Such a speed limit on a road through a residential neighborhood in insane :O

after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.

Wtf, are kids 10 and 7 not old enough to walk by themselves to the grocery store now?

A server can decide what servers it’s connected to. It can have a blacklist of blocked instances - or even go further and have a whitelist of allowed instances, blocking all else.

Such a feature is necessary to deal with issues like spam instances, or instances that host illegal content.

One of the things I like a lot about lemme.ee is that they have blocked very few instances.

Sure, it’s always a step of 10x, but you do have to remember all the prefixes. Or you can only remember the 1000x prefixes - but you also need to remember centi-. Then, nobody says “megagram” - it’s “ton”. So there are quirks to remember.

Well, you can theoretically make a second app-view “instance”, call it “Greenearth” or something, and have different policies than Bluesky on how to verify or select content. But until someone actually does so, it’s not really decentralized. I’m not sure what’s stopping people from doing so, but it’s been a while, so I assume there must be some roadblock.

There’s also the issue of how Blueky itself was depicted as the decentralized network - when it’s more akin to a single instance, instead.

Currently not, because it’s not de-facto decentralized. There would need to be multiple relays, managed by different organizations, AND multiple app views, also managed by different orgs, for me to consider it such.

The non-existence of de facto decentralization indicates that the ecosystem doesn’t actually promote decentralization, even though it technically allows for it.

Was broken last I checked - as in, would regularly just crash.

The platform where bot farms are still effective

Spoken like they’re no longer effective on the other platforms.

Oh, no! Someone’s publishing open models better than our closed ones! How are we going to make profit now? Do something! Quick!!!

How can someone support them in good faith? I’ll focus on China, but here are some reasons:

For starters, I don’t believe that it’s possible to impose on a society from the outside to accept LGBTQ people. For example, making LGBTQ acceptance as a precondition on having good relations with China has literally 0% chance of improving life of LGBTQ people there. It’s more likely to backfire. On the other hand, having good relations, and allowing cultural exchange to happen naturally, can - and I think, over the last few decades before relations soured, has - improved LGBTQ acceptance there.

Also, amongst superpowers, China has a relatively good track record when in comes to using military force. They have had conflicts with neighboring countries, but it’s nothing compared to the wars the US or Russia (and USSR) have fought.

Finally (this one I don’t share, but I think it can be held in good faith), someone might not care about human rights all that much. For example, if you consider government-sponsored murders to be just the same as any other - not better, but also not worse - then even if you include Tienanmen Square and other murders by the government, the murder rate in China is still lower than most of the world.

How does it compare to NixOS?

I’d be very skeptical of claims that Debian maintainers actually audit the code of each piece of software they package. Perhaps they make some brief reviews, but actually scrutinizing every line for hidden backdoors is just not feasible.

Maybe they though something like this: “Philosophy conference needs philosophers. Mathematics conference needs mathematicians. Obviously, an antisemitism conference needs anti-semites.”

Any accessibility service will also see the “hidden links”, and while a blind person with a screen reader will notice if they wonder off into generated pages, it will waste their time too. Especially if they don’t know about such “feature” they’ll be very confused.

Also, I don’t know about you, but I absolutely have a use for crawling X, Google maps, Reddit, YouTube, and getting information from there without interacting with the service myself.

I would love to think so. But the word “verified” suggests more.

while allowing legitimate users and verified crawlers to browse normally.

What is a “verified crawler” though? What I worry about is, is it only big companies like Google that are allowed to have them now?

I agree that it’s difficult to enforce such a requirement on individuals. That said, I don’t agree that nobody cares for the content they post. If they have “something cool they made with AI generation” - then it’s not a big deal to have to mark it as AI-generated.

Is that something new? As in, has WaPo not been willing to go after Meta in a similar manner before?

So, essentially, they wanted to enter the Chinese market so much that they were even willing to comply with the local rules and regulations!

This is such a big secret, we really needed a whistleblower to tell us that!

Файнали, уи дон’т хев ту уори абаут спелинг энимор, иц ол ритан хау иц рэд.