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> Twitter is a platform and social media is a technology. It's a cheap form of influence and is being used as a backdoor into our value systems and the narratives we use to understand our world.

No disagreement there.

> You're anti-censorship

Very much so, yes.

> Do you think it would be ok then if a website offer rape porn? or child abuse images? Wouldn't not allowing that being on TV be a form of censorship too?

It's absolutely a form of censorship, but (obviously) not one I disagree with.

> If we as a society find that a specific technology is causing actual harm to our society then we need to have discussions about how those technologies should be used and accessed and regulated. We can't just let our shit get broken because "censorship".

Yes, I'm with you as far as "we need to discuss this" and "this might be a problem".

> Twitter is not a town square and even in a real life town square,sometimes the police have to get involved when shit gets out of hand...are you frustrated about that also? In the actual town square, you need to actual make effort and put your true self on display to exercise your right to free speech. Twitter is a joke compared to that.

Well, except, to go with your metaphor, Brazil is saying "there are some drug dealers on the town square, let's just completely block it off and forbid meeting there altogether". Squashing innocent political meetings of your opponents might be an unfortunate side effect, but what can you do.

Just to be clear, I'm not at all a fan of Twitter. But it is a moderated platform and it's far from distributing the horrible stuff that we both agree should be censored [0]. It's not a shining diamond of intelligent discourse, but it's not in any way an extremist platform and it unquestionably did help democracy by helping normal broadcast the crimes happening in their region. Blocking it is a horrible precedent and really throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

[0] Yes, you will find examples of borderline tweets and horrible stuff that slipped through the filters, but that's to be expected for a platform of this size - in general, Twitter is comparatively tame and moderated.

> what don't you understand about this situation being unique in history?

Because this exact argument is brought every single time someone supports censorship. Free speech is easy to support when you agree with what is being said, what matters is what happens when you disagree.

> I'm just smart enough and sympathetic enough to see how the platform causes issues for democracy and how this is a hard thing to grapple with for western democratic society. Smart people are using our morality against us and plenty of people fall for it.

And other smart people tell us that "actually, we do kinda need to subvert our values in this case, trust me". Now, I do see that there are shades of gray, but Twitter is far from a radical platform (we're not talking about KiwiFarms here) and, usually, when you're right, you don't need to win by silencing the other sides arguments.

With cars, you have a license plate that will usually lead you to the owner. Identifying some random person, possibly with a hood, on noisy camera night vision is a lot harder; when you don't have a reasonably small pool of suspects, it's basically impossible.

Even if it would be possible to identify people with a combination of cell phone area warrants and/or by following all cameras around, this level of effort would be far too high (and too invasive) for small crimes like theft and vandalism.

It does:

> I went in expecting SEO traffic to be hit as Google renegotiates legions of canonical URLs; it hasn't, at least thus far. Instead, everything seems to have just bumped fairly healthily.

(emphasis is theirs)

Like all adblockers. But just like the current "AI detection" tools, how much is detected (and what counts as Ad) is up for debate and most users won't bother, especially once the first anti-Adblock-features materialize.

The point the parent made is not to not make mistakes, but to learn from them. Which they probably did not from all of them, as indicated by the sheer amount of messenger apps on this list, but there's definitely a lot to learn from this list.

If entirely new things is what you're looking for, you're not really looking for a recommendation algorithm [1]. What these algorithms try to achieve is finding unknown songs that are in the same genre to what people already like.

[1] Technically "random song not in listen history" would work out, if you'd really like to call that a recommendation algorithm.

But what's the solution here? Not doing the (possibly) interesting research because it's hard to reproduce? That doesn't sound like a better situation.

That being said, yes, this is hard to reproduce for your average Joe, but there are also a lot of companies (like OpenAI, Facebook, ...) that are able to throw this amount of hardware at the problem. And in a few years you'll probably be able to do it on commodity hardware.

You can also simply use `ssh -X`/`ssh -Y` and use your local X/Xwayland server for the remote app. This way you can start remote GUI apps like local ones from your shell.

The PR is originally from 2021 and has been merged back then, but there's more recent discussion on it about whether this introduces a vulnerability.

Actually, by just alluding to the bug without saying it explicitly, you managed to both be pedantic and not avoid the discussion.

This is not meant as a personal attack; I just want to point out how it looks on a casual reading :)

The root comment said to not allow floating devices in pools with children that can't swim, but only clarified the condition in the latter sentence. The first response (mis-)interpreted it as "do not allow floating devices period" and argued against that, with the discussion getting sidetracked from them on.

It's not related to the post at hand, but the way selected text is highlighted on this blog is quite bad - only the font color is changed, not the background. Not only is it pretty unintuitive, it also makes it impossible to see if you selected any non-printable characters such as spaces or newlines.

> It's interesting that modern movies have to make you think you understand something, before they pull the curtain back and reveal there's a twist. Otherwise people will get disengaged and stop watching before the twist occurs.

So why should you keep on watching a movie where nothing happens just because, in the end, it _might_ be that there is a twist? I do see the more general point about ever shorter attention spans, but in general, it's probably a good thing that we have enough options to entertain ourselves in order to not having to take these gambles.

I've worked in companies with horrendous security, where someone with just a bit of SQL injection experience could have easily carried out the data. Yet, since this was a custom in-house application and your off-the-shelve-scanners did not work, this never happened; the only times the servers were hacked was when the company decided to host an (obviously never updated) grandfathered Joomla instance for a customer.

But even more simply, just setting your SSH port to something >10000 is enough to get away with a very mediocre password. It's mostly really not about being a hard target, not being the easiest one is likely quite sufficient :)

> A little rant: as someone who use three virtual keyboards (English, Chinese, Japanese), it is already a pain in ass to switch them since MS does not follow "last used" switching order (like alt+tab). Instead, it just switches in one direction.

Actually, I much prefer this order. Depending on what keyboard I currently use, I know exactly how often to switch instead of having to remember what I used previously. In fact, I don't even like this order when Alt+Tab'ing, it makes switching between more than two windows pretty inconsistent (yes, I know Windows+Number works, too).

Are you sure about that? People commit financial crimes with possible jail time all the time. Even putting the CEOs life directly in the line of danger does not work, see OceanGate.

I still agree that the punishment for these crimes is too soft, but even ramping it up to insane levels isn't going to make everything perfect.

> but there is no need to stabilize when you have big nuclear base load

Of course there is. What you're stabilizing is varying consumer demand, not the (quite long-term) shutdown of power stations.

> if the message never achieved a physical form such as printing, does the message exist?

The physical bits do exist, though, on the storage medium. Now, of course this does not match our usual image of existing, since the bytes were technically always there, but it still exists in the physical world.

You can actually make the same argument with a letter: The paper and ink were there before, the pattern ist what brought it to existence.

But you would also need someone to search for and find that answer in order to actually deliver you payload. Answering random questions has the advantage that the original poster is incentivized to execute your code.

Except there wasn't any promotion. The only thing close would be Sams tweet, but this was not an official statement and could easily be explained to refer to the concept of voice assistants in general. The fact that SJ was contacted twice was actually publicized by SJ and not OpenAI.

> Why doesn’t Amber have equivalent issues? Such as depending on a specific version of bash, or specific executables to be installed.

Because it's easy (for most cases) to write backwards-compatible or portable shell scripts and, since Amber is compiled, it can simply generate backwards-compatible code.

> That would cut against the idea that bash can target more devices than Python, which runs natively on all platforms.

The point is that Bash is more ubiquitously available, which is important if you write something like an install script.

> It's a minor difference though as there would be no way to detect thata single grounding screw had failed and then the failure of the second screw would cause the same problem.

Actually, having two grounding screws would have avoided this problem - the flap switch would never have been connected to the ground via the feathering mechanism (unless both screws got loose and somehow entangled). In that case, either the flap mechanism would have failed, which would have been obvious, or the second terminal of the feathering switch would cease to be grounded, which could lead to sudden feathering with sufficient EMI. While still not great, a dual ground-screw setup would have been much better.

> Or Microsoft might also extend support based on public demand, given that Windows 10 still beats Windows 11 in install base.

There was a time when this was true of Windows 7 and we all know how that went down.

> they hired a voice actress for the rights to create the voice, she was paid, and then is basically told by the courts "actually you're unhireable because you sound too much like an already rich and famous person".

There are quite a few issues here: First, this is assuming they actually hired a voice-alike person, which is not confirmed. Second, they are not an underdog (the voice actress might be, but she's most likely pretty unaffected by this drama). Finally, they were clearly aiming to impersonate ScarJo (as confirmed by them asking for permission and samas tweet), so this is quite a different issue than "accidentally" hiring someone that "just happens to" sound like ScarJo.

Probably less than you'd think. Moving things on wheels is a lot easier than (for example) lifting and, compared to cars, it does not need to accelerate fast or deal with highly varying loads.

> If you don't know why your body is fevering, don't lower the fever. If you don't know why your blood pressure is high, don't lower it.

And if you don't know why you have cancer, don't do anything about it?

Like, I get the point with fever (which is a known defense mechanism), but high blood pressure is a big problem in the long run and even if it's just a symptom, not doing anything about it is not likely to be the best move.

> It's horrendous and I seriously don't get what's so difficult in just coding these scripts in a programming language that provides single statically linked binaries (like Golang) and just distribute it with your images -- or run them in CI/CD and have init containers and never include them in the images in the first place.

It takes longer to develop (for sufficiently small scripts), it's harder to verify, it's harder to debug, it requires a build step and it's a lot more effort to modify it in-place. The process for calling other programs is also extremely streamlined, making it perfect for integration tasks like CI/CD pipelines.

Some of these issues don't exist when using an interpreted language like Python instead, but this comes with its own problems. Shell is pretty universal, well-known and is, for sufficiently small problems, the quickest solution.

> Law enforcement asks signal if they have an account for a phone number, signal saying "yes, here's when they created it".

Law enforcement says that the suspect chatted with some username/told people to contact him by his Signal username, then they go to Signal and request the linked phone number, which is then linked to the ID shown when the card was bought.

> Wanna ask the two orphans living at my cousin's where their parents are and who killed them?

Applying an emotional argument to shut up discussions against censorship is propaganda 101.