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Other phones to consider: The Pinephone (has hardware killswitches and not Android, far cheaper even), or a Fairphone 3 (More ethical construction, very repairable and open to alternative OS')

Here's a reminder that if you're in Europe and have ordered a Purism Librem 5 phone, you have 14 days to request a return and refund under the Consumer Contracts Regulations. Otherwise, you've helped fund a company that willingly hosts hate speech in the fediverse.
You can also request this refund before it even arrives, that's what I did x

New quadcopter video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta3LaqXsKb0

tonight's biking thought:
what if you had software with helpful popups at times, suggesting to toggle settings. After being dismissed they are listed in a specific tab under settings/menu, where you can read their text again and review your choice.
Of course the very first popup would be if you want the popups in the first place :P

the FSE admin is still mad about what happened and he's talking about how i abused my power

i know i abused my power, but i believe that abuse was justified. the amount of harassment i've experienced from FSE is unreal. i found it entertaining at first because of how easy it was to mess with the harassers, but as time went on it began to grate on me, so i just blocked FSE. easy as that.

as the admin of a community, you hold responsibility for what your users do. i had even asked p (the admin) to ban one of the particularly shitty people once (i'm pretty sure this person was the guy who went on to make that wages of sin death site) and he refused. if you allow abuse to happen when you're fully aware and able to stop it, you're being a bad person. i'm sure you learned about being a "bully bystander" in primary school.

so this community of shits decides they want to use my service for free. i could have just banned their bot, but that wouldn't have sent the right message. they almost certainly would have recreated it on a different instance in an attempt to hide it from me. so i decided to really show them that they weren't welcome by posting the oauth token, allowing anyone to post from this bot.

sure enough, i've seen a few other shitty people saying that they're revoking fedibooks' access to their bots. this is exactly what i wanted - nazis know they aren't welcome now.

the rise of the far right is a very real thing, and it won't be pushed back by peaceful protests and letters to congressmen. stonewall was a violent demonstration. we need to play outside the rules to show these people that they aren't welcome, and this whole pbooks drama is a perfect example of that. i could have just banned the bot, but i took it a step further, and now nazis are afraid to use my service.

i'm not saying that my actions are comparable to stonewall or anything. i'm saying that every act of resistance, no matter how small, matters. given how angry and upset the FSE community is about this, and how other alt-right types are leaving fedibooks, i'd say i've won.

i don't plan on doing this again, but i will if things get bad and nazis start to think they're welcome again.