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sayhar commented on Let Readers Read blog.archive.org/2024/06/... · Posted by u/mdp2021

pie_flavor · 2 years ago

For those who don't know, the case against archive.org is pretty rock solid and justifiable. They had been operating a lending library of ebooks, where you could 'check out' an ebook file and they wouldn't let anyone else read it until you had 'put it back'. They had many options for evading DRM and told you to delete the file when you 'put it back' on the honor system, so this was already legally shaky, but during the pandemic they disabled the limits and let anyone 'check out' anything they wanted without waiting for a copy to become available - AKA hosting a pirate site for downloading unauthorized ebook copies, just with 'library' branding. That is what they got sued for.

sayhar · 2 years ago

A lot of this is flatly untrue.

sayhar commented on TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes cnbc.com/2022/02/08/tikto... · Posted by u/underscore_ku

ncpa-cpl · 4 years ago

I think they use the SIM card country ID and also the ad audience categories to suggest content.

For example swapping the SIM card with a fresh installation of TikTok shows different "local" videos. Even if the public IP address is unchanged like when using WiFi instead of Data.

I've also think they use ad categories to suggest videos. Using a fresh TikTok installation and then spending some time navigating a subreddit of a topic, would likely show videos of that topic the next time you open TikTok.

sayhar · 4 years ago

How could they tell you were on that subreddit? Presumably you were doing it from a separate browser on the phone -- can they really snoop on behavior in completely separate apps?

sayhar commented on How we broke the supply chain prospect.org/economy/how-... · Posted by u/smollett

jml7c5 · 4 years ago

Is the cause-and-effect correct here? There are huge advantages to consolidation, so one would expect it to happen regardless.

Also note that Holland & Knight aren't unbiased observers. They are paid to lobby on behalf of clients, and do a decent trade in the politics of shipping: https://projects.propublica.org/represent/lobbying/search?se...

sayhar · 4 years ago

Well, consolidation didn't happen for decades, then it happened rapidly after the law was changed, so that's pretty clear evidence to me.

I don't think you could accuse Matt Stoller of being in the pocket of any industry, and here's a similar take from him: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/too-big-to-sail-how-a-leg...

sayhar commented on How we broke the supply chain prospect.org/economy/how-... · Posted by u/smollett

sayhar · 4 years ago

This is a great article.

Rabbitholed a tiny bit on this part:

> Big companies got the law changed to enable ocean carriers to offer secret discounts in exchange for volume guarantees.

To an article linked in the first article: https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2018/12/congr...

> The last amendment to the Shipping Act occurred in 1998 as the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998, following a five-year study of the effect of the Shipping Act on maritime trade and commerce. The 1998 amendment allowed carriers and shippers to enter confidential rate agreements providing discounted rates in exchange for cargo volume commitments. In 2005, the FMC issued a regulatory ruling extending authority to non-vessel operating common carriers (NVOCCs) to enter such confidential rate agreements with shippers.

> After the 1998 amendment, the maritime industry experienced significant and widespread consolidation. In addition to carrier mergers and acquisitions concentrating the bulk of containership capacity in U.S. trades to fewer than a dozen large carriers, the formation of vessel carrier alliances caused further substantial consolidation. Currently, there are three major carrier alliances representing 80 percent of all container trade. Within the alliances, there has been further consolidation, e.g., the creation of Ocean Network Express (ONE) by the merger of Japanese carriers.

Damn.

sayhar commented on Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/bpierre

markjgraham · 4 years ago

Hi,

I manage the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive.

Very happy so many people here care about preserving, and making available, our cultural heritage!

Please know a dedicated, and talented, team of engineers works every day to do a better job of archiving more of the public Web, and making it available via the Wayback Machine.

As noted the Internet Archive is experimenting with filecoin.io and storj.io and is always open to suggestions about how we might do our jobs better, and improve our service. We also host regular meetups (and have hosted summits and a camp) related to the Decentralized Web. See: https://blog.archive.org/tag/dweb/

The Internet Archive also offers archive-it.org, a subscription service, for those who want a higher level of support and more features.

We appreciate any support you can offer, financial and otherwise. Please share any bug reports, feature suggestions and other feedback with us via email to info@archive.org

Oh/and… checkout the new PDF Search feature we just launched at the bottom of web.archive.org. More to come like that in 2022.

Finally, you might also find some of the things I wrote here of interest: https://gijn.org/2021/05/05/tips-for-using-the-internet-arch...

sayhar · 4 years ago

Thank you for your service!

sayhar commented on How to save our social media by treating it like a city technologyreview.com/2021... · Posted by u/twm-as

Comevius · 4 years ago

A superb article. Integrity design is essential and woefully unpracticed by the entire tech industry. It's all about the engagement sadly.

https://integrityinstitute.org

There is a lot to be done. A whole lot.

sayhar · 4 years ago

Thank you! (I wrote the article)

sayhar commented on Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-... · Posted by u/raldi

sayhar · 4 years ago

Hello, I wasn't aware we were on /r/politicalcompassmemes

sayhar commented on Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute protocol.com/policy/integ... · Posted by u/paultopia

dogman144 · 4 years ago

I know I'm hammering you in another thread, but will press pause for a second.

What you're basically describing as "integrity hacking" is already around as a discipline "social-cybersecurity." If not the same thing, it's likely a very close peer discipline.

Also, coopting a word like 'integrity' vs. 'platform integrity' or 'cyberspace community integrity' or w/e is a tough call. By doing that, you end up with PR-destruction sentences like "integrity also has a sort of ethical component," which at face value is quite a read w/o the context of how "integrity" is being re-defined here.

https://sites.google.com/view/social-cybersec//https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10588-020-09322-9 https://socialcybersecurity.org/

sayhar · 4 years ago

dogman, thank you for the heads up about this social-cybersecurity group. It does seem related, and I'll be sure to check them out. Lately, someone has also mentioned m3aawg.org, which also seems adjacent.

Personally, I do think the field has a lot to learn from cybersecurity. From my POV, integrity work has three different 90's ancestors: web forum moderation,email/search engine antispam work, and cybersecurity mindsets like risk mitigation rather than risk elimination.

As for the PR stuff -- fair enough! We're all trying to do the best we can with the skills we have. Not every decision will be the right one. Maybe the name was one of those.

I hope you check back in with us in 6-12 months. Once you can judge us more by our work over time, I hope we will have earned your respect.

sayhar commented on Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute protocol.com/policy/integ... · Posted by u/paultopia

stainforth · 4 years ago

The recent whistleblower has also been suggested to be a tactic to control and set the terms of the concern about Facebook, utlimately not challenging its reach as a monopoly but to allow for certain censorship actions that facebook would be more than happy to oblige to do.

sayhar · 4 years ago

You really think Frances is a deep cover op by Facebook? Really? Wow.

sayhar commented on Former Facebook staffers launch Integrity Institute protocol.com/policy/integ... · Posted by u/paultopia

zasz · 4 years ago

I don't know about Jeff, but I know Sahar quit working at Facebook over a year ago to work on this instead.

sayhar · 4 years ago

Yep! We both quit FB in 2019. This has been our (full time, volunteer, spending our savings) job since ~Jan/Feb of this year.

It's taken a long time to gather people, build trust, figure out our strategy, find consensus, make our first reports, etc.