cyanarchy @ cyanarchy @sh.itjust.works

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Because they believe that people end up in prison because of personal moral and character flaws, and they consider that a desirable state of affairs.

Hah! I can do all that without an online tutorial!

Thanks, this has gone a long way towards encouraging me to open a battered old copy of the Foundation Trilogy I was gifted years ago.

If someone can explain to me why librewolf refuses to display the specialized font characters that most websites use for necessary navigation symbols, I'll go back to using it. But all of my research suggests it was a problem only I was having, and it genuinely made some websites unusable.

I've been using brave browser for years and, while I vaguely know what you're talking about, it's not something I've ever even looked at.

The defining feature of Brave for me has always been the built-in ad blocking.

If you have to ask, you're headed in the right direction.

I think he would definitely appreciate this

I recently went back to using Thunderbird after not doing so for, I don't know, maybe a decade. Having everything in one place is very convenient indeed.

I've basically stopped using google for tech support, a computer is now teaching me how to use a computer.

I should be clear that I don't think supply and demand are immovable levers by which the world economy does or should work. I also don't believe there's only one person with the ability to do this. If they stop, I'm left to assume one of the eight billion people on this rock with the time and talent and resources to do this will.

And if they don't then I'm just going to have to deal with it because this is internet piracy, my dude. But there's no world in which I'm going to defend what empress does as a vital public service. I think I would prefer that they stop and get help, but I don't expect that to happen.

Yeah, and I'm sure you'll agree there's a gap between "my car is a machine that occasionally requires service by someone who knows how" and "my car is a metal horse that should go as long as I put gas in it". I don't expect people to be the mechanic, but the second group of people is very much real.

People feel the same way about cars, electricity, food preservation. People's lives are interdependent on massively specialized technical disciplines and most of them couldn't care less. I understand that the amount of specialization that goes into some topics means you can't be an expert on all of these subjects, but some people just could not give a single shit how any of it works, and do not have any understanding of the ways in which it might stop working.

I've come to greatly resent any sort of technology or design being dismissed as "magic", because I've met too many people who mean it literally.

If the second one is true, even in a subjective sense, I'm honestly just impressed. I mean, if it works, it works.

Demand is what causes Supply. Somewhere out there is someone with the skill to crack Denuvo, but no need to, because this lunatic is already doing it. And being the competition means being on empress' radar, which is really something a sane person would not want.

Thank you for understanding, I'm sorry if I came off combative myself. I would like to point out that the service you are providing is certainly useful. Personally, I'm only interested in seeing content that is parsed by a human and posted because of the natural interest around it. Otherwise, things get posted so fast and across enough communities that it drowns out all real and natural discussion in my subscription feed. That doesn't mean other people won't see and interact with these posts, and it doesn't mean they don't help grow a community. The nature of the fediverse itself seems to be a little messy, and sometimes people see different things even within the same community.

It might be nice for there to be a more fine-toothed control over what type of bot an account is flagged as, and what types of bots an individual user might see. I've disallowed viewing bot accounts since day one, mostly to avoid inane joke response bots as they were so prevalent on reddit. That's going to be a problem long term, because automoderators were a critical aspect of moderating larger communities.

Not to sound rude here, but I feel the same about you asking me to check that box.

Task failed. These provisions were made with the expectation that individuals such as yourself would act in good faith. It's alarming to hear that a moderator of any community feels they are above that standard.

I didn't mean to imply they were good at it, just that the volumes of data involved are certainly not trivial.

My gut reaction is that a multimedia website the size of reddit must be a juggernaut of server and hosting expenses.

You can be casual about it, but I don't think it's a hobby to seek to understand something that you're very nearly forced to coexist with. I have to acknowledge there's ideology behind statements like this, but it's more analogous to knowing your enemy's capabilities. It's a necessary prerequisite to forming an effective defense.

But I've come to understand many people don't share my antagonistic mindset. That's fine, but they should still understand the interactions they're having with these systems in even just the vaguest terms, because the effect on their lives is very tangible.

They hated him because he spoke the truth