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ShellMonkey

@ ShellMonkey @piefed.socdojo.com

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  • Is the role of a government to do the will of the people, or to do whats right for the country?

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  • In theory, the will of the people should be the common good/best practices. The reality though is there are a certain portion of any given population with entirely selfish or hateful wishes. Those type of people tend to seek power in whatever fashion they can get and use those positions to amplify their voices trying to convince others to support them.

  • Trump moved to cut funding for ICE body cameras, pared back oversight

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  • Of course they did. Twice they've murdered people in the street and immediately claimed them to be violent terrorists only to have it refuted from a dozen angles immediately after. Orwell already foreshadowed this a long time ago.

  • Federal Agents Kill Again; Gunmen Still At Large

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  • RICO to the rescue? Multiple people looking to kill people they seem undesirable and cover it up or justify it in a cross state fashion?

  • Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw

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  • Third party owned systems are always a risk, get your own comms and pub/priv keys if you want it properly protected.

  • PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you?

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  • There was an allegation made some while back of Piefed having "hard-coded' blocks of certain instances. In actuality there is a default setting when you spin up an instance to defederate from some of the most aggressive instances that are known to brigade, spam, and generally act trollish. You can simple uncheck those during or after setup though, so it's a suggestion, not a forced state.

  • PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you?

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  • Piefed and Lemmy are act-pub/fediverse software systems, same with Mastodon and many others. Since Lemmy and Piefed are so similar in their structure though as link aggregators that people vote and comment on you could think of them as the same network with different clients.

    I switched from Lemmy to Piefed somewhere around piefed's 1.15 version as I recall. On a technical front Piefed is a solid margin ahead in admin and usability features, at least as of when I switched. I haven't noticed a major performance difference, but mine is a single user instance so that might be better shown at a larger scale. Lemmy was a bit easier to deploy initially since there wasn't a need to have anything compile locally but rather just pull an image and go.

    Ethically, I'm less concerned using Piefed than Lemmy. The devs of Lemmy are notoriously vocal in their support of Russia/China/Korea, and basically anything that could be considered in opposition of western liberal/progressive policies. This is troublesome since there is the potential for updates being made that help create even more aggressively divisive bubbles than we already have in many parts of the fedi. Those could be applied to any software of course, but the Lemmy devs make their stances quite visible in that regard.

  • Trump Administration Live Updates: President Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act After Minneapolis Protests

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  • Insecure dictators really don't like when people say no...

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    Test post please do not upvote

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  • Dimensional transmission indeed functioning as anticipated

  • Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot

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  • That you should have the option to run locally without calling back to home base without a special pass from MS.

  • You can choose any celebrity's facial hair and make it yours. Who do you choose?

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  • Like, for a style, or making a creepy voodoo doll to do stuff to?

  • Federal agents shoot couple in Portland less than 24 hours after ICE killing of Renee Good

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  • 'Weaponized their vehicle' seems to be ICE's favorite excuse per some stat I saw earlier in the day...

  • Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’

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  • So unrestrained then

  • Jake Tapper tears into Kristi Noem's 'abjectly false' claim on shooting

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  • Turning away and slowly driving off is a big scary threat to these people...

    Reality is they want to try and claim the plain as day video of the event is fake and their version is reality.

    The Party told you to ignore the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

  • Trump says US military ‘always an option’ for acquiring Greenland

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  • I'm mean if TX wants independence let em go, the electoral map would shift on a way these fools would never see power again.

  • Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill

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  • Have run Lemmy and now Piefed, it's nice to have things customized to your wants, but probably wouldn't bother if it was setting up a host just for that.

  • Ask HN: In the real world we pay for everything so why not software?

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  • Because like other types of digital media, once it's created the duplication and distribution costs approach zero. Thus, if someone is willing to put up the efforts of creation for the public good we're all richer for it.

  • Trump launches ‘large-scale’ attack on Venezuela, captures Nicolas Maduro and wife

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  • Trump launches ‘large-scale’ attack on Venezuela, captures Nicolas Maduro and wife

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  • Congress functionally ceded it's war authority with the war powers act after 9/11. Anything that can be tagged as 'terrorism' lets the president act unilaterally. If I'm not mistaken though we haven't had a proper declared war since WW2.

  • PIC Season 2's opening credits. Every time.

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  • Goatse?