sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

Computers are fast now. DNS servers can handle a lot more. Stop using 86400 as a default TTL for RRs and start using something more sane like 3600.

@x @tedu its not the webdesign it’s the code

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/technology/stop-the-steal-facebook-group.html

first they came for the right-wingers, and i did not speak out because i was not a right-winger...

@tedu i am impressed by your command of global variables

@x @tedu do you know of perhaps any that aren't so zany?

@x @tedu oh hey awesome now all i have to do is navigate some mercurial

the default for most 3p mobile email clients (e.g. gmail, protonmail) is to do a full on notification on *every single new message*.

can you possibly imagine?!

no wonder marketers love email so much: it's an instant demand for attention from the user.

are there any decent go implementations of activitypub that are production ready for a single user instance? kept hearing that go-fed was close, but has anyone actually used it?

the people who run stadia at google are utter fuckups

@happybeing@mastodon.technology @polarhive

https://sneak.berlin/20201031/goodbye-twitter/

are there airbnbs in 432 park

everything else aside, it's maddening seeing ar15s called "heavy weaponry" or "high-powered rifles". they are neither, they're light, low-power low-weight *carrying* rifles. they're about as small as you can get in a rifle. throwing about terms without knowing what they mean or if they even apply (another: calling something "high explosive" when it's not a high explosive, just normal deflagration explosive) is the fastest/surest way to lose credibility with anyone paying attention.

@josias@theres.life yes correct that is what a government is. except that you are forced at gunpoint to buy the service, and then people who didn't pay for it get to decide which services you just bought.

@josias@theres.life it's a government run, proportionately, by the people who actually pay to run/operate it. seems pretty fair to me.

i think that one of the reasons the united states military is such a powerful force for authoritarian control today was via the memes and other bullshit about being the "freedom/good guys" they spouted for so many years (while enslaving a large population) to convince so many smart people to go to bat for their tech superiority:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JASON_(advisory_group)

@josias@theres.life taxes are taken without consent, and allocated/spent by people who had little or no involvement in the creation of the value collected. permitting those who actually provide the tax payments to the government to direct the government proportionally to those payments would be a vastly more equitable system, provided nonconsensual taxation continues to exist.

freeman dyson and james randi in one year. not sure i can take much more of this.