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by rglullis 2y ago
> There’s that one line. And centuries of liberal democracies where the church was just one institution that had no direct rule over its subjects?
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What part of Islam actively promotes separation of church and state? What country with a majority Islamic population is currently going through a secularization process?
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Any Christian fundamentalist who advocates for its religion to become law is a bad Christian who never understood the lesson behind "Render unto Caesar...". Now, contrast with Islamic teachings. Not every Muslim will advocate f
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> We're almost at a point where the current generation of programmers wasn't even programming when that happened I've been programming with Python since 2006, I think most of the systems were based on 2.4 at the time. I&#x
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> “The precautionary principle” has paralyzed Europe, for instance. A lot of modernity problems would be solved if those in power learned to sit on their hands and do nothing.
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Untrap YouTube + Brave browser + Sponsorblock works quite well, too. I've disabled pretty much every "recommended" section: no in-video cards, no "related videos", nothing except on the main page, so the only way to
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by rglullis 2y ago
>it's better when everyone has a (place?) they feel welcome Yes, the problem is that the overwhelming majority of people using sites like Reddit or Discord are not choosing it. They are there because it has become their only alte
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Some people also love the caste system.
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by rglullis 2y ago
> Such places still exist, and are good. Oh, yes, that artisanal internet. So nice, too bad it serves only a minuscule fraction of the people of the internet. Everyone else just goes to Reddit and Discord.
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> The only reason to take a train for me is for the novelty factor. Sure, if you are willing to disregard all of the environmental and health costs associated with car-centric development, then there is no reason to invest in rail. If yo
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by rglullis 2y ago
For your commute ? Yeah, I can also take a plane from Germany to England and pay less than what it costs me for the taxi that I will need to get to the airport. Does that mean that flying EasyJet should be considered the most efficient mea
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> EU country is quite a bit smaller than the average US state You don't need to drive cross the whole state for your daily commute, do you? > along with the EU being more densely populated Reversing cause-and-effect, here. Suburb
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> I wish people would stop this "we" business where they purport to speak for everyone. That has become a strong signal regarding the (lack of) quality in any argument. Anyone using this cheap rhetoric trick gets an immediate p
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"it's bad that so many people got addicted to Colombian cocaine. Let's push a policy to make the best cocaine in the world so that at least we get to be ones profiting from it."
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> I've been living in Brazil for the last 20 years. If you have moved about 15 years before that, you'd have experienced the hyperinflation years and you've come to understand why Brazilian (retail) banking systems were al
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> How do you even define advertising? You don't define "advertising". You look for things that advertisers do and see if they can be made illegal or unprofitable. Formula 1 cars used to have displays for tobacco products.
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A "medium profile public institution" can not make their own gravity, like La Liga can. For them, I'd recommend to take a POSSE [0] approach: create their own instance and treat the other platforms as mere syndication channel
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> Most people just don't care enough about abstract concepts like digital sovereignty to move to a worse platform. Companies care about it, which by extension should make some of their employees care as well. (Saying this "out
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Yeah, and their response is also not related to the topic at hand. We are not arguing about moving away from US-controlled platforms because we are measuring what is "better". We are talking about leaving US-owned platforms in ord
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by rglullis 2y ago
Once again, I urge people to read Taleb before giving in to apathy: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict... . It would take only one high-profile European institution to drop Twitter and set up t
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> there's the fact that the only thing discussed in those places is how terrible the thing they're trying to replace is. If you only go check it after there is some major news that get people talking about it, then yes you&#x27
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by rglullis 2y ago
Moving from American companies to Chinese ones does not qualify as any progress in the "How much of my online presence do I own" metric.
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> It seems most people have fully assimilated the idea that information itself must be entirely subsumed into an oppressive, proprietary, commercial apparatus. No, the idea is that rules needed to be changed in a way that can are valid f
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by rglullis 2y ago
It's basically impossible to beat Django's breadth of packages. If you are working with a traditional app, the admin alone can give you 90% of the functionality you'll need.
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Do you watch sports because of the chance of people dying from accidents and because you know they are risking themselves, or despite it? If the former, I regret to inform you: you are a psycopath. If the latter, then please go read s
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by rglullis 2y ago
> dangerously experimental PEDs Would you be willing to be the guinea pig?
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- A typescript SDK for creating local-first applications to browse the Fediverse ( https://codeberg.org/mushroomlabs/activitypub-client ). I want to be able to use this SDK to work on a fork of Elk (Mastodon client) and
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> Why Is This Site Built with C Because you are developer who enjoys coding, and you will find any and every excuse to spend more time writing code than you care to admit.
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So: - Google Drive/Docs -> Nextcloud. - Chat -> Matrix - Email -> Some EU or Swiss-based email provider, I'd recommend Migadu - Figma -> Penpot I'd have to know a bit more about you mean by "various cloud ser
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by rglullis 2y ago
Ok. That's good to know. If you don't mind some follow-up questions: - What services are you/your company relying on and you'd like to switch to an open alternative? - How much are you/your company spending on these

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