oopsman88

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by oopsman88 8y ago
Also, not everybody you disagree with acts in bad faith. Nazis, communists, anarchists, you name it: most of them believe their views of society will lead to a betterment of it. They don't adhere to their principles just because they w
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by oopsman88 8y ago
Moderators of highly restrictive instances (the most populous ones) blacklist all the instances they don't like. In fact most of those instances use a shared blacklist. So you have to make a choice: either you choose a restrictive inst
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by oopsman88 8y ago
Exactly. I get your point. But mine is: Mastodon shouldn't be publicised as an alternative to Twitter because it's not. It would be like publicising HN as an alternative to Reddit. HN only works as an alternative to Reddit for a v
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by oopsman88 8y ago
Because most of the bigger instances have shared blocklists. I am not interested in Mastodon as a tech stack, I am interested in joining a social network. But the truth is that it's all aligned to the political left. And I'm sad b
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by oopsman88 8y ago
With all of its faults, I'll take Twitter and its almost free speech over Mastodon any day. Many people say they are quitting Twitter because of the algorithmic timeline and so on, and they are going to Mastodon where a cabal of peopl
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by oopsman88 8y ago
The point is that credit cards offer very valuable services in exchange for fees. Bitcoin offers nothing for a higher fee.
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by oopsman88 8y ago
The problem is not having one single ID linked to everything, which most countries do. The problem is pretending that ID is a secret, which it is not. It's stupid to treat SSNs as passwords.
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by oopsman88 8y ago
Just because India (India, of all places) can't do things right doesn't mean that a universal ID is a bad idea. Most countries in the world have a universal ID that hasn't been hacked to oblivion.
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by oopsman88 8y ago
Court-ordered things are legal.
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by oopsman88 8y ago
I speak Spanish and it all sounded very natural to me... :-)
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by oopsman88 8y ago
He raises a good point. I've read some of this guy's stuff on Twitter, it's really pathetic. No wonder he's depressed if he lets himself be treated like this.
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by oopsman88 8y ago
AT vulnerabilities... 2003 all over again