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I bet they just acquire Crayta to have their own Roblox-like game with more realism.

The point is they're refuting your claim of intent.

The mechanisms used in the earlier era - law, common sense, etc., have gone out of the window now that anyone can weaponize a social media mob into harassing targets into submission.

What is a nazi? I might say it's someone who was a member of the Nazi party in Germany during the early 20th century.

You might say it's "groups that goals are to harm others"

Someone else might say it's anyone who doesn't support progressive policies because to do otherwise would cause harm to people, many of which are "marginalized" and "under-represented".

Let's see if we can agree on what a nazi is before we start figuring out what people are allowed to say and think in private.

>Ideally there would be a public organization, not aligned with specific political groups, making the decisions in a transparent way.

Good luck with that.

Intellipedia was a great way to kill time if you were on watch in a SCIF with no unclassified network access. They used to allow blogging as well, so I had a classified blog where I went over different IT-related issues I came across while working in IT.

Actually, I got in touch with an old hacker friend from the AOL days over classified chat (basically IRC). He had gone Army, but we were able to meet up on secret chat and shoot the shit. Good times.

Why'd the programmer quit his job?

He couldn't get arrays.

The US military granting R&R leave to Thailand, for servicemembers serving in Vietnam during the war, is the reason why Thailand has such a thriving sex tourism industry today.

Also, military members outed as homosexual (when it was illegal) were usually outprocessed in San Francisco, which may have contributed to it being one of the birthplaces of the gay rights movement.

Unintended consequences I suppose

The Armed Forces Network (AFN) broadcasts American media to overseas troops, so long as they agree not to show commercials. Programs still have commercial breaks, so all of the commercials are PSAs developed for/by the military, hence why you saw that commercial.

Human trafficking is a real concern overseas, including in US military areas. The PSAs serve two purposes; to educate troops so they make good decisions and for leverage to hammer them when they don't. (How many times have you seen that trafficking commercial played on AFN a dozen times a week? You should have known better).

I have MFA enabled, so I authenticate with user/pass, then a OTP from an authenticator app, then an SMS code is sent.

It's weird seeing Epik being referred to as the alt-right's favorite host. I use them as a registrar for completely benign personal domains. I did so because they offered Whois privacy by default. That was it. It's weird that it's being discussed like the site/service itself is some nefarious/controversial thing instead of just some of its customers.

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Microsoft OneNote has pretty good OCR of documents and full-text search.

>Google sought to downplay the significance of the move by noting the company conducted “tens of thousands of experiments in Google Search” every year.

Assuming it's not just simple A/B testing, I'd be interested in a list of these tens of thousands of annual experiments to see what Google has been up to. It's messed up to think that even just searching Google on any particular day could be more or less accurate/helpful because we're in the middle of some experiment we never explicitly consented to.

Perhaps it would have been considered xenophobic?

This has already been weaponized by subs like /r/AgainstHateSubs and other vigilante-like subs. Their tactics usually involve posting in those subreddits from sockpuppet accounts, using hateful or threatening messages. The few times the targeted subs mods aren't on the ball, they mass report the post for hate speech to try and get the sub banned, or the mods banned then later request the subreddit for themselves, something of a trophy I guess. On rare instances, they reach out to their freelance journalist friends to write a hite piece.

I wonder if Twitter will be nuking any info from their site, with their policy against posting hacked information and whatnot.

The verification, according to their ToS, was only required if the user wanted to take part in their monetization program. Their ToS states that US law requires them to gather certain PII for auditing purposes. A regular user didn't need to submit anything but an email address.

Kind of unrelated to the point of your post -- what does it mean when any discussion about current events/politics requires every poster to affirm they do not support a particular political candidate. I don't have an answer myself, I'm just wondering if it's considered somethinf like self-censorship or if there's something else to it. Either way, it kinda feels weird to me.

Unfortunately personal accountability vs accountability by group affiliation is a divisive subject between Left/Right.

No one, no matter their intentions, will ever be able to actually discuss any of these issues because we can't even agree on fundamentals like language and "permitted" words.

Because the issue isn't purely against content moderation, it's that content moderation is not applied equally and even less so when those who should be moderated shared the same "values" as the left-leaning SV types.

Because all of their workers are coordinating these actions with one another. That also explains why most of the comments around these political issues have tons of absurd pro-censorship stances on places like HN. They're the same people.

So we've outsourced the parts the government can't do to companies who are essentially shadow actors doing their censorship all while everyone rushes to reply with the "censorship only applies to government" line.

Should there be a distinction when the bad things aren't said on Twitter itself? Ignoring the argument that what happened in DC was the culmination of Trump's incitement throughout his presidency, his order to his supporters to march to the Capitol, and claiming he would be marching with them, was _the_ direct call to action. It was given during his in-person speech in DC. Why should Twitter ban him for that?

I think he was banned because Democrats took control of power and FAANG is telegraphing their compliance to those now in charge of how they're going to be regulated. They're going to over-correct, as they're starting to do with banning Michael Flynn and more will follow.

Anyone on YouTube or Twitter that doesn't outright refer to the people who broke into the Capitol as terrorists or insurrectionists are getting demonitized/banned -- literally forced groupthink influenced by who is allowed to monetize their videos. People on the left are trying to extend the culpability of those who broke the law to those who voted for Trump. Implying nearly 70 million people are themselves insurrectionists. I don't think this will be good for the Internet the next time the GOP gets enough seats to pass legislation. I'd be happy knowing that's the worst of what's to come.

This is such an awesome accomplishment for the team and a great demo for the AZdecrypt program used to help decipher the message.

http://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=3198

Misinformation is such an Orwellian term, considering most "facts" and "fact checking" are subjective unless it's hard numbers, but even using numbers and stats isn't enough anymore because even they must be interpreted within the context of contradictory concepts like a persons lived experience.

Where does one go when Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube seem to take these steps in tandem? The joke of "go make your own social network" has been tried with places like Parler and Gab, but they get banned from app stores, ironically blocked from technically, but not ideologically, decentralized services like Mastodon, or even dropped from web hosts. The open Internet is dead.

Wouldn't the obvious choice be to let everyone have the same access to free amplification? No one is being forced to listen, and I'd rather have the ability to ignore what I don't want to see/hear instead of a bunch of 20 somethings Engineers deciding for me.

In the mid-late 90's, our family got a computer. None of use really knew much about them, but Mom saw it for sale at some rent-to-own place and picked one up. It came with a free AOL trial and before you knew it we were on the Internet.

It was really cool to chat and meet people from all over. It felt like an exclusive club and I soon found myself addicted. It was common to occasionally get in little arguments with other users, especially other young teens. One of these incidents resulted in me being kicked offline by one of the users. When I dialed back up I asked them how they had done it and he was cool enough to show me how to use a punter - a program to 'punt' people offline.

From there I learned about other 'progs', programs that ranged from scrolling endlessly in chats to the more nefarious that allowed one to steal passwords. This intro to "hacking" led me to my first foray into programming with Visual Basic 5, so I could write my own progs.

Eventually I graduated from "hacking" on the AOL service and started reading anything I could find about real hacking. At the time it was believed you couldn't hack on Windows, so I _had_ to learn Unix. Started with some free shell accounts, learned some of the CLI and quickly got banned. I realized my own option was to run it myself. Found out about Redhat Linux and eventually got it to boot. I ran into so many issues that required constant troubleshooting. This sort of led me to fall in love with fixing things instead of just trying to break them. Just stayed with it for the next couple decades.

I hope the situation changes soon. I'm a parent and two of my kids are doing school online. I have been able to make it work, in that I'm not slacking at work or leaving stuff for someone else, but I'm working much longer than I ever did at the office. I've found the best way to meet the demands of work, while meeting the demands of my kids, is the put some work on the back burner. Once they go to bed, I catch an hour or two before getting up and knocking out the work I wanted to do earlier. I understand it's not tenable, but nothing else I can do at the moment.