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alpacaillama··on Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage
If you read what the author said and understood it, you would see that mongodb didn’t open up the firewall and it does have auth protection but the author chose not to enable it.
alpacaillama··on Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees
Was that for all roles or only 5+ years of experience?
alpacaillama··on Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
Here’s one such tweet fyi: https://twitter.com/rotkill/status/1367687681837301761?s=21 Just go on twitter and search for “fanhouse lewd” make sure twitter is not auto correcting fanhouse to funhouse. Lol they are clearly violating Stripe’s agreement and Apple’s no porn rule. All the SFW is marketing to differ from Onlyfans and has worked. :)
alpacaillama··on Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
I agree with your point about the differentiation being vague and the fact that apple should be more clear.

Also apple does disallow porn. And fanhouse also says no porn but every fanhouse creator’s marketing is around suggestive pics. They get around it by calling it “lewd” instead of nude and the app literally has a pay to view picture functionality which some creators use for NSFW stuff. I wonder when Stripe will catch on to this. Basically marketing != what’s happening.

alpacaillama··on Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
I can find you 15 fanhouse creator tweets that are suggestive in nature. They get around the PG-13 requirement by calling it “lewd”. Do you want 13 year olds to buy lewds? Lol def not PG-13 whatever they claim. And from personal experience a creator who has offered to let me buy her nudes on fanhouse’s pay to view. I too can claim something is SFW.
alpacaillama··on Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees
Wonder if they will hire more in UK/Canada now?
alpacaillama··on Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
2. Fanhouse not only has one off transactions but things like pay to view pictures of someone etc
alpacaillama··on Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
Netflix and Spotify don’t offer in-app purchases and come under the reader rule within the appstore guidelines. At least know about things before you talk about them dude.
alpacaillama··on Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
I think this might be a part of their strategy. Do a well timer PR push.
alpacaillama··on Apple is threatening to remove Fanhouse unless they give 30% of creator earning
Going to jump in and reply. Patreon explicitly doesn’t do Pay to views, doesn’t have interaction gated behind paywalls, and is meant as just a straight transfer of $. Fanhouse does a lot of these things which counts as digital transactions. This differentiation makes sense to me. Also interestingly most people I have seen use fanhouse use it for NFSW stuff but Stripe seems to be fine with it? Specifically the pay to view feature which is people basically selling nudes.
alpacaillama··on Microsoft Authenticator Chrome Extention is not from MS and is phishing
I would pay you a $100 USD if you could consistently get a scam like this into the App Store. And by this I mean: - Low effort - Phishing for data - Pretending to be Microsoft.
alpacaillama··on Progress Delayed is Progress Denied (Safari feature lag)
Also interesting to note, that some of those APIs are still in W3C drafts. So Chrome just went ahead and wrote its own implementation without the literal standards body agreeing or disagreeing on them. Again, this author is extremely biased and I don't think this article is an informative take for anyone.
alpacaillama··on Progress Delayed is Progress Denied (Safari feature lag)
Also the author never really addresses if the API is needed or not, or if it provides a good experience. If Chrome has it, it is seen as a positive. Personally, i'm very happy that PWAs can't spam me with "You left something in your cart" notifications on iOS.
alpacaillama··on Progress Delayed is Progress Denied (Safari feature lag)
Interesting to note that the author never mentions one of the biggest criticisms of the Chromium project. That they keep adding so many APIs that other browser vendors are forced to follow them instead of what they want to work on. This has been less apparent on mobile because Safari has a large share but not on desktop. The chromium team is known to build things that the standards body doesn't agree on, ship it, and every other vendor is forced to support it because of Chrome's huge marketshare on desktop otherwise their browser will appear "broken". They're angry that they can't do this on mobile.
alpacaillama··on Show HN: Apple no longer repairing older MacBook Pros
you just compared buying a charger to replacing the battery. Also, I am sure if OP wants to replace the battery at a 3rd party store, they could. It’s been 7 years.
alpacaillama··on Mark Zuckerberg defends leaving up Trump posts
This is one of the worst things I have read in my life. Can we get this flagged?
alpacaillama··on Mark Zuckerberg defends leaving up Trump posts
I thought the same, but what it (and this has happened before) one of D.T’s followers sees this and shoots people? Afaik the post said something to the effect of “Rioter’s should be shot” not by the police or a government force. But just a general statement.

Also i am saddened how the goal posts have moved. Before this it was that people who spew vitriol should be deplatformed but now we are at how this counts as government action?

Also if I was hypothetically a dictator about to do an ethnic cleansing, and post the same thing, would it still be ok? Tbh this isn’t even a hypothetical since Facebook was used in a genocide in Myanmar and did nothing but agreed they fucked up later to 0 accountability.

alpacaillama··on Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter and Facebook: draft
This is the only part I guess we disagree on. I refuse to let a global entity that is not elected or representative of the world in any way be able to control this.

Every court’s jurisdiction only applies within that country.

What if an American court’s order goes against a European one?

What if Twitter moves to a different jurisdiction which has less oversight and buys out the courts? Not probable. But I wouldn’t want a utility to have so much power. Sorry.

alpacaillama··on Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter and Facebook: draft
Again, i don’t disagree. I am asking how you would enforce something like that? Who gets to decide what’s wrong? I certainly hope it’s not Twitter.

My argument is Twitter is a private company. While private company should be able to control what happens with their platform, they have increasingly reached a size where they are public utilities. I believe an elected government (with its own biases) should decide what goes on a published platform than twitter. Because i have no way of questioning Twitter’s decisions. I can question the government and elect a new one. I can’t elect a new Jack Dorsey.

alpacaillama··on Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter and Facebook: draft
Yes but those details are what has protected twitter until now. If you decide what goes on and not off your platform, then you are a publisher and responsible for what’s on your platform. The law says this.

I am interested in what you think about that, ignoring Trump for a second.

alpacaillama··on Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter and Facebook: draft
I hope they look into whether social media platforms can use safe harbour (Section 230) stuff or not. Personally I don’t think so. Since they do act as publishers.

I know HN will focus on the Trump part but I am more interested in hearing about what you think of section 230, safe harbour, social media as publishers.

alpacaillama··on Trump's executive order targets political bias at Twitter and Facebook: draft
I agree. But twitter and facebook claim to be not be publishers but here they are acting as editors (part of publishing). They can’t be both. What do you feel about that?
alpacaillama··on Facebook reportedly had evidence that its algorithms were dividing people
I am sorry but this is a terrible argument. Just cause traditional media does it, its okay for facebook to do it?

We shouldn’t expect better business practices from a tech company and hold them accountable? What is the point you are trying to make?

alpacaillama··on Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
The article also claims that some of these people whose suggestions facebook ignored quit. Is this also cherrypicked?
alpacaillama··on Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
I don’t expect them to come out with a perfect solution but if they can’t fix it and no one else can, but they still contribute to it I don’t see how why they should be above criticism and reproach?

Also the article mentions that even though they had they option to reduce it, they actively chose not to. How is this not something that I shod be critical of?

Why is growth above everything else important? What if they disabled the group discovery part? How is that impossible?

alpacaillama··on Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
Would you care to post the same stats but updated for 2020 then? Also i see that this is statement is also copy pasted on your twitter so I have a hard time believing you actually do read this feedback and didn’t just post This comment as damage control.
alpacaillama··on Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
This is classic whataboutism. What does people being led to believe that fat was healthy have to do with Facebook’s deliberate inability to make their content less divisive
alpacaillama··on Notion for everyone
Hey i am originally from india and what you said resonated with me especially related to the issues faced by migrants. Any way I can contribute to your project?

Thanks.

alpacaillama··on Ask HN: Who has been laid off?
Hey - not the OP but where can I DM you? Do you have an email?
alpacaillama··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hey Peter! I am an international student in Canada hoping to immigrate to the US on an H1-B.

Do you think there will be less competition in the lottery for 2021 because of the economic downturn?

Because I have the option of graduating earlier and make that deadline or graduate normally and apply in 2022.

Thanks. Also how competitive is the lottery nowadays?

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