jMyles

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by jMyles 11mo ago
Storage media and authenticity have zero overlap in the venn diagram. Authenticity is a cryptological feature of the internet, not a topological one. The reason you believe that you're reading something on news.ycombinator.com right n
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Yeah, awesome! I love bandcamp. You can buy our stuff on bandcamp if you want: https://justinholmes.bandcamp.com/ In my mental model, participating in bandcamp (and getting your supporter badge) is a sort of "merch&qu
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by jMyles 11mo ago
> Keeping users safe on Android is our top priority. I'm really over third parties telling me that my safety is their priority. Unless you're transporting my body (ie, airline, ride share, etc), then I really don't need y
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by jMyles 11mo ago
It's not just AI scrapers, it's the entire concept of the internet. The internet _wants_ to copy bytes. That's what it does. Right now you're reading this because bytes were copied from my local machine to the HN serve
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by jMyles 11mo ago
Indeed I do. And it's far from a foregone conclusion that what you call "their right" is real - I don't believe I have a right to stop you from copying bytes on your device. That's insane. And yes, I'm sure th
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by jMyles 1y ago
Well, what prevents you from doing that right now? The threat that I'll call the cops on you? Is that really how we want the internet to work? It's sure as hell not how I want my music to be perceived - I can't fathom want
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by jMyles 1y ago
> The only leverage you have to stop Spotify from taking your music and publishing it without your permission is your copyright of the music. There are a lot of challenges facing a band, including the frustrations of CDBaby and Distrokid
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I'm a full-time professional musician, and I don't know anybody (at least in bluegrass) who thinks that the system of IP is designed to protect us, or is in fact serving us in economic terms. It seems much more geared to protect
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by jMyles 1y ago
> * fully-generated content is public domain and copyright can not be applied to it. Simpler yet - and inevitable, on sufficiently long time scales - is to dispense entirely with the notion of intellectual property and treat _all_ conte
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by jMyles 1y ago
> insane authoritarian censorship Sanity, liberty, and censorship-resistance are virtues. (before mental wellness people get up in my grill, by "sanity", I mean the preconditions likely to make sanity widespread)
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by jMyles 1y ago
He "clarified" on twitter. I think it's very important to presume good intentions, but I have to say, I found these even more troubling than a bailout: > What we do think might make sense is governments building (and owni
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by jMyles 1y ago
I'm concerned that, even here on HN, we are underestimating both the magnitude of this looming conflict and also its inevitable conclusion. The internet is bigger than you and me, and it's bigger than computers. It is an evolutio
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It's also weird how people gatekeep resistance on the basis of their perception that it's motivated by the person sitting in the White House. If people are ready to resist now, let's welcome them, rather than questioning whet
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I think the point is: It's bizarre (and not at all in keeping with the western legal tradition) that particular people can essentially not be named as defendants in a civil matter depending on their employer. Even the "benefit of
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...I'd like to see data supporting that conclusion. Even if police officers disproportionately supported a particular candidate, that doesn't per se reveal their views on this issue in particular.
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Cynically, I imagine that a more difficult and less accurate system is desirable insofar as it can launder criminal behavior as computer error and absolve the perpetrator of whatever kidnapping / assault charges they might otherwise fa
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by jMyles 1y ago
Like the illusion of diversity at a shopping mall, with many 'competing' stores being mostly or entirely owned by the same parent corporations, I think we need to question the degree of independent decision-making at local police
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by jMyles 1y ago
> I find it hard to keep these discussions separate. ...because they're not separate discussions at all. There is no example in history of mass deportations being done according to a coherent rule of law. These two things are not
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by jMyles 1y ago
I don't know whether I can trust your take on this. Have you got a 27B-6?
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Humans are great at identifying each other. As the internet matures (and ease of long-distance communication obviates the need for massive nation states), we can constrain state authority to geographic batches small enough that people are
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by jMyles 1y ago
> If I was in the country legally I would want the best technology to confirm i am the person I say I am. I'm in the country legally, and I don't care at all how often that is confirmed or by whom. > What's the alternat
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by jMyles 1y ago
I mean... I agree with everything you've said here. I'm not sure what makes you think I've mis-framed the stakes.
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by jMyles 1y ago
> the most private or traumatizing moments a vulnerable person has ...and in this hypothetical, this person is serving them via an unauthenticated http server and hoping that clients will respect robots.txt?
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...but the matter of "what the law cares about" is not really the point of contention here - what matters here is what happens in the real world. In the real world, these requests are being made, and servers are generating respons
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I guess I'm more optimistic about the future of the human condition. > You use "legacy" as if these systems are obsolete and on their way out. They're not. I have serious doubts that nation states will still exist in
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by jMyles 1y ago
> There's absolutely a legal concept of making your work available for viewing without making it available for copying This "legal concept" is enforceable through legacy systems of police and violence. The internet does
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by jMyles 1y ago
Sexual consent is sacred. This metaphor is in truly bad taste. When you return a response with a 200-series status code, you've granted consent. If you don't want to grant consent, change the logic of the server.
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by jMyles 1y ago
Yeah, I agree that coverage of him is unduly fawning. We're at a weird time in history where the only people saying things that are reasonable are also saying things that are horrible.
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No big surprise. I don't agree with a lot of this guy's politics (especially his bizarre lean into intolerance for sexual identity deviance), but I do respect his willingness to calmly talk about his vision for hours. I'm hea
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I don't think I agree with the basic thrust of this post, as I do think that there is a necessity to recognize the role of privilege in scientific bias and to adjust through inclusivity. However, I do agree with its conclusions: Nature

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