resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
@yogthos IIRC the 2008 economic crisis was a similar case.. the bailouts were like ~20 times NASA's annual budget. The a/c in Afghanistan is even more embarrassing.
@mikegerwitz @fsf The Gitlab problems have been raised a few times since 2019 IIRC, recently here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/repo-criteria-discuss/2021-03/msg00022.html so there's nothing new to say. RMS also advocated for immediate #Gitlab downgrade (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/repo-criteria-discuss/2021-03/msg00011.html) over a year past initial calls for the downgrade.
@Xantulon yeah, i heard some people see that. It's misleading, because mamot.fr did not suspend the altlink account. It's actually your own instance (mastodon.social) that is blocking you from following altlink. If you follow altlink from a different instance than mastodon.social, it will work.
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@deejoe @kensanata @tindall "ISPs Funded 8.5 Million Fake Comments Opposing Net Neutrality" https://www.wired.com/story/isps-funded-85-million-fake-comments-opposing-net-neutrality/
@deejoe @kensanata @tindall "ISPs Funded 8.5 Million Fake Comments Opposing Net Neutrality" https://www.wired.com/story/isps-funded-85-million-fake-comments-opposing-net-neutrality/
@tindall @kensanata @deejoe It's hard to compete with corporate lobbists though, who will flood a politician with letters from fake identities to make it look as if large numbers of individuals want a policy that favors the corps. That's actually how #netneutrality lost in the US. The lobbyists were caught in that case but it was too late.
@deejoe @kensanata @tindall not sure why you'd delete that. It's actually not working out at all. I've not swayed a single politician AFAIK, but I think politicians rarely care about one person. I just hope that enough other people will make the same demand and change the tide. It's always an additional request. I write to the politician for one reason, and say "by the way, replace your twtr acct w/Mastodon".
@kensanata @tindall IOW, the person targetted for shame is just a prop.
@tindall @kensanata i don't tend to shame people in one-on-one encounters, because that's just influencing one person at most. When I publicly shame someone, changing that one person would be a short-sighted goal. It's more to pursuay bystanders. The more bystanders, the better, not because it increases the embarrassment, but because each bystander is an opportunity to influence.
@kensanata @tindall I bought an appliance that required accessing the maker's website in order to enter a reg code to get back an access code. It worked at the time of purchase, but then years later the mfr made changes to the site probably to cater for Chromium users, and I could no loger use the device I bought. And it was outside of the warranty. So even browser choice can impact at scale.
@tindall @kensanata To measure whether a battle is worth fighting comes down to how the user choice affects others. If a massive proportion of market share goes to Chromium, then webmasters cater for Chromium and it's harmful to the free world to the extent that users of freedom-privacy-respecting browsers get marginalized as a result.
@kensanata @tindall and it's not just politicans. Whenever you're talking about communication means, friends are limited by what their friends have. Choices are not made in a vaccuum in that case.
@tindall @kensanata When you talk about communication tools, choices *do* have impact. Digital tools are inherently political. Some people are being marginalized by bad tools. I am non-stop shaming politicians for using #Twitter to microblog exclusively, in a way that denies a voice to those who can't or won't supply a mobile phone number to twitter.
@kensanata @tindall It's unclear to me how it's good for activism to toss out public shaming as a means to improve behavior.
@altlink @cwebber i'm not sure if there are any decent alternatives to #Patreon, but I'd look here if you're interested: https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfunding And if you find something good plz let me know.
@alcinnz @cwebber Especially when it comes from a source that should know better, like the EFF, or when it's endorsed by an org that has privacy or netneutrality as it's mission. (E.g. #fightForTheFuture)
@cypnk @thor Also included in the design: a hot air delivery apperatus that simply straps to the head of #PeterThiel. Whereby if you need more hot air, just show Thiel a pic of Mexicans crossing a border.
Joined Mar 2019
