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

Don’t count out gambling. NFTs are a gambling game, where you win if you aren’t the last one holding the bag. There’s no hard guarantee that the traffic for a given NFT is real or not, but if its origin is something scarce and noteworthy (like being minted by the subject of a popular meme) then that can be a Schelling point for gamblers to converge on and reasonably conclude that other gamblers will be trying for the same NFT.

At some point the game ends when sources of new players are exhausted and everyone stops playing, but at one point I believe people were playing. Of course at the time people tried to describe why someone might buy a NFT as being some vague other buzzword laden reason, probably because the game ends sooner if everyone knows everyone else is also just hoping to flip it for a profit.

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

Shadowremoval or shadowdeletion would make sense

Kind of but no one really uses those words and you’d have to explain what you mean by them. Also, the distinction isn’t very important; the main thing is that this particular style of web moderation abuse was inflicted on someone, and using different terms for minor variations in the practice gives the people using it too much credit, especially when they aren’t above using all of them anyway.

You’re right that the part of the word that says ‘ban’ is potentially misleading if it’s used this way, but it still seems like the best option. To me the ideal term here would be something that clearly conveys a more expansive definition, but that also still conveys that it is something being inflicted on a person, as opposed to a more conciliatory verb that describes an action towards a piece of content.

It’s still visible to you, it shows up as [Removed] to others

I still call this shadowbanning if it’s just the comment and not the whole account, because intentionally hiding from someone that nobody is seeing what they write is what shadowbanning is all about.

Well like I said that’s kind of the sentiment I expect because people like to make this about individual morality, but care to elaborate at all? Do you disagree with any particular part of what I’m saying?

This will probably be an unpopular opinion but I think the reality is that the choice whether to be a landlord has no effect on the supply of housing and so is almost totally irrelevant to this essentially systemic issue. The only kind of stuff that matters here:

• Supply of housing influencing its cost
• Relative wealth of the poorest influencing their ability to pay for housing
• Other factors (the credit system etc) limiting people’s access to housing
• Legal ability to use housing as a speculative investment and store of wealth (ie. low property taxes even if you own multiple properties)

The idea that people would buy property and then provide housing on a charitable basis in defiance of the market isn’t realistic and isn’t a viable solution to the problem. The only solution is to build the right incentives into the system. Someone can support the latter without trying to do the former.

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.

If “progress” here means drugging students to tolerate their circumstances, or holding the threat of pepper spray drones over them (doubt this will stay limited to active shooter scenarios), I think it might be progress in the wrong direction.

I often do the opposite, pick a bright color that is not the color of the base material, to make the repair stand out more.

You could go with a more strict gun regulations. Coupled with more help for vulnerable people. And free mental healthcare.

I’m skeptical any of this would be more than a bandaid solution, a large part of the problem has got to be how highschool in the US is just inherently a miserably dehumanizing experience.

Pull an eyelash or similar, keep it between a specific page and check every time that it’s still there. If someone tampers with the journal it will fall out and they won’t realize it matters.

Nah that’s some great info, though sounds like a pretty big project to set it up that way. Would definitely want to hear about it if you ever decide to put your work on a git repo somewhere.

Also if wifi mesh is our last hope, oof

Yeah. What I propose is getting more people involved and caring about freedom preserving technologies before it gets to that point. A tiny minority of somewhat more tech literate people are not going to be magically immune to authoritarian checkmate scenarios through technical solutions alone.

agentifying the language model

Any recommendations on setups for this?

Naturally the commercial systems are going to be strictly better, but the best models I can run on my 3090 have been good enough for me for a couple years now, and have massively improved over that time. Currently mostly use qwen3-coder which is really solid. It just feels so much nicer to use knowing it’s private and not being datamined for who knows what,

I kind of assumed it worked like this before anyway. Good reason to use local models.

Are there now legal means to do longer range communications? I thought the main limitation was you need to be licensed to do anything more than short range home wifi

Thanks. Somehow the network actually seems to be working pretty well for me now, not sure why it wasn’t before.

I’ve tried a few times to check out i2p, it seems to take hours of leaving it running to even get to the point where you can very slowly and inconsistently load even the official pages though.