cjslep

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by cjslep 6y ago
Your absolutist statements ("based on nothing but emotion and ideology") do nothing but betray your own ignorance. As an American living in Switzerland, a "good policy" (whatever that means) here has resulted in: 1) no c
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by cjslep 6y ago
When I, a white young boy, grew up in The South and saw the Klan, my father taught me to never do business with them, never enable their behavior, never let their organization rent rooms from venues I may own, and to decline all of their bu
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by cjslep 6y ago
Of Rousseau? ISBN: 9781981974566. Translated with an introduction by G. D. H. Cole. I did not do much research into different translations of this work nor the translator themselves, before purchasing this book.
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by cjslep 6y ago
I think you've simply found the "able-to-have-these-convos conservatives" to have these discussions with and haven't found the "able-to-have-these-convos liberals". Note that I hate using these categories. Anyw
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by cjslep 6y ago
I just finished Rousseau's Social Contract and Discourses , and I really recommend reading the Discourses as they paint a harrowing picture of how any government -- including democracies -- can become bent to a particular will a
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by cjslep 6y ago
We can skip the formalities then! Please state your full legal name, date of birth, current address of residence, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, email addresses, passwords, your favorite type of pornography, and your mother&#x27
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by cjslep 6y ago
I am not arguing that one has to be technical in order to benefit from those freedoms. I like FLOSS and agree users in general benefit. I am saying that your example, for instance, stills falls under the "how does a non-technical user
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by cjslep 6y ago
It may focus on user's rights, but it still requires technical expertise to exercise half of the 4 freedoms: #1 (inspection & modification) and #3 (distributing your modifications). Merely knowing to ask "can I see the source
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by cjslep 6y ago
Woosh. I know the legal definition of Corporate Personhood. This is not the same idea as saying "I believe corporations are human-people", which is what the sarcastic poster was playing with. That distinction is the point of t
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by cjslep 6y ago
Yeah my apartment neighbor, who is a corporation, broke down crying the other night from all the stress at work and the news. Cried really loudly, could hear through my walls. But at least their ex-wife-divestment lets him see his kids-subs
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by cjslep 6y ago
> If you don't want to feel criticized when people point out basic facts to you Dude! As I said, you could treat me as a full fledged adult and we could have an actual intelligent conversation. Rather than you try to not-very-wittil
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by cjslep 6y ago
Glad to know you think of my intelligence so uncharitably that you have to explain a tautological definition. I know that insurance only covers the insured. I charitably assumed the reading audience of HN knows that, too. Is there something
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by cjslep 6y ago
If you want to play the anecdote game: There's also a local Indian Restaurant whose owner was on the phone with the police while watching it burn on the local news, and he basically said "Let it burn. If that's what it takes
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by cjslep 6y ago
I am 100% not straw manning them. I couldn't believe the conversation I was having. It's very few people that have this crazy of a hardline stance, but they're out there.
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by cjslep 6y ago
I'm sorry! Based on context, I understood your post to refute mine to support sneak. And sneak and I have had heated debates about the Fediverse before, and you've stumbled into the latest one. :) In the future, it would definitel
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by cjslep 6y ago
Main-instance Mastodon (run by the main dev) has made moderation choices that people disagree with. It means conversations here always brings out this same group group of people that disagreed with all these decisions and somehow believe th
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by cjslep 6y ago
You're right, my mistake. In some cases it is not transparent. However, this is not a systematic censorship problem, unlike centralized services with opaque policy language and a complete boot out the door. People are free to run the
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by cjslep 6y ago
Mastodon is just one ActivityPub software. PeerTube and Pixelfed let your loosely-connected Twitter clones also be loosely connected to Instagram clones. It's a big world. So I wouldn't get too hung up on one developer (me include
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by cjslep 6y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to put words in your mouth. However, it's very presumptuous to say: "I really wanted Mastodon to be where I can find everyone." That's Facebook and Twitter. And even then you can't find every
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by cjslep 6y ago
Instance banning is neither silent nor invisible. Every Mastodon instance has an About page (no login required) listing all instance bans and reasons, anytime. I would be in agreement with you about silent/invisible censorship, but tha
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by cjslep 6y ago
> But admins can still choose to block instances in the future that I might have interest interacting with. It is like a gamble choosing an instance. Then have multiple accounts and abide by each instances' rules. > Making an ins
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by cjslep 6y ago
You can't force user's eyeballs to read the bytes you ship to their computers unless you want to go full Clockwork Orange. Some people want to exercise the rights over their computers (pick any ideology, FOSS included) and don&#x2
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by cjslep 6y ago
Oops, I think I misunderstood what I was replying to. I see what you mean. I'm more interested in exploring getting the entire AP ecosystem be encrypted by default, using Chris' work. I don't think I care that much about prof
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by cjslep 6y ago
ActivityStreams is a data format, not a protocol. ActivityPub is the protocol that Mastodon, Pleroma, etc use which shares ActivityStreams data.
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by cjslep 6y ago
Have you seen the "About" page on instances? It lists exactly what you want: what instances are defederated by the instance. Here's the page for the instance I reside in: https://mastodon.technology/about&#x2F
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by cjslep 6y ago
> I'd much rather see ActivityPub implementations support good profile deep linking to existing (read: safe) messengers This is something myself and a few others are interested in pursuing.
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by cjslep 6y ago
> social distancing NOT correlating with a reduced death rate. The point is to reduce the infection rate so that the total number of hospitalizations (Covid19 or otherwise) does not exceed the healthcare system's capacity. I doubt y
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by cjslep 6y ago
I've only been once, but that store is amazing. If memory serves me right, there's a cat resident there. Wonder if that's a long standing tradition.
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by cjslep 6y ago
Hey don't feel bad, you're in great company. In NC we've also got the gerrymandering, anti-trans bathroom-bill, state-legislature-hates-the-governor partisanship (state R's would rather burn the state constitution than l
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by cjslep 6y ago
> Blame is a useful tool, it feels like you're trying to avoid it for unstated reasons when it seems entirely useful in this context. I've demonstrated that everything except blame is useful when doing analyses of engineering

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