kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My first thought was that it was probably a DoS. Neenster is controversial, one of the most frequently blocked sites on fedi. That's in large part due to timing, I think. If it were newly invented today, rather than coming to prominence just at the same time as it became fashionable to apply giant blocklists without having the slightest idea who you were blocking or why, I don't think it would be quite so thoroughly cut off. Not that I agree with all of Nina's unpopular opinions, but she's usually not too obnoxious about the politically sensitive stuff that gets her into trouble. Or she wasn't, back when I used to hang out in the sort of place where I heard about that stuff. But anyway it makes me wonder: What if some day she's changed, and is no longer objectionable in the ways that people thought she was? As it stands it seems like she'll still be blocked forever, and that seems unfortunate because in addition to offending people she's made some great art and other worthwhile things.

But no, it's just some stupid javascript problem. In order to load the page try a fresh disposable contanerized browser profile without ad-blockers, or whatever other hazmat procedures you prefer.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 11 points 11 months ago

My lawyers will argue that this willful infringement of my rights as the orignal author of the famous 1997 Internet comment "So true" means that you now owe me $4000000 in damages, but I'll settle for one bitcoin.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Instance admins should defederate as often as they feel is necessary, and users should learn to avoid relying on instances that do it too much.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 11 months ago

Many of those things you're thinking of were declared Somebody Else's Problem by said developers. That's fine, but Wayland was not ready for use by normal end users until somebody else did finish them.

From what I hear most of them actually are finished by now, but they weren't as of a couple years ago when it started becoming commonplace to see declarations that the time to switch to Wayland was Right Now. I tried it out then, and am as a result much less enthusiastic about doing it again now even though it'd be much more likely to go well.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 22 points 11 months ago (3 children)

So what is it you feel the need to "walk on eggshells" about? Are you into fascism? Bestiality? Racism? Are you Moonies? Bitcoin enthusiasts? 7th-day Adventists? C'mon, give us a hint.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't know about your posts, but mine are extremely valuable. Almost as valuable as actual physical graffiti written on the outhouse walls.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago

Gone, gone, gone beyond, entirely gone beyond.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Personally I think the moment when Bethesda lost their way was somewhere between Skyrim and the DLC for Skyrim. Maybe its unprecedented commercial success went to their corporate heads.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 11 months ago

As people have said in some of the many, many other threads on this subject, if they really wanted to copy someone else's style of full-screen error message they'd have done much better to go with "Guru Meditation"

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 11 months ago

The only way to avoid having disagreements about which choice of distro is best would be to avoid having any choices.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could be worse. Someone sharing my IP is into really freaky stuff like "kubuntu-23.10-desktop-amd64.iso"

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