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A lot people on HN probably weren't alive to know that this happened. It would do people well to read the testimony given before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives back in 1983[1] to get some idea of exactly how willing and eager to destroy innovation copyright maximalists really are.

Nothing suggests the attitudes motivating the MPAA's lack of foresight re: the VCR in 1983, aand their general unwillingness to allow anything to upset the status quo, have gone anywhere in the ensuing decades.

[1] http://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm

(If nothing else, read Jack Valenti's testimony.)
Well, one reason would be I was emailing my friends and family about the efficacy of wearing masks around the same time in March that the Surgeon General of the United States was posting on Twitter that masks don't work and the New York City Mayor was encouraging people to go to movie theaters and bars.

I don't think arguing from authority has a really great track record this pandemic.

The argument on the blog is pretty straight forward, and the data is all public.
He isn't providing medical advice. Waiting outside vs inside based on simple statistics...
Schools in USA do something quite similar.

And yeah, from European point of view it's quite creepy.
Off topic but I'm having increasingly more difficulty with the term Terrorist. How'd you call American intrusions in sovereign states? Just somewhat recently the drone strike of the General Soleimani on sovereign grounds were an act of terrorism if perceived through the eyes of most Iranians, and possibly Iraqis as the strike was on their ground. Terrorist is a term that is stretched and applied beyond meaning.
Facebook is not failing to moderate. Moderation is hard and everyone knows that, but Facebook has been improving their moderation techniques and policies for years. Unlike Parler and Gab, Facebook is actually putting in the effort to moderate and was not created to be a safe haven for terrorists who were banned from other platforms.
For a better perspective, flip the scenario around on a Western country. Black people have legitimate grievances with how they're treated by police in the US. "Ordinary people were fed up." If moves were made for a revolution to overthrow the US government, you would be ok with foreign countries' people encouraging and helping this revolution take place? After all, "The people over there made their own choices for their own reasons."
I stand corrected and edited. Its still a non trivial amount and apparently "most expensive riot in history" according to your source.
> can you compile for ARM and move the binary around as easily as you can for x86?

Yes.
deplatforming bad actors works
Again, you don't seize power by attacking a particular meeting.

If Pence had somehow used ritual features of the rulebook and declared the electoral college invalid, then this would have been a coup (or "self-coup") by the Republican Party. Pence would only have done this if (besides an inclination to "kill democracy") he had secured the allegiance of a number of institutions and set in place the actual conditions for a functioning Trump dictatorship.

Coups are frequently preceded by mass demonstrations clamoring for something radical to be done. But these are not "the seizure of power by a political faction"; they're (1) a symptom of the generalized social dysfunction under which a coup is even thinkable and (2) a legitimizing excuse that new rulers-to-be can invoke to minimize general opposition to their claim to power. The seizure of power takes place elsewhere. Sometimes this is even gradual -- in preparation for a coup, loyalists are put in charge of major institutions, particularly security ones: National Guard, branches of the military, intelligence agencies and so on.

What you had was a protest. An ugly one too; not all protests are "mostly nonviolent".
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Please don't, however, baselessly propagate their claims. As far as I can tell it's bullshit. The source code may be for nyaa.si but it just contains normal torrent tracker code.

Take a look at the files listed:

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/utils/api_info....

Online here: https://gitlab.com/SIGBUS/nyaa/-/blob/master/utils/api_info....

See anything remotely suggestive? Not I.

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/utils/api_uploa...

Nothing interesting here either.

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/nyaa/static/sea...

Why did they pick the search entry XML for the porn section??? (I can only assume their lawyers have no idea what 'sukebei' means.) Anyway, nothing interesting in this file either.

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/nyaa/api_handle...

Again, looks ENTIRELY generic.

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/.docker/nyaa-co...

It's a config file with some credentials in it. Again, nothing.

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/nyaa/torrents.p...

More generic looking Flask code.

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/nyaa/templates/...

Again... it's a very basic looking HTML template.

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/migrations/vers...

Just about the least interesting database migration ever.

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/config.example....

I'm not even sure why they would pick this file, seriously. At this point they're just making shit up.

> https://github.com/nyaadevs/nyaa/blob/master/.docker/es_sync...

And another random config file.

If there's even a smidgen of actual copyright infringement in this repo, they failed to find it.
It's chilling how quickly misinformation merchants, hostile foreign agents, and other bad actors coalesced around using popular mainstream social media as the world's most effective megaphone.

A scant few years ago, they lacked a direct communications channel by which they could radicalize the average American.
In theory you could test this by using the web client and seeing if the watermarking occurs and even examining the web client code directly. Of course at that point you could just decompile the native client to the same ends.
>EDIT: perhaps just a ploy to unmask the authors of the torrent site?

Who needs to respond to the DMCA claim with a GitHub repo? If I'd contributed to the source code repository but wasn't involved with hosting the site (I imagine there's quite a few of these), can I file a counter claim?
Because Apple and Google produced viable platforms that people want. Microsoft, Blackberry, and Palm all attempted to do something similar, and the market didn't coalesce around their offerings. Even Amazon tried with kindle/fire. Part of the reason this happens is that developers only have so much ability to diversify, so this is a natural marketplace where only a few big players can survive.

The Internet of the 1990's is still alive by the way. Anyone can put up their message on a website provided by a host of their choice.
One possibility would be to have a government body fine media outlets and social media platforms that leave people misinformed, or more likely to become extremized.

The largest risk that I see with that plan is that it implies a level of government censorship, something that is an undeniably risky proposition. On one hand, a malevolent political party could wield that power to their own advantage, and on the other hand political gridlock could neuter any real progress being made.

To address this, I'm imagining a new branch of government run via sortition. In this system, qualifying citizens would be selected by lottery, and would serve on a committee to oversee it's proper execution.

This way, companies would have a vested interest in giving their users access to the truth, and an incentive to puncture the knowledge bubble that fosters extremism.
Your comment is of course facetious. Nonetheless I'd like to express that most interpretations of honor are of the perverted kind. This is especially true for professional criminals.
Are you implying that Parler was created specifically to organize violence? If that's what you're saying then please provide a clear evidence that proves this is the case. Saying something like that just seems really dishonest in most, if not all, contexts.
> Consequently, the sampled communities have likely been trapped...

That would seem to indicate they are talking about isolation rather than preservation of individual microbes.
You really need to change banks if this happens to you. Bank transfers are done in seconds in the SEPA area. Pretty sure there's something similar outside of Europe, too.
Possibly due the inclusion of the tracker URLs in the code? https://web.archive.org/web/20200917190718/https://github.co...
Because in the US we've outsourced delivery of the vaccine to places like hospitals and pharmacy chains in places like CVS, Walgreens and Safeway. Those places tend not to have the pharmacy close to the entrance, and no windows, which means they are ideal for COVID spread.
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not sure why you're being downvoted, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besa_(Albanian_culture)

The cannabis produced there ends up mostly in the EU (via Montenegro by ship to Italy or the land route via Croatia). EU countries simply pay more for weed then potatoes so it's the market working as expected IMO (but sadly also as intended). The way to address this is to legalize it like Portugal which curbed addiction rates and freed up the legal system with more important work.
Note that M1 only uses TSO for Rosetta; ARM code runs with the ARM weak memory model.
The licenses are there so that you don't need to trust companies to follow some unstated rules.

You clearly do not like certain permissive licenses and you should contribute only to projects that have licenses similar to GPLv3.

Take it as a lesson for the future, because this is not the first time that company exercises their rights to the fullest and not the last time.
I’m not a lawyer but this feels like a fantasy to me. It seems crazy the MPA would take such a risk if they thought it was likely.
It is stated in the complaint:

> Specifically, at the URL, the Repository hosts and offers for download the Project, which, when downloaded, provides the downloader everything necessary to launch and host a “clone” infringing website identical to Nyaa.si (and, thus, engage in massive infringement of copyrighted motion pictures and television shows).

This is not a generic BitTorrent tracker. This is source code for duplicating the nyaa.si website (which in the github source code, they state is "A BitTorrent community focused on Eastern Asian media including anime, manga, music, and more" [1]).

I think it would be a stretch to say you are interested in this source code so you could then rip out large pieces of it to host your Linux ISO's on...

I agree that some DMCA crosses the line. But in this case, I don't see a legitimate use for this source code other than enabling copyright infringement.

[1] https://github.com/seco/nyaa-1/blob/master/nyaa/templates/ho...
I should clarify, when I mentioned serverless, I really meant serverless on AWS.

Broadly speaking PaaS is similar to serverless. The main thing I look for as a user is, the per millisecond billing, the ability to scale up instantly and scale all the way down to zero.
> An accusation today can ruin a person, more so than ever before

It probably can, but unfortunately the people usually held up as examples of this generally haven't actually been ruined. I mean, what are some actual examples of people who have been ruined by accusation?
how about trackers.txt ?
I think people treat Facebook differently than Parler because Facebook is a mainstream communications platform and Parler was founded specifically to host content that other platforms found objectionable.
Whether we contact our representatives or not, the MPA / Disney / etc have deeper pockets than we do.

We've reached the point where a candidate for the senate will only get the nomination and have a chance to be elected if they spend a significant amount of money on their campaign. There's no campaign limits, so if you don't spend much, you're liable to lose.

As a result, the people who run successful campaigns almost always have already agreed to side with the MPA and other interests that have money.

Us telling our legislature we're not happy about it won't help either because, well, what are we going to do? Vote for the person on the other party? Not likely. Vote for another guy? It's unlikely anyone else will even be on the ballot since both the democrats and republicans will avoid having multiple candidates to avoid splitting the vote within the party.

I agree that the problem is really legal at its root, but I think we need better plans than "contact your representative".
Why antitrust? The cloud market is highly competetive and AWS only have about 1/3 market share.
I agree, if you are being vaccinated in a hall the size of a football field the risk is not very high. I am more concerned looking at e.g. the list of sites at vaccinateca.com that are located inside of grocery stores or drug store chains. Those places are not going to have good ventilation.
"Not only is this extremely dangerous but it's a huge waste of vaccine." How does a 15 minute wait after an injection waste vaccine?
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"Oh well, at least you tried" sounds like the definition of FB getting a free pass.
>The Capitol Attack

Where was this rhetoric when Antifa and BLM burned and looted for months with the blessings of all corporations and the mainstream media? Surely the Capitol Hill has an insurance policy? Or does that moronic point only apply to the common folk?

Susan Rosenberg literally bombed the Capitol in 1983 and now serves as vice chair of the board of directors of Thousand Currents, a "non-profit foundation that sponsors the fundraising and does administrative work for the Black Lives Matter global network, among other clients."
Its backed by the CIA according to ABC news they wouldn't exist without a ton of taxpayer subsidies and special treatment.
no, its not. you can not do that there is an admin limit 20 iirc
"Capitol Attack"? Seems like quite a bit of hyperbole eh?
Bit of a plug, but I run a newsletter on the space industry. Might interest some of you reading this thread. https://www.payloadresearch.com/
I'm sure I'll get a lot of hate for this, but honestly FCC regulation of ham radio is at best antiquated cold war bullshit (ie, crypto bans) and at worst gatekeeping for a bunch of old men who can dox themselves in order to get exclusive access to some bands.

Every single person here uses high powered encrypted communication without a license, it's a cell phone.
This post reeks of entitlement
Github's market position is in no small part based on network effects and depends on nearly every open source project being hosted there.

Now imagine a competitor promising some kind of protection against these kinds of frivolous DMCAs. That could lead to a large chunk of media, p2p and security software moving there, threatening Github's position in those niches and putting that competitor on more equal footing.
> Consider. The strength difference between the average man and average woman is the difference between the average NFL linebacker and the average man. Do you think it right that the average woman's ability to obtain justice is dependent on whether some man stands up for her? And yet that is how things tend to work out in an honor culture.

I've heard of guns described as 'the great equalizer'. An NFL linebacker, average man, and an average woman would each have an approximately equal ability to obtain 'justice'.

> I want to live in a law and order society. A place where potential rapists are deciding whether to worry about the police, and not whether to worry about me.

As someone else pointed out, the prison term for rape is about 10 years. So in your society, potential rapists worry about facing 10 years in prison, and in the other, an extrajudicial death penalty. Seems to me the latter might be a better deterrent.
It's been a while since I touched anything serverless, but it looks like Seed supports incremental deployments, which was a major pain point when I last worked with the Serverless Framework (an open source library for deploying Lambdas, one of the first ones.) Nice job team!
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If you're an ISP, fully automated software sends DMCA notices for video content copyright violations all the time. There's no human in the loop anymore. If you see the vast bulk of these notices, a lot of them are spurious. It's a GIGO problem.
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Software vendors have been targeting hospitals with licence audits
Tanks that are capable of firing are not usually legal to own - much like most military equipment. Obviously, it is state dependent.

But I agree there is a foundational element to the 2nd amendment (which is why they passed it 2nd), and it is not (only) identity politics.
> No, Facebook devotes significant resources to moderation and makes good faith attempts to uphold their policies.

What's always missing here is that the outcome is still terrible and everyone is arguing from the premise that Facebook deserves to exist regardless.

If I maintain my rollercoaster in good faith but I just can't hire enough maintenance crew to do it well and people keep dying on it... maybe the rollercoaster doesn't deserve to be open and should be shut down.
you referred to the caller as a sales punk before he uttered the phrase, exposing your attitude. Just because you are biased against sales people and also have a thin skin when it comes to the slightest challenge in a question does not mean that the product would not be beneficial and worth it to you if you had a more open mind, nor does it mean that the sales technique on average is a failure.

i.e. when I read your comment it struck me as much more revealing about you than about the salesman, his technique, or his product.
I'm 100% onboard with the author's design philosophy: "A good design leads a user to more powerful tools." I have not used htop but the screenshots show some things that I very much appreciate in a UI design such as the menu bar at the bottom with hot keys clearly displayed. There's no reason to make a user hunt for the hot keys or to guess at the possible function space.

Software, as I think of it, is a way to expose the "general purpose" nature of computers to users. Good software teaches users how to access that nature. Like a good teacher, that leading should be subtle and gentle and have the end goal of user empowerment.
That question makes the wrong assumption. You assume "OSS" is a given and "getting annoyed at Amazon" is the issue. In reality, "getting annoyed at Amazon" is the given and "OSS" is the issue.

Then, you can ask "if they get annoyed at Amazon, why open source?" and the answer is "indeed, and now that they realized their mistake they're changing it".
And what would the right do? Pass legislation to force these corporations to host unprofitable content on their website?
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I have one suggestion for WFH syndrome: Be old!!

I am in my sixties. Been a programmer since the seventies (last century!). I do personal projects, freelance projects and job projects. I love programming.

And I would be perfectly happy for quarantine to last forever, at least as far as I am concerned.

The only thing I have done to adapt is that I bought an Oculus and play Beat Saber and Pistol Whip to pretend to get exercise. It does make me out of breath, so WIN!!

I will be sad when it ends.
There's no scientific evidence that drinking extra water when you're not thirsty has any health benefits.
The government, should they choose to take it up.
It's really hard to do (at all, let alone well) but the point is to encode more information in the problems such that, by solving them oneself, the student gains direct understanding of some technique or application or extension that wasn't covered in the main text. In a (well-written) textbook there might be five or tens times as much information latent in the (solving of the) exercises than in the entire preceding chapter. Writing these kinds of sets of exercises is very challenging, much harder than just writing a textbook.
You are responding to an imaginary comment - not to mine. I don't argue with "honor" for example. I'm also not arguing that we should establish a society based on strength ...
I don't know about anyone else, but the "working from home" part isn't what's been getting to me.

It's working from home while my kids are also doing school at home. I feel like I never have any extended time to myself to think or work. There are constant interruptions and there's nowhere to escape to for focused work of any kind.

On top of that, I also have no escape from my family. I love my family, but not getting a break from them from time to time is frankly exhausting.
If the point of the NSA was what they claimed it to be, there wouldn't have been a capitol attack.
It's a falsifiable assumption. Audit the binaries if you want to convince yourself. You will see code to generate and use keys locally, with no mechanism to fetch or share keys from a server.

If you want to go beyond generic concerns, there are plenty of academic papers that have looked at Facebook Secret Conversations, found actual issues, and helped get them fixed:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00145-020-09360-1
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-63697-9_...
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96884-1_...
I checked again, and the guidelines with Oracle are similar to what they were with MySQL AB: https://www.oracle.com/legal/trademarks.html

Specifically to your example (I think), see "Company, Product or Service Names
", where it states the following:

> Do not use Oracle trademarks or potentially confusing variations as all or part of your company, product or service names. If you wish to note the relationship of your products or services to Oracle products or services, please use an appropriate tag line as detailed above. For example, "XYZ for Oracle database" not "OraXYZ or XYZ Oracle"
Facebook does act like an editor by way of their algorithms. Facebook's (and other social media's) timelines are no longer limited to the people you explicitly follow.

Whether they have the ability to moderate or not is irrelevant. If you can't afford the obligations of a publisher, don't be a publisher.
There's a fundamental difference between blasphemy - which by definition doesn't attack anyone, and the right to which is one of the cornerstones of our civilisation, being a part of religious freedom - and hate speech.
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Always wrong? No justification? This seems like a good justification to me. Is there any difference between running up the outbound traffic bill using the key vs accessing web assets anonymously? OP has a budget alert set.
The future may arrive soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHypmOp8AdM
Watch the video "12:16 p.m. • Around D.C." and you can clearly see content-aware deep fake filling of crowds to increase the appearance of their magnitude. The so-called
"Parler dataset" is completely useless as anything but a curiosity with respect to examining the nature of emerging digital ground-truth and perception metrics. Nothing contained in it is verifiable, and in my opinion it would be wise to be very skeptical of anything you encounter regarding it.