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Real World Divorce(realworlddivorce.com)
70 points by sealeck 4y ago|35 comments
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by sealeck 4y ago
One shortcoming (though it's nice that Python has this) of this is that this isn't checked for exhaustiveness by the compiler (because there isn't a Python one) which makes it easy to forget cases and introduce bugs. Not sure
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by sealeck 4y ago
This argument is patently ridiculous - according to this logic everyone has "free speech" in that they are able to express themselves even if they are attacked for it with physical violence.
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by sealeck 4y ago
Tor provides good traffic obsfucation for both host and clients. I would say it's invaluable to criminals.
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by sealeck 4y ago
Too many.
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by sealeck 4y ago
Of course exchanging information can be dangerous - e.g. when people decide to run coordinated harrassment campaigns - it can also be a wonderful, magnificent thing (e.g. distributing academic knowledge freely) but it's not all good.
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by sealeck 4y ago
> You could conceivably regard almost any comment as "threatening and intimidating" Of course, but I think a threat to kill someone with a bomb is unambiguously threatening and intimidating whereas "I think this person&#x2
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by sealeck 4y ago
Well they seem to be offline now, so I think it worked.
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by sealeck 4y ago
The mean of not platforming violent forums?
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by sealeck 4y ago
Because you (and others like you) are probably not a substantial source of revenue to Cloudflare. Big companies who are the bulk of Cloudflare's sales (and whom they spend >1.5x on courting than they do on engineering) would rather
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by sealeck 4y ago
If you're using the internet to try and threaten and intimidate people then yes, people will try to unplug you from it.
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by sealeck 4y ago
> "Doxxing" doesn't restrict someone else's free speech. It just discourages them from conducting speech under their public identity. That is restricting their ability to speak freely - now they have to hide their ide
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by sealeck 4y ago
Keeping them on the service is also making a decision - that they don't think they're terrible enough to remove them.
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by sealeck 4y ago
UBS 2021 net income was US$ 7.6 billion and they have $1.12 trillion in assets under management.
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by sealeck 4y ago
What about exploits like bugs in compression algorithms or Javascript (with speculative execution)?
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by sealeck 4y ago
Almost as good as https://pernos.co (a commercial product built on top of rr produced by the developers of rr)
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by sealeck 4y ago
> You can consider it immoral that the NSA monitored the communications of Angela Merkel or the italian ministry of defense, but that isn't whistle-blowing. It's the reason that the NSA exists. It is definitely whisteblowing to
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by sealeck 4y ago
Yes
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by sealeck 4y ago
> Do you believe investigative journalism has a place in our society? Yes and KiwiFarms is not investigative journalism - they're harrassing and doxxing private individuals with clearly personal malicious intent. The key part of inv
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by sealeck 4y ago
I would be very interested to meet the lawyer who cleared the phrase "While we will generally follow legal orders to restrict security and conduit services," for publication
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by sealeck 4y ago
> Instead of just existing as a small number of weirdos on mainstream platforms with millions of users, they are now building their own silos. This is _not_ about that - these people are building their own siloes; Cloudflare are hosting
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by sealeck 4y ago
Hosting content and distributing it are different things (in the same way that printing letters for someone is very different to operating a mail service carrying everyone's letters).
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by sealeck 4y ago
> They're attacking infrastructure due to political motives. They're attacking KiwiFarms for their agenda of trying to drive people to commit suicide.
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by sealeck 4y ago
> Snowden did enormous damage to US and allies with his indiscriminate distribution of classified information Sure, in the same way that the police do to organised white-collar criminals when they arrest them and put them in prison.
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by sealeck 4y ago
Except this isn't a "we should record everyone's interactions to stop terrorism" it's "we should stop hosting propaganda for terrorists, especially when that cessation doesn't harm others (dropping hosting
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by sealeck 4y ago
I broadly support free speech, but not hate speech.
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by sealeck 4y ago
> That said, it's commendable that Cloudflare hosts them while making sure to donate to an equivalent cause to offset the grime. I _think_ they are/were providing these services free of charge.
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by sealeck 4y ago
> It actually is commendable because white people have a right to exist, and to mutually organize to advocate for themselves, same as any other racial identity. This is clearly not what the Daily Stormer were doing - they were discussing
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by sealeck 4y ago
This is a remarkably facile comment; on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram you can find people who aren't out to drive trans people to commit suicide, and content which isn't about how to best call SWAT teams to people's homes.
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by sealeck 4y ago
> They are exact type of customer who need DDOS protection the most. They (KiwiFarms, Daily Stormer) would be better not on the internet. > They've decided they want to be seen as a utility. This isn't how law works - just a

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