🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

In case anyone is curious this is who my mom named me after, a character on the General Hospital soap opera, his name was "Dr. Jeff Webber" and he was played by Richard Dean Anderson, same guy who played MacGyver and Jack O'Neil from Stargate.

@trinsec Comedy show on TV. Very famous and long running.

@trinsec The picture speaks for itself. Its something out of a SNL skit.

@se7en Can you provide a reference stating that the flares were shot at all? I tried to do a google search and couldnt find a single reference, including text, that any flares were shot off.

I think this is my favorite picture from the day.

#capitol #protests #Riots #uspol

@cy
Are you suggesting inflation is a universally bad thing? It isnt, though it cam be under certain situations. A healthy economy should undergo a slow and reasonable rate of inflation.
@valleyforge

@ourdiaspora

I know right, can you beleive people are that absurd! Sure is used metaphorically though, just not in any way that is specific to race.

@anonymoose @cwebber

@anonymoose

Its usually the same people who think "whitelist" is racially insensitive that also think "white washing" is related to race. I have had so many ignorant people assume my use of the term whitewashing was based on white people removing blacks from historical significance when in reality that has nothing to do with what that term means either. Its literally a reference to a type of paint used to cover up walls.

@ourdiaspora @cwebber

@anonymoose

Correct, none of which has any racial bigotry implied by the term historically or today. The idea that blacklist and whitelist are racially insensitive is little more than rewriting history.

There is plenty of actual racism to worry about, I dont see the need to invent racism that never existed and then try to rewrite the dictionary on those fictional grounds.

@ourdiaspora @cwebber

@ourdiaspora

Huh, what does the link you shared have to do with the conversation. It doesnt talk about the history or usage of the terms whitelist at all. Just mentions some unrelated point about github not using it, which I am already aware of.

@cwebber

@ourdiaspora

Interesting how? They are standard terms that have been in use a long time. White is a color that includes all other colors, therefore whitelist is intended as a list that includes "all the things in the set".. black is a color that excludes all colors, therefore blacklist is a term taht means "things excluded from the set"

I suppose the terms are rather interesting and cool when you look into them, I never thought about that.

I am not sure the protocols will dictate the abusiveness of the content in the network itself.However it will, and the intended goal should be, to give you more control over the content you are exposed to.

@cwebber

@arteteco

I think the concern is just if someone winds up assassinating me someone has the ability to pass the server along to whoever takes over it. I doubt it will be an issue anytime soon.

@zleap @trinsec @mur2501

@waltercool

The two problems arent unrelated im sure.. displays on laptops are always a generation behind it seems.

@racuna

@racuna

I find those are common I just cant find one with a decent display beyond 1080p

@waltercool

@cwebber to me the answer is simple, hierarchical block/mute lists with both whitelisting and black listing capability. Mastodon and the fediverse almost got it right by allowing users to rely on their local instance to moderate, but the lack of override ability from the users or the ability for multiple inheretence is the killer.

@mur2501

I rule with an iron first, im just too lazy to use it :)

@trinsec

@zleap

Indeed. In reality I have no objection to naming someone an admin just in case. But it would require more than just mastodon admin access, which in and of itself cant really do or effect much. In fact a mastodon admin couldnt even backup and migrate the site to another server, they can just pretty much upload emojis and change a few settings.

What we would need is someone who would have access to our server infrastructure. Right now I do have some people who i pay who have that access in case of emergencies but they arent really part of the community here.

That said if we picked a member of the community to have server access in case something happens to me they would have to know how to administer linux, docker, docker-swarm, and a few other techs we use. They would also need to be trust worthy of course.

I believe @arteteco offered to fill that role once, and he has been around since the inception of the server, so I would trust him in that capacity. I guess it depends on if he would want that responsibility and if he feels he has the technical knowledge to carry it out.

@trinsec @mur2501

@mur2501 Ok.

@trinsec Do you wish to be a moderator? If so we will hold public discussion, request feedback from the community, and ultimately vote.