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Yeah, I think we're not too far off in principle, you rightly guess that the key difference for me is how society has changed since that time.

Now, you can make these kinds of claims about the corn dealer on television, on twitter, in dark-money facebook ads, to angry mobs gathered anywhere but the corn dealer's house, all while knowing that online forums are circulating rumors of the corn dealer running a pedophilia ring, and still be afforded plausible deniability when violence results.

I don't have a solution, because if the corn dealer _is_ starving the poor, we should be able to discuss that openly, and I don't think I want to give the State the power to make such a discernment, because it would be too easy to abuse.
Sorry, I should have specified that it is a project for learning Go.
Narcissism is a spectrum and nobody is completely free of it which every psychologist worth his salt can attest. But there is pathological narcissism and that comes at a huge cost to others and it can very well be a defense mechanism that warrants therapy.

The author does sound a bit defensive here, but not in a pathological sense.
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I really wish this situation was anything close to a real effort to protect free speech or even better to nuke Twitter from orbit.

I hope people realize that he is just trying to protect his favorite stock manipulation platform.
Yes, many. The problem I have is that I always feel the urge to "clean them up" and post them as open source with corresponding blog posts and all, which ends up being a time sink (and limits what I do because I have to "pick my battles").

Recently, two of those programs have been web services, which are still public... but I have kept the code to myself and it's pretty liberating in a strange way.
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Can an app that pays people $5 a day to stop drinking keep them sober?
I don't think that is a good analogy. In this case these filters would be presented to you as you setup your account. In addition with filter sharing any user would only be one button press away from adopting someones else's filter. There could be a wide diversity of filters and users can change their filter by the minute. Imagine if browsers treated adblock/ublock/etc as integral parts of your experience and not as an extra add-on.
> I don't think he has a particularly coherent philosophy about how to approach free speech.

The only people with coherent philosophies of free speech are for absolute freedom of speech or absolutely no freedom of speech.

It's by pusuring incoherence, by threading the needle between those extremes that we create an open, free speech culture where freedom is the norm and censorship occurs only in extreme situations.

I generally agree with the rest of your post ("who cares?"). I would add that if Elon buys twitter and deletes it, I would be fine with it.
I'm curious if the internal representation will stay UTF-16? Someone smarter than I probably could say there's an advantage to using a fixed-length charset for internal purposes.
Ironically, I'm a butch lesbian who came out in the 90s, so I'm well aware.

One of my less popular opinions in the queer community is that I AM a free speech absolutist (or close to it), even if it does result in some discrimination. (Even against me.) Of course we should minimize and work to eliminate discrimination in society, but that isn't the only value we have, and unfortunately social policies are always a case of trade-offs.

I also prefer to let the homophobes be open about it so a.) I know what they're saying and can undermine it and b.) so I know who to avoid. All pushing it underground does is make me nervous that everybody's a closet homophobe and means I can't change anybody's mind. (Which I have done on multiple occasions).
> The WSJ, in that article, calls California's pandemic restrictions "The most sweeping restrictions on liberty ever seen", which is just an absurd assertion. Even if you scope it to the US or even California, where Japanese-American civilians, including children, were once relocated into internment camps.

Obviously the internment of Japanese folks during WWII was far more intrusive than the COVID restrictions. But that doesn't contradict the statement--they didn't say "the harshest restrictions" or "the most egregious restrictions", they said "the most sweeping restrictions". The word sweeping is an adjective meaning 'wide in range or effect'. It is simply a matter of fact that the COVID restrictions, which affected ~40 million people and resulted in the closure of 40,000 businesses, were a more sweeping restriction on liberty than the internment of 120,000 Japanese during the War.
I am in the web since 1999. I loved it then and also love it now.

It has popularized access do knowledge, opened a channel to all forms of expression for millions around the world and continously lower the barrier to more innovation.

Friction is present in all social activities: politics, families, friendships. This kind of tought seems to me more as failure to cope with human nature than rational legitime analisys.
> Can I build a successful business if I don't know whom to talk after building my SaaS product?

My advice:

Don't build the SaaS product first. Build the customer list. That means going out and talking to folks who you think might pay you money to solve their problem.

It is far far too easy to get wrapped up in building something (building is fun!) that never gets used because you didn't talk to potential customers.

Patio11 has a great article on this process here: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validatin...
> The notion that all speech should be allowed actually seems stupid to me on its face, the more that I consider it.

I couldn't agree more. I motion that we ban your speech immediately from this moment forward ;)

Kidding aside, you've set up a false dichotomy. While absolute free speech itself (holocaust denial, etc.) is absurd, history shows that you can either have absolute free speech or you have censor authorities abusing their powers for political gains. In the real world those are your only two options.
Twitter's bylaws contain anti-takeover provisions which would make a hostile takeover difficult. In their latest 10K they list these provisions which includes "authorizing 'blank check' preferred stock, which could be issued by our board of directors without stockholder approval and may contain
voting, liquidation, dividend and other rights superior to our common stock". So if Musk attempted to get shareholders to vote out the board, the board could issue preferred stock with voting rights which could dilute Musk's votes.

Link:
https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001418091/947c0c3...
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What's interesting is that this is a new manifestation of the free speech argument, from new social and political quarters. Prior to this version of the free speech debate, the defenders of free speech would, say, donate to ACLU, oppose laws that criminalize protests, express concern over authoritarian countries jailing reporters, oppose prosecution of whistleblowers, oppose consolidation of corporate media, etc.

But this new constituency emerged after events like Gamergate and Charlottesville protests, and they show up to defend participants in events like those but can't be mobilized to become active in other issues that historically have been ones where people become involved out of principle.
Yes, I have created many. However, one stands out far above the rest in terms of how much I've used it and how big of an impact it has. That's my cloud-based music player. I have my music collection stored in Wasabi (S3 compatible) and I have client-side python code that I normally run on shuffle-play. As I move across different laptops and whether I'm at home or away, I always have my music handily available for listening. My monthly payment for Wasabi storage is $6 and I'm not tied into any proprietary system.
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Site uses CSS for columns and not tables. No dogfooding. /s
who even watches the news? its worth nothing for people < 30, and the people > 30 already watch what they want to watch, so twitter or not doesnt matter.
It turns out that people don't just want a "mountain of tasks" to help them "pretend that they have a goal"... that just fuels the feelings of purposelessness. They want their existence and life itself to have meaning and purpose.
This is taking away the very obvious point: at some point, lack of participation alone is seen as a sign of nonconformity. Which itself has caused enough issues for individuals while at least "making it seem" as if the majority are okay with the status quo.

It's one thing to be denied access to these platforms. It's another thing entirely to see a specific opinion pushed on the young and the less critical, trickling down to actual demands, rules and restrictions. These platforms are powerful enough to do so. You can find many examples of misinformation translating to demands in CS and IT alone, and these are still relatively harmless.
Yup.

Anything pushed to its logical extreme becomes its own opposite. Since society can't or won't reign in either corporate or social media, perhaps we should remove all restraints and let then destroy themselves, and hopefully each other.

Further, how could Musk possibly be any worse than @jack, Zuck & Sandberg, Murdochs, Theil, etc, etc.

Pox on all their houses.
From my experience it's very common with infosec students in Australia, the general public barely know it exists and probably consider it a weird second level domain.

It doesn't need to be anything like your real name, much like only needing a registered aus company to own a *.com.au
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I've found the Medium posts that make it to Hacker News to be drivel: Uninteresting and inaccurate. The titles themselves are interesting, but the content itself isn't worth reading.

It's happened so much that I just won't click on anything that's on medium.com.
Related subject, if you haven't watched Nightmare Alley, I recommend it.
It took hundreds of years of proselytizing by some very highly educated people for Jesus David rocks Easter to have an affect on the world.

Today, people who barely can string coherent thoughts together can have an instant platform to spread idiocy.

I guess what I’m saying is the risk is much greater now for idiocy to take over than before.
> we'll just have to wait and see if he succeeds.

He or anyone else

Twitter is a natural monopoly - evidenced by it's not having any real competition. Will it be a regulated monopoly? In that case, it should be valued like a water company. Is it an unregulated monopoly? In that case the market will decide if it can turn that monopoly into profits. There are a lot of commercial Twitter users. Charge them all ten cents a tweet. That adds up to about $10m per day.
Are you suggesting that UTF-16 is not a Unicode encoding?
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Nextcloud with Collabora CODE has worked pretty well for me, but please keep in mind I'm only using it at home.

They offer a more enterprise option, I believe. CODE is more the development track.
Mill is wrong. because he ignores the extremely strong negative effects of sustained disinformation campaigns, and immediate and obvious harm should not be the bar. Society could never handle that, it just thought it could.

Such an attempt to force feed any and all uninformed or malicious opinions down society's proverbial throat, plays right into the hand of the very active disinformation campaigns that are quite actively reshaping politics and opinion in countries around the world.

And an un-nuanced promotion of supposed 'free speech' in the context of such clear and widespread societal harm that is currently occurring, including as the backdrop for real wars with people dying, does not at all resemble a sincere effort at improving the state of affairs. At all. It frankly stinks of yet another billionaire attempting to make sure this simple, malicious, gaming of public opinion remains easy in the near future.
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> especially if users are still in the tens of thousands

I've got unit tests over business methods backed by SQLite that say otherwise.

The biggest benefit with SQLite is being able to ship your customers 1 self-contained binary distribution that "just works". Anything beyond this and we are talking about nasty customer-owned database instances or us shipping docker containers and hoping the gigantic abstraction bubble doesnt pop on us.
It should be spoof resistance by virtue of the fact that every node on a Tailscale network sets up public key authenticated wireguard tunnel directly to any peer it’s trying to contact.

The Tailscale client its self will automatically drop any packets that arrive over the tunnel with an unexpected IP address or protocol number (TCP, UDP, ICMP only).
All of them? That's the whole "We reserve the right to terminate your account for any reason" clause in most ToSes
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>Do you think Google is reading the contents of drive documents?

It literally says in gdrive tos that they read the docs, yes they do .

"Our automated systems analyse your content to provide you personally relevant product features, such as customised search results, and spam and malware detection,"
TikTok does have filter bubbles, they're just geographic rather than profile specific. eg you wouldn't find any content on the Ukraine invasion from a Russian IP.
The evidence is that it's only 15%. Free speech doesn't guarantee everyone will have right beliefs. In fact, it's a certainly that in a free speech environment lots of people will have crazy beliefs.

Free speech does, however, guarantee that no one group can control which ideas—crazy or not—can be expressed. And that, in the long run, ensures that there will be space to push back against the crazy and the harmful, which tends to be good for the less powerful.
I'll take your word for that. It's the opposite in Lua, which is several times faster than stock Ruby. If your runtime takes it as a given that every string will be interned, there are all sorts of assumptions this enables which mutation invalidates.
Take a look at Unity. We have tons of positions open in Canada, Montreal and Vancouver especially.
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You can already block people on Twitter. The problem arises with shared blocklists. How is a shared blocklist identified? Well, the odds are that it will probably need to have a name. You now have the following problem: the name can be used to promote hate if the name of that blocklist is visible to other users, or to falsely associate a given user with other nefarious groups, as Google will probably crawl the lists and the results will show up in searches. The whole thing ends up being exactly an added moderation mess, just like what you started with, but with a few more layers of indirection and different ways it can be abused. Plus you still have the original problem of moderating messages that needs to be solved.

Solutions like this look great initially if everyone uses them properly, but everything falls apart when people inevitably start actively abusing the new feature. The design needs to handle assholes-at-scale from the outset.
"Spectrum" isn't the way to put it.

"Narcissism" means self-love. When you brush your teeth that's an expression of your narcissism.

Everybody has "narcissism" because it is a part of your psyche the way that your heart is part of your body.

Just like you can have heart disease, a heart attack, heart failure, high blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy and many other disease that affect your heart you can have many things go wrong with your narcissism.

A modern approach to psychoanalysis sees narcissism as fundamental the way Freud saw the libidio as fundamental

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_of_the_Self

Today people use "narcissism" as a synonym for bad. See this book for commentary on that

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2303/kristin-dombek-s-advent...
Thanks for the reply. Linear looks pretty slick, I'll probably give it a try with the Jira Link, and get some experience with it without having to do a whole conversion plus get buyin from the rest of the team. We weren't impacted by the Atlassian outage, but Linear does seem to have a pretty compelling feature-set.
The fact that Google engages in and facilitates privacy invasion shouldn't need proof at this point.

https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/gmail-snooping/

Can you prove or show anything in their terms of service or privacy policy that legally prevents it?

Being a profit driven company, the only reasonable assumption is that anything that can be used to increase profits will be used.
> He didn't run Solar City I don't think.

He was chairman, and his cousins were the founders. Who started the company on his suggestion.
Yes, because ChromeOS and Crostini, both run on top of virtualized environments, so already there you are using more resources than on a regular Linux distribution.
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This is briefly touched upon in Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves", after The Cataclysm happens humanity regrows most technology, but for the most part ICs are limited to 8086-level devices as even thousands of years later they are unable to reach the level of semiconductor technology before it. The amount of technology and power in something as small as a cell phone or lowly raspberry pi is nothing short of a marvel, particularly at their price points.
I suspect most of the commenters supporting the right of a private company to moderate content is completely contingent on what those moderation policies are. Commenters feign holding an absolute position but would certainly balk if the moderation ever turned against them and the idea they support.

If you believe on principle, the right of private companies to moderate content, then you must support all kinds of absurd outcomes: Twitter deciding to subtly push pro-Russian viewpoints, Facebook deciding to boost antivax content etc.
I have participated in the forums of dslreports.com for years and kevinds is one of the more knowledgeable in various areas.

The badmodems guy seems to be upset that he is outsmarted, honestly. Thanks to him for the good he has done, but if he can't handle being in a room with others smarter than him, this departure is for the better.
This is a ridiculous twisting of what people are talking about, with no nuance, which life has. It's not just 0 or 1.

There are very clear rules that have been worked out in the legal system for what constitutes incitement to violence for example. It has to be actual call to cause physical violence, right where violence might happen, soon or immediately. If you are standing outside a house yelling burn it down, that is incitement. Yelling burn down the capitalist system on Twitter is not incitement, because it is not direct and it's not immediate.

What many silicon valley techies have now done is move things beyond the legal system, which has worked reasonably well for decades, and thought that they can create a better system. Except it seems in practice this is much more difficult than it seems. Posting pictures of the severed head of Trump seems fine them with them (legally, I think this is ok anyway), but posting a satire article of a transgender woman military officer is not, and gets your silenced. Oh, and let's just block the legitimate story of the president's son's laptop.

In a way this is an extremely arrogant and elitist way of acting, you are saying you are going to create a better legal system than the evolving common law one we've used for a very long time.

It's also pretty obvious in the last 5 years that this leads to all sorts of conflicts of interest, and Silicon Valley elites really don't seem to be doing a fair job. Surprise suprise, what legal experts and judges have refined over decades works better.
> by using Safari instead of Chrome, and not configuring my services properly

I use Chrome for work and Safari as my personal browser and the amount of FUD created by Google is almost hilarious. In 90% of cases it's just a small glitch (e.g. a piece of UI looking a bit shitty on Safari), but in the remaining 10%... I get spiking CPU usage to the point where I could start frying eggs on my MacBook.

I still prefer my browser being occasionally sluggish when using Google services to the ad-infested cesspool my parents' Chrome is.

OK, my Safari can get a bit slow when using Gmail, but at least I'm not browsing the web through a storefront.
The B2B startups I've seen that grew into something real all had did some consulting in their area at the start. It gave them a broader experience in the problems they were trying to solve, and helped them build relationships with their first customers. I'm not in SF or anything though, so things might just be a little different here.
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Agreed but the fact that one person could single handedly choose to (potentially) impact an entire country's future on a whim is mind blowing.
I think it's monetisation. In the past, monetising your opinion was difficult. It was limited to a select few who could get on the TV or in the print media. Now, people are incentivised to say things which will generate controversy because eyeballs == money. If you got on Twitter and started posting polarising opinions and worked on promoting those eventually the engagement will (possibly) reach a point where you can gain financially from it and you're now incentivised to continue posting polarising content. The content doesn't even need to be ethically right/wrong, it just needs to make one group of people angry and another defensive. There are plenty of things we need to have a debate about as a society (because they are not black/white and require nuance to solve) but they will never get solved properly because both sides refuse to discuss the issue.
When did anyone suggest allowing Nazis "to do whatever they want"? Suggesting that people ought to be allowed to voice reprehensible opinions without fear of government locking them up isn't the same as suggesting they be allowed to do whatever they want.

It's not a bullshit false equivalency: every nazi is more or less just some random person with an opinion. Just like you and I are random persons expressing an opinion in this forum. At least, right up until they take action to commit violence--but that's a separate matter.
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Any idea if this tangentially impacted LFS bandwidth somehow? We're seeing a huge spike in LFS transfer starting yesterday afternoon. The spike doesn't seem to correspond to CI builds cloning the repo (because it was sustained over night after our devs had signed off). No notable changes to the repo, automated processes, etc.

We've had to purchase additional data packs to unblock CI builds and folks pulling from the remote and assume we will need to purchase more. 11 days left in our billing cycle...