customdesigned @customdesigned@qoto.org

@chic_luke @thelinuxEXP @slimbook Only by actually shipping a preinstalled linux distro does a manufacturer discover what hardware is problematic (proprietary interfaces).

@freemo

1. "sentient" means "feeling", this would include mammals, which feel like us, and even plants, which undergo hormonal responses analogous to mammalian emotions.

2. "intelligent" means "choosing between". This is presumably what is meant by "will". Intelligence (free will) is incompatible with a materialist universe - where every event stems from a chain of causation.

3. "suffering" - this is the primary means of human and animal learning. Parents, government, dog trainers, all inflict measured suffering ("chastisement") to attempt to curb destructive behaviours.

4. This is a nice objective criterion - but not exactly a moral argument. It does imply a moral argument from authority. In Genesis 1, God puts mankind in authority over the rest of creation. Even while tending your garden, you end some plant life to enhance other plant life. In Genesis 9, this authority is extended to include ending an animal's life for food, and ending a human life for murder ("whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed").

@thelinuxEXP @slimbook There is no official laptop. Whenever any company (before Slimbook there was Lenovo) offers preinstalled Fedora as an option - the project celebrates that. It hopefully helps the company be rewarded for developing the option (which is not trivial), and the Fedora project gains visibility.

@freemo @louisrcouture Prison was originally for restitution (actually paying back the theft) - which is rehabilitative. Somehow that morphed into punishment. Probably because of morphing the death penalty for murder into prison time.

@freemo One of the tithes in the law of Moses was a contribution for food distributed to the poor and administered by the Levites. It also doesn't say anything about qualifying the recipients. And indeed, most people would rather have more say in what they were eating - but if the only other option is starvation...

How do these institutions handle famine? First come first serve? Serving size limits? We had (government caused) famine in America just 100 years ago - but everyone has forgotten what it is like.

@mzan @freemo @VoxDei @ihavenopeopleskills
> Guns are effectively banned in certain local govts in the US. (Although recent SCOTUS decisions have been reducing the extent of local restrictions.) It would be instructive to see where those US homicides occur (and being careful to exclude justified homicide, i.e. self defense). As a cherry picked example, Chicago is known for both gun control and homicides. An actual survey would be more instructive.

@TruthSandwich
Cuba ✅ (forgot that one)
NK ✅
China ❌ Totalitarian yes, but very capitalist
Laos - I'm ignorant on this one, I'll take your word for it.
Vietnam (N?) - I'll take your word, seems likely given NK. S. Vietnam is not Communist.

US - not for long, as govt nationalizes more and more industries. Even worse are govt controlled industries like Big media, health care, Big agriculture, etc, etc as that moves us toward classic fascism.

@TruthSandwich Where do we have Maxism-Leninism now? Does N. Korea count? Or is the US closer?

@Nazareno India's probe landed successfully!

@freemo How are AcitivityPub messages authenticated? What prevents me for forging messages allegedly from @freemo? I understand that privacy is not an intended feature of the fediverse. But lack of authentication was a drawback of the fully decentralized Usenet protocol. Messages were constantly being forged as a joke. Eventually, gpg signing was added as an afterthought.

I don't see any provision for signing messages on qoto.org or other ActivityPub sites.

@freemo I am trying to follow https://social.quodverum.com/@darulharb

And your server can't find it, and there is an error trying to use the redirect "Follow" dialog Mastodon provides. I'm still a newbie on ActivityPub protocol, so I'm not sure what is going on. Has one or both servers "blocked" the other? Shouldn't that at least result in a clear "we've blocked these evil people" message?

@rimugu @Nazareno A simple photographic projection that can be rotated with the mouse is pretty good. Example, goto maps.google.com and zoom all the way out. There should be a small version (no zoom in) for HTML5.

@freemo @admitsWrongIfProven @Romaq

Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans!

How long will this go on?’

Will not your creditors suddenly arise and those who disturb you awaken?

Then you will become their prey.

Habakkuk 2:6-7