EarlKing

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by EarlKing 4y ago
This. Mastodon is a federation in name only. If the protocol is not the policy then you really don't have a federation at all, rhetoric notwithstanding. I note that this is not a problem particular to Mastodon/The Fediverse, thoug
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Even worse: Some of them still use proprietary software.
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I'd like to know that myself. He pretty much stopped posting everywhere after getting tossed out of the OSI. I won't delve into speculation, but I do suspect money was a factor given his prior requests for financial aid.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
The actual ratio will vary as a function of the attractiveness of the recipient. Your average joe probably gets none (or as close to none as statistically possible without actually being none). Your guy who looks like he just walked off a r
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> Like they come up with really terrible classification categories? Rather they just declare their opposition evil by nature so they don't have to analyze their behavior any further, and anything done to them is, in their eyes, mora
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by EarlKing 4y ago
It's always easier to believe your opposition is ontologically evil -- that way you never have to address your own epistemological emptiness. Of course, the fact that it's blatantly obvious that far too many "people" on
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by EarlKing 4y ago
"I don't know WHAT you're talking about, meatbag, I just wanna kill all humans." - Bender
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by EarlKing 4y ago
/me looks at this content-free page and then reads your comment +++ATH0
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I hate to interrupt your regularly scheduled dose of anti-Americanism, but "Hate Speech" was being punished across Europe long before the "War on Terror" began in the United States. Europeans did not, and do not, need pr
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by EarlKing 4y ago
If it were truly "free" then it wouldn't need to "obligate" you to do anything.
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> Free Software is software where you're obligated to share your source code changes if you distribute them. > obligated ....so, basically, Free as in Slavery? Seriously, I'm not going to stand by and watch GNU partisans try
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No, the right way to do this is to stop trying to use legislation to do the jobs of parents. Stop expecting the world to nerf itself so you can be a lazier parent.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> For another, RMS created the free software movement, in an era where most software was proprietary. Stallman did a lot of things, but he most definitely did not start the free software movement. Free software was the norm prior to the
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by EarlKing 4y ago
"Go somewhere else" isn't a solution when a plurality of servers agree to tolerate racist, sexist, or just plain obscene conduct. I'm also amazed that giving users control over what they see isn't an option. That so
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> What if I'm one of those people, should I not be allowed to make public comment? If you do, do not be surprised when the service you're using gains a reputation accordingly. > And on the odd occasion I do, I just ban the u
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I don't recall Voat ever being specifically marketed as such, although it was certainly characterized as such in the press. It was literally just Atko's .NET knockoff of Reddit.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
You don't have to look very hard to find screaming racists, furries, and lolicons. They make no effort to hide themselves since operators apparently endorse that sort of behavior as long as it fits their own particular biases and kinks
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Yes, you can. However, you will also encounter nothing but grief because of jerks who want to screw it up. For a historical example of how this turns out, see FidoNet.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Neither does any point on the Fediverse. As long as operators think they can run their site any way they want instead of obeying a common protocol then they're federated in name only. To put it another way: If I can never trust that my
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by EarlKing 4y ago
I'll just butt in at this point to note that 'federated' systems are more or less FidoNet and Usenet warmed over, neither of which managed to overtake commercial systems, and in the latter case was rendered useless by spam...
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by EarlKing 4y ago
It's not even that. The purpose of mustard gas, for example, is principally to force unmasked troops to vacate the trenches. As a rule we don't do much trench warfare anymore. (Yes, yes, I know... Ukraine enters the chat ) With m
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by EarlKing 4y ago
But what would we call it? Slashpod? Poddot? Either way, you'd be continuing the proud tradition of not reading the summary.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Well, if we're going to play the game of assumptions, then you're assuming Russians have bothered to maintain their warheads properly. Given the very plausible theory that Nord Stream 1 and 2 were taken out as a result of the Russ
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> At least in the 1990s SF had plenty of prominent targets, from what I read in books at the time. One of them (I don't remember where I read this) was the Chevron oil refinery & storage facility just off the Richmond bridge. Dr
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by EarlKing 4y ago
You will never see a truce between developers and people who challenge their profits. Be realistic.
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Ah, so it's not racist because it only discriminates against the non-majority portion of the proletariat. How very bougie of you. The fact that you don't see that as a problem tells me all I need to know.
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> Diversity doesn't only mean race. Yes it does. It's an imperialist code-word for state sanctioned racism against the majority population of the proletariat in order to pit the proletariat against itself. Absolutely no one is
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by EarlKing 4y ago
Solution proposed by viewers: Why do you think you're entitled to my attention? [ installs adblock ]
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by EarlKing 4y ago
So... HailCorporate, the website. Great. As if there wasn't enough spam on reddit.
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I wouldn't buy that for a dollar.

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