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As someone who works in “big tech”, I don’t think we should have this power, especially when so selectively and reactively applied. We’ve all already heard all of the debates and I don’t wish to rehash it all. I’ve heard a lot of great arguments on all sides of the issue (and there are more than two), but the purpose of my comment is just to say that opinions within our community are not uniform. Not many of us speak our minds about it, unless we agree with the mainstream perspective of “this is fine ”.

I’d like to see more of a constitutional framework establishing some type of due process and equal access, personally.

We’re currently the sole arbitrators of who is allowed to speak to the world and who is not. And for all those who say “they’re welcome to go use a different platform”, well they did, and look what happens. Apple, Google, and Amazon can simply destroy a community within minutes, and we all applaud because we detest this particular community.
This is how they remove the opposition, the salami tactics in full effect.
I missed the part where private social media networks should be nationalised and the government should infringe on _their_ free speech rights.

If I'm the CEO of Twitter and I want to ban everyone who I don't politically agree with, I should have the sole and absolute right to do so (subject to the board), the same way if I own a bookshop, I get to choose what books I stock.
> I have an interesting anecdote related to this.

Please don't do that.

There is enough knowledge out there about the various kinds of tests (PCR, antibody, antigene) and what they're good for and what they're not. It's perfectly understood that while rapid tests are, well, rapid, they're much less precise than PCR testing. However, they are often better than nothing (you can't give a PCR test to everyone who wants to visit relatives in a nursing home), so they serve to minimise risk, not to remove it. (They also have a tendency to be more likely to be positive while you're actually infectious, which is not the same thing as having symptoms.)

I really don't think we should be discussing personal anecdotes during a health crisis, when there's enough data around that we can actually look at.
But is it censoring though, vs just not letting them use their services?

I don't visit facebook or twitter or apple sites at all, but I still see a lot of what Trump says in the news (e.g. BBC et al).

Have Facebook/Twitter/Apple censored Trump when I still hear his views all the time? Have Facebook et al got a lot of "power" here when really they have changed nothing for people like me?

Disclosure: I don't have any strong opinions on Trump or American politics in general.
He's the President of the United States. He's free to speak to every media outlet in the world every day in the Press Room if he wants. He just chooses not to as that would make him accountable and it's easier to rant on Twitter instead of doing his job. The Gulag Archipelago is as much about the unchallenged silencing of free media outlets, opposition parties and growth of tyranny ("Yes communists have some fringe ideas but they won't really be that bad when they come to power"). FB, Twitter, YT have been banning all sorts of groups over the years, in Palestine for example - it's just more people are noticing it now.
I feel like Donald Trump is not the good example to argue against the power to deplatform. He is an internet troll who calls for violent action to overthrow the elected government. You can't be tolerant of that kind of intolerance, or your democracy will not survive it.

In general though, I feel like deplatforming someone is something you should be able to challenge in front of a judge, just like being refused entry to a public business is something you can challenge in front of a judge. For healthy online debate, you need to have the ability to remove trolls from a platform, but the standard of who is or is not a troll cannot be set by the platform itself.
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People seem intent on reliving the mistakes of the twentieth century. At this point, it’s become so blatant, I’m starting to doubt that it’s just out of ignorance.
NAT'ing IPv6 works and is merely not a necessity. It could still have a purpose, It just won't be address exhaustion.

Filling your car with orange juice presumably stops it from working and is likely to cause damage, all while your parents question where things went wrong.
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No added value. Most internet humor is low-quality, so post jokes only if you think that they will add to the discussion, and not divert from it.
>I can sign an NDA with my customers, but they'd still be obligated to get the ok from their customers, and they don't want to have that conversation.

They definitely should have that conversation and ask. If the service you provide is valuable enough, their customers will accept as they'll gain a lot.

You signed an NDA with your customer. Your customer signed an NDA with their customer. They should explicitly ask and figure that out, and then they're given permission to share with you. What they share with you is covered by your NDA.

One way to do it is for your customer to convince one of their customers for a pilot project. The project is successful. Your customer then brings that successful experience to one of their other customers (after asking the customer who participated in the pilot project if they could share that with other customers).

Let's look at the following:

- Vendor "V" has a customer "B"

- Customer "B" has customers "C1", "C2", "C3".

"B" talks with "C1" and convinces them to do project and this requires giving information to "V" because "V", can work some magic. "V" works on the project for "B" on the case of customer "C1".

Once it's successful, "B" can ask "C1" if it's possible to talk about this with "C2". "B" then talks with "C2" about the success with "C1" and "V". "B" onboards "C2".

This works well. Especially when "V", "B", and "C1" can share freely and be on the same calls and emails. In some cases, however, this cannot happen. "C1" has effectively given permission to "B" to share their information and data with "V" for a project lead by "B", but, "V" and "C1" must not communicate with each other.
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Thank you for speaking out in this charged climate. You could have chosen to keep silent but you chose not to. So thank you.
> What if the data shows having a few drinks increases the likelihood of healthcare costs? Otherwise, people who don’t have a few drinks are subsidizing people who do have a few drinks.

The whole idea behind health care is that some people subsidize other people - ie. most people are healthy and use less health care services than they pay for, while a few people get sick and require health care services that they would never have been able to afford.

I'm fine with subsidizing other people, the alternative is to be okay with people that have problems to be thrown out of the system and not receive the care they need.

In any case, it's not okay for insurers to have fine grained access to what people buy, eat, drink, do. I struggle playing it out in my mind in a way that doesn't end horribly.
+1, really can't understand that. If I want to rant about something, perhaps I'll post it on blogs or forums, I couldn't imagine that harassing the author with angry mails is also an option...
I’m aware that there is a difference. My question was at what point in between the two does it become not okay?
Oh, I took it to be a deliberate pun. No damage done :)
Its why I am always extra nice/kind to those that report real issues.

While have a zero tolerance to anyone being even slightly annoying/belligerent.
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I guess you are not as jaded as I am. These bans are an olive branch to the Democratic establishment who control Congress currently.

They will trade favors.
> without pip even being available so that it's unlikely people will accidentally mess with it.

This has already happened. It only resulted in lots of "ubuntu broke pip" posts rather than understanding why that happened. (the fact it's not entirely separate from venvs didn't help) But considering that issue, imagine what would happen for people running `apt install python` and not being able to run `python` or `virtualenv`. Most setup guides just wouldn't apply to debian/ubuntu and they can't afford that.
Really nice and good looking game. But I have a lot of issues loading resources in Firefox on Linux, 5 retries to make it load.

Once loaded, it looks awesome. Great work to whoever did this!
As I understand it, YouTube initially didn’t have any plans to ban Trump’s channel but they responded to pressure from progressive activists who threatened to organize a boycott (https://www.barrons.com/news/activists-call-for-youtube-to-d...). If tech companies are just going to suppress speech based on threats from fringe activists, I’m not sure how half this country or the rest of the world is supposed to trust Google or others with the world’s information and the immense power they clearly have and now are willing to abuse.

I’m also not sure where this ends - both sides of the political divide boycott each other as businesses are forced to pick sides, until we are effectively two countries that don’t share culture, politics, or an economy? And then what - one side rules without compromise while the other is subject to a tyranny of the majority? Isn’t this just the road to civil war as one side feels more and more like they have no voice or power?
I couldn't agree more. You're not paying for the app, or the service, those are free and you are simply making a donation.

I can imagine that Apple may want to define 'FOSS' to some extent (donations need to go to a non-profit with a board, software needs to be licensed under one of the following licenses, etc), but there should be some room for supporting FOSS that is included in an App Store.
The OP makes the opposite case. We are discussing under that assumption.
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It is true that Trump shouldn't have relied on social media that much, and used official channels for communication.

But on the other hand, you can't deny that a few services became indispensable to get any kind of reach... So if we accept that those companies decide what content gets in or not, we accept that they control what content gets to be shown publicly or not.
Well twitter banned him, among other reasons, because his tweet “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.” "may also serve as encouragement to those potentially considering violent acts that the Inauguration would be a “safe” target, as he will not be attending." [1]

Which seems to be somewhat scraping the bottom of the barrel of credibility, as is some of the other reasoning. Some other gems:

- "The use of the words “American Patriots” to describe some of his supporters is also being interpreted as support for those committing violent acts at the US Capitol."

- "The mention of his supporters having a “GIANT VOICE long into the future” and that “They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” is being interpreted as further indication that President Trump does not plan to facilitate an “orderly transition” and instead that he plans to continue to support, empower, and shield those who believe he won the election."

I think they kinda fucked up letting him back on in the first place and are now left nit picking two mostly benign tweets because they don't know what else to do. The most egregious tweets were not the two they cite.

[1]: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
Then maybe you should stop spreading unsubstantiated claims if you have nothing to back them up with. You could have, for example, taken a screenshot of the front page of Parler when it was up, to display that the majority of the popular topics were criminal in intent (personally I have a hard time believing that that would've been the case).
I believe I acknowledged that in my comment, and suggested a possibility of building rapid transit to also increase the effective supply in such cases.
If you are willing to share, when you say that you get FAANG salary you mean FAANG-level or actually from one of those companies?
Makes me wonder if you have the corollary concept : Social Heating... my feeling is social media has a multiplicative effect on both sides of the thermometer
Hyper is a "genuine" open source project that has been set in motion by volunteers and enthusiasts who, for the most part, have nothing to do with Big Tech.

IPFS on the other hand is developed by a well-funded VC-backed company that clearly has a vested interest in somehow "owning" the protocol.

Not saying that there is anything _morally_ wrong with IPFS, but it seems pretty clear that Hyper is better positioned to develop distributed tech.
You believe you hear his views all the time.

I am not from USA, and not a trump supporter, still been trying to figure out what is going on, and noticed some patterns.

1. Media loves taking stuff out of context, not just with Trump mind you.

2. Not only big tech is censoring Trump, but normal media too, for example more than once channels refused to air live presidential addresses, sometimes they aired but with comments, or they waited for a while and then aired it edited.

I saw other day here in HN people saying BigTech kicking Trump off their platform was fine because he wouldn't be silenced, since he has the Whitehouse official system of contacting with the press... thing is, the press is now delibetarely ignoring him too, so you have a situation where both BigTech and Press is not letting his words through, isn't that censorship?
> Free users don't care if you tell them to fuck off.

You don't have to and shouldn't respond in any specific time period. Even if you're the sole maintainer of a critical project and you imagine the world wants your head, the world has to wait sometimes.

However, users may abandon projects where support tickets go untended, maybe even writing a post about it in the process[1], so try to respond when you can, unless you've abandoned the project.

As a representative for a FOSS project or even a bystander commenting on a PR, respond professionally and succinctly.

If you shouldn't accept a PR, don't.

If it's a request that seems hostile to the project, and you have time, either leave it for a little while to cool off, try to serve it with professionalism without getting off-topic, or at worst close it.

If needed, add a "code of conduct"[2] so that you can "encourage a pleasant and productive environment by responding to disruptive behavior in a fast, fair way"[3]. Note that instituting one before it's needed, while seeming proactive, may put off some users.

If you screw-up, apologize briefly, then fix it or move on.

[1]- https://medium.com/free-code-camp/why-im-not-using-your-gith...

[2]- https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/build...

[3]- https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/build...
This is funny. Because WhatsApp seems to be slow to the party with most features.
> Another alternative reading is The Gulag Archipelago, which precisely and painfully lays out the consequences of what happens when a small group of people decide which ideas are okay to discuss or believe.

Honest question: when was this ever not the case for mass media?
Maybe it should be something like: if you are required to do additional custom work specifically for each customer, then you can choose which work to do. But if you are providing the same service to everyone, and you have to do additional work to filter out some types of customers, then you are doing something harmful to society.

I came to a similar conclusion myself. I think that’s probably the way to go. You don’t want to force anyone to do something against their beliefs, but you also want to ensure that society and the market are unified.
There is a saying that democracy has to reconfirm itself each generation.

Both the left and the right hate democracy now. On college campuses, the idea gets increasingly popular that free speech is a harmful concept. This is not just an empty phrase. This generation is graduating and will one day hold the keys to power. Let alone the dystopian gang ruled crime infested places that they built during the BLM riots. On the right side of the political spectrum, you have the Capitol trespassers, pipe bomb layers, cop killers. I'm worried.
It’s no secret that we have this power. Furthermore, there are people who know that we have this power who are also experts in drumming up hate.
> Social media is now the public square, and these tech giants have incredible power to promote or suppress opinions.

Very well said. I’m sure the nuances of this will be missed on most, and if we dared say this at work, we’d probably be assumed to be Trump supporters and fired. I’m so worried about where this is going :(
Lax regulations, corruption, poverty, diversified and huge population makes India an attractive hotspot for conducting unethical medical trials.

With the current government's obsessions with cow urine and dung, don't even ask about the pathetic state of our scientific community.
IANAL but in my understanding 230 is based on providers being proactive themselves and taking reasonable steps. They have very clear ToS laid out, and they are expected by same 230 to act on them. And bear with me, if they consider somebody does call for rioting using their platform, why's so unexpected from them to enforce said ToS? You could argue if you want to whether there was a call for riots or not, but if for the sake of argument we can pretend there was, they had to react precisely like this.
Even if you pay for piece of software that does not entitle you any say on the direction the software is going or priority on your bug reports or feature requests.
There can be explicit contract where you are funding specific feature, but just donating to a project does not entitle you to anything.
You can stop using the software if it does not provide you any use. That is the only thing you are entitled to.
Tried to load it a bunch of times, finally managed to get it all on the fifth reload or something.

Played it. Loved it. Donated beer money at the end.

Love the style and effort put in to this, very creative! The saving of the koala bear was poignant, and I lost it at the toilet paper references – hilarious! I hope the author is energized and gets enough money through donations to spend a bit more time on filling this out with even more detail.
> walking away from storming the Capitol after killing multiple people

Why do you assume that these people won't be (eventually) charged ?
Maybe.

Another what-if scenario is what if Sun, or some of the other Unix vendors at the time [1], had aggressively sold 386 Unix OS'es for clone PC's at a modest price. Aiming for the mass market rather than the low volume high margin workstation business. The world could have looked very different then, Linux might never have seen the light of day, and maybe even killing off Microsoft's ambitions in the OS space beyond DOS and windows 3.x.

[1] Just picking on Sun because they had the Sun386I back in 1988 and the 386 port of SunOS to go with it.
This is actually not a bad idea. There are already so many sponsor project like github sponsors, brave tips etc. Something like patreon can be used to solve this. You buy into a higher tier and that gives you 1 feature request.

Edit: Or something like kickstarter, if enough people pledge for the issue it gets priority on roadmap.

Edit: I looked up if software is being developed on patreon and... so much NSFW stuff.
TOS and documents like that are written by lawyers. What an organization might or might not do in practice has almost no bearing to their "subscriber agreement" and other legal documents.
> What's your macOS version? I've tried replicating it, but seems to work ok. It should ask at the last screen during the onboarding.

Running Catalin 10.15.7 currently. Yes, the screen came but typically MacOS would send a popup notification where I can enable/disable notifications for McPiper but that didn't came

> Yep, it's on the radar, as this data isn't available directly from the GraphQL pipeline object, it requires another REST request to GitLab

Would be a very useful feature as I have a few repositories
that I'm working on like once or twice a week but my colleagues are triggering pipelines on a daily basis

Also do you know why there is no "app icon" in my dock when I open the preferences window? If I hit CMD+Tab I also cannot jump to the window, but when I hit CRTL+UP and I see the window and can jump into it. Hope you get what I mean, quite new to MacOS :^)

Is it also possible to have a setting for the popup window width? Our repository names (including the organisation + groups) are quite long
My general tips are to introduce it gradually into your workflow over time, and to practice with it daily.

The best way to do this is to use vim in whatever editor you currently use.

I use vim inside of VS code. I started by adding the basics, HJKL navigation.

When I would notice that I would do a certain kind of editing often, I’d look up the vim command to do it faster. For example, I noticed I often needed to replace all text within {}. So I looked up how to do that, ci{ and made an effort to use it everytime going forward.

I built https://vim.so with that in mind. It’s a place where you can practice the commands which I’ve found are the most helpful when programming.
So what's your solution then? Would you be in favour of democratising the workplace so the workers own and have a say in the company?
> As someone who works in “big tech”, I don’t think we should have this power, especially when so selectively and reactively applied. We’ve all already heard all of the debates and I don’t wish to rehash it all. I’ve heard a lot of great arguments on all sides of the issue (and there are more than two), but the purpose of my comment is just to say that opinions within our community are not uniform. Not many of us speak our minds about it, unless we agree with the mainstream perspective of “this is fine ”.

I'm not a Trump supporter but all this ban wave seems very selective.

Specially since I've seen so many things considered as "hate speech" on these platforms that were not filtered.
Ok, sure, it should call the police, and then what? Should it wait for the police to investigate and the court to judge?
Might it be better to re-run the election?
oh. there’s privacy online?
>>> there are ways to expand your communication and presentation skills without moving back to entry-level or taking a huge pay cut

Toastmasters is a great place to get more experience with communication and presentation skills. Find a local group and jump in at whatever pace you feel comfortable with.
Jesus, enough with the Gulag Archipelago references.

Donald Trump was banned from Twitter. “Conservatives” were not. You are still free to engage in all manner of conservative speech on Twitter that does not call for violence against your ideological opponents.
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130mb to play videos wow, since it is to embed certain kind of videos, wouldn't be better to only get a dependency for that kind of codec?

dotnet isn't good at stripping unused code since the runtime need everything for the reflection systems

i think splitting codecs into separate packages will help a lot reduce unnecessary stress and load on servers and infrastructures

there is lot of waste in managed ecosystems i feel like
I wish that would happen but I'm not as optimistic as you are on that. That should have happened a long time ago for Google, and Facebook shouldn't have been allowed to buy all these companies. But here we are.