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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always bet on Duke unless it was the 1996 presidential election.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I'm largely in agreement with you -- yes, I absolutely want people to respect each other, and start from that perspective. Mostly because there are a lot of super lazy jokes about groups of people that aren't funny because they're not clever, they're just bigoted.

  But when people say, "too much political correctness", that tends to be what they're talking about. E.g., some jerk makes a joke about their pronouns being attack/helicopter or something, showing that they don't understand pronouns and that they don't understand that humor should involve something unexpected, not something super expected, if one assumes the person has bigoted ideas.

  But plenty of people make good humor with various groups because they don't fall into those standard tropes.

  And if someone is punching up, absolutely respect should be kept to the bare minimum.

  Or, in other words, basic respect is about learning about a topic. "Too much respect" would be never pointing out various oddities in a group that you otherwise have basic respect for.

  Because, yeah, people act in funny ways. Especially when acting as a group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always bet on Duke unless it was the 1996 presidential election.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being creative does oftentimes require taking risks, and oftentimes unintentionally crossing lines, so I'm with you on that.

  On the other hand, the only mention of women being how they're required to go commando is... not likely to be an environment women want to be in.

  As for political correctness, to quote Neil Gaiman:

  I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”

  Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile.

  Maybe there are times when that's not what's happening, but most of the times I see it used, it's people complaining that they can't act like jerks without consequence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite note-taking application?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It automatically restoring all those unsaved notes has made me so lazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well this is a bummer.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only sensible logic I could come up with is where a new version is broken in some awful way, but an older version is not.

  But, obviously, that only works if the people haven't already upgraded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that you're describing an anti-Twitter, where people have to express themselves in over 250 characters, rather than under 140 or 280.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FidoNet does still exist, but it's commonly called "fight-o-net" for a reason, as there are... some characters there.

  If you do resurrect your node, I'd suggest also picking up FSXnet, as it's the second largest network, is better maintained, and has a no-politics-or-religion rule that makes it way more pleasant to be on.

  Or, you know, you could call one of the BBSs out there, and make a sysop's day by being a user, as non-sysop users are not super common, at this point. You can try my BBS at http://bbs.stormbbs.com or telnet://telnet.stormbbs.com, if you'd like to see FSXnet and FidoNet in their current lives.

  But there are plenty of other BBSs out there, too, and my BBS is really only special because I have an ANSI calendar with a different graphic every day that I made 370-ish graphics for. It celebrates a holiday every day.

  And if you're wondering about BBS networks in general, I recently found out about https://clrghouz.bbs.dege.au/domain/list , which has way more info than I was expecting about what the available FTN networks look like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like google domains is no more.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I followed that link, and the post itself seems to not be that, no one in comments was pointing to anything that was a smoking gun on that, and someone else linked to the CEO directly saying that, no, absolutely not, it'd be bad business to do so.

  Which feels weird to defend GoDaddy, because, while I haven't used them in a few years, my experience with them is that they're an awful registrar, but mostly because of how hard they make it to transfer away and how sleazy they get with sales tactics. And their ads haven't been... good, but I'd probably let that slide if they provided reliable, good service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a email-provider where i can host my oen domain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'll second that. I've been using them for 4 or 5 years, and have been pleased.

  There even was a day where there was an outage for my server, and they made it right by giving everyone credits roughly equal to 3 years of service or something. I thought that was overkill, and I guess they'll take a loss on it, but... the instincts are nice. It seems like a place where it's some dude taking care of servers, rather than a giant corporation who is more focused on extracting money than providing a great service for a reasonable cost.