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If I wanted to provide a similar experience, targeting a different narrative, and then worked to create my own safe platform, would you disagree with that?

"Ignoring" is just choice. And that concept can either promote or extinguish fair and free communication.

I assume you and I share similar political beliefs. Call it censorship, or call it "choice", it ia clear today not all people have fair and free access.

If the government uses its power to extinguish speech (or to burden channels through unfair promotion of counter ideas), then that is censorship. And that is a problem we should all want to fix.

Shouldn't I get to decide what I ignore?

Works the same way with government. The "I am not aware of ..." is a great trick for when your organization is intentionally silod. The folks who get subpoenaed are left out of detailed info. It's a complete non-statement.

I could bring up examples across both sides of the isle. It's all a big game.

This. Makes everything so smooth. Serverless cloud providers love it too. (Cloudflare Pages, etc.)

That was my experience too. There is/was no formal standard for creating themes, just an empty dir (which they consider a feature). Even if they had one or two "official themes" that would have helped tremendously.

Instead we spent a week researching how popular 3rd party themes did things, and made a hybrid. Then we moved away completely. I really wanted it to work for us and we were so close. Hugo is so fast and is brilliant on a couple of things.... but barely missed.

I can't remember exactly but with what we were doing we were going to be heavily dependant on their Scratchpad, which felt like a hack. It's all just hacks, and they like it. Lack of solid conventions, and they LOVE it.

In the U.S. we used to collect palm/foot prints on every child within a few days of birth. Newborn fingerprints are difficult to collect, as skin is very delicate. Now we require DNA collection at birth.

https://www.aclu.org/other/newborn-dna-banking

With my youngest I found a clever way to "opt-out". Unfortunately at my child's 6 month pediatric appointment at a private clinic, the nurse charged in and demanded a sample to send in on the spot. She said they couldn't proceed with any services unless they sent the card in, as their license would be revoked unless doing so.

https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/in...

In my state you can REQUEST to have the collection card destroyed after 6 weeks, and before 18 years. But they do not guarantee it gets done. Which is just for the collection card. They make sure to "transfer but not sell" the samples to separate entity between that time, which keeps a copy and digitizes it.

This is the worst thing about Signal, IMO. I want to use old phones as backup communication devices (wifi) but can't natively use the software that way.

Authenticator apps, and SMS help them derive you have identity -- which is more secure for them and you. Hardware token via WebAuthn (etc) is only more secure for you.

When they say "for the sake of security" they mean for them too.

There's a reason they want you to verify using one of the first two methods first.

Just technically it makes no sense. WebAuthn is a great technology that addresses many privacy concerns, but once they had an excuse collecting phone numbers they don't want to stop. Even though it's not the most secure method. Google, and many others are the same way.

2FA is often used as an excuse to obtain more PII from people, and to verify your identity, as a whole. Most businesses want to match logins to individuals, not roles. And that's what 2FA provides them.

Sorry you're so glum. Buy a Tesla. It'll put a smile on your face.

-Space access is leading the world. Satellites bring freedom, access, and peace.

-Cars are the safest, fastest, and smartest you can drive.

-Tunnels solve waaaay more problems than they create. Hyperloop isn't so much an 'active' project, see tunnels.

-Robots are extension of AI work for self driving.

-Brain project will help those with physical disabilities, and learning.

-Solar roof and battery at home is wicked cool and useful.

I'm leaving stuff out. Don't know if they take a loss on their cars, but if so that's very common for hardware manufacturers.

I'm not an Elon apologist by any stretch, but you have objectively bad takes here. I can only imagine you just don't like his personality.

Are his companies not leading in Space access? Clean energy? Transportation? Maximizing life? Fun.

The guy is a workhorse He innovates at every turn. He hires the best, and expects the best. He has done a marvelous job incentivizing great engineering, science, and research. Their goals are lofty. He thinks long-term. His teams are largely motivated for the right reasons, and he helps make many of his employees very wealthy.

His intentions are good. He's an environmentalist. He loves Earth. He loves people. He's positive and optimistic for the future. He can be abstract, artistic, and goofy.

From our perspective, he's rarely wrong, and when he is, he owns it. Is he perfect? Hell no. But he accepts responsibility. He engages with the public, and his fans.... and his haters.

One thing is for sure so far, people who bet on him win.

We'd be so lucky to have Elon lead a communication/social platform.

The next step is a social media company that is (1) private (2) membership based (3) no reliance on huge ad contracts, just promoted content (4) can tell the difference between political opinion and hate speech (5) gets out of the way of legal public discourse.

It doesn't need to be web3. It just needs to be somewhat transparent and minimally auditable. Web3 doesn't know what web3 is yet. Most is just garbage, sorry.

> let's you see most (all?) of it.

Who really knows any more. A couple years ago Apple prohibited kernel level firewalls (for security) and rolled out their ContentFilterExclusionList which whitelisted many Apple services, but also created a huge opportunity for attacks. It was quite an appalling gesture on Apple's part.

Since then, attacks surfaced, and they backtracked on their terrible idea.

https://www.itpro.co.uk/security/firewalls/358338/apple-drop...

>> Apple has removed a controversial feature in its macOS operating system that allowed more than 50 of its own apps to completely bypass third-party security tools like firewalls and virtual private networks (VPNs).

>> The ContentFilterExclusionList, introduced in macOS 11 Big Sur, was flagged by the security community and developers late last year as being a potential security risk. This list’s existence in macOS meant traffic generated from Apple software such as Maps and iCloud couldn’t be blocked by a socket filter firewall.

>> Researchers have speculated that Apple excluded its own apps from the oversight of third-party firewalls in the name of overall security. For example, if excluded, these services may continue to receive updates when all web traffic is blocked.

It's a game, one I don't play, but if you ruin kid fun of course you'll get eyerolls... regardless of your background.

My recovery is just to own it, and say that I may not believe anymore, but "I'm proud of you sweety for believing". Kids won't take that as condescending cause the notion of Santa disbelievers is built-in.

I think my kid flat out told their friends at pre-school that Santa Clause died. Which lead to some very interesting conversations. We watched the cartoon film Klaus on Netflix (would recommend) and that's how they internalized it. =)

Similar here. When they were two we explained that Santa was as real as Mickey Mouse. They got it immediately. They know the mouse stands for something, and so does Santa. We have fun with it all.

Christmas season is so much easier when you don't have to compete with a fictional, fat, jolly, magic man. The spirit behind it has value, and we celebrate that, along with other traditions.

Colocation provider will bring the circuits to provide best-path connectivity based on packet destination. There shouldn't be an additional charge for this. They are incentivized to manage their bandwidth so data transfers fast, as they are likely charged wholesale for fiber availability.

You will likely be charged 95th percentile mbps based on your usage. (Again, "pipe space required" to your needs.) Basically, whenever you're busiest -- 4pm-9pm are popular times for us in the USA.

Some customers limit their bandwidth themselves (like, only allow max 12mbps file downloads, etc.) especially when they have the hardware to support huge bandwidth. Or your colocation provider can perhaps limit max connection to 100mbs or 1gbps if you want.

Power is usually leased in amps. If you go over amps the circuit will break -- at worst case scenario. But typically they get in touch with you and tell you to upgrade.

Also, they do want to know vaguely what your service is. Because you'll likely lease their IPs, they will question you if you do a lot of email (caution for spam), or run a Tor exit node (legal hassles for them in many cases).

> -30,000 feet per minute

Isn't that 548km/h (340mph) and faster than terminal velocity? Nose would be pointed down.

Will "stop you from wearing a mask"? Doubt it. That's assault.

Or "stop you if you try to enter while wearing a mask"?

Or are you talking about wearing a ski mask inside Idaho Regional Credit Union in July?

Jerks are everywhere. And they exist in blue states too my friend.

> I typically get a "it just is" response.

I doubt that. I couldn't STOP hearing the arguments last year. Not trying to be 'smart', but just believe a minimal effort to understand an opposing view gets you there.

> hoping someone might have a better response

Regarding required vaccines for grade-school kids at public schools in the U.S.:

1. Aren't actually forced. You can opt out in several ways.

2. The diseases they treat have a much higher death/hospitalization and/or transmissibility rate among children.

3. We better understand the diseases they treat.

4. Approvals for vaccines were not given under emergency order.

5. Meet the CDC's pre-2019 definition of 'vaccine'.

6. Side affects are published, well known, and readily available.

That's just off the top of my head. And I assume you and I agree on most things.

The article confirmed my knowledge. Around here if the eggs are washed and sanitized then you refrigerate them out of caution.

Last year we got a flock of chickens. They are happy, free-range, and "expensive". But we have loads of eggs and constantly give them away. We've seen everyone immediately wash and refrigerate them, regardless. It's just what people are used to.

We give away the "pretty" eggs. Mine, I pick off the hay and scrub off dried poop before cracking. Even so there really is no comparison between the bland, bleach-white eggs at the supermarket and organic ones grown from happy chickens with a balanced diet.

Bad idea for patents. The public is vastly benefitted by patent expiration. It's also why we can have generic drugs, etc.

Now, exponential cost curve for _copyrights_ is interesting. And arguably already a thing... considering that Mickey Mouse is approaching 100 years old and is not yet in the public domain.

The U.S. had a president not too long ago who tried to shake things up. Ended up giving the patent office truckloads of cash, considered it "job creation". Goal was to improve efficiency, but all it did was unthrottle submissions, and lower quality. On paper, it looked more efficient, apparently.

The U.S. also "harmonized" their patent laws with the rest of the world to reward paper-pushers who are "first to file", instead of those who are "first to invent." Should have been the other way around.

That with lowering submission fees and requirements drastically, those efforts basically turned the office into an even bigger joke.

Getting a patent means virtually nothing without enforcement and protection, and that requires litigation.

and innovative entrepreneurs don't let their competitors see them as competition

Don't U.S. states all already do this immediately after birth?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18945-do-you-care-wha...

https://www.healthnutnews.com/cbs-dna-from-newborn-blood-sam...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23136040/

In my state even when you home-birth you are required to submit samples. You have a right to "request" they destroy the samples after 90 days, but in the fine print it says they will process your request but they won't guarantee that all samples/digitizations will actually get destroyed.

There are a lot of very busy bees out there right now looking to change that.

YouTube provides easy, great advertising revenue. But as individual channels develop their subscriber base, YouTube's role diminishes.

Viewers/subscribers find it easy to "juggle" multiple apps. People just needed a reason for alternatives.

Certainly. The Constitution is a guide to what the visionary founders had in their mind for the new nation. It shouldn't be law directly, but a light to help citizens realize what a balance of power looks like.

In the meantime we want to keep our shoes on at the aiport so we actually pay the government and agree to let them perform ongoing, perpetual background searches on us "to maintain eligibility". :)

A great justification my dear goverment uses is that because they don't perform the search directly, (they use third-party private businesses), they aren't violating the law. Of course reasonable people will disagree.

There are a lot of motivations for private businesses to collect as much information as they can, just in case they might be able to use it in the future.

Thursday of last week a solicitor came up to my door. Didn't knock. Leaned their electric scooter against my house, and was "working" on their tablet. I was just getting home and after parking I passed them and mentioned that I wasn't interested in what they were selling. They said "yeah, I saw the No Soliciting sign so I didn't knock, but they are also having us run a scan."

They were completely unaware of how creepy that is and how obtrusive it can be. I played it cool, even though I was irate. They actually showed me the interface and it scanned for wifi and bluetooth devices and recorded ids, etc. My address and photos of my house were on the screen as well. (Public information, I know, but still creepy.)

Apparently there's a market for knowing what brand of wireless computing equipment people have on site. Imagine that. They worked for a company selling home security, smart home devices, and bug extermination service. My my.

It wasn't every house. They had a queue to go through. Apparently I'm a "valuable" target, people. :)

Well, they were intentional with their use of the word "equity", not "equality".

Looking it up in my favorite search engine I think they are implying they will be giving shorter servers a higher percentage of the collected fees.

As a short person this makes me happy.

But it's a "short"-term win for us shorties, cause as all the tall people are slowly forced out of their service-level jobs they'll be that much more motivated to find better opportunities elsewhere.

Then as more short people wait tables we will be taking less and less of the overall "equity" fee. In the same spot as before, but at an even greater disadvantage. It's a ruse.

There is no shortcut to equality --just start and end there.

The U.S. is now flooded with "fast and convenient" point-of-sale systems (Square, Clover) that ask customers for a tip amount following the transaction.

To the retailer it's an obvious move. But as a customer I'm not going to pay a gratuity for the counter worker to pick up my order behind the counter and hand it to me. Their compensation should be built in to the retail price.... like everything else.

On the other hand, waiting tables is mentally and physically straining, and the quality of service can vary widely. They also act as salespeople. I WANT to tip them, it makes me feel better about being a particular/specific customer. That said, they shouldn't have to rely on gratuity to live a balanced life. Build it into base price. Then I tip as a genuine bonus.

If restaurants want to hide food prices in "equity" tax, then fine. I'll consider that in my purchase. But it only makes THEM look cheap.

There are many solutions here. I can come up with several. All would limit Apple's power, and that's the issue for them.

Maybe Apple should have thought about the implications of "valiently" eliminating choice for (quite nearly) half of U.S. voting population during and after an election year. They played their cards terribly, and it hasn't aged well.

We too have a lot of "general" services still on CentOS 7 and with maintenance support through middle of 2024, there's plenty of time for Alma and Rocky to set themselves apart. I'm a fan of both. Too soon to bandwagon.

For me, a couple month lead to initial release meant almost nothing. (Alma's initial release, as I understand it, wasn't even a 1:1 compatibility clone anyways)

Alma rolled up from CloudLinux devs, which is corporate. I also assume they had tooling already set up for their CloudLinux releases. I welcome and applaud all their efforts.

My initial concern was that CloudLinux would eventually steer AlmaLinux for overly commercial purposes. Not too interested in another RedHat-CentOS-IBM type dilemma. [Edit: Since then the AlmaLinux OS Foundation was created to take over AlmaLinux development and governance from CloudLinux]

What I know for sure is that Greg Kurtzer's reputation with RockyLinux is great and they seem to be rocking it, getting support, great organization, pure motivation, driving the product forward, etc. Maybe others are feeling that too?