Cordelia Green @casualwp@qoto.org

Police #Robots Are Not a Selfie Opportunity, They’re a #Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/01/police-robots-are-not-selfie-opportunity-theyre-privacy-disaster-waiting-happen

ATTENTION

Our dear lovely member @Gamercat has their BIRTHDAY today
We don't want them to be alone on this precious day
So FEDI FAMILY shall unite and celebrate and pour love on the lonely kitties

redditors are proof against creationism. why would a benevolent deity purposefully invent them

People my age and younger getting married, having babies, getting promoted.

Meanwhile, me: which anime to watch next?

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@freedompatriot as a Chinese, already as slave for the past several decades

Oh sweet babby Yoda Jesus, the Pocky stick app lets you... learn to code!

Based and redpilled Mozilla to the rescue!

"We need more than deplatforming"

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/

@lain

>Notice 7 new posts on the timeline
>Hit update
>They're all just @sjw posting tranny catgirl porn.
Of course.

"Free speech" and "censorship" are not the central issue here. We are witnessing the culmination of a decades-long campaign to replace traditional standards of speech w/ a new standard. Conservatives' failure to appreciate this process is how we got here. https://amzn.to/2K3Orci https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1347963492259799051

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Going to *try* to maintain a list of dead Fediverse instances here: https://fediverse.rip/

There are a ton of them. If you know of a few batch them up in a message to me and I'll add them. If you have the approximate date they died supply that too. If not, I'll try to find the date.

@Ricotta @Orakel @bikejourno @givenoflux Ehmmm nope, companies like Google, Twitter or Facebook wouldn't exist naturally on free markets. Neither huge corporations

The main reason why those companies exist, is because governments gave them perfect the environment for it, and they are well protected by government laws, so no citizen can challenge them.

Libertarians are, in fact, the ones who designed Fediverse. It's open protocol, everyone can just take and use it for their own interest. I do host my own instance for example.

Also, Libertarians are the one who mostly work on blockchain technologies like cryptocurrencies to attempt challenging government money, or @lbry to challenge Google's hegemony on media using blockchain to save costs, privacy and accountability.

Both Fediverse and Blockchain are de-centralized solutions, where every individual has technically well protected their own information. It guarantees by design you own your content.

@trinsec

> would I feel as free to have an argument with him?

How free you **feel** is not the same as how free you **are**... you are just as free to argue with him, and you are just as free to not get shot (he would loose his right to carry a gun to even threaten it). So if your neighboor carried a gun you would have all the same freedoms (and one extra).. the fact that you have a bias against guns and feel a certain way doesnt change your freedoms. You owning a gun also has no effect on your actual freedom to argue with him.

> After all, it would not be a level playing field anymore if I wouldn't get a gun as well.

The playing field is already level even without you having a gun, because your neighbor has no legal recourse of any kind to use that gun in response to an argument.

> I know American friends who don't want a gun. But because the wife is black, the area they live in is racistic (gotten worse under Trump), they are considering getting one for her safety. Is that freedom? REAL freedom?

The right o be able to buy a gun if you happen to be in a situation where your life is at risk... yes of course that is freedom. What isnt freedom is me being in a Dutch neighborhood where **my** life would be at risk (and they do exist, though admittedly not many of them) and **not** having a right to defend myself with a gun and save my life, now that isnt freedom. Being told "sorry you just need to sit there and let the mob kill you cause guns are bad" is absolutely not freedom.

@dankmaximus @mur2501

@superruserr Privacy issues when logging? The RFC 8932 has a lot of interesting content here.

"Goodbye Twitter" is trending on Twitter 😂