1. How was working with China requests and logging, differing from working with other nation states?
2. Was there full services brought up only for China specific needs? What would they take care or?
3. How would any blocks work? allowlist or denylist? Was takedown immediate, or was it working with the customer/client and getting them to take it down within SLA?
1. At the time it was the only nation state that had specialty infrastructure except for maybe the US.
2. There were specific infrastructure changes made for blocking and sending logs inside mainland china.
3. The CDN node would deny access to specific urls uploaded by the Chinese partner company. I don't remember the SLA. The SLA for reporting visited URLs was 15m IIRC
So a small company with say 25 dev/employees with say 2 gb of data per day?
Edit: People here do get what you're saying - "This is the only way we can force some users to pay". What you're not hearing is "Either don't call out your software as FOSS, or if you do, figure out ways of price discriminating without hurting security for FOSS users."
Interesting. In my experience, advertisement and the incentives around it have led to the most devastatingly widespread removal of value in human culture and social connections that we've seen in this generation. Huge amounts of effort wasted on harvesting attention, manipulating money away from people, isolating and fostering extremism, building a massive political divide. And centralizing wealth more and more.
The amount of human effort wasted on advertisement is staggering and shocking.
I don't think your average adult is inspired by the idea of AI generated advertisements. Probably a small bubble of people including timeshare salesmen. If advertisements were opt-in, I expect a single digit percentage of people would ever elect to see them. I don't understand how anybody can consider something like that a net good for the world.
How does non-consensually harassing people into spending money on things that don't need add value to all the world's citizens?
"Adding value" and "Generating wealth" are always the vague euphemisms that these guys fall back to when they try to justify much of today's economic activity. Adding value for who? Generating whose wealth? The answer is usually "people who are already wealthy." Of course, they'll downplay the massive funneling of wealth to these people, and instead point to the X number of people "lifted out of poverty in the 20th century" as if capitalism and commerce was the sole lifting force.
I wish some of these people would think about how they'd explain to their 5 year old in an inspiring way what they do for a living: And not just "I take JSON data from one layer in the API and convert it to protobufs in another layer of the API" but the economic output of their jobs: "Millions of wealthy companies give us money because we can divert 1 billion people's attention from their families and loved ones for about 500 milliseconds, 500 times a day. We take that money and give some of it to other wealthy companies and pocket the rest."
> If advertisements were opt-in, I expect a single digit percentage of people would ever elect to see them.
I mean, you'd see the same thing if paying for your groceries were opt-in. Is that also a net bad for the world? Ads do enable the costless (or cost-reduced) provision of services that people would otherwise have to pay for.
Ads are not charity. There is clearly a cost, otherwise they would lose money. They do not generate money out of thin air. "Generate" and "extract" aren't synonyms.
They do not enable any costless anything at all. They obfuscate extraction of money to make it look costless, but actually end up extracting significant amounts of money from people. Ad folks whitewash it to make it sound good, but extracting money in roundabout ways is not creating value.
> you'd see the same thing if paying for your groceries were opt-in.
Groceries are opt-in. Until you realize you don't want to hunt and cook your own food, then you opt back in for survival.
UBlock origin + some subscriptions show I'd definitely would love to opt out of IRL ads.
>Is that also a net bad for the world?
World, yes. We have to tech to end food scarcity, but poor countries struggle while rich countries throw out enough food each day to feed said poor countries.
I think this is a rationalization of an enormous waste of work. The effects generating wealth are indirect. In that regard you could argue that betting is generating wealth too. Advertising is like a hamster wheel people have to jump onto if they want their place in the market.
A similar amount of wealth would be generated if every advertised product would be represented by a text description, but we have a race to the bottom.
There is advertising and advertising of course but most of advertising is incredibly toxic and I would argue that by capturing attention, it is a huge economic drain as well.
Of course an AI would also be quite apt at removing unwanted ads, which I believe will become a reality quite soon.
> A similar amount of wealth would be generated if every advertised product would be represented by a text description, but we have a race to the bottom.
I fear statements like this go too far. I can't agree with the first part of this sentence.
I feel this about both marketing and finance:
They are valuable fields. There are huge amounts of activity in these fields that offer value to everyone. Removing friction on commerce and the activities that parties take in self-interest to produce a market or financial system are essential to the verdant world we live in.
And yet, they're arms races that can go seemingly-infinitely far. Beyond any generation of societal value. Beyond needless consumption of intellect and resources. All the way to actual negative impacts that clutter the financial world or the ability to communicate effectively in the market.
3. The line to draw is 10 years to commercialize, and then release into public domain. Statute of Anne was 14 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne), but 10 is better for today's age.
> The line to draw is 10 years to commercialize, and then release into public domain. Statute of Anne was 14 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne), but 10 is better for today's age.
I'd vote for politicians who push for laws like this. Sadly none do.
My understanding is that the whole reason GPL has its stipulations is to counter-balance the lack of commons caused by commercial exploitation and expansion of copyright. So yes.
I completely agree, that's the part that I like about the GPL. That's why I'm a bit iffy about removing copyright outright (as it would mostly affect open source projects, proprietary software rarely has an available source that would be made free by such a move). But I see the point.
I mean the goal of GPLv3 and other copyleft licenses is to ensure that innovation building on the licensed work is also made available so others may continue to innovate, no? In my mind reducing copyright terms is aligned to that goal. You can disagree with that goal, but I don’t see anything inconsistent about reducing copyright terms and allowing copyleft to extend for a longer period.
Even so, I think in most cases if a piece of software has been unedited for 10 years it’s either feature-complete or obsolete. If it’s been under development for those 10 years, the original version being released into the public domain probably isn’t a significant threat to innovation by way of closed source improvements being made.
Thanks for asking for help in a difficult situation! It sounds like your co-founder is going through a tough situation, and it's great that you want to help. Here are some things you can do:
Listen actively: Let your co-founder vent and express their feelings freely without judgment. Sometimes just having a listening ear can be incredibly helpful.
Validate their emotions: A simple "That must be really tough" or "I can see why you'd be feeling this way" can go a long way.
Focus on what they can control: help them focus on what they can control moving forward. Maybe it's reaching out to a mentor/friend in your network who can help?
Just be there: Sometimes the best support is simply being there for them. Let them know you care and are there for them however they need you.
(You included some irrelevant details about stock and cliffs, but I can understand it's an emotional time and you may not be able to think coherently.)
1. How was working with China requests and logging, differing from working with other nation states?
2. Was there full services brought up only for China specific needs? What would they take care or?
3. How would any blocks work? allowlist or denylist? Was takedown immediate, or was it working with the customer/client and getting them to take it down within SLA?
reply