PontifexMinimus

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by PontifexMinimus 5y ago
> Will facebook be forced to show its users the same nastiness it just booted off, because of the interop necessities? Facebook should be forced to show me the feeds I choose to subscribe to. I'm perfectly capable of deciding for my
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by PontifexMinimus 5y ago
Mandating interoperability, with ActivityPub and similar protocols, would help. In the long term I'd like to see a future where it's a normal thing for people to roll their own social media platforms, by putting a Raspberry Pi on
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by PontifexMinimus 5y ago
I think you are probably right. Maybe Wokism will mutate into something less virulent. Or maybe the opposition to it will become overwhelming and destroy it.
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> I've heard that Islam and Christianity, as religions, are good and forgiving. I've also witnessed the behavior of actual muslims and christians. I would not call these people good. Of course not; the movement isn't the i
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by PontifexMinimus 5y ago
One of the main difference between Wokism and Christianity, in my opinion, is that in Christianity there is forgiveness, whereas in Wokism you can be endlessly dragged overf the coals for something you said ages ago when you were a teenager
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by PontifexMinimus 5y ago
> Bureaucrats may be powerful Bureaucrats are not as powerful as politicians, and I think that the EU is slowly and belatedly coming to the realisation that it needs to control its computing and communications infrastructure, in order fo
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by PontifexMinimus 5y ago
> I don't understand why the UK leaving the EU would matter. If a country pisses off the EU, for example by applying sanctions to one of its member states, the EU can reply "fine, we won't trade with you". This is a c
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
> 1) ship chips with native-AES/hardware crypto > 2) get rid of SD and have onboard NAND, like a phone Why are these important?
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
Yes, but he sounded like he was defending Epstein.
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
Can I suggest you re-do the sound for your demo ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZNjJU5jEg0 ), sdince i can barely understand it at times.
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New Google tool is the whole AI debate in widget form(doxa.substack.com)
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
Not yet, give them time!
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
A lot. If one was actually banning books that did harm, those books ought to be at the top of the list. But they are not banned (not should they be IMO). So books that've incited less violence then them ought not be either.
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
> Before civilization, it used to be that the most violent person in the group could simply take whatever they wanted. My understanding is that in hunter-gatherer societies, that is not the case and they were (and are) quite egalitarian.
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
Absolutely. If illirik was sacked from their job and made destitute, would that be "just basic conscientiousness"? Maybe illirik should consider that the cancel culture weapon could just as easily be turned on them.
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
> there is no power structure wielding a “cancel button” here This is hardly an isolated occurrance, as you well know. So we have all of Big Tech acting in concert to ban what they deem wrongthink -- but, oh no, that's definitely no
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
> Paid services to align interests with the user (best user experience wins) are the way to go I agree; aligning interests is important. > I really hope they win out in the long run It's hard for me to see how they can. Advertisi
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
This is a good point. Feeds should be available in well-defined programmatic formats (such as RSS or ActivityPub) so that they can be processed outside the domain of the app whose data carries them; if necessary this should be enforced by l
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
People also don't like to be lied to, and most people are well aware they don't control Facebook.
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
> they essentially told people "you're a downtrodden proletariat buffeted about by forces well outside your control That's the plain and simple truth, isn't it? I mean, I don't control facebook.
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
> battling this problem is going to require more than simply shaming them in Medium posts. We have to start reminding people that they are in control of their decisions, and that they can take steps to reduce their social media usage to
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
> I thought HN discussions were based on facts rather than political biases. I very much hope they are.
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A smart Republican would nave realised that big internet companies are against him, and would have made plans accordingly. If Trump had been competent, he wouldn't have attacked net neutrality, he would have said net neutrality is a wo
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
> What if, by way of uncritically publishing everything that everybody says, Twitter is accessory to treason? I'm not sure that a communications network passing on their users' communications would amount to treason. But let&#x
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
Your statistic of: > 93% of Black Lives Matter protests have been peaceful Does not contradict jimbob45's point that "BLM [...] incited a great deal of violence this summer" Going by the numbers in your URL, 7750 demonstat
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by PontifexMinimus 6y ago
> Freedom of Speech !== Entitlement to a Platform As it happens I wrote an essay on this yesterday: https://pontifex.substack.com/p/google-censors-talkradio , in response to an other act of corporate censorship. My