Except that The Daily Stormer is creating their own content while Gab is just hosting others. I'm sure I could find YouTube comments equally as bad as comments on Gab.
The era of tech washing their hands of being accountable for user generated content on their platform is over. YouTube works quite hard to keep their platform safe. It's still not good enough. But I'm sure they have more people working on that problem than have ever worked on Gab.
Do you think 4chan also be moderated in this way and users purged for using abusive language? And how do I become the moderator of language? I sure would like to be the gate keeper of acceptable speech.
I don't really see an issue here. The Daily Stormer is just a political site, should political sites really be banned for having wrong think? Sex related topics on the other hand tends not to have any intellectual use for people below 12.
I'd rather find my son reading The Daily Stormer than sex ed when he is 10.
This is fairly obvious. In order for a government to have a large income, there must be large corporations. The larger the government income, the larger the corporations. Not all countries will be large, therefore the largest government (in terms of revenue) will have many, many companies larger than smaller governments.
For a historical perspective ... way back in the day there was Unix at Bell Labs, and one of it's licensed derivatives was made by Berkeley Systems, and hence their distribution was called BSD.
Unix split into 2 main variants, BSD and System 5 Unix. Most commercial derivations were based on System 5, and BSD was used in academia.
A short time later Linus created his own System 5 Unix-inspired OS kernel, Linux, but from clean cloth, and distributed it with userspace tools borrowed from yet another OS project called GNU created by Richard Stallman.
The various BSDs (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, etc) are descendants of the original BSD.
People used to say BSD and it's children were "real" Unix and Linux was not, though I don't think many care about that anymore.
Well OpenBSD tends to attract OS minimalists. I went to the bother of learning OBSD when I started to get the impression that Linux might be headed towards some sort of complexity crisis. Initially simple servers were the target but I now have a desktop and a laptop on it as well.
Practically I don't really see BSD better, as Linux is more widely used in commercial spaces which means more readily available packages, more edge cases solved, more results on Google and more jobs.
But if you want to be educational and use the OS which invented OpenSSH, pf (firewall that is far easier to read than iptables) and many other useful tools, then you might want to give a go at OpenBSD. It's fun to run it as your home router.
If you want to try zfs without being awkward due to licensing concern and thus cannot be distributed from Linux vendors directly, then FreeBSD is a good choice.
NetBSD, I never tried but code seems clean to support quite a range of hardware platforms.
DragonflyBSD, is more like a research OS to innovate on new features.
BSD has a great firewall, it's usually more integrated than Linux (for certain definitions of "integrated"), and some argue that it's more secure/stable. Some argue that the BSD license is superior. Hardware support and software availability tend to be more hit-or-miss. N.B.: I do not use BSD.
I run my web servers using FreeBSD on Digital Ocean.
Not to get into a whole thing about it, but Linux just refers to the kernel; various groups package the kernel with user-land stuff to create distributions: Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc.
FreeBSD is a unified operating system that’s developed, tested and released as a unit; they take responsibility for the entire stack and architectures: amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, armv6, and aarch64.
In general, FreeBSD (and to my knowledge, the other BSDs) are very stable, memory efficient, supports high throughput, and are quite secure. Famously I suppose, Netflix runs their entire infrastructure on FreeBSD and contributes back lots of code. The base of Apple’s macOS is a FreeBSD variant called Darwin.
The narrative has been that FreeBSD is fabulous for servers and the like but not as good for desktops and laptops, due to it not having as broad driver support for the latest PC hardware. My understanding that’s starting to change with BSDs specifically focused on desktop use; see https://trueos.org.
> FreeBSD is a unified operating system that’s developed, tested and released as a unit
When people mention this, it doesn't mean Linux ships with a kernel and everyone putting random things on top but Linux is also rigorously tested by distribution vendors and are well streamlined throughout, so I don't think that's much of a selling point for BSD.
What matters for average users are that they can google their problems easily and they don't get hit by edge cases that they can't easily solve.
None of the UNIX except macOS are really good at desktop.
I will say something that is completely incorrect as facts, but helpful as a thought technology:
Choosing BSD over Linux is like choosing Slackware over Elementary. The differences are there, but they're very niche and subtle in the technical side and the philosophical side.
If you've never used a BSD, you can safely think of it as just another linux distro, and use the same reasoning you'd use to choose your favorite distro.
Do you need more specifics on which are those differences? Check out [1] and my own take on [2].
The point I was trying to make is that if DigitalOcean supports FreeBSD, it wouldn’t take much to support OpenBSD if they wanted to. I believe there’s a work-around where you can install OpenBSD on DigitalOcean using FreeBSD to bootstrap the process.
I'm currently on a x200 and would like to upgrade to a newer ThinkPad. Unfortunately this has a processor that has Intel ME. When will hardware companies start caring about user privacy?
Not sure what you mean by 'secure'. If you send a person an email with ProtonMail, it defeats all the security that ProtonMail has (unless it's to another PM email). You should only rely on yourself for security. Start using PGP and demand that all your friends/relatives use PGP. Only sign in through Tor, use different emails for different services, etc.
You can't rely on a company to provide you security or privacy.
> Start using PGP and demand that all your friends/relatives use PGP. Only sign in through Tor, use different emails for different services, etc.
Good luck with that. Security that no one uses isn't security at all. Placing those demands on everyone else in your life is going to result in fewer emails, not more secure emails.
You should use PGP so your messages can't be read.
When signing up for services I try to use a new email for every service so that one email can't be used to track me.
Besides that the ones I use:
cock.li, elude.in, protonmail.com, danwin1210.me, and a few others. These all work when registering through Tor.
