rottingleaf

Eternity. Humans don't really learn.

Or maybe they'll follow the "carpe diem" advice and there'll be no good in realizations.

Yeah, people who thought Google wasn't openly strangling the free (as in libre) stuff because they weren't that evil - these people just have bad memory. In year 2012 it clearly felt that corps, Google and Facebook and MS and Apple and everyone, are on the move to capture it all without a way out. They kinda made the illusion of being softer later.

So the question is - how do we even advertise legal but unpleasant for them things, avoiding their censorship.

The devices are sold together with the operating system (often unchangeable) and packaged applications and means of installing software, right from the markets.

I mean, I have a solution. It's counterintuitive and seems unconnected, and too direct, but I guarantee you it'll work.

Forbidding companies to do moderation or refuse to accept content without technical problems, or banned content (CP and such), and similar good justifications. As in - if your service is up, and there's user content served from it, it shouldn't be removed without legal substantiation. It doesn't matter it's free, that doesn't mean you can do all you like. You are not a media outlet, you are a platform for many media, that's how you work in fact, so yes, your actions do constitute censorship if you do moderation. If you can't afford to keep it free with such rules, then start charging money for hosting, as it normally should have been.

And, of course, this should include public offering status, the prices should be the same for all users.

I mean, if we had this from the beginning, we'd probably still have the Web like in year 2003.

Democracies do have plenty of possible protections. It's just that human nature allows for fallacies like of "once elected leader, always true leader" or, the same, "once captured a market honestly, always a deserved monopoly". Also human nature allows for another fallacy, that being able to threaten "bad" people is beneficial for "good" people. It's not. Any mechanism of threatening people with, say, deportation is not a weapon in the hand of some "good" group, it's a weapon in the hand of anyone who captures it, and its real state and ownership is always unclear.

It's very simple theoretically to defend a democracy, make it so that even a person publicly insulting mothers and sisters of all his compatriots would be completely safe (except for being ignored by some of their acquaintances), and that a person committing the worst imaginable crime could be certain they'll live in prison like Anders Brejvik at worst. No ape vengeance.

One good trait of rules is that they, when followed, work with clear limitations and verification, and that they don't require keeping anyone in fear. A means to keep one man in fear are the same as means to keep a land in fear.

Fear is not only the mind killer, it also kills the dignity of those relying on it for their safety.

It's very simple, don't fear and don't try to keep others in fear. When these are fulfilled for you as a thought experiment, you might notice some glaring flaws in the modern societies that you don't see when thinking inside right\left or libertarian\authoritarian or liberal\conservative categories.

I just wonder if he knows how thin is the rope he's walking since then. Or if he realizes that asylum in Russia is not very different from asylum in China or in Thailand or in Emirates or Saudia or ... Point being, that despite all the European-looking people around, nobody will hear him cry if at some point somebody important decides to silence him just in case.

Or maybe he knows and feels just fine having joined the privileged caste here. Those people who generally don't live in Russia at all, just visit it from time to time. I guess it'd be hard to blame him anyway, looking at Assange, who've spend a kinda big part of his life in the same small space slowly losing his mind.

There's that weird but common enough perception of Russia among the dumber kind of Americans, that it's some land of tough people of ideology similar to that dumb kind and what not. At the same time all such idiots who tried to really move to Russia were scammed of their money and ran home. And apparently similar attempts by Boers didn't have different results.

Even the Star Wars picture of Mandalorians in the newer media sometimes borrowed from that stereotype and not from the initial references to Maori and western movies.

What I personally don't understand is why'd you consider losers tough.

It has something common with cowardice, maybe - cowards consider places with lots of slave-master dynamic to have tougher people, because they don't understand what "tough" even is.

So - Elon, don't (I think Kadyrov did threaten to rape him in the past, so probably he understands that himself).

Reading all such things I'm starting to think "what if I can drive?" I've always thought I can't, but since everyone around who thinks they can drive like suicide bombers, maybe I should find those driving lessons.

Because laws were made by incompetent and malicious people.

Laws should mandate protocols and formats, not implementations. Protocols and formats mandated by the law should be simple. The whole humanity was just fine transmitting telegrams by Morse code consisting of letter groups. Then it was just fine with fax. If what we absolutely require to stay productive needs to be so astronomically complex that one programmer, given ready libraries for XML, encodings, compression etc, can't write a fully functional and usable by everyone editor for that in 1 month - then such a protocol or format is not good enough to be mandated by law.

even then Libreoffice isn’t good enough for half the staff in my accounting firm because it lacks certain features for now.

The worst part is where some functionality breaks in a document bigger than a holiday card. I mean formulae vanishing.

I think OOO around year 2009 was very stable and without such annoying bugs. But I haven't tested it there TBH.

Seriously, feature parity is a dead end. If there were a cross-platform office suite that would at least support the absolutely necessary things with a format not much more complex than org-mode, big documents (300 pages without degrading performance) and UTF-8, it would be fine. I think. That format can even be XML-based, just ... why would you have vanishing objects in a document past their certain number? Do they have an unsigned byte counter somewhere?

I agree he's not a criminal, but I also don't understand why is it a pardon without abolishing the law by which he was convicted.

And the way copyright is being treated today, where it's applied only if you are not a big corp, sucks just as badly.

In this case at least the guy is not in prison anymore.

Do you know what the Eastern Roman Empire was? Do you know why it doesn't exist anymore?

Because relying on one your enemy to destroy another your enemy is not wise. It seems wise, that's why every idiot believes in it.

If you support the stronger side, they'll add the remaining resource of the defeated to their power and hit you with it.

If you support the weaker side, then none will likely be destroyed.

He’s an opportunist shit stain that deserves everything that is coming for him.

This is miserable. You should be coming at him. Or if he doesn't hurt you right now, coming at those who do.

He does look a bit like young Trump with fake tan removed. But just a bit, and I think bootlicking enough is a better explanation. Narcissistic people don't care that much about biological relation anyway.