DogMuffins

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DogMuffins ,

If there was a bot that just flooded All with far right talking points, do you think admins ought to block that or leave it to the users?

What if it was far right mixed in with cat memes?

What if it started more slowly like a few posts an hour and then ramped up over 6 months to be 1000s of posts per hour?

DogMuffins ,

Surely you're aware of the embrace, extend, extinguish corporate strategy.

People only get to decide what they want from their platform until facebook starts extending the spec. Then your client will become incompatible with some posts, and so on and so forth.

In summary, it's a threat to the platform itself.

DogMuffins ,

I've tried this a bunch of times but I don't really get it tbh.

What sorts of things do you search for?

Everything I need is in an organised structure.

DogMuffins ,

This opinion contradicts the polls though right?

I mean it's a shitty headline and I dislike the use of the term "inevitable", but polls suggest that voters are eager for a Trump dictatorship.

Chrome & Firefox are a false duopoly. Do we need another option? Should there be a public option? Should it come from Italy?

Mozilla is ~83% funded by Google. That’s right- the maker of the dominant Chrome browser is mostly behind its own noteworthy “competitor”. When Google holds that much influence over Mozilla, I call it a false duopoly because consumers are duped into thinking the two are strongly competing with each other. In Mozilla’s...

DogMuffins ,

Most of this is self referencing. Like the default search engine is not an example of Google's control, it's Mozilla's revenue model.

The remainder sounds like personal gripes that you're misconstruing as evidence of nefarious intent.

There's also plenty of evidence to the contrary, total cookie protection to name but one.

Additionally, beurocratic processes produce terrible software. Log in to any govt website as a refresher.

Finally, browsers are incredibly complex, if this model worked you'd use it for much simpler projects first.

DogMuffins ,

Descriptions varied

'nuff said.

The unsung hero of Trump’s fraud case: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( www.salon.com )

Authoritarians like Trump gain power by exploiting public cynicism. The more that voters believe that all politicians cheat the system, the more decent citizens will give up engaging meaningfully in politics at all. Eventually, the only people left in politics are the ones with no vision of a better world beyond a bitter desire...

DogMuffins ,

Legendary.

Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Well, my friend, he's kinda poor he can't afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don't understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the author...

DogMuffins ,

First instance of intellectual property piracy?

Perhaps, but of course there are still significant differences.

To make these copies you needed a team of highly skilled scribes and their accoutrements, and the ship had to wait in port for several days.

That is to say, these copies in babylon would have come at a significant cost.

I've been blocking ads for so long that actually seeing them feels perverse

I use ad blockers and open source privacy focused software whenever I can but occasionally I have to use computers that don't belong to me or an older phone where my usual applications aren't installed and seeing all the advertisements just feels dirty and dystopian....

DogMuffins ,

Yeah I agree.

It's made me very intolerant of ads. It's kind of surprising how much effort I will invest to avoid ads, and avoid supporting people who make a living from advertising revenue.

DogMuffins ,

There's 2 versions of the Martian, but IIRC Porter didn't do either. I think it's r c bray and the star trek kid, is it whedon?

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