar of a decentralized social experience. The indieweb is built on the idea.
I'm tired of linking things to people like you just to have them be taken down due to various kinds of reports. So I think I'll pass on that.

Besides, the fact that it is disputed is undeniable. Which side you fall on is irrelevant for this argument.
Can't wait to pick up an aspirational splitboard for cheap in the spring!
The things I feel are broken about social media won't be fixed by decentralization. They'll be fixed by better business models. What most concerns me about social media is:

- privacy is not only not respected, but in fact actively and aggressively undermined

- online culture is increasingly polarized and extremist. Misinformation and disinformation are symptoms of this.

The reason for this, as I see it, is that social media platforms make their money off the actual online conversations. So to make money, they need to get more and more people on their platforms, they need to trigger strong emotional responses to "engage" their users, and they need to mine as much personal information from their users so that they can sell that to advertisers and other interested parties.

Contrast that with pre-digital social networks and hubs, like bars and pubs. The business model there is to sell food and drink, with the providing of a social place as an ancillary service, not the main product. To make money as a pub, you provide food and drink people actually want and an atmosphere they enjoy, but you're not attempting to directly monetize your customers' conversations.

I'd like to see a decentralized social network in the sense of online conversation hubs attached to actual businesses. No "global" platform, just thousands of smaller hubs where certain online shops get known for hosting good online conversations which draws an audience who _then buys things_. Social networks need to go back to being a way to attract customers, not actually being a direct source of income.
Reframing pointing out hypocrisy as "whataboutism" is the greatest trick the devil ever pulled.
This person committed a crime to leak this data. I don't know how any of you can be this blatantly two-faced or so unprincipled.

You're cheering on a criminal committing a crime. You're cheering on the suppression of an entire political party, while calling them extremists, fascists, terrorists, and every other -ist that you feel vaguely fits the bill.

Yes, a few of them marched on the capitol. Yes, that was awful. No, you're not going to stop the underlying feeling by simply wishing it away, or taking more and more byzantine measures to suppress their ability to associate with one another.
It's easy to see how pistol whipping someone over a bad drug deal could be plead down to a non-violent possession/dealing offense because proving assault and battery is hard when the prosecution only has testimony and circumstantial evidence the prosecution's star witness is an addict with a mile long record. Possession is very easy to prove. A&B, DV, etc, etc are much harder to prosecute (and by "much" I mean "some work" vs "practically no work") so possession is a good offense to anchor a plea bargain for those other things to.

Personally I say release them all and just wait for the bad ones to filter back into the system but I can see why some people are hesitant.
You could argue e-mail is to some degree decentralized, anybody can run their own server and send and receive email. I'm sure people right now are using it for hate speech and illegal porn. If someone sends you via email dubious content, you are still allowed to block it and report it. If we follow your logic we would have 20 different companies with their email variations just like we have today with chat messages. In the case of social networks, a feature could be aggregation and sharing of ban lists (i.e. I have my ban list, other people that trust me can use mine and merge with theirs, servers can host 'centralized' ban lists that people are free to add or ignore, kinda like dns based ad-blocking).
At this point, I really don't care if some people who plead down to non-violent charges get released along with the immense number of actual non-violent offenders.
You have a reasonable take. (I'm still not sure my own position on this stuff.) I'm not pushing back on the idea that we can discuss the ethics here, only the extremely hyperbolic take of the OP.
I live in the EU too (France), and any phone you buy directly from a carrier (generally heavily discounted, but tied to a more expensive plan) is carrier-locked, and can only be unlocked after a set amount of time has passed, or earlier by paying a fee (regulated by the EU if my memory serves me well).

Perhaps it's because I was less financially literate in the past, but I remember that as being the only way in the 2000s. There might have been laws passed to limit that practice and its abuses.

The smart solution, provided you have enough money, is to buy the phone elsewhere, and take a plan without a phone. It's always less expensive in the long term.
The problem is that often enough part of the motivation in foreign aid is not making the developing nation independent, but more dependent, i.e. using the nation as either a source of cheap resources/labour or as a future market. So what foreign aid does is actually establish market dominance of the "first world" companies.
I do wonder if we're going to end up with a fractured Republican Party after this, or even a new third party with a base made up of all those most seditious followers. From what I can see happening, it seems pretty likely. I'm not sure what the consequences might be for all of us if that happens.
Just legalise all drugs and let the free market decide. We could create innovative new substances which are safer and less socially damaging, compared to the plants and fermented liquids we happen to have stumbled upon millenia ago.
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I assume you've got some citations for that, right? I have been to r/politics and people get banned pretty quickly for calling for violence. I just went through the top 20 threads, and there isn't a single call for violence to be found.
I agree. It needs a little more nuance, especially the plea bargaining. And on top of that, prosecutors are known to pile on tons of only vaguely-applicable, probably-not-convictable charges just to get someone to plea bargain down, so that complicates even the plea bargain exception.

I'll throw in another part where more fine-grained control would be nice: the amount of said substances is measured by gross weight, baggie included, even if whatever the substance is has been "stepped on."

Now, wave a gun in someone's face to take their money for drugs? Keep that charge. But otherwise we should not only free, but expunge the record, retroactively. Some kid with a dime bag ends up having to suffer for that decision for the rest of their life.
Or breadth first search.
I guess I'm confused as to the relevance to this thread. This person claimed that two attributes made Parler a "propaganda weapon", I noted that other major platforms have those same properties, so you tacked on another condition.

Presumably this was all in an effort to say something along the lines of - "because of the unique situation Parler is in, these actions were permissible." No?
That might be true, but then what? How do they boycott / protest these companies they’re already not involved with and don’t really understand?

Maybe Amazon is the most exposed if the media is able to adequately explain how AWS and Amazon are related.
I didn’t see anyone claim that.
What are "people like you"?

Facebook and Twitter have millions of people who want mass executions for all kinds of groups, a quick trip into Muslim areas of both services and you'll find moderate and right-wing versions that want execution for LGBTQ+ people. You can find the same desire for marginalization and extermination of other groups. Not every language and dialect has a huge team of moderators that review content and take the appropriate punitive action against malicious users.

I have a Parler account. I have a GAB account. I make accounts on all new social media platforms and communications services. Everyone should. Because you have no idea what platform might be the next Facebook, or which one is going to be the next MySpace.
You're purposefully being reductionist about this. People having their brains hit with racist or violent rhetoric over a long period of time will be changed by that. They human brain adapts to it's environment, expecting certain inputs and if it's receiving /pol light on Twitter then it starts to expect it.

On top of that, it's only a matter of time before they're linked to one of the many .win site that sprang up after Twitter purged the_donald and the Qanon people.

And again, people have been moved to violence and facism in human history, that's not difficult to find.
Gold used in manufacturing is significant fraction of annual production. There is real demand for gold.
> That begs the question why. Why bother creating such a weirdly intricate system on top of something that works just fine on its own? I have my own theory, but keep in mind it’s just that.

To avoid admins (or hackers) in enterprise "SSL breaker" boxes from exfiltrating passwords.
Googlers: Ensure you're using out of band communications for all organizing efforts. I've heard good things about Signal and Matrix.
Free speech is one thing, building an echo chamber for lunatics is something completely different, at least in my book. In principle, we probably also agree that all people should be equal, but if you follow that principle to the end, you get Communism. That's why there is a need for supreme courts to interpret each country's constitution, which are basically just a list of simple principles that are acceptable to everyone, but the devil's always in the details...
But, neither assault nor battery are drug offenses.
Exactly. Any form of science cannot tell us what should or should not be done. Science informs our choices. It doesn't make them.
Unfortunately you won't find much interesting commentary in a politically charged thread like this, best to just scan and pattern match the kind of exchanges occurring before moving swiftly along.
Whatever you do, please work off Activity Pub, IndieAuth, Webmentions and other protocols that already have traction. This is largely a UX/traction/business problem not a technical problem at this point.
I don't think this is ever going to work in practice because there is a significant incentives misalignment. The people moving to other platforms are doing so because the tech giants are trying to stamp out free speech. Someone who uses the platform for anything other than political speech has little reason to jump platforms to something that has significantly fewer people and an underdeveloped interface. You're guaranteed to create echo chambers of only the speech you sought to expunge.

More importantly, we should all revisit the world politic of exactly 10 years ago, where the biggest story was the Arab Spring--anti-government protests in the middle east. At the time, social media was heralded as a major factor in spurring the protests, despite tens of thousands eventually dying in the conflict. Governments were condemned for blocking access to the sites and many free-speech advocates attempted to develop work-arounds. Social media enabled the self-determination of the people in the middle east, something we should all care about.

Regardless of how people feel about the capitol riots, the war on free speech from silicon valley should scare the shit out of all of us. They are setting the precedent now for curbing any revolution in the future. The idea that "healthy communities" are the target really depends on who's doing the diagnosis.
that's a good question, but I don't think there's a good way to distinguish between people who pled down from charges they likely would have been convicted on at trial and charges that were heaped on for leverage but had little chance of sticking. from a criminal justice perspective, I think we need to consider only the actual convictions. we might take into consideration whether there are any meaningful priors though.
ooOOOOOoooo a video of a molotov cocktail, some people standing around and shouting, and a fake guillotine with a plastic blade, very scary.

That's totally the same as invading the center of government decked out in illegal guns and armor while most of the line of succession is there, chanting your intention to murder them while breaking down doors, stealing government laptops, building a gallows to hang the politicians you don't like with, dragging police officers outside to beat them to death, all the while declaring the start of a new civil war, and while sympathetic insiders feed them real-time information about the location of the politicians you intend to kill, etc etc etc.