Posts by skarabrae@witches.live
(DIR) Post #9l2SBbtvUZqCMdw2fg by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-07-20T10:41:05Z
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@sean Linux is quirky, flawed, and a huge success.
(DIR) Post #9l2T60F4BE0s4aiHzM by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-07-20T10:56:24Z
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@sean @Jayay I was really just thinking of the kernel, but it also applies to everything else.These things are really amazing social constructions. Underneath the glossy veneer there's a huge amount of arguments, bugs, clashing of titanic egos and corporate agendas and so on. And yet somehow out of the fog of war we still manage to obtain a usable system. Usable enough to run the planet.
(DIR) Post #9l2Tykpx9oAsDq4fgm by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-07-20T11:03:11Z
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@sean @Jayay Also not forgetting that the directory structure of Linux comes from the original Unix developers in the early 1970s running out of disk space.
(DIR) Post #9lHlOyDJ3VA6dpnnCC by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-07-27T19:10:05Z
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@vickysteeves This isn't really a Microsoft thing. It's a US export controls thing, and blocking like this has been going on for at least two decades. It was a problem on Sourceforge when that was popular.The lesson - which people never seem to learn - is that you shouldn't let a US based company gatekeep participation in your software project.Also in purely legalistic terms it still makes no sense. "export" of software? It's not like exporting bananas. But in the last couple of decades nobody has challenged this in the courts, and because orgs like EFF are US based they just don't care.
(DIR) Post #9lUUiYtxhaEXlOzOVc by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-02T14:46:58Z
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@Vipsu @angristan It has long been known that admins in the fediverse do have legal liability for the content they host, and the consequences of that can vary depending upon jurisdictions. For example, hosting hate speech or certain kinds of political imagery in EU countries may be against local laws. We havn't seen any legal cases yet, but that's presumably because the fediverse isn't on the radar of the politicians because it hasn't been big enough. That situation may change in the next few years.
(DIR) Post #9lqGxAUfuFmD49uU40 by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-13T11:17:15Z
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@mastor Yes. This is why for admins in the EU having that kind of content on your server, even if it was federated from elsewhere, becomes a legal liability."Someone on the internet told me it was free speech" isn't a legal defense.
(DIR) Post #9m2ybhakwZH5eTQfRI by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-19T14:41:49Z
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@thomasfuchs I'm not yet that old, but I quite like the big letter keyboards. They also sell them for children, usually with brightly colored keys.
(DIR) Post #9m38yQokTX2tpTS1B2 by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-19T16:28:06Z
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@bhaugen @abrahms @xj9 @cj @yaaps I think this is only partially true. No new communications protocol can demolish capitalism, but the design of a protocol sets constraints within which interactions may occur. The key observation is that capitalism requires certain modes of interaction to maximize value extraction, and these can be hindered by communications system design.Anticapitalist systems are likely to have the properties: - Difficult to do targeted advertising - Monopoly control of the system is not technically possible - Has features enabling partial opacity (interferes with corporate surveillance) - "real names" should always be optional
(DIR) Post #9m98X1EaePZJc8E5ku by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-22T14:01:18Z
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@garfiald @Shrigglepuss I'm at the stage of dystopianism where I no longer know whether this is real or a spoof by The Onion
(DIR) Post #9mFn8BsoSLdsgef9iy by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-25T18:55:34Z
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@sandro Currently the blocking system seems to be holding up. People send reports of anything suspicious to the admin and instance blocks can happen from there.Sometimes blocks are controversial, but any controversy blows over after a few days.Political attacks are more of a problem on smaller or self-hosted instances where the curation effort isn't pooled. With fewer sentries on watch spotting political attacks becomes harder.
(DIR) Post #9mHaEMIdjLRfdvH2bQ by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-26T15:49:14Z
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@debugninja Cats. Cats define the fediverse culture. :blobcattea:
(DIR) Post #9mHpv0dHf7XYCyj24e by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-26T18:45:05Z
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@Gargron :doge:
(DIR) Post #9mVSixn5WTJKxb38lc by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-09-02T08:31:12Z
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@liw The idea that someone's time is worth 20 times more than others is a bit fanciful. Even more fanciful than the "10X developer" illusion.
(DIR) Post #9mXrA5MjayYjtWliQS by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-09-03T12:14:22Z
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@isolategab Isolating Gab and its satellite instances should be a priority because the words they spread become the context within which physical attacks are later carried out. Demonizing marginalized groups is not a harmless activity.
(DIR) Post #9mal3DBSX0iBBl2Oci by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-09-04T21:50:06Z
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@garfiald I just did one recently online, but have done many others. This one asked a lot of questions about "risk" without defining what kind of risk they meant.Risk could mean learning a new programming language or hand-to-hand wrestling a polar bear. The word covers a lot of territory.
(DIR) Post #9ot0ytjdlIHOaJVhGy by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-11-12T12:06:18Z
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@sean Business Source is proprietary source. Basically the same as when Microsoft did "shared source" which you could look at under NDA if you were another bigcorp.
(DIR) Post #9xGusrzvwbHyXUJud6 by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-19T09:52:46Z
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"Punk is an outward projection of resistance, the idea of resisting with the body, with the aesthetic, with the music, a culture of resisting that has become commercialised and co-opted in a lot of ways, but is still linked to an ideology such as anarchism that carries with it a great deal of depth and resilience. Through our creative acts, through this tension of creation and destruction we can actually sustain and nourish ourselves, but it’s through accepting the dark side, the trash and the despair as well as the utopian ideal of what it can be."-- George F.
(DIR) Post #9xGuup2Fvi2hvjKyY4 by skarabrae@witches.live
2019-08-15T07:50:52Z
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Nobody really needs "incentives to work". Everyone wants to live a meaningful life of one kind or another. It's just that capitalism only understands coercive social relations and considers anything outside of that frame as idleness.