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Cake day: May 7th, 2024

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  • I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I’m glad it didn’t work out.

    This was a POV stabbing video that people spread around to glorify violence. It’s in the same category as beheading videos.

    America may have decided that child porn is the only media exception to free speech, but other more sane countries draw the line a little bit more broadly to include all forms of extremely violent crime filmed to be glorified, including things like murder, attempted murder, torture, and the rape of adults.

    If you want to operate a business in places like Australia or New Zealand, you cannot be distributing violent gore videos within their borders.

    I hope they revisit this as X users are pretty routinely celebrating things like the Christchurch shooting and other violent extremist incidents. Sometimes censorship makes sense, and when people are antagonistically spreading videos of people being maimed and killed, the “free speech” argument absolutely doesn’t fucking cut it.










  • I said free as in freedom, not free as in gratis.

    But since you want to double down on this bad idea, let me explain why it’s shit:

    If your employer expects you to use tools to do your job, they should pay for those tools if they cost something. Passing off operational expenses to the employees that use more expensive tools is hideously anti-worker, and it’s not even funny as a joke.

    Employers should pay for the tools used to run their businesses, and you should learn what the “free” in “free open source software” means, because it’s not about money.


  • Signal is bad then?

    Yeah. Why use X3DH when there are algorithms that already exist and we know are secure?

    So in which direction you want it go? More private or more moderated?

    Privacy is good, but when the public chatrooms are distributing child porn, you can’t use encryption as an excuse not moderating. Failure to moderate illegal content is a crime.

    Let the pedos run their own Matrix server or something. You can’t be knowingly providing comms and distribution to child pornographers.





  • Yes and no.

    I own a nice pair of studio headphones, and monitor speakers. I have a large collection of vinyls and a hard drive full of FLAC files. High quality audio is great.

    But I also don’t care about quality all the time. I wear Bluetooth bone-conductor headphones most of the day because they are comfortable and open-ear. I can passively listen to music and remain alert to my surroundings and I like that.

    But there are noticeable differences between things like MP3 and FLAC, digital and analog, and different kinds of speakers and headphones that I can appreciate when I am actively listening to music.