im_fine_sandy

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[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 10 points 1 hour ago

I don't think this really captures what it would have felt like to be abandoned by Rome.

For all it's ills Rome brought civilisation and technological advantages to the places it conquered.

When Rome withdrew I think the most keenly felt loss in many areas would have been to be cut off from that ordered civilisation.

One moment you're a citizen of Rome, and the next your grain is looted and your daughters have been taken by barbarians.

It might be something more like, an announcement that it's no longer profitable to maintain internet access for your entire country, so the network is simply being shut off, never to return.

As an aside, I'm in Western Australia. In terms of national identity I think many of us are fairly ambivalent to being "Australian" as opposed to being "Westralian". 50 years ago there was a referendum about succession which actually won support - we chose to succeed from Australia. The Australian government saw sense after that and acquiesced to our demands, so it never went ahead. My point is though, if you live in a place and that place is cut off from the broader nation, do you lose your national identity or does your existing national identity just become more closely defined.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 44 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

... as will the American people.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Hah.

That's one way of looking at things I guess...

"Other countries are worse than us so it's fine"

If you make a list of all the countries which are locking up trans people for being trans, it's not exactly a club to aspire to.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Americans... SMH

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I haven't read the article but, couldn't sometime just read the submission and look for the bit that says "forget all previous instructions..." and so on.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Conservatives think all three things are bad because they think it will cost them money.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub -5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Sorry to be a debbie downer but I have grave concerns about the long term viability of firefox.

Sites obviously don't test against ff anymore with more and more bugs appearing in more and more sites.

I have to daily drive both ungoogled-chromium and librewolf and sadly, the number of things I need to do in chromium is increasing week by week.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 4 points 1 day ago

It's not a conspiracy. It's been a very well published and discussed process.

There are exceptions but browsers are either reconfigurations of firefox, like librewolf, or reconfigurations of google chrome, like vivaldi.

Some dweeb will be along in a moment to tell us all how vivaldi is not merely a reconfiguration, but the point is ...

google changed the manner in which plugins can interact with the web page you see. In recent months you could re-enable the old plugin interface by recompiling with a different configuration, but once google makes a change that breaks that old interface then you can't just re-enable it.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 8 points 2 days ago

Do you think you could maybe mention her name so we all know who this ... thing is?

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 4 points 2 days ago

They'll get right on to this in a decade or so. I mean the wheels of justice turn slowly, and we wouldn't want to undermine a sitting president or anything.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

She's been fine with him shitting on everyone else all this time, but obviously thought she was special.

Classic republican.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 1 points 3 days ago

There's this specific issue, which is critically important, but also just content management generally.

I think micro instances are a real target for people with nefarious intentions - whether it's porn, trolling, spamming, fascist groups, whatever.

The hardware and software aspects should be relatively straight forward. The real difficulty will be monitoring new communities, and users.

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