PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus
Alt account of PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org for when SDF Lemmy is doing it’s monthly dive 😆.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
[Both drivers] reportedly escaped without serious injury.
Modern car safety is truly stunning. Happy that they both survived.
- Comment on What, all of you? 2 days ago:
If you got banned by Tesseract, your posts would not be visible to anyone using Tesseract as their frontend. Even if you were not banned by wherever you are trying to post, explicitly blocked by the Tesseract user, or filtered out in some other way, your comments and posts would be hidden. And this hidden centralized blacklist was unilaterally administered by the dev of Tesseract.
Full disclosure: I got a regex on the blacklist 😁
- Comment on What's going on with Tesseract and why are people upset? 4 days ago:
Yeah me too, my instance got put on there and I personally earned a regex 😆
- Comment on What's going on with Tesseract and why are people upset? 4 days ago:
Does this have something to do with the OCR software?
No, thank goodness.
What is Tesseract?
Tesseract was a free and open source frontend to Lemmy. Basically, the logic of your instance is handled by Lemmy, but you can replace the look of it, or even give your users multiple options, by adding a frontend.
Key here is that it is reasonable to expect a frontend to present the information from the backend correctly and completely. If you want to filter out communities or people, you would do this by joining the right instance, changing the settings in your client, blocking people you don’t like, and subscribing to communities you do like.
And if he really wanted to have a filter in his frontend, it should have been opt-in, not opt-out.
So once db0 (admin of Lemmy.dbzer0.com, who the dev previously clashed with (the dev hates anarchists but somehow doesn’t have that kinda hate for Zionazis 🤔)) found and exposed the existence of this filter, which is practically a secret blacklist of every user the dev found annoying.
We’ve been clowning on the dev ever since.
As an addendum, the dev crashed out and seemingly closed his instance (dubvee DOT org), leaving a goodbye rant. All well and good, but he embedded a bit of JavaScript that basically queries lemmy.dbzer0.com 1500 times whenever you open dubvee! Hence why I’m not putting the dubvee URL, and please don’t go there at least for your own safety.
What is the list?
The list is an obfuscated blacklist. Now if he just blocked lots of people from dubvee, we wouldn’t bat an eye. However, he added a practically secret blacklist of users and instances (full transparency: both my instance and my username were both blocked, I’m pretty sure my instance is the “instance-that-will-not-be-named” in his rant). Like it’s open source so you literally can find it, but you had to query his server to get it I think.
The developer claimed that this was to “save” the Fediverse from “toxicity”. And yeah, obviously, there were some pretty toxic users on that list. But honestly…it was really just people who were active and ever posted anything to the left or right of Reagan, although it was dominated by leftists. In particular, a few trans instances were banned.
Why do people want to be on it?
Because it’s really really funny 😆
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
So because Chinese and Russian propagandists have ever used the words “in the West”, I’m never allowed to use them? I’m not allowed to use a concept because they used a concept? Nah, that’s silly.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It’s not that I’m impatient, it’s that I can sum up everything you say in two words: “west bad”
Well the West is bad. If you take that position 100% of the time, you’ll be right 99.99% of the time.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yes. That’s why I’m not a liberal. Liberals are lying to you.
Also, democracy is not necessarily the most egalitarian way to make decisions within a collective. Also, more often than not, coming to a binding decision democratically is not as useful as either coming to a voluntary consensus, or going your own away. I.e., democrats (including some anarchists) overemphasize the particular form of democracy, as opposed to one of various horizontal decision making processes or whether we really need to agree to a decision.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Nah you won’t see me glazing Russia, China, or any other state. I’m literally an anarcho-communist. But Russia and China are absolutely not liberal democracies.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Not my fault you’re too impatient to read 🤷
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Liberalism is the justifying ideology of liberal democracy. Liberalism nominally stands for freedom, individual liberty, and equality, but actually perpetuates white supremacy, capitalism, colonialism, and the State.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Awesome 😎
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Are y’all doing okay over there on dbzer0? Because dubvee is DDOSing you last I checked:
Every time you go to dubvee DOT org, it queries dbzer0 1500 times, so I’m not going back to check if it’s still like that.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
That’s fucking wild
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Anarchist Nexus I believe 😁
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
By “liberalism is not the default mode of existence,” I meant to reject liberalism’s tendency to label its constructions as “natural”, “inevitable”, or “universal”. E.g., private property is not natural (even territorial animals cannot establish property lines like we do), not inevitable, and not universal (because it is a specifically Western liberal concept). Capitalism is not natural (c.f. Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution), inevitable, or universal (e.g. various hunter-gatherer societies).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing
If you actually got death threats and threats of doxxing, that truly sucks and shame on people who took this that seriously.
Even people around here I’d interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves.
Or maybe you were just wrong, dude.
Like you developed a frontend. If you just blocked people from your instance we wouldn’t have batted an eye. Your job as a frontend developer was to choose how information was packaged. You should not have been deciding for users who they would or would not be allowed to see. And if you really felt strongly about the need for a blacklist, you should have made your filters opt-in.
Then you have entire instances whose admins call for the death of others, harass other users
Yeah it’s crazy how liberals call for the deaths of billions around the world by supporting the status quo, which kills countless people and is currently dooming almost all life on Earth to climate disaster. That’s why I’m on Anarchist Nexus, whose admins and users (me lol) have called for the killing to stop by any means necessary. (Pretty sure Admiral Patrick is referring to us specifically as the instance-that-will-not-be-named.)
I know that liberalism is the monoculture in the West, but you must eventually learn that (1) liberalism is not the default mode of existence, and (2) liberalism is violence. Liberal democracy is violence. It’s probably the most violent system currently in existence. And I don’t know how to make that an easy lesson for you to learn, but if you’re unwilling to do the work to undo your liberalism, the rest of the world does not have the time to wait for you.
One day you, too, will do or say something that doesn’t toe the line and you’ll be right where I am.
Good, if I ever become as libbed up as you then I deserve to get banned.
You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn’t worth saving after all.
Bye
Hell yeah we’re fucking crazy, and I wouldn’t want it any other way ancom-heart
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 6 days ago:
It sounds like you got taken advantage of by the cops. Get a lawyer. Sorry this happened to you. burning cop car
- Comment on Yeah i'll have a large coke and a - 1 week ago:
For anyone wondering where this band went: Power-frowns all day (complement🤘👿🤘).
- Comment on Hello everyone 1 week ago:
Alright, could be better, could be a lot lot worse
- Comment on Hello everyone 1 week ago:
Hello 👋
- Comment on Eric Metaxas denounces air quality alert triggered by the Canadian wildfires 2 weeks ago:
Okay then Mr. Metaxas go give yourself health problems. You’re literally free to fucking do it. The weather bureau aren’t the fucking cops.
- Comment on best way to start the day💖 2 weeks ago:
Imagine drinking any liquid at body temperature and not icing it or putting it in the fridge first 🤮
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
it’s as much “physics” as anything called “economics” today is going to get.
Yeah that’s kinda my point. “As much ‘physics’ as anything called “economics” today is going to get” is not necessarily “physics”. IMO, physics has one of the strongest standards of evidence of any field of endeavor. It’s an extremely strong comparison that I’m really hesitant to make about almost any other field of endeavor.
The triumph of physics is really the empirical evidence, and the mathematical models. E.g., we know Maxwell’s equations, we have oodles of physical evidence that it’s a sensible model, but what exactly is charge? Why do electrons have it? Physics doesn’t explain that. The point of physics is to be able to quantitatively analyze and predict physical phenomena.
Marxism and anarchism have oodles of evidence that they are sensible frameworks for economic analysis. And if I remember correctly, Das Kapital has some elementary equations, and Marx himself was in fact an early adopter of calculus. But to the best of my knowledge, these are both qualitative frameworks. Physics is primarily quantitative. (And even when it uses qualitative techniques, e.g. most of the work in nonlinear dynamics, these “qualitative” analyses quietly have a quantitative description, e.g. a Lyapunov function.)
Capitalist economics is essentially just a priesthood dogmatically working backwards to justify its continued existence blinding itself to as many problems caused by it as they can
Absolutely.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
I mean it is possible that future Presidents will be more evil shrug-outta-hecks
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I mean…is it? Like do we have a precise mathematical description for marxist economics like we have for physics? (This isn’t an “anarchism vs marxism"-type question, since to the best of my knowledge, anarchist economic systems also share a lack of formal mathematical model.)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Economics? Also physics.
Yeah they wish 😆
- Comment on Dare to dream 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s strictly more, but Firefox (and, by extension, Librewolf) does use a good amount of RAM. Also I use Librewolf too; the strikethrough is to suggest not to use Chrome.
- Comment on Seagirl 3 weeks ago:
Even cuter, rats are adorable
- Comment on Seagirl 3 weeks ago:
Even cuter now
- Comment on Seagirl 3 weeks ago:
i-think-that I truly do not understand why people hate seagulls so much. ancom-heart
