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Post by Polylactic_acid »

colesantiago wrote: post #270
Polylactic_acid wrote: post #247

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I have been hosting my own email using mailinabox. The tool is so painless I suggest more people should use it. The only ongoing maintenance I have had to manage is rebooting it to apply updates. The whole thing is backed up with a built in backup tool that rsyncs the data to my home server. The only downside is you lose that automatic email filtering thing gmail does.

ehh, no thanks, not quite keen on emails being sent into the spambox.

Mailinabox configures everything in the way gmail likes. Unless you start your vps on a tainted IP address it should be no problem. I send to gmail and outlook emails fine.

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Post by throwa2233 »

wlll wrote: post #257
core-questions wrote: post #229

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I see you've rediscovered the publisher vs. platform dichotomy! Those of us who believe in free speech understand that people will say things we don't like, and further understand that the sacrifice of ignoring content we dislike is worth it for the greater principle. I know this is difficult when people are saying things you believe to be untrue, but thus far nobody has come up with an alternative that doesn't resul…

You're not impinging on the free speech of people when you push them off your platform, they are free to carry on spouting their repugnant shit if they want, it's just that they have to build their own site, or even just try talking to people on the street about it. What you are doing when you allow racism or xenophobia on your site is helping them promote it. There's a difference, and the fact that you have chosen t…

I consider myself fairly racist (recent development, ask me if you want to hear my point of view -- I'm sure you don't because you are morally superior and don't need to hear me out, right?) and to be honest, the #1 thing that sways people to my point of view is censorship on private platforms. In real life, I can calmly explain how intelligence is highly heritable, and usually I'll get a sort of "yeah, but we can't treat that as political reality" response. But when I say "I can't even mention that intelligence is highly heritable on Hacker News without getting banned", people are actually sympathetic!

edit: https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC4739...

> In the context of current concerns about replication in psychological science, we describe 10 findings from behavioral genetic research that have robustly replicated. These are ‘big’ findings, both in terms of effect size and potential impact on psychological science, such as linearly increasing heritability of intelligence from infancy (20%) through adulthood (60%). Four of our top-10 findings involve the environment, discoveries that could only have been found using genetically sensitive research designs. We also consider reasons specific to behavioral genetics that might explain why these findings replicate

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Post by flyinglizard »

zamalek wrote: post #192
bilalq wrote: post #14

This is just the general trend with things running on Google owned services. I don't think I've ever had to deal with a more customer/user hostile company. I've had an Android app get payments blocked and had to deal with repeated back-and-forth resending of the same documents over and over before they unblocked it. I never did get an answer on why any of that was necessary or why it was impossible to ever speak to a…

I wouldn't touch GCP with a barge pole for these reasons.

Yep, I blacklisted them as well and exclusively use Azure. It’s great and I know Microsoft makes its revenue on people like me, rather than on ad networks.

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by ilikehurdles »

core-questions wrote: post #266
Gene_Parmesan wrote: post #259

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I've never understood people's conflation of "I do not like your speech" with "censorship." A bookstore refusing to carry books by certain authors is in no way censorship, for instance (the books still exist, just not in that bookstore), yet when we bring things into the digital realm for some reason people seem to lose the distinction. Let me put it this way. Nothing is stopping hateful people from creating their ow…

> Nothing is stopping hateful people from creating their own video hosting platform and hosting their drivel. Cloudflare and domain registrar bans, payment processor bans and deplatforming, etc. would beg to differ.

There is nothing unreasonable about choosing alternatives for any of those.

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Post by DarkmSparks »

bilalq wrote: post #14

This is just the general trend with things running on Google owned services. I don't think I've ever had to deal with a more customer/user hostile company. I've had an Android app get payments blocked and had to deal with repeated back-and-forth resending of the same documents over and over before they unblocked it. I never did get an answer on why any of that was necessary or why it was impossible to ever speak to a…

Exactly this reason I avoided firebase at all costs. There is quite a few services now that I wouldnt have minded paying google considerable sums of money for, if it weren't for their long history of this kind of nonsense.

Its reached the point now this is just expected behaviour, and I feel sorry for anyone that has invested considerable effort into any of googles platforms.

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by nfriedly »

beauzero wrote: post #79
nfriedly wrote: post #23

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I've been starting to watch things on nebula. There's a lot less content than youtube, but what's there is top notch.

As soon as they have the 4k Relaxation Channel (on youtube) content I am there. One monitor is always dedicated to it and I currently pay Google so that I don't get work inappropriate ads playing. It would save me money.

Nice. I think they have a way to make recommendations, I'll try and figure out how and send that one in for you.

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Post by suprfsat »

core-questions wrote: post #261
revscat wrote: post #252

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Free speech absolutism is destructive. Facebook is an example of this. Climate change denialism is another. Holocaust denial is another.

> Free speech absolutism is destructive. OK, cool. So who gets to decide what speech is allowed? What do the parameters look like? What level of "consensus" gets to establish facts? What happens if there's consensus and someone discovers some new compelling counter-argument or evidence to the contrary for something? You'll find that even in places like Canada where there are hate speech laws, the restrictions are lim…

Interesting how a simple complaint of "this video platform is promoting Nazis" is immediately escalated to "But it's not illegal speech!"

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

ksenzee wrote: post #296
core-questions wrote: post #261

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> Free speech absolutism is destructive. OK, cool. So who gets to decide what speech is allowed? What do the parameters look like? What level of "consensus" gets to establish facts? What happens if there's consensus and someone discovers some new compelling counter-argument or evidence to the contrary for something? You'll find that even in places like Canada where there are hate speech laws, the restrictions are lim…

> Who gets to decide what speech is allowed? In the public square? The courts. On a platform? That platform's owners decide. In fact, they have a moral obligation to monitor the speech they allow, because they're helping promulgate it.

What's so insane about this is that it's the Internet... you can literally just go spend an afternoon and create a new forum using some off the shelf forum software and a hosting service.

Platform owners making a decision to allow hate speech are letting hate speakers use an audience that the platform owner painstakingly helped build. That's just either idiocy, or being complicit.

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Post by jes »

wazanator wrote: post #265
ekanes wrote: post #235

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If someone can't run their own mail system, what do you recommend? Are there better options?

I've enjoyed using Proton Mail https://protonmail.com/pricing

Same. I have been using it for a year now (I know, I'm a Late Adopter) and it's been completely smooth. No complaints.

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Post by zmk_ »

birdmanjeremy wrote: post #103
edgartaor wrote: post #33

The thing is, this is not only a YouTube channel, it's a small business. Google is literally shutting down a small business without any proof. You could think that it's somewhat illegal to do, but apparently it's not.

Can it be both a small business and "non-commercial in nature"? Because that's at the crux of his fair use claim I think.

He has Patreon, PayPal donate links, and (I can imagine) ad-revenue from YouTube. The content is offered for free otherwise.
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