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    8 days ago

    Pretty sure the (visual) porn I like doesn’t look anything like that horny Duracell bunny’s fever dream we can make out through the description you so graciously provided. Also pretty sure that “perverted men” will look like choir boys next to an actually perverted woman, there’s a few text samples floating around that I think are basically unhinged. But I don’t think there’s anything to judge, the point is that both of these types of media are home to an entire spectrum of wholesome and less wholesome depictions of adult relations.

    It’s okay to say they are wholly incomparable, then don’t actually compare them! Or say the opposite, that they are basically the same, and then there’s also no unequality between the genders. It’s just that when you start to pick and choose, and say that one is worse than the other, your position becomes founded on hypocrisy.






  • I think installing spyware on someone’s device is two or three steps more drastic a measure than a simple search, which is about the extent of what a court order can authorize police to do right now. It feels conceptually close to tampering with evidence present at a (possible) crime scene. To add to this, spyware is not the same thing as installing a physical listening device in someone’s home. It requires far-reaching permissions on a system, and can influence lots of other software on the same system. You’d have to have an extreme level of confidence that this won’t lead to accidental or intentional planting of incriminating material. And, in my opinion that sort of load-bearing trust is not really something law enforcement has earned in the general case.



  • I feel like as an argument, this isn’t really saying a lot. There’s an idea that markets, including the information economy that a stock market hinges on, are efficient, and thus, inaccurate pricing pretty much cannot exist. But if you remember that this is just a convenient oversimplification, you realize that stock markets haven’t ever once reflected reality from, like, the day they were invented.

    The article is also a bit lazy in arguing that an AWS outage should be bad news for AWS. To the contrary, this outage serves as a powerful reminder how commonly used, depended on, and entrenched AWS has become — traditionally, outages tend to raise stock prices of companies suffering technical failures. It’s more curious that in this case, no significant change either way seems to have happened.











  • If your idea of a federated Twitter is a bunch of mini-Twitters that sometimes exchange indirect replies or something, then the Fediverse fulfills that purpose completely. Mission accomplished, we can all go home now.

    If your idea is that the replies to every post look the same to any user, anywhere, at any time, even the thing Mastodon merged half a year ago that supposedly fetches all replies if you remember to navigate to the topmost post, and wait up to 15 minutes for your view of the thread to coalesce, falls short.

    And this is why hosting Mastodon is cheap, it fundamentally cannot provide the functionality BlueSky offers. Of course, you might think that such functionality is not desirable anyway, and that’s entirely fair. But if you’re looking for the immediacy that centralized Twitter gave users, I don’t see a way for Fedi to ever provide that, whereas there is a path to BlueSky decentralization. It’s a fact that your UX is diminished if all of your followers and followeds are not on the same instance.

    But in the end, I think there is space for both.


  • I must be the worst autist on planet Earth, because to “tinker with every facet of” my mobile phone is about the last thing I want to do.

    So, definitely not iOS, because I’m pretty happy with iOS; also there’s no expectation of LARPing as a sysadmin for my phone, precisely because that simply isn’t possible to any meaningful extent.