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by vertex-four 6y ago
> Even the very wise cannot see all ends, so why try? Work on what interests you. The person I murdered could've gone on to be the next Hitler, so just do whatever interests you. This logic isn't very helpful, is it.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
If you want to contact me, I'm shell@alterednarrative.net on email and XMPP. I'll try and find whether I still have the design notes, but doubt it; I've been through a couple of laptops since and lost a lot. One of my goals w
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Hahaha oh wow, I had a design document for this last year, down to the details. OAuth2 doesn't quite fit the bill without a little modification, unfortunately.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
A ruling that some of these dark patterns are valid would be a disaster to the people trying to enforce these laws, so undoubtedly they're trying to build a watertight case to prove them invalid - knowing that the companies they'r
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by vertex-four 6y ago
If people were affected by the things they give companies money to do, perhaps they'd be a lot more careful about what they give companies money to do.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
I meant in Europe, and that case is not successful enforcement of a software patent (merely a preliminary question as to whether some jurisdiction weirdness could be a reason that William Hill did not infringe on a patent); in fact there wa
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by vertex-four 6y ago
As I understand it there has been no successful enforcement of a software patent so far, and it's ridiculously unlikely that I (as opposed to any other actor in this space) will be the first case. So yeah, I'll take that risk.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The reasoning is that individual states have Opinions about the validity of software patents and they're going to keep issuing them until somebody with the proper authority clarifies that the law means what the law says, although as fa
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Software patents can exist, but are almost always unenforceable, is my understanding of it from researching this for my own media-related project.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Luckily, software patents are unenforceable in the EU, so for many of us on this site that's irrelevant.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Basically, unlike copyright, you don't even have to know that someone else patented something in order to infringe on a patent and have them come out of the woodwork later. It's just even more expensive if you do know. The patent
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Because there are companies with a lot of money in this space which spend all their time trying new things and patenting anything they come up with, even if it doesn't make it into a published codec, basically. The way to get around th
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by vertex-four 6y ago
It's the same logic as "an insane person can never have a valid complaint about the asylum", a problem which mentally ill people deal on a regular basis with when trying to affect change in their treatment. Not saying the Una
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Again: > But while equal on paper, in practice Han Chinese are largely spared the abortions, sterilizations, IUD insertions and detentions for having too many children that are forced on Xinjiang’s other ethnicities, interviews and data
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Which part of this is a low bar, exactly? Like, I don't see any country doing any of that to a well-defined group by accident.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
There's a number of ways to try and avoid response bias - the most obvious would be to (a) work out roughly how many people are listening to AM radio at all, (b) go find some representative sample of people who are listening to AM radi
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The same way you measure everything else about broadcast - you find the people and ask them, aka "surveys".
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Gemini does SSH-style TOFU, you don't ask a third party for the certificate. From the spec: "Clients can validate TLS connections however they like (including not at all) but the strongly RECOMMENDED approach is to implement a lig
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The usual process of gaining influence in small communities looks a lot healthier a behaviour than the process of gaining it in large ones, IMO.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
> Ok, but you know the big majority of the users dont care were the content come from, or how its delivered to them. They care about what is being served instead of how. Who, exactly, without a profit motive, wants the majority of users?
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by vertex-four 6y ago
I spend most of my time in small spaces - 100 people, max, of who about 10 might be around at any given time. I'm not worried that people are going to miss what I have to say, because I'm talking to the people who are there. The
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by vertex-four 6y ago
When you want to create a space that is qualitatively different from its surroundings, it is good to put an artificial barrier in the way.
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Except that then 99% of people reading your page will be using Firefox, so it's not that big of a deal to just say fuck it and not do this whole SafeHTML thing any more when you want that one extra feature in a year. The 1% of reader
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Many users also expect javascript-heavy experiences, that they'll be tracked across the web, and that every resource they're likely to access on the internet is commercial in nature. Gemini is quite explicitly a project to try dif
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Nobody involved in Gemini wants "widespread adoption", because that inevitably means big commercial organisations coming into the space where right now they're having a lovely time building a community. Screen readers handle
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by vertex-four 6y ago
If you're seeing Gemini as a "distribution channel", it's... probably not really for you? What's there, right now, is a community of people, sharing ideas and talking to each other. Pretty much all the content there
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by vertex-four 6y ago
> And part of that restricted spec would allow linking only to such links, to stay within the network ? Doesn't work over time. You link somewhere, the other site owner a month later decides they want to use Google Analytics, now yo
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by vertex-four 6y ago
The problem is that then you link to https://yourfriendsblog.org , and a couple years down the line your friend decides this safe subset is too restricting for them and decides to replace their blog with Wordpress with all the pl
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Solderpunk has explained the issues with specifying a safe subset of HTML, the article has been linked elsewhere in this thread. If you don't want to use a Gemini browser to access it, you can use this link: https://portal.m
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by vertex-four 6y ago
Attracting people who agree with your community's standards to join your community, while hinting that maybe other people might not be interested, is perfectly reasonable. That's... pretty much how communities work.

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