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901.
by Zak 2y ago
One of my favorite design decisions in Bluesky is that you can set any label from any labeler to off, warn, or hide, including @moderation.bsky.app. If you think that labeler applies the "Intolerance" label incorrectly, just turn
902.
by Zak 2y ago
Technical note: Signal does not support groups of over 1000 people; it supports exactly 1000. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007319331-Gr...
903.
by Zak 2y ago
Telegram doesn't do encryption on group messages at all, nor does it do encryption by default on any messages. End to end encryption is available for one-to-one conversations, but must be turned on manually.
904.
by Zak 2y ago
A temporary hold like that only seems just to me in a case where someone had been charged with a crime and the money is alleged too be evidence or proceeds of that crime. Civil forfeiture is a way for the government to enforce criminal laws
905.
by Zak 2y ago
> The Serbian criminals shared photos of their victims on Sky without realizing police had installed a probe on the Sky ECC servers in France, which allowed authorities to intercept and read every user’s messages. I'm surprised cr
906.
by Zak 2y ago
Reinforced doors and a belief among everyone from passengers to pilots that a successful hijacking is likely to lead to death rather than inconvenience reduced hijacking after 2001. I would be surprised if searching passengers more aggressi
907.
by Zak 2y ago
It is, however worth at least considering restrictions on continuously following a person in public places and reporting all their observed activities to a third party. Of course there are practical limitations on that kind of physical surv
908.
by Zak 2y ago
It's fundamentally reasonably capable of things like full text search and better discovery, which its lead dev and much of the community see as anti-features. There has been some recent progress on search, but being searchable is opt-i
909.
by Zak 2y ago
Probably not. Each server has its own moderation, and servers that tolerate bad behavior from their users get blocked by most other servers. I'm not sure the current model would do well against a large coordinated manipulation campaign
910.
by Zak 2y ago
It did see a big surge in popularity when Musk bought Twitter, but user numbers right now are not growing significantly.
911.
by Zak 2y ago
Who is communicating with whom, when, and usually from what IP address. Signal writes about how they minimize the metadata they can access here: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
912.
by Zak 2y ago
There is a lot people can do to limit their footprint with respect to mass surveillance, and much of it is in the article. There are now more concrete reasons average people in the USA might need to worry about that, such as helping someo
913.
by Zak 2y ago
That's acting enough like a publisher that 230 might not apply. If they decide to make something illegal viral, it could lead to interesting litigation.
914.
by Zak 2y ago
My take on it is that opaque, individualized content recommendation algorithms should be treated the same as human editors selecting the content in question. Something Facebook-sized that only shows users a reverse chronological feed of thi
915.
by Zak 2y ago
The opposite happened; for a while, it did not allow third party installers to run without user interaction but now it does. EU legislation probably had a role in that change.
916.
by Zak 2y ago
P2P is phenyl-2-propanone, an ingredient in some methods of synthesizing methamphetamine. In supply chain terms, it is much harder to restrict than the previously-popular ephedrine and pseudoephedrine because it can be synthesized from many
917.
by Zak 2y ago
This issue is symptomatic of an underlying problem for me: we do not regularly re-evaluate laws to see if they are having the intended effect. American politics might have bigger problems at the moment, but under normal circumstances, I con
918.
by Zak 2y ago
That seems to track pretty well with the rise of P2P meth. It's unlikely many people would return to setting up small labs using pseudoephedrine because large scale operations using P2P have driven the price down to the point that it w
919.
by Zak 2y ago
It means you have to go to the pharmacy when it's open. That's a significant hurdle if you're sick, especially if you have something contagious and you're trying not to expose people to it, or if you work weird hours, or
920.
by Zak 2y ago
Given the prevalence of P2P meth and apparent inability of governments to do anything about it, this does not seem like a rational position to me. If there was any reason to believe that large scale production will ever be substantially cur
921.
by Zak 2y ago
The restrictions on purchasing pseudeophedrine should be repealed. Their imposition led methamphetamine manufacturers to switch to a more efficient process based on different ingredients. Purity and production volume increased substantially
922.
by Zak 2y ago
> 60 court cases with no evidence That's the one thing in the list I'm OK with. Determining whether a claim has legal merit and factual basis is what courts are for.
923.
by Zak 2y ago
Trump also made calls to officials in other swing states he lost attempting to change the result. They weren't as public and damning, but had several of them been successful after all was said and done, it would have rigged the whole e
924.
by Zak 2y ago
The call to Brad Raffensperger asking him to "find" votes has been public for years. I'm in disbelief that anyone could listen to that conversation and conclude it was anything but an attempt to steal the election.
925.
by Zak 2y ago
Seeking votes is not like seeking approval in a social context. Someone trying to win a contested election desires votes for the purpose of winning.
926.
by Zak 2y ago
I think a big part of it is that long-term survival rates aren't very high. If you need CPR because of an underlying illness, you're probably actively dying. If you're an older doctor, you probably know it. CPR has a much bet
927.
by Zak 2y ago
Using both feet is a potential solution here, though I've heard some newer cars respond poorly to that.
928.
by Zak 2y ago
Automated manuals and DCTs also don't naturally have creep, but sometimes it's added in. I imagine that's bad for the clutches.
929.
by Zak 2y ago
The automatic transmissions for all recent Subarus appear to use torque converters, which would normally have creep. Modern torque converters are much more advanced than older ones, so I'm not surprised the option exists to disable it.
930.
by Zak 2y ago
> creep torque Tangent: creep is an artifact of how an idling ICE interacts with a torque converter. Simulating it on EVs seems like a mistake to me, serving only to make them feel more familiar to a subset of first-time EV drivers.

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