uabstraction

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by uabstraction 2y ago
4 percent of the browser market is still well over a hundred million users.
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by uabstraction 2y ago
Google leverages their monopoly search position to push people towards Chrome, using messages that, to lay people, imply a lot of websites won't work correctly unless they install Chrome. This is the most charitable reading, assuming
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by uabstraction 3y ago
Good
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by uabstraction 3y ago
You used to be able to do this, but e-mail has been required for some time. Over on Lemmy, it is the instance operator's choice whether or not to require e-mail, but most instances currently do as a measure to mitigate bot signups.
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by uabstraction 5y ago
In theory the regulators, as part of the government, serve the will of the people. But the state under capitalism serves no one but the massive corporations which these regulators are meant to govern. So we end up with fossil fuel guys runn
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by uabstraction 5y ago
The capitalist class on the other hand is famously innocent of thuggery. It's not like the established socioeconomic relations in Korea were incubated under a military dictatorship or anything.
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by uabstraction 5y ago
You either approach it from the social perspective, or the utilitarian perspective. From the social perspective, the goal is building a community. To build a community, people need to be held accountable for antisocial behavior. The technol
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by uabstraction 5y ago
It's a mistake to think echo chambers are a phenomenon which only take place on the political extremes. Reddit itself is an echo chamber of tepid liberal orthodoxy and American exceptionalism, moderated by a former member of the Atlant
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by uabstraction 5y ago
Counterpoint: If you are a member of an oppressed group and the leaders of your community punish people for calling you slurs, it makes it pretty obvious that they do, in fact, have your interests on their mind. The point of federation is a
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by uabstraction 5y ago
It's actually a great feature. It sorts out the edgelords very quickly, while taking 10 minutes to disable for any administrator with a modicum of technical prowess. If removing a regex string from the code is too much work for you,
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by uabstraction 5y ago
If not being able to say the N-word impedes your ability to articulate your political worldview, you should probably reflect on that.
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by uabstraction 5y ago
Ideology is when you disagree with the status quo, and the more you disagree with the status quo, the more ideological you are. And when you disagree with the status quo a whole lot, that's dogma.
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by uabstraction 5y ago
If you want leftists to engage with you in good faith, you simply need to ask the right questions. Questions that demonstrate a baseline of familiarity with the history and theory being interrogated. The Left isn't averse to debate. T
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by uabstraction 5y ago
Wait. You mean those "Heckin adorable Police Pupperino" threads that inevitably pop up on r/DogsWithJobs and r/Pics without fail every time the cops lynch another Black man?
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by uabstraction 5y ago
This criticism could just as easily apply to Reddit. The entire thing is an echochamber of American civic religion and they ban any subversive communities. Their director of content policy was plucked straight out of the Atlantic Council fo
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by uabstraction 6y ago
There was a wave of Pirate Parties about a decade ago, but they never gained even as much traction as the Greens. Onerous enforcement of intellectual property is just one of the many issues we face with the Internet today, next to the colo
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by uabstraction 6y ago
Another great thing about the Slashdot moderation system was the "overrated" and "underrated" tags. A comment could get moderated as "-1 Flamebait" then get moderated as "+1 Underrated" all the way u
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by uabstraction 6y ago
I haven't been around Tildes in a while, but they are doing the right thing when it comes to producing an alternative to Reddit - which is focusing on building a community rather than focusing on building a platform. After all, if you
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by uabstraction 7y ago
There is no justifiable reason why one person's vote should be worth more than another.
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by uabstraction 7y ago
I'm quite partial to the Bongcloud opening myself. http://www.chessmastery.com/bongcloud.pdf
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by uabstraction 7y ago
Moderating discussion forums is not censorship.
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by uabstraction 7y ago
McConnell has no ideology besides accumulating power.
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by uabstraction 7y ago
> Why is there no privacy focused Facebook or Google? The tongue-in-cheek answer to this is that they all eventually get bought by Facebook or Google. Anything that poses a threat to Facebook or Google will fold for the right price, as
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by uabstraction 7y ago
Nonsense. In many cases, vendor lock-in and the network effect present a substantial hurtle to living free of these companies. Sure you can quit Facebook, but they'll still build an internal profile about you. You can also tell your
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by uabstraction 8y ago
Bingo
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by uabstraction 8y ago
It doesn't exist yet, but when Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast* wraps up the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution is the next stop. I'm really looking forward to it. Duncan does an incredible job of tying together th
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by uabstraction 8y ago
Not exactly. Disabling the borrow checker is an internal implementation detail of the locking types, but it happens opaquely to the code using the locks. The locking types make assurances with regards to the lifetimes of their parameters &
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by uabstraction 8y ago
Oh please! Apple may not represent the same privacy clusterfuck that Google does, but that doesn't make them good. They still are absolutely abhorrent with regards to vendor lock-in and planned obsolescence.
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by uabstraction 8y ago
Many public ones are
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by uabstraction 8y ago
> Big companies don't have to have regional subsidiaries any more. [...] In the US, government hasn't really gotten into this in a big way. It is a mistake to assume that the solution which works in industry is equally applicab

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