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It’s too bad there’s no way to use hybrid approaches or use some kind of learning, but for machines! No heuristics to rank and prioritize content.

We better tell every big tech company that what they’ve been doing forever is impossible to do if they don’t also de platform those deplorables.

Gee, I wonder how Wikimedia could make this practice ethical?

Maybe actually tell people it's going to those causes instead of Wikipedia?

Naaaaaaaaah

I agree. We need more American (TM) companies with no competition. In every industry, there should be a Comcast sitting on top collecting rents.

I'm 100% with you. We have to keep the money flowing away from taxpayers and towards corporate interests.

> this has been done properly numerous times in the past

I'm genuinely curious if you have any examples of this. I'm not aware of any modern product at scale that doesn't suffer from these same issues.

Good. I'm so tired of all these folks saying that we haven't always been at war with Eurasia.

> it is possible to operate a Google account completely without a phone number

This is only true for a limited time. I've tried to use a couple Google accounts this way and inevitably I log in from a new IP and Google's 2FA system kicks in - forcing me to either furnish a phone number or lose access to the account.

It's similar to how Twitter forces phone numbers out of people - just not as immediate.

Buy a handful of alternative domains that redirect to your primary (you could stand up a minimal url shortener on each domain).

Even if you get unblocked this time, it could easily happen again. Until there’s systematic reform to this nonsense, you just have to work around it with redundancy.

If they’re going to treat you like a scammer, work around it like the scammers do.

I was expecting the number of search results here to be much higher - like who cares if Google only serves the first million results out of a billion?

Very interesting to see that Google will only serve a few hundred links when they claim to have hundreds of thousands of relevant results indexed.

I'm very curious where Google is getting that count and why the reality is so different. Systematic overcounting? Suppressing hundreds of thousands of results?

Absolutely. But not your right to ensure that nobody can hear.

In this case, "the market" is essentially just Google - who incidentally created the market for SEO spam.

I don't necessarily blame Google for the tight integration with Wikipedia. It's much easier to deal with one site than many.

I think it's disingenuous to blame "the market" for what's essentially the decision of a monopoly.

I saw a solid video a couple days ago called "Why I hate Wikipedia (and you should too!)" https://youtu.be/-vmSFO1Zfo8

I'd never given Wikipedia much thought, but it raised some very interesting points to think about.

TLDR: Despite mediocre information, Wikipedia's ubiquity has supplanted the market for better sites dedicated to specific topics.

I got an engineering manager who was a hardcore micromanager. He insisted on adding a lot of process, but refused to conform to any processes himself. He caused numerous false SEVs because he was picking around in ancient logs, assuming every error message was actually a production outage.

He was like having -2 engineers on the team. I'd been in the job half a decade. I quit 2 months after he joined.

> People keep asking about examples of work that exemplifies "potential harms [that] outweigh the benefit of publication." How about large scale human vivisection?

People are asking for example of something this particular set of rules would prevent.

An example that's already illegal in the most extreme sense of the word doesn't convince anyone.

This is a straw man. The only people who won't see it as such are those who already agree with you.

Apple's self repair program exists for one reason - to mitigate regulatory scrutiny. They have no incentive to make it effective.

> iFixit praises the M1 MacBook Air service manuals by saying “they’re in-depth, mostly logical, and well worth an additional repairability point,”

This is the service manual you're referencing. The one they're complaining about it is the M1 MacBook Pro.

Here's the actual manual referenced: https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/2000/MA2085/en_US/mac...

And here's iFixIt's actual complaint:

> it’s not 162 pages because Apple has changed where batteries sit in the MacBook Pro. It’s that long because the manual says that to replace the battery, you’ve got to replace the entire top case. At the time of writing, Apple will not sell you a replacement MacBook Pro battery. They sell you a “Top Case with Battery and Keyboard.”

> Twitter IMHO is not as evil as for example Facebook

Twitter is just worse at executing.

Same. Don't love that kind of bait-and-switch UX.

I don't use Manjaro anymore, but I really appreciated it as a user-friendly bridge I was able to use to cross the chasm from Ubuntu to Arch.

The i3 community Manjaro made me love tiling window managers. And Manjaro Architect was like a halfway point between the hand-holding installer and the minimal Arch installation experience. It helped me work out what I liked and get to the point where I could administer everything.

I wasn't aware of all the controversies. The only one that popped up on my radar was the treasurer thing. That's all too bad.

> Because of attitudes like this.

I had no idea my attitude could magically make party elites care about this basic constitutional right! Thanks so so much for setting me straight.

> Political nihilism never won any battles.

Refusing to criticize politicians because they wear the tie color you like is the least effective thing you can possibly do.

I say it's nihilism to ignore this fact and vote these same people into office again and again.

If any politician ran on bringing the 4th amendment back, they'd have my vote. But spying on the populace is bipartisan.

Whatever Australia has against Google, there’s no question that Google completely lied about location tracking being buried in the “Web and App Activity” setting.

Washington DC, Washington state, Indiana, and Texas are suing Google for the exact same thing.

In this case, Google is guilty as sin.

This just doesn’t make sense from a financial standpoint. It seems doubtful the money recovered covers the cost of the audits.

They’ve required a phone number every time I’ve tried to sign up. They don’t have it in the sign up flow - they wait until you try to sign in and won’t let you proceed without it.

As soon as I saw the headline, figured it was Australia. It's a real stretch to call it a liberal democracy at this point.

That's a horrifying policy. Though advertisers don't need Sirius. USPS will sell your change of address data to any one who had your old address

https://www.edq.com/glossary/ncoa/

If there are out-of-the-box options now, then yeah, it could be as you describe.

If you're assuming everyone knows how to wire up motors to a microcontroller and get the software set up and calibrated, that's not accurate. If you want to minimize that to a term besides "skills," that's your prerogative.

That's why I have to qualify it with ultimately

Right now, the analog option is out of reach except to those with the right skills. But the hardware isn't that expensive even now, and will only get cheaper. All it takes is someone to commodify it.

No matter how low-level they get in the OS, this is ultimately a losing battle.

Aimbots have gone analog (src: https://hackaday.com/2022/04/30/aimbot-does-it-in-hardware/)

What can they do next? Demand webcam access with your mouse visible, I guess?

> Trading purity in exchange for practicality is usually a good call

Definitely. I’ve seen this proven again and again.