Didn’t he kill the pope?

They knew. Not all the details, but this much was clear.

How big of a hit was BttF in Russia?

I understand the intent, but this is not phrased well.

prevents your messages being spied on by Signal, but ironically they’re probably one of the most trustworthy actors in this whole chain, so the fact that it’s protected from them, while commendable, is not particularly valuable security

It’s extremely valuable security, because most companies, even if they don’t want to spy on you might be compelled to by court order. And those companies often think their security is sufficient because they have good intentions, and they expect the government to have good intentions when they’re going as far as getting a court order. (I also suspect more court orders are justified than not, but a few bad subpoenas spoil the bunch.) The fact that they physically are unable is quite important.

All your points about how things around that can fail are valid.

I will say that double posting is a completely reasonable solution. More orgs should be the gateway where they can be seen, and have the visibility of the big platforms, but they also offer Mastodon as an alternative. If enough orgs do that, it enables people to just… move.

It’s hard for users to move when 75% of their content is exclusive to X. And it’s hard for orgs to move when 75% of the users are on X. Double posting allows this to move to 10% X exclusive content, 60% content that’s available everywhere, and 10% exclusive to open platforms. After the orgs move the content, it’s so much easier for users to move, and after the users move, it’s easier for the orgs to move.

This should be a cooperative thing. And afaik it doesn’t take that much effort to post the content to two places.

It’s likely they see it as one harmless comment and not the pattern and culture that it is.

Yeah, I don’t plan to leave in two years, so I’m motivated to not say “oh fuck” when I have to maintain the thing I built later.

Plus, you know, I don’t want people to groan when they have to work on my code.

It’s almost like there should be a human in the loop to guide and review what the ai is doing.

The thing works a lot better when I give it smaller chunks of work that I know are possible. Works best when I know how to implement it myself and it just saves me from looking up all the syntax.

People have trouble with the middle ground. AI is useful in coding. It’s not a full replacement. That should be fine, except you’ve got the ai techbros and CEOs on one end thinking it will replace all labor, and the you’ve got the backlash to that on the other end that want to constantly talk about how useless it is.

Money out of politics. We need a constitutional amendment that money is not speech, and that it’s in the interest of the people to control how much influence money can buy.

Having a domain name and access to some kind of basic text and video hosting should be considered speech. (But that doesn’t need to be in an amendment.)

Corporations should be required to serve the public interest, even if that public interest is just providing a useful good or service. It should be made clear that persuing profit in a way that’s counter to the public interest (see Fallout) is illegal. (Note that prohibition under this would become an interesting discussion.)

I’m fine with disallowing people over X age to run for office. Term limits outside of the very highest office are generally a bad idea.

Clearly we need to patch some of our biggest vulnerabilities, the pardon process, the independence of the judicial branch, and the ability of the President to wage war without congressional approval.

Gerrymandering is a problem that needs to be addressed. Perhaps proportional representation should be encouraged here.

They can get paid through insider trading. Why do we need to pay them an honest salary?

Representatives shouldn’t make any money at all. We don’t need poor people trying to represent us.

Or the Russian regime. Or at this point the combination.

Would your country like to join the Internet borg?

Stop doubling down on being a harmful idiot.

There are absolutely reasons. Firefox is done by a reasonable job of anti-fingerprinting, and it’s a fine line to walk to disable as many of those indicators as possible without breaking sites.

Browsers do give away too much, but at least Firefox is working on it. And it’s not extremely straightforward.

Should be fine. They don’t have to use a browser to retrieve that feed.

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the ads went away when the internet access did.

Then why are you mad?

It can be both.

8GB ram though.