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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I dont think the whole web being like the fediverse is feasible

    It does not need to be. “Whole web” being a certain way almost implies it all follows the same standards from which point the people who set and develop those standards become the centralised authority.

    I like to think of the internet as simply a carrier of digital information. This can be any information. My vpn tunnel is just as much a part of the whole as a public website.

    The way i envision a positive evolution is that more people get involved in running their own network, for themselves, their family, their neighbourhood, a global community they are a part of.

    They can use the activitypub protocol, a selfmade protocol or any other they want. The only thing that matters is that the people who need and use the digital information can use it.

    The public internet dominated by large players will still exist but it will be (and actually already is) a small portion of everything we use the web for.







  • Personally speaking, the only person that can teach you about anarchy is yourself.

    Look around, see how things work around you, especially constructs like hierarchy, property and rule. You don’t need to be against those constructs but if you hold a healthy critical mindset you will see how everything remains build on the foundation of natural anarchy.

    Anarchism (as internalised by me for myself) is not about being anti order or pro chaos but about recognising the inherent freedom of each individual and respecting it for the ancient truth it is.

    I have zero knowledge about if this aligns with other thinkers, but my desire for building a better world together where all people can prosper and be free in respect to each other is as strong as i have seen in any other fellow anarchists.






  • Based on the headline this is not about blocking ai scrappers but by making them pay to do it.

    Based on the discussion below which moved that goalpost the most likely answer is by making it cheaper to scrape “legally” then it costs to mimic millions of individual residential browsers with human users.

    I don’t know how many aces cloudflare has up its sleep to detect secret ai but they definitely have the tools to make it pretty costly and difficult. There is also a broadband impact difference between a few capitalist megapigs scrapping secretly versus loads of global basement dwellers and smaller companies scrapping worry free.




  • There is a big overlap beteen the autism and queer communities.

    Something about realizing you don’t fit neurotypical expectations and boxes.

    At some point i realized that while online, i have absolutely no need nor experience gender. Like there is no difference in how i read or reply to your comments wether i would be male or female. Same goes for playing most games, though in rpg i may pick any.

    I do experience gender in some situations, as a partner and parent, because there having a gender makes actual sense. I am not at odds with my birth assigned sex i just dont require it all the time and enjoy experimenting with gender non-conform behaviour.

    Also since i am married i am no longer looking to find a life/sex partner and in a professional setting should strive for gender neutral behaviour anyway.

    As terminology i identify as mostly non-binary, fluid across the binary line but skewed to one side.






  • If your library is on other platform like gog, epic, amazon or off platform .exe you can use heroic launcher and for most stuff it works just as well.

    For some games there is a little more learning curve because you have to translate custom steam configurations found on protondb to do the same thing in heroic but overall you actually have way more control then steam.

    The only reason “id think twice” is if you play lots of games with anticheat which does not work on every distro (like arch btw).