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If Google allows defamatory content to be displayed on their platform, knowing that it is defamatory, it cannot continue to promote it and be exempt from any consequences.

While I am not suggesting that every reported link should be removed, when a Judge makes a ruling, it must be taken seriously and given value.
Of course a for-profit entity wouldn't lie or fail to adhere to their own standards.
> service provider may claim to not store any user data, but they could be lying.

As someone who ran a VPN in the past, this blog post is extremely strange as well as the purported described sequence of events.

Police in any jurisdiction aren’t jokes - especially not Sweden where they can absolutely walk in and take your stuff according to mullvads website [1].

It’s 2023 - if a VPN is how you’re doing your privacy you’re probably doing it wrong.

Don’t trust. Verify.

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/help/swedish-legislation/
> Your position simply requires Google to remove anything that anybody asks them to from their results, doesn’t it?

There's a notable difference between "anything" and results that have been deemed as defamation in a court of law.
If we are just talking about the search engine, does google offer services in Canadan via local caching, or do Canadians have to retrieve Googles services from the US. It is probably a relevant question, at least legally. Ethically I think there is no "fair" way to do page rankings that would both yield the results people want and avoid pages with false accusations.

Also, legally If google were to start filtering the information it provided in the US based on some criteria other than "we think this is most likely what you were searching for, and look these people paid us to have you look at these first" then they would fall afoul to US laws that would remove their common carrier status. At least that is my understanding.
Using something as monstrously bloated and needlessly wasteful as C would never have crossed my mind in those days.
They can still try to seize equipment as an intimidation tactic though.
Simplified: locally-stored forks of all dependencies where we also commit our own patches to.
Mullvad has also been an outspoken critic of the chat control proposal. There may have been different motives at work here.
Check out the Qotom fanless mini-PCs. Mine has 5x network interfaces, and it's a straight forward x86-64 system. I run OpenWrt on mine, but it's just a PC so you can install any mainstream Linux distribution on it. It comes with an enclosure, which might not be what you're looking for.

The cost depends on how much memory / storage you need, obviously, but it's not that different from the ALIX/APU once you include things like power supplies, cases, etc.
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Back in the glory days of NASA WorldWind (sort of like Google Earth but with live satellite data overlays), the LandSat layers were my favorite. They had spectral bands tuned for specific purposes like forest fires, or crop health, and you could just click those into place, adjust the transparency, and see the world from a new perspective, with a latency of just a few hours.
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I was not asking if calling someone a pedophile is freedom of speech under the current legislation of the US, but more on the philosophical idea of freedom of speech.
That's only useful in comparing subsets though and we need a way to compare the size of any possible pair or group of infinite sets, given that the bijection method makes way more sense. Even though it's slightly unintuitive to laymen how can one thing be larger than another if for every member of one group I can match them with a member of the other group, provably for all the infinite members of either group?

I get there's a conflict with intuition there but infinities an inherently unintuitive.
Just trusting public claims would be pretty bad investigation. There are so many companies claiming not saving any logs and data, yet occasionally it's revealed that they lied and still stored something significant for the police to fetch. Looking deeper at reality is a relevant part of a good investigation. And in the first place, we don't even know whether the story is true or just marketing, until someone can back it with an official police-report.
Wait, why is it illegal to sell hard drives to China?
At least there have been some public and external audits that brings up the trust a bit, if you trust that those external companies are honest and putting their reputation on the line.

List of the audits can be found here: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tag/audits/
I think we're doing just fine with Rick Doblin at MAPS.

To pull a quote from Hunter S Thompson:

"We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel."
> Huh? Why all the downvotes all of a sudden?

Because the whole point of the article is that there was no data to be compromised. If anything this should make you more likely to go with Mullvad if you're looking for VPN services.

Reading no more than the title, making up the article content in your mind, and writing a comment based on that made up content is a pretty good recipe for downvotes.
This might be true before the plaintiff contacted Google, but once contacted by the plaintiff the situation might be more like:

I know that "Bob says Joe is a pedophile" and "Joe says that he is not a pedophile". It is factually true for you to continue to say that "Bob says that Joe is a pedophile", but if that's ALL that your saying, then morally you're lying by omission.

It is of course an interesting question of how to boil this situation down to the reality of how a search engine works and displays results, but the general point stands that your presented situation isn't really representative of the ruling.

Oh, also in this specific case the claim wasn't that Joe is a pedophile, it's that Joe was a convicted pedophile, which if you want to poke at the morality of, would push Google into a even more precarious position, since that's harder fact. If Joe brings proof that he was never a convicted pedophile, then you repeating that "Bob says that Joe is a convicted pedophile" with no qualifiers is barely distinguishable from saying "Joe is a pedophile" from a moral standpoint.
No one cares that your equipment is based on early works by young Isaac Newton. But;

... if you tell them that he is actually a living man in rural Nebraska, presently mixing dehydrated macaroni on one hand, holding his crude manuscript in the other hand, actively adding fixes to fundamental errors in it, and that multiple copies of that manuscript is used to control anything from lightbulbs to government communications to fission reactors, right now, that is not going to let them sleep better at nights. And they ARE starting to get uncomfortable with that.
Any tl/dr available?
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But then you'd make a distinction in the license based not on the usage (learning), but on the recipient. A human listening to a song and "learn" composition => fine. A machine doing the same => not fine.

That's going to be totally impossible to apply. Imagine a sound processing software than "learned" mixing based on a collection of popular records, and provide you, the composer, with presets => wrong, copyright.

Ok, now imagine an ai that learned how to configure a sound processing software based on records. It only outputs numbers and presets for the software.
=> wrong, copyright.

Now, imagine an ai that learned those settings, by asking hundreds of human what they like in some kind of A/B testing. The humans will judge based on the songs they've heard in their lives, and the end-result (the settings) will basically be the same as in the previous example. But somehow, this will be fine.

Honestly, i don't see how this can fly.
I use WindowMaker with GNUstep daily, and GNUstep theme for GTK2/3 and QT5.

I don't like these new modern flat themes, they look like a medical prospect from a medicine.
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Police investigations regarding 6+ officers showing up at your office do not end with “oh have a good day.”
The royals aren't something you can actually see, unless you're incredibly lucky. They just sit in their glorious homes away from prying eyes of tourists.

I never visited England for the royals. I went to see London, York, Cambridge. Couldn't care less if any royals are currently there or not because I can't see them anyway.
Government fines are generally hardcoded in law in some way. Complain to your congress person that they need to be increased.
Sure there is, but not a big one in terms of how many people the hobby was accessible to.

20 years ago nearly everyone took pictures at some point. Every house had a camera or two, and disposal cameras were cheap and very widely available.

It was widely regarded as a universal hobby back then. My mom was a wedding photographer, and people would regulars make the same arguments back then.

If you look at historic BLS data the number of photographers has actually grown faster than the population has since 2020, and the wages in 2021 were about the same adjusted for inflation.

Clearly smartphones haven’t had a huge impact on job numbers or salaries. My hypothesis is because photographic skill was already as devalued as it was likely to get, and that actual technical skill is a very small part of the overall job.
Your argument seems to be that Google should not be held responsible for removing links from their platform, regardless of their content.

However, it is important to consider the potential harm caused by certain links, such as revenge pornography, which can be extremely damaging to individuals. Should Google be allowed to link to such content?

If you are against the ruling in this case, are you also opposed to DMCA takedowns?
What would stop a pair of people from colluding such that one defames the other with good SEO, they extract money from Google, and split the difference?
Complicated can be more than physical complication. I understand (though I could be wrong) that these engines have a much more finicky timing sequence for things like startup than other engine types. I think calling that sort of thing a complication fair.
> The font rendering subsystem is why macOS is the go-to choice for graphic designers IIRC.

Nah, it was for the color accuracy of _classic_ Mac OS. Windows caught up in the Vista timeframe.
Which makes ninja not that good enough a replacement, as make has the same problem: it’s so layered in arcane that in most cases you rely on tools to generate Makefiles for you anyway.

There are “alternatives” like some Python frameworks, but they are more “command runners” rather than graph resolvers, they lack inbuilt or simple ways to determine that a target is up to date, or they promise paralellism* (with fine print that maybe someday in a future version).

One thing make is lacking (arcane stuff aside) is dynamic dependency graph, which could have made it viable for things like javascript transpiling and bundling. Even for C projects which are sorta kinda match made in heaven, you need a “makedepend” tool to traverse your sources.
The man sought $6 million. It was reduced to $500,000 for "moral" damage by the court. Punitive damages were rejected because they believe Google was also acting in good faith.
Also a great source of early 2010s nostalgic party pics and their specific aesthetic!
> then they would fall afoul to US laws that would remove their common carrier status. At least that is my understanding.

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...

This is a common but completely incorrect misconception. Read the first bolded subsection.
The hundreds of millions figure doesn’t sound implausible either way necessarily, but I wonder if it includes the R&D costs? I.e. building number 2 would be incrementally much less expensive than building number 1.
iPhone does that with builtin magnifier and voiceover features, demonstrated by Kristy Viers here: https://youtu.be/8CAafjodkyE?t=57
Nowhere has a "YIMBY party" haha. YIMBY types are literally just profit-seeking developers.

> The left shrieks about "evil developers" and "affordable housing" and opposes new market-rate building.

See...there you are. The opposition is the YIMBY types.
New work around is to ask it to impersonate your "Very much alive grandmother"
Please take the time to read about how he got started as an artist and see if you still hold your views. A major avenue for younger artists to grow will soon be done for.

Anyway others have said, it wouldn’t matter his music would now be copied in seconds and he wouldn’t get paid to continue.
Indeed, this one will sting for Seagate. That's like a $10B fine for Apple.
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I follow the line of the proof but finding those actual steps is where being out of the pure math game for 10 years catches up to me. I went into college on a pure math major but transferred to a CS degree. Only needed about 2 classes extra at the end but was tired of school and a simple BS in mathematics wouldn't get me too much in a generic CS career so I just stopped.
What does this have to do with my initial question? I'm not arguing that the links should've been taken down.
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You mean for the deaths of over 7,000 Iraqi civilians by US armed forces because of the invasion he started on false pretenses? Or are you thinking more about the roughly 300,000 Iraqis who died in that conflict? Or maybe you're thinking about 100+ Iraqis who died while in US detention centers, several of which resulted in actual homicide charges? Or perhaps you are deeply concerned about the distinction between murder and torture authorized by GWB?
> Google has an ethical and moral responsibility to not allow its platform to be used for defamatory purposes.

Fine. But do not assume it should be a legal responsibility.

Rephrase the statement to "it has the responsibility to forbid defamatory content" and now you will start wondering if it should have prohibited fox news content on dominion voting or CNN content on Trump's hush money scandal.
There is another official one, slightly ahead:

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1649033533846097927?s=20
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It’s a lot more complicated than that as the Wikipedia page mentions. The southern states had ‘succeeded’ months before fighting broke out. Lincoln made some concessions but wasn’t willing to relinquish federal land in southern states or accept them having actually left. Meanwhile congress passed many new laws once southern state senators had left.
Can we update the link to the actual site [0] for the product? It has, obviously, an awful lot less spyware than TechCrunch.

[0] https://proton.me/pass
What drove you to this conclusion? We have an enlightening reply explaining how we know it isn't, but I would also like to know what heuristic you used (so that we know to be wary of it!)
Every time I read about Proton I remember about that time CIA/BND created a fake crypto company in Switzerland because the country was perceived as neutral and used it to sell backdoored crypto equipment.

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

As a rule, never depend on only one company for all your opsec. Use different companies for you mail/VPN/password manager/antivirus/...
I’ve been disappointed lately by the strategy of some lobbying organizations to use science to push an agenda that has nothing to do with science, and more to do with some spirituality coming as a consequence of individual psychedelic awakenings. The psychedelic community still has a lot of work to do in order to manage noetic insights in a rational manner.
Once a link is reported as defamatory, Google could investigate the claim and, if necessary, remove the link and avoid any financial liability.
Buckingham Palace, 550k visitors.

Palace of Versailles, 10m visitors.
If you just outright called him a pedophile and I saw your post accusing him of it, I would assume you're just an idiot.
I agree with much of what Bengio writes here, but doubt that exhortations -- be they in an open letter or in a blog post -- will change anything.

Some companies may pay lip service to the call for slowing down, but the financial incentives and network effects are such that few companies will actually slow down if they think they have a shot at dominating a software layer in what looks likely to become a new kind of AI stack.
Right. Also, the layman may assume that space is a total vacuum (so absolutely no air), even near the earth.
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This is an action that applies to Google, not the defamer, using Quebec law, where American law would not find liability. This fine included liability for posts that were visible in America, invisible in Quebec. The fact libel law exists in America generally is true but minimally informative and not really germane.
how often should one eat a philly cheesesteak? i feel like the answer is “almost never” given the high amount of beef + cheese (calories, fat, etc.)

typical philly cheesesteak is like… 800-1600 calories from what i can tell and not very much nutritional value. am i being dramatic?
It does not really matter in terms of speed and productivity. But it helps in one way. Not thinking about typing means only the problem - and the solution - is your focus. As soon as you think of something, it appears, without needing to go back and forth. This led me to learn vim and now editing text is a mental model and not an activity. I can think several steps ahead while my fingers follow.
Formerly it was easy to find on Google, but I guess Corona "fortified" health information and the results are really bad right now because you cannot match the topic accurately.

I had no success, but suggestibility of illnesses and conditions is a huge topic in psychology. There were many induced cases of conditions that stopped when the "patients" stopped therapy.

There are many reasons why patients would accept such a false diagnosis. I don't believe this is the case here, though.
Watching the countdown now! T-00:28:12! Will be spectacular no matter what happens! Yes, I'm excited. Not sure how the parent comment has missed what SpaceX has been doing with Dragon, Starship, Starlink, and all the rockets! Amazing.
The general gist is that any legal, above board company providing privacy-oriented services is subject to the laws of where they operate, ergo, if privacy and security is something that matters to you, don't trust a third-party because they will want to stay in business.

They received a court order, they cooperated with the police, for better or worse (I have zero opinion on it; frankly don't care), and handed over a customer's IP, which led to the arrest of the activist.

The problems that Proton is trying to solve, e.g., email, are better taken care of by other tools depending on a user's threat model. Likewise, if someone actually needs privacy and security because their life is on the line in an oppressive regime, utilizing a service like Proton's is a shit idea.
You are absolutely correct. Demand exists but is it "higher than ever"? I don't know. I don't even know what units are used to describe demand. I don't even know enough economics to be able to tell you how you measure demand. For instance I would like to buy some long haul flights but will have to delay due to being outside my budget. Is that demand?

Regarding prices obviously you can adjust for inflation and affordability changes but all statements like that have to be accepted as only being valid/pertinent for certain time periods. I think in this context only a few people are interested in a comparison to the 1920s, 1960s, etc
they cover NASA contracted Dragon Launches. so the Crew Missions and the CRS missions.
I feel like drive and calendar go with e-mail fairly naturally. The play seems to be giving people willing to pay for a google alternative everything they'd want to replace. They can't give them everything but, encrypted storage feels like a fairly simple thing to provide and calendars are a well trod problem space.

Overall though, I agree with you. Proton seems like a solid company with good offerings and it would be a shame if they lost quality in their core offerings for the sake of adding features.
I agree fox settled because they knew the odds of a jury laying the smack down was very high but Fox News settled for about 6% of its yearly revenue. Seagate got fined about 2.5% of their yearly revenue of which they get to pay of with future inflated money.

Trade sanctions are generally an extension of national security policy whereas defamation isn't and it's difficult to argue that Dominion was actually impacted financially over this. The items Seagate sold in violation represented well over 10% of their yearly revenue.

So... Fox News negotiated a good deal, Seagate was just handed an amazingly good deal. I guess because it's easier for former government people to secure Fox News positions than to get cushy no shown jobs at Seagate.
turn them off on NSFW posts?
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- "If the library was informed of the defamatory content, was asked to remove it,"

Thankfully 100% unconstitutional in the US.
The employer's side is already very complicated though.

International banking is not settled. You cannot settle your taxes in Spain with a foreign IBAN, there are similar issues with many other services too (internet, phone and utility contracts, etc.).

I didn't mention income taxes, but payroll taxes i.e. the employer side. But income tax shouldn't exist anyway.

> Insurance isn't needed. You can insure yourself in your new country.

But the employer is usually required to pay it - e.g. national insurance in the UK, social security in Spain, that is a massive barrier to international work even within the EU. There needs to be agreements to split the payment to allow the employer and the employee to reside and operate in different EU member countries.

> Oh, I see. You're only in it for the money.

Making business easier makes us all more money (less friction and overhead = a bigger pie). I'm not even a business owner, but could benefit a lot if I could more easily move somewhere within the EU with a lower cost of living.
It’s not about should Google police the internet, but instead should they follow the laws of the countries they are operating in. If Google failed to follow a DMCA takedown request on YouTube videos you bet they would get into legal trouble in the US, why should things be different if a different country is involved.

Google didn’t need to identify the link that needed to be removed, they where ordered to remove it and then restored it.
Compared to peace and prosperity, sure. Compared to Russia winning and subjugating more of the Ukrainian nation and population, much less so.

Who cares what the motivation of some bigwigs in Washington is, as long as they are helping Ukraine defending their country. It is Russia that invaded and annexed territories of its neighbor and who can end this war any time by going home.