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Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by happytoexplain »

CyberRabbi wrote: post #304
jhardy54 wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In case you're unfamiliar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Unfortunately part of making things "open and accessible to all" means revoking access to people who would weaponize the internet to contradict those goals. A tolerant society means no tolerance for terrorists.

If you can effectively cast your political opponents as “terrorists” you can rationalize denying them all sorts of rights and still get to call yourself a supporter of human rights. They did a similar thing during the Iraq war.

The terrorists who stormed the capitol are nobody's mere "political opponents". They are hateful, violent cowards together with some innocent non-violent people tricked by propaganda, the former of whom hide behind the broader identity of conservative or Republican, precisely so that people can defend them under that umbrella as you have done. You shouldn't be helping them.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by [deleted] »

kortilla wrote: post #438
uniqueid wrote: post #354

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The first paragraph is a good assessment of the current state of affairs. That said, it's not a given that it be all or nothing. In fact, my complaint is specifically that we don't often ask such questions. There might be ways we haven't exploited yet to disincentivize certain behaviors. Whoever invented Bitcoin, for example, had to take problems with incentives into account that, at first glance, seem intractable. G…

> In fact, my complaint is specifically that we don't often ask such questions. But tons of people do, all the time. There has been excessive pearl clutching about making it easier to spread ideas since the invention of the printing press.

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Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by stkdump »

kortilla wrote: post #432
stkdump wrote: post #374

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Sure, in the same vein as building a dam is water suppression. It doesn't take away any right, it's about the limits of a right. You also suppress freedom of speech indirectly when you put someone in prison, so any crime punished by imprisonment seems to be considered reason enough to justify that as well. Saying that freedom of speech can't ever be limited is a very ideological point of view, so far away from realit…

> You also suppress freedom of speech indirectly when you put someone in prison You’re confusing suppressing an individual’s ability to speak with the general notion of the free exchange of ideas. Arrest one person and free speech activists aren’t concerned, arrest everyone that says something, now they are concerned. The notion of trying to suppress topics is the problem, not the limitation of a particular individua…

> You built a shitty strawman and then attacked it.

I may just be my misunderstanding. I get the feeling in these discussions, that people think things like deplatforming, etc. are generally and always wrong and people/institutions speaking about it (such as Mozilla) are bad. If that is considered a strawman, then I am glad.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by busterarm »

happytoexplain wrote: post #450
busterarm wrote: post #430

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I made a litmus test that an alarming number of people I've had recent discussions with cannot pass. Basically it's about whether you can get them to agree with both of the following statements: 1) X-ism should not exist. 2) X-ists have a fundamental right to exist. Point number one is perfectly reasonable as should be point two. The really scary authoritarians flat out deny point number two, but most people will sta…

>Denial of point 2 leads to mass murder of people for thought crime. Still some people seem okay with this. You're exaggerating. We don't have a real problem with people who want to mass murder people for being X-ists. It's easy to observe the inverse, though.

Large numbers of people saying that a group of people don't have a fundamental right to exist is literally the same thing as X-ism.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by blntechie »

aloisdg wrote: post #365
feross wrote: post #170

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Also, they integrate my WebTorrent project ( https://webtorrent.io ) so that .torrent files and magnet: links just work out-of-the-box. https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035025231-Wha...

Opera used to support torrents out of the box back in 2006. Good old days.

Opera did support torrent downloads. On quick reading of the above links, it appears this project supports streaming of torrent video and audio files directly in the browser (in addition to downloads I presume).

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by blntechie »

mikewhy wrote: post #413
mikece wrote: post #69

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That creates a new window per Profile as opposed to just one window with a bunch of tabs, all conceivably in using their own Container, right?

How do you juggle multiple facebook / google / anything accounts in that sort of system?

The containers can be named and color coded. Also there are keyboard shortcuts which once learned makes it easier to switch.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by blntechie »

joombaga wrote: post #117
jonathansampson wrote: post #89

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I suspect so, but don't know the details of FPI in Firefox. We don't permit cookies and storage access by third-parties, while also blocking known bad-actors entirely. We also "farble" APIs to create noise for those who do have access. If there are any specific scenarios or questions you have in mind, I'd be happy to discuss further.

Would Brave's parallel profiles allow me to be signed in to 2 different AWS accounts? I've tried this in Multi-Account Containers for Firefox and SessionBox in Chrome, and they're both pretty buggy, e.g. the console's username menu indicates I'm in account "A", but I'm seeing resources listed from account "B", or EC2 will work fine but clicking over to ECS prompt me to sign in again.

I use Firefox containers to be logged into 3 AWS accounts and works fine for me.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by cutemonster »

foobarbecue wrote: post #266
rmm wrote: post #154

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For me, somewhat embarrassingly, the one killer feature is the "Send to Device" feature from firefox on iOS. Being able to send links to browser for later reviewing is super useful. Not sure why Edge or other browsers don't implement

Chrome has had this for a few months. You're talking about right click browser bar and "send to my devices," right? Works for me from Chrome on linux and windows to android.

Thanks, just tried this now

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by eclat »

undefined1 wrote: post #99
agilob wrote: post #40

Mozilla promised us Tor integration, IPFS integration and more private browsing by default. Brave delivered it all.

Mozilla seems to be moving in the other direction now. "We need more than deplatforming" https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...

Wow. Did not expect that from Mozilla of all places. Really disappointed as I've been a die hard Firefox user for as long as I can remember in large part because of the commitment to a free, open internet and fundamental Liberal values like free speech.

Re: IPFS Support in Brave

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Post by int_19h »

jhardy54 wrote: post #298
_dh54 wrote: post #293

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The funny part is that this is the bio in Mozilla’s twitter: “We work to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to all.” I guess by “all” they mean only people with political opinions they support.

In case you're unfamiliar: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance Unfortunately part of making things "open and accessible to all" means revoking access to people who would weaponize the internet to contradict those goals. A tolerant society means no tolerance for terrorists.

The "paradox" of tolerance is only a paradox if you tolerate actions other than speech. If you only tolerate speech, there's no paradox - as soon as speech translates to actual harm, the hammer is brought down.
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