demesisx
@demesisx@infosec.pub
Plutus, Haskell, Nix, Purescript. laser-focused on FP: formality, purity, and totality; repulsed by pragmatic, unsafe, “move fast and break things” approaches
- Comment on Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of social media 42 minutes ago:
Are you sure? In my experience, they defederate from each other.
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 2 days ago:
- Comment on There is only 1 choice 6 days ago:
I was on the set of Sea of Trees with Gus Van Sant when the news broke. Needless to say, we wrapped suddenly the moment the news broke that day.
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 3 weeks ago:
Thank you, Simon Peyton Jones.
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 weeks ago:
Says the Zionist piece of shit, cheering on a genocide.
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 4 weeks ago:
Touché!
- Comment on Tomorrow's Problems 4 weeks ago:
Fake! They’d already be drowned by mountain sized tidal waves if that actually happened.
- Comment on UN report labels Israel attacks on Gaza medical facilities war crimes 5 weeks ago:
Israel reminds me of the villain in Team America:
They act as if they are above the law.
- Comment on I'm not sorry. 1 month ago:
I read that algae actually makes up more of what we know as oil than decomposed dinosaurs.
- Comment on If the Universe Is a Hologram, This Long-Forgotten Math Could Decode It 1 month ago:
Like the Holographic Universe?
Reading that lead me to read the MUCH more interesting but FAR from easy to decide: Wholeness and the Implicate Order
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
This comment changed my life. Thanks.
- Comment on Indie social sign-in could go mainstream 2 months ago:
Are the people who invented this aware of NOSTR?
If so, what makes this different? And if not, perhaps we could use NOSTR to bridge the gap in the fediverse at the moment between NOSTR users and Mastodon/Pixelfed/Lemmy/KBIN/MBIN usersI started forking Lemmy for an inventory system but then realized that NOSTR was far more suited to that and other applications that require security and encryption.
- Comment on USA | “Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy 2 months ago:
Did that make grammatical sense when you read it back to yourself?
I suspect you think you just dunked on me. Great dunk……
- Comment on USA | “Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy 2 months ago:
Me too! It is maddening.
- Comment on USA | “Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy 2 months ago:
Here’s a graphic that I like to show people that illustrates just what FPTP does to the voting makeup of Sweden’s government as a point of comparison. what FPTP would do to Sweden
- Comment on Israeli Forces Shot an American in the West Bank. The US Government Doesn’t Seem to Care 2 months ago:
He needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for being a terrorist anti-Semite and impeding the path of the IDF’s freedom-infused bullets!
- Comment on USA | “Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy 2 months ago:
I just made a list that I could think of. The top ones are at the top. Then, I just went into fantasy mode, obviously. TBH, I wanted to keep going. Haha.
Here’s the only three I will absolutely fight someone over, though.
- anti-genocide
- Single Payer (not Medicare For All who want it)
- ending the two-party system (this one is probably the most important since it prevents the ever-rightward push that corporate personhood foist upon society but the fact that neither party offers my first two is yet another telltale sign of this non-democratic election sham we have here)
- Comment on USA | “Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy 2 months ago:
Not sure why it made me reply to myself instead. Pasting in comment here:
That’s fair. Thanks for at least discussing it with me. I beg to differ on the whole, “we need to appeal to the Centrists and reach across the isle” trap that the two party system put your perspective into. That reaching seems to conveniently only happen in one direction. It’s the one-way valve of corporatism!
Anyway, thanks for the discussion. It was fun making that list. 😂
- Comment on USA | “Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy 2 months ago:
No problem. Thanks for not being one of those downvotes then.
I’m happy to lay out what a non-corrupt politician could offer that would excite me and get me to vote for them:
- election reform
- single payer
- anti-genocide/ cutting off the infinite money tap that the AIPAC/IDF command
- prosecute Israel (and the politicians that allowed them in the US should also be tried in front of The Hague) for crimes against humanity
- prosecute George W. Bush and company for the Iraq war. Imprison them for the rest of their lives.
- publicly execute Jon Bolton
- student loan reform (without bullshit means testing)
- reparations
- police DEmilitarization
- reforming the Supreme Court
- immigrants no longer in cages (rather than ramping up putting immigrants in cages and just marketing it differently)
- end the embargo on Cuba
- penalize countries and corporations financially for pollution
- reward other countries and corporations financially for green policies
- dissolve the two party system and bring the DNC and GOP up on treason charges
- give Edward Snowden immunity for his “crimes” and protect him as a whistle blower
- fund the fediverse and other decentralized technologies that have a direct positive effect on democracy
- socialize and break up Amazon into twenty companies
- socialize Google
- fund RISC-V chip technologies instead of closed source technologies to bring chip manufacturing back to the US
- socialize Meta
I could go on all day. Basically, you could easily offer what Bernie had on his platform in 2016 and get me to be enthusiastic about the Democrats.
- Comment on USA | “Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy 2 months ago:
If I’m wrong, please educate me.
What has she proposed that is even remotely leftist? Name even one of her plans that I would easily support that doesn’t have:
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sneaky means-testing to prevent impossibly large swaths of those that need it from qualifying
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poorly-disguised handouts to ultra rich multinational corporations that are being marketed as populist reforms
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weaponized identity politics (making it a crime to say anything critical of or even boycott 🇮🇱)
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- Comment on USA | “Genocide Will Continue”: Fury Grows as Harris Vows to Keep Biden’s Gaza Policy 2 months ago:
End First Past the Post and make it illegal for the parties to cheat in their primaries. Get money out of politics. It’s so brave for Kamala to stand up and openly demonstrate how corrupt the Democratoc party is. Right now, they know we don’t have a say and are laughing at those of us who just immediately got in line with pro-genocide, anti-Single Payer, anti-anything that would materially improve the conditions of the low and middle classes in the US.
Kamala Harris: She’s for(gainst) anything a true leftist would want. She’s exactly as leftist as George W. Bush buuuuuut AT LEAST SHES NOT TRRRRRUMP!!!
- Comment on PS5 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged Name and Design of the Console, so judging by this ps6 will release on 2028 2 months ago:
*Exciting
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
I agree with this assessment for the most part but one side of me plays devil’s advocate on this:
I sort of came to realize in the end that it was possibly purchased to push all leftists off the platform, allowing Musk to compete with Google and Facebook in heavily manipulating and censoring discourse in American society (and let’s be clear, they did. Just because it was an attempt to help “the good guys in the DNC” doesn’t make it not an open and shut case of treason.
As an absolutely prolific Twitter user pre-2016, I was very quick to leave….but at the same time, I eventually came to the sad conclusion that Xitter (pronounced Shitter) actually does need leftist voices as long as it exists. IMO, it (and Google and Facebook) should be dissolved and socialized for the crime of treason/undermining democracy.
We (people of the fefiverse with a strong sense of integrity) basically fled to our own decentralized, open source platform where we have 1 millionth of the reach with our voices. Being around such a cesspool where astroturfers working for Progressive think tanks and their conservative buddies would gaslight me about the popularity of things like Single Payer or student loan reform was not great for my well-being…But let’s not pretend that leftists that remain on the platform are bad people for doing so. An echo chamber has a way of brainwashing people. So, conservatism would be even stronger had more of our brethren not stayed.
Just a small counterpoint. I strongly dislike conservatives…but perhaps they were playing 4D chess with us a bit.
- Comment on Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden's latest student loan debt relief plan 2 months ago:
It’s far worse than that. If one side were the clear bad guys, we could simply vote them out. But particularly on this issue, MAGA is no different than Blue MAGA. They’re all lying douchebags. The only difference is that the Dems can pretend they’re helping you because most people don’t understand the means-testing legalese they attach to every “handout” they implement.
Bloomberg: “Under my governership, there were less uninsured people than at any time in New York’s history” (while intentionally failing to mention the strict penalties he put in place for being uninsured, coupled with making the criteria to qualify for state-assisted healthcare income FAR below any realistic poverty line).
- Comment on Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden's latest student loan debt relief plan 2 months ago:
Oh absolutely. Don’t get me started on the myriad of issues that I didn’t mention. It was impossible for me to bite my tongue when people were trying to shove him down my throat as a “decent man”.
- Comment on Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden's latest student loan debt relief plan 2 months ago:
Biden fucked you so much more than your realize. He was THE person that wrote the legislation in 2008 which made student loans impossible to disburse in bankruptcy.
- Comment on Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden's latest student loan debt relief plan 2 months ago:
Unsurprising since he almost single-handedly caused the student loan crisis when he took a gigantic payout from MBNA to pen the bankruptcy protection act of 2008. This legislation prevented student loans from being disbursed in bankruptcy.
I’ll say it again:
I hope Joe Biden burns in hell for subjecting all future generations to indentured servitude in the form of exploitative student loans with astronomical interest rates and inescapable bankruptcy clauses.
- Comment on France says Telegram CEO has been freed, will appear in court 2 months ago:
We are in the worst possible timeline.
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Edward Snowden
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Ross Ulbricht
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Julian Assange
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Roman Semenov
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Alexey Pertsev
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Roman Storm
Every one of these people are honest individuals who ran afoul of Orwellian, fascist policies. If policies like this existed in the 80’s, the internet itself would be considered a terrorist technology. Humanity is SO fucked.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I was subscribed to this for like 8 years in my childhood. Thanks for bringing back some memories. That reminds me that it might’ve been worth some money if I had kept all of them.
- Comment on Wealth tax on super-rich could raise £1.5tn globally, campaigners say 2 months ago:
Alternate headline: The elimination of anyone critical of their monopoly could save the World Bank $2.1 trillion globally, say armies of state-funded assassins.
