BrainVirus

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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Redesign the rules so that trolling is not rewarding. Yes, I know, it's hard.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
They deserve it for supporting shit like Stadia. It's one rare case where smug, annoying assholes who are cheerleading the destruction of personal computing (and, if you pay attention, the slow abolition of private property) are facing
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
I think a lot of people here need to read A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century. Too many simplistic "hacks" are being proudly discussed without thinking about higher-levels issues and consequences. Yes, you might tri
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
I'm not sure I like it. This Small Web stuff (and other similar movements) is close enough to plausibility to capture people's time and attention, but far enough from reality to inevitably fail without making a dent in the awful s
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>The mundane interface between human and machine caused social anxiety in the late nineteenth century The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (written in 1909) has a lot of buttons. The novella is an indication that they were more of a symbo
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Mark my words: this narrative will be used to deepen global surveillance, further centralize our communication systems and greenlight various large-scale manipulations (e.g. censorship). Kind of like 2FA is currently "solved" by r
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How does Google get away with this?(odysee.com)
5 points by BrainVirus 4y ago|3 comments
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
It's disturbing to realize that for so many people things like freedom of speech, cultural tolerance and individualism were merely The Current Thing to "support" only while it was easy, popular and fashionable. Still, I guess
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
This is a great comment to illustrate how ideology (especially various brands of nationalism) destroys genuine dialog. Instead of talking about the writers and their works people are now talking about which pigeonhole each writer belongs to
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
They want to be in front of every website, behind every DNS request and now they want to control your cellphone traffic - while bleeding money by tens of millions of dollars a year and making promises they don't intent to keep. The tra
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Implausible Deniability(odysee.com)
2 points by BrainVirus 4y ago|0 comments
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
We need better news outlets than Wired to cover stuff like this. Frankly, after the last few years I don't trust a word they say about freedom of speech on the Internet. I don't have any reliable knowledge about Iran, so there is
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
The modern approach is to do a universal rest: *, *:before, *:after { all: unset; display: revert; box-sizing: border-box; }
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>The irony here is that Youtube videos from ten years ago are still alive and well. Roughly 1/3 of my YouTube bookmarks are dead and most of them are much more recent than 10 years. They purge videos at an alarming rate.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Ever tried to look up some news from 12 years ago? I have a better one for you. Ever wondered why it's so hard? Why web protocols have nothing related to archiving? Why web browsers are a hellscape for aggregating information o
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Anyone who argues in favor of coercion over persuasion, in favor of PayPal suspending accounts and Stanford creating institutionalized snitching - anyone like that clearly considers themselves a part of the orthodoxy and believes all the co
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>I guess they consider some kinds of speech more free than others. False equivalency. Setting up a snitch website has little to do with speech and everything to do with administrative action. Clearly, many people here don't unders
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Who needed it? People who like to deny the obvious, even when the obvious is stated by Ph.Ds. in psychology like Jonathan Haidt.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
This is not an exception. This is the norm. All major social media platforms operate under the assumption that it's better to ban 100 innocent people than to let one "bad" person publish something. The scale of censorship is
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Their claim was that adversaries are spreading vaccine disinformation. This is backed up by evidence. Their implied claim was that the comment is relevant to the current discussion. That's insinuation. BTW, did you notice that
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
This flavor of argument-by-insinuation is getting really, really old. Dismissing people or statement because they sound vaguely similar to some foreign source is in itself an obvious propaganda technique that uses exactly the same mentali
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
https://youtu.be/balGGAd6ZrI?t=802
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>We take privacy very seriously at Discord. You don't even have something as basic as adjustable message retention. You host your service on Google Cloud and AFAIK, you don't use E2E for anything, not even direct messages. Yo
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Branding. Discord had references to games, gamers and gaming both in their client UI and official website. Placeholder images, Easter eggs and so on. All of that was scrubbed or replaced. Above all, it was a change in whom they consider the
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
A recent Peter Thiel video[1] has a great comment on this subject. If building 1% extra houses drops the cost of all remaining houses by 2%, would the city be really interested in increasing the supply? Especially if property is seen as i
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
I regret ever supporting Discord with Nitro subscription. At the time it seemed user-funded model would make them less dependent on external money. That simply didn't turn out to be the the case. They are obviously yet another wannabe
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
It's a matter of making people use a dumb mental model that benefits someone else. Even better if the dumb mental model goes viral. "I have nothing to hide" mental model is dumb on many levels. The most obvious one has alread
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>They aren’t being arrested for being anti-monarchy though. >They are being arrested for being rude about it. We're truly scratching the bottom of the barrel of pro-censorship arguments here. This is parody-grade stuff. "I
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
How interesting. Here is a quote from Google: "We’re decarbonizing our energy consumption so that by 2030, we’ll operate on carbon-free energy, everywhere, 24/7." https://sustainability.google/commitments&#x2F
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Plants use the atmosphere carbon to grow and that carbon is then released when the plants die and is decomposed. Plants do not melt into thin air when they decompose. They compost, become part of the soil, feed bacteria, fungi and oth

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