Unruffled [they/them] @ Flatworm7591 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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PTB + CML (with respect to Canadian politics) on this one I think.

I've used limesurvey a few times before and I think it's definitely a viable option as it has an option to disable ip tracking along with an anonymous mode.

Tbh we have some concerns about the privacy implications of using Google forms for data collection. Does it log IP addresses of respondents?

The true face of establishment Democrats, proving yet again that they have no interest in changing anything meaningful, and only exist to act as a bulwark against the progressive tide.

Yep, it's a gem.

Peaceful progress would be great, and is always the preferred option, but peacefully sliding into a dystopian capitalist oligarchy where corporations can legally profit off the death of their "customers" doesn't sound like progress to me tbh.

There's also a decent Bakunin piece on the topic of authority here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-what-is-authority which I think helps to differentiate between freely choosing to regard someone or some organization as an authority, versus it being forced upon you by some external power (e.g. the State).

Welcome aboard then! :)

You aren't expected to like AI to be a user here, matey. It's just something db0 is really into and has done some cool projects with, e.g. the AI Horde which is a community-powered AI image generator. But if you really hated piracy, this might not be the instance for you, lol.

Bye!

Also, NY Times Doesn’t Want You to See Shooter's Face

Probably not, because we banned drag on this instance due to the endless trolling and drama drag was causing. It's a shame some of the trans communities haven't yet realized that drag is making a mockery of neo-pronouns in order to stir up as much drama as possible.

Oh well, drag will have moved onto some other hot topic and another username soon enough, no doubt, and will likely suck in another bunch of well-meaning users who buy into drag's shtick. Drag hasn't tried pretending to be blind yet, for example, so we probably have that to look forward to at some stage.

I'm still respecting drag's preferred pronoun just in the off chance drag is genuinely trans though - and I'd encourage other users to also do this. But let's be real here - trans folks have their fair share of drama farmers and trolls, just like any other demographic. It's not a free pass to be an asshole.

Yeah, but they are facing the same crap in Italy and now France too. Because they lost in Germany, now copyright holders are taking legal action in different jurisdictions in the hope of getting a more favourable ruling (to them). My concern is that over time it'll be harder and harder to find a DNS provider that'll correctly resolve piracy-related sites.

https://www.quad9.net/news/press/quad9-faces-new-dns-censorship-legal-challenge-in-france-from-canal

Lol how did you piece all that together? Because that's exactly what's going on imo.

It's because...

Police kill Black people at disproportionate rates

Though nationwide statistics are less readily available, multiple studies have found that police kill Black people at disproportionate rates.

A study in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine in 2016 examined all 812 fatalities that resulted from use of lethal force by on-duty law enforcement from 2009-2012 in 17 states. The study used National Violent Death Reporting System data.

The majority of victims were white people, at 52%, but "black victims were over-represented (32.4%) relative to the U.S. population." The fatality rate was 2.8 times higher among Black victims than white victims.

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/29/fact-check-meme-shows-incorrect-homicide-stats-race/5739522002/

So yes, police violence against PoC in the US is overrepresented by almost 3x the rate of white victims. It's a major issue. Black on black crime is also a major issue but that is also correlated with poverty in general. So they aren't the same issue at all, and BLM are free to advocate for whatever specific issues they want to focus on, because they can't possibly have the resources to take action on every form of hateful discrimination that PoC face on a daily basis (like poor access to healthcare and worse treatment than white patients when they do get medical care, to name another couple of examples).

I switched to Quad9 since I like how they fought and finally won on appeal the Sony lawsuit (see https://torrentfreak.com/dns-resolver-quad9-wins-pirate-site-blocking-appeal-against-sony-231208/)

It's important news for pirates, because if you've set cloudflare dns resolvers in your *arr stack then certain things might stop working (e.g. blocked indexers). I just switched my system to another DNS service because of this.

Thanks for the heads up :p

It's all in the community sidebar info:

Some acronyms you might see.

        PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
    YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
    BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
    CLM - Clueless mod: The mod probably just doesn’t understand how their software works.