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  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

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  • So what? It may arguably be not a developer's fault, but it is everyone's problem, given the growing dystopian alternatives to an accessible distributed software ecosystem. A problem can be acknowledged without admitting blame. Happy cake day btw.

  • How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

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  • Yeah, documentation isn't as good as it could be, and it would increase the accessibility of software if it was better.

  • Seriously, how would a global democracy work?

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  • You need social proximity for democracy to work, because that's how you have conversations about issues. We would need a shared global culture and factors that mean people at every level of society have friends distributed around the world. The specific rules and bureaucratic procedure are less important, the main thing is people in different places need to become more connected to each other.

  • When rich people can edit their kids DNA won't that just lock everyone else out and create a new class?

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  • Yeah, I think we should probably allow the technology that will prevent people being born with these diseases first, and then worry about how we're going to deal with the other stuff. This technology isn't going to be possible to hold back indefinitely anyway.

  • Do you think you can become a benevolent dictator without ever getting corrupted or turn evil?

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  • Relevant CGP Grey video

    Basically it is a structural problem that ensures corrupt behavior. A dictator has to direct resources to the people most relevant to their continued power to buy their loyalty, and away from everyone else whose support is irrelevant. Not being a scumbag in that position could get you killed.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • I've blocked a bunch of people, who may be replying to me with harassing comments, but that isn't influencing what I do. It might influence the overall conversation, and that could be a problem, but I think the way that problem is dealt with should be public, because the problem is public, it's not something that's exclusively my problem. I don't think I should have the authority to act to police any arbitrary community like that, especially without anyone being able to know that I'm doing it.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • I do think it would be less bad if it only prevented direct comment replies, and not replies to top level posts or replies to other comments by other people further down the thread.

    I don't understand what you mean by it still occurs in the other direction though. Nobody can prevent people from commenting except moderators and admins, which is how it should be. Mute style blocking isn't moderation because it doesn't affect anyone's ability to comment, it's effectively the same as a client level filter.

  • Seriously what's that idea?

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  • Because the alternative is easily abused, see all the issues Reddit has with this type of block mechanism.

    The core of the problem as I see it is, this gives every user limited moderation powers in every sub, the extent of that power is determined mainly just by how much they post and comment (blocked users can't comment under their posts, and can't reply to any comment in a chain started by the blocker), and the extent to which it is happening is invisible to most users. People advocating for this seem to assume it will be used mostly defensively, to prevent harassment, but the feature has way more utility offensively, and it's totally unaccountable. If there is something someone is saying (not even necessarily to you) that you don't like for whatever reason, whether or not it's against the rules and regardless of what anyone else thinks about it, you can partially silence them by blocking and then working to get engagement in the same spaces they comment in. Think about if this was implemented on Lemmy, lots of communities have only one or a few people making all the posts, if one or more of them blocked you that's almost the same as a ban. It doesn't make it better that the people making those posts are often also moderators, because it would be a way to pseudo ban people without it showing up in the mod log.

    Moderation of online discussion spaces should be transparent and accountable, it shouldn't be a covert arms race between users.

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  • Shit, it's broken again, where's the reset button?

  • Nepal’s Gen Z picks new leader on Discord, crypto community in shock

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  • The main point is, Discord is a totally centralized service under US control, you can't know whether the outcome of Discord polls is at all real. That doesn't mean it's necessarily fake, but as a choice of tool it seems really stupid to me. There's precedent, incentive, and means for significant interference and deception here, whether not it did in fact happen. If this type of use of services like Discord continues going forward, it will be safe to assume that it is happening, because of course it will.

    This type of shit is what cryptography is good for, it should be used when it matters. I think adversarial use of cryptography is really cool, and it honestly pisses me off a little bit that the article keeps namedropping cryptocurrency, as if unconditionally trusting Discord is what it's all about, when it should really be the opposite.

  • Nepal’s Gen Z picks new leader on Discord, crypto community in shock

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  • Better to be a discord employee who wanted all along to help the CIA appoint rulers of other nations

  • Can't the American people just denounce the Supreme Court?

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  • Why can’t a judge say “I denounce the Supreme courts authority for their failing to uphold the spirit of the law and now I shall follow this other courts rulings”?

    The constitution clearly says they can't, so if their notion of the law is claiming to be based in the constitution such a declaration would be obviously bullshit. If their notion of the law is not based on the constitution, that's an attempt to dissolve our government.

  • The Sloppification of Slop - CatTrigger

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  • Conceptually, isn't content that focuses exclusively on being content and pandering to the algorithm slop in the same way AI stuff doing the same thing is slop? Isn't that what the term is getting at, the quality of being a hollow product devoid of sincere expression?

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  • So what's with everyone trying to lossify Saddam Husein all of a sudden?

  • Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse

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  • I'm not assuming that, I just don't see why would it even matter if it's from another instance.

  • Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse

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  • Is it a mistake? Wouldn't federated content still count the same way legally, since an instance is also a website?

  • i love ai in my offline foss softwares that are still in beta

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  • I don't think this is true, but a lot of this impression is probably because much of the growth in actual use of cryptocurrency for everyday finance is happening outside of places like the US or Europe:

    In the 12 months ending June 2025, APAC [Asia-Pacific] emerged as the fastest-growing region for on-chain crypto activity, with a 69% year-over-year increase in value received. Total crypto transaction volume in APAC grew from $1.4 trillion to $2.36 trillion, driven by robust engagement across major markets like India, Vietnam, and Pakistan.

    Close behind, Latin America’s crypto adoption grew by 63%, reflecting rising adoption across both retail and institutional segments. In comparison, Sub-Saharan Africa’s adoption grew by 52%, indicating the region’s continued reliance on crypto for remittances and everyday payments. These figures underscore a broad shift in crypto momentum toward the Global South, where on-the-ground utility is increasingly fueling adoption.

    There is also the way stablecoins are now a growing top 20 holder of US debt, and major financial institutions moving to have infrastructure on crypto networks. Change is happening even if it isn't immediate or directly visible to everyone.

  • Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized?

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  • What does that enable? Could people in states blocked by the main network use it through these?

  • Would you trust an open source software maintained by a developer who you disagree with politically (or otherwise don't like the developer)?

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  • Yes, since not liking or disagreeing with someone isn't the same thing as likelihood they are pushing malicious code. If something is open source that's a really good sign, because they could also push closed source code and be more likely to get away with it that way. More points if it clearly has other eyes on it; even if I am not checking over the code myself, someone probably is for a lot of projects.

    It's like "separate art from artist" except even more so because software tends to be even more quantifiable as its own independent thing than art is.