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burnerben wrote
Reply to comment by eeqrhty in 1 person shot as pro-Trump protesters breach the Capitol building by Rambler
yea but inciting actual violence defeats the purpose of a peaceful protest
txt wrote
Reply to Survival Tip by Rambler
If its voluntary, its not theft. The only problem is that a tax free place doesn't exist anywhere. (Not including some tiny island or 50 acres of land in the dessert)
txt wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in Parler is back and it's hosted in Russia! by not_bob
It only gives Russia more control. Pretty weird. Doesn't the first amendment exist?
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to Now with PGP encrypted webmail. Encryption/decryption done server side for your @your-domain.com accounts. by Rambler
And yes, you can access your @your-domain.com webmail over Tor, as well. Still working out some I2P integration kinks, but Tor is good to go right now.
MilkyPastel wrote
Reply to Trump impeached second time by RoboGoat2000
What a fucking waste of tax money.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by abralelie in everyone is worried about getting a chip implanted by burnerben
Who knows, I don't care all that much for what other people do with their time.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to Parler is back and it's hosted in Russia! by not_bob
Parler doesn't quite look like they're ready for prime time again. Their homepage is a bunch of quotes.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to That’s not how 2FA works by Rambler
Eh, fair points.
eeqrhty wrote
Reply to comment by burnerben in 1 person shot as pro-Trump protesters breach the Capitol building by Rambler
Why would you expect peaceful protests to work in that scenario though?
The point of peaceful protests usually is to say "hey, look at all these people who are going to vote out candidates who don't do what we want and vote in candidates that do what we want". But if voting itself is rigged, then that is not a proper threat.
Trump supporters already had multiple peaceful "stop the steal" type protests prior to the 6th and showed up in large numbers to Trump rallies that happened after election day.
Every peaceful protest has this implicit underlying threat, and it is part of why peaceful protests work. "Look at all of the people who will be pissed off and might cause disruption or do something violent if you don't listen to them".
If the first threat (voting people out) is not a serious threat anymore, then we are only left with the second threat as leverage. Now, there are ways to cause disruption without violence and that is more moral. Examples would be a refusal to work or pay taxes in masse. But it would be very difficult to get enough people to participate. People felt that it was very urgent to save the republic and that is why some were motivated to take more drastic actions.
Keep in mind, most of the people who stormed the capitol were engaging in an act of non-violent civil disobedience. There were people at the front who fought with police but the vast majority of the people who went in just walked in after the police had already stood down or retreated further into the building.
eeqrhty wrote (edited )
Reply to Parler is back and it's hosted in Russia! by not_bob
Sounds like better news for the users privacy than US hosting.
Quoted in the article:
Raise your hand if you understand the very significant impact this has on the ability to surveil and target insurrectionists who organize on Parler.
— Chris Vickery (@VickerySec)
I'd rather be spied on by Russia than the US government for sure. Russia has no interest in oppressing me and they're on the other side of the globe. I guess the worst thing Russia might want to do with the info is influence me with targeted political ads or something.
Rambler wrote
Reply to Parler is back and it's hosted in Russia! by not_bob
Not sure why they wouldn't just host it in the USA. Certainly there are datacenters or providers operating enough private rack space in one who'd take them on. They'd be a pretty big client and the media and the social just mob will forget about them eventually.
anonmoose wrote
Reply to comment by mr4channer in How to get Thunderbird to work over TOR? by Rambler
This is the correct answer. Thunderbird has had some hideous CVE over the years, and still has some major problems. Claws-Mail just works.
MasterDestroyer wrote
Wingless wrote
Reply to Clearview's Dangerous Misreading of the First Amendment Could Spell the End of Privacy Laws by Rambler
The ACLU is wrong here. They have been weakening on free speech issues, and the consequence is that they fall for related fallacies.
Suppose the company simply sold an index of where to find face photos for various people. Suppose someone with this list tripped a web archive like archive.is to store each photo. Suppose another person writes a tool that can pull up the face photo and put it on the left of your screen, leaving you free to compare it to a photo on the right. And suppose lastly you've downloaded and installed a free GPL software program that lets you compare the faces according to biometrics and see if they are the same. Who committed the crime?
Now that is NOT to say I want these bastards tracking faces all over the world. But we must first rule out the impossible before we can focus our attention on what is left. If we can't keep a company from compiling faceprints, what can we do??? Like DUH, we can keep people from USING THEM!
Advantages of building the wall there include the millions of people who will be duped or forced into giving "consent" by countless very important organizations, like employers, who aren't "protected" by the censorship-level restriction.
So what am I saying? Well, I'm saying you can't discriminate against a customer or employee for refusing to be faceprinted, or force them to submit to biometric comparisons. They have to make accommodations. It is at the same level as barring businesses from discriminating by race or even handicap. Americans don't like to think of some punk from the government trying to tell Business who they can do Business with, but there it is. A business that surreptitiously looks up faces to give one person a discount over another should be treated exactly the same - legally and emotionally - as a business that charges higher prices if you are black or female.
podnas wrote
Reply to What Is Pleroma? by Wahaha
Pretty cool, wasnt familiar with this software !
burnerben OP wrote
Reply to comment by mr4channer in everyone is worried about getting a chip implanted by burnerben
elaborate
burnerben wrote
Reply to comment by eeqrhty in 1 person shot as pro-Trump protesters breach the Capitol building by Rambler
yes. peaceful protests are what should be done
abralelie wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in everyone is worried about getting a chip implanted by burnerben
Would you consider that the norm?
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by abralelie in everyone is worried about getting a chip implanted by burnerben
Yes, I'm not addicted to my phone.
abralelie wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in everyone is worried about getting a chip implanted by burnerben
But do you?
Nyankawaii wrote
Reply to GNOME Shell UX plans for GNOME 40 by Rambler
I like gnome but i aint using 4.0
abralelie wrote
This seems to be making the rounds, but I doubt Google usage will drop at all. It wouldn't surprise me if the people affected by this even avidly use Google Chrome as their main browser.
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by Mrwarmind in Enjoying different cultures by Wahaha
Most likely faggots.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to That’s not how 2FA works by Rambler
I hate sites that force 2FA. How about I decide whether a site is worth the hassle or whether I don't care for the account.