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AshDene

@ AshDene @kbin.social

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3 yr. ago

Interested in programming, politics (especially local politics), law (especially copyright/patent law).

Nazi's and genocide deniers can fuck right off. For the love of all that isn't evil stop using lemmy and providing genocide deniers power.

  • Are TERF-centric magazines allowed on this insurance?

  • I'm not expecting perfection, but there hasn't even been visible commitment to a strong moderation policy. ernst has as far as I can tell remained mostly silent on the matter, occasionally deflecting to "tools aren't ready yet", but also not really committing to what he wants to be done with the tools.

    10A is a particularly prolific problematic user, and as a single user (unlike the flood of porn spam) it's a simple matter to ban him. It should not have been a hard decision to make by now.

    Personally, a bit over a month ago, I defined banning 10A (as well as one other individual) as the canary that would let me consider recommending other people come here. I was willing to give it some time, but it hasn't happened yet. Whether this is an explicit policy of weak moderation, or simply an accidental one thanks to putting it at too low a priority, I don't know. But I don't particularly want to be on a site that I don't feel comfortable recommending other people use. So I'm taking my own (lack of) recommendation for now and going to take a long break from this site.

  • Are TERF-centric magazines allowed on this insurance?

  • Ugh, and 10A somehow also hasn't been banned yet (and a quick check to his profile shows that he isn't just still making bad-faith arguments about "free speech" but is also still spreading xenophobia, fake news about the last election, and so on).

    I'm out. Anyone know of a kbin (not lemmy) instance with reasonably good moderation?

  • FAA Throws Cold Water on SpaceX's Next Starship Orbital Launch

  • Republicans have traditionally been the party of "regulation doesn't work, elect me and I can prove it to you".

    Maybe Musk is just taking the logical counter-part to this "regulation doesn't work, put me in charge of a heavily regulated company and I can prove it to you".

  • Florida bans AP psychology over gender identity, sexual orientation lessons ｜ Orlando Sentinel

  • On what basis would it?

    Surely the government is allowed to teach what courses are run in government run schools by government employees in general. I mean, someone has to, and who else would it be?

    Or if you're referring to the religion aspect of the first amendment... this seems religiously neutral?

    The constitution doesn't ban bad governance, just some particularly easy to enumerate forms of it.

  • Canada has zero pro-choice Conservative MPs, watchdog says

  • The funny thing about religious fundamentalists is their beliefs frequently outright contradict the written word of their religion...

  • Canada has zero pro-choice Conservative MPs, watchdog says

  • Trying to grant fetuses rights isn't "supporting pregnancies", the line to restricting what pregnant people can do, including abortions, is direct and obvious. The fact that the sponsors of the bills have previously passed bills attempting to restrict abortion is a fact.

    Supporting pregnancies would be doing things like passing more healthcare funding, better parental leave, literally just giving money to people with kids. That's not what this bill was about.

  • You can only drink one drink for the rest of your life, but it cannot be water. What do you pick?

  • Olive oil?

    You wouldn't live long, but compared to the other options you're listing...

  • ‘X’ Rebrand Gets Twitter Blocked Under Indonesia Porn Laws

  • This is just completely untrue. Musk founded SpaceX from nothing, there was no prior entity he acquired or invested in.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX

    There are lots of legitimate reasons to dislike Musk, there's really no need to make up lies about him to justify having an extremely low opinion of him.

  • Ukraine deserved better from Nato | Letters

  • Russian man not jailed for his wife's murder because he fought against Ukraine

  • Wtf.

    Also wtf that murder has a maximum of 3 years?

  • What does blocking someone actually do?

  • Just wanted to chime in that I had the same experience. I was rather unsatisfied with the fact that a user I blocked could apparently see (while logged in) and reply to my comment at all.

    If blocking someone is just license for them to make terrible replies to my comments without giving me the chance to answer them... that's unsatisfying.

  • Rheinmetall responds to Russian threats: it will defend its plant in Ukraine

  • Did you know that Pepsi briefly owned 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer?

    Edit: On less of a technicality, the East India Company had something like 250k troops back in 1824.

  • Politics @kbin.social
    AshDene @kbin.social

    I'm neither an expert nor an american, but the idea that RFK Jr running as a third party candidate will hurt the democrats seems strange to me.

  • I know what I'm doing, I just don't care

  • The word "potentially" is doing a lot of work there.

    In many cases of piracy, the result of not pirating the work would not have been more income for the rights holder, it would have been the person just not acquiring a copy of the work at all.

  • Wife's boss is on a power trip. Is this legal?

  • Yeah, I don't know what Colorado's laws are on this in general, but even if it's technically legal it seems like a huge risk that someone is going to plausibly allege that given the specific facts denying them time off was race/religion/family status/... discrimination. It might be legal (don't know), but it's a stupid policy for a number of reasons.

  • Elon Musk’s new AI company is staffed entirely by men

  • Elon Musk’s new AI company is staffed entirely by men

  • The entire paper is already sub-field (AI) in industry (software engineering) specific. No stats are perfect, but I think these ones are pretty damn good for something where peoples role are pretty poorly determined in the first place. Of course you're welcome to try and find better ones.

    The "pure tech" companies I've worked at have been roughly equivalent or better than these stats, but at that point I'm sampling from software engineers in general (not having worked at an AI specific company), and my sample is unlikely to be unbiased anyways.

  • Elon Musk’s new AI company is staffed entirely by men

  • Isn't the fact that he's repulsive sort of the whole complaint?

  • Elon Musk’s new AI company is staffed entirely by men

  • Apple @kbin.social
    AshDene @kbin.social

    Apple's Vision Pro is incredibly cheap. Low in price, not expensive.

  • So your flight got cancelled — here's what you need to know about compensation

  • We should really amend the law to be "and if they incorrectly deny a claim they have to pay 10 times more". Enough to make it cost more than it's worth if they do it intentionally, not enough to bankrupt them...

  • Gaming @kbin.social
    AshDene @kbin.social

    Pet peeve of the day: Games with "puzzles" that can only be solved by trying a bunch of different plausible answers.

  • Apple @kbin.social
    AshDene @kbin.social

    I'm new to this whole #apple development thing.

  • Rustlang @kbin.social
    AshDene @kbin.social

    Rust most "admired" language for 8th year in a row, and the rest of the stack overflow developer survey

    survey.stackoverflow.co /2023/
  • Gaming @kbin.social
    AshDene @kbin.social

    Are there any RTSes with no scrolling. Just display the entire map really small all at once?