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interpares wrote
Reply to Apple 1 computer for sale for $1,5 million by ____
No thanks.
Rambler wrote
Reply to Apple 1 computer for sale for $1,5 million by ____
I'm a sucker for woodgrain on things that aren't typically made of wood.
Too bad I'm $1,500,000 short... give or take.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to Are open source databases dead? | ZDNet by ____
"Is X dead?" No.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Don't worry, they'll still be technocrat SJWs. They just plan on working from home instead of riding the BART into their Bay Area office.
mr4channer wrote
capitalism
mr4channer wrote
Reply to Letter: If the FBI Is Going to Investigate Parler, Twitter and Facebook Deserve the Same by Rambler
they all work together
whitestar wrote
And that is one of the reasons why I don´t use Firefox, although I know that Google is not any better.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to Hackers publish thousands of files after government agency refuses to pay ransom | ZDNet by Rambler
If they didn't bother to secure the data it couldn't have been that important. Them not paying just confirms this.
mr4channer wrote
Reply to Hackers publish thousands of files after government agency refuses to pay ransom | ZDNet by Rambler
go homeless
chaomancy OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wingless in An Open Letter to DLive Regarding the Future of the Platform by chaomancy
I have a psychological resistance to sending cash in the mail since it could get stolen, but that is a good point. If you just do regular cash donations of smaller amounts, some will get there and maybe some won't. I wouldn't want to send hundreds through the mail at once though. I would also want some confirmation from the site I'm donating to that they received it. I wouldn't want to send gold since it would be more expensive to ship than just sending cash.
chaomancy OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in An Open Letter to DLive Regarding the Future of the Platform by chaomancy
Anglin does publish some insightful articles about politics so I check the site now and then.
I agree with him on some things but he also has some very fucked up views and is probably a rapist.
I say he's probably a rapist because he has said repeatedly that women are naturally evil and deserve to be beaten and raped. He has also encouraged guys to do "stealthing" and things like that to get women pregnant against their will.
Wingless wrote
There is something very bizarre about the payments racket. I don't have any understanding of how utterly vile platforms like PayPal, which claims a unilateral right to rob anyone of $2500 for any reason it sees fit, ever were able to come to exist, let alone how they exclude alternatives.
I don't even understand why just plain mailing money is out of fashion. I mean, if you put a $20 in an envelope, and it doesn't arrive 1.4% of the time, how does that differ from paying 1.4% of your purchase in tribute to the credit card monopoly?
But apart from that, anybody anywhere who has any resource could be a payment processor of sorts. Doesn't have to be cryptocurrency. I mean, if you buy $50 in gold from Bob's Pawn Shop and say ship it to your buddy at Daily Stormer, that's a way to make a payment, isn't it? You just need to have some solid agreement about what the going market rate for the gold is, and people willing to work on low margins.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by J0yI9YUX41Wx in An Open Letter to DLive Regarding the Future of the Platform by chaomancy
I think it's futile to measure China by our morals. They have an entire billion people more than the US. (US: 0.4billion, China: 1.4billion people)
And they have less space. It's inevitable that life is cheap in China. If the reality of your life is that other people ain't precious, but wastes of space, obviously your morals will differ. That's also what allows them to dabble in eugenics and create enhanced humans.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Wahaha in An Open Letter to DLive Regarding the Future of the Platform by chaomancy
It's a tricky geopolitical calculation, but overall I'm on board with empowering China's competitors. Nothing against China per se, they just need roadblocks until they ditch the concentration camps. This is good news about Biden, I think. I had feared Trump was the only one to go after China. So... thanks for the article!
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by chaomancy in An Open Letter to DLive Regarding the Future of the Platform by chaomancy
Why not? Saw the site for the first time today and I read two interesting articles already. Second one: https://dailystormer.su/biden-administration-makes-immediate-point-to-contact-fake-country-of-taiwan/
chaomancy OP wrote (edited )
I don't endorse The Daily Stormer, but this open letter to DLive was an interesting read. Pretty sure it was written by Anglin and he's just acting like it's a guest post as a joke.
Whatever you think about the site, it was the free speech canary in the coal mine. Few spoke out against the massive de-platforming campaign when it happened, so a dangerous precedent was allowed to be set.
txt wrote
This really should have been posted on a personal blog.
basically no elaboration on there opinions.
This blog post is so reactionary.
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.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to That’s not how 2FA works by Rambler
Eh, fair points.
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.
mr4channer wrote
gnu icecat, librewolf, pale moon, ungoogled chromium, tor
Rambler wrote (edited )
No, no we don't. We need a secure browser that works. We don't need more politics in big tech.
abralelie wrote
Reply to GitLab, Valued At $6B+, Eyes Public Listing by Rambler
This is great news! It shows that even with open source you can make a vibrant and valuable business. Just like Redhat and Canonical and probably a few other companies.
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to GitLab, Valued At $6B+, Eyes Public Listing by Rambler
Wow.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to Comcast’s data caps during a pandemic are unethical — here’s why by Rambler
Even outside of the pandemic it's unethical. There's no actual limitation in place.