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  • In my language the expression is "jemandem einen blasen" (to blow one to someone) and I remember reading a long time ago about a story where a teenage girl (?) actually injured her boyfriend when she blew into the penis. Seems not to be a very good idea.

  • Honestly I have to remind myself of this myself. Yes, these are images of events in (say) 1938. No, things weren't actually black and white in 1938, people saw colors the same way, with the same sharpness, they do in 2024, it's just photographic technology that has improved since then.

  • Ideally, the fediverse will help people in censorious countries access information their governments don't want them to see, but I am not too optimistic, I used to think that about the entire Internet and look where we are now, governments around the world are very much managing to control the spread of information on it.

  • I remember that RMS's position is that if someone (!) can change it (eg there is an "update firmware" button), it is a computer and should run free software. If no one can ever change it, it is a circuit. I think that makes some sense.

  • Raised (at least culturally) Roman Catholic. Religion stopped playing any part in my life as I became an adult, I hardly ever think about religion at all, not even enough that I would call myself an atheist or agnostic.

  • I agree to some extent with you.

    But you should start reading here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship

    I believe there is a small set of information that should not only be moderated (not shown to people who don't want to see it), but censored. I'm thinking especially of doxing. For that reason I think this is a real problem, that people's personal information may still show up in mod logs.

    Of course, on the Internet, you can't really effectively control the spread of any (including this kind of) information at all.

  • Satellite navigation. In my early childhood we sometimes played a street racing video game that had an arrow pointing the direction on the screen. My mom would remark that she wished she had such an arrow when she drove a car IRL, by now she definitely got that wish.