Sure, mods will always be necessary when it comes to public/untrusted comms, but just like I don’t want my telco or email provider to decide which/when my TRUSTED contacts can contact me, the same is true for the rest of their speech.

You’re analogous to someone in 2013 arguing that the solution to facebooks crimes/corruption/censorship is to migrate to whatsapp…

Jumping from platform to platform, server to server each time is a bandaid solution which is not censorship resistant, especially against some totalitarian oppressor, and benefits hostile actors the most; fracturing groups into smaller and smaller bubbles. A real fix is a solution (e.g. protocol) that enables users to view a single person/entities/orgs comms regardless of what any middleman decides. The users trust should override anyone else’s.

What happens when the lunatics own the media and social media? Let them remove all evidence of genocide and corruption? Just accept the insanity and authoritarianism?

Although true, the existence of mods is an attack vector the criminally corrupt will always exploit, and every anti-authoritarian should not oppose these systems because they’re currently exploited by the corrupt.

Fascists are buying up all media and social media explicitly to silence opposition, control the narrative, and propagandize (the thing they claim everyone else is doing to them, while being the most blatantly criminal of perpetrators).

I can’t remember the specific protocol, but the one I saw which was most interesting relies on you subscribing to individuals, and building trust through that “social graph of trust”. It’s best to view it as someone owns a domain and you’re subscribing to their rss feed, except they’re identity is cryptographically verified, and the people they engage with have more weight in your feed than those that don’t… as opposed to whatever some technofascist algorithm, oligarch-beholden journalist or corrupt mod (who may very well be a paid operative) deems valuable or worthy of your attention; basically mimicking the way people build relationships in real life (without third party oversight).

Wait… You’re telling me that people born into extreme privilege and wealth turn out to be self-aggrandizing, egotistical, sociopaths who drastically over-estimate their own importance and contribution to society?

My world view is shook!

You’re getting downvoted because your hot take is referring to solutions that would legitimately tackle the housing crisis, and put downward pressure on prices, as “extremist”.

No workers in developed “democracies” have had any significant improvement in mobility for several decades. Forcing every future population into progressively new heights of omnipresent housing and economic insecurity is fucking “extremist”, and if you keep making people’s lives worse you’re guaranteed to spawn some dangerous “extremists”… I’m talking the revolutionary kind, who will be far more destructive and far less forgiving in their hot takes on wealth redistribution.

They should be known as criminals, as it should be illegal for companies to own residential property. It should also be illegal for any individual (or partners) to own more than 2 properties.

The housing crisis will never end unless limits are imposed on the ownership of the finite resource. Every single “solution” I’ve seen from “liberal” governments to date is only proven to incentivise profiteering and inflate the cost of housing.

I’m locked in here with them. They’re locked in here with me!

Imma have to tell you to stop doing everything you’re doing immediately.

Get outta here with your respect and tolerance, sanity guy.

There really should be a focus on government-level efforts in the EU, to force mobile manufacturers to standardise and open source all firmware sold in its jurisdiction. All OSS mobile OS’s (not on custom OSS hardware) rely on Android solutions because mobile hardware is bespoke, closed source, and non-standard from device to device; the opposite to the PC ecosystem that enabled Linux. The Apple/Android duopoly won’t be broken if mobile hardware vendors can continue creating custom closed-source firmware for their hardware, and there’s simply no reason to allow this anti-competitiveness to continue.

Hollywood loves the 1 man army, even when it is on a level of complete insanity.

It’s crazy that WarGames is one of the most accurate depictions of hacking in cinema, and it’s over 40 years old.

They gave it to Kissinger after a decade of firebombing South East Asia, murdering a million peasants who only wanted a plot of land to grow rice after a century of French colonial dictatorship, denying the Vietnamese people their basic human right to democracy the entire god damn time.

That was over 5 decades ago. The prize is a joke, decided by oligarchs who are not like us, and do not stand for peace… always has been.

9.5 years is ancient in smart home devices.

Though, any company that stops supporting a device should be legally required to open source all dependencies required to operate it, or provide a full refund.

This is how public money should be spent. Every dollar spent on proprietary code is money wasted. Every dollar spent on public code benefits every other country, org, and individual who runs that software. It reduces the cost for everyone, in perpetuity, instead of enriching some sociopathic technofascist and their oligarch investors.

This is why I switched to ZFS with sanoid+ syncoid. Any breaking update or data corruption can be rolled back, giving you the freedom to auto-update with minimal risk.

And if you roll all your dockers on ZFS as datasets + sanoid you can just rollback to the last snapshot, if that ever does happen.

Yeah, just like you don’t need an active phone number to get 99% of jobs, rent 99% of houses, or open 99% of bank accounts.

A phone number being a mandatory requirement to exist in the 21st century would be a really ludicrous conspiracy theory.

There are many non-racists turned mentally ill by fascisms psychological warfare. I have already had to cut off multiple friends and acquaintances who went down the “intellectual dark web” to antivaxer/cooker/brainworms rabbit-hole. None of them are racists or anti-immigration. They just got infected with the broke mind virus psychosis.

They just forgot. Canada isn’t any less at risk than the rest… probably more-so due to proximity to Americas mass mental illness.

In the not too distant future…

NPC: “ChatGPT told me I got ghosts in my blood and I better inject bleach bout it”

AI Corpo: “thankfully, no human programmed it to respond with that, so we are not liable”

Fascist court: “NPC’s family must pay AI Corpo damages for negative publicity”