Comfort noise really surprised me when I learned about it regarding phones. We register it as silence but we also register the line as active whereas we immediately notice complete silence. Brains are cool stuff
Jumping in here from the sideline: Just because you have an opinion doesn't mean that it's unreasonable to feel hurt by that opinion. Also that opinion doesn't necessarily mean there is a debate to be had. That opinion can also be transphobic, which would explain both the hurt and the nondiscussion of that idea.
Also I have a hard time following your thoughts here:
I strongly believe freedom and transparency should be over security. I have enough of the censoring, auto filtering of messages, manual approvals and believe they do a lot more harm than good. Perfect examples of that is what many governments try to do with the analysis of all of our private messages, phone and computer contents and media
A) I am pretty sure you mean safety and not security. Having the ability to post or not to post has very little to do with security and might have something to do with the safety of readers, instance maintainers and most importantly, the victims of the csam.
B) equaling moderation on a community to state sanctioned censorship is always a big red flag. Let communities choose their own rules. No community should be forced to accept every post from everyone. You do not have the given right to post to every community just because you want a big audience. You have the right to make your own community and build your audience.
C) neither moderation nor censorship are relared to the government monitoring your private messages. That is an important topic that should be discussed widely and be called attention to. But it's wildy unrelated.
Oh my god people. This is just a tongue in cheek joke about the ridiculousness of the two comments above me. The first one is either completely made up or pretty much unverifiable if true. The second one is an unreasonable request if the first comment was true because it would obviously endanger the source. It was meant as a test for whether the first comment was telling the truth but it's completely failing at doing that.
Because lemmings that try doing it would be pulled in front of a judge if they went public about it afterwards. It would a) just be a single person that would b) face consequences for that action.
Israel on the other hand is a state level actor killing civilians in another jurisdiction. I know it's just another war crime between many others at this point, but it bears noticing just how little the consequences have become
Sorry how would have a GPL`d aosp helped here? Google would and could still have not published their drivers for the pixel. You'd need pixel drivers licenced by someone different from google to make them publish their changes to the drivers
I don't think that's what they meant by identity mechanisms. Or at least I hope not. It's just not enough to require an e-mail to verify that you are in fact a valid user
Bees do contribute to pollination but commercial beehives are so not on the top of contributors. Reducing pesticides even a little would do so much more
And the world just watches. Or, more accurately, stopped watching. The conflict apparently passed our collective attention span. It's now just part of the dystopian background imagery of the world we are living in
Comfort noise really surprised me when I learned about it regarding phones. We register it as silence but we also register the line as active whereas we immediately notice complete silence. Brains are cool stuff