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Jack Dorsey always comes off really reasonable in these hearings, to the point I wonder how active he actually is in Twitter's development or if he's 90% just a figurehead that provides a vague direction, and his Diversity Hire staff implements it badly.

@mathlover Whoever made the claim should provide the proof, show in the repo. You don't get to make baseless speculative claims on FOSS software.

There were some clients, like tusky, that blocked gab on the client side, and people went on a holy crusade against everyone that didn't do that, but that's pretty much it, when it comes to hard coded blocks.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/11129

“If I melt dry ice can I swim without getting wet?”

— Steven Wright

​ This claim was removed for not complying with society's way of thinking. Learn about how you should think.

PlayStation 5: you pay $500 to buy a computer you can’t control, that is only able to play $70 games sold by the manufacturer. This sounds like a great deal for Sony and an awful one for you. They should pay you to own a PS5.

In 2016, @HillaryClinton@twitter.com lost. In 2020, @realDonaldTrump@twitter.com lost. Both blame grand illegal conspiracies instead of themselves, supported by propagandists & diehards. And it's proper to do the investigations etc. But please consider how silly this all looks to the rest of us. Thanks.

Lemmy federation is almost ready, needs testing

https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/42478

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@bonzoesc
We forced computers upon people who didn't actually want them, and then some people get upset when those people refuse to learn more than the bare minimum to do very specific things.

The next time someone says that we can't predict the climate because we can't predict the weather, ask them if they know that it's warmer in the summer and colder in the winter.

@Gina I agree entierly. I love difference of opinon, thats how we grow and learn, even if we dont change our opinions.

Its really what I love about the Dutch to be honest and why I moved there. Most americans, particularly liberals but also non-liberals, will have a complete meltdown over a difference of opinion, even minor ones. Not only can you not be civil after that, they will actively be aggressive and seek it out, its horrible. The Dutch know how to disagree, even strongly disagree, and not make it personal unless it is really justified. Obviously if i was a legitimate hateful racist you'd probably judge me, and should.

Discovery comes days after Danish authorities launched a plan to cull Denmark's entire population of 17 million mink.
Greece find COVID-19 among mink at two farms

Johnson risks rift with Biden by pressing ahead with Brexit bill - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/08/dominic-raab-joe-biden-no-deal-brexit what an arrogant fool johnson is, even when a new reality is staring him in the face... #brexitshambles

A president who is unwilling to make a concession speech is a president who aims for a coup. Without a party that has apparently lost even the last shred of democratic dignity and backbone, it would be nothing but a final smudge at the end of a painful episode before the necessary basic political cleanup begins. But with the support of this party it opens the gates to a state crisis with an uncertain outcome.

https://jessems.com/productivity-vs-privacy

i— wow. this is some bullshit, trying to justify surveillance capitalism. literally 0 closed-source, bigtech product has improved my productivity in any meaningful way. if anything, i’ve only found them to hamper my ability to get work done.

>ProtonMail yeah, that’s a you problem. don’t use shit services like ProtonMail; i have full text search in my email because i can download it via IMAP.

and re: that last bit about interoperability—um what? since when are data mining walled gardens INTEROPERABLE lmao. what are you even saying?!

terrible, terrible post.