That’s how federation works with[out] requiring a direct connection from every instance to every other instance. My instance can connect to yours to get your content, but also the content from all other instances that you federate with. And vice-versa.

So what? That’s like saying ISPs should require Section 230 to avoid liability because they route packets. We’re talking about legality: it’s stuff like intent and responsibility that matters, not the technical details. Each instance owner still gets to decide which other instances they want to federate with; some ‘middle hop’ in that connection is irrelevant.

The fundamental issue that Section 230 is designed to address is the separation between the users posting the content and the platform owners who control who sees it, and the moral hazard that creates. If you eliminate the separation, there’s nowhere left for the moral hazard to exist.

I’m usually a big fan of the EFF, but it’s wrong on this one. If you decentralize to the limit – i.e., such that each user is running their own instance for themselves – it becomes okay for the service to become liable for the user’s speech because the user and the service owner are one in the same. In reality, (extremely) federated social media is the only kind that can survive without Section 230 and thus repealing it entirely would be a win for the Fediverse.

(You could argue “but users won’t go to the trouble of running their own instance,” but to that I’d say “they will if the law doesn’t give them any other choice, short of not participating at all.”)

The term you’re looking for is “cowboy coding.”

That’s on top of the cascading supply shortages of all the other goods that can’t get through a major trade route

Is Hormuz a major trade route for things other than petroleum, fertilizer, and a handful of other things? It’s not exactly a through-route the way, say, the Gulf of Aden is, so I’d have thought we’d only be talking about stuff actually produced by countries bordering the Persian Gulf itself.

Copyright is ass except to the extent that it can be used to enforce copyleft.

That alone upends centuries of American foreign policy, and sets a precedent that paves the way for a return to mercantilism.

One thing I’ve gotta hand to the Trump regime, the shit they’re pulling is getting (at least some) people to learn all sorts of stuff about history and civics that they never had to care about before.

I’m betting the 3^rd Amendment is gonna become relevant again any day now, if nothing else, just so Stephen Miller can finish filling out his Bill of Rights violation bingo card.

They might have “upgraded” it to use an LLM instead of an older (and more deterministic) technique.

Is it weird that it’s written as if to imply that Canadians would normally find it difficult to resist visiting the US, or am I reading too much into it?

How many Ubuntu users (who are usually novice in Linux)

Don’t be so sure of that. I used to use Gentoo 20 years ago. I use Kubuntu today. Why? Because I don’t care anymore and just want something that works with minimal effort.

The last time I reinstalled my OS, about a year ago, it was because I replaced the SSD. The time before that was seven(?) years earlier, when I built the system in the first place.

Snaps mildly annoy me though, so I might change. Eventually, after probably several more years.

I bet there are more people like me (long-time users picking boring, “basic” distros) than you think. We just aren’t usually very conspicuous compared to the “I use Arch BTW” crowd who are new enough that they still feel the need to make distro choice part of their identity.

I’m expecting my owed publicly provided education, but they are provide trauma inducing childcare.

Holy shit, there’s a pull quote for ya! 😬

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook

British Petroleum, the second largest non-state owned oil company in the world, with 18,700 gas and service stations worldwide, hired the public relations professionals Ogilvy & Mather to promote the slant that climate change is not the fault of an oil giant, but that of individuals. It’s here that British Petroleum, or BP, first promoted and soon successfully popularized the term “carbon footprint” in the early aughts. The company unveiled its “carbon footprint calculator” in 2004 so one could assess how their normal daily life – going to work, buying food, and (gasp) traveling – is largely responsible for heating the globe.

The term would literally not exist in the public consciousness were it not for BP using it to shift blame. But yes, the concept itself is valid.

How’s the math work on a shady place? I’ve got a big-ass tree above most of my roof.

That’s for the fork with a UI implemented in Qt.

GIMP being worse doesn’t mean WLBR isn’t bad.

Are plastic recycling and “what’s your carbon footprint?” scams to shift blame away from Big Oil? Yes.

Should you try to recycle and reduce your carbon footprint anyway, despite that? Also yes!

By today’s standards, sure, but this comic is from half a century ago.

And for “smart car” issues, it’s really reticent to move in some cases, like wiþ þe trunk or any doors open. No, fucker, I’m just inching forward in þe garage! I don’t need to close all þe doors! Give me a warning, fine, but don’t refuse to move.

I get nervous about my '94 4Runner because it has a power rear window that rolls down into the tailgate (and thus the tailgate can’t be opened unless the window is working); there’s no way in Hell I’d ever consider buying a car that refuses to work based on potentially-flaky sensors that aren’t necessary EFI inputs.

This has nothing to do with pickups, except that one happens to be the car he’s using as an example. It’s going to be coming to every new automobile (there was already another thread yesterday talking about it being mandated by law in the next year or so) unless there’s a massive public backlash that stops it politically.