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Read why "Web Environment Integrity" is terrible, and why we must vocally oppose it now. Google's latest maneuver, if we don't act to stop it, threatens our freedom to explore the Internet with browsers of our choice: u.fsf.org/40a #EndDRM #Enshittification #Google #WebStandards

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Crude market research round.

Would you like to see an instance which has free / sexual expression minus shitposters (I think you know what I mean)? @anime

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Since people seem quiet at times here, unless someone makes it a poll, let's make it a poll:

What do you want me to post more of?

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Gatekeepers. A classic about high schoolers with superpowers fighting alien invaders.

A really strange idea passed through my mind, lol. Modifying the Gitlab, Gitea, or something, and getting it to federate the issues and commits.

Let's see what Github alternatives there are out there.

There's Gitlab but the UI is a bit busy. Hmm... Well, let's keep looking.

It's funny how quite a few of these look just like Github (i.e. Gitea). Well, I guess someone will already be familiar with how they work.

Is there a really good one I'm missing here?

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@olives Yeah, future me kinda gets Lain, but suspect then me might have been confused.

There's like a handful of the shows I remember - and actually have purchased RahXephon and Last Exile. I'd like to have Lain, but I guess there isn't a current Blu-Ray copy in the US.

I'm seeing accounts from Minds appearing on some feeds, so I guess they're on the fediverse.

Mastodon implements feature every other fediverse implementation has had for years. Search.

@anicasts Wolf's Rain, huh. That was a weird one.

Also, lol, Serial Experiments Lain. That is an interesting one.

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@olives It was one of the handful of shows TechTV showed in their Anime Unleashed block. (looks like the Wikipedia page for it got deleted but here's an old list) en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t

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Did you notice the weird anatomy on that leg.

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Finishing a re-watch of Gatekeepers 21. It's so short (6 episodes) but in the nostalgic column for me. I kinda like the overall look of the cool girl with the sword, though the quiet one with the more powerful gate is fascinating too. #anime #gatekeepers21

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lemire.me/blog/2022/05/25/pars This is an older one (2022) but they use Intel's AVX-512 instruction set to parse JSON far faster than is normally possible.

@trinsec Looking at it, it does seem like an interesting bit of software (although, I haven't dug very deep into it yet).

In fairness, quite a few software have features which aren't in Mastodon, hehe.

Let's see what tactic one "won't anyone please think of the children?" person is using in support of .

None at all. He's shouting "Big Tech!" at the top of his lungs and hoping that is sufficient. This is a tactic which has... been invoked a number of times over the past few years to push for all kinds of human rights incursions.

Facebook has gotten too big. Too powerful. The executives are (or were) also a bit shifty. So, we got to do something about them. Something. Anything.

Then, the something ignores any human rights, such as privacy, free expression, or anything else. It also leaves the way Facebook does business completely intact (or close enough so).

Instead of the bad guy being Zuckerberg even, now the bad guy can be someone in the government. There is still a boot on your throat. The centralized power remains. Is everything all tidy and solved?

With KOSA, it has it's own particular brand of awfulness.

It has a number of vague terms which gives figures who have historically been known to over-reach and panic over all kinds of things, a license to panic over more things, then to find a legal text to try to intimidate platforms over that.

Moral panics are not uncommon. In fact, they cannot be any less common. We've seen plenty (in fact, if you look back thousands of years, you can find figures worried about things which would now look silly). There will likely be more to come.

You have to consider whether you really want to live in a sterile Disneyland. Someone could make any number of arguments about this or that potentially being bad. And even if something might be bad to a few people, it's questionable whether that would be proportionate.

This is all assuming that officials are not acting with ill intent. If they're acting with malicious or ideological intent (as a number of people have considered with this bill), it can only get worse.

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