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I think most people would agree that a photographer can, let's say, photograph houses on a residential street. Setting up a long time-lapse on the sidewalk might attract a few questions and some conversation, but I'd guess most people would be cool with it, and it's probably also pretty clearly within the spirit of the law(s).

But pointing it directly across the street at a particular house and leaving it there for days, weeks, months on end would probably attract some kind of negative attention from the homeowner, especially if you told them you were live-streaming to the internet (password-protected/encrypted or not).

I'm no lawyer, but, to me, that feels closer to sitting outside their house for days like a detective in an 80's movie than photographing public happenings.

I suddenly need to know how many Bitcoin networks' worth of rainforests this kills each time it displays an advertisement

Suddenly lamenting the emptiness left by the lack of configurability for those name generators, a la i18n.

"Pop-culturation, or p13n, helps teams reduce the randomness of their random names by seeding the noun/adjective list with configurable themes, like old-timey western european guys in wigs, famous rapppers, characters from The Office, Seinfeld, Pokemon, and more. In this repo, I will..."

Yeah, but if you have shipping01...03 instead of quirky-noun, ugly-color, and random-animal, then everybody will just know what's broken straight away and you won't have a job

Besides, half of the fun is in figuring out who (or what!) deployed the mystery service, as well as the secrets that lie within (and are not in the password manager for some reason, Carrrl)

"Your problem is so terrible, I worry that, if I help you, I risk drawing the attention of whatever god of technology inflicted it on you."

https://xkcd.com/1912/

OTOH, Xi has never imprisoned me for posting satire.

My loathing for TikTok knows no bounds. It's always the most vapid, narcissistic stuff, like a modern-day Tumblr but with sound. All of the uninformed bad takes of Twitter and Reddit, but as dance videos.

This is the Bad Place, frens.

Hear me out: those electric scooters, but in a tunnel and with some kind of blockchain

I suppose it's a reasonable tradeoff to people who can't quantify risk and treat everything as uncertain, have too much money, too few problems, oh! - and whose neighbor just got one.

The same busy-bodies posting long Facebook screeds about how they narrowly avoided a pack of child traffickers at Local Suburbia Shopping Plaza with a picture of two hispanic dudes in work clothes and a work van buying diapers.

I find them to be generally unconcerned with anybody else except for the monthly PFP change.

Re: Novel Social Primitives - I've been reading up on econ because of crypto, and came across E Ostrom's writing about Polycentricity, which seems extremely valuable to the Centralized vs. Decentralized conversation (hint: it's never 0.0 or 1.0 on that scale).

Before DevOps was fully a thing, a coworker and I sketched out a (too-complicated) service-discovery/bootstrapping program using DNS + PGP, and what we thought was a super-clever signing scheme for trusting automatically-spawned processes from our central platform tool. (Turns out, there are better ways)

The ability to build trust a la PGP Key Signing Parties, but at scale - and use them in a polycentric way could change a lot of things for the better.

For example, instead of ever giving out my IlluminatiFreedomCoin address that's tied to my SSN, I could produce a Venn diagram of users who have signed my keys for FB, Twitter, HN, etc. to suggest that I am who I say I am. Not foolproof, but probably sufficient to add a user account or keep a Craigslist deal moving forward, until I can authenticate IRL.

I'd say "only people who live in their parents basements and haven't put in The Work are able to make comments like this", but then I'd look like the big dumb-dumb.

Complaining without action is equivalent to ignoring it. Sharing the same news headline everyone's already read with your "This is bad!" caption isn't helping. We all know, we can read the words and see it's bad.

Enjoying the world in all its messiness means engaging with it - not this woke schtick of avoiding touching the entire subject because of some trigger word, then spewing generic, inactionable drivel like "did you know the world is bad?"

Yes, we know. We all know. Every single one of us. Welcome to the conversation. Work on yourself so you're not bringing more misery and uselessness into an already-miserable world that needs help.

(Have you tried meditation? /s)

Do they have to pay extra for the turn signals too?

It's like word association for people who can't read.

Huh, assets are still loading:

https://git.disroot.org/dCF/deCloudflare/media/branch/master...

Anyway, ICYMI, the link was to a mirror of the 'deCloudflare' git repo (that you can find with google)

The Illuminati strikes again (but only on mobile?)

https://imgur.com/a/XzaD4pO

(Unironic +1 for Gitea too)

"It seems to be written for an audience which doesn’t know the first thing about science. But I wonder, is it just me who finds this annoying?"

Nope, and that's basically the root cause: it's designed to get clicks and shares from people who Believe (rather than Understand) Science™

I've been playing with Logseq for something similar - using the Zotero integration to share research notes (and sometimes blog). The attributes and queries are super clever, too.

I'm not sure it'll ever replace Facebook/Twitter/et al, but it is nice to have a semi-private network of people who can have grown-up discussions, or express thoughts deeper, or with more nuance, than 100-some characters.

There were only a few Facebook groups that I ever got any value out of, which were mostly small professional groups that banned political bickering. My mental health has definitely improved by going back to old-school forums, and I've noticed a lot of others doing the same over the past year or so - especially with Lemmy, which is maybe even a bit easier to set up.

I'd readily give up the spam-free and misinformation-free networks of Facebook and Twitter for a moderator who knows what satire is, doesn't get nudes and dunes confused, and can generally parse context.

Private communities tend to have less of all of that, unless maybe you're building them with the worst of humanity, in which case I guess it's good that Facebook is there to keep you and your friends from doing Everything Bad. Yikes.

Out of curiosity: what level of AI or human-driven moderation would it take to prevent you from linking your own site to, let's say, a Hitler Fan Club page? Is that something you feel you might do by accident without Facebook there to tell you that is Bad?

Or, say a random site said it's Good to drink bleach - would a browser extension be sufficient to prevent you from linking to them, or would it require an actual human like Keegan-Michael Key to show up and slap the mouse out of your hand and explain to you in-person that this is Stupid and Bad and Dumb?

I fear for people who rely on Twitter Safety to keep them from doing a Big Dumb.