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Yet we get things like the mass surveillance conspiracy mentioned by other commenters, the Iran Contra scandal, Things like MK-Ultra, where, even up here in Canada, a friend of my dad's mother was actually put through experimentation on the CIA's behest and wasn't acknowleged by the Canadian government for decades.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/brainwashed-mkultra

I mean, just do a quick search about conspiracy theories that turned out to be true and you'll quickly see the kinds of things that have actually occurred throughout history, and how many times the crazy conspiracy theorists were right.

It does make you wonder about some of those louder people spouting the most bullshit and where their funding comes from though...

I've noticed people treat conspiracy theories with the same level of validity or non-validity regardless of the facts or details.

Things like flat earth conspiracies have now inexplicably been lumped into the likes of those who believe in things like.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-que...

Or just question in general the motivation behind the decisions made by those in charge.

There are some very obviously dumb conspiracies that have no basis in reality, there are some possibly far out there conspiracies that could have some merit and then there's conspiracies that seemed ridiculous but actually turned out to be true.

The world is not black and white...it's very grey.

Again, I find it odd these things tend to all be labeled under one giant 'conspiracy theory' label. Much like any theories, some are possibly valid, others very obviously not.

Categorizing these things together as has been done in recent years makes no sense.

>Meanwhile, Google is introducing “Developer identification requirements” to “help us better understand your needs.” In addition to providing your email address and phone number, the following information will also be required:

>Your account type — whether it’s personal or belongs to an organization

>A contact name

>Your physical address

>Verification of your email address and phone number

It seems an odd juxtaposition, you get a lot of people on HN who claim to advocate for privacy, yet don't bat an eye at and even cheer on needing to provide google with your physical address just publish an app on the play store in the name of security.

Siemens Siamatics PLC controllers can achieve real time response in the 250μs range.

Thank you, that helped explain pretty well what abilities are. I felt like I was kind of starting to get what the language was about, then I hit the abilities section and I had no idea what it was talking about.

It looks interesting, I lack an Apple device though so I'll have to pass for now.

It seems to have that same problem many alternatives have though.

My friends and family aren't on there and there seems to be a lack of a way to at least make some new friends on there.

That's not quite what I meant. Sure you can chat directly fairly easy through Facebook, but communicate is more than just that. Keeping to the Facebook example, much of the 'communication' is done through user or group wall posts.

It is notoriously difficult to browse through, responses are sorted in non-intuitive ways, sometimes responses are hidden for no apparent reason, yet people regularly use it to communicate.

When people post status updates or pictures or whatever, they're trying to communicate, how many times have you gotten status or upload notifications from people you haven't talked to in years, but it never showed you your best friend's new baby pictures or something like that?

Twitter, It's designed around a character limit that strictly discourages longform communication. Yet, you get people trying to write blog posts using it, much to the chagrin of many HN commenters, and generally, the quality of most communication suffers greatly on twitter because of the inherent design.

I think social media needs to be redefined. What the average person thinks social media is is very different than what it actually is.

I think a lot of people think big social media platforms are actually communication platforms, they're not. They're designed intentionally to be difficult to communicate on.

That the not the purpose of them, it's in the name 'social media' they are the media, you are the social. They are creating media based on the things users post. They're not made to facilitate communication between friends, family, coworkers, etc...

They are designed specifically for users to generate monetizable content and data. They use a veneer of 'connecting the world together' so users will generate content that drives clicks and makes them money.

A true global communication platform would look nothing like the social media we have today. It would be designed around allowing people to communicate easily and freely, it would give you control over who and what you interact with and it would allow you to maintain granular levels of privacy.

Ya know...like other systems designed to facilitate communications...like say the telephone system...

It was one of the captcha forms at the end. It used a clever play on words.

That deserves a medal just for the incredible amount of inhuman patience that must have taken.

That's just an insane level of perseverance.

I personally disable my stock keyboard immediately upon getting a new phone and use AnySoftKeyboard myself.

Looking at the comparison, they're not great, but they definitely look better than the earlier 2013-2014 versions. By a huge margin. At least they tried to keep the style of the originals.

On the note of CRT graphics in general, I have to be honest, despite growing up with these older games on CRT screens of various sizes and quality, as well as playing them on emulators on everything from crappy old computer monitors, to phone screens to laptop screens to high res monitors...

I really feel like people pay way too much attention to and care far too much about tiny graphical details that don't really matter so much.

You're really truly not missing much if you can't see these games on a tiny 20' flickery CRT screen. It really doesn't add anything.

You may need to add a cyrillic character...

Well...I did it...somehow...I did...

00:06:57

That seems too fast...apparently i've experienced these things far too much. It actually was filling me with rage. I came close to saying fuck it...I really did...

Well done to the creators...you managed to, with 100% accuracy, capture every single thing that's horrible about signing up to websites.

That bow thing though...gotta admit, was worth it just for the chuckle I got as I realized...

Yeah, it was a big deal when they made it legal here. Bars, restaurants everywhere started doing them like immediately. Now it's rare to find a place that doesn't offer some kind of happy hour special.

Gotta say, I haven't really noticed any of the problems occuring that the wiki article mentions was the reasoning behind most bans myself. Haven't seen any news reports about those things since the laws changed either or anything.

>Telling people to "fuck off" isn't required (nor desired, in my opinion).

I'd agree with this for 99% of the time. There's a small 1% of the time though...where sometimes people really need to be told to fuck off.

I'm really surprised sometimes at the size of what should seemingly be tiny apps. An app with a single screen that does literally one thing can clock in at anywhere from 20-70MB it's ridiculous. Yet at the same time there's apps that manage to do a lot, but don't gobble up the space.

Looking at something like the Infinity reddit client vs the official one. Infinity clocks in around 38MB the official client is around 100MB. They provide essentially the same functionality, the layout and UI is even very similar, yet one manages to be almost 2/3rds smaller in size.

>Your data is valuable.

Yet again though we're being asked to give it up for free...

>But for too long, online services have pilfered, swapped, and exploited your data without your awareness. Privacy violations and filter bubbles are all consequences of a surveillance data economy. But what if, instead of companies taking your data without giving you a say, you could select who gets access to your data and put it to work for public good?

So taking and benefitting from my data is alright as long as I'm aware of it?

>But, being “data-empowered” also requires the ability to choose who you want to access your data.

No...being data empowered would mean I'm profitting off my own data, not giving it to companies to profit off of.

>We’re kickstarting the Mozilla Rally research initiative with our first two research collaborator studies. Our first study is “Political and COVID-19 News” and comes from the Princeton team that helped us develop the Rally research initiative. This study examines how people engage with news and misinformation about politics and COVID-19 across online services.

And the first study in this is about politics, that great word again 'misinformation' that gets tossed around everywhere.

So, the first study will be using user data on the news they read and how they interact on social media in regards to politics for what purpose exactly?

This makes the world better how?

>Soon, we’ll also be launching our second academic study, “Beyond the Paywall”, a study, in partnership with Shoshana Vasserman and Greg Martin of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. It aims to better understand news consumption, what people value in news and the economics that could build a more sustainable ecosystem for newspapers in the online marketplace.

So, the second study is 'how do we make news organizations more money?"

I'm kind of noticing a pattern here...

>With Rally, we’ve built an innovative, consent-driven data sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of people.

No, you've found a way to convince people they should give you their data for 'research that benefits the world' that's in reality thinly veiled market research.

It would be nice if a company could just be fucking honest for once.

This whole blog post should just be:

"Look, at Mozilla we realized we can make money collecting data, we're going to pretend we couldn't just take it from you and give you the option to opt in to make us money."

Seriously, just fucking say it straight.

The teachers who marked us knew where the specimens came from...

Not OP, but a happy hour is usually a period of time when bars serve discounted drinks and such.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_hour

It's illegal in several States. It was only made legal here a couple of years ago.

>The reason for each ban varies, but include: to prevent drunk driving, avoid the nuisance to neighbors from loud crowds and public drunkenness, and to discourage unhealthy consumption of a large amount of alcohol in a short time.

When I was in school, one of our midterms for wildlife biology was to take a tooth or some bone fragments and describe as much as we could about the animal's habitat, food sources, overall health before death, roughly how old the animal was and a bunch of other things.

It's actually surprising how much information a single tooth or piece of bone can actually give you.

Not to get into a pedantic argument about grammar and such, but seeing as writing is a form of communication, does writing rule of thumb vs rule-of-thumb provide any more or less information to the reader?

I would pronounce both of those the same out loud, I read both of those the same in my mind. Hyphens in places like that are a piece of punctuation that provide no real extra information or purpose, but clutter the sentence with symbols.

Punctuation exists to provide missing information to a reader. What information do hyphens provide in that situation that is necessary for me or other readers to understand what the commenter intended?

>Most movie companies require viewers to invest 90 minutes or longer to absorb their theatrical works in the way they were intended but this method of presenting a story is reportedly being undermined.

>These are heavily edited copies of mainstream movies that aim to tell the whole story (complete with spoilers) within a very short period, often inside just 10 minutes.

>“Fast movies including spoilers would discourage viewers from watching the original films and thus have a serious adverse effect on the right holders.”

If people are choosing to watch a 10 minute summary of a movie rather than a movie, tells me chances are they were probably not ever going to pay for the movie anyway, or the movie itself is full of 80 minutes of bullshit not worth watching.

>The people who are more financially stable and on the same page seem to have the easiest time.

In my experience it's been the opposite. The people I know who are financially secure seem to struggle more to have kids. They'll go to doctors and fertility clinics and such.

On the other hand, the people I know who are not very financially secure at all have had no problems having children. Much of the time they aren't even trying, it just happens.

It seems almost like the people who feel the most pressured about having kids, the ones who are trying and stressed out about it are the ones who struggle at it.

At least in my observations anyway.

Nah, better to just stick to the walled garden and let Almighty arbiters of all that is safe to install guide us.

That's how they get you. First you sideload one app, you think you can stop with just one, then next thing you know you've got F-Droid on your phone, your sideloading left and right. Then before you know it, all your money now belongs to a Nigerian Prince and hackers are ransomwaring your grandma.

Yeah kids sideloading might seem fun, but it's a gateway to disaster. Just say No to sideloading.

I could be wrong, but sifting through that utterly terrible corporate buzzword filled whatever the hell that was...

I think it's what Apple's calling their new Augmented Reality platform...I think...or what the author is calling what could be Apple's potential AR platform...maybe?

I think you and the parent poster missed the intention behind what I was saying. Not that we should have a nihilistic approach, but that the baseline for these conversations should be to assume suffering is a universal part of life and we should be focussing on how to minimize the amount of direct suffering each of us cause in our day to day life, rather than worrying about which suffers more, plants or animals.

It's not comparable, they're two entirely different forms of life, suffice to say, they both suffer, discussions around how people can directly if not reduce suffering mitigate it.

Telling people to only eat vegetables because suffering animals or it's cool eat meat because suffering plants is an utterly pointless topic of debate.

A more useful topic for debate if we're going to talk about such things would be maybe something like mitigating the suffering on both plants and animals through industrialized agriculture by returning to small scale production of both. Or something like that anyway.

The article as framed just didn't really talk in any useful way about the issue.

Which, if you are serious about ending suffering, a plant or animal grown in a small scale way where it can be looked after properly is going to suffer significantly less, even if it inevitably will die to feed somebody.

That sort of implies trying to blow up the universe wouldn't be a fruitless effort in and of itself. You'd have better luck just waiting for the heat death of the universe at that point I think.