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Cake day: December 21st, 2023

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  • Relevant instructions:

    Opt-out. You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to arbitration-opt-out<at>discord.com within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later

    I had to ask bing copilot how to write the opt out email. Here’s a template for everyone to use.

    Subject: Opt-Out of Discord Arbitration Clause
    
    Dear Discord Legal Team,
    
    I am writing to formally opt out of the arbitration clause outlined in your Terms of Service. I do not wish to be bound by the arbitration provisions.
    
    Please confirm my opt-out status via email.
    
    Thank you for your attention to this matter.
    
    Sincerely,
    [Your Full Name]
    [Your Discord Username]
    




  • I see this as both a win and a potential problem for the app’s reputation:

    As soon as you take away a hard link to a real-life identifier, the sketchy people come out of the woodwork and trade images/video of child exploitation.

    Signal has not had this problem like some platforms (e.g. Kik), and I suspect two reasons:

    1. Lack of searchable chat rooms
    2. Concrete link to a phone number that anyone who contacts you must know (and make it easy to identify you to authorities)

    Up until now signal has been an excellent secure replacement for text messaging between parties that know each other. I hope they don’t go the “chat groups” route, though I doubt they will. But I suspect this change will make it a preferred way for abusers to exchange images and videos nearly anonymously


  • I see this as both a win and a problem:

    As soon as you take away a hard link to a real-life identifier, the sketchy people come out of the woodwork and spread images of child exploitation.

    Signal has not had this problem like some platforms (e.g. Kik), and I suspect two reasons:

    1. Lack of searchable chat rooms
    2. Concrete link to a phone number that anyone who contacts you must know (and make it easy to identify you to authorities)

    Up until now signal has been an excellent secure replacement for text messaging between parties that know each other. I hope they don’t go the “chat groups” route, though I doubt they will. But I suspect this change will make it a preferred way for abusers to exchange images and videos nearly anonymously.






  • As an engineer:

    1. Receive or identify a problem.
    2. Design a solution that solves or mitigated the problem.
    3. Usually pay someone to make a prototype or do it ourselves
    4. Test the prototype and see if it solves the problem. If no, go back to #2 until a workable solution is found
    5. Get someone else to build the final thing.
    6. Make sure thing works. Ship it.

    This is a recursive and iterative process. Meaning you will find problems inside your solutions and need to fix them.

    Eventually you finish the thing and get a new problem and do the whole game over again. It’s like a puzzle that requires absurd amounts of knowledge to play well, but anyone could try to solve the problem. That’s why good engineers are paid pretty well.