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Zak

@ Zak @lemmy.world

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  • AOC Reportedly Gearing Up for Big 2028 Campaign

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  • If even 2% of the population would never vote for a women or a person of color then it was enough to have mattered

    I suspect the majority of that 2% would also never vote for a Democrat.

  • AOC Reportedly Gearing Up for Big 2028 Campaign

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  • Have you seen the man work a crowd?

    His antics don't work on you, or on me, or likely on most people you or I would be friends with. They clearly work on a huge swath of the population though, or we wouldn't be where we are today.

  • AOC Reportedly Gearing Up for Big 2028 Campaign

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  • I am still skeptical if this country will EVER elect a woman for POTUS.

    I'm not sure that's a reasonable takeaway from the last two times a woman was a major party nominee.

    Hillary Clinton was not especially charismatic, which is arguably what wins general elections in most cases. She was also unpopular with progressive Democrats, and widely seen as having secured the nomination unfairly when Sanders might have been both more popular with the party and a stronger general election candidate.

    Kamala Harris was severely handicapped by the combination of being nominated without a primary process, starting her campaign very late, and positioning herself as a continuation of Biden at a time when Biden's popularity was very low.

    If AOC were to win the nomination, she would be in a much stronger position for the general election than either Clinton or Harris.

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    Dad dating a minor; what to do?

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  • In Europe the age of consent is variable but 16 is common, and it can be a bit jarring when you see the reactions of Americans to anyone under 18.

    Many Americans would be surprised to learn that it varies by state in the USA as well, and the relationship described in the OP wouldn't be a crime in many states.

    I don't think 18 would be any less creepy in this scenario. Creepy doesn't always mean immoral, but it's usually exploitative for a 48 year old man to date a teenager, and it's reasonable that OP is concerned about it.

  • None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress

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  • No. Praising a murder doesn't actually count as much as committing one in any reasonable system of ethics or morality.

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  • Everyone sucks here.

    she took off my condom without permission

    Removing a condom without consent during sex is sexual assault. You're absolutely right to break off a relationship or go no-contact for this. In many jurisdictions, you could press criminal charges.

    I even called an old coworker to ask if she had her citizenship because I was trying to avoid child support.

    That's not OK even if you're very scared.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • That's mostly true; it's optimized for wide dissemination of information, and the idea of keeping a specific person from seeing information that's shown to the rest of the world isn't very compatible with that. It doesn't really work on Reddit or web forums that are visible without logging in either since a person you've blocked can still view your posts anonymously.

    A bit more looking brings me to the ActivityPub spec. Your server should tell the blocked user's server about the block, and the blocked user's server shouldn't allow them to interact with your posts or comments (that doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to see your posts or comments).

    The thing is, in network protocol documents, should means the behavior is optional. Fediverse software doesn't have to support blocks at all according to the protocol.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • The only way to do that in a federated system would be to effectively make blocks public. That has its own disadvantages.

  • Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse

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  • You can write software to filter on arbitrary criteria with ActivityPub, or email, or IRC, or virtually any other protocol. My point is that ATProto is designed to actively encourage it, and the flagship implementation does so. Subtle hints in interfaces have a big impact on how people, including developers use software.

  • Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse

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  • When a substantial fraction of users are actually using an appview with that trait, that will be great.

  • Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse

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  • It's a difference in vision, but I don't like BlueSky's vision here.

    Combining the Reddit-like and Twitter-like experiences in one place is a little awkward, but following a blog or a Youtube-like from a Twitter-like isn't. Having the option to switch to a more optimal appview is great, but realistically a lot more people would follow a blog from BlueSky than would use their BlueSky identity to sign into WhiteWind.

  • What is something that should have died out a long time ago?

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  • I'm no expert on the subject, but it's my understanding that mobile networks are being deployed much more widely in the global south than wired telephone lines, and they're usually internet-capable.

  • What is something that should have died out a long time ago?

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  • I thought phone numbers and traditional telephone service would be dead by now. Instead, purely internet-based communication services often use them as an identifier.

  • Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse

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  • It is likely most other software will be able to consume them.

    This highlights what I believe to be a poor choice in the design of BlueSky's AT Protocol; ActivityPub software is usually liberal in what it accepts and displays, while ATProto enforces schemas ("lexicon").

  • Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

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  • Which nullifies the point of certificates having an expiration date (limited window for exploiting a compromised certificate, possibility of domains changing hands), not the point of validating the signature (tie responsibility for apps to who owned a domain on a specific date, allow third parties to create blacklists of bad developers).

  • Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

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  • How? Expiration doesn't grant an unauthorized party access to the private key.

  • Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

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  • Another option is to allow otherwise-valid signatures after expiration. It's generally still possible to check them.

  • Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

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  • It provides a way to open an investigation into a malicious developer without giving Google the ability to ban anyone it doesn't like.

  • Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

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  • Sure, the developer needs to keep the certificate up to date and re-sign the APK on occasion.