valleyforge @valleyforge@qoto.org

@alex dude on the right looks like he's having fun

@pschwede @freemo did I win the game?

@alex I was working on some apps that used their servers for our backends

@alex Hey I used to do some work with them. In my experience they're good guys.

Is there any system to check if a video is modified (i.e. deepfake)? If a video came out of some extremely important thing how would it be verified by the public?

"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all, irrevocably." - not George Washington, John Locke, or John Stewart Mills. This is from Star Trek TNG

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/02/27/the-case-for-liberal-nationalism/

@seanking but microsoft isnt actively malevolent and is subject to US law

@g I see the center portion and immediately think that's binary but I'm in computer science so I'm going to see binary when I can. Maybe the idea is that aliens could figure out binary pretty simply so everything should be based on that.

@Moon so run. Seriously go to your city's website and see if they have council / committee / whatever positions open

@alex gold or gtfo

@alex I prefer to pretend that these things don't exist and you're making that rather difficult

@waltercool @alex lol that's exactly what people are mad about here

@waltercool @alex I think the problem comes from how to handle the people who themselves are not violent but are there specifically to give cover to the people who are violent

@waltercool @alex I think rioter is by definition violent

@alex bro thats fake