Its even worse that too - they also removed a category "conspiracy theory". Consumer reports also found that "Facebook approving ads containing coronavirus misinformation, including false claims that the virus was a hoax or that people could stay healthy through small daily doses of bleach.

I love how this is modded insightful - I have loads of pictures of bare shelves at costco (I took them because I've never seen anything like this before) because of panic buying.

Worse - they are essentially upset that youtube doesn't monetize their videos. If ad buyers don't want to buy an ad on your video - who is the government to force youtube to do that?

What would an open source fab be like? Even if you had the space, all the stuff that goes into making a chip is highly proprietary (chip simulation/testing, equipment, chemicals, plastics, ventilation etc) - some company spent a fortune building it and they want their cut.

The next best thing - companies like TSMC will take your design and make a chip - it's not even that expensive (as far as making chips goes) - they publish all the manufacturing guidelines and everything so there's no pre-flight issues (can your chip actually be made with the equipment at hand).

Another process is (that involves proprietary hardware again) - you can buy a pretty nice FPGA, design it, test it - and hand that off to be turned into a real chip.

I think it goes without saying that chip making is still one of the most sophisticated manufacturing processes in the world still, but it's not hard to have your own open source design become a real chip. Granted - you may spend 140k on a batch of a thousand chips that don't work (or don't work right), but that is part of the process.

Thats a lie though - it was originally paid for by by the conservative rag "Washington Free Beacon" (remember the RNC were actually against Trump being the nominee) - when Trump became the actual nominee they stopped paying for any research, and the DNC/Clinton picked it back up. The actual answer is BOTH sides paid for it.

The FBI had started investigating Trump's Russian connections long before the dossier was released.

And making the equivalence that Trump was leveraging Ukraine to investigate the Biden's isn't even remotely the same. One is paid private research, the other is leveraging a foreign government by withholding meetings and assistance that Congress (republicans and democrats) had already approved and the DOD had vetted.

This attitude is only slightly above the ones doing the screwing over - who believe "you deserved to be screwed over because you didn't see me coming".

Do you think there's some balance between de-platforming these people and letting them recruit more and more people?

The last few years (FBI just last week classifying white supremacists as terrorists) have shown something has to be done to stem their recruitment efforts.

Exactly, but the US government doesn't require I install Facebook.

I mean you trust the russian government to mean exactly what they say?

I mean I work at a university - which is state level - I'd take most any of the people who work here over anyone I think - I've never met a bunch of people who can do so much with so little. We easily finish 20+ major projects every year - many of which require actual programming skills.

I feel like most private firms hire contractors to fix major issues they have (just speaking with friends who work in healthcare for example).

I don't play the game anymore, but Pokemon Go - AR actually made it way harder to toss pokeballs onto the pokemon themselves.

It was a nifty feature that got turned off a couple hours into the game - I've never met anyone in person who used it.

Honest question - what is inside Linux or BSD to prevent a user space malware application from running and encrypting all the files you have r/w access to?

I'm pretty sure this is the case - you don't go from copyright complaint on the 5th to raiding a competitors offices on the 11th in most countries.

And on a corporate network - you're going to have a hard time with network auth when none of the required agents (ConfigMgr or whatever) report back.

I use an OSSC - (Open Source Scan Converter) - its expensive, but the results are phenomenal.

The only downside to it - it doesn't support composite inputs and some consoles/hardware you'll have to mod before it will work with it (like the Nintendo 64).