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No, I don’t think it does that at all. People need to be able to see the world in more than just binary choices, “it is, or it isn’t”. I reject the premise that things can’t be in between, that it can’t be a little bit of slavery, while still understanding that plantations were a whole lot of slavery. Comparing the similar aspects of things and discussing the things they have in common is not the same as equating them and we can have better discussions if we resist the assumptions that drive us to that conclusion.

I think we also need to keep in mind what slavery actually is, the actual concept of slavery not just the most extensively taught and politically important implementation of it which people tend to confuse and conflate with the concept itself. What happened with the trans-atlantic slave trade is just one example of slavery, it’s not the definition, and as a result we need to be clear which concept of slavery we’re talking about here.

Slavery is fundamentally about depriving people of their right to choose for themselves. The sadistic violence and cruelty of the slave trade and plantations are the emblematic and possibly inevitable results of that, but it’s not what actually defines it. A slave would still technically be a slave even if all the choices being made for them were to make them comfortable and protected while they live in luxury. If they are not allowed to choose anything different for themselves and do not have any personal autonomy to make the choices they want to make, they are a slave to someone or to something. Even kings have sometimes been described as slaves to their position and that is actually true in some ways. That is not “minimizing” slavery, that’s simply describing what being a slave is. It’s not having the right to choose for yourself.

If modern technology and digital rights management controls are depriving people of their rights to choose for themselves in important ways, then it’s totally fair to call it digital slavery.

Pre-Trump47 I was in the first camp. I’m not going to lie about how long it took me to figure it out. It was always obvious that the system was broken, but I’ll admit that for a long time I was foolish enough to believe the system worked well enough that it was worth trying to fix, that the fundamentals were sound and there was enough good there to want to save it.

Recent events have shown and continue to show me how naive I’ve been, none of this is an accident, it’s all part of the poker game and we’re all putting in most of the chips that keep it going whether we know it or not. And I have to be thankful that Russia, China, USA, Israel, Europe, and even my own country’s governments have made this all so abundantly clear that even I (and hopefully a lot of other people) can finally see it. I’m joining the resistance. Fuck the system and all the crooked people involved in it, it’s time for a cyberpunk revolution.

I thought ICE was already doing that.

The government of the people has become the government against the people for the corporations.

Or just be cautious, thoughtful and sensible if you do. Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

That is some very black or white, us or them, red team vs blue team thinking. It’s very interesting that you immediately jump to that conclusion when I am not even from the US at all. The answer to your question is absolutely not, and the fact that it’s a “world economy” doesn’t and shouldn’t mean any people are obligated to do business with and accept the controlling interest of literal monsters fueled by oil and oil money. Ethics must also be allowed to control the economy, not just money. The world’s financial systems have consequences beyond just the economy.

It’s definitely not new, but it’s time to start thinking about how strange it is, and start pulling these assholes off their money-merry-go-round.

Put a large, visible placard on them with the officer’s name, face, home address and badge number. You know, sort of like an ID.

They’re living the American dream!

Canada hasn’t really been preparing for this, it caught us very much by surprise. The dramatic nature of our response has more to do with utter shock and which prompted a thorough reading of all the writing that has previously been put on the wall, than it does with decades of serious preparation, but it will be no less consequential in the end. Reducing our reliance on the US is something Canada has talked about for at least the better part of a century, but never very seriously and whenever we tried even modest moves in that direction, we would find them thoroughly sabotaged or some other immediately looming threat to our economy would inevitably appear and take priority and force us back towards the US (none of which was the fault or intention of the US of course, they were just helping us, being our friend and trusted ally!). There are some very quiet, but very serious geopolitics going on, and peaceful, inoffensive Canada is in much more dangerous position than I think most people realize. But some Canadians are starting to realize it. Ukraine is an example of what happens when you get in the way and deny one of the so-called “great powers” something that they want and feel entitled to, and I don’t think any of us imagine the US is going to take this completely sitting down.

It took a direct threat to our sovereignty as a free country to finally spur us into action, but spurred we have been, and I have little doubt Canadians will forget that anytime soon. The hockey analogy we’ve adopted is that our elbows are up, we’re now committed to going for the hit and being sent to the penalty box if that’s what it takes. This is not even about scoring goals or winning the game anymore, this is about sending a message to the opposing team that we’ve had enough and we will not let them push us around anymore, and if they do they will pay the price whether it’s within the rules or not. We’re ready to fight until the refs step in and make us stop.

It’s not that it’s worse in any way, a person killed is dead either way, it’s that there’s no possible defense and it clearly demonstrates the intentional and likely premeditated illegality, making it possible to actually make a substantive case against it. It’s not realistic to apply a full legal process to every individual military misdeed or act of war, no matter how much many people might wish it were. We don’t live in a perfect world. The list of actual war crimes is intended to include things which are clearly demonstrable with enough evidence that a conviction could be realistic.

It’s the difference between running someone over once, which could be a simple accident and we can’t and probably shouldn’t prosecute every single pedestrian death as first degree murder, it might serve justice to try to do that in some ways, but it’s not realistic and also has the potential to be unjust.

Compare that to someone then stopping, backing up and running the same person over again. It removes any possibility of doubt whether the action was an intentional targeted crime and makes it a lot more worthwhile to prosecute. Neither one makes the person any more dead than the other. But one is almost certainly a lot easier to prove to be murder.

Looks very nicely built I would be pleased to have one of these in my home.

When ever Trump is upset I’m a happy person.

if you are a creator and you’d prefer to not make use of JS (there’s dozens of us) then forcing people to go through a JS “security check” feels kind of shit. The alternative is to just take the hammering, and that feels just as bad.

I’m with you here. I come from an older time on the Internet. I’m not much of a creator, but I do have websites, and unlike many self-hosters I think, in the spirit of the internet, they should be open to the public as a matter of principle, not cowering away for my own private use behind some encrypted VPN. I want it to be shared. Sometimes that means taking a hammering. It’s fine. It’s nothing that’s going to end the world if it goes down or goes away, and I try not to make a habit of being so irritating that anyone would have much legitimate reason to target me.

I don’t like any of these sort of protections that put the burden onto legitimate users. I get that’s the reality we live in, but I reject that reality, and substitute my own. I understand that some people need to be able to block that sort of traffic to be able to limit and justify the very real costs of providing services for free on the Internet and Anubis does its job for that. But I’m not one of those people. It has yet to cost me a cent above what I have already decided to pay, and until it does, I have the freedom to adhere to my principles on this.

To paraphrase another great movie: Why should any legitimate user be inconvenienced when the bots are the ones who suck. I refuse to punish the wrong party.

The executives should not have any immunity to prosecution, we need to start holding them accountable. The technology is never the problem, technology just provides us with tools, like any tools sometimes they can be dangerous and deserve immense respect, but it’s the people using them and deciding how they are used who are making those tools and technologies actually hurt and kill people, not the technology. A tool is not inherently good or bad, it does not have intentions or motivations. People do. Let the technology be a technology, and hold the people accountable.

They both have their place. WebDav is an established standard, by implementing it you are collaborating with all the other implementations that already use and are compatible with WebDav in some way. You join a growing ecosystem of many choices and people can easily plug your software into their architecture and plug their architecture into your software with an absolute minimum of work on their part, potentially allowing it to become widely used. This is good.

Having a socket and API allows anyone who wants to, to collaborate with your software specifically, allowing them to be able to do things highly specific to your software, but requiring more specialized work to implement. These kind of implementations can deliver great functionality but they’re likely going to be few and far between because they are more work to develop and maintain. These are very different situations, being sought by different people with different goals.

People just like it better. You’re probably overthinking these things. The point of federation is so that these decisions don’t matter as much. (Almost) all the instances are connected and sharing the same community and content. There is no magic “best” place to be, and if there is, it won’t be because it’s “popular” it will be because it’s “the right one for you”.

And you can buy exactly the same Chinese crap direct from China much, much cheaper. Slower, yes, but Amazon’s getting to be a real expensive middleman and that speed is rarely worth it. Patience pays dividends.

Yeah same here. I built a new PC for Linux and kept my old Windows machine on hot standby and even hooked it up to a KVM because I was afraid Linux would be an incompatible debacle and I’d have to be switching back all the time.

… instead, I think I’ve used my Windows machine like… once. And it’s been over six months. And when I did use it I was mostly just curious about something random, and it was something so inconsequential I don’t even remember what it was.

Linux admittedly doesn’t gel for everyone immediately, so maybe you will want to go back. But honestly, I haven’t looked back, and I don’t even really think about it anymore.

PVP? Strictly yes, strictly no, or opt-in?