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@SuperDicq @fiore @kimapr Also, he has only apologized for the whole IUD statement. I have not seen him apologize for hijacking a calculator forum that wasn't his by working his way up to moderator status, only to delete their IRC channel and a thread on someone else's calculator language, all because he couldn't win an argument against someone. I don't care if he was a teenager at the time. Having extreme opinions is common for teens but even during my teenage years I would have never done anything like that.

What about the apology for slandering Vaxry? Even if the behavior on the Hyprland Discord is locker-room like, it doesn't change the fact that Drew was lying about the "who/cares" victim as Vaxry has stated that the user didn't take their own pronouns seriously and was most likely a troll, and Drew knows this because it is clear that he read the blog post.

He has a lot more apologizing to do and he needs to admit that he is wrong, and stop treating everyone with different opinions as threats to society.

Luke Smith was half-right about everyone on the Internet being a loser. I think people who use the Internet for creativity and other stuff are NOT losers. It's just that the Internet lost that creativity and instead people resort to arguing about politics, obsessing over "lowcows", reposting memes created by someone else, or posting nothing but porn on their feeds.

Those people are losers, but the few people who use it for things other than that will be remember much more fondly than some gen-Z, far-right, political commentator living in their mother's basement.

@mr_penguin I think the best and most ethical way to deal with bots is to sell physical cards at stores that have a serial number you can enter in and prove you are human that way.

@icedquinn @mr_penguin Worldcoin?

@djsumdog You're better off doing the latter as Codeberg's CEO is friends with Drew DeVault and wrote an entire blogpost about their stance against "right-wing extremism" after someone merely created a throw away account to just post "NIGGERBALLS" on their issue tracker.

There are also some Git-over-Nostr solutions if you want something even more decentralized.

So it seems like the true purpose of this war is to issue another global lockdown, this time because of (fake) oil shortages. People are already proposing alternate day driving and mandatory bussing in some places.

Also, remember that oil is used for electricity in some places so expect rationing for that too.

https://www.activistpost.com/problem-war-%e2%86%92-reaction-lockdown-%e2%86%92-solution-new-world-orderthe-plan-unveiled/

@mr_penguin
>100% tax on copyright content.
>Enforcement would result in the tax going to building homeless shelters and housing initiatives should anyone decide to charge for their creations

What about someone like me who publishes video games commercially but still releases everything under a libre license?

https://ioncominteractive.itch.io/refractored-depths

@LukeAlmighty I'm actually a little nostalgic for it, only because my high school physics teacher would occasionally play clips for us.

@mr_penguin
>Move to New Hampshire if you care about freedom above safety.

I would if there were jobs in my field there (not like the CS job market is better anywhere else but still).

It turns out that the localization of Ys Book I & II is probably the first example of Japanese game developers taking direct feedback from westerners as Falcom actually had access to CompuServe and listened to the opinions and tastes of western gamers.

And this was all back in the late 80s, no less.

https://xcancel.com/snapwith/status/1931902424756998393

Why are the hardest video games to get into are also the most addicting?

@LukeAlmighty Or you can say, "screw both of them" and install a P2P search engine instead.

https://yacy.net/

I'm starting to get sick of the US/Iran shitshow and from both sides.

@djsumdog It seems like captchas are being replaced by PoW algorithms.

@PurpCat @caekislove At this point, I think it would be better for these anonymous communities to just be textboards. It dodges the CP problem (minus the links) and (at least for now) also dodges the age-verification problem.

@caekislove Hashing seems like a terrible way to detect CP because all one needs to do in order to bypass it is to change one pixel value in a way that it isn't noticeable and then the resulting image would have a completely different hash.

@caekislove Google is literally a CIA creation. Of course they get a pass. Same with Facebook, which probably started off as a DARPA project known as LifeLog.

@icedquinn You mean having Go but with Obj-C's OO syntax?

In the wake of the news of Fredrick Brennan's (8chan creator) passing, I was reminded that I too had some dream of creating an imageboard, but I never got around to it and I'm glad I did.

Basically, much like how 8chan was basically a fusion of Reddit and 4chan, my idea was a fusion of Twitter and 4chan, as in instead of boards, threads would be grouped via tags that anyone can create on the fly. The only rules would be to keep everything legal and all spam threads would be deleted. I never got around to it because of my limited knowledge of programming and servers at the time and I felt like my more progressive family members would disown me for creating such a site.

I'm glad I never created that site because I feel like most people who run community sites for niche and dissident audiences tend to regret it later in life and go down dark paths. Though, I'm not against such sites in principle, I just hope that if you create such a community that you are prepared for what you are getting into. At least Hot Wheels seemed to have enjoyed the final years of his life.

@icedquinn Happy Birthday if it really is your birthday.