EarlKing

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by EarlKing 3y ago
> So your argument is that private individuals, dissatisfied with the behavior of an organization, may choose to take their business elsewhere? Yes. > Because business is a two-way transaction. This sounds like an argument in favor of
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by EarlKing 3y ago
> Given your framing of this in terms of class warfare, I'd remind you that Marx Class warfare predates Marx by roughly two thousand years (if not longer). I am not interested in what he has to say on the matter. It was sufficiently
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by EarlKing 3y ago
Calling people you don't like "nazis" doesn't change what you are doing. They are being deprived of their civil rights and no one is fooled. That's why we're having this discussion at all: you've managed t
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by EarlKing 3y ago
> swatting campaigns Do you have evidence that Null knew about people organizing these on KiwiFarms and openly endorsed them or at least tolerated them? Do you have anything to confer upon him some kind of liability for the actions of
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by EarlKing 3y ago
Reporting what the "victims" themselves have said is not harassment. Reporting on the extralegal actions of these "victims" is also not harassment. If you have evidence of him engaging in actual harassment as legally def
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by EarlKing 3y ago
> In some cases you (or if not you, then at least the vast majority of society) thinks it’s appropriate. Children cannot defend themselves. Adults can. No one is particularly interested if this fine line escapes you. The line exists, no
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by EarlKing 3y ago
The constitution doesn't say a lot of things. The constitution is not the whole of the law, any more than the bible is the whole of religion. At the end of the day I think we've reached a point where the majority of the proletaria
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by EarlKing 3y ago
No one cares. This is class warfare. The proletariat needs the right to engage in debate free of interference from the bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie-adjacent. You're not going to win anyone over by saying that the law doesn't provid
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by EarlKing 3y ago
The freedom of speech is a guarantee to the people that they may exercise free thought and expression and not be subject to the use of force or fraud against them by any party, whether a state or private actor. The use of force or fraud aga
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by EarlKing 3y ago
> It's been used by people to harass people in the real world. And libraries have been used by people to learn effective methods to harass or harm others in the real world. Quick! Let's shut down all the libraries! > I think
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by EarlKing 3y ago
> some people have decided the ends justify the means essentially ...and it's long past time they were told in no uncertain terms that the proletariat has had enough of this bourgeoisie nonsense. Laws exists for a reason. No one sho
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by EarlKing 3y ago
It is irrelevant whether what other countries believe. Attempting to equate this with child porn (yes, call it what it is rather than the euphemism-du-jour CSAM) does not make your argument stronger, and indeed will just lead most people
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by EarlKing 3y ago
You mean, like, a court of law, where people are only tried for things that are actual crimes instead of behaviors you find personally offensive?
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by EarlKing 3y ago
But for how much longer? That's my point.
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by EarlKing 3y ago
Honestly those kinds of simple captchas probably aren't all that useful, or won't be useful for very much longer, as people start trying to use ChatGPT to answer them.
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by EarlKing 3y ago
The consensus by those outside the milieu of bourgeoisie apologists is that 'open source' really does mean 'the source is available', full stop, nothing else added. That some people have trouble understanding this is not
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by EarlKing 3y ago
And I am free to agree that authors can relicense their works under open source licenses that are inconvenient to the bourgeoisie. Such is life.
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by EarlKing 3y ago
By that same logic: If you didn't want to run the risk of them relicensing their work going forward... you shouldn't have used it at all.
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by EarlKing 3y ago
It's been totally OK to love corporations for about two decades running... ever since some clown told everyone that they should provide them with free labor (which is their idea of what 'free software' really means).
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by EarlKing 3y ago
"‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean different things–that’s all.’ ‘The ques
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by EarlKing 3y ago
TIL that giving innovations away to the bourgeoisie is 'powerful'. This is obviously some bizarre sado-masochistic definition of 'powerful' I was not previously familiar with involving whips, chains, and dragons.
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by EarlKing 3y ago
That is not open source. That is OSI's proprietary definition that postdates the notion of open source by almost a decade, and represents the third attempt by corporate america to appropriate free software for their own interests. Open
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by EarlKing 3y ago
I am less inclined to agree with the FSF in that bourgeoisie who think they can hoover up innovations from the commons to build empires and oppress the masses should at least have to pay for the privilege. Thankfully I know I'm not alo
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by EarlKing 3y ago
Better solution: Just make your own for whatever project you're working with. AIWORD was originally a product of Stanford's AI community. Let it rest and make a dictionary that reflects the usage of your own group. ..........and m
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by EarlKing 3y ago
I mean, that basically describes a telnetable bulletin board system, and those definitely run off an RPi. This is a common problem with tech-adjacent types: believing that technology is the solution to all problems, including social ones. I
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by EarlKing 3y ago
> spam spamifications As much as I dislike notifications, they're becoming a necessity in a world of decommoditized email. If I could know that my mail would actually get through when I send it to a willing recipient (as opposed to
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by EarlKing 3y ago
Not entirely related, but recently I began re-reading Practical File System Design with the Be File System by Dominic Giampaolo. Not exactly an up-to-date text, but a good guide to the tradeoffs involved in designing a file system. * htt
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by EarlKing 3y ago
......this from the guy who replaced the guns in E.T. with walkie-talkies?
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by EarlKing 4y ago
If you squinted real hard you'd claim that your time was wasted, and then value your time as a function of revenue earned from your views, and set up a class action suit for everyone who had ever viewed that site and been thusly defrau
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by EarlKing 4y ago
> throwing random stuff in I didn't even ask for Sounds like ChatGPT has officially become a professional software engineer.

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