apostacy

29 ms·

181.
by apostacy 6y ago
Well, is Verizon allowed to use packet injection to "fact check" a website you view over their internet connection? Because seems to be presenting themselves as a neutral platform, which they have shown themselves to not be. EDIT:
182.
by apostacy 6y ago
> You're arguing for unbounded trolls, spam, and the complete destruction of all online communities. Nonsense. The Internet in general, and YouTube in particular did quite well for themselves for most of their existence, without any
183.
by apostacy 6y ago
> I don’t agree, sorry. They seem perfectly sincere; I’m not sure what you mean by “legitimate” in this context (what would “legitimate” behavior look like here? Never disengaging from another person’s attempt at a conversation, no matte
184.
by apostacy 6y ago
> At the risk of being a little flippant: yes. It is a "threat," in the sense that it's an explicit communication that someone is going to be displeased if you say the thing that you've been telegraphing. The "th
185.
by apostacy 6y ago
> That makes it pretty unlike telegraph operators. I never said that YouTube was exactly like telegraph operators. I was making a much more general comparison between of communication magnates back then and now. It seems like a pretty di
186.
by apostacy 6y ago
> "Consequences," colloquially understood, are interpersonal repercussions in one's public and private life. They're a necessary part of the freedom of expression: such a freedom wouldn't be very useful if exerci
187.
by apostacy 6y ago
Their legal immunity as a neutral platform isn't guaranteed under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. These private platforms want to be free of the consequences of their actions. They want to pretend to be neutral platforms
188.
by apostacy 6y ago
It needs to be said though, that these "misinformation" policies are nonsense. If they had these policies in January, I would have been banned for disagreeing with the WHO and saying that this pandemic was serious. Independent jou
189.
by apostacy 6y ago
> Google doesn't have a virtual monopoly on platforms to distribute video over the web. That is simply not true. ...I was referring to the telegraph operators. Everything I said was true of them. Right down to the toadies that defen
190.
by apostacy 6y ago
The owners of the first telegraph networks banned journalists who reported on forced child labor and union busting. They manipulated elections and stock prices. And you would have defended those robber-barons. Freedom of speech doesn't
191.
by apostacy 6y ago
I completely agree. I never actually used Firefox as an RSS reader, but I did get my mom started on RSS through Firefox, and later she moved on to a dedicated RSS reader. I don't remember, but I think that Firefox would offer to subscr
192.
by apostacy 6y ago
> Firefox did, with a subscribe button in the address bar. https://mariolurig.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/firefox-rs... Is that from Firefox 3.6? I would have to confirm this, but I'm pretty s
193.
by apostacy 6y ago
> The reason RSS failed to reach mainstream adoption by users is because it is not user friendly at all. While I love RSS myself, no amount of tech nerd nostalgia is going to make it popular enough that your mom starts using it. I think
194.
by apostacy 6y ago
> RSS is dying (or dead) because it was incompatible with the dominant business model on the internet -- advertising. This is why Google killed it. This is why lots of professional publishers hated it. > I'd like to see new innov
195.
by apostacy 6y ago
> The functionality was never polished, and there were some fairly serious technical problems with the implementation due to lack of maintenance, seen often in apparently minor things like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/sho
196.
by apostacy 6y ago
I see what you are saying, but I still think it is a far cry from having content providers simply providing the feeds themselves. In the same way that I don't think that YouTube allowing users to submit closed caption transcripts, or m
197.
by apostacy 6y ago
I appreciate you sharing. I didn't mean to shoot you down or anything.
198.
by apostacy 6y ago
That is pretty cool. But unfortunately that is not really a solution. It is like saying that it is ok that a website removed screen-reader support, because you have a screen reader that can still parse the website anyway. The problem is RSS
199.
by apostacy 6y ago
This is why I was so heartbroken when Mozilla removed first party RSS support from Firefox, for what seemed like an extremely flimsy justification.[1] RSS should be ubiquitous, and seen as an essential part of any service that serves struc
200.
by apostacy 6y ago
The cost of the shelter in place order is doing more harm than good. When the dust settles, I am convinced that more people will have died as a result. I'm on pretty solid ground here. The costs of poverty and economic collapse are arg
201.
by apostacy 6y ago
I believe far more people are going to die over the next few years from the economic collapse than the pandemic would have killed had we used the Swedish model. For most readers of HN, this has just been like a vacation. Our investments hav
202.
by apostacy 6y ago
Meanwhile, Sweden never had shelter in place orders, and they did not fare worse than France or Ireland.
203.
by apostacy 6y ago
It would be great if people could correct the record instead of just cowardly downvoting me. If I am presenting something that is untrue, please let me know. Am I being paranoid for not trusting Google, Facebook or the federal government?
204.
by apostacy 6y ago
Restricted devices (Most Android and iOS devices) that can only trust certificates that are ultimately controlled by the government is a far greater vector for censorship. Devices that can be made to update on the whim of some corporation (
205.
by apostacy 6y ago
That is correct. I have heard rumors that there are people at Google who want to wield their architecture to censor websites they disagree with. Essentially marking certain websites as malicious, solely because they don't want people t
206.
by apostacy 6y ago
It is wrong to frame this as people not liking auto-updates. That is not the issue. The issue is FORCED auto-updates. Or even just obfuscating how to turn off updates. I've always said that if your updates are such a benefit, then sure
207.
by apostacy 6y ago
Oh sorry, if you want it to work in your README.md, you have to specify the org-mode syntax. BTW it supporst org-mode syntax. Just have a README.org.
208.
by apostacy 6y ago
The only time I would use the `[File](file.md)` syntax is if I'm specifically making documentation that will be published for other people. Also, Github uses Gollum, which actually supports wiki style links anyway. If you are maintaini
209.
by apostacy 6y ago
In the United States, there are controlled substances, and federal law requires that a psychiatrist write a new prescription every month, with no automatic refills. However, it is heavily streamlined. My university medical center and on cam
210.
by apostacy 6y ago
Yes, I have had good experiences with methylphenidate (Ritalin) as well. One thing I noticed is that on adderall I stopped yawning completely. On Ritalin, my body is actually able to signal to me when I'm tired, hungry, etc. The proble

More ›