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Yes, actually I'd like to better understand what China does do with their state control of social media. Clearly you can explicitly suppress certain political views. But I think th…

They could probably shut down his account for terms of service violations. Actually kind of interesting to imagine what a state could do if they owned twitter or a similarly large …

This is awesome, and actually a pretty neat way of evaluating websites. A surprising number of people are still on low bandwidth connections, while it's probably not reasonable to …

This seems like a really awesome idea. I'm curious to hear how it works out in practice. There are various (obvious) issues with it being remote and working with strangers. But sou…

The reason they chose this Broadcom part is because they could get it cheap from Broadcom (founders have an association with Broadcom). So, basically it was a political choice to u…

No, Broadcom is quite unique in requiring blobs to boot. There are plenty of SoCs that are functional without firmware blobs. Generally there are issues getting the GPU working wel…

I don't have any specific recommendations (though I'm happy with my provider). What I would say, is go with a provider who accepts bitcoin and doesn't require an email address. Eve…

Yes, that's a sad prospect. However, at that point I assume there'll also be no countries to host content in either so VPN would be useless in any case. I assume at the point Tor's…

Same deal in the UK. I wonder how long until the US goes down the same route. I'm quite surprised that they've gone down the DNS based filtering route. I'd expect that to change in…