josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
Some people shouldn't (or, to follow their own “Notational Conventions”, MUST NOT) be allowed to write RFC documents. I won't name names, but it is RECOMMENDED to see working for Microsoft as a huge red flag.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the anarchist creed.
-- Frederica Montseny
What did the Japanese do during the covid scare? I just saw a chart (a real one, I assume, from NHK) that showed that syphilis cases, which were steadily declining before 2020, have risen since then. This year so far, there have been 10 000 new cases diagnosed.
I'm going to say more about this: I do believe that universities are not fulfilling their duty towards the society they're supposed to serve, especially, but not limited to, when it comes to technology.
Why don't all universities have free USENET/IRC servers accessible to everyone and maintained by the students as part of their education? Why don't they all keep Tor nodes? Why don't they experiment with newer, better ways to communicate?
All of those proposals are relatively cheap, educational and good for society as a whole. And when I was a student, they were already doing that. They just decided to stop at some point.
One can only hope. That said, in these times, nothing comes back as it was, but usually in some revamped, capitalism-friendly way.
USENET, one of the original -- and always decentralized -- social networks, never completely went away. Now it may be on the verge of a comeback. h...
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The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
Hey, what do you know? In the end, all I had to do was remove one CSS rule. Thanks to @bonifartius for the idea.
Lately I'm seeing posts from freespeechextremist.com that look completely empty from my instance. @p, do you know why that could be happenning?
I can see the contents using the API, but I fail to find anything weird about them.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
-- Oscar Wilde
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Remember, kids: if it appears on TV, it is part of the system and must be fought against with all our might.
A very stupid and bourgeois quote. “Why?,” you would rightfully ask. “It seems pretty sensible to me.” Because there are many political parties that support libraries, but he will probably chastise you if you decide to vote for any of the ones that are not part of the establishment.
Gaiman: " If you really can't figure out which political party or which politician to vote for, just ask if they're on the side of libraries. Are t...
I'm also perplexed at the people who reply to those messages offering their sympathy. What do you gain from that? Do you enjoy licking ass that much?
I'm genuinely perplexed at people who say they receive “a barrage of extremely rude, very entitled, often misinformed responses,” or something to the same effect, because when you go look at the responses it is _never, ever_ true.
It's not that I can't see some of them. I went to her instance, so I saw whatever she got. She's lying, plain and simple.
I singled her out as an example, but my point is more general: why do people lie about something that's so easy to check?
I may delete this if it gets feral...but I'm genuinely perplexed. Why, when I post about Signal (which I love to do!) do I often get hit with a ba...
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George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write "1984"
https://www.openculture.com/2014/01/george-orwell-explains-in-a-revealing-1944-letter-why-hed-write-1984.html
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The retro computing and free software communities have demonstrated that we don't need a new hardware release every 2/3 years, but instead every decade. We can get the same result in terms of performance by just optimizing your software code base.
Good code on slower hardware can be faster than bad code on faster hardware.
Everyone benefits from the user to the Earth. The only one that won't be happy are big tech corporations.
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Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
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Un favor en forma de consejo no pedido: Si escribís un mensaje con multiples hashtags ponedlos al final del mensaje en lugar de ponerlos al principio. Este simple gesto nos facilita a los ciegos la lectura de lo importante del mensaje y los hashtags van a funcionar igual. Gracias por entenderlo!
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
