rainingcatndogs

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Comment · 6 years ago

> Infact, most of the high ranking people in his cabinet are self-made men like him.

We hear a lot about how the current government is less corrupt and less dynastic. But their actions say otherwise[1][2][3].

[1] https://m.thewire.in/article/politics/bjp-congress-political...

[2] https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/electoral-bonds-contro...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest_of_Kafeel_Khan

Comment · 6 years ago

But unfortuanately(as a side effect?) policies like this hinders the operations of goodwill nonprofits like Amnesty International[1].

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/29/amnesty-to-hal...

Comment · 6 years ago

Yes, that seems like a feature.

Comment · 6 years ago

I recently read a book which explores these patterns using real data: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21480734-dataclysm

Comment · 6 years ago

A "tech stack spoofer", that would be cool and it can have applications beyond that like for security by obscurity.

Comment · 6 years ago

When was the channel unblocked? It is disheartening to know that a company was able to silence legitimate criticism on all major platforms and even on places like LBRY.

Comment · 6 years ago

Their videos got removed from LBRY as well: https://old.reddit.com/r/india/comments/jsuows/all_my_videos... I had no surprise when I heard youtube suspended him. But I'm very dissapointed that a platform like LBRY, marketing itself as a censorship-resistant youtube alternative(https://lbry.com/faq/censorship-resistance) deleted a whole bunch of videos which were clearly fair use and for public good.

Comment · 6 years ago

I haven't used them but I think the most important benefit is collaboration (sending pull requests etc...) is done via email and thus is less centralised platfomr than github/gitlab which uses their own mechanisms.

Comment · 6 years ago

You can try this plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ddg-hide-unwa...

Comment · 6 years ago

I recently watched the social dilemma from netflix, they touched the serious matters and presented well but what disappointed me was the lack of awareness about these alternatives. It would have been of great help if they provided references to projects like matrix and fediverse.

Comment · 6 years ago

I wouldn't be surprised if these mentioned apps comes with google's dns resolvers baked in, in that case routing through pihole doesn't help here.

Comment · 6 years ago

What settings is that?

Comment · 6 years ago

>Can I fork the codebase somehow?

You can try: https://github.com/sebst/pythonic-news/ or https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters

Comment · 6 years ago

And unfortunately, cloudflare is everywhere. This trend will make it even harder for projects like a new search engine to enter the game.

Comment · 6 years ago

I belive you can blacklist that driver if needed.