Posts by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
(DIR) Post #9jRdWwQY4oKreRC0A4 by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-02T18:37:05Z
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@poetgrant Very concerning, to the point that I have uninstalled those apps and will no longer use them.Truthfully, I'm on the verge of regarding this entire Fediverse experiment a failure and bailing out. It seems all of the major projects in this space are concerned more with activism than with freedom and privacy. Control and conformity rather than discourse. That's not what I was looking for, personally.
(DIR) Post #9jRwUxq7khQEa8vTO4 by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-02T22:09:40Z
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@emacsen > Real choice comes with Free/Open Source Software.Perhaps, but my question would be what assurances do we have that Mozilla will not follow Google in this matter? If history is much of an indicator, Firefox trends after Chrome in both form and function. And eliminating Chromium(-based) and Firefox - what other FOSS browsers have sufficient features, devs, and community to persist for the long term? Especially in a world where Blink does and will continue to set web standards?
(DIR) Post #9jRxlrR6ug9dbCqZZw by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-02T22:23:55Z
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@emacsen I think that sentiment is naive (no offense meant). Sure we could fork Firefox. We could fork Chromium, too. But without sufficient resources to maintain a fork - it withers and dies. Therein lies my point. Chromium and Firefox are both FOSS. One is controlled by Google, the other by Mozilla - major orgs with lots of money to throw at dev and maintenance. Now go find another FOSS browser not based on Chromium (I've tried). Small projects, one-man shows, often lacking key features.
(DIR) Post #9jRyGhocjV2WjoYLgG by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-02T22:29:30Z
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@emacsen Iceweasel is a re-branding and Chromium will have the same ad blocker killing API change.Show me a modern. feature-complete FOSS browser that is not dependent upon Chromium or Firefox code. There really aren't any (I've looked).> not the only requirementThat's what I'm saying. We can't simply wave our hand and say "FOSS is the answer." Because that's only part of it. In a way, we (the FOSS community) have gathered our fetal chickens into a very small number of rickety baskets.
(DIR) Post #9jaBKZh7DtTdNvmH5M by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-06T21:33:33Z
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@selea 38C/101F here right now, 31C would be pleasant. 😆
(DIR) Post #9jqLiJYF0CcgL3wawa by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-14T16:45:17Z
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@lundukeI have often heard Lunduke say things that make me think he is a doofus. I have sometimes heard Lunduke say things that make me think he is an idiot.I have never heard Lunduke say anything that makes me think he is a bigot, racist, classist, extremist, homophobe, misogynist, or other such "deplorable".People can be dumb, offbase, mispoken, incorrect, or even a jackass - without being a "nazi". Let's not debase certain words to the point that they become meaningless.
(DIR) Post #9k9Dn1Z8BykYNKKlbE by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-23T19:15:42Z
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@poetgrant Yes, it's a social network where the focus is how to avoid making connections with others.
(DIR) Post #9k9XtZHfjslzluZ7NA by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-23T23:01:17Z
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@selea My opinion? No. Free Speech is about protecting unfavorable speech, not the stuff we all agree upon.I say de-audience them instead (e.g., don't show up to listen). When a crowd turns up to protest e.g. a white supremacist demonstration, the extremists think they are "getting attention" and "firing people up." It's GOOD to them that protestors are there. Nobody wants to give a speech to an empty room, or feels like they made a difference if not one person cared enough to even show up.
(DIR) Post #9k9ZHJSSKc4bamUnE8 by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-23T23:15:54Z
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@selea Further, if you deplatform those people how do you think they feel about that? Do they say "Gee, people really don't like us. We suck. Maybe we should reconsider our position on this matter?"No, they wear that shit like a badge of honor. "They are so afraid of our message that they had us banned! We're becoming influential and dangerous to the establishment!" And so it fuels the fire.Same dynamic as killing a leader and making a martyr. You produce the opposite of the intended result.
(DIR) Post #9k9jiql1dEZWEGx0TI by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-24T01:12:46Z
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@static @selea @jeff If that's a serious question then you should ask yourself: what are you really trying to accomplish?
(DIR) Post #9k9lIwuuJCIJiALmGe by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-24T01:29:34Z
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@static @selea @jeff A question was asked ("should we deplatform extremists?"), and I offered my opinion. No, we should not. What am I trying to accomplish? I guess, firstly for people to be free and then hopefully to be decent to one another?But from the wide view, it's my belief that you don't end hatred by hating. You don't end violence by committing it. And you don't preserve liberty by preventing people from voicing their opinions - no matter how wrong you believe those opinions to be.
(DIR) Post #9k9lxSRgVNVP4xzuTI by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-24T01:33:36Z
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@static @selea @jeff It's a cute infographic but we'll just have to agree to disagree on this point.
(DIR) Post #9k9owgKfgjUHin2Sv2 by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-24T02:08:51Z
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@static @selea @jeff But I have engaged with you. I expressed my opinion, you expressed your own. You seem to have an opinion that differs from my own, and I don't feel a need to change your mind. Like I said, we can agree to disagree.In your world, does there have to be a winner in every discussion? Does it have to be you?Regarding Popper, he can have his opinion and I can have mine. And so can you.And I don't believe in the existence of supermen outside of comic books.
(DIR) Post #9kAFULPSaBLvU6zUKu by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-24T02:13:49Z
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@static @selea @jeff Okay, that's cool. You win. 🏆
(DIR) Post #9kFbXnT0qZ1sZu974K by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-06-26T21:10:25Z
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@selea You can have an auth (A) subkey on your GPG key, which can be used as an SSH key (if you use gpg-agent as your ssh agent). So if you were using an SSH tunnel as a VPN, then yes.However, I don't know of a way to use a PGP auth key with e.g. OpenVPN. Maybe there is, I'm not aware of it.
(DIR) Post #9kTaPV6sI2eoK6nYEy by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-07-03T15:03:41Z
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@killyourfm Not uncommon. I bought an Oryx Pro a couple years ago and decided within 24 hours of receiving the laptop to return it. Light bleed was terrible. When I opened a support ticket with #System76 (with the picture below) I was told it was "a little worse than normal" to which I was like: 😯 🤨 😠 Boxed it up and sent it back. Which cost me $234 in non-refunded and return shipping, but that's better than $2500 for a laptop with an unusable display. Bought a Lenovo P50, zero light bleed.
(DIR) Post #9kTbJrcZmS5aMEVCk4 by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-07-03T15:13:54Z
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@killyourfm Are you still within 30 days of purchase? System76 has a no-questions-asked 30-day return policy. YMMV but I refuse to drop coin like that on a laptop with any kind of defect. You could try an exchange but you you may end up getting something the same or worse.I think the problem is the Oryx display frame is not very stiff and there isn't much backing it (just that thin aluminum plate). So it flexes/twists a bit when you open and close it, creating gaps in the light seal beneath.
(DIR) Post #9kTbsMwjowAnMBO0dU by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-07-03T15:20:08Z
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@killyourfm So even if you can live with the light bleed today, just keep in mind that unless you are exceedingly careful when opening the display (so as not to twist it) that light bleed may very well get worse over the life of the laptop.Also, you should be careful not to set anything on top of the laptop. That aluminum plate dents easily (mine came from the factory with a slight dent in the middle that AFAICT likely happened when they were boxing it up).
(DIR) Post #9kVkcoWymXliB9uoDY by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-07-04T16:07:36Z
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@DashEquals >any proprietary platform."any *ad-supported* platform."If YouTube, Reddit, etc., were based on a subscription model they would only ban/censor content they thought would lose more subscribers than those banned. Since they are ad-supported they ban any content/users that might lose advertisers.FOSS platforms are necessary and great, but operation costs still have to be paid. Donations and subscriptions are user-driven. Ad revenue is advertiser-driven.FOSS alone != solution
(DIR) Post #9kVvpqjgzgRyHJHQhc by sean@social.sdoconnell.net
2019-07-04T18:13:14Z
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@DashEquals Well yeah, decentralization counts, too. But my point was funding models for services.Let's say I setup a Mastodon instance that becomes very popular (500k+ users). That requires bandwidth, servers, etc. which cost fairly serious money (beyond just $5/mo VPS level). How does that get funded?The prevailing attitude seems to be "just make it ad-supported so it's free to use." But *that* will inevitably lead to censorship at the demands of advertisers (i.e., the current problem).