skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to be sympathetic to a company that operates morally dubious amounts of data harvesting. If a program enables you to gain more privacy while using the internet, it's a moral good.

I don't consider it to be stealing any resources or services. It's little different than an ad and tracker blocker on a browser. Any client-side user agent should have the right to act on behalf of the user. If it's not illegal to build this kind of program yourself to protect yourself, it shouldn't be illegal for another company to build it and profit from it. A company like Facebook shouldn't have the right to strategically stifle innovation and improvement, in a way that makes the market better for the consumer. That undermines the entire point of capitalism, which is to benefit maximally for the consumer by forcing companies to out-do each other. It reads more like anti-competitive behavior to me, and Facebook refusing to try to properly adapt to somebody making their product better than they can do themselves.

If Ford produced an on-board tracking device that tracked your use of the car to sell to advertisers, and another company sold a device that disabled the tracker permanently, there would be no good reason for Ford to be able to forcefully ban the company from buying their cars. Even if the car was sold at a loss because the ad revenue subsidized the remainder and then some.

People are hungry for privacy and a better experience. Facebook needs to learn to adapt for the good of the consumer, or die by letting other companies eat their lunch. This is good capitalism. It sucks for Facebook, but it's good for the public.
They help you manage the workflow of documents. As say a car dealership using docusign, you still provide the documents and actually have to use their tools to make the workflows unless you pay them to help. I don’t think they offer to actually write the contracts. You’d hire a local attorney or just digitize what you already have. That’s been my experience after a couple enterprise level deployments. I could be wrong and we just didn’t need it.
Again, I'm asking _the person in the thread above_ who made these claims that the app is stealing user data to provide any supporting evidence, perhaps via the methods I described in my last comment. I'm not talking about Meta.
1. Thanks! I think we can play with the falloff a bit, but yeah I think so too.

2. Agreed, we erred on the side of caution for this release and made a bunch of public rooms since our per-room cap isn't super high while were still doing P2P WebRTC networking. We may dial this back to just one public room per environment.

3. It is! That first box where you select your homeserver can be typed in and you can put your own homeserver in there. Third Room is the first Matrix client using OpenID Connect which will avoid the whole issue entering your password on someone else's site, but we're still not quite at the point where just anyone can add it to their own homeserver. Hopefully very soon!
This argument feels like it would also work to support indentured servitude, since people agree to that at the beginning too.
Since all of philosophy is just a collection of footnotes to the Work of Platon, this seems appropriate.
Interestingly enough I'd argue that you can't (or shouldn't) learn[0] biology[1] without learning its history, or at least its modern history[2]. To learn that Pasteur proved germ theory is irrelevant, but the who's and what's and why's of CRISPR and pre-CRISPR DNA modification would be hugely informative to the researcher. In psuedo-math terms the history adds a rough direction vector to the state-variable that is the 'state-of-the-art', which probably points in the direction what will become the 'state-of-the-art' tomorrow.

[0]To an expert level, i.e. to create and advance new knowledge in the field.

[1]Insert science here.

[2]Roughly a decade or two worth of papers, by my entirely unscientific estimation
This one:

> Something went wrong
> OpenAI's API is not available in your country.

I used “login with google”, and this is an error that I immediately got, haven’t got to the stage where they want my phone number.
Now that I think about it, it’s a little surprising there hasn’t been a first party keyboard attachment for Kindles, Kobos, or the reMarkable tablet yet. Maybe the reMarkable at least supports keyboards via bluetooth. There’s many of us who would rather have the kb instead of the stylus. Or with the kb as main input with the stylus supplementary.
Pretty realistic and frank memoir of being female in isolated and overbearingly male workspaces.

Mining, military, etc.
Well, both sides of politics are talking about updating the privacy act with a significant punitive component, and it can always be made retroactive if Optus is not feeling sorry enough.
This is weird. Why not just go to https://i.imgur.com/vuUyLnz.mp4 ?
Do they have the right to do so today? Of course. Should they have the right to do so? Definitely not, and that's why we want to see laws in this space changed.
One of the difficulties of open sourcing bitstream generation of an FPGA is not the fabric itself, but all of the other IPs on the chip. Things like PCIe, Ethernet, memory controllers, SerDes and whatnot are often licensed from external vendors who don't want their register maps out in the open. Some FPGA vendors give you a simulation model, but I'm pretty sure you have to sign an NDA.

Also IPs sometimes have errata in them that need to be worked around. With an FPGA, you can usually fix it in soft logic, but vendors don't like giving that out either.

For some smaller FPGAs without complex IPs, they are starting to open up their bitstream generation algorithms. Though bitstream generation is pretty trivial compared to synthesis and place & route.
I haven't read it thoroughly, but given the App Attest service runs on the OS, why can't someone just find the certificate for it hidden somewhere and use that to sign fake attests in userland? This is just an extra layer of obfuscation. It doesn't prevent someone from faking api calls with no app (or phone) involved.
The "Disk Light" CDEV was a component of early versions of Norton Utilities for Mac.

We had it on our Mac Classic and it definitely conjures up a ton of nostalgia to me too!
One of legs is a major body part of an elephant.
The 3rd party is not making the API request though. I am, just using software that didn't come from the platform vendor.

Many 3rd party twitter clients have expressed a willingness to display ads if provided an API to do so.

As someone who has lost precious accessibility capabilities because of restrictions on 3rd party clients, I unfortunately have to point out that I don't really have a choice of what platforms I do or don't interact with in a lot of cases. I wouldn't stay at my job for very long if I didn't tolerate Slack's BS, for instance.
Maybe I’m just a graybeard but all this is reminiscent of the shenanigans that Ma Bell pulled. Not exactly the same but similar. History doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes, as they say.

There’s a very simple solution here: common carrier. Treat social media as a modern utility. No viewpoint discrimination, censorship, algorithmic social manipulation or proprietary on-ramps.

The bad behavior has gone on long enough.
Man I’m paying 0.33 to $0.52 per kWh. I’d love to pay 0.15
Modern ad-funded software is less a "bicycle for the mind" and more a "hamster wheel for the brain". Of course third party clients would be seen as a threat - they empower the user.
Does still this work on jailbroken phones where you can let apps modify the memory of other running apps (ala CheatEngine)?
Personal account? He was forced to unblock users: https://mashable.com/article/trump-unblocks-twitter-accounts
> This was straight up theft of resources/services.

Are you claiming that building and/or using adblocking software is theft?
This is only true if you also agree that they used a pair of alligator clips and attached it to the copper wires on the pole as well.

The infrastructure has real costs, the api development, storage, and maintenance that they aren’t compensating Meta to use.
Lol, it is. I almost woke up my kids with laughter when I read your comment :)
> Either option will be an uphill battle. In the United States, any new reactor must gain the blessing of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), a process that can take up to five years and drive up costs in a sector already facing rising prices. Only one nuclear power plant is currently under construction in the United States, in eastern Georgia.

Which is why building in US is not the best option. There's a deal made last year to build small modular reactors in Romania (by a US company). I think they may actually have been talking about using old coal plants as well.

I'm normally skeptical about my country being used in this kind of experiments (I still remember you, Pepsi, with your reusable plastic bottle!), but I'm very much on board with this one.
Roosevelt Island isn't car free, but if you're willing to accept 15mph max speeds, no through traffic in exchange for living in NYC with some of the most incredible views it's a nice place to be.
Blocking the app from accessing Instagram is one thing. Permanently banning the Facebook accounts of all the employees is another.
back when MechWarrior Online was still pretty new, I reversed the login app (100% .Net, very little obfuscation) which allowed me to access test servers that were testing an unreleased map. Fun times
The state governments are also request Optus pay for licence replacements.
So it seems over 5x more expensive than GitHub actions per minute, not including the $25 per project cost. Is that right?
These are a bunch of straw man arguments against what I said. There is a difference between clicking a link and an extension being able to read the contents of pages you visit -- like your bank records or credentials.

Some of these "choices" aren't actually _made_ by anyone. Even with trust of an author, if remote code is being used and a domain or server is hijacked, then the remote code could be replaced. It's a lose-lose problem for Google and not addressing this problem means worse security for casual users. The boogeyman that they will remove useful extensions is antithetical to their behavior so far.
VSCode is open source, that's why they're basing their IDE on it. Writing a plugin would limit them to the wishes of Microsoft.
The one that says meaningful competition will exist.
According to the source code, the link is broken for desktop (class="footer_component desktop"), but not mobile (class="footer_component mobile").

<a href="#" class="footer-link">Privacy Policy</a>

is a non-functional link.
Just give me one of those jetpacks that was poppin' up everywhere recently on reddit and twitter.

Toss 'em all over the city like Birds and let people zip around in 3-d space lol.

Why have such large vehicles? Think small, think big.
Because you need to follow the trajectory of some philosopher in order to fully comprehend what it is about. You don't understand it by just memorizing the summary from some encyclopedia.
Another con is that I hate the fan noise.
Most any business can ban a president. Put up a sign in your gas station and poof, you’ve banned Joe Biden.

What you’re talking about is the platforms relenting and finally enforcing their own terms of service. In this case, _not_ giving a president special exemption from rules that would have caused another user to be banned.

The only special treatment they applied was ignoring their rules for years. Your imagined persecution was simply equal treatment.
It's completely insane to me to see comment chains like this. Who cares if climate change is man-made or not; we are witnessing an evolving climate landscape, and irrespective of who or what caused it, we can do things to help mitigate some of the damage.

We are quite literally watching the world burn before our eyes, and we are too stupid and self-centered to do anything about it.

> it will kill a million people yearly

And it's even more outlandish that such a number and atrocity upon mankind is brushed away. That is one million humans.
Since I'm curious, I'm only familiar with photo lithography from an electronics engineering perspective. A brief search on DDG didn't turn up any technical details on how these illustrations were reproduced. I would be very appreciative if someone could at least point me in the right direction, since reproducing a color image using lithography is extremely interesting. I follow a few artists who do line engraving, so I'd like to see if anyone is doing similar processes as a hobby/small studio effort. All I can find is similar articles to OP that refer to the process but floss over all the technical details.
Should phone companies get to force you to use phones you rent from them, instead of having the freedom to bring your own?
> Kittyhawk says on its LinkedIn page that the company has flown and made over 100 aircraft

Wow. Wonder where all these are?
Unrelated, but wow. From having a super crappy popup, TC and friends went to 3 clicks to turn off all "legitimate" interest permissions. That’s actually quite impressive.
https://archive.ph/FYpkL
It might be illustrative to actually build a design system for a production application and see how you'd improve the process and tool chain. I have to say most of what you're suggesting strikes me as incorrect.
I'm not saying that it isn't. It just seemed worth sharing that the paper used the same example as you, inverted.
> Facebook ... might be the only social media some of our immediate family have

It's funny how prevalent this meme is. But I'm not expected to have an AOL account just because it's the only social media grandpa has. Or MySpace just for Aunt Lolita's sake. No, they are both supposed to get Facebook accounts because that's what cousin Ralph has. And I'm supposed to move for the same reason. Well, if Ralph wants me to know what he ate for dinner, he can find me at my local bbs.
Indeed, I did not understand the aggressiveness either, in both their comment before I quoted the article as a reason, and in their comment afterwards. I too wanted to match it with sarcasm, but I stopped myself for the same reason as you did.
I think it's a good direction to provide standardized services for running multiple containers as a cloud application. The current state is: get some "legacy" (old school unix) server, pack it into a container (with some ugly shell hackery, albeit in a Dockerfile or Kubernetes manifest), provide configuration through environment variables or rewrite the old-school .conf files through more shell hackery. All state management of those servers is done through more shell hackery (select statements or nc for databases; nc or wget for http services; touch a random dotfile after a certain state is reached).
Excellent counter to the idea that it must have been a coordinated effort with a sophisticated, well-funded adversary using submarines, and therefore Russia.
Not a clicking HDD noise, but I found this one: https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/dataCenterNoiseGenerator.p...
Archive.org has a few usenet collections. Perhaps this one?

https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical?tab=about
It would be reasonable to consider setting up such a paid plan, but that's not what Meta did here, and what they did was totally unreasonable.
To be fair finding working SSL sites is easy. Broken ones, especially for uncommon reasons, are the problem. I have used BadSSL for such tests many times in the past.
Expected perhaps, encouraged no. And I don't see individuals promising thatthey don't outsource or subcontract either. So the only justification would seem to be that people have lower expectations for businesses, which is pretty unconvincing.
Same here, I only have one life and given that I have the means to, I might as well live it somewhere whose values align with mine. No regrets!

(Based on your username I'm guessing you're also in Japan?)
And yet people keep pushing for more and more AI. At least according to a lot of content that the AI recommends for me. Wait a minute...
My guess is partly consumer donations, partly industry donations (e.g. "Google donates $1M to Penpot since it uses it heavily and can't let it die") and, perhaps money from cloud hosting and technical support.

2 is why Linux is alive, too many large companies depend on it for it to die.
Do you also support games using client-side anti-cheat in your OS kernel?
It depends where in your field of view it is. Your peripheral vision literally has no color sensors, only brightness. Your mind just fills it in so you don't notice.

So _if_ they do it right, this should not be possible to notice. That "if" is a big one though.
It’s different because they didn’t make the information/source code available on GitHub and say “go at it”, allowing each user to choose to violate the TOS. They actively facilitated the behavior and received funding to do so.

Also sites block users with AdBlock enabled all the time, how is this any different?
Herb Caen’s First Column (1938)
https://httpdump.io/ is a good one too.
$5k for me. Do they discriminate on estimated geography?
If that's their business model and they want to, sure. I'd guess that most wouldn't because it's not as profitable (they'd lose too many customers).
Ah, yeah what's happened with VRChat is a shame. I don't think we're building the same thing though. We'd like to go far beyond social 3D chat, that may be what it looks like right now, but our aspirations are towards building an open platform for publishing and hosting your own events, experiences, games, and applications. There's a much larger audience for that on desktop.
Then the version that was last open-source would be spinned off and worked on by others in the community.
For now we're in an old New England town with good bones and good pedestrian infrastructure. Not much in the way of crime waves or shootings and the only religious laws are blue laws which I can live with. But the cars are enormous and just keep getting bigger, and housing is expensive.

Moving to a safer country run by grown-ups is something we considered and it's not off the table if things get worse. My wife and I both worked in Sweden years ago, but besides that I have only been a tourist in Europe, and have never traveled outside of that. I'm curious what countries you have in mind?
While I mostly agree with you, banning the personal accounts from their *team* is a bit much. Specially considering how that also includes access to Instagram, and WhatsApp, WhatsApp being the biggest issue here since in many countries that is considered a way of conducting business.
In the 10k leak, there were 151 overseas passports included.

So about 1-2%.

All sims need personal data - otherwise overseas could be a loophole to get a ghost sim.
Thanks for explaining that to me. That's such a fascinating way of looking at it. I wonder how long it will be before we get the Linux of cars. Or the Pine Laptop equivalent.
So much effort has been put into social media to prove that a user is a real person. This is backwards. I want every message I receive from an organization to be authenticated instead. Or in addition to, if you prefer.

Every email or text that comes from an org should have a verifiable signature. It would cut down on spam and would allow for better filtering of important messages that I need to know about. This goes for public and private orgs. I used to think that apps might fulfill this role, because each one is a verified channel, but text and email being the de facto comms makes it unworkable.

Signed messages or GTFO.
That last sentence - the answer is an order of magnitude smaller.
Why are first parties serving unauthorized API requests? If the API request is unauthorized, surely the proper response is "401 Unauthorized" and not "all the data you asked for, but then I'll find the people who helped you and get mad at them"?

The problem here is that Meta wants to plug things into the internet and then control who gets to ask for those things. This is not how the internet works, at all. If you don't want third parties accessing your APIs, lock them down.
If I send you something, you should be able to copy and distribute it as you see fit, no matter what I wish you would and wouldn't do with it, and my recourse should be limited to not sending you more things in the future.
If the users were building the source code and deploying it to their devices, sure. That’s not what’s happening here though.

This isn’t DeCSS, this is a company trying to build and sell a DVD duplicator that advertises that it rips copyrighted content and also removes the previews.
Is this a US thing? I have samsung tizen high end TV in Europe and there are no ads whatsoever.
> There's no reason I should have to be subjected to untold tracking, snooping and advertising functionality to be able to post or look at photos and comment on them.

You don’t! Just don’t use meta products at all!
The Rise of Avatarism
> Twitter itself has never made a client as good as TweetDeck or TweetBot, and invariably never will.

tweetdeck.twitter.com exists and I use it regularly, what am I missing?
> We profoundly believe that the metaverse should be free - both free as in beer, and free as in speech.

Good.

For me the real test for VR stuff, and why I haven't bothered with current VR offerings at all, is how much freedom you really have. Most platforms I heard of so far impose weird, often ideologically/culturally-driven, restrictions on your actions and content that it just isn't worth my time. Even open source software, like Stable Diffusion, can suffer from this (yes, you can edit the code to remove filters, but most people can't and won't).

Normal people, even some seniors I talked with, are starting to notice the excessive influence and control big tech is exerting on our interactions with each other. If Third Room plays this right, and I hope they do, I believe they have a genuine shot at being the Firefox to Meta's IE before it ever becomes a thing.

Good luck to everyone involved.
>What's bizarre is that the YouTube app on a Google Android TV is markedly worse than YouTube on the Apple TV.

It's a longstanding thing with Google that its iOS apps are better than its Android apps. Google Voice for iOS, for example, got certain functionality years before Android did.
Does Microsoft get blamed every time credentials get stolen from a Windows box? Why would this be any different?
"Given its wealth" America is basically dirt poor. We have almost no public realm worth having. The only things we have that make us seem wealthy are things you can easily count, like bank accounts and big TVs and huge medical bills that make our GDP seem artificially high.
In this case, the third-party telephone is allowing unlimited free calls using Ma Bell's infrastructure...

I agree with you that Meta is ass for society. Simultaneously, these third-parties are parasitic. Ultimately everyone sucks here.
Actual law is here: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2017L00399/Html/Text... and you can see what Amaysim requires here: https://www.amaysim.com.au/help/mobile/getting-started/accep...

The ACMA determination is pretty hard to parse unfortunately.
It's like helicopters. Cheaper and faster.
Roofs? I mean, bringing a flying thing on a busy city street where it has to contend with everything from wires to delivery drones does seem like a bad ideas, but landing on the roof of your office building is pretty much ideal, and doesn't seem to need major infrastructure.

You won't be able to call one up to a street corner, but that doesn't necessarily mean there's no money to make. The first thing they'll do is just take the helicopter market and slide the supply/demand curves to wherever they can go at 1/10 of the price. Only when this is done they need to look for completely different models.
Hmm.. we submitted our new extension about a month ago? and it had to be MV3.
That's exactly what phone companies used to do, and they only stopped when the government made them stop. It was more profitable for them, at our expense.