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Cake day: January 21st, 2024

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  • No.

    To have a decentralised network, you need a lot of servers storing some data and a access algorithm thar searches for the pieces. There are a lot of hard problems:

    • you need various copies because each node can go offline any moment. This works for pirated DVDs, but not for social media posts.
    • you need to store a lot of the network in each node. The user needs to contribute to the network. Few people will donate GBs of storage and bandwidth to use a social network. You will get only a few enthusiasts.
    • search is a nightmare nobody have really solved.

    The architecture is good for storing and distributing many copies of a few very popular contents (and shines in torrent) but is bad for storing, searching for, and accessing many unpopular and mildly popular contents.






  • First, there is no such thing as an accurate translation. As Walter Benjamin said, translation is treason.

    Second, there is no consensus about what is the Bible. What are the books to be included, and what is the earlier version of these books. When you start to look close, you have entirely made up books, like leviticus, a lot of editing and changing before Christianity, apocryphal books, and so on.

    Third, this would be an enormous task needing a ton of funding and a very long time. I doubt we will have something like this anytime.



  • What is relevant: “for its own commercial purposes. In that regard, the general terms and conditions of use of that marketplace give Russmedia considerable freedom to exploit the information published on that marketplace.”

    This turns the marketplace in a business that must have responsibilities and duty to care because they not only host the content, but process it.

    Hosting is defined on paragraph 6. It does not involve processing of information. You user hit publish, it is published without any processing and and you don’t claim right to “use published content, distribute it, transmit it, reproduce it, modify it, translate it, transfer it to partners and remove it at any time, without the need for any ‘valid’ reason for so doing.”.

    The GDPR don’t claim you are responsible for merely hosting personal information, but you become responsible by processing it. “The processing of personal data should be designed to serve mankind.”

    The point is: you can run a lemmy instance, have people publishing shitposts all day in a hands off moderation policy. One day someone posts a doxxing. As soon you are told, you delete and it’s OK. But you can’t run a business where you invite people to post doxxing information, you claim rights to distribute this information, and them say you are only hosting it, and not processing it.

    The problem is the site want the cake (free harbour immunity) and eat it (gain rights to profit from the published content).







  • Acho que nunca vi a Internet como um refúgio, mas sim como um espaço de novidades a explorar. De certo modo, sempre foi, apesar dos pesares, mesmo que precisando de muita interferência, como usar o fork suspeito do Instagram que remove todo o conteúdo que não sigo da timeline, ou ler mangá pelo Tachiyomi em vez de pelos sites, além de ter uns três níveis de adblock, burla de paywall e proteção contra rastreio…

    Diria que antes era mais uma feira livre e hoje um safari no coração das trevas, mas para mim sempre foi uma aventura, um espaço aberto de possibilidade, e não um lugar de conforto e acolhimento.






  • The problem is:

    The use of the adjectives “aggressively, unprofessional, and reckless” is a claim for the higher moral ground. But this claim is hypocrite as Australia is mobilizing military forces, instead of using the morally acceptable diplomatic and economic tools. No country have the right to be the world’s police, to judge by itself if a foreign country is right or wrong and enforce this judgment militarily. Claiming otherwise is sugarcoating imperialism. Blaming the imperialism victim of being “aggressive, unprofessional, and reckless” is distorting the facts or, more bluntly, a lie.

    If Australia want to be Imperialist, to act as world’s police, at least admit it, instead of pretending to have a high moral position.


  • Australia and other countries should simply accept that?

    No, but using military force, like these nations are some sort of world police… what gives Australia to intervene? They where called by some nation in the region? Or this is pure white settler imperialism?

    If Australia is against, the claims, the country have a lot of resources to apply diplomatic pressure. Even breaking commercial ties, stopping exporting coal and steel. Military action without UN approval makes the Australian actions as rogue as Chinese ones. No country have the right to use military force without a UN resolution.

    And it would justifies China’s dangerous act here?

    China is using a pretty mild manuver to expel a enemy from, what they see as, theirs territory. Furter military incursions can not and will not change the status quo. Diplomatic negotiations or pressure can.

    the entire text that also says

    Australia put military vessels in, what China sees as their teritorial waters much before 2022. They are only escalating, as its normal and expected in military actions.


  • another unsafe and unprofessional intercept by a Chinese fighter aircraft, which endangered the crew of a Royal Australian Air Force P-8 maritime patrol aircraft operating lawfully in international airspace over the South China Sea on Sunday.[…] It forms part of a clear pattern of aggressive and reckless behaviour by Chinese pilots and naval commanders toward Australian—and other nations’—ships and aircraft

    Australia sends military aircraft to waters China claims as theirs territorial waters, thousands of kilometres away from Australia, but who is acting aggressively, unprofessional, and reckless is China.

    Even if Australia disagrees with the Chinese territorial claims, they are actively poking the dragon and playing the victim card.