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People defending rolling their own crypto because users like programs that don't require installing dependencies.
Err, static compilation?
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@daggsy @maiyannah @purplehippo @katiekats Well, maybe, but the arguments for pedophilia, bestiality (I'm sure there's a philia for that, I just don't know it) and necrophilia are harder to make than for relations between consenting adults. It pretty much requires a whole new philosophy around acceptable sexual relations as opposed to simply extending the existing "freely given consent" philosophy to its logical conclusion.
The scary bit is, I'd like to think they're not going to get away with normalizing pedophilia but given that in the 70s it was a lot more accepted than it is now I fear it's not impossible. And if they succeed they'd be doing a hell of a lot of harm to a hell of a lot of vulnerable people all just to score some virtue points.
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HEMA fighting, but with smoked sausages instead of swords. That would be both silly and very Dutch.
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@purplehippo @maiyannah @katiekats Err, wow, pedo's. I'm all for having people with the capability of understanding the consequence of their actions freely and without coercion choosing to do whatever the fuck they want together. And I don't have a beef with pedo's which don't act on their urges. But those which do don't deserve cheerleaders, they deserve to be forcefully separated from society by means of incarceration.
What kind of friggin moron thinks it's a good idea to include the most hated group in modern society in your club of "marginalized groups"?
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@maiyannah I can appreciate the aesthetics and sportive aspects of modern HEMA though.
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@dsh The useful thing is making other people transfer money to you. The actual utility of blockchains is pretty marginal in the real world. Even for money transfer a popular choice like Bitcoin really isn't all that great when you're used to fiat currency with a sane banking system. As I understand Bitcoin even if you manage to get your transaction in the most recent block the average time to get it included is 5 minutes. In my country online payments are near instantaneous, go through my own bank (merchant redirects to a website hosted by my bank where I authorize the transaction) and are from my perspective free.
Really Bitcoin has very little utility value (as opposed to investment value) over regular banking systems unless your banking system is terminally broken or the ability to hide transactions from the authorities outweighs any other concern.
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@maiyannah @halani @m0n5t3r Just looked up HEMA fighting on YouTube but it looks like dancing around more than a boxing match with once in a while a second or so of a single attack / parry in between.
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@maiyannah Unfortunately people aren't rational.
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@maiyannah Well it worked in the very early days of the internet. You know, back when all the hosts on the internet were listed in a single file.
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One day Mastodon will be known as the network that was big in Japan.
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@veg05 @mike To make matters more complicated with these kinds of projects there's always the letter of the standard and what's actually implemented. Often the standard is incomplete or vague leading to subtly different behaviors. The more cooperative-minded projects just deal with it and try to work together to figure out how to fix communication issues across nodes which run software from different projects.
Mastodon is rather infamous for a "you adapt to us" mentality. Some projects will do that, my bet is most won't since the nodes that run the software of a single project tend to have their own culture and won't feel an urgent need to be interoperable with Mastodon if it means a lot more work. And that's aside from bad feelings towards Mastodon and drama seeping in from Mastodon nodes.
I suspect in the end Mastodon will end up completely its own thing with no real communication with the other nodes and projects.
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@veg05 @mike As I understand it Mastodon is implementing a new W3C standard-in-development named ActivityPub as the way forward.
GNU Social and it's relatives use an older protocol named OStatus. It may be that a version of GNU Social will be produced which speaks ActivityPub but that is not a guarantee that there will be interoperability with Mastodon since Mastodon has it's own interpretation of ActivityPub (in particular they don't support some stuff).
And to make matters even more complex there are other decentralized web projects like Diaspora which sometimes speak their own protocol and sometimes use OStatus. Few projects use ActivityPub yet as it's only recently become something stable enough to target and most projects predate it.
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@maiyannah @purplehippo @camoceltic It doesn't play Russian roulette with possibly trying to infect my PC with malware so it's not an ad.
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@maiyannah "Partner Program" sounds like "Amazon affiliate program" to me. Gives off a bit of a creepy "we expect positive reviews from our 'Partners'" vibe.
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I suspect in this particular case a deadlock would have been vastly less lethal than a race condition: https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-race-condition-therac-25/
Also, yikes. So many bad decisions in a device that by design and purpose kills human body cells.
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@maiyannah @katiekats Ah, nice bombastic classic music.
Don't think it's exactly how Mozart composed it, with some instruments not being invented yet but I suspect this only makes it better.
Do wonder how people can actually understand/hear the lyrics in this song. But I wonder that about Church music all the time.
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Article explaining Star Trek about Discovery: Nice, for once a woman takes the helm.
And that's in an article with a short overview of all the other series, including Voyager.
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@purplehippo @maiyannah Well according to the song she's small, sassy and smart. Sounds about right.
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