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The war on social media is simply about who gets control over people's minds.
Social media sites like Reddit, Google and even HN gave in to the elite. Facebook is holding out.
Hah. I go a bit overboard with windows managers/desktop environments from icewm to fluxbox to KDE to GNOME. I've settled on XFCE but I have a VM solely to muck around with desktop environments and get my fix.
The worst for me is VIm color schemes. Can't seem to choose one I can stick with.
Would a login collective be any better? I highly doubt it.
You got to be kidding me. If you think the guardian has integrity then it's because you agree with their viewpoints.
They have no more integrity than foxnews does.
It's ridiculous how much certain news organizations get on a "hacker" forum.
That's the point of youtube autoplay. You leave it running long enough it'll go through all the videos. That's what makes youtube interesting. At least that's what made youtube deep diving interesting before all the censorship.
You go through enough books in the library and you will eventually find books on alchemy.
Also, you could turn off autoplay with a click of a button...
No. Both the right wing and left wing are prone to conspiracies about people, events and institutions. The right wing sees conspiracies in institutions like the UN, EU, etc. The left wing sees conspiracies in people like Trump.
They are both the same. 10 years ago, it was the right wing claiming the saudis got obama elected. Now, it's the left wing claiming the russians got trump elected. 10 years ago, the right wingers claimed obama was born in kenya and serving the saudis. Now, the left wingers are claiming trump is working for putin and the russians.
> The article also mentions Trump speeches were more recommended. There's an innocent recommendation: people find Trump more engaging.
This is so funny. 10 years ago, mccain supporters were claiming that youtube was biased towards obama. And the media mocked mccain, palin and their supporters for being paranoid. Now it's the left wing media claiming youtube was biased towards trump. The hypocrisy of the media.
It's amazing how things flipped in a matter of a few years. 10 years ago, it was foxnews and the tea party ranting and raving about obama. Now it's the left leaning media ranting and raving about trump and social media.
The way the news has been ranting about social media, you'd think it was responsible for all the world's ill. The hyperbole and just pathetic nonsense from the media the past few years has been ridiculous. From the pewdiepie nonsense to the insane coverage of trump to the current hysteria over facebook. I wish we could go back to a time when the news media didn't have such obvious agenda. It would be nice if the news industry pushed out news instead of their agenda.
> but that's often not interesting enough to write about for many journalists
If everyone was educated, thought critically and understood stats, where would news companies get their journalists from?
That's nonsense. There have been flat earthers long before youtube and there will be flat earthers long after. Also, the amount of flat earthers is so insignificant, but of course the media has to exploit that to push their agenda.
The guardian and the news media caused far more damage with their fake campus rape culture nonsense than silly flat earth videos.
> Despite that, I gotta say, I'm uncomfortable about the series of media 'hits' on Youtube over the past year.
The media has been attacking youtube, facebook and social media because it is marginalizing their effectiveness.
The news industry was used to having a captive audience to whom it force fed propaganda. What to read, what to think, how to vote, who to believe, etc were their domain.
Social media is allowing people to co-opt that system and seek out what they want to read, watch, etc.
I'm awestruck at how coordinated the supposed "independent" and disparate news companies are working together in this propaganda campaign. And how british media and our media are working in tandem.
Also, if anyone has the time, it would be interesting to see how many "anti social media" stories have been on HN. I'm guessing we've had an anti social media story on the frontpage of HN everyday for the past year.
It's ridiculous.
"statistically useless, arbitrarily rated average of multiple human designed score scales, meant to loosely relate to some quality we want to measure, but in reality is more a game of politics and adversarial score optimization." while honest and true doesn't get the masses clicking. Honest and true doesn't get stories bumped to the frontpage of HN.
I do feel for these journalists. They are like daily vloggers who have to deal with the constant pressure of generating content every single day to make money. That's like clickbait is so rampant in both the traditional and social media.
Except our money and infrastructure is going into other sectors. China has chosen to direct their resources into this sector. Simple as that.
> Kind of like how Hollywood boomed after they pirated all the hardware whose patents could only be enforced on the east coast at that time.
Hollywood boomed when money, people and infrastructure was directed to it. It was a conscious decision made by the elites. There are tons of regulation in hollywood. It's still booming. Using your logic, hollywood should be a ghost town. Ironically, your example proves you wrong.
Is this is the same EU where people of turkish descent who lived in germany for 3 generations are still not considered german and where european politicians of african descent get bananas thrown at them? Where in europe are trans people treated better than in the US? Or are you talking about generations of north african immigrants who are confined to ghettos in france and who are pretty much barred from any positions of power? Or are you talking about the african immigrants in spain who are pretty much relegated to rummaging through garbage or prostitution? Europe isn't a utopia people love to pretend it is. All the monkey chants and racist vitriol directed at black and asian soccer players at soccer games should make that obvious.
How about california innovates more than germany or UK combined? How about massachussetts innovates more than France? Would that be better?
The beauty of stats is that you can manipulate and twist to for whatever agenda you want to show.
More of that objective and quality journalism. Ignoring the grammatical mistakes, why throw in a silly quip like that? Especially considering that europe and china aren't too fond of "immigrants" or trans people.
Sure. Or browse through a bunch of them?
> think it is far more useful to e.g. read the late W. Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix environment.
That is closer to a reference than a novice tutorial.
> It puts everything in context, provides historical background where necessary, and gives examples.
Sure. So do good references. Even man pages do.
> Reference pages are not really for brushing up, but more for the 'what was the address family field of sockaddr called again'-type of questions? Or put differently: they are external memory.
It depends on your level, experience and your competence in the material I guess. I'm not saying it's the only thing you need, but in many situations, it's the only thing you need to brush up.
The terminal is absolutely horrible. If you are going to use powershell, try ConEmu. I also agree with you on the language drawbacks, but it's object-oriented nature makes up for it in my opinion. Whereas on linux/unix you are generally passing and processing text to and fro, the ability to deal with objects can make things a bit easier and more robust.
But considering that the windows world had to live with cmd/ms-dos forever, anything else seems like a god send.
News itself is an echo chamber. Don't see how that is facebook's fault.
The reason news is toxic isn't facebook. It's foxnews, nytimes, wapo and the entire media industry.
Not sure why you think "like" buttons would change that.
The news echo chamber existed before facebook. It existed for zuckerburg was born. It'll exist long after facebook is gone.
The only solution is for facebook to ban news entirely from facebook. But then the news industry would get very upset.
If that was the case, biotech would be booming from the congo to nepal.
Biotech is booming in china because they have the resources ( money, people and infrastructure ).
But this thread is about brushing up on OS and C programming. So not novices, but people who are already familiar with the topic.
You can also look through the man pages for free.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Or if you are adventurous you can play around with syscalls in assembly.
https://syscalls.kernelgrok.com/
Also, the examples for TLPI are available online