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  • Die dem zu Grunde liegende Realität, derer sich mMn viele Deutsche verweigern, ist dass sie rechts sind. Die Parteien bieten ja für alle einsehbare und seit mehreren Legislaturperioden ziemlich konsistente Wahlprogramme an. Außer vielleicht Erstwählern kann niemand behaupten darüber nicht informiert zu sein. Und ja, ich bezog mich u.A. auch auf Agenda 2010.

    Mein persönliches Problem liegt auch nicht darin, dass rechts gewählt wird - das gehört halt zur Parteiendemokratie dazu. Was mich ankotzt sind die ganzen Leute, die (wie der Mensch dem ich antwortete) hier online oder auch gerne in Wählerbefragungen behaupten das sei ja gar nicht rechts.

    Und ja, mir stößt Antisemitismus auch auf. Aber wer (nicht der dem ich hier vorhin antwortete, aber schon genug gesehen) bei einem Bundeskanzler, der einfach mal alle Juden als Ausländer abstempelt, oder dessen Partei mit der AfD zusammen neue Stolpersteine verbieten lässt, nichts sagt, aber bei Israelkritik die Schnappatmung kriegt und bei Vergesellschaftung nach Art. 15 GG von der DDR schwafelt, entlarvt sich halt als jemand, der mit zweierlei Maß misst.




  • Have you been aware of it? Have you tried it?

    I’ve been aware of it more or less since the beginning of the project. General thoughts:

    • They seem to have looked at XMPP and thought to themselves “let’s reinvent this, but with an even more complicated tech stack and less clear specification”.
    • When asked about allowing proper account deletion their response was… well, judge for yourself.

    Are you an active Discord user?

    No, it’s a proprietary system with an unacceptable privacy policy.

    Are you an active Matrix user? If so, what do you like/dislike about it?

    No. Their approach to privacy is unacceptable to me in any circumstance other than being paid to use it (as part of a job).

    Broadly speaking, do you think there is value in what Matrix is doing?

    In general? Sure, it has users that could be using something else, so it seems to have value to them. To me personally? No.

    How do you see it fitting in with the rest of the Fediverse?

    Afaiu there are bridges people can use to connect services, should they want to. So, like every other part of a federated network?

    Personally, I’d much rather use Zulip or Mattermost, given the option.







  • The solution is to stop treating politics like a brief interruption of your normal life around election time, after which you go back to being a passive pawn - which is what most people in the USA have been doing since Reagan at the latest.

    Join a union, stand for local elections, organize strikes. All year round. If you cannot afford to do so right now, start/join local mutual help communities designed to save enough collective time for one of their members to do so. Reject the hyperindividualism injected into your culture by the wealthiest few permille specifically to hinder your ability to gain collective bargaining power.

    Your only bloodless path towards victory is creating a convincing enough economic threat to the personal wealth of elected politicians as a balancing counter force.

    Continue to fail to do so (as a people) and all voting for the lesser evil does is buy you time you’re then wasting.











    • Answer questions (with references) about source code and documentation
    • Add clear-bounded features to a pre-existing codebase
    • Transpile between programming languages

    Stuff I can do myself perfectly well, but the results - after postprocessing - are indistinguishable from me having done so. Even when accounting for everything (including hallucinations) the time savings are real: Renewables-powered electricity is cheaper than my attention. By a lot.

    Caveat: This only works if you’re already a domain expert and if you do it exclusively for too long, you might be at risk of ceasing to be such an expert. Don’t use it to try and do the thinking for you.