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strypey

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Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
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strypey, to random
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"... ads for a Brian Tamaki church event showing a boy carrying a severed head - an apparent reference to David and Goliath - and bearing the tagline 'Time to kill'."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516805/brian-tamaki-s-destiny-church-notice-with-time-to-kill-tagline-extremely-concerning

Wow. That is extremely concerning. But imagine these people are perched on a ledge about to jump, and likely to injure or kill members of a crowd gathered below. The only viable response is trying to talk them down. Attacking them will make them more likely to harm others, not less.

strypey,
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"I think Tamaki has gone far beyond expressing his free speech."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516805/brian-tamaki-s-destiny-church-notice-with-time-to-kill-tagline-extremely-concerning

I have two problems with this sentence. The pedantic one is that it's a tautology, like saying 'freely speaking his expression'. Which points to a person using terms without really understanding what they mean.

The more substantive one is that Tamaki's use of freedom of expression is not the problem here. Making it about that is distracting, and quite frankly, lazy.

renice, to random
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the code isn't shitty because people don't care about quality. the code is shitty because most of the authors are just trying to put food on the table and see a movie once in a while. investment is required to get more than best effort output in a work-or-die society. and yet, companies regularly sacrifice that growth for short term margins. it shouldn't be sustainable but money was too cheap for too long. as the interest rate winter rages on, more than fiscal debts will come due

strypey,
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@renice
> investment is required to get more than best effort output in a work-or-die society

100%. The code isn't shitty because people writing it don't care about quality. It's shitty because the people paying don't care about quality.

jennifilm, to random

I wrote about NZ First and their bill, Judith Butler, Abigail Thorne, the phantasm of gender, and how the phantasm is a useful tool for those who have a vested interest in the systems that harm the world.

https://blog.jenniferkshields.nz/nz-first-the-phantasm-of-gender/

strypey,
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@jennifilm
> I can't wait for ghost to be federated

Ghost have been talking about implementing ActivityPub for years. Any news on where they're at with it?

strypey,
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"A phantasm is a form of cognitive dissonance, a way of maintaining internal coherence when the world - and the evidence - challenges your beliefs. Who's Afraid of Gender? ... contextualises it in a trans-specific context, and is an incredible piece of work in itself - is such important and powerful analysis when we keep asking ourselves the question: how do we get people out of the disinformation rabbit hole?"

@jennifilm

https://blog.jenniferkshields.nz/nz-first-the-phantasm-of-gender/

18+ leighelse, to random
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The current government is moving more public money into private hands, rolling back climate crisis mitigations, bicultural partnership, equality of opportunity et al.

We need opposition pledges to reverse these changes.

If opposition parties jointly announce that they will end these travesties, the private sector's interest in participating will be significantly reduced.

Instead of railing against the government, perhaps I should be petitioning the opposition?

strypey,
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@leighelse
> If opposition parties jointly announce that they will end these travesties

... and civil society groups jointly announce that they will actively disrupt them any way we can.

> Instead of railing against the government, perhaps I should be petitioning the opposition?

This is by far the best time to influence the policy of political parties. They have far more time on their hands, and they're keen to learn what might make them more palatable, come the next election.

Hyolobrika, to random

ipns://vitalik.eth/general/2021/09/26/limits.html
https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2021/09/26/limits.html
This was an interesting read

strypey,
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@Hyolobrika
> This was an interesting read

As was this;

https://cnliberalism.org/overview

From a site linked from the words;

> it's worth pointing out that the "neoliberalism" being criticized here is not the same as the "neoliberalism" that is cheerfully promoted by the lovely folks at The Neoliberal Project

They've even changed their name to distance themselves. But... they are kind of neoliberals in the way Schneider (and I) use the word.

strypey,
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"... the cypherpunk spirit is fundamentally about making maximally immutable systems that work with as little information as possible about who is participating ("on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog"), but making new forms of governance requires the system to have richer information about its participants and ability to dynamically respond to attacks in order to remain stable in the face of actors with unforeseen incentives."

, 2021

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2021/09/26/limits.html

@Hyolobrika

strypey,
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"Failure to do this means that everything looks like finance, which means, well.... perennial over-representation of concentrated interests, and all the problems that come as a result."

, 2021

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2021/09/26/limits.html

This really hits the nail on the head for me.

@Hyolobrika

strypey,
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"There is one key difference between blockchain political theory and traditional nation-state political theory - and one where, in the long run, nation states may well have to learn from blockchains. Nation-state political theory talks about "markets embedded in democracy" as though democracy is an encompassing base layer that encompasses all of society."

, 2021

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2021/09/26/limits.html

@Hyolobrika

strypey,
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"In reality, this is not true: there are multiple countries, and every country at least to some degree permits trade with outside countries whose behavior they cannot regulate. Individuals and companies have choices about which countries they live in and do business in. Hence, markets are not just embedded in democracy, they also surround it, and the real world is a complicated interplay between the two."

, 2021

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2021/09/26/limits.html

@Hyolobrika

strypey,
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@silverpill
> The idea of algorithmic governance is flawed. And he was wrong in his conclusions, because it can not be fixed by adding more cryptography

Did we read the same article? As I read it, this is exactly what both @ntnsndr and Vitalik are saying.

> Blockchains are good for one thing: payments.

This is exactly wrong. Payments are the one thing blockchains consistently fail to be good for.

@lain @Hyolobrika @Sarosa

strypey, (edited ) to random
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When overcrowded buses replace train services, they should be free of charge. It's nowhere near the same quality of service, and charging for it is kind of rude. If it's free, it encourages train operators to do everything they can to avoid replacement bus situations.

They could make it half price, at the very least.

strypey,
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@negative12dollarbill
> the 1980s-era buses we get don't have the technology. Ripped seats, hint of cigarette in the air, yes. Opal card terminals no

What your government needs to do is redirect huge swathes of public transport funding into Roads of Dubious Significance with no allowance for bikes or pedestrians in the budget. Like our enlightened coalition is doing .

yawnbox, to random
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thinking about some top cybersecurity tips for normal people

  1. use a password manager (like 1Password (cloud), Bitwarden (cloud), or KeepassXC (local))

  2. use an ad blocker (uBlock Origin)

  3. maximize the use of multi-factor authentication

  4. host contacts in a privacy-respecting service. do not share contacts with apps

  5. use a privacy-respecting email provider. archive email to a local drive, which @thunderbird makes easy

  6. for regularly visited websites, even if you sign-in to use them, use @torproject Tor Browser, if the service does not block Tor

for technical folks

  1. self-host contacts

  2. self-host email

  3. use YubiKeys everywhere

(had to delete this post and repost due to an idiot reply)

strypey,
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@yawnbox
> hosting passwords in the cloud is not ideal, even when being e2ee. but it's also essential for most people, and the pros far outweigh the cons, for most people

Can you please expand on why you think so, or link me to a piece that does?

RustyBertrand, to random
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"Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex."

  • Frank Zappa
strypey,
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"Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible."

, 1994

@RustyBertrand
@nom

strypey, (edited ) to Podcasts
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"We're also competing against a lot of people in politics who come along and say... it's those rich people's fault, we'll just take even more money off them and give it to you."

, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/30-with-guyon-espiner/story/2018936159/david-seymour

This is the fundamental lie of neoliberal politics. A total inversion of the truth, which is that neoliberal parties say 'it's those poor people's fault, we'll just take the money off them and give it to you', and they do.

strypey,
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@IceNine
> Three tiers? What about God Level?

You know I actually have some sympathy for this woman. She's expected to meet tier 2 of the Food Act because it's a processed product. But if she was making the juice as she serves it, she'd only have to comply with Tier 1.

It's just fruit juice for chrissakes, not milk. As long as she's sterilising her bottles etc, the health risk is infinitesimal. The only other rule I'd expect her to follow is being transparent about it being unpasteurized.

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