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by immibis 10mo ago
When the people vote to abolish democracy that is a threat to democracy
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I am in 1925. One of my political opponents is Adolf Hitler. I think Adolf Hitler shouldn't be allowed to give public speeches promoting Nazism. Is this draconian?
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What do you want to do with kids who happen to be born to incompetent parents? Do they deserve to just have fucked lives? And the state is currently pushing social media onto kids and parents, should it maybe stop doing that, at least?
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by immibis 10mo ago
Absolute nonsense. American social media is used because it's designed to addict children and adults. Same reason people gamble, and buy advertised products.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Famously, there's no point banning kids from buying alcohol because sometimes adults buy it for them.
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In fact, the Australia law makes it illegal for a social media platform to require you to verify your ID. It's like people here are arguing about a law they haven't even read.
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Or maybe, as new platforms spring up and start harming children in noticeable quantities, they'll be added to the list?
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it would also be easier if, like, social media was banned for kids
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It's because it's part of a more general pattern where bad things like this are preferentially done to black people. It's the same with highway locations. For some reason, when choosing where to demolish to build a highway, t
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A single buyer is a monopsony, FWIW
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You've written 6 paragraphs without answering what was asked.
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That's fine. Adults can buy their kids beer, too.
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It's ISP←A→Telco←D→Telco←A→You Traditionally both the ISP and you pay for analog phone lines from the telco. The telco uses digital internally (remember you and your ISP probably aren't at the same exchange), which puts a hard lim
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by immibis 10mo ago
Yeah pretty much. We know Russia was behind a whole lot of the pro-infection movement. Ostriching that fact doesn't make it stop being true. They've been doing stuff like this since the communist days, so they're very good at
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by immibis 10mo ago
Reddit has pockets of sanity, but as a whole it is insane. The same is true of Instagram, TikTok, X, etc. If Hacker News doesn't improve its moderation (especially of fascist propaganda) I do think it should go the same way. HN openly
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by immibis 10mo ago
Because it's the whole point of the extension? If that's malware, so is Microsoft Windows. And Ubuntu.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
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by immibis 10mo ago
And they are right. It's not like anyone outside of the affiliate marketing "industry" was hurt by this - noting that some of your parasocials are likely to be in that "industry" and so you feel hurt on their behalf
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by immibis 10mo ago
Why do you think Reddit is any better than Instagram or X or TikTok, such that it doesn't deserve to be targeted according to the same principles?
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With the caveat that by "speech suppression" you mean "spam suppression" and by "privacy violation orders" you mean "search warrants"
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by immibis 10mo ago
Because Linux not an OS. The flagship OSS OS is Ubuntu, and it's mostly pretty stable. But OSS inherently implies the ability to make your own OS that's different from someone else's OS, so a bunch of people did just that.
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And being 100 things is completely unavoidable when freedom is involved. You can force everyone to use the same 1 thing, if you make it proprietary. If people have freedom to customize it, of course another 99 people will come along and do
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by immibis 10mo ago
Actually the solution to this on Windows is for programs to package all their dependencies except for Windows. When you install a game, that game includes a copy of every library the game uses, except for Windows
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Yes, but Windows is even so bad, it's been decreasing market share of desktops .
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While this is true, you stated a tautology: of course every colo you visited allows visiting.
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Possibly "marketing is all bullshit and hopefully this destroys it faster" It's not like any crime was committed, and civil liability falls squarely on the business here, not its employees. And the whole dispute is only about
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Giving moral support to an evil thing is also evil.
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It's not malware. Marketing companies stealing commission from each other isn't malware. Giving the user less than the best possible deal isn't malware. It doesn't even upload your cookies to see if you're a tester
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Of course it's a competitor of yt. If you download a video, they don't get ad revenue.
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by immibis 10mo ago
So now you're talking about the ntdll.dll ABI instead of the kernel ABI. ntdll.dll is not the kernel.

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