ocdtrekkie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.
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@nazgul "You can pry Visual Basic from my cold, dead hands" would be on mine. 🤣
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@lowficarrots I don't know if I realized you were so young, lol.
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@GossiTheDog It's a good day to be too broke to have stocks.
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@davidho Seems like the sort of thing a "Department of Government Efficiency" would do something about.
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@randahl Is this a middle finger to Trump though, or to the Russian people?
Why not both, I guess.
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@cassidy My favorite is when the issue went stale waiting for the maintainer. I get the theory, if someone isn't interacting on their issue, maybe close it, but when the person with the issue is not the one leaving it stale it is just embarrassing.
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For the fediverse, dissenting from moderation decisions comes in the form of changing instances. For Bluesky, though, there's basically nothing short of leaving Bluesky entirely. There is, at least at the moment, no meaningful way to use ATProto without also consenting to all moderation […]
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@wjmaggos The other side of this is those algorithms, the decision of what user-generated content to promote and broadcast... that's a megacorp's "First Amendment protected free speech" as corporations are people now.
So they get all of the freedom to promote whatever misinformation, malware […]
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@wjmaggos One of the few categories where Internet companies do their job: CSAM. Because CSAM has mandatory reporting and strict liability for hosting it.
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@wjmaggos No a better example would be Tesla making a car that explodes easily and saying it's not responsible when it does, because someone else was driving it when it did. That's Section 230.
But to step away from analogies:
Many of Google's most profitable search terms are full of scams and […]
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@wjmaggos That could be better handled by anti-SLAPP-type laws. Blanket immunity absolutely prevents lawsuits, by also eliminating the ability to pursue legitimate ones.
Section 230 would be like saying "all speeding is legal" and then being glad it protects people from getting tickets for […]
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@wjmaggos The idea that Section 230 protects you and I, and not mega corps, is one of the most impressive bit of media manipulation on the Internet. To the point most people "prove" 230 is a good thing by quoting a paid Big Tech lobbyist who pretends to be a journalist.
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@wjmaggos On the contrary, Section 230 only helps Big Tech. Generally the law has a concept of reasonableness, an independent owner is not going to face a legal complaint because someone posted something on their site while they were asleep. But Google and Facebook use 230 to protect them when […]
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@jerry My understanding is basically the only thing that has not changed between the Biden and Trump administration is the antitrust policy... so good luck to Google on getting a sign off on a $33 billion acquisition when their little fealty donation won't even save Chrome.
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@Edent I'm sort of partial to the argument that publishers having bought into a DRM scheme that's breakable is a good thing, but man those followup replies burned any goodwill hard.
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@VeroniqueB99 I bet for no good reason these cost more than actually complete pants too.
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[USPol]
@lightweight It's going to have to get much, much worse before anyone considers they might be wrong. Lucky for us, it's *going to get a lot worse*.
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(Four bots immediately boosted this, if it gives you an idea how valuable tagging "AI" on something apparently is for reach these days... even on Mastodon.)
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@andypiper Browsers are more powerful than ICANN. A web browser can circumvent and provide its own DNS zones or what-have-you, not to mention their control over certificates and trust.
Chrome decides what exists on the Internet and what does not for most people.
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@Viss Every time I get flack for keeping all my stuff on-prem, this stuff keeps proving me right.
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@GottaLaff @SnowshadowII @Snowshadow "Yet" carries an incredible amount of weight here.
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@VeroniqueB99 Hope everyone who wouldn't vote for Harris because she too supportive of Israel is happy with their choice!
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@aspensmonster One thing I think tech especially does a lot is relies on aggregate data without reading individual examples, and it eventually just leads to really bad assumptions about the whole.
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@linuxgal The four great evil addictions.
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@hacks4pancakes Can I put in a request for you to be *less* polite to Nazis and Nazi enablers?