skells @skells@qoto.org
Joined Feb 2021
@Terry your government ended online anonymity 20 years ago, stop pretending Britain is worse and look after your own front yard
Moral condemnation is most often a failure of imagination - you stop trying to understand and undermine your capacity for intelligent manoeuvre.
@Terry no vaccine mandates, no covid restrictions for several months...
do tell me more, darling
@Terry https://www.politics.co.uk/in-parliament/2021/10/21/dont-let-online-harms-bill-impact-democracy-warn-experts/
Still in the committee stages afaik
while the Tories have a large majority, they also have a pretty strong libertarian contingent with allies across the house, inc. Corbyn and other prominent MPs
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@skells @TheFuzzStone @bonifartius just to be clear, i'm not "recommending" ANY of those apps or protocols at all, altho i do use several of them myself at time. i'm just listing them as examples that may work better than signal for certain people in certain contexts. the same software that saves one activist or operator's life could get another killed (e.g. signal itself is probably fine if you're working with CIA-funded terrorists overseas to try and undermine the chinese government, less so if you're organizing protests of vax mandates in a blue state). you have to weigh the tradeoffs for each individual use case. infosec is nothing without opsec
@11112011 @amerika Rome fell in part because they weren't willing to let Germanic leadership get involved
Spaniard and Illyrian leadership all had their time at the helm, when the Germans were next in line Rome didn't want to know - so it got sacked.
Lack of adaption, not immigration, was the issue at hand.
@velartrill @TheFuzzStone@fosstodon.org @bonifartius
thanks for the recommends, will check them out
as i say, for day to day comms, at least signal isn't known to indiscriminately sell data to corporate as a revenue stream
@velartrill @TheFuzzStone@fosstodon.org @bonifartius at this point I use signal because I dragged my friends there and they'll throw a fit if i try to drag them somewhere else
(tbh I'm not even sure what credible alternatives there are, telegram seems even worse)
at least the CIA/FBI is a smaller set than everyone that zuckerberg sells whatsapp data to
@furgar We're all gonna make it
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+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
the youtube channel of john campbell is really nice. he is rather good in explaining scientific stuff for the laymen while staying scientific and not falling down the common over-simplification trap (or notices if he does). the nice thing about this his approach of just explaining interesting papers is that, critics can't really argue that he's unscientific :)
@biomedmax true
they also banned bitcoin 6 times before deciding to buy it
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Friendly reminder that every major superpower on the planet is becoming increasingly authoritarian and the most authoritarian of them all has supersonic nuclear missiles that renders every antimisile system on earth obsolete.
@augustus the beatings will continue until morale improves.
unironic.
@augustus
> playing boules in Cornwall
> Armada sighted approaching the Channel
Drake: "time enough to finish the game and thrash the Spanish after"
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>mobs trying to pull down Francis Drake statue
>me (in blackface): HOL UP....Francis Drake.... was a BRUTHA!
>crowd receptive and thoughtfully disperses
>me (in blackface): HOL UP....Francis Drake.... was a BRUTHA!
>crowd receptive and thoughtfully disperses
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RT @saifedean
Bitcoiners and shitcoiners are not on the same team. They couldn't be more different.
Bitcoiners see a once-in-a-millennium chance for the total eradication of seigniorage & monetary parasites.
Shitcoiners just see an opportunity for them to become the monetary parasites.
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Joined Feb 2021
