anthoniix

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DOJ no longer believes Trump should have immunity from E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

what was the original reasoning for them giving him immunity in the first place.

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One of the most progressive members of the 117th Congress is ready to return and fight for an expanded Supreme Court in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In my view, it's a stop gap measure. The real issue is the lifetime appointments. We just had one president choose 3 justices, who all get lifetime appointments. That is beyond insane, and if packing the courts right now will help alleviate that imbalance I think it should be advocated for. Of course in the long term we will want term limits, or maybe some sort of rotation system, but for now I think that's the most politically effective way forward.

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Is Hogwarts Legacy any good? (kbin.social)
 

With all the controversy around the game, I pretty much ignored anything to do with it at launch. Since the game is on sale right now I wanted to know, is it actually any good? If it is I'd like to play it.

Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm conflicted because it doesn't have a headphone jack

Today is most likely some American's last day with all 10 fingers, and they don't know it in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

As I prepare to not sleep for the next two days.

"Bidenomics" - Biden's vision for economic growth 'from the middle out and bottom up' aims to move beyond 'trickle down' economics in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Name is cringe, but the policies behind it are decent

Minecraft is leaving Reddit in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Sheesh

Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! in c/[email protected]
If ActivityPub can't survive Meta, it was never going to succeed in the first place in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can try to engineer something to be resistant to certain threats, but the human body isn't like that.

With the human body comparison, you can't do much but react to what's happening to you and try to fix it or prevent it from happening in the first place in another human body.

With software, you specifically choose almost every aspect of how it's going to work. This allows you to construct it in certain ways that make it resistant to certain threats and modify it as needed.

Texas airport worker dies after being sucked into Delta jet engine in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This shit made me do a double take

If ActivityPub can't survive Meta, it was never going to succeed in the first place in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is not a good comparison. Our bodies are not engineered by anyone, but our software is.

If ActivityPub can't survive Meta, it was never going to succeed in the first place in c/[email protected]
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If ActivityPub can't survive Meta, it was never going to succeed in the first place (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
91 comments fedilink
 

Corporations don't just sit out on new technologies, and no matter how hard you try you can't force them to. Defederating from Meta's new project preemptively is naive, and will not do much of anything.

Protocols are going to be adopted by corporations, whether we like it or not. SMTP, LDAP, HTTP, IP and 802.11 are all examples of that. If it ends up that meta is able to destroy the fediverse simply by joining it, that is a design flaw on OUR end. Something would then clearly need to be different in order to prevent future abuse of the protocol.

FOSS is propped up by corporations. By for profit corporations. If you want to stop those corporations from killing projects, you put safety guards up to make sure that doesn't happen. You don't just shut them out and put your head in the sand.

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What are some good biking ponchos? Preferably not too expensive. (kbin.social)
 

Trying to prepare for the day where I'm out and I get caught in the rain.

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How dangerous is it to ride in a city without any bike lanes? (kbin.social)
 

Where I live there are almost no bike lanes, not even the shitty painted ones. How dangerous is it to get on the road with all of the other cars?

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Do you listen to music while cycling? (kbin.social)
 

I just got my new (used) bike, and I'm also a big music nerd and love to listen to music when I'm traveling. Do you personally listen to music while you're cycling, and in your opinion is it safe?

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Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, which is linked to cancer (www.npr.org)
 

Benzene is among the pollutants gas stoves emit into homes, Stanford University researchers show. The toxin is linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers.

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Don't be discouraged by people saying these protests don't work, or by subreddits going public (kbin.social)
 

People discredit every type of protest, IRL or not. I think back to every major protest that's happened in response to some major event, and the response every time is "That won't ever work", "You're wasting your time", "Imagine caring about that".

This isn't the death of Reddit, not even close to it. Reddit may even get more popular after this. However, that doesn't mean all of this was pointless.

The Fediverse continues to grow, and that's genuinely a good thing. Every time a platform fucks up, people give X ActivityPub app a new set of eyes and continue to help developers strengthen these platforms and build up the community.

A lot of times the things we want don't happen in 1 big moment, it's a lot of continuous smaller moments that eventually form into something greater.

It's going to take a lot of effort to build out a new platform, especially one built off the concept of decentralization. I think we should continue to build our communities here, and do our best to help this platform thrive.

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