everyone in Nazi Germany was human

So is every MAGA. In exactly the same way.

When we are serious about fixing America, we will have a credible program of de-Nazification

Or you can recognize them as human and do your best to educate and help them to be good neighbors

The morality of “Just Kill Them” belongs in pre-Enlightenment religious texts, not in modern civil society.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 King James Version

18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die

Humans are not strictly governed by instinct and do not actually have to live by eating other sentients.

Our morality need not be a zero-sum game…

Dehumanization, tribalism, racism, religious intolerance.

Name a more iconic, perfidious quartet.

Have you been to Mexico City or (even more so) Guadalajara since the Pandemic? Multinational techs are investing and building up campuses like crazy. Reminds me of the go-go years of Bangalore in the 2000’s.

Mexico has a real possibility of moving up the value chain and gobbling up all the good stuff Trump is pushing away from the USA

Honestly curious how you concluded this

I work for one of the world’s largest proprietary software companies.

100% agree with you

Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.

ofc this is Fedi so that’s just a list; there is no the list

so decentralized, so Internet

shit registration functions

… and there are some shit moderators here, just like on Reddit

… and there are some really high-value communities here, because of really good moderation – just like on Reddit

EDIT: But it’s Federated, and therefore much more self-healing in that decentralized Internet way

This. I am a Silicon Valley manager, been hiring & managing teams for 25 years. For the same budget I can bring on 1 developer in California, vs 2-3 in Mexico or India.

TBH the quality of engineer has very little to do with their nationality. It has a lot more to do with what school they went to. It depends most on how much fire 🔥 is in their belly.

wildlife conservation

I met multiple long term romantic partners from this exact thing.

Plus even if you don’t find someone, any time invested in saving animals is absolutely positive karma you can feel good about, even if it was just cleaning cages.

noop; noop; noop;

Yeah, the newer thing to counter that is WebTunnel which came out last year. There’s considerably more setup than just starting a snowflake proxy process, and I am ashamed to say I haven’t set one up yet

This particular coding leaderboard matches my own personal experience. Llama4 is hitting ~15% ; Claude Opus4 ~70% (I haven’t used others personally)

If you really want privacy, use Tor which is free-as-in-speech-and-beer

In general real-time games are not great for Tor, because it introduces lots of network latency – which makes you safer

For most applications, the easiest way to Torify is via using SOCKS from the Tor Browser Bundle, which would let you simply pick Snowflake when Tor Browser starts up. I asked Perplexity for directions on running Minecraft over Tor, here ya go

a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

That would put them in the company of China, Russia, and Iran. Getting unrestricted Internet to people in those countries is why I am among those who run a snowflake node on a dedicated VPS (the link also has a simple browser addon – it’s easy to support the network, everyone should)

Yes, these moves suck for UK youth. But, anti-censorship tools do exist, and volunteers like me want people who could benefit from them, to know about & use them.

any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

100% agree, take my upvote

Even AF_BLUETOOTH sockets are… sockets, where one machine ("server’) opens to listen, and the other (“client”) initiates the stream

“Floppy disks” were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer

Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies

Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop

This is how you get under-18s to use Tor browser