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by sanity 9mo ago
> Because you’re invested. You’re a Scott Adams fan. Sure — but I wouldn’t be if I thought he was a bigot. Having listened to hundreds of hours of him explaining his views, I’m far better informed than people judging him from short, out-
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by sanity 9mo ago
> The idea that a manager will go ‘hey, we are DEI hiring Asians’ in the 80s No one used the term DEI in the 1980s. The language then was affirmative action or EEO, and it was very much present in corporate America, including regulated i
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by sanity 9mo ago
> Most non-racists don’t need to spend 30 minutes on cable news explaining themselves to save face. Most people never get interviewed on cable news at all, so that’s not a meaningful baseline. When someone is publicly accused, explaining
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by sanity 9mo ago
What position were you in that would give you visibility into every manager's office in the country?
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by sanity 9mo ago
> a) why he didn't get a promotion What evidence is there to go on that's better than his own account? > b) why he was dropped from syndication. That is well-understood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_bv1jf
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by sanity 9mo ago
If you assume Adams is lying, that’s your call. But if the question is what he believes happened, the obvious evidence is his own account. I’ve listened to him for years and find it credible. Also, for a long time there was a strong taboo a
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by sanity 9mo ago
Any organization with a DEI department, which is most of them. It was pervasive.
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by sanity 9mo ago
> Why would management even say such a thing and expose themselves to a lawsuit? For years, many organizations wrongly assumed that anti-discrimination laws didn’t protect white men. Recent Supreme Court rulings—especially Students for F
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by sanity 9mo ago
If we’re talking about what he believes, I’m not sure how else you’d determine that besides listening to what he’s said.
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by sanity 9mo ago
If anyone cares about the truth he explained what happened in detail in an interview at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_bv1jfYYu4
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by sanity 9mo ago
Why wouldn't you believe it? Racism against white men has been commonplace in US corporations for decades.
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by sanity 9mo ago
> How or why Scott Adams went completely of the rails is perhaps something we'll sadly never understand. Was this opinions he'd always had, but suppressed, did he somehow become radicalized or was it perhaps medically induced,
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by sanity 9mo ago
> He was certain it was due to DEI He was told explicitly by his boss that they weren't promoting white men. > The strip that got him dropped in 2022 featured a black character (first in the history of the cartoon) who "iden
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by sanity 9mo ago
Yes, we have a lot of experience with NAT hole-punching which should work with most (but not all) firewalls, and our plan is that peers which don't require NAT hole-punching can help those that don't support it.
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by sanity 9mo ago
Good question, this has understandably been confusing. They’re two distinct pieces of software created by the same project. The original Freenet dates back to the early 2000s and focused heavily on anonymity. In 2023 it was spun out into it
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by sanity 9mo ago
Freenet-core itself isn’t stable enough to rely on for something like family chat, and River is still missing some important operational pieces. In particular, there isn’t a smooth or robust way yet to handle things like updating the room c
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Show HN: Freenet alpha, a drop-in decentralized replacement for the web
6 points by sanity 9mo ago|7 comments
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by sanity 1y ago
Andrew Kelley is one of my all-time favorite technical speakers, and zig is packed full of great ideas. He also seems to be a great model of an open source project leader.
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by sanity 1y ago
How do people feel about tmux vs zellij?
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by sanity 1y ago
It would add $1 to the ticket price, the goal is more to replace CAPTCHAs (which cost essentially nothing to defeat these days), but you're right that it wouldn't be a silver bullet in the ticket scalping scenario.
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by sanity 1y ago
Keys embed approximate timestamps, so services can set age limits. The system was designed for Freenet integration where reputation can be attached to keys - repeat abuse would degrade a key's public reputation over time.
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by sanity 1y ago
A few months back I built a cryptographic alternative to CAPTCHAs called Ghost Keys[1] that uses a small donation as proof-of-humanity. For donating you get an anonymous keypair that works across services without repeated CAPTCHAs. The econ
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by sanity 1y ago
The psychotic person is talking to cchatgpt, it's a realistic scenario.
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by sanity 2y ago
I've been working on a decentralized group chat called River[1], which will be the first truly decentralized group chat and the flagship application on Freenet[1], a general purpose platform for decentralized apps. Just 2 or 3 bugs rem
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by sanity 2y ago
Thanks! That article just scratches the surface, if you'd like a good overview of the entire system check out this talk: https://freenet.org/news/building-apps-video-talk/
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by sanity 2y ago
Good question! Freenet is a decentralized key-value store, but unlike traditional KV stores, the keys are WebAssembly (WASM) contracts. These contracts define not just what values (i.e., data or state) are valid for that key but also when a
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by sanity 2y ago
The article makes great points about why distributed programming has stalled, but I think there's still room for innovation—especially in how we handle state consistency in decentralized systems. In Freenet[1], we’ve been exploring a n
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by sanity 2y ago
Will do.
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by sanity 2y ago
The original Freenet had over 6m downloads over the years - and pioneered ideas like cryptographic contracts which later formed the basis for bitcoin, but it was always a very experimental project, while the new Freenet is designed for mass
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by sanity 2y ago
This is the problem we're working on with https://freenet.org/ - a general purpose platform for building entirely decentralized services. Our thesis is that the client-server architecture is a fundamental flaw in the w

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