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@retr0id @FirstProgenitor Sort of, but also sort of not - crucially, they can still have central points of authority for stuff like ordering, which *should* make them way more reliable

they should make monster energy that doesnt keep you awake. it tastes so good but if i drink one now im gonna be in trouble

@FirstProgenitor It has always impressed me how Discord somehow manages to function *like* a decentralized P2P system reliability-wise, without actually being one

@schratze I picked 'custom' but all the sliders are locked, what the hell

The Fediverse Award for Excellence in Meowing

So here's a quick straw poll - please answer with your first thought, *without* looking it up first! :boost_requested:

Are Github the creators of Git?

We could skip so many tiresome "debates" if techbros just bothered to understand the concept of "punching down vs. punching up".

There is only one form of valid user consent;

INFORMED, ENTHUSIASTIC CONSENT, REVOCABLE.

That's it. No ifs, no buts.

The user must understand what they are giving consent for, and the scope for which their consent is valid.

They must enthusiastic, wholly onboard with the decision, not begrudgingly agreeing to it because they feel like they have no other choice.

And they must be able to revoke that consent at any time, whether five minutes from now, or five years in the future.

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I am a bit worried about the number of people here who, like me, are fairly recent arrivals, and who are using the so-called 'extreme' and 'unreasonable' reactions to them wanting to 'hack' the fediverse to write off the whole conversation around consent as somehow not relevant.

The NSA monitors anything you do on the internet anyway, so why are you complaining about tech bros wanting to harvest out in the open, yada yada.

It seems we need to define what consent actually is.

AGAIN.

A BILLIONAIRE
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

How did the hacker get away from the police?

She ransomware.

fun fact: because the mascots of open source software are all various kinds of free content all fangames and fanfiction involving them are canon

Have you noticed an increase in your fave science communicators suddenly extolling the virtues of propane and propane accessories (TM)? It's because the Fossil Fuel industry is spending millions to convince you that truly clean energy is impossible skepchick.org/2023/01/big-oil-

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Ugh, was wondering why Firefox kept showing intrusive af ads, even though it should be going through the local pi-hole. Turns out, an update made Firefox default to using DoH against Cloudflare's public servers.

First, screw Cloudflare, and screw Firefox for defaulting to using them.
Second, that's just a bad thing to silently turn on — I have my DNS set up the way I like it for a reason, and am not in love with Firefox just deciding it knows better.

Attempting to gauge interest, so please boost outside of my (rather small) circle:

Would there be any interest in a (largely menu based) game about the fantasy adventuring life.

A bit like Skyrim meets the Oregon Trail.

You explore the world, helping people with quests and general adventuring, all while having to hunt for food, manage energy and maintain equipment.

Goal would be to replace fancy graphics/3d movement with lots of depth and content.

Questions and criticisms welcome.

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@harmonicarichard@techhub.social I am trying to gauge the general perspective on something, in as unbiased a way as possible given the constraints, and therefore I'm not stating the reason for asking.

What I *can* say however, is that the reason certainly isn't "soliciting gatekeep-y opinions about people's relative worth for knowing or not knowing some highly specific piece of information that the commenter happens to know".

You didn't *need* to make a comment talking down on other people. It does not contribute anything to the question being asked here.

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