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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well like I said that’s kind of the sentiment I expect because people like to make this about individual morality, but care to elaborate at all? Do you disagree with any particular part of what I’m saying?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This will probably be an unpopular opinion but I think the reality is that the choice whether to be a landlord has no effect on the supply of housing and so is almost totally irrelevant to this essentially systemic issue. The only kind of stuff that matters here:

  • Supply of housing influencing its cost
  • Wealth of the poorest influencing their ability to pay for housing
  • Other factors (the credit system etc) limiting people’s access to housing
  • Legal ability to use housing as a speculative investment (ie. low property taxes even if you own multiple properties)

  The idea that people would buy property and then provide housing on a charitable basis in defiance of the market isn’t realistic and isn’t a viable solution to the problem. The only solution is to build the right incentives into the system. Someone can support the latter without trying to do the former.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I often do the opposite, pick a bright color that is not the color of the base material, to make the repair stand out more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I see, didn’t read the second image at first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you have memory problems and need to write down events, is there a system which you can verify that its not tampered with? (Like a digital checksum, but for a journal)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pull an eyelash or similar, keep it between a specific page and check every time that it’s still there. If someone tampers with the journal it will fall out and they won’t realize it matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately email is the only way they have to verify your identity. No email, no account.

  That isn’t really true, I’ve restored access to multiple game accounts before in situations where I lost access to my email, it mostly involved providing information about the account that only the person using it would know, like the names of characters on it and some other stuff. If a company can’t handle this it’s because they don’t want to pay for competent customer support workers and just rely entirely on automated systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you know the success is zero? Encryption is more widely used and much more resistant to political attack. Open source software is more powerful and accessible. A large portion of people loathe corporate tech platforms at a level they didn’t years ago. Granted a lot of that is just down to how functional or trustworthy the software is, and what guarantees about it can be plausibly provided, and it isn’t all wins. Maybe you can’t exactly get everyone caring about this stuff in the same way or for the same reasons you do. But that doesn’t mean there are no possible avenues to success, or that the tech habits of other groups can be written off as useless here, because it’s probably the most important thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah fair. I used to go to more stuff but a lot of it is the thought of getting covid freaks me out and I don’t live somewhere with a lot of meetup groups around anymore. Honestly I’ve always seen it as the other way, where irl spaces (especially ones that take money) are run by hostile or incompatible forces, and the internet as something with more exceptions to that, even now that it’s become worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also if wifi mesh is our last hope, oof

  Yeah. What I propose is getting more people involved and caring about freedom preserving technologies before it gets to that point. A tiny minority of somewhat more tech literate people are not going to be magically immune to authoritarian checkmate scenarios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bet you can think of more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear what you’re saying but I think I would probably never talk to anyone without the internet and be very less sane

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there now legal means to do longer range communications? I thought the main limitation was you need to be licensed to do anything more than short range home wifi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Somehow the network actually seems to be working pretty well for me now, not sure why it wasn’t before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless these companies are hosted in MS, have offices, or sell ads there, there’s nothing legally they can do.

  Is that really how it works? Haven’t legal challenges to these sorts of laws already been appealed up to the supreme court and they were upheld?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried a few times to check out i2p, it seems to take hours of leaving it running to even get to the point where you can very slowly and inconsistently load even the official pages though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So far their efforts in various forms of voter suppression have prevented that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Except if the topic is wifi meshnets, no amount of tech savvyness will get you around an absence of other nodes nearby. General apathy is actually a huge problem here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In those cases it seems like the law does prevent state level regulation of those things, because the state is only allowed to regulate commerce happening within its borders, not what its residents do elsewhere (although they can still also regulate the use of fireworks and airguns, but enforcement is more difficult, for instance where I am they sometimes send out notices in the mail warning that it’s against the law for individuals to be setting off fireworks but there’s always a massive decentralized fireworks show every 4th of July anyway).

  Somehow with the internet, the location of the server isn’t the thing that matters, it’s whose computer is accessing it and where that person and computer is located, and the liability is on the server not the user. IMO it should not work that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What a depressing comment section this article has

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But the question is, what would be a reasonable legal principle for preventing such laws generally? Mississippi is going to pass bullshit laws, but it shouldn’t be possible for the jurisdiction of any state to be the entire internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They didn't stop to think if they should⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  tbf currently it looks like there is only one mildly AI negative comment, and the rest are joking about absurd anatomy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not one year, but it looks like a median home in the US in 1965 cost around 6 years of a median income.

  In the 1854 book Walden by Thoreau, he gives a pessimistic account of how long it would take to afford a property in a town, that is still less than today:

  An average house in this neighborhood costs perhaps eight hundred dollars, and to lay up this sum will take from ten to fifteen years of the laborer’s life, even if he is not encumbered with a family- estimating the pecuniary value of every man’s labor at one dollar a day, for if some receive more, others receive less

  Although he goes on to describe building his own more remote cabin for $28.

  Something is very, very wrong with incomes and housing prices currently that wasn’t as bad a problem in the past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏹🏹🏹⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The joke is they failed to isolate the variable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to see more games where the draw is novel and interesting gameplay concepts and proportionally more effort is put into that than standing out visually etc. Hopefully this brings things more in that sort of direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder that Coinbase is the company securing the assets of the majority of government sanctioned/registered crypto ETFs. If you are invested or thinking about being invested in cryptocurrency, but have doubts about the ability of Coinbase to do things in a secure, competent way, consider self custody instead of trusting them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to imagine countless instances of this that we never hear about because there just isn’t anything concrete to write a news article about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this also mean that black holes are totally indestructible?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be your Better version⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sure hope so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US suspends visas for Gazans after far-right influencer posts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loomer’s target was the US-based charity HEAL Palestine, which said last week it had helped 11 critically wounded Gazan children – as well as their caregivers and siblings – arrive safely in the US for medical treatment.

  Wow it’s somehow even worse than the headline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else guilty of this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even Super Mario Brothers, the pinnacle of games for years, had no save button and you have to pull off a long series of perfect play with only a couple of lives or get sent back to level 1.

  Maybe the original has this issue of being held back by overly punishing arcade inspired design, but I replayed Super Mario World recently and I think it holds up in this respect. You only need to get past the next checkpoint for your progress to be saved, and if you are running low on lives and don’t want to lose progress, there is the option of going back to previous levels to farm more lives and powerups. There are also semi-secret areas with buttons that put extra blocks into every level that make the game easier. For basically the first half of the game the only thing that’s really required to win is a small amount of impulse control, planning and patience, and it seems to deliberately work to teach you that stuff in various ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Props to this article for actually attempting to explain about how 3d graphics worked