cecilkorik

No, Casinos are owned by rich people, they follow a completely different set of rules. When a poor person dishonestly takes a rich person’s money, that’s fraud. When a rich person dishonestly takes a poor person’s money, that’s business.

Looks very nicely built I would be pleased to have one of these in my home.

When ever Trump is upset I’m a happy person.

if you are a creator and you’d prefer to not make use of JS (there’s dozens of us) then forcing people to go through a JS “security check” feels kind of shit. The alternative is to just take the hammering, and that feels just as bad.

I’m with you here. I come from an older time on the Internet. I’m not much of a creator, but I do have websites, and unlike many self-hosters I think, in the spirit of the internet, they should be open to the public as a matter of principle, not cowering away for my own private use behind some encrypted VPN. I want it to be shared. Sometimes that means taking a hammering. It’s fine. It’s nothing that’s going to end the world if it goes down or goes away, and I try not to make a habit of being so irritating that anyone would have much legitimate reason to target me.

I don’t like any of these sort of protections that put the burden onto legitimate users. I get that’s the reality we live in, but I reject that reality, and substitute my own. I understand that some people need to be able to block that sort of traffic to be able to limit and justify the very real costs of providing services for free on the Internet and Anubis does its job for that. But I’m not one of those people. It has yet to cost me a cent above what I have already decided to pay, and until it does, I have the freedom to adhere to my principles on this.

To paraphrase another great movie: Why should any legitimate user be inconvenienced when the bots are the ones who suck. I refuse to punish the wrong party.

The executives should not have any immunity to prosecution, we need to start holding them accountable. The technology is never the problem, technology just provides us with tools, like any tools sometimes they can be dangerous and deserve immense respect, but it’s the people using them and deciding how they are used who are making those tools and technologies actually hurt and kill people, not the technology. A tool is not inherently good or bad, it does not have intentions or motivations. People do. Let the technology be a technology, and hold the people accountable.

And the red-white-and-blue walkers.

Watch western countries suddenly become very concerned about the sorts of bad things happening in Kenya that we will blame on the Kenyan government, even though we never noticed or cared at all before.

They both have their place. WebDav is an established standard, by implementing it you are collaborating with all the other implementations that already use and are compatible with WebDav in some way. You join a growing ecosystem of many choices and people can easily plug your software into their architecture and plug their architecture into your software with an absolute minimum of work on their part, potentially allowing it to become widely used. This is good.

Having a socket and API allows anyone who wants to, to collaborate with your software specifically, allowing them to be able to do things highly specific to your software, but requiring more specialized work to implement. These kind of implementations can deliver great functionality but they’re likely going to be few and far between because they are more work to develop and maintain. These are very different situations, being sought by different people with different goals.

People just like it better. You’re probably overthinking these things. The point of federation is so that these decisions don’t matter as much. (Almost) all the instances are connected and sharing the same community and content. There is no magic “best” place to be, and if there is, it won’t be because it’s “popular” it will be because it’s “the right one for you”.

And you can buy exactly the same Chinese crap direct from China much, much cheaper. Slower, yes, but Amazon’s getting to be a real expensive middleman and that speed is rarely worth it. Patience pays dividends.

Well that’s easily explained. The CIA doesn’t technically have a completely unlimited budget and resources, so they have to shift their priorities around the continent occasionally. It might be random, I wonder if they have a big wheel they spin, like on “Wheel of Fortune” or if it’s more like the big wheel on the “Price is Right”. The big prize for this year is to topple the government and install a new puppet regime in… spins big wheel Venezuela, again! *everyone claps*

Easily. People as rich as he is, view people like you and I as a different class of humans (which we are) so the things they tell us to do (like “sacrificing everything”) are not applicable to people from their own class (who sacrifice nothing, except us).

“Billions of you are probably going to die so that we can have everything we want, but that is a sacrifice we are willing to make… and really, the planet will be better off with you gone anyway”