ttmrichter
@ttmrichter@lemmy.world
- Comment on Where did the exploding-heads people go? 10 months ago:
And yet it’s the “liberals” who are the whiny snowflakes.🙄
- Comment on China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty 10 months ago:
The CPC […] is by no means a good government and the people in it are not good people at any level above the community cadre level […]
They’re vile authoritarians […]
Do you actually fucking READ before reacting you utter fuckwit?!
Talking with Americans is like talking with ADHD-addled toddlers for fuck’s sake!
- Comment on China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty 10 months ago:
I arrived in China 2001.
I experienced the harshest and largest lockdown in all of history: Wuhan, January 23rd, 2020. A real lockdown, not the cosplay bullshit you experienced outside of China. (Yes, this is me saying you’ve never fucking set foot in the country.)
The rest you’re just flat-out lying about. Sorry, Sparky. Did pet killings happen? Yes. They were not the mass shit that the press you’re so obviously reciting acts like they were. Did some doors get welded? Yes. But nowhere near you and, again, nowhere near in the masses the press you’re basing your lies on made it seem like. The local salaries are garbage iff you’re a fuckwit sitting in the west applying western prices to Chinese salaries. (Which, naturally, you are, good little fuckwit liar that you are.) And you’ve changed your tune from 14 hours to 12 hours really fucking quickly there, Sparky, not to mention using the proper slang only after I gave it to you.
So yeah, you’re just a west-dwelling fuckwit lying about being here. Go toddle off in your China Watcher corners and play with the rest of the intellectual children you belong with. There’s a good boy.
- Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end? 10 months ago:
Wow! Someone who gets “choice” and “freedom of association”!
- Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end? 10 months ago:
- Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end? 10 months ago:
Usually it’s just the self-righteousness instinct…
I love¹ telepathic people who can read other people’s minds and post on their behalf.
¹ This is sarcasm. I hate the delusional who think they’re telepaths.
- Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end? 10 months ago:
So it’s freedom of association you’re opposed to then?
- Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end? 10 months ago:
By “BOFH that happens to run the server” you mean “the volunteer whose money, time, and effort are being expended on your behalf”, right?
This is the single most entitled opinion I’ve ever heard in this. “I, the person who bears none of the pecuniary, temporal, or psychological costs of running the server insist that ‘the free software ethos’ means I get what I want on someone else’s computer.”
Fuck that noise.
If you want a server run your way that federates with the people you want to federate with, put your own skin in the game. Run your own server with your own rules. THAT is the actual free software ethos: DIY if you don’t like the way someone else does it.
The free software ethos is the punk ethos, not the hippy dippy shits ethos.
- Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end? 10 months ago:
Replace “communist tankie shit” with “CSAM” or “torture porn” or such and see if that makes any sense to you (keeping in mind that all content from your “whitelisted” stuff is stored on the server owner’s hardware).
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 10 months ago:
Ah. Idiot assumptions over and above idiot collaboration.
sh.itjust.works seems to attract the dullest.
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
Whatever you say, child. Buh-bye.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 10 months ago:
Say “I don’t know what a wumao is” without using those words.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 10 months ago:
I swear, I’m seeing the western equivalent of wumaos servicing Meta here.
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
I am mocking cryptobro fantasies and their favoured lines of communication.
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
And yet has overwhelmingly cryptobros.
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
Again, when you can show me a cryptobro concentration lower than 99.44%, I’ll take nostr seriously. And when you can show it not turning into a Hellhole worse than Xhitter and Farcebook combined because of the very philosophy underpinning it, then I’ll think it’s actually worth looking at. (Hint: this is not possible.)
Until then I’ll call it what it is: a place for cryptobros to wank to their faux-libertarian fantasies.
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
When I see nostr users that number more than, say, six who aren’t also cryptobros, I’ll drop the nostr disrespect. Until then … 🤷♂️
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
I’m pretty sure that 99.44% of nostr is cryptobros.
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
Matrix […] has a kind of rough UX and, IIRC resource-intensive server software. We should work toward improving that.
Except that I get the vibes from the Matrix community that the shit UX is part of the attraction because it does a wonderful job of gatekeeping.
I don’t hold out much hope for Matrix working out ever, but perhaps someday someone will use it as inspiration for making something that doesn’t suck.
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
…evolve to something like what nostr is doing.
Giving places for cryptobros to wank without being pointed at and laughed at by their betters?
- Comment on Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers 10 months ago:
Clear sign every post using a third-party application. Make your public keys known far and wide. Authenticity solved.
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
I’m not saying that “you can’t make this complaint because you made an account here”. I’m saying “only an idiot can make this complaint because this is how all distributed systems work without exception”. There isn’t a single system out there that is connected to anything outside of itself that isn’t susceptible at some level or another to exactly what the OP is complaining about.
This includes the router you have between you and the Internet at large.
EVERY distributed system retains copies somewhere for some duration. And ANY of them can be (pretty trivially) modified to just retain everything for as long as there is storage to hold it. If you want privacy you’re going to need end-to-end cryptography, but that means no discussion sites like this.
So my objection to the OP’s complaint is that it’s just stupid. Because it applies to literally every piece of technology they likely use to post the complaint, but for some reason it’s Lemmy that’s being singled out.
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
It is impossible. Flatly impossible. Because you cannot see if they’ve really deleted it or not. You can rely on a “data processing agreement” which, together with $50, will buy you a small cup of coffee at Starbucks.
I federate with you here from China. I will agree to anything you like. And I will just attach an array of 16×16TB hard drives to slurp up all the data you send me. How will you know this is happening?
You can’t. It is impossible for you to know until it’s too late and I’ve used it for whatever purpose profits me.
An individual server admin can only ensure the data’s existence or lack thereof on their own server. Anything else presumes (rather stupidly) that bad faith actors don’t exist.
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
Short of having someone inspect the databases, they can’t. The GDPR is a threat, basically, that says “if (or, rather, when) the truth outs, we can nail you later”. Which is why it’s really only effective on big players anyway.
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
Yeah, sorry, man. All the ignorance was blurring together and your post was caught unjustly in the fringe.
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
It’s on the server admin to ensure that all exchanged data is taken care of appropriately.
“It’s on the server admin to do the literally impossible.”
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
How would you even know if deletes federate?
“Does your server respect delete activities?”
“Yeah. Yeah. Delete activities. Definitely. We totally respect them. Scout’s honour.”
Tell me: how much closer are you to knowing if the server is caching or not?
- Comment on Warning: You cannot delete posts or comments on Lemmy. It stays up forever, and is in direct violation of GDPR and other national privacy laws. 10 months ago:
I have a ridiculous judgement against me in Germany. (Complicated shenanigans around an inheritance where the authorities’ legal representatives did shady shit specifically to unload an estate that would have cost them.) Technically I owe the city of Frankfurt something like 50,000€ in fines.
I’m comfortable with this.
Why?
Because good fucking luck enforcing a European fine on a Canadian citizen resident in China. Even if they catch me out when I visit Germany (which I have done a couple of times without incident since the judgement was levied against me), watch the judge make grumpy-faces at attorneys who sent legal documents in German to a Canadian in China whose repeated requests for translated versions was denied. Their case will vanish in a puff of legal sanctions and I’ll make fucking sure on top of it that it becomes a press circus.
EU types are almost as bad as American types for thinking their laws are extraterritorial. I love rubbing the fact that they aren’t in their faces.
