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I've seen many that claim to financial contributions to something and say they won't anymore, but then checking through posting history, they didn't ever seem to be a fan of the product/service. It has left me all rather biased.
The full history would also tell us if these ideas were more common when they're smaller network but when they grow they aren't etc.
The other thing we need to evaluate is if these platforms are just made of people banned from primary platforms and if that's the case, are these platforms really responsible for the surge of these types of people and perhaps what is a way to fix these societal issues as they continue to exist rather than disappear?
Gab and Parler have moderators too too, but the content they moderate is a lot more refined. I suspect proportionally, they're actually more to a per user ratio than FB or Twitter.
It really hasn't, and in my opinion, neither has any other social media platform.
> My frustration here was a response to a comment arguing that criticism of Gab as a platform was a sign that Americans overall no longer care about free speech.
Polarising the issues and gaslighting is the norm today.
I think for a proper useful evaluation, we equally need to see a similar full dump from other platforms like Facebook, Twitter etc. who are the standard when it comes to social media.
I am personally not too convinced the content is that different, but rather some platforms just have more diverse political allegiances.
It doesn't really.
Openreach was not broken up from BT, it only created a seperate department within BT that continued to skirt various rules.
> It's also possible for Ofcom (gov watchdog) now to monitor and slap either ISPs or Openreach for not behaving well.
Ofcom broke up BT so that O2 and BT were seperate entities because allowing BT to have a dominant mobile network too was considered strongly wrong for competition.
Ofcom allowed the larger mobile networks t-mobile and orange to merge together to become a mega huge mobile network.
Turned around and said no to Three and O2 merging despite being a significant market disadvantage even after merger due to being smaller and having access to significantly less Spectrum. Unlike landlines, mobile networks are heavily restricted by needing radio spectrum to grow.
Allowed BT to acquire EE. Allowed BT to acquire one of the larger virtual ISPs PlusNET. Ofcom denied alternate infrastructure provider Virgin from setting up further competitive mobile network infrastructure and forces them to exist a MVNO.
Ofcom have ignored the fact that BT have been able to offer FTTH connections through their infrastructure to customers before any other ISP is permitted to use it over OpenReach.
"like the UK did it" isn't exactly great.
The OpenReach method however is not exactly unlike the FCC, they do requiring a certain amount of sharing through infrastructure via the Wireline Competition Bureau (WCB) and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB), but one significant difference to offer coverage of other services. Networks operating in the same area have a tendency to reuse the same infrastructure and mutually piggybacking on each other. There is one added difficulty that State laws do exist to frustrate the federal requirements in place.
I just login to my Mozilla account, and move buttons on the UI around (for some reason that's the one thing that isn't synced).
> Why is this so complicated and expensive?
In the older days, people were willing to give up more for their faiths, their drives. You could make this choice and essentially live a life of service if you wanted.
> What has the Internet become?
It's still an open network and there is nothing stopping you really from doing your own thing on it.
I remember when I was younger, we were told about the killer bees were going to wipe out the modern world. Also, I was told that we would all be living on a beach or the sea because of global warming and the ozone hole lazering everything.
I lived in a post-socialist country, and trust me, just because it's post-socialist doesn't mean that the systems change to other things next day. It wasn't much different.
There is a ruling class. Capitalism had nothing to do with it.
Sounds like life to me, I don't see the problem.
That is a bit hyperbolic. You see a feature in the browser you don't like, you can turn it off. Not really a 'close eye' issue to me.
> I should not need to fight my browser.
This also is hyperbolic, switching a single option is fighting with a browser?
I would argue it was more complex, trying to get something moderately advanced to render the same between many browsers became a massive chore compared to today.
To compare to my original M.
Pros:
- it has all the windows keys, menu keys etc.
- It really is the best Unicomp keyboard I've ever had and I can't really tell much of a difference between this any my original M. Not sure if my original Model M is showing its' age, but it really doesn't feel worse.
Neutral:
- It's nowhere as heavy
- The sound is different (not better or worse for me).
- key pressure is close to the same.
- I can't tell the difference between the lettering on the keys (used to be an issue with Unicomp keyboards).
Cons:
- Blue LED is distracting at night, putting white tape under the LED cover fixes it perfectly (might be able to request this when ordering -- never tried).
> it required too much pressure and gave me mild CTS
I've only noticed additional pressure in Model Ms (including Unicomps) after applying grease or WD40 to make the keys more quieter (usually a bad idea). There are a bunch of second hand Unicomp keyboards out there where people have done this and made them difficult to type on.
> I bought a Unicomp around 2010 because it has USB
Surprisingly, a lot of modern motherboards still come with PS/2 support today.
I find them more sturdy, almost no key wiggle (as opposed to having some before), the lettering on the keys are clearer (although that I didn't notice until someone pointed it out and didn't care after, it was something people complained about), the enclosure doesn't creek if you try to flex it etc.
My only complaint is that I had to put white tape on the LED indicators to diffuse the blue LEDs because they're distractingly bright at night otherwise.
I have one made in 1986.
> The endura pro was a complete waste of A LOT of money considering double shipping (usa to usa and usa to europe since they would not ship to europe, and that implies a re-shipping handling fee) and import duties on top of that.
That's so strange, they delivered directly to Europe for me.
I have an older unicomp and a newer unicomp since the retooling last year.
> The keyboard is loud but doesn't add anything really to my typing.
Compared to my previous mechanical gaming keyboard which used linear switches and other membrane keyboards, I don't typo really at all on any of these keyboards. I think the tactile response is what helps with that for me.
> Really, don't waste your money on an unicomp keyboard.
I think the new model m (from last year) is fine - it doesn't have some of the flex and other things that the older Unicomp keyboads had. I still don't really understand the double charge you got when I didn't have it.
> Mechanical keyboard is just a meme in my opinion, and one of the dumb ones.
I don't really consider the Model M a mechanical keyboard, it's a membrane keyboard to me and the best membrane keyboard I've ever used.
I looked at your posting history, not much Hitler mentions in responses relating to those topics. This is hyperbolic.
> no matter how moderate my position
If your position was moderate then "Most software already practically backdoored already" would have been sufficient.
> Anything even remotely compromising the Bottom Line (universal perfect cryptographic security) is Hitler.
You're way too focused on Hitler. Pretend it's not Hitler, the point is still valid.
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/xcode_plugin.html https://developer.android.com/studio/build/building-cmdline https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/Android.md https://blog.readdle.com/why-we-use-swift-for-android-db449f...
As you can see, it's a thing; hope this helps!
> It's well known that the Play Store environment is pretty much horrific for the indie developer trying to make a buck.
Yeah, Google Pay taking 30% per transaction isn't very helpful and some people choose to distribute their app outside of the Google Play Store to get around that on Android.
It is a legitimate known translation, not a misquote from the Ralph Manheim translation of Mein Kampf (ISBN 0395078016 / year 1943), page 403. Other translations have similar wording on the page, although not in such a nice succint sentence.
Manheim was known to have gone into great effort to create an exact English equivalent of Hitler's work for Mein Kampf.
> It's also a morally horrific line of argument. Like saying you shouldn't care about shooting civilians because bad people in the past have used human shields as a war tactic.
The point of the quote is to show there are no limits curtailing liberties, not an absolute we shouldn't bother. The attempt to spin the quote into something else, probably because, you wish to "protect the children" is proving the point.
The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. --Adolf Hitler
Observation is probably the best method. I rarely have found form options to be effective. A good chunk of 'good' people tend to get filtered out from my observation.
Generally the approach that has worked for me having a tier system. People who meet your criteria get greater access etc over time.
> How are "good" and "bad" quality of people categorized?
Generally, "good" is anyone that helps your community prosper. "Bad" are typically people who cause unwanted conflicts, create a toxic environment etc.
You may wish to look at sdf.org then.