Posts by qtd3n@kawen.space
(DIR) Post #9ue9LN7HMSRElosmFE by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-05-02T20:03:19.003035Z
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@tuxcrafting based chinese craftsmen
(DIR) Post #9ue9RdONlEf6zDruls by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-05-02T20:04:26.677709Z
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@brad >he just replied to himself
(DIR) Post #9uo2r2ZMX9I4DGlsTw by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-05-07T14:37:41.245494Z
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music, ignore
(DIR) Post #9uo308dnKTxFeLBNh2 by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-05-07T14:39:21.697392Z
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music, pls ignore
(DIR) Post #9uon9mekWBlYFkANWq by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-05-07T23:16:31.603348Z
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@xj9 i like the edit of this meme where it's like "stop right there, pedos!">wait, we're not pedos!"oh, what are you then?">loliconsBLAM BLAM BLAM
(DIR) Post #9vaWowAIHpqkyk3aJE by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-05-30T23:59:37.098737Z
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something that's been on my mind is the tendency of leftists of all stripes to throw out, on the basis of the criticism of liberalism, several of the rights liberalism affords: freedom of speech, association etc. - at least, without some replacement strategy for them. It's great to criticize liberalism. But what replaces it? Surely not all speech in a Communist society is tolerated, but I get the impression that some speech is not tolerated. Which speech is that, and on what principles is that decided on? Stuff like porn, a tricky area even within the left, is still very much a debatable topic, and it gets even more complex when it comes to stuff like loli porn, and complicated further by the various opinions of ancoms.Surprisingly, the ancaps are the only to offer an "anything goes" approach, only out of ignorance of the real effects of speech.I might as well also mention my uncomfortable feelings about sentiments like "if there are 9 nazis at a table and one person debating them, you have 10 nazis". Statements like that don't help the left's case, no matter how much I agree with, say, deplatforming.
(DIR) Post #9vaWznPp9p9p1nUzS4 by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-05-31T00:01:34.927107Z
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@mrjunge I was in that position for a very long time, then I decided to just go for it and remember that I can grub-install from a liveusb if I mess things up too badly :) Now I have a KVM switch'd box for windows and for linux, since my "windows PC"'s ryzen chip has linux issues. I don't think I can still RMA it.
(DIR) Post #9xk9UNmIvlOFae2Do0 by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-08-03T11:09:30.386974Z
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@brad spinster.xyz, mostly because it's developed by massive piece of shit TERF, Alex Gleason. Stay away from it.
(DIR) Post #9xp19bXClHL8KZLx6O by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-08-05T19:29:39.377665Z
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@eel @neauoire cat-v leans very heavily right-libertarian, at least judging by the content of the website. check out the quotes pages or the 'harmful' pages and external links therein. Not sure if that qualifies as reactionary, but... yeah.
(DIR) Post #9yg9KWVUMLWoGsLlbM by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-08-31T10:40:59.213960Z
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@hakui @MisakaMikoto @Ricotta @roka >waaah you're not defending a corp, she's disrupting the wa!! muh contracts! muh nihonjin respect! unspoken rules!to think this attitude is on fedi unironically is the funniest shit, esp. given the ranting about cancel culture or whatever when people get fired for daring to exercise their right to speech. insert meme of being unable to choose between defending a piece of shit like damore but not a vtuber.
(DIR) Post #9ygBNekwLTEadICOyu by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-08-31T11:03:57.385589Z
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@hakui @MisakaMikoto @Ricotta @roka i don't think damore should have been fired, but even then there are differences; the accusation is that he created an unsafe work environment with his memo, which impacts fellow workers. it doesn't need anything to do with contracts, even if that's the position that google defenders take.this matter, in contrast, is about "airing dirty laundry" as a violation of a contract and some 'unspoken rules'. criticizing your company in a way that brings attention to its bad practices should not get you fired.besides that, i'm not beyond admitting personal differences of opinion in qualitatively different situations. side taking is fine, but that doesn't mean both sides are equal.
(DIR) Post #9ygL78cp2SfntAAEyG by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-08-31T12:53:01.414843Z
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@hakui @roka @MisakaMikoto @Ricotta oh the horror, shitting on a company and leaking some unreleased material. yep, now *this* is worth harassment and losing your income stream!cancel culture but now that it's the companies doing it, the wa must be preserved!
(DIR) Post #9ygLPtCSc5cXYBm6qW by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-08-31T12:56:24.762373Z
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@hakui @MisakaMikoto @Ricotta @roka what is this even supposed to mean? in fact, I have more criticisms of twitch and patreon etc. than I do pretty much any japanese company. i don't watch people play video games like a loser.
(DIR) Post #9ygLXYh2jzJwGajjxg by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-08-31T12:57:48.008537Z
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@hakui @MisakaMikoto @Ricotta @roka i do work somewhere larger than a coffee shop, and if she burns bridges, that's her responsibility. firing her over dumb shit is not. the fact that she is beholden to some megacorps is the issue here.
(DIR) Post #9yjFpHfAmSaSPUoJhQ by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-09-01T22:37:53.112852Z
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probably shouting into the void here, but anyway...freedom of speech is a tricky issue, and I've lost a lot of faith in it - the arguments for it aren't very convincing.however, to give the state the power to legislate further seems dangerous. if there is a chance of remedying the defects caused by free speech in current society with education, such an educational plan may never come into effect once the right to speech has been removed or limited. there would simply be no motivation for the state to do so.further, we are expected to conform to major moral norms and frameworks, and the legislate according to compatible principles of distributive justice. this morality has even less grounding than free speech.as such, it is easy for a marxist or a feminist against the carceral state to argue against at least certain kinds of censorship. it is less easy for them to abandon the moral system which motivated their beliefs, even if their justification is not on moral grounds (see: the debate around Marx and morality).this moral system, while it does not include a compulsion to work with the modern state in legislating, can be extremely persuasive. what kind of feminist, for example, does not support stronger laws against revenge porn? what kind of marxist, for example, does not support stronger laws against union-busting? even if it is still debated whether moral beliefs are inherently motivating, it is hard to avoid cognitive dissonance in the matter.the maze of freedom and morality offers three ways out: (1) either to give in to the maze and integrate its arguments, no matter how inconvenient they may be to long-held beliefs (e.g. the argument that speech should not be treated specially), (2) to argue against those positions which are are dissonant with our established points of view (a very popular feeling among philosophers and people who give any consideration to these issues at all - but it is extremely risky because one's counterarguments will always be open to challenge, if one can even manage to make the arguments to begin with), (3) to give up entirely on morality, law, and justice. this option is the rarest, but the safest, at least from the point of view of the mind being tranquil. It will not win any friends in highly polarized spaces, either. It is different from apathy, in which one idly sits by without resistance as the ideas wage war amongst themselves.interested to hear if anyone has thought about this more.
(DIR) Post #9ymEVuxtQjtM20eFcG by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-09-03T09:07:18.461281Z
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@orekix based soviet handwriting taking up the most space
(DIR) Post #9ytEPzb2szmMql8aa8 by qtd3n@kawen.space
2020-09-06T18:09:15.319319Z
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test post for my other instance boop
(DIR) Post #A3fNhl4BbrkFWyq08m by qtd3n@kawen.space
2021-01-27T15:08:10.447955Z
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@kumicota what does the "cota" mean? for example, the character from the show is called kumiko so maybe it should be "kumikota" but it's not, and even that leaves the "ta" unexplained...? what is this all about? please get back to me. best wishes.
(DIR) Post #A5ZQoCvPlncfG7r2Wm by qtd3n@kawen.space
2021-03-25T14:00:15.541590Z
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@moth_ball >1) isn't OSS diverse by default since, you know, anyone can do shit with it?
(DIR) Post #A5ZROJgy5VRQfhJcMS by qtd3n@kawen.space
2021-03-25T14:06:46.488280Z
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@moth_ball >1) isn't OSS diverse by default since, you know, anyone can do shit with it?No, that's not the intended meaning; diversity is about inclusion, and the signatories feel that RMS' presence drives people away from free software. Even if it has a net benefit of drawing more people *to* free software, that wouldn't justify things completely, in the same way saving 10 people from a house fire doesn't nullify the fact of the one guy you previously set on fire.>2) enforcing ideals goes against the very principles, are they blind?Enforcing ideals goes with the principles (after all, software freedom is itself an ideal), it's just a question of which ideals. Arguably organizations have various ideals, such as not taking on anyone too risky to be on the board of directors. It doesn't matter if the accusations are true or not, the principle of free association (which, yes, is more important than free software, I think) means that you don't want those kind of people on your board. The controversy itself is a failure for a leader character, who is supposed to be uncontroversial. Compare Reddit with that admin they fired today because she was pedo-adjacent.And it does make them win; I wouldn't be surprised if Stallman is forced out in very short order. As to whether that's good or not is left as an exercise for the reader.