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I always find it distasteful when people feel the need to insert what race someone is into something where race doesn't matter at all.
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"The fact sheet also reveals that Mastadon creator, Eugen “Gargron” Rochko, a mixed Jewish and Russian programmer from Germany, is currently being paid €63,290 to contribute to the project."
Well, that certainly explains why its being pushed on Mastodon.
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@purplehippo @camoceltic Easy: Marketing money
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@camoceltic Bastion was rough and a little overrated. Transistor is one of my favourite games. Pyre is one of my least favourite games. I think with Pyre they took entirely the wrong lessons from Transistor. They focussed more on the gameplay, and gameplay was never their strong suit.
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@camoceltic There's a whole bunch of opportunistic PR shit about that fire. What a bunch of twats, that the first thing they think when there's such an event is how they can profit from it.
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@bob @mew I have given up entirely on trying to interact on Twitter. I occasionally talk with friends that are only available there ... but maybe every couple of weeks tops. I've been considering closing the twitter account for some time now, but then some impersonator would probably squat it.
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@purplehippo The Browser? It's basically a fork of Firefox. It advertises a "built in adblocker" but it's more like an extortion racket, because what it does isn't block all ads as directed by the user, but rather, it removes advertisements from advertisers that didn't pay the company behind Brave protection money. To double down on it not caring about blocking ads so much as building a rent-seeking economy, it used to replace non-whitelisted ads with whitelisted ones.
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@bob You are assuming this is done with good intentions. It was not.
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@lnxw48a1 Reminder that Brave doesnt have an ad blocker, it has an approved advwrtisers only list
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>Forcing everyone into their rules and standards.
And also not fixing the initial problem (which is only fixable by education).
I know, it's follow us or be segregated, Gargron has been trying to EEE this since the beginning of Mastodon't mass adoption.
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@bob @dtluna@leftlibertarian.club @imartyn You also can't legally waive your right to collective relief in most jurisdictions.
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@iMartyn @dtluna Also in their terms:
"Without limitation, you may not transfer the Software or Service without U.S. government permission to anyone on U.S. government exclusion lists"
And at that point the cypherpunks would just drop the mic and walk off stage.
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@iMartyn @dtluna Well we've only had the web of trust of, like, a couple of decades. But I'm certainly not claiming that its infrastructure is ideal by any stretch of imagination.
Even if Keybase isn't directly run by a letter agency it's terms are sufficiently lax that it could sell the entire database of crypto users to anyone who might be interested. I hear on the grape vine that certain agencies have adequate budgets.
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@dtluna Perhaps. This does look like some kind of official integration. It's regrettable that as a community we don't learn the bitter lessons from web 2.0.
It's not really clear from their site, but I assume that Keybase is a company, presumably in the usual location. Is it run by anyone we can trust? I'll just float that one out there as a concept.
Also a cursory glance at their terms reveals things like:
"including but not limited to the Registration Data and any other personal identification information that you provide, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable (in whole or in part), fully-paid and *sublicensable* right, subject to the Privacy Policy, to use, reproduce, modify, transmit, display and distribute Your Content in *any media known now or developed in the future*, in connection with our provision of the Service"
Is this what the fediverse wants? Really?
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@mangeurdenuage @dude@take.iteasy.club A lot of politicians live in a position of privilege and had very sheltered upbringings. A couple of the local ones here were very helpful with political change when they learned the actual reality of the situation. I always say that the important thing isnt that they know about some problem or another, its what they do when they're informed fully of it. Some will be quite helpful and I'm more than willing to work with them. Others will just repeat party dogma and are useless.
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@Wewereseeds I've seen a lot of guillotine iconography in the last few years and I think I understand where that comes from but it's not something I like. For me it's too reminiscent of ISIS.
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@dtluna @xj9 I'm sympathetic towards the anti-copyright WTFPL type views, but as a more realistic tactic I think using AGPL is a good idea even if the software doesn't primarily run on a server. Google won't touch AGPL and so there's not much chance of things under that license showing up within silo systems. It at least puts an obstacle in their path.
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@bob @docbray I might have made that distinction pre-Mastodon. I don't post-Mastodon.
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@docbray (But most of the other stuff is very small vms that mostly exist for segregation of different projects/things so a compromise on one doesnt affect the others)
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@docbray The server will actually end up being a beefier thing as long as its still available by the time I have money .. itll just have a bit more jammed into it.
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