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by alex1138 1y ago
It's not my favorite internet meme but I'm tickled to see "go brr" on a website/university like Stanford
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by alex1138 1y ago
This is true and yet we managed to kick SOPA to the curb (one of Aaron Swartz's finest hours)
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by alex1138 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122
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by alex1138 1y ago
Sometimes antitrust is a hard decision. Where do you draw the line, there are natural monopolies, etc so on so forth Whatsapp screams antitrust. If you look in the dictionary for antitrust, you see Whatsapp https://news.ycombinat
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by alex1138 1y ago
For me the principal issue with Youtube (for many years was copyright overreach, yeah ok safe harbor, but you can't tell me that they couldn't have done a better job) has been censorship/demonetization which is effectively ce
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by alex1138 1y ago
I'm glad this fits with my intuition I think they assume people know what they're doing but a little x session never hurt anyone?
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by alex1138 1y ago
Honestly, the problem is always the f!@#ing hardware, isn't it The reason all this is hard is likely a remnant of what Microsoft did in the 1990s to the point where Non Windows OSes are given the shaft Nvidia, Broadcom, Wifi generally,
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by alex1138 1y ago
In fairness it was apparently both genders
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by alex1138 1y ago
Shoutouts to Nebraska
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by alex1138 1y ago
I know but isn't "massive success" rubbing up against antitrust here? The condition was "Don't share data with Facebook"
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by alex1138 1y ago
Change my mind, Facebook was never invented by Zuck's genius All he's been responsible for is making it worse
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by alex1138 1y ago
Like for example how Facebook search results and graph search seem to encompass an ever enlargening circle of Friends Of Friends (and if not just reset the privacy settings to public anyway)
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by alex1138 1y ago
So you don't even bother watching the video
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What Paramedics Saw During Covid: Harry Fisher on DarkHorse [video](youtube.com)
3 points by alex1138 1y ago|3 comments
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by alex1138 1y ago
Facebook will ban you for the most odd of reasons, but report actual gore etc? Well now, that doesn't actually violate our TOS/community guidelines/blah Gmail/Google has the same problem but I suspect and correct me if I
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by alex1138 1y ago
I tend to raise holy hell about Whatsapp because that's pretty clear antitrust and Zuckerberg lied However with that also being said Google is a menace
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by alex1138 1y ago
Do one thing and do it well, you assholes Be dumb pipes Google has already arguably ruined Youtube, which they own, over a period of many, many years It doesn't matter if the community does all the work, the company will MITM themselve
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by alex1138 1y ago
Unfortunately I don't think you can just transfer willy nilly between firefox versions, at a certain point downgrades don't work, and I'm just trying to figure out where that point is (can you move to ESR for example)
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by alex1138 1y ago
I worry 'hacker' news is going to become more and more 'normie' steadily moving farther and farther away from Barlow's declaration of independence of cyberspace cypherpunk ethos It's easier to make money when y
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by alex1138 1y ago
Fantastic! Now can we PLEASE have the boolean operators back? Especially now that Google+ kicked the bucket?
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by alex1138 1y ago
This is true but Britannica articles are also written by LESS people Less room for activism and other things
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by alex1138 1y ago
There's no accountability either on a liability - legal, prison - level or a personal duty to make sure you Do The Right Thing (when, of course, you have a family to feed) Behavior like what some of the tech giants do (and I don't
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by alex1138 1y ago
Oh- oh god! Blood everywhere!
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by alex1138 1y ago
I'm being nice about this and assuming Google (which also owns Youtube, and it shows, in their decisions about content) is just run by a bunch of naive people and isn't directly controlled by three letter agencies - they have to
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by alex1138 1y ago
This very quickly got 2 upvotes followed by immediately 2 downvotes I see you, FAANG employees.
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by alex1138 1y ago
You can think of Metabook like a chemical spill If you're not swimming in their river, or you weren't responsible for their spill, who cares? But it spreads into other rivers and suddenly you have a mess In this analogy the chemic
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by alex1138 1y ago
What does Ja Rule think about this?
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by alex1138 1y ago
So Frankenstein was right?
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by alex1138 1y ago
For those who haven't he has two pretty interesting books, Bicycle Diaries and How Music Works
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by alex1138 1y ago
Usual endless whinging that goes on in HN comments I'm an Israel supporter but I think the way these companies just hand waive is endlessly infuriating. Whether it's this or Youtube removing covid "misinformation" or oth

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