by Lethn
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TheOpiner 5 points ago +5 / -0

We saw the vast majority of the public willingly embrace lockdown as opposed to question that strategy and ask legitimate questions as to why we did not adopt what Sweden was doing. One of the doses of reality someone has to come to terms with is that we are a hierarchical society and the vast majority of people prefer to be dictated to by a leader and to have their lives controlled by a higher power. We libertarians are a minority and sadly to say, always will be.

Most people also prefer a two party system and will choose between the two main parties. The First Past The Post political system we have is very well suited to keeping us in that situation. Again, there is no appetite beside from a small minority to bring in Proportional Representation for national Government. People want the status quo and do not want to change.

If you have been paying attention to the news on polling day, the media was pushing the Holly Willoughby kidnapping plot hard and really focusing on the man who planned it - as a loner, a hermit, single, male and unattractive and how those characteristics in men make them a threat to women and girls. Something that will be at the heart of a new Labour Government.

The Lotus Eaters were making the point on their livestream very correctly that there were politicians whining about how Ofcom needed to regulate podcasters and how they should fall under Ofcom rules. So even the Lotus Eaters now are considering, okay, how do we get around jurisdictions.

That gets enforced next year, regardless of whether the Tories or Labour won. I honestly would not be surprised if Labour and the Tories just decide that the Internet is too unregulatable and they decide to go full national Intranet for the populous while making the Internet the exclusive realm of the state and business.

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TheOpiner 12 points ago +12 / -0

Not FreeBSD:

https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct/

And lest we forget Randi Harper, one of the former developers for FreeBSD and a prominent voice in anti-GG?

OpenBSD has one for its mailing list but it's pretty benign:

https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html

And does have one thing lacking from other CoC's:

Respect differences in opinion and philosophy.

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TheOpiner 3 points ago +3 / -0

Has a Code of Conduct (who doesn't nowadays?) but isn't as egregious as others.

https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/code-of-conduct/

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TheOpiner 5 points ago +5 / -0

His name gets the same treatment in the tech world that Trump and Truss do in the political world.

I see the other Linux and FOSS commentators bend the knee and plead that they're good, progressive people who support Codes of Conduct and won't offend anyone so they can be spared from being cancelled. Lunduke doesn't do that and I respect him for not doing like the rest.

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TheOpiner 9 points ago +9 / -0

Eventually they will come for the users and not just the contributors.

Linux today then BSD and every other FOSS and proprietary software and OS they can perform a coup over. Their goal is conquest of all technology.

Someone mentioned in a reply that OBS had attempted to put in their code a method to prevent "Sargon of Akkad" using their software.

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TheOpiner 7 points ago +7 / -0

I watched a canvasser and a candidate who were leafleting for Reform and getting an idea of whether people are going to vote. Half of the people they asked were put off voting because of Channel 4's recent expose into an actor who was canvassing in Clacton. The people, including Reform voters, are listening to the media despite what we're being told by Reform supporting commentators online.

The media's focus on Reform is only going to intensify in the next day or two as the media are attempting to portray Reform as a paid up UK arm of the Kremlin and attempt to get candidates to denounce the party and throw their support behind the Tories alongside the usual -ists and -phobics they are already portraying the candidates as. Bear in mind that Reform is the only political party that has gone on record to denounce and call for the abolition of the BBC, its licence fee and Channel 4 and I suspect that the mainstream parties and the mainstream media want Reform to be seen as toxic in the run-up to the election.

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TheOpiner 11 points ago +11 / -0

I appeared to have rustled the jimmies of a moderator on another community who didn't take kindly to me asking for clarification of their clarification. Amazed I escaped the banhammer.

Nothing else though. At least here, unlike on YouTube (under a different name) I don't get repeatedly deleted and shadowbanned for existing.

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TheOpiner 5 points ago +5 / -0

And just like South Korea, their fertility replacement rate is going to collapse.

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TheOpiner 6 points ago +6 / -0

To the surprise of absolutely no-one, it turns out that "equality" was just an veneer to allow supremacy to creep in.

As an aside, I know of someone who will be smiling at this topic and saying "I told you so".

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TheOpiner 20 points ago +20 / -0

All the US Government has to do is label anything it doesn't like as "harmful misinformation" and it can be censored.

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TheOpiner 7 points ago +7 / -0

Who created the civilisation, culture, society, stadia, technology and instruments that allows you to become financially successful, Taylor?

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TheOpiner 4 points ago +4 / -0

But what is Ghost Archive?

One of the few archive sites that is able to archive tweets and their replies as Archive Today can not.

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TheOpiner 13 points ago +13 / -0

"She never demanded YouTube censor anyone... except those men over there who tell uncomfortable truths about human nature and dating".

Those who can't be rebutted are the ones they fear most of all.

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TheOpiner 2 points ago +2 / -0

Bear in mind just below the RfC for the ADL, there is also a RfC for The Daily Telegraph.

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TheOpiner 4 points ago +4 / -0

I'll give it a week before Hinge reverses this move now that it will go viral and attract the media's attention.

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TheOpiner 5 points ago +5 / -0

Google Vignettes are the new pop up windows.

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TheOpiner 4 points ago +4 / -0

For those who don't have an effective way to adblock, they now serve five unskippable advertisements instead of two maybe skippable ones every few minutes.

I am convinced that they're making the free experience so annoying you'll beg to pay. Eventually they give up the pretense and paywall all of it with advertising.

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TheOpiner 11 points ago +11 / -0

It gets worse.

Recently, YouTube started tests which now mandates signing in to view videos. Verifiable phone numbers are required for accounts.

https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/issues/551

While the YouTube video downloaders are finding ways round it, it is a game of whack-a-mole. I wonder if another round of nudging people toward Premium (with ads) is about to begin?

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TheOpiner 15 points ago +15 / -0

The only way that's ever happened in history is to turn a free-to-view service funded by advertising into a subscription one with advertising as a supplementary funding mechanism. It's what satellite and cable television did and I suspect YouTube is slowing moving toward by making the free service so frustrating that their viewers will beg to pay.

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TheOpiner 15 points ago +15 / -0

Lockdown and furlough were never, ever going to be a cost free solution. We're all paying the cost of those now.

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TheOpiner 18 points ago +19 / -1

There was a documentary about a call centre and for data protection reasons, banned outside phones on site. Your phone had to either be left in the car or at home. No exceptions and no mercy if you broke that rule. And that documentary was filmed before the proliferation of smartphones.

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TheOpiner 8 points ago +8 / -0

I wonder if Elon is going to switch to Linux? At least there everything is modular and you can strip out any outside AI from your distribution. Some Linux and BSD distributions have a strict no AI policy if I recall correctly.

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TheOpiner 4 points ago +4 / -0

This is exactly what they did with lockdown measures and mandates. Put something out, gauge public reaction, partially withdrawn, have others suggest it, retry and repeat until the public relent and it's fully implemented. Then do the same procedure on something else.

Adobe is behaving the same way too so they can have control of your data for financial gain.

by Lethn
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TheOpiner 3 points ago +3 / -0

There are vendors who will specifically pick parts that will work with Linux but I suspect they also charge a premium for that certainty.

My laptop currently works fully with Arch Linux but it didn't always. At first I had to use the beta NVidia drivers to play games and it took many months to get the sound working because the essential information needed to see the sound chip in the laptop was coded in the Windows driver and not the ACPI.

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