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I get most of my news from NewsNationNow and the Reuters direct feed.

I am a long time current subscriber to the NY Times. I hate what they have become, but still subscribe as they have have a handful of professional reporters. Anything US political from the NY Times is untrusted by me, but their foreign reporters are still trustworthy and doing good work.

I maintain paid subscriptions to other newspapers including NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Las Vega Sun, Houston Chronicle, St. Louis Post Dispatch and Cincinnati Enquirer among others. I believe in supporting news publishing as there is importance ensuring it continues.

Where do you get your news from?

I wish I could find it, but 10 years ago, probably longer now, there was a prescient video where there turned out to be only 4 tech companies left. Something like amazgooglesoft or something. The narrator had a deep voice and I think it was funded by a media company.

Edit: Found it through the keywords, "old prediction video where amazon microsoft google buy everything" lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s&feature=emb_titl...

Unsure.

What I do know is that Google doesn't remove reviews for just anyone. They don't remove Play Store reviews and they do not remove Google Local reviews. Even if an app or a company is birdgaded due to bad news that is someone's opinion.

Hopefully, Google can 1) Send out something explaining their action and 2) Provide regular folks the ability to have reviews removed.

Is the idea that technology will evolve to allow long distances to be driven without having to stop and charge for hours during the trip?

The lack of self reflection in journalistic circles is amazing, but big tech ruined them, too.

1) Writing to appease Google rather than readers. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxLKUM0FlCw) (http://experiment.cjr.org/experiment/features/the-evolution-...)

2) Producing video to appease Facebook. (https://digiday.com/media/the-new-york-times-facebook-live/) (https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/facebook-live-new-york-times....)

3) Have everyone tweet to appease Twitter. (https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/01/dont-try-too-hard-to-pleas...) and how it is going (https://twitter.com/nyttypos).

Ms. Swisher is one of the tech pundits I always read.watch when she interviews someone. Perhaps she can do this with the new administration and find out why we allow the failed social media experiments to continue.

Thank you. I feel the same way.

I vote in every election. There are problems with many elections, especially ones for US President. Those problems are baked into the system we've established as a nation. States run their own elections. States elect US Presidents and not citizens.

I don't think states could coordinate a conspiracy to change citizen votes to steer elections one way or another. Too many moving parts, too many people. It is fair one state has one set of rules that differ from another? Yes. It is the way the USA is built.

It frustrates me to no end that a group of people say, "The election had no issues" just as it frustrates me when someone says, "The election was stolen." Those thoughts are always perpetuated by those who lead political parties.

Thank you for the explanation. Unsure how I wasn't putting 2+2 together. Facebook presumably does have rules against brigading.

I am confused by this statement and don't understand:

"But as Mai Khoi discovered, Vietnamese Facebook is also plagued by unofficial censorship, achieved not by declaring content illegal but by coordinating users to flag it for violating Facebook’s own content rules, known as the “Community Standards.” This dupes Facebook into removing ordinary political speech as though it were hate speech, violent incitement, or gory video."

Is the reporting stating that Facebook in Vietnam forces users to flag things on a list from the government? Or does it mean Facebook in Vietnam removes items the community has flagged?

If the government isn't forcing the censorship then how is what Facebook does in Vietnam different that anywhere else? Users flag things, Facebook removes them.

You are 100% correct. There are those among us that overlook this as the reason for new releases and discontinuing products.

I know I've experienced a point where the decision is made to discontinue something as adding what is needed to move forward will require too much investment versus benefit.

What a remarkable walkthrough.

I think many people can related to:

"But the interesting part is that it looks like in 2017 I’ve done very little work that actually shipped to production in a meaningful way. This is because of a few things coinciding. One, I’ve started doing way more technical direction. Helping teams with the roadmaps, helping design solutions to some hard problems, doing code reviews, etc. etc."

It is always the pull away that is tough. It is needed, but when you look back and wonder.

>There are just legal requirements around certain types of porn for example. Or videos of illegal activities up to and sometimes even including murder.

If I understand your point, it is law enforcement doesn't allow moderation of these items outside of a certain environment? If so, can you suggest further reading of the laws for this area? I have never heard of them.

>2015 Macbook Pro Retina 13"

How long will OS updates be distributed for it?

It could be.

With voting I think the consideration is a barrier for voting. In many states you do not need to prove it to vote. Some states allow a normal vote and some states make them provisional. Still, no concrete identification is required when voting in most states. The voter is trusted to be who they say they are under possible penalty. This only applies to in person voting. Almost all states allowing mail in voting do not require notarization.

With electronic voting you have a huge barrier in that not everyone has access to the means to vote electronically. You disenfranchise a pool of voters.

https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identification_laws_by_state

How many people learned to type by typing in programs from magazines? I did.

By the time I took "typing" freshman year in high school I could type 80wpm. No issues. I received an F in typing and couldn't understand why. When I asked the teacher I was told I was typing wrong and had to use home row. Even though my typing was fast with few mistakes, still received an F. The teacher couldn't understand I taught myself to type using a Commodore 64. He maintained there is only one way to type and I explained he was wrong.

Parents and principal got involved. The negotiated result was a B in the class, I had to apologize to the teacher and had study hall for the rest of the semester.

Everything from Compute or Computes Gazette was awesome. You'd type it all in and sometimes it didn't work ... you could wait until the next month when fixes were printed or you could debug and solve it yourself.

This started to end with the release of SpeedScript, which was the first MLX release from the magazine. Since it was machine language you didn't enter the program lines, but numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpeedScript

Amazing times.

For those like myself that are unaware of what Plaid does: https://plaid.com/what-is-plaid/

"Connecting your bank to your apps We power thousands of the apps that people rely on to manage their financial lives.

Venmo (peer-to-peer payments) Betterment (automated investing) Chime (online banking) Dave (earned wage access) And thousands more..."

The golden age of streaming has come to an end. There are no longer streaming services offering a wide selection of shows and movies, but silos of self-produced or owned content.

In the next 12-24 months it'll be obvious the way to consume media will change from a monthly netflix/apple/cbs/peacock/hbo/anyone else fee to a 30 day run. People will sign up and churn based on what they want to see. Services will pop up around this and handle your memberships for you. Those service will become the new cable companies.

Netflix is still a good value for the money charged.

>Until they killed the comments section

Excellent take.

The comments were filled with additional information and there was a community. I understand why they got rid of them due to creeping toxicity, but they didn't even try to improve it before killing it.

When Netflix comes out with a new show I won't watch it until it gets into a third season. Learned early on the investment of time doesn't pay off as they quickly pull the shows.

Unsure what the future holds for netflix as more and more IP silos are popping up and eventually they'll have to resort to their own programming in the USA to carry the load. Will that be enough versus other services having vast libraries?

> toxic by design and should not exist

I have the same opinion; there are like three of us.

They are failed experiments and need to end. There is no fixing them at this point and society is worse due to what they've become.

I thought the movie was well made and did a good job explaining things, especially to people who don't follow the business.

There is one consideration no one seriously thinks about when it comes to social media companies, in particular Facebook and Twitter. They cannot be fixed. They are failed experiments and need to end. The whole premise of the companies is to guide people's emotions for profit whether where they guide is good for society or not.

There is no way they will be ended due to the money they make and the fact they do some good, but there is also no way they can be fixed. Regulations, corporate leadership or a set of ethics won't do the trick. The framework is diseased and is a net negative on society.

Acronis True Image works well for me. Scheduling with notifications of success/failure. You can backup locally to whatever windows can attach to or to a cloud.

I've used to restore twice: same machine and new machine. Worked without an issue once the USB boot is created.

I think the cost is reasonable for 5 workstations.

I guess I am one of the few who thinks GoDaddy is a decent service. Yes, they front run, which sucks. Could I move? Sure. Moving a large amount of domains with differing end dates is painful and expensive.

I had no idea.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6308116?hl=en

Is this the replacement for google play music?

I don't know if Google can compete with them on this. I subscribe to Google One (excellent live customer service), YouTube Premium, YouTube TV. All services I think are good values. With apple coming out with this I am left shaking my head.

* Used to subscribe to google play music, but grew confused by where they were headed and moved over to amazon music. Never tried stadia after the slow rollouts of games after it went live.

I used a chromebook professionally for 4.5 years. Acer C720 with an i3, external monitor and keyboard. Did everything I needed, reliable and never had an issue. Chrome remote desktop stepped in when I needed something it couldn't handle. Google decided to quit issuing updates for it and I continued to use it.

Eventually, the battery began to swell, so it was time to move on. Looked around and there was nothing in the middle tier for chromebooks anymore that would match the C720s performance. It was either lower end or high upper end $s. Disappointing.

Using Windows 10 on a refurbed E6430 now. Still miss the chromebook lol

What cloud provider does TikTok use now?

>All it takes is one major "trust incident" and accompanying press coverage to destroy "brand loyalty".

What event could meet that rise to that level that already hasn't happened?

I think that problem has been solved for the most part.

https://reelgood.com/

and other services are excellent for it.

To me, the real issue is finding movies/tv shows where you cannot buy or rent them. Amazingly, it is still an issue in this world.

I would love to see The Bob Mathias Story from 1954. It was created by Allied Artists that has been bought and sold a few times ending up at ViacomCBS. Through many weeks of trying to find out if I could get a copy the best I could get was ViacomCBS sometimes allows it to be shown on TV.

I want to buy/rent a copy of movie that exists and cannot. How in 2020 can this happen?

My wife and I have "OG" name based gmail addresses. We only get about 5 emails a week not to us nowadays, but we have also given up trying to route the stuff to people. Somehow we've made it onto government distro lists, business travel itinerary lists and the normal distros.

The worst was when my wife began receiving outage alerts from a Fortune 100 company's NOC. Not just simple Nagios alerts, but detailed technical information accompanying the alert. When we attempted to notify their security team they threatened us for having "hacked" their system. Turns out they realized a former employee added their personal address to the distro when they left so they could help with the transition.

For those unfamiliar, this was the last bill introduced.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/112...