beejjorgensen
@beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 5 days ago:
And mailing lists!
- Comment on FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal 1 week ago:
And by “free speech”, we mean you have to publish what we tell you.
- Comment on Lending e-books in the EU just became a lot more complicated as libraries move to closed ecosystems 1 week ago:
Like Louis Rossman said, when piracy provides the best user experience, your industry has a problem.
- Comment on First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech. 2 weeks ago:
Typically if the news reports something someone else said and that thing is slanderous, the news station is not held responsible.
Secondly, in general, misinformation is protected speech.
The second they lose protection, that’s the end of that platform. They’re going to get sued into oblivion. The second Lemmy loses protection, that’s the end of that platform.
I agree with you that these sites are awful, but if we’re legislating an off switch for social media platforms, we’re playing with fire.
- Comment on First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech. 2 weeks ago:
So big sites would still be on the hook for content their users post? I’m not sure I understand.
- Comment on First Trump DOJ Assembled “Tiger Team” To Rewrite Key Law Protecting Online Speech. 2 weeks ago:
lemmy.world (and the entire republishing Fediverse) is protected from the commenter on this post saying “FCK YOU, ORANGE CNT” by Section 230. If they lose that protection, there is no way they or anyone else is going to allow any remotely controversial posts. (Except on X, which of course will enjoy special government protections.)
I don’t get a lot of forum posts on my site, but I will absolutely remove the forums entirely if 230 goes away. There’s no way I’m taking on the liability of all imaginable interpretations of everything anyone could possibly say.
Currently companies like Twitter, Meta, Google etc can control what is shown to users and hide behind this protection.
And this is the way it needs to be. Twitter, Meta, and Google run their own sites in the manner of their choosing. If you don’t like it, you can vote with your feet. They have no legal, ethical, or Constitutional requirement to offer their services to all comers. The alternative is some kind of government control of private companies that we really don’t need ever, and extra especially not in the next four years.
Repealing 230 will absolutely damage social media platforms of all kinds (yeah, except X), including the Fediverse. And it will lead to increased restrictions by those platforms, not decreased.
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 2 weeks ago:
But you couldn’t tell, could you. 😂 I’m keeping this joke alive as long as I can, until Trump gets wind of it and actually does it.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 2 weeks ago:
You’re next, New Mexico!
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 2 weeks ago:
As an American and long time OSM contributor, I also vote extremely no on Gulf of America.
Also no on renaming New Mexico.
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 2 weeks ago:
Bow!
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 weeks ago:
What’s that sucking sound?
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
I should add that I have a hackish python script for that conversion. It basically mirrors the tree of MP3s and FLAC files, converting the FLACs and hard linking everything else. So it doesn’t use too much more disk. Then I copy that to my phone. I could put it up somewhere if it would be useful.
But I don’t have as much music as you, either.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
No, I don’t think you’re as asshole at all, and don’t doubt you can hear the difference. I just can’t, myself. Or at least I’ve never been able to.
But I also watch DVDs and didn’t really notice the resolution, either. (Old TV shows, that I can notice. 😅)
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 3 weeks ago:
Except file size. 😁 I convert everything from flac to mp3 before I put it on my phone. I’m lucky in that I can’t tell the difference in quality at all.
- Comment on ‘Normalise Indian hate’: DOGE staffer resigns over racial posts 3 weeks ago:
Or maybe now it’s more, “Should I rehire that self-proclaimed racist? Well, it won’t make me look any worse, so why not?”
- Comment on Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’ – Krebs on Security 3 weeks ago:
I’m also a monthly IA donor. They’re being sued by publishers and need to mount a defense to continue to archive the Internet and government data that is being deleted.
Also, don’t buy any books from those litigious publishers.
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 3 weeks ago:
The US has experience being beaten by smaller, poorly-armed forces.
- Comment on It may be prudent to restrict new registrations or require admin approval on new accounts 3 weeks ago:
Seconded. There are other free instances they can use. And SDF already paywalls some services.
- Comment on US Bill proposed to jail people who download Deepseek 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure they realize.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Huh. I’ll have to look into it more. My credentials stopped working there. Are you on matrix.sdf.org?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I have an account, but haven’t been able to connect to the server in months. Has anyone else been able to connect?
- Comment on Is pixelfed.sdf.org fully working? I'm not receiving my confirmation email to sign up. 1 month ago:
It was working for me about 10 minutes ago. Uploaded an image and saved and avatar. (I’d already made an account maybe a year ago.)
But now: 504 Gateway Time-out :(
- Comment on Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable 3 months ago:
I don’t care what they do as long as they do it over there.
- Comment on Massive E-Learning Platform Udemy Gave Teachers a Gen AI 'Opt-Out Window'. It's Already Over. 4 months ago:
I switched to in-person teaching a couple years ago and am glad I did. It’s been a challenging time as an instructor finding ways to make sure I’m added value.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 4 months ago:
Not that; I just write free books on how to write software.
- Comment on OpenFreeMap - a public vector tile server for OpenStreetMap 5 months ago:
Supporting on GitHub. Just a few bucks a month. It won’t take many of us to get to $175/mo.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 5 months ago:
I do pony up for other services (not YT Premium because I won’t give Google any money) and support a significant number of creators via Patreon, giving them more money by far than they’d ever see from me from ads. And I’ve spent thousands of hours on my own dime making written content and giving it away for nothing with no ads or tracking. So yes, I agree.
- Comment on Telegram Removes Z-Library Posts ‘Due to Copyright Infringement’. 5 months ago:
It should never be illegal to link to infringing content in the US. First Amendment should apply if they have any sense.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 5 months ago:
We need a competitor badly.
- Comment on Flying through Seattle's hacked airport 5 months ago:
We were there 6 days ago. Mostly fine except they couldn’t change the monitor at the gate to show the proper destination. I wonder if it was this!