天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

Oh, browsers...

I used to use chrome, but they managed to screw them up by removing the ab blocking ability, which I heavily relied on to prevent YouTube from slapping a series of ads in my face.

Now I switched to Firefox, and despite security issues, the performance is not great too, and not all extensions I use support it.

And I tried Brave today. After seeing the built-in crypto wallet, I uninstalled it immediately. Although it can block youtube ads out of the box, that's impressive.

I want to go back to the good old days, when nobody, literally nobody, wants to know everything about you and your data, and nobody wants to slap ads in your face.

Last post before I go to bed (I swear I will go to bed after sending this)

Just noticed the app I used on android, called fedilab, they use a instance search website called instances.social, and the good news is that we're on it.

It's a much better directory service compared to joinmastodon.

So... A decentralised system rely on a central directory service. Well, freemo has already shamed the joinmastodon part. I'll give a app dev 101:

Build your own instances list and host them on aws or github repo or somewhere reliable. Now you won't screw up if third party service goes wrong.

Or, like fedilab, just ask user about their instance url, LOL.

If you can't include everything, then you either put a warning label and a TextInput, or you include nothing. Don't pretend you have done everything.

via @freemo

https://qoto.org/@freemo/109387185090300786

As I said, moderators are not your dad or mom. You need to learn things like report and block and filters, which will makes you and the instance better.

Nobody must serve you a clean/best/whatever you want instance. I mean, everyone should contribute towards it.

It's just doesn't make sense (or maybe it's 2am midnight and my brain stopped working). It's, like I said, you nuked a whole area which killed thousands people just for several bad guys. Why?

(Oh, and in case you wonder, my sensible side has already slept. Now it's the chaos side speaking.😈)

via @skyblond

https://qoto.org/@skyblond/109388776556289890

It works. Partially.

*Panic*

在某种程度上还挺准，我确实是那种大部分时间中立，但总体还是倾向与自由与进步。

作为copyleft的一份子，我觉得最重要的事情就是信息的自由流动。因此版权就是个寄吧（）

在我看来，版权应该在保证出版物能够自由流通/分发的前提下保护原作者的权利。所有人都应当可以按照`as-is`的方式分发（即不受编辑、修改、演绎和非盈利），而做商业使用（营利性放映、演绎和修改）则应该支付费用。

When I was young, there is no smartphones or laptops, or networks. Only several kids play and chat with together happily on the street. They don't give a sh*t about what happened in the world, or who started a war (Iraq War), or what virus we have to deal with (SARS), or who is being discriminated/against (US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade).

The kids don't care, they don't have to. And I was one of them.

Today with the internet, I spend hours on it and I see people being discriminated, persecuted, starved, and eventually killed or suicide. While I also see good things on the internet, like beautiful pictures of Japan, cute anime girls, great tech news that saves people's lives, and a lot of other good things, which makes me love this world. It is those bad things that contribute to sadness and last way longer than those good things.

Several days ago, I saw a news report that a 4-month-old baby died because the baby didn't get to the hospital in time, because of the stupid covid policy in China. The news included a picture of the baby, it's an average cute human baby. I quickly scroll up as soon as I see it, but I can't wipe it out of my mind because of maybe 2 seconds of eye contact with that photo. And today I saw a trans suicide on her birthday after overdosing and having sex and then possibly regretted it. I don't know what's going on and I don't want to know, for my own mental health (and as you see, it's far from stable).

The internet gives humans a great boost in their ability to observe the world, while it didn't change much for people to influence the world. Of course, I don't want to see people dead/suffer, but what can I do? I'm a Chinese unemployed CS bachelor currently self-isolating because of covid related risks, writing Minecraft mod at home and the game keeps crashing because of my goddamn code. And I can't speak English well even with the help of Google translate and Grammarly.

I hope the future me can have some ability to influence the world, or even better, I can help to fix it. But now, I'm nobody and I have no idea how to fix the broken world/people. I'm going to wait and hope.

> Attendre et espérer

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Yesterday, I saw Chinese people on Weibo accusing Iran players didn't sing their national anthem. They said something about the stupid national honor things. And they interpreted a photo of an Iran woman crying as she heard her national anthem, while the truth is the woman saw those players fighting against the persecution.

Those stupid assholes. And they're the majority of China. F*ck. (Technically, they aren't. But there are so many people like them and eventually they formed a mainstream-ish voice.)

k8s: ask me!

source https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1594768694189690887?t=8J_d1R7Ex60ARFc7T1NnBw&s=19