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by chipdart 2y ago
> This is just speculation. This is not speculation. When Elon Musk did that stunt on open-sourcing Twitter's source code right after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the source code explicitly included references to the Russian i
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> As an outsider, I can't help but feel that the American election system that boils everything down to just two parties imposes a limited binary lens onto at least the American view of the world. I don't think that the America
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by chipdart 2y ago
> And you're still paying the other performance and efficiency costs of TCP. ROCE also isn't a magic bullet. Tesla's own charts show ROCE achieving also one-way write latencies in the single-digit microsecond range. If tha
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by chipdart 2y ago
> This is a bad take. Here's my take: (...) 5. They get to continue to purchase the cheaper IP switches and retain their existing hardware without retooling everything. OP's TCP offload engines do not require any retooling at a
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by chipdart 2y ago
Saudi Arabia is of course Twitter's second largest shareholder. But Twitter is also owned by Russian oligarchs linked to Putin himself. https://www.dw.com/en/what-do-xs-alleged-ties-to-russian-oli... We're ta
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> Social media is trending towards regional balkanisation. By choosing to frame things like that, it almost sounds like multinational monopolies on social media controlled by murderous fascist regimes and used to push industrial loads of
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It was not banned for racism, antisemitism and hate speech. It was banned for "fake news". Not even that. Brasil requires media companies to appoint legal representatives to handle complains of illegal activity, and instead o
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Up to the extent that you agree with it? That's the norm in Elon Musk's Twitter. Since his takeover, content like white supremacy, antisemitism, and industrial state-level propaganda operations from fascist and totalitarian r
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by chipdart 2y ago
> The government in Brazil does not like X because users are critizing the government. This baseless personal assertion does not pass the smell test. I'm going to explain to you why. Elon Musk's Twitter is happily censoring opp
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by chipdart 2y ago
> It saddens me the Brasil banned X because of racism, anti-semitism and hate-speech. But X is still not banned in the west. From what I've read, that was not exactly what's happening with Elon Musk's Twitter in Brasil. Fr
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Firefox really has been going downhill for a long time. Forcing Pocket into the browser, the ad infested new tab page, telemetry, making user accounts a thing, force installing TV show promotions, etc. It might be just me, but I find P
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by chipdart 2y ago
Can you elaborate? It sounds like puerile specious reasoning at best.
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I don't understand your comment. Could you elaborate on why a company being anti free speech is an issue for Elon Musk's Twitter?
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> I think it should be reciprocal, like in the real world. If someone blocks a provider, a provider should be allowed to block back. Maybe with some automatism. So it is fair and each party has information about what is going on. Or usin
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by chipdart 2y ago
> They specifically mentioned Huawei. Not as a cloud provider, but as a secondary shareholder (i.e., is a company really EU if a minority shareholder is non-EU?) and as a reference to Huawei dominating the networking infrastructure marke
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by chipdart 2y ago
Well not really. China is not a player in cloud computing. All the established cloud providers are US companies - AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. Alibaba cloud is currently one of the top 5 providers but it's market share is heavily skewed by th
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> I guess the criticism of GAIA-X is fair as it is probably a multi-million euro deadend (or the usual kind of hidden subsidies to the huge players). Projects like GAIA-X are aimed at eliminating the dependency on US companies for critic
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> Multi-cloud is simple, just don't use anything that's unique to a particular provider. Using provider-specific services is fine. You only need to be mindful of what it will take to migrate that functionality out of that speci
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> Hum... You mean you've never encountered complex interfaces dictated by their types? I asked you what you personally believe is your best example on when static code analysis ceases to be good. I fail to see how anyone's opin
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> Happiness is a social construct and it is built to reflect what is deemed preferrable by those who call the shots. This sounds something that only a miserable, bitter person would ever think of saying.
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> What are some real world apps using CRDTs that have really good experiences? Google Wave and Google Doc's use CRDTs. There's a fun blog post or two on how an academic paper completely botched it's benchmarks on the under
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Static analysis is good, in moderation; Care to point out your best example on when static code analysis ceases to be good? I don't think there is possibly any copout to justify away the benefits of static code analysis. Either yo
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> The quickest way to destroy “velocity” is by introducing dependencies between implementation details with no barriers in code. Nonsense. The biggest velocity killer is having to deal with the technical debt left behind by those who min
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by chipdart 2y ago
> russian oligarchs are a lower threat to me than US equivelants I don't think so, given "russian oligarchs" already manipulated the US electorate to elect one of their own useful idiots as president and are doing their be
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> I think the general concept here is putting in place restrictions on what code can do in service of making software more reliable and maintainable. The analogy I like to use is construction. The concept is quite old, and it's call
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> (...) ignoring the fact that Durov is a Russian tech oligarch that was allowed to sell his vk userbase to an authoritarian state and is neither in a Siberian labor colony or having a taste of novichok/plutonium poisoning. Adding t
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by chipdart 2y ago
> Related discussion: Not really related though, other than being messaging services. One can't simply ignore the fact that a Russian oligarch controls Telegram. That's a far bigger issue than anything in that threat you linked
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> Most posts of such format I have seen are "we did this and got this", not "we tried this, it failed because of this, then we figured out something else might work and it worked after these modifications". That doesn
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Here's a link to the FCC article on the spoofed AI-generated robocall. FCC Settles Spoofed AI-Generated Robocalls Case https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-settles-spoofed-ai-generate...
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FCC Settles Spoofed AI-Generated Robocalls Case(fcc.gov)
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