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by cheesetable 5y ago
I have no interest in US politics, but I do have an interest in avoiding censorship/bias for topics that I do care about. The recent events that Glenn Greenwald has reported on has accelerated my move off platforms that have censored,
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by cheesetable 5y ago
Headlines often aren't meant to be read literally. It's just a teaser to read the article.
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by cheesetable 5y ago
Governments are responsible for setting safety standards, and enforcing that they do.
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by cheesetable 5y ago
That's a fair critique. I expect the designers foresaw this. I don't think wide popularity was a goal.
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by cheesetable 5y ago
HTTP supports extensibility via HTTP headers and methods. Gemini to not be evolved: * HTTP is now for interactivity, complex clients, WebGL, Webassembly, ... * Gemini is for a segregated simpler web: links and text.
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by cheesetable 5y ago
To clarify, I don't use Headscale either. Both look like great products, I just don't need what they're offering enough to accept their downsides.
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by cheesetable 5y ago
Not sure what I think about this. I don't use Tailscale because I don't trust their key distribution, and this open source project would solve that, but it might undermine Tailscale's sustainability. This would be a shame bec
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by cheesetable 5y ago
I've been using GNOME 40 for the past few months, and I'm impressed with the level of quality: intuitiveness, polish, features. This software works well on my Pinephone too. I'm happy to trade my flexibility to allow the GNOM
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by cheesetable 5y ago
Use nitter, a plain Twitter frontend. Pick a close instance from https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances I have installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/
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by cheesetable 5y ago
Note that different people have different criteria for a coup. For example, in the US in Jan 2021, there was a riot that some call a coup, and some do not. Brazil might also count. I am not aware of the details.
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by cheesetable 5y ago
The comment I replied to was asking for a citation on ACLU expousing authoritarian causes, which I did. I fail to see how a US Supreme Court ruling is relevant to this.
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by cheesetable 5y ago
A recent example: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-aclu-prior-to-covid-den...
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by cheesetable 5y ago
Please keep discussion polite. GP did not mention vaccines. Different people are impacted by lockdown in different ways. Consider those that might have different experiences to yours.
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by cheesetable 5y ago
I think it's for fear of appeal to genetics, which has historically been used to justify violations of human rights.