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You don’t have to be rich for that, just stupid.

Early 90s the pirate BBS scene was still going strong. You could dial in and tie up your phone line for days at a time. My guess is it was about as common then as it is today, relative to the size of the game industry.

Strange how Denuvo being cracked doesn’t change how I feel about it at all.

Some people are just more comfortable with good old familiar units like baby elephants per corgi. What do they even use for that in the metric system? Millihectares per decilitre or something? Whatever.

Okay great, but steam engines from the mid 19th century could probably outrun humans too.

Gavin Newsom regrets accidentally using the word “apartheid” to refer to apartheid

Just think of all the other things that could benefit from a “protective waiting period” to enhance your safety.

Turning off location tracking, using a web browser other than Chrome, using a mail server other than Gmail, visiting duckduckgo.com — if Google really cared about your privacy and security they’d add a 24-hour delay to all these dangerous activities.

Easy. Never run windows.

The conclusion is correct but you need to show your work a little more.

A car is pretty much the last thing you’d want to have a network connection. I’d sooner hook up my refrigerator and let it send analytics data to Frigidaire.

It’s not the rate, it’s the ratio.

waiting for the light

When I used to drive through the intersection where that situation would happen I’d ignore their requests for money (I didn’t have much) but unless I was in an especially bad mood I’d give them a friendly hello, and sometimes they’d be happy enough to stop and chat with someone who treated them like human being for a moment. Otherwise they’d ignore me and move on, which is also fine.

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Good luck with your transition from porn bot to outrage bot.

It’s obviously the right idea, Cory’s been saying it to anyone who will listen for months if not years, but it would depend on governments doing something. How can it possibly happen then, if there aren’t powerful corporate interests hiring lobbyists to say it in a way that politicians can hear?

Politician: What about these “mastodon” people who seem to think they’re above the law? If they won’t comply we’ll have to shut them down.

Tech advisor: Sorry, there’s no way. It’s run by thousands of individual people from all over the world, most of whom would not want to have anything to do with our legal system, and most of whom by virtue of their hobby running social media servers are extremely well-connected and would raise an enormous stink about it if we tried anything. Better to just pretend it doesn’t exist.

It’s weird how so much of the reporting on this (e.g. CBC radio news in Canada this morning) focuses exclusively on what this means for teenagers, as if adults aren’t also directly affected by the imposition of age checks. Sure the law suppresses the political speech of young people; that shouldn’t be controversial, it’s explicitly designed to take away some of their main telecommunications tools. The question for the court as it pertains to 15-year-olds is whether that’s justified and allowed by Australian constitutional law, which I imagine the government can make a pretty good case that it is.

To me it’s the larger question of how far the chilling effect of denying net anonymity to adults will go that seems like the more important one, seeing as it affects everyone in the country.

Anyway it seems like it is not actually a “social media ban” since it does not include e.g. Mastodon ­— although I’ve yet to find a good explanation as to how that works legally and whether it’s likely to change. For now, maybe we can hope that it will drive a few more people towards the fediverse and thereby do some good, until fedi grows to the point where they feel the need to hobble it too. Assuming of course that the whole project doesn’t just collapse in failure.

Which slang word does that image represent? It might be one I’d like to know.

The majority of censorship is self-censorship

I’m sure there’s still a good American newspaper out there somewhere, but I don’t know what it is. All the familiar big ones seem to have fallen.