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eeZah7Ux
·anno scorso·discuss
> process isolation, increased security

no, that's sandboxing.
eeZah7Ux
·5 anni fa·discuss
> Free speech is about protecting the right of the un-popular and views that some may find utterly repugnant

Wrong. From the third paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

"""Freedom of speech and expression, therefore, may not be recognized as being absolute, and common limitations or boundaries to freedom of speech relate to libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, non-disclosure agreements, the right to privacy, dignity, the right to be forgotten, public security, and perjury. Justifications for such include the harm principle, proposed by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty, which suggests that "the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."[4]"""

First, offensive caricatures can fall squarely into "libel" and "slander" and harming someone's dignity.

Second, EBay is not being forced to delist the books by the government.
eeZah7Ux
·5 anni fa·discuss
No, I did not forget the user. The user is the victim.
eeZah7Ux
·5 anni fa·discuss
The distinction between GPL and LGPL seems completely lost on you.

LGPL existed since 1991. Also large libraries and frameworks.
eeZah7Ux
·5 anni fa·discuss
> why not go full-oss, instead of retaining control through a restrictive OSS licence?

The main point of copyleft is to pass down freedoms to use/modify/distribute all the way to the end user.

Instead we got locked-down privacy-breaching smartphones, IoT devices, SaaS, where only the manufacturer benefits from OSS.
eeZah7Ux
·5 anni fa·discuss
> Have you looked at the contents of the site and the driving force of the company behind it?

Of course - hence my point about the conflict between hacker ethic and HN.
eeZah7Ux
·5 anni fa·discuss
> I know that this website presents a corporate money-minded version of the Hacker ethos

That would be an oxymoron. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic is anti-corporate by definition.

> but this level of psychopathy?

Many times I've seen people downvoted to hell for pointing out accessibility issues around heavy websites.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
The technology to run a low bandwidth protocol over onion services has been around for 10+ years.

That avoids most of the need for domain, DNS configuration, SSL and SSL certificates.

A centralized chat server e.g. IRC runs on a raspberry.

Briar, as I said, runs without servers and provides also blogs and forums.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
The last time I looked into it - it required:

- buy a VM

- buy a domain

- configure DNS

- apt-get install

- fiddle with SSL certificates

- debug out a memory leak bug

- ask upstream and be told to use an unstable alpha release

- implement a workaround

- start investigating bridges for IRC, Slack, Telegram

- give up

In 2020 we should expect something like Briar:

- install Briar on your ws / phone. There is are no servers. Done.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
The sad irony is that the Matrix protocol was sold as a much simpler alternative to the bloated XMPP...

...and now it's bloated as well.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
That's right. And the community replies with a smug "you can set it up yourself".

And yet setting a full Matrix stack requires days of work and endless maintenance.

I'd rather use Briar or even Signal.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
Bridges are an usability disaster. Most have been unreliable for many years.

On multiple occasions I ended up talking to maintainers or developers due to bugs.

It's been many years and you can barely use the official bridges for IRC and with many limitations.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
> To my understanding, these smart speakers only phone home when you say the keyword, right? They aren't storing or sending everything they hear throughout the day.

1) There has been various cases of such devices being triggered incorrectly and uploading chunks of recordings

2) It's all implemented in software. It's extremely easy for the vendor to enable more keywords or record for longer times.

3) It's impossible to prove that 2 is not happening already in limited cases

4) There is a proven long history of very effective global surveillance programs targeting every electronic device (phones, cell towers, carrier-grade routers, PCs, servers).
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
That's incredibly naive.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
> Stocks basically are pay, because anyone who doesn't immediately sell them as they vest is fiscally irresponsible.

citation needed
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
...which only proves the point that people are not rewarded for their skills and efforts.

Instead: being good at doing interviews including "looking the part", being strong negotiators, changing jobs often.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
What would a company chose between:

- Spend 1 million to accommodate a union's demands e.g. raise salaries and improve working conditions

- Spend 999999 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_busting organizations that are specialized on disrupting unions, tarnishing their reputation, and manipulate/threaten/sue/bribe/smear their members

In some countries unions has become corrupted, bureaucratic, ineffective. Companies benefit from that.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
Docker? No thanks.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
While this is technically true, it's also true for every other political changes.

All human behaviors are affected by knowing that something is going to end soon or not.

Yet, UBI is often held under strict scrutiny. While the status quo is not challenged in the same way.
eeZah7Ux
·6 anni fa·discuss
> New hotness is one way to entice them.

Only the bad ones.