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My partner, Nick Hodges, and I, David Millington, have been on the Internet for a very long time -- since the Usenet days. We’ve seen it all, and have long been frustrated by bad comments, horrible people, and discouraging discussions. We&#x27;ve also been around places where the discussion is wonderful and productive. How to get more of the latter and less of the former?Current moderation tools just seem to focus on deletion and banning. Wouldn’t it be helpful to encourage productive discussion and teach people how to discuss and argue (in the debate sense) better?A year ago we started building Respectify to help foster healthy communication. Instead of just deleting bad-faith comments, we suggest better, good-faith ways to say what folks are trying to say. We help people avoid: * Logical fallacies (false dichotomy, strawmen, etc.) * Tone issues (how others will read the comment) * Relevance to the actual page&#x2F;post topic * Low-effort posts * Dog whistles and coded languageThe commenter gets an explanation of what&#x27;s wrong and a chance to edit and resubmit. It&#x27;s moderation + education in one step. We want, too, to automate the entire process so the site owner can focus on content and not worry about moderation at all. And over time, comment by comment, quietly coach better thinking.Our main website has an interactive demo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;respectify.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;respectify.ai</a>. As the demo shows, the system is completely tunable and adjustable, from &quot;most anything goes&quot; to &quot;You need to be college debate level to get by me&quot;.We hope the result is better discussions and a better Internet. Not too much to ask, eh?We love the kind of feedback this group is famous for and hope you will supply some!

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Hi HN,I recently noticed that an YC company (Run ANywhere, W26) sent me the following email:From: Aditya &lt;aditya@buildrunanywhere.org&gt;Subject: Mikołaj, think you&#x27;d like this[snip]Hi Mikołaj,I found your GitHub and thought you might like what we&#x27;re building.[snip]I have also received a deluge of similar emails from another AI company, Voice.AI (doesn&#x27;t seem to be YC affiliated). These emails indicate that those companies scrape people&#x27;s Github activity, and if they notice users contributing to repos in their field of business, send marketing emails to those users without receiving their consent. My guess is that they use commit metadata for this purpose. This includes recipients under the GDPR (AKA me).I&#x27;ve sent complaints to both organizations, no response so far.I have just contacted both Github and YC Ethics on this issue, I&#x27;ll update here if I get a response.

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TerminalPhone is a single, self-contained Bash script that provides anonymous, end-to-end encrypted voice and text communication between two parties over the Tor network. It operates as a walkie-talkie: you record a voice message, and it is compressed, encrypted, and transmitted to the remote party as a single unit. You can also send encrypted text messages during a call. No server infrastructure, no accounts, no phone numbers. Your Tor hidden service .onion address is your identity.

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