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I hope this sentiment never stops someone from uploading a textbook without OCR. Once it’s scanned it can always be OCRed at a later time.

This reminds me of one of the best bits from the Xanth novels, where the male unicorns peacock for the female unicorns by leaping in the air and landing horn-first in the ground, then see who can balance like that the longest.

Which is second only to the part in the same book where the main character is taking a shit in the woods when a harpy shows up and he has to try to run away with his pants down, unwiped, while the harpy is shouting abuse after him

This “you can’t Forward your own ports” shit needs to be made illegal. It’s cutting off your ability to run your own service and making everyone a passive consumer on the Internet if you aren’t one of the big tech companies.

Is it a linux box, and if so would you be able to ssh into this box? You could rename them that way right?

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/10/1005263835/new-report-details-firsthand-accounts-of-torture-from-uyghur-muslims-in-china This is the first result when I typed in “uyghur firsthand account”
I’ll read it when I get home in a few hours unless you have another source(s) you’d prefer.

It’s very easy to say this, because it means you can just reject any evidence to the contrary as “not good” or “biased”.

Accusations of genocide aren’t a fucking game. It’s either happening or it isn’t. Either the evidence is good or the evidence is bad (and all evidence is biased) So give us some good evidence.

It? I sure hope you aren’t talking about a human person.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas evidence 😔

So it’s just the browbeating for me today then?

Pretend all you want that you’re “just asking questions”
That’s pretty much exactly the same as the Israeli line

vibes of a genocide denier

doesn’t change facts.

What facts! I’m still waiting for one. We can go round and round all day but until you show me something to center this on it’ll be a waste of time. In 30 years even your ABC will quietly walk back their claims of genocide and I hope when that happens you will tell the people around you not to trust the same sources that lied to you.

There’s no racial component to it at all

That’s a pretty bold statement to make. Have you seen the west?

Are you or are you not genociding the people of mars right now?

You see that’s kind of where the problem is. You can say there’s a genocide and I can say “where” and that gives me the vibe of a genocide denier. I’ve looked for evidence, I’ve asked for evidence, but the best I’ve ever gotten is a satellite image of some prison in China, some (AI padded) mugshots with no context, and some thorough browbeating by very serious liberals.

Let me put this another way. I’m of Jewish descent. My great aunt was in a camp. I’m not trying to “deny” any genocides, but what should my standard of evidence be? Particularly when there is a clear incentive for western media to create false narratives about their enemies, and have done so before?

If you have something to present that I haven’t seen, I and the other “tankies” are wide open to engage with it.

Wouldn’t say “dead” just put on the back burner. They’ll get their way eventually just like they did with net neutrality. (Responding to the article headline not you exactly)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity

Google is pushing for websites to implement this software that talks to your TPM (trusted platform) chip on your computer and has it attest to the state of your web stack. Then, the website gets to decide if that’s okay and can deny you access if there’s any “funny business” such as ad blockers installed, or you’re using a browser they don’t like, or maybe even running an os they don’t like. We’ll almost certainly find ways around it for a while, but it’s going to get better (for them, worse for you)

I think this is on their eventual roadmap, somewhere just after not allowing anyone to log in without a verified WEI check for “”““security””“”

Then you can stop all the YouTube rehosting sites like piped by baking in little 1 pixel changes that uniquely identify the account that ripped the video. Netflix and others will do this as well too try to stop piracy.

They’re going to go scorched earth on this, I just know it. The Internet will become as bad as cable was and this is the turning point.

When people complain about vegan diets lacking in x, y, or z I always point out that our diets are culturally balanced, as well as being balanced by the addition of vitamins to staple foods. If we all became deficient in say, iron, we would start fortifying iron in our water, flour, salt, rice etc, while at the same time we would culturally move towards eating more black beans and spinach than we currently do. When an individual removes a food group from their diet, it’s only reasonable that you will have to intentionally rebalance your diet in other places. This isn’t a deficiency inherent in a vegan diet.

If you have to supplement a vitamin or mineral that’s just part of your diet, so don’t @ me with your natural=good nonsense.

Atlas is my favorite version. Even LTT did a video about it. You just install a normal Windows 10 or 11 iso then run the atlas installer and it does a pretty good job making Windows minimal bullshit by replacing edge with Firefox, disabling countless anti features, and installing openshell.

If it’s just for that one purpose have you considered running windows in a VM and passing though that one usb device? Gnome boxes makes that pretty easy.

No anti-“woke” voices are even remotely approaching getting “censored” or “silenced”. If they are then why do I have to hear about them every fucking day?

On the contrary, if you want to hear from a good portion of the population about issues that affect them you need some aggressively anti-racist anti-sexist anti-queerphobic etc spaces or you won’t likely get the chance. Isn’t hearing what real marginalized people have to say about their own experiences a million times more important than some vague worry about crypto-fash#56637 getting to say their piece which has already been heard and generally decided to be socially harmful and, importantly, silencing to the people their racist, ___-phobic etc speech implies violence to? A chilling effect as you enthusiasts call it.

Isn’t freedom of speech more about an individual having the right to hear from many viewpoints, than it is about an individual having the right to say anything and everything, anywhere, any time, they so desire?

I think they were for a number of reasons tactically “not fixing” this “bug” up to this point.

Microsoft has always been something of a free nagware business model, like WinRAR.