abbenm

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abbenm , to Fediverse in Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub

loops.video

Wow, first I've heard of it! Super excited.

abbenm , to Fediverse in Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub

This was a longstanding fediverse complaint, which was quite remarkable to me. It was described as a "missing" feature even though you never had this ability anywhere else let alone the fediverse.

If you get a new email address, it doesn't bring your contacts or your history of emails with you. If you make a new twitter account, same thing. And of course, don't even think about trying to port, say, your facebook stuff into a youtube account. But if the fediverse can't, then it's a dealbreaker.

If you truly want to channel the limitless depths of human creativity, give a Comment Section Skeptic (TM) every fediverse feature they say they want. Then wait and watch as that creativity goes into action, as [insert new feature] is now the new dealbreaker. It is and always will be an endless game of whack a mole.

abbenm OP , to Politics in Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.

Okay, the next step in the playbook is "no one cares". I don't know, I think online disinformation has emerged as one of the major international issues characteristic of our time and will go down in the history books. So I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that no one cares.

I'm sorry that calling you out on your 💩 means I'm a debate bro. But the flip side of the same coin is that you're the one spewing the 💩💩💩.

abbenm OP , to Politics in Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.

You started out by saying was no evidence, except there was. Now you've moved the goalposts and are debating the nuances of the evidence instead of saying that none was presented.

You derailed with whataboutism, you made a blanket generalization based on an unrelated story. Are you just going down the playbook, one derailment tactic at a time?

Five posts from now you will be saying "well yeah, maybe they proved the IP was from Russia, but the guy from Russia generated a fake site with 17 fake authors because he cared so much about journalistic integrity!"

abbenm OP , to Politics in Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.

So in your opinion is DC Weekly (mentioned in the article) in fact a legitimate american news source? I want to understand more about what specifically they are projecting.

abbenm OP , to Politics in Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.

There is no actual evidence presented in the article

You're so full of 💩.

For one example, they give examples of several websites, including one called DC Weekly, they explain that the sites use fabricated authors, lorem ipsum template text, files uploaded in Russian to sites presenting itself as an American site.

In their report on DC Weekly, they show that the IP address associated with DC Weekly is John Mark Dougan, who lives in Russia. So there's an example, for one.

abbenm OP , to Politics in Spate of Mock News Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S.

Yes and no. That story was bad for a reasons specific to that story that were uncovered and sourced from other credible reporting. You can't proceed from that to a blanket generalization over everything else in New York times reports without any additional supporting evidence.

Also it's sourcing and quoting other sources, so you'd have to explain if you believe that the New York times made up those sources.

abbenm , to World News in Putin says he would prefer Biden to win the United States election rather than Trump

He says he wants blue team to win in 2024, but we are blue team and we hate him!

Well we're off to an awfully bad start because this is about the shallowest bad faith caricature I could possibly imagine. Let's put it this way:

  • Putin absolutely has a propaganda strategy aimed toward the west that utilizes a number of tools and messaging strategies
  • Among the strategies reported on, one has been to escalate existing divisions within the United States, with one example reported on being creating opposing conservative and liberal events and scheduling them at the same location
  • Purin preferred Trump for his first term
  • Putin preferring Biden can be politically damaging to Biden in the context of domestic politics
  • a Trump victory could prove exceptionally destabilizing to domestic politics in the United States

I'm not even 100% saying I'm right, but every step of this is perfectly reasonable, it doesn't rely on any outlandish assumptions, and communication about this isn't helped by mocking people with bad faith caricatures and performative incredulity.

abbenm , to Technology in Bluesky is finally open to everyone. But will anyone come? We ask its CEO.

I just logged in to two smaller instances where I have accounts, anticapitalist.party and mastodon.xyz. I found them in one step and I could see their posts and replies on both of them.

abbenm , to Linux in Debian patching 32-bit builds to handle dates beyond 2038

I think all stars in the galaxy will be dead by then.

abbenm , to Technology in Bluesky is finally open to everyone. But will anyone come? We ask its CEO.

Because even for me, a full time systems coder, just figuring out what server to join was a pain

What was there to figure out in your case?

abbenm , to Technology in Bluesky is finally open to everyone. But will anyone come? We ask its CEO.

I couldn’t just find you by searching for p03locke, I’d have to search for @p03locke.

I literally just searched "p03locke" from mastodon.social and found them in one step.

abbenm , to United States | News & Politics in Elon Musk Is Funding Ex-‘Mandalorian’ Actress’s Suit Against Disney | Gina Carano accused Disney and Lucasfilm of discrimination when they dropped her after she posted baseless conspiracy theories

Echoes of Peter Theil's strategy to destroy Gawker.

abbenm , to Open Source in Do U know about any AI Web Search Engine?

I don't know how privacy respecting it is but one well done AI search engine is:

https://search.marginalia.nu/

abbenm , to Asklemmy in Do EV's actually do anything beneficial for the planet?

Right, and to your point, part of that is stymieing focused, direct action and ramping up of industry in the western world. So it makes perfect sense to be a global leader in every part of the EV supply and manufacturing chain while being interested in sowing division elsewhere so there's no convergence of public interest and policy momentum that grows competitive industries. There's no contradiction between those two things insofar as they serve China's interests.

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