9/11 has nothing to do with the US overthrow of foreign governments. The US didn’t make bin Laden into what he became, bin Laden did. The guy was an egomaniac bedazzled by his own bullshit. The notion that the attacks were reeeaaally about oil access or regime change or economic disparity as opposed to bloodyminded religious zealotry is a lie.

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Take this social media law, plus the software backdoor nonsense from a few years ago, and I can’t help but see a clear message emerging from legislators to Australian developers who’d seek to build great digital spaces and tools: Do not domicile anything in this country. Do not host anything on servers in this country. Expect hostility from authorities toward the anonymity, security, and privacy of the people using your code.

I hope you’re wrong, and they’re going to arbitarily apply the law to King Doge and Zuck, with everyone else getting ignored.

Yeah, this looks like another tar brush to be used on non-corporate developers.

(On a side note, the article reads like AI slop)

What I find intriguing is the potential for fediverse/decentralized service uptake amongst Australians, should the corporate providers decide it’s too much bother implementing an identity solution for 26m people and simply rangebans them.

In an alternate universe, parents are devoting 10 per cent of their doomscrolling time to studying their router manuals and determining access windows for social media on their LAN. But why obtain a gram of education to address a serious parenting issue when a ton of democracy-threatening legislation driven by politics will achieve a quarter of the same thing?

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In terms ot total data moved, I have 2.4TiB up on a Star Trek full season pack, for a ~35 ratio. That torrent’s been around for years and I suspect won’t die for many years yet. Oldest seeded torrent would be about 8 years.

This is behind NAT, 12mbits upstream.

The war on personal computing coupled with a potential war on BYOD…it makes you wonder at what point normie starts figuring it out.

Honestly I hope it shuts down. This provider caters to racists, fascists, misogynists and the like.

Who gives a fuck? Corporate social media cater to idiots too, just more common varieties.

Why does it matter what Kanye tweets about if I enjoy his music? Why do the politics of my favorite FOSS program’s maintainer matter, or what commentary they include in documentation, or the presence/lack of a flag in a social media handle? Why does it matter that a public demonstration I’m at has some fellow demonstraters whose lifestyles/politics I find abhorrent?

All you advertise to the world with this fearful mindset is that your behaviour will change on a dime given the slightest chance of bad optics. It’s a rotten way to live life.

Governments and marketers absolutely love people who think like that.

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PS also check out https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/991452-pixel-pirate-ii-attack-of-the-astro-elvis-video-clone

You need to formally complain to your bank, OP.

You’ll find that these professions have a vested interest in maintaining network effects, and as such will view Mast/Blue as threats to their networking infrastructure. They don’t want to dilute the importance of the platform their patronage systems rely on (let alone destroy it) - in fact its centrality is why they leverage it to advance their careers. Artists I can see understanding platform agnosticism to some extent, but for the other two groups, it’s simply not in their DNA. The gatekeeping is a feature for them.

‘The medium is the message’ as a Canadian theorist once said.

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Lots of banned artist and album names that will return zero results, unless you do something like search for a song or two that’s on the album you want and finding the data that way.

The only objectionable hurdles are the insurmountable ones

Last Christmas I gave a family member a flash drive containing ~10 high quality movie encodes, basically a shortlist of the year’s personal highlights I think they’d enjoy too. I don’t know if they’ve used it, but I’m going to make a habit of it until I hear otherwise. A drive for a handful movies is cheap enough to not worry about if it’s never seen again. Give them a large capacity drive however, or access to a Plex server, and paralysis of choice occurs.

The he/him she/her labels on social media profiles are also a pretty reliable timesaver.

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This sentence is a masterpiece of omission.

Oh, the bigots! OH MY GOOOOOOOD THE BIGOOOOOTS, Heaven curse the bigots! They’re invading our spaces, corrupting our children’s minds! A Senate Select Committee on Bigotry is now a national imperative. The bar for non-bigotry must be raised CONTINUALLY higher: society cannot afford anything less! And the purge must be comprehensive. Our communities MUST be kept linguistically pure. Associations must be kept PRISTINE AT ALL TIMES. Suspect the poster above you? Suspect your brother or sister? Report and unfollow and block at every opportunity! Trust-n-safety them out of existence! Interpretation is vacillation!

There is no volume level below 100 when condemning the awful terrible ungood bigot!

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