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  • Somehow I doubt Trump would give a damn about MN, NY, and MI (although he won MI, Detroit would be competition to his buddy) and would just say it was the fault of blue state policies.

  • Yeah, but I'm probably more ancient than those get whatever that means...

  • How about for every tree cut down I take an equivalent amount of material out of one of the buildings he owns? He steals from me I steal from him, it balances things out. Plus it'd get rid of some of that gaudy gold paint annoying the public.

  • I only recently came to know of this company when I was looking for an upgrade for the old Logitech ones I've been using for Recalbox. Sounds like someone I'll have to get familiar with.

  • Phones became more frequently used for apps and posting which is a pain on a tiny screen. I built a pi zero powered retro console but actually using the tiny screen of about 3" makes it near impossible to read anything.

    I would like to see things return to having replaceable batteries, headphones jacks and maybe slide out keys, but if I have to type and read on the same screen it's awful nice to have some room to work with.

  • You call it a fallacy, but to propose that covering your eyes and ears makes the problem go away is hardly a solution.

    My issue is not the removal of bad content from the community, but the enforcement of it at a software level.

    Much like any other software in the fedi system there can be seen as three levels of the community:

    1: The global fedi where instances communicate across to each other, or in the case of problem instances, don't and they're cut off.

    2: The local instance (or pod as they're called in this case) with a few to many thousand users each where local rules are enforced by community admins.

    3: The individual where you have the choice to follow certain people/groups or not and block those you see as problems.

    Now those three layers make for a pretty potent filtration system in themselves making the baked in decisions by the software author fairly redundant at best, but that's not the end point. Say someone for whatever reason had a reason to store an archive of propaganda for studies, and they mean to share that with colleges in some project. They may set up a private pod or a few in a small collective to accomplish the goal. Forcing that filter at the software level makes it impossible to do in that way.

    So there's already a nazi filter around the system in the form of this multi step sieve for banning these things, doing so at the software level though puts a censors button in the hands of a single person or small group of people who then exercise control over even niche cases where private collections are affected.

  • I love his new stuff, for a lot of it he's talking to the same audience as he was back in the 90s(?) but he just takes off the gloves and gives it like it is.

  • Indeed, the way to combat bad media is to dispute it with good media, not hide it away and pretend it doesn't exist.

    Somewhat harder to do in the context of music like the app in question, but still not wrong. I keep copies of some old wartime propaganda cartoons around just for the ability to put context when talking about past events, despite them being pretty tasteless by modern standards.

  • Right, but for them to do so requires a level of monitoring what you use and open piece of software for, which is unacceptable to me. If you had an old style mp3 player that refused to play certain songs it would be seen as broken at best. If that selection of songs got updated at the discretion of some third party you start walking into ministry of truth territory.

    This is different from something like YouTube or whatever hosted service refusing to platform content, this would cross into directly controlling personal consumption by forced removal. We call it bad when people start banning books, but it's ok so long as it's our person selecting the bans?

    The existence of Mien Kamph in a library's collection doesn't make the librarian a Nazi, and it doesn't force the content onto the public.

  • Yeah, I don't even know how you would do that but if a platform I'm hosting and managing tries to tell me what content is or isn't permissable it's going in the bin.

    Don't need some big brother crap on my system controlling what I do with my hardware.

  • I have to love his passion on the matter.

  • Nobody who has a secure retirement should be allowed to touch the social security system.

    To that end, I propose seizure of the assets of Trump/Musk/et-al so that they have some skin in the game when they propose changes to the administration.

    The claimed assets could be used to fund operations as part of the exchange, saving money for the taxpayers.

  • Whoosh...

    Also, the org was corrupt on the face of it from the start, so there's not much more to be added now.

  • Idaho gonna hate Trump now for being a tater immigrater.

  • This Cruella De Vil looking twat was no business in the Intel world when any given one of those people have more knowledge of actual security matters than she could even begin to comprehend.

  • There's a function built into Thunderbird to create keys, and I think publish the public cert directly to the MIT repo.

  • Indeed they do use 11x but it's still a possibility to cause issues. It's entirely possible to manage a fleet of IPs across a net but it takes a solid plan organization plan. My company is big on the acquiring companies game where IP overlaps are a perpetual challenge when merging sites in and you need a mess of snat/dnat conversions to keep routing from getting in a knot.