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Re:Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:17PM (#28624162)
I have no interest in US politics, but I do have an interest in avoiding censorship/bias for topics that I do care about.

The recent events that Glenn Greenwald has reported on has accelerated my move off platforms that have censored, or that can censor.

I won't be able to avoid all of them all of the time, but I can make the alternatives my default.

Federated over centralised. Open over closed. Public domain over ToS.

Headlines often aren't meant to be read literally.

It's just a teaser to read the article.

Governments are responsible for setting safety standards, and enforcing that they do.
That's a fair critique.

I expect the designers foresaw this.

I don't think wide popularity was a goal.

HTTP supports extensibility via HTTP headers and methods.

Gemini to not be evolved:

* HTTP is now for interactivity, complex clients, WebGL, Webassembly, ...

* Gemini is for a segregated simpler web: links and text.

To clarify, I don't use Headscale either.

Both look like great products, I just don't need what they're offering enough to accept their downsides.

Not sure what I think about this.

I don't use Tailscale because I don't trust their key distribution, and this open source project would solve that, but it might undermine Tailscale's sustainability.

This would be a shame because Tailscale is working well with the open source community: open source clients, working well with distros, working well with Linux DNS stack, supporting a more P2P secure Internet, and documenting their well through it.

Re:Gnome to prevent theming, wider community not happy on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:14PM (#28560462)
I've been using GNOME 40 for the past few months, and I'm impressed with the level of quality: intuitiveness, polish, features.

This software works well on my Pinephone too.

I'm happy to trade my flexibility to allow the GNOME the flexibility to make improvements that benefit all.

I understand some want more flexibility, however.

Use nitter, a plain Twitter frontend.

Pick a close instance from https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

I have installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...

Note that different people have different criteria for a coup.

For example, in the US in Jan 2021, there was a riot that some call a coup, and some do not.

Brazil might also count. I am not aware of the details.

Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:20PM (#28452292)
The comment I replied to was asking for a citation on ACLU expousing authoritarian causes, which I did.

I fail to see how a US Supreme Court ruling is relevant to this.

Re:Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @09:11PM (#28451802)
Please keep discussion polite.

GP did not mention vaccines.

Different people are impacted by lockdown in different ways. Consider those that might have different experiences to yours.

Re:Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters? on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @01:31AM (#28441254)
I think it's for fear of appeal to genetics, which has historically been used to justify violations of human rights.