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Mass surveillance promotes the Single Point of Failure that is totalitarianism.

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Don't be satisfied with your vision for the future. Be satisfied with completing it.
So, don't be happy with saying "I'm going to do this project"; that's just a plan and an intention. If you're satisfied just with "someday I will" then you won't do it.

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Just a heads-up, my college has some restrictions on what I can say here :) it probably wouldn't've been an issue anyway, I don't really want to dig at an organization while I'm a member of it, but it is worth noting, as a believer in free speech....

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"Too often we attack cultural challenges with a spirit of misplaced certainty. We feel like we know what’s wrong, and we know how to fix it, and when we know we’re right, opposition is frustrating at best and infuriating at worst. The more certain we are, the more likely we are to view opponents not just as wrong, but evil. Do they not want to solve our crises?" - David French

Remember that by far, most people aren't out with the intent to destroy good.
Something to think about

I have an idea. What if in , the way you quote-post (a la "quote tweet") is by replying to someone then boosting your own message. Works about the same, but requires a click to see the post being replied to.

Pol 

USPol, satire 

GIMP 3.0 is released, check it out!

testing.gimp.org/release-notes

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who contributed in any way - from testing and submitting bug reports through to designing, coding, fixing, packaging, testing some more, translating, documenting, hosting, administration, so many people, so much work, so much to be thankful for!

Welcome to GIMP 3.0!

For parents with kids who are putting out leprechaun traps today: a 3d printed leprechaun hat takes less than 30 mins to print, and is a great thing to leave in their trap after you take the bait.

#3dprinting #stpatricksday

@Alexandrad1 @anderseknert @quintessence The mod is out of line, using grandstanding language that tries to portray the user as a bad actor. “I’m going to step in”, “you have chosen this action”, “had seemed kind”.

There’s a whole bunch of language about how the mod was almost surprised the account didn’t have a history of misinformation. Deleting a (popular and legit) post about a sensitive topic and then going dark for 18 hours is not really a proper course of action in my book.

@anderseknert

They don't seem to be doing it on bad faith, but I do think they should've asked for more info before deleting your post.

I don't know how Mastodon's backend works, but maybe moderators could have an option that, instead of deleting a post, puts it on hold until the fact-checking process is done, including giving the post owner the chance to comment?

And if they see that it was flagged wrongly, they just enable the post to be seen by everybody again.

Evil is, ultimately, irrational. I mean that as strongly as I can.

Evil is an ongoing exception to good.

So I started saying "how can I help you?" when I answer the phone instead of saying "yes?" because I remember being told that spammers can record you saying "yes" and use it to pretend that you agreed to something

For some reason, saying "how can I help you?" causes a lot of spammers to hang up

Being a computer programmer can be philosophically interesting. I'm working very directly with math and logic, the very thing the universe seems to be built with.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

My read because I’ve been asked many times and need to sleep

The caveats and needs for further research the team notes are very honest. It’s hard to really calculate risk here because most vectors are physical and impact will vary by device and manufacturers.

And the explainer is about 21,915 bytes (not including images)! 256 is ~1.2% of that.

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