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If I wanted to provide a similar experience, targeting a different narrative, and then worked to create my own safe platform, would you disagree with that?

"Ignoring" is just choice. And that concept can either promote or extinguish fair and free communication.

I assume you and I share similar political beliefs. Call it censorship, or call it "choice", it ia clear today not all people have fair and free access.

If the government uses its power to extinguish speech (or to burden channels through unfair promotion of counter ideas), then that is censorship. And that is a problem we should all want to fix.

Shouldn't I get to decide what I ignore?

Works the same way with government. The "I am not aware of ..." is a great trick for when your organization is intentionally silod. The folks who get subpoenaed are left out of detailed info. It's a complete non-statement.

I could bring up examples across both sides of the isle. It's all a big game.

This. Makes everything so smooth. Serverless cloud providers love it too. (Cloudflare Pages, etc.)

That was my experience too. There is/was no formal standard for creating themes, just an empty dir (which they consider a feature). Even if they had one or two "official themes" that would have helped tremendously.

Instead we spent a week researching how popular 3rd party themes did things, and made a hybrid. Then we moved away completely. I really wanted it to work for us and we were so close. Hugo is so fast and is brilliant on a couple of things.... but barely missed.

I can't remember exactly but with what we were doing we were going to be heavily dependant on their Scratchpad, which felt like a hack. It's all just hacks, and they like it. Lack of solid conventions, and they LOVE it.

This is the worst thing about Signal, IMO. I want to use old phones as backup communication devices (wifi) but can't natively use the software that way.

Authenticator apps, and SMS help them derive you have identity -- which is more secure for them and you. Hardware token via WebAuthn (etc) is only more secure for you.

When they say "for the sake of security" they mean for them too.

There's a reason they want you to verify using one of the first two methods first.

Just technically it makes no sense. WebAuthn is a great technology that addresses many privacy concerns, but once they had an excuse collecting phone numbers they don't want to stop. Even though it's not the most secure method. Google, and many others are the same way.

2FA is often used as an excuse to obtain more PII from people, and to verify your identity, as a whole. Most businesses want to match logins to individuals, not roles. And that's what 2FA provides them.

Sorry you're so glum. Buy a Tesla. It'll put a smile on your face.

-Space access is leading the world. Satellites bring freedom, access, and peace.

-Cars are the safest, fastest, and smartest you can drive.

-Tunnels solve waaaay more problems than they create. Hyperloop isn't so much an 'active' project, see tunnels.

-Robots are extension of AI work for self driving.

-Brain project will help those with physical disabilities, and learning.

-Solar roof and battery at home is wicked cool and useful.

I'm leaving stuff out. Don't know if they take a loss on their cars, but if so that's very common for hardware manufacturers.

I'm not an Elon apologist by any stretch, but you have objectively bad takes here. I can only imagine you just don't like his personality.

Are his companies not leading in Space access? Clean energy? Transportation? Maximizing life? Fun.

The guy is a workhorse He innovates at every turn. He hires the best, and expects the best. He has done a marvelous job incentivizing great engineering, science, and research. Their goals are lofty. He thinks long-term. His teams are largely motivated for the right reasons, and he helps make many of his employees very wealthy.

His intentions are good. He's an environmentalist. He loves Earth. He loves people. He's positive and optimistic for the future. He can be abstract, artistic, and goofy.

From our perspective, he's rarely wrong, and when he is, he owns it. Is he perfect? Hell no. But he accepts responsibility. He engages with the public, and his fans.... and his haters.

One thing is for sure so far, people who bet on him win.

We'd be so lucky to have Elon lead a communication/social platform.

The next step is a social media company that is (1) private (2) membership based (3) no reliance on huge ad contracts, just promoted content (4) can tell the difference between political opinion and hate speech (5) gets out of the way of legal public discourse.

It doesn't need to be web3. It just needs to be somewhat transparent and minimally auditable. Web3 doesn't know what web3 is yet. Most is just garbage, sorry.

It's a game, one I don't play, but if you ruin kid fun of course you'll get eyerolls... regardless of your background.

My recovery is just to own it, and say that I may not believe anymore, but "I'm proud of you sweety for believing". Kids won't take that as condescending cause the notion of Santa disbelievers is built-in.

I think my kid flat out told their friends at pre-school that Santa Clause died. Which lead to some very interesting conversations. We watched the cartoon film Klaus on Netflix (would recommend) and that's how they internalized it. =)

Similar here. When they were two we explained that Santa was as real as Mickey Mouse. They got it immediately. They know the mouse stands for something, and so does Santa. We have fun with it all.

Christmas season is so much easier when you don't have to compete with a fictional, fat, jolly, magic man. The spirit behind it has value, and we celebrate that, along with other traditions.

Colocation provider will bring the circuits to provide best-path connectivity based on packet destination. There shouldn't be an additional charge for this. They are incentivized to manage their bandwidth so data transfers fast, as they are likely charged wholesale for fiber availability.

You will likely be charged 95th percentile mbps based on your usage. (Again, "pipe space required" to your needs.) Basically, whenever you're busiest -- 4pm-9pm are popular times for us in the USA.

Some customers limit their bandwidth themselves (like, only allow max 12mbps file downloads, etc.) especially when they have the hardware to support huge bandwidth. Or your colocation provider can perhaps limit max connection to 100mbs or 1gbps if you want.

Power is usually leased in amps. If you go over amps the circuit will break -- at worst case scenario. But typically they get in touch with you and tell you to upgrade.

Also, they do want to know vaguely what your service is. Because you'll likely lease their IPs, they will question you if you do a lot of email (caution for spam), or run a Tor exit node (legal hassles for them in many cases).