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by alex1138 2y ago
The average consumer who uses teh internetz probably isn't all that savvy So when an ISP borders (and often more than that) on criminal practices or being malicious - which is a lot of them - they're laid prone to all the upstream
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by alex1138 2y ago
It's not hard to make a search engine that respects '+' Unless your new upstart social service is called SearchEngine+ so you remove it (Except duckduckgo also seems to semi-ignore it. I'm baffled. I give up. I'm th
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by alex1138 2y ago
Imagine a world where I grab you by the shoulders and throw your smug ass out of the classroom!
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by alex1138 2y ago
One of the things I'm curious about is given Zuck's reputation for childish behavior and jealousy if alternative links will even get outright censored in the feed (or even through Messenger?!) Google+ "failed" (for vario
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by alex1138 2y ago
How do other LLMs like Claude deal with this?
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by alex1138 2y ago
I consider that book/trilogy/fiveology to be canon and nothing can convince me otherwise
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by alex1138 2y ago
Is this not exactly what one would expect from "If you need info on anyone at Harvard just ask, they 'trust me', dumb fucks"
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by alex1138 2y ago
I'll just piggyback on this to incidentally echo what you said about Jan 6, plenty of footage of Capitol police allowing them to just walk in peacefully (and yes, agent provocateurs) It was a strange day, with a lot of moving parts. So
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by alex1138 2y ago
It depends on if you believe Hamas's numbers, which is dubious
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by alex1138 2y ago
Yeah, sure, it's all Israel's fault, after the 1200 people slaughtered on October 7
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by alex1138 2y ago
I genuinely have no idea what Zuckerberg is responsible for at Facebook other than hijacking credentials ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433 ) and stealing/copying ideas Anyone with half a brain ought to have
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by alex1138 2y ago
Could be an error but it also means they have the worst automated flagging system of all time
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by alex1138 2y ago
Oh boy my favorite HN comment 1) It's "surprising" because this is super vindictive unless they're doing it for very good, specific reasons (otherwise it's just competition killing) 2) "Reserved the right"
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by alex1138 2y ago
It's curious how even when you report things that egregiously should be taken down, they're not But link your (forced) Oculus account to Facebook? That's a ban (yeah, automatically flagged, but still) Or any number of unspeci
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by alex1138 2y ago
The censorship (even here on HN! I seriously hope none of them work as Fact Checkers for tech) is inexcusable You have real, credentialed doctors coming out and saying it's nowhere near as safe as we were promised And yet those (actual
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by alex1138 2y ago
This has to be pretty rare for Waymo? I haven't heard too many horror stories
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by alex1138 2y ago
Could be! Apropos of absolutely nothing, Facebook accounts have proven very easy to hack so that's yet another argument for probably breaking the company up into little pieces
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by alex1138 2y ago
I really don't like Zuckerberg a lot of the time and "if you need info on people at Harvard just ask" ought to have been the biggest red flag of all time People struggle so much using Facebook with its feed randomness and now
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by alex1138 2y ago
I genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm but yeah Kagi aims to do that
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by alex1138 2y ago
"Is anyone surprised" isn't exactly whataboutism but this type of thing comes up so often, I need a word for it Whatever that word is, people need to do less of it, I don't think it ever really contributes anything
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by alex1138 2y ago
a) People were also constantly taking their masks off to talk to people anyway (this is not me saying masks work, but it is me kind of implying people knew something was off and they weren't actually so scared, for the most part) b) Co
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by alex1138 2y ago
Well, that's not any information on its own, but Fauci has a history most people aren't aware of, going back to at least the AIDS crisis
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by alex1138 2y ago
Right and it's not necessarily a causal relationship between that and censorship, but ONCE you see how coordinated it was, it starts looking like part of a bigger effort (David Martin for example has talked about some of this) Otherwis
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by alex1138 2y ago
I wouldn't claim all views are equal either, but people are mighty quick to jump on how misinformation is defined (even when that's been proven wrong) here, I don't equate it to many other things
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by alex1138 2y ago
Lab leak matters when studying viral transmission (and general characteristics of the virus), especially if it's been enhanced via gain of function research It also matters when the basic doctor-patient relationship is interfered with
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by alex1138 2y ago
Maybe, but depends on what each person considers cranks This is one topic where the establishment view is mostly wrong and people broadly engaging in censorship are on the wrong side of history, period
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by alex1138 2y ago
It's kind of mocking 'The Science' (to which Fauci equated himself) but also just how bastardized discourse has become in relation to it Like yeah, science and censorship is completely natural... right? This shouldn't be
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by alex1138 2y ago
No. Sorry. Google, whether through fault of its original creators or not, is actively known to do partisan censorship (which is a hard thing to consider, seeing as how a search engine points at internet sources, but it's still true)
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by alex1138 2y ago
Here's a good primer https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html
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by alex1138 2y ago
Facebook works because of network effects of people you know in real life For the vast majority of people, leaving is not an option, and no, the "you always have a choice" line is simply not correct

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